Black Conservatives Compare 1964 King March to 2010 Beck Event
by Tom RemingtonAugust 27, 2010
Goals of Events Similar
Washington, D.C. – Black conservatives from the Project 21 leadership network do not see much of a difference in the goals of the August 28 “Restoring Honor” rally talk show host Glenn Beck is organizing at the Lincoln Memorial and the 1963 March on Washington that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. held there 47 years earlier.
Project 21 members contend that the stated purpose of the Beck event is along the same lines as the values of the 1963 rally and the alleged goals of Beck’s critics.
According to Beck’s wesite, the rally seeks to “celebrate America by honoring our heroes, our heritage and our future.” Political activism is being discouraged at the event. Beck, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, Dr. Alveda King (niece of Dr. King and a member of Project 21) and decorated Navy veteran Marcus Luttrell are listed among the scheduled speakers.
Because Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally takes place at the Lincoln Memorial on the 47th anniversary of the March on Washington, members of the establishment civil rights lobby are sharply critical. National Urban League president Marc Morial, for instance, calls the Beck event “insulting” and “deliberately trying to poke a stick in our eye.” Al Sharpton says Beck is trying to “hijack Dr. King’s dream.”
Project 21 member Coby Dillard said: “The dream of Dr. King — that every person be judged by their character rather than their color — is one of the tenets that makes our nation honorable in the minds of people around the world. Dr. King’s legacy is a gift to us all, and no one person or organization holds claim to his work and his message. I can think of no better way to honor him by renewing our shared commitment to uphold those principles that have held our country together throughout history.”
Dillard, who is planning to attend the Beck event, added: “As black conservatives, we will continue to work to restore honor not just across our nation but in our communities as well. We will not ‘drink from the cup of bitterness and hatred’ that those who seek to denigrate our efforts share. We will continue to stand with those across this country who realize, as Dr. King said, that our destinies and freedom are eternally bound together.”
Project 21 member Bishop Council Nedd II said: “Glenn Beck is organizing a nonpartisan event to highlight that ‘our freedom is possible only if we remain virtuous.’ Can’t we agree that virtue is something we need more of in America these days? Can’t we agree that any threat to our freedom is a clear and present danger to all of our civil rights? People such as Al Sharpton and Marc Morial would be wise to embrace these ideals, but their intolerance toward the messenger is creating the perception that they are against them.”
“Freedom Of Speech Is A Two-Way Street”
by Tom RemingtonJuly 12, 2010
As strange as it may seem to some that I would positively quote a pro Islamic institution, the title of this blog is a statement made by CAIR – Council on American-Islamic Relations. Freedom of Speech, not so indifferent from all our freedoms, is a two-way street and for those who truly cherish liberty, sometimes supporting and protecting our freedoms requires manning up to our responsibility. By that I mean being willing to support one’s freedom to speak freely even if what they say is contrary to everything you believe in or support. Hypocrisy, when it comes to freedom, is a growing problem everywhere. Too many of us refuse to support another person’s rights simply because we don’t agree with them. This cannot be.
Such may be the case with radio talk show host Michael Savage, re. The Savage Nation. If you are not familiar with Savage’s ongoing battle with the United Kingdom, it may be because the media and most bloggers, radio talk show hosts and virtually every person who makes a living exercising their freedom of speech have refused to cover Savage’s story.
Savage has been banned from visiting the U.K. because he was placed on a list with murderers and terrorist because of being accused of saying bad things that might incite “intercommunity violence”. World Net Daily reports it this way.
In a legal complaint against Smith, Savage noted the home secretary’s office said in a press release that the “controversial daily radio host” is “considered to be engaging in unacceptable behavior by seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred which might lead to intercommunity violence.”
Smith was the head of the U.K.’s Home Office who placed Savage on that list. Savage has since been embroiled in a legal battle to clear his name. The new government of the U.K. announced that they will leave Savage on the list.
Much of this is very troubling and should tatter the fabric of every person who embraces liberty – in this instance, freedom of speech. Who cares which side of the aisle Savage might sit on? Why should those of us who adore liberty care if Savage is a libertarian, a republican, a conservative, a liberal, black, white, green or purple? What has happened to Michael Savage in the U.K. shows us the evil that exists in the world and within the boundaries of one of our greatest democratic allies.
Why hasn’t American Media jumped to help Savage? Should it really matter? Savage walks his own walk and as often as he might ruffle your feathers, he speaks his mind. Love him or hate him, he loves liberty, as we all should.
Savage is no murderer! He’s not a terrorist either! The U.K. has cherry-picked fragments of things Savage has said in order to demonize the man and get his name on this famed list. But why? Once again, World Net Daily gives us extremely troubling evidence that perhaps Savage has become a victim of the U.K.’s use of political correctness to protect themselves from appearing bigoted toward Muslims.
Savage has documented his battle over the U.K. ban in his book “Banned in Britain,” which includes official correspondence, released under the U.K.’s freedom of information law, that reveals a decision was made at the highest level of government to use his name to provide “balance” to a “least wanted” list dominated by Muslim extremists.
“We will want to ensure that the names disclosed reflect the broad range of cases and are not all Islamic extremists,” reads a draft recommendation, marked “Restricted,” that was obtained as part of Savage’s libel lawsuit against the government and Smith…..
Can this be true? Did Savage become the target of political correctness in which he was added to a list of banned people in order not to make the list contain only Islamic names? Think about that for a moment. Is this the equivalent of adding a Catholic, a Jew and a Protestant to the list of terrorists who blew up the World Trade Center, in order that this list not include all Muslim extremists? Is this also a matter of the U.K. showing it’s fear of retribution by their own Islamic communities should they put out a list “dominated by Muslim extremists”?
Regardless of how extraordinary all of this has become for Savage, the most perplexing matter of contention, is the lack of action from Savage’s fellow media people who should be climbing the walls to clear this man’s name. This same savage act of barbarism to destroy our inalienable rights can just as easily be cast upon any one of us who use the pen or speak with words.
It matters not whether you like or dislike Savage. The man is unique and speaks from his heart. This certainly doesn’t make him a terrorist who incites violence in other people. Is there no longer responsibility of self, that we simply blame others for what we choose to do?
I could compile quite a list of people who write and talk that I dislike immensely and some I disagree with but it is far from my thoughts that I would seek to shut them up or ban them from coming to my town. Regardless of who the person is, we should never squander our liberties for personal or political reasons.
I am just a little guy in the big scheme of Media but it is my desire that Michael Savage can get this issue resolved. I believe it would have been concluded months ago, had Americans, including our own Secretary of State, Congress and Media voiced outrage toward the United Kingdom for conducting acts so antithetical to the liberties Americans and Brits died to protect.
Tom Remington
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Censorship For Thee But Not For Me
by Tom RemingtonJune 15, 2010
All leads came from Drudge.
Algore, or sometimes called the Goracle, is a fool and a hypocrite. On his blog, Algore chastises anyone who would seemingly censor news coverage of the gulf oil spill. In citing the case of a newspaper seeking permission to fly over the area and snap photos of the spill and were denied, Algore says:
This behavior is completely unacceptable. Access by reporters should be as unfettered as possible. This de facto form of censorship needs to stop.
However, back in 2008, CNET reported that Algore barred the press from one of his speeches.
When Al Gore agreed to talk at the end of the RSA 2008 conference, the 2007 Nobel Laureate stipulated in his contract with RSA that no members of the press would be allowed inside the keynote address.
And once again in 2009. PCMag.com reported:
In a highly ironic move, Al Gore has barred the press from even attending his speech at the upcoming CTIA Wireless 2009 conference, the nation’s largest gathering of the wireless communications industry.
The ban only applies to people with press badges. If you’re a corporate or personal blogger or Tweeter, apparently you can get in to the 4,000-seat auditorium where the speech will be held on April 3. The wireless industry group running the conference, CTIA washed their hands of the ban, saying that it’s part of Al Gore’s standard speaking contract and that there was nothing they could do about it.
Tom Remington
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A Disclaimer On The U.S. Constitution
by Tom RemingtonJune 9, 2010
Yes my friends. It has come to this. A publisher reprinting a book that contains the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and the Federalist Papers also included a disclaimer in the front of the book:
“This book is a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as it would if it were written today.”
“Parents might wish to discuss with their children how views on race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity and interpersonal relations have changed since this book was written before allowing them to read this classic work.”
Tom Remington
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My Slit Throat and other EnviroMental Frauds, Hoaxes.
by Al RemingtonJune 5, 2010
Reading the paper again today, I came across an article in the sad state of affairs, California, where the author posed the coming global affects of our own actions causing our own demise. The rising seas; the polar bear; the seals the birds the bees the worms the trees is because global warming is here and you have to do something.
I will; as soon as the seas start rising and the polar bear stops breeding so fast.
The seals leaving california from their rising temperatures, sea levels, warming ocean currents (pick one), should meet up with the seals leaving the melting Alaska, right about the time the gray whale finds the deminishing belugas. If the timing is perfect; and it should be; always is in science mongering, all the salmon and multitude other fishes will escape into the seas from the fresh waters before the super-erosion of the coast lines from 30 to 40 foot higher sea levels.
Typical as the paper has been on articles of this nature, this is the fifth or sixth time I have gone to electric mail to find the article to post to; and it is not there. It reads the same as the rest of the papers owned by tyrannous bastards, so, I’m going to keep blabbin’.
Like the slit throat and the gashed mouth in the photo; make-up and fakes, fraud, desception.
Destroying Protestantism
by Al RemingtonJune 5, 2010
Quote:
“We cherish at the bottem of our hearts this principle- that whatever does not unite with us be ANNIHILATED and we hold ourselves ready to make as soon as we shall have the means [the Federal Reserve Bank] an energetic application of these principles.
Protestantism is already wearing out and sinking to decay. Yes we are destined to insult its last agonies, to march over its broken skeleton and scattered bones, O let us hasten this dissolution by our strong and united efforts.
Protestantism is becoming decomposed; it is falling to pieces. We are beginning to gain from it men of note [England's John Newman] and there are, even high personages whom we have succeeded in convincing that if they continue to uphold Protestantism, they are lost.”
Extracts from The Secret Plan by Leone Quoted in; Enc Jon Phelps. 2001, Vatican Assassins. Wounded in the house of my friends Halycom United Services p266.
What’s the Synthesis that the Jesuits want to achieve?
Well the Catholic Church created the order lets ask them.
In 1550 Pope Julius III declared his claim to universal Temporal (political) Power evidenced by a new coin he issued, its motto having read:
“The nation and kingdom that will not serve me shall perish!”
Popery. An Enemy to Civil and Religious Liberty;and Dangerous to Our Republic, W.C. Brownlee, (New York: John S. Taylor, Publisher, 1836) p.159
NOTE: The whole world? Yes, this means the United States of America also.
“…the Pope of Rome, as the Head of the Papal Government, claims absolute
sovereignty and supremacy over all the governments of the earth.”
Romanism as a World Power, Luther S. Kauffman (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The American Publishing Co., 1922) p.31.
“The right of deposing kings is in herent in the supreme sovereignty which the Popes,
As vice-regents of Christ exercise over all Christian nations.”
Cardinal Henry Manning, 1892, Archbishop of Westminister
The Jesuits in History, hector Macpherson, (Springfield, Missouri: Ozark Book Publishers, 1997; org published in 1990) p. 115
NOTE: The goal of the Catholic and Jesuit Order is for the Pope to rule over all Christian nations.
What is the Jesuits agenda?
Quote:
“Its [the Jesuit Order's] objective was,and is still, to destroy the effects of the Reformation and to re-establish the Holy Roman Empire of the Germany Nation…A Greater Germany, in other words, must be made again the center of a revived Holy Roman Empire.”
Leo H. Lehmann, 1942, American Historian
Behind the Dictators, Leo H. Lehmann, (New York: Agora Publishing Co., 1942) p. 26
“The Jesuit Order, therefore, stands before us as the embodiment of a system which aims at temporal political domination through temporal political means, embellished by religion, which assigns to the head of the Catholic religion – the Roman Pope – the role of a temporal overlord, and under shelter of the Pope-King, and using him as an instrument, desires itself to attain the dominion over the whole world.”
Count von Hoensbroech, 1911, German Noble and ex-Jesuit
Fourth Years a Jesuit, Count von Hoensbroech, translated by Alice Zimmern, )New York. Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1911) Vol. II, p. 430.
“At what then do the Jesuits aim? According to them, they only seek the greater glory of God, but if you examine the facts you will find that they aim at universal dominion alone. They have rendered themselves indispensable to the Pope, who, without them, could not exist, because Catholicism is identified with them. They have rendered themselves indispensable to governors and hold revolutions in their hands; and in this way, either under one name or another, it is they who rule the world….”
Popery, Puseyism and Jesuitism, Luigi Desanctis, (London: D. Catt, 1905; translated by Maria Betts from the original Italian edition published as Roma Papale in 1865) p. 139.
“Moreover, the pope has thousands of secret agents worldwide. They include Jesuits, the Knights of Columbus, Knights of Malta, Opus Dei, and others. The Vatican’s Intelligence Service and its field resources are second to none..”
Dave Hunt, 1994, Amercan Baptist Historian
A Woman Rides the Beast, Dave Hunt, p. 87
NOTE: The Jesuits want a one world order under the pope.
Jesuit Orders that are bringing America and the world to Rome
Quote:FREEMASONS.
“The truth is, the Jesuits of Rome have perfected Freemasonry to be their most magnificent and effective tool, accomplishing their purposes among Protestants”….
The Grand Design Exposed, John Daniel, (Middleton, Idaho: CHJ Publishing, 1999), p. 302.
NOTE: Why would the Jesuits need to make a Protestant Order? The Bible has revealed that Rome is the Anti-Christ and everybody is looking at them through a magnifying glass. So if persecution does not work, join them. Now Freemasonry is doing the dirty work for the Jesuits and the Jesuits do the work for Rome. The sad thing is that some Freemasons really think that they are working for the true God of Heaven and find out when they receive higher degrees that it is Lucifer worship.
Freemasonry controlled by Jesuits
Quote:
“It is curious to note too that most of the bodies which work these, such as the Ancient and Accepted Scotish Rite, the Rite of Avignon, the Order of the Temple, Fesslor’s Rite, the ‘Grand Council of the Emperors of the East and West Sovereign Prince Masons’, ect., etc., are nearly all offsprings of the sons of Ignatius Loyola. The Baron Hundt, Chevalier Ramsey, Tschoudy, Zinnendorf, and numerous others, who founded the grades in these rites, worked under instructions from the General of the Jesuits….”
Isis Unveiled, H.P.Blavatsky, (Los Angeles, Ca: The Theosohy Company, 1968; org published in 1977). p. 390.
More connections…..
“There are still old ladies, male and female, about the country, who will tell you, with grim gravity that, if you trace up Masonry, through all its Orders, till you come to the grand tip-top, head Mason of the world, you will discover that the dread individual and the Chief of the Society of Jesus are one and the same person!”
James Parton, 1855, American Historian
The Black Pope, M.F. Cusack, (London: Marshall, Russell & Co., 1896) p. 76.
The Rite titled “The Holy and Thrice Illustrous Order of the Cross” employe these words:
“….we have confirmed the Induction of the Knights Templar Mason into the Councils of the said Order of Knighthood…and hoping and confiding that he will ever so demean himself as to conduct to the glory of I.H.S the Most Holy and Almighty GOD, and to the honor of his MARK, we recommend…”
Light on Freemasonry, David Bernard, 1858; org published in 1829, p. 195
Remember what I.H.S stands for? Isis….Horus….Seth.
…the Freemasons are in the foreground while the Jesuits and the Knights of Malta are in the background.
Who are the Knights of Malta?
Initial Membership List
Compiled by Eric Samuelson, J.D.
General Allavena
George W. Anderson
James Jesus Angelton
Julian Allason
Roberto Alejos Arzu
Andrew Bertie
Elmer Bobst
Charles Joseph Bonaparte
Prince Valerio Borghese
Dr. Barry Bradley
Nicholas Brady
Monsignor Mario Brini
Pat Buchanan
James Buckley
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Precott Bush, Jr. Frank Capra
William Casey
Gustavo Cisneros
(Cardinal) Terence Cooke
Gerald Coughlin
Cartha DeLoach
Giscard d’Estaing
Bill Donovan
Allen Dulles
Avery Dulles
(Archbishop) Edward Egan
(Count) Franz Egon
John Farrell
Francis D. Flanagan
FlynnJ. Edgar Hoover
Joseph Kennedy
(Senator) Ted Kennedy
Henry Luce
Frank Sinatra
The Messianic Legacy 359-361 (1986); and Eric Jon Pheilps, Vatican Assassins (2001)
The founder of the Knights of Columbus
Father Michael J. McGivney.
What does the Knights of Columbus control?
Quote:
“….on January 1. 1905 a total membership of 127,206 persons…they are now (1912) said to be over 300,000 strong…and adroit feature of this organization, to which Roman Catholics only are eligible, is the initiative service of four degrees…they work in collusion with the Hierarchy, and are heart and soul in politics. This fact is well known to political machines and non-Catholic politicians, whose candidates must receive the approval of ROME and the Knights before they dare nominate them for either dog pound or presidency. The Knights of Columbus’ …principal business is politics, aye, Jesuitical politics…”
Romanism: A Menace to the Nation. Jeremiah J. Crowley. (Aurora, Missouri: The Menace Publishing Co, 1912) p. 154-157
NOTE: So much for voting! Rome is controlling us from all sides….It is time to choose a side, do you want to be controlled by this power or do you want to choose Jesus Christ the only one that can save you?
Skull and Bones
The Order-What it is and how it began
Those on the inside know it as The Order others have known it for more that 150 years as Chapter 322 of a German secret society. More formally, for legal purposes, The Order was incorporated as The Russell Trust in 1856. It was also once known as the “Brotherhood of Death”. Those who make light of it, or want to make fun of it, call it “Skull and Bones”, or just plain “Bones”.
NOTE: The Order was called the “Brotherhood of Death” To the right was their symbol
This symbol was also used to symbolize Jupiter: The God of Death
What does the 322 stand for? Look up, Genesis 3:22, And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to Knowgood and evil:
NOTE: They are exalting themselves to the status of God.
The German Order
Quote:
The American chapter of this German order was founded in 1833 at Yale University by General William Huntington russell and Alphonso Taft who, in 1876, became Secretary of War in the Grant Administration. Alponso Taft was the father of William Howerd Taft, the only man to be both President and Chief Justice of the United States.
The Illuminati had its orgins at the University of Ingolstadt and recruits were from the student-encorpos
“The Order” Had its origin at Yale in 1833, but Skull and Bones is a chapter of a German secret society. The German orgins are denied at Yale, but during the Temple raid in 1876 the entrants found a card on which was written: ” From the German Chapter. Presented by Patriarch D.C. Gilman of D. 50.”
NOTE: What did we read was the agenda of the Jesuits:
Its [the Jesuit Order's] objective was,and is still, to destroy the effects of the Reformation and to re-establish the Holy Roman Empire of the Germany Nation…A Greater Germany, in other words, must be made again the center of a revived Holy Roman Empire.”
Leo H. Lehmann, 1942, American Historian
Behind the Dictators, Leo H. Lehmann, (New York: Agora Publishing Co., 1942) p. 26
The British Order
The British establisment was also founded at a University – Oxford University, and especially All Souls College at Oxford. The British element is called “The Group”.
The Group links to the Jewish equivalent through the Rothschilds in Britain (Lord Rothschild was an original member of Rhodes :inner circle”). The Order in the U.S. links to the Guggenheim, Schiff and Warburg families. There were no Jews at all in The Order until very recently.
NOTE: This society is world wide.
Random Thoughts And Comments
by Tom RemingtonJune 3, 2010
Being competent is possessing required skills, knowledge, qualifications and mental and physical capacities to do a job. Incompetence is the lacking of all of the above. Barack Obama is incompetent.
A coincidence is an extraordinary occurrence of two or more events at the same time that is presumed to be only by chance. Is it therefore a coincidence that our banking and Wall Street industries “failed”, followed immediately by Government take over? Is it a mere coincidence that the auto industry “failed”, followed immediately by a Government take over? Is it a coincidence that the housing mortgage industry “failed” just prior to being taken over by the Federal Government? Do you believe it a coincidence that it was announced the student loan industry was in financial difficulty only to be immediately followed up with a take over by the Federal Government? Is it also only a coincidence that health care was in crisis followed immediately by a Government take over? Is it a coincidence that President Obama stated his desire to end all domestic drilling for oil and gas, followed by the greatest oil induced environmental disaster in American history? Is it an insignificant coincidence that Goldman sold $250 million, double any other company, in BP stock only days before the deep water oil rig explosion? Is it now only a coincidence that the Government is going out of their way to claim they are in charge? Is it a coincidence Obama wants to buy and sell carbon credits? Is it a coincidence Obama wants to legalize illegal immigration? Is it a coincidence the Obama wants to regulate and control the Internet? Is it a coincidence that Obama wants to censor talk radio? Extraordinary occurrences of two or more events at the same time that are presumed to be only by chance?
What confidence do I have left in our political process, which includes those elected to run it, when I think Rod Blagojevich might just be an innocent guy?
Paul McCartney, in his visit with the play boy President, made the statement that it was good to have a president who knows what a library is. Perhaps McCartney should have gone a bit further to say that Bush knew what a library was and didn’t take the time to read perhaps as much as he could have and that Obama knows what a library is and chose to select only communist/socialist/Marxist- themed books to read and used the rest to wipe his rear end on.
Ignorant people are calling for the boycott of BP. That’s good. If enough of us do that, we can run BP out of business and leave the United States Government to clean up the mess. What could go wrong? Instead buy Hugo Chavez’s gas.
If we use the “scientific” models and calculations on how carbon dioxide increases our global temperatures, after the volcanic eruption on Iceland, we should expect our global temperatures to rise significantly.
If you’re a Bible believer and in particular Bible Prophecy, here’s a couple of eye openers. The whole world, apparently the United States included, is against Israel. Nancy Pelosi rambled on about how the Word was important to her decisions she makes as House Majority Leader. The Word of course was in reference to the Bible. I was taught many, many years ago that in order to tell if a person is a messenger from God, is to compare what they say and do with what the Word of God says. I’m still searching for baby killing in the Word someplace, along with lying, cheating, stealing, racism, immorality, general corruption, etc. etc.. And to go along with Pelosi’s feticide fantasies, a new Planned Parenthood Center (killing field for babies) opened in Texas and those officials of the center have declared it “sacred and holy ground”. Nancy “Herod” Pelosi! All hail the king.
I thank God for a “Third Lens” for which there is real Hope, without the change.
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FCC Goes For Nuclear Option – Seeks To Control Interent
by Tom RemingtonMay 17, 2010
If FCC Chairman Genachowski announces his intention to reclassify the Internet as a telephone system, he will be reversing 30 years of precedent
By Phil Kerpen – FOXNews.com
As I have repeatedly warned and noted on www.ObamaChart.com, when Congress blocks the Obama administration, the White House always finds a way to get around the normal policy-making process and pursue its agenda by other means. Today’s reclassification assault on the Internet is the latest-and perhaps the most egregious-example.
In its effort to imposing crippling net neutrality regulations on the Internet-an idea with very little support from the American public or Congress-the Obama administration first turned to the FCC simply to pretend Congress has given it authority to regulate. <<<Read the Rest>>>
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Disney Shareholders Urged to Challenge Iger
by Tom RemingtonMarch 10, 2010
Progressive Policies at Walt Disney Risk Damage to its Brand Image, says Free Enterprise Project
Shareholders Urged to Challenge CEO Bob Iger at Disney’s Annual Meeting
Washington, D.C.: On occasion of the Disney annual shareholder meeting today, the Free Enterprise Project is warning Disney shareholders that CEO Robert Iger’s progressive political bias puts investors at risk.
The Free Enterprise Project is a program of the National Center for Public Policy Research, a Disney shareholder.
“Iger’s rejection of several offers to sell the distribution rights of the ABC-TV docudrama The Path to 9/11 is a sign that his personal political views are affecting business decisions,” said Free Enterprise Project director Dr. Tom Borelli, who has raised the issue personally with Iger at past shareholder meetings. “In addition, Disney’s close ties to progressive Democrats, including President Obama, may have resulted in ABC News’ special access to cover the president’s health care policy in a day-long media blitz last year.”
“Iger’s policy decisions are putting Disney in the cross-hairs of millions of Americans who are rejecting the progressive assault on liberty. By rebuffing offers to sell the distribution rights of The Path to 9/11, Iger is simultaneously silencing speech while denying shareholders an opportunity to profit from the company’s investment,” Borelli added. “Playing progressive politics is a dangerous game for a company such as Disney that relies on a squeaky clean brand for its revenue.”
The political motivation behind Iger’s decision to bury the docudrama remains a topic of discussion years after its broadcast. Some assert that Iger’s motivation to not let the award winning miniseries see the light of day is driven by his desire to protect the legacy of President Clinton regarding terrorism.
Andrew Breitbart’s Big Hollywood recently reported on the issues surrounding Iger’s controversial verdict.
Last June, ABC News was given special access to the White House to cover President Obama’s health care initiative. ABC’s “Good Morning America” was broadcasted from the White House lawn, “World News,” its nightly news show from the Blue Room, and a special prime time “Questions for the President: Prescription for America,” from the East Room.
“A monopoly given to ABC for news coverage raises serious concerns of media independence. The perception that the White House is choosing ABC over other news organizations because of favorable coverage has the potential to damage the credibility of Disney’s news division,” said Borelli.
The proximity between Iger and his team with progressives only adds concerns about media independence. Not only is Iger a generous supporter of progressive politicians (about ninety percent of his donations go to Democrats and liberal PACs), but Disney board member Monica C. Lozano, CEO of La Opinion, a major Spanish-language newspaper in the U.S., is a member of Obama’s economic recovery board.
“The close alliance between Disney and the Obama Administration can be a risk to shareholders. What happens to Disney if Tea Party members and other liberty-minded activists turn on the company because of concerns that Iger is using the company to advance the goals of the progressive movement?,” asks Borelli.
“‘I’m not going to Disney World’ could become the battle cry for American patriots.”
Given these risks, shareholders attending Disney’s annual meeting should ask Iger:
With millions of Americans outraged over the progressive attack on liberty, are you concerned your refusal to sell “The Path to 9/11,” and your personal support of the progressive agenda will cause a conservative backlash against Disney’s brands?
The shareholder meeting is on March 10, 2010 at the JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country, San Antonio, Texas.
Taxpayers, Shareholders Should Be Furious Over Olbermann Comments
by Tom RemingtonJanuary 22, 2010
Washington, D.C.: After MSNBC talking head Keith Olbermann predicted the downfall of democracy due to yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court easing restrictions on political speech, a policy expert at The National Center for Public Policy Research notes that taxpayers should be outraged.
Not only is Olbermann calling for reduced freedom in America, but the company that employs him has been using its own influence to save itself at taxpayer expense, says National Center for Public Policy Research Free Enterprise Project director Tom Borelli.
The decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission eases certain restrictions on the free speech of businesses, associations, organized labor and certain advocacy groups with regard to their participation in political campaigns. Olbermann suggested the decision in the Citizens United case would lead to corporations and wealthy citizens essentially buying lawmakers.
MSNBC is currently owned by General Electric.
Borelli said:
“To call increased political participation a threat to democracy is ludicrous. What seems to be the case is that Keith Olbermann wants to keep the playing field clear for his employer.
“Taxpayers kept GE solvent by bailing out GE Capital – the company’s financial arm. Yet the company now escapes Obama’s assault against the banking industry. Additionally, GE’s lobbying army – which has a $20 million annual budget – helped secure hundreds of millions of dollars for the company’s utility customers from Obama’s economic stimulus package, and the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill that passed the House of Representatives would mandate the purchase of renewable energy products such as GE’s wind turbines.
“Let’s also not forget that taxpayer money was also used to prop up GE during the credit crisis. Shockingly, it’s our money that was used to pay Keith Olbermann’s salary.
Both shareholders and taxpayers should be outraged because GE CEO Jeff Immelt and Olbermann continue to use MSNBC to attack the American people in a failing effort to defend President Obama’s left-wing policies. Ultimately, for them, this effort may be a marketplace failure. To wit, GE’s NBC unit just today reported a 30 percent drop in profit.
“Immelt and Olbermann may have secured favors from the Obama Administration, but they are just continuing to prop up a losing enterprise.”
