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Hey Hale!

Hey Hale!

Posted by: jay at Jul 26, 2004 12:25 PM

I'll tell you what: When you condemn Richard Mellon Scaife's smear machine, which has financed a series of contemptible lies about Democrats, then Teresa Heinz Kerry's outburst might be a viable issue for you. But until you do, you got no credibility: Richard Mellon Scaife OWNS the Pittsburgh Herald-Tribune. And as the link below explains, that newspaper has been actively misrepresenting financial facts relating to the Heinz charities.

http://www.heinz.org/index.asp?loc=K,K2025&title=The%20Truth%20About%20Heinz%20and%20Tides

Want more? I still have an article (from our local paper from a couple years ago) reporting that Richard Mellon Scaife illegally funnelled several hundred thousand dollars into a certain Senate campaign in Tennessee -- in 1970. Back then, illegal campaign contributions were clearly criminal, whether coming as slush-funds, bribes, or corruption. Scaife pumped the money into the campaign of the opponent of Al Gore's father, Sen. Albert Gore, Sr., who lost that year. That's a jailable offense -- yet oddly, Scaife didn't do any time.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that Scaife actively and personally directs the distortion of news coverage at the Herald-Tribune. So this is not simply bias, but wholesale obliteration of any mention of Al Gore and totally reworking the news of the day for political purposes.

Read on:
>"The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, on orders from >publisher and longtime conservative activist >Richard Mellon Scaife, pulled all photographs
>of the Democratic presidential nominee and also >reworked an Associated Press story to play down >any mention of the vice president.
>
>Scaife instructed top editors to make certain >that no photographs or prominent mention of Gore >appeared on the front pages, resulting in a >Sunday front page that included Bush in all >campaign-related headlines and photos. While a >Tribune reporter was assigned to cover a rally >by Gore on the South Side Saturday night, the >story, originally slated to accompany a Bush >piece, was moved from the front page to the >inside."

So Richard Mellon Scaife has a lot to answer for -- this is nothing other than a wholesale betrayal of his country. Lying, distorted, Orwellian, and unfair news coverage, illegal financing of political campaigns, financing of smear campaigns and character assassinations of Dems.

This country is not about some bizarre Aristocracy -- Scaife's opinions notwithstanding. The only question is why Scaife isn't in jail, why he is somehow above the law (very unAmerican, that), and why area residents haven't had him tarred-and-feathered and run out on a rail to Britain, or Cuba, or Bermuda, or Moscow, or wherever folks actively betray their God, Country, and Family without risk of arrest, indictment, and jail time.

Posted by: Hale at Jul 26, 2004 10:10 AM

I'll tell you what: When you condemn Richard Mellon Scaife's smear machine, which has financed a series of contemptible lies about Democrats, then Teresa Heinz Kerry's outburst might be a viable issue for you. But until you do, you got no credibility: Richard Mellon Scaife OWNS the Pittsburgh Herald-Tribune. And as the link below explains, that newspaper has been actively misrepresenting financial facts relating to the Heinz charities.

http://www.heinz.org/index.asp?loc=K,K2025&title=The%20Truth%20About%20Heinz%20and%20Tides

Want more? I still have an article (from our local paper from a couple years ago) reporting that Richard Mellon Scaife illegally funnelled several hundred thousand dollars into a certain Senate campaign in Tennessee -- in 1970. Back then, illegal campaign contributions were clearly criminal, whether coming as slush-funds, bribes, or corruption. Scaife pumped the money into the campaign of the opponent of Al Gore's father, Sen. Albert Gore, Sr., who lost that year. That's a jailable offense -- yet oddly, Scaife didn't do any time.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that Scaife actively and personally directs the distortion of news coverage at the Herald-Tribune. So this is not simply bias, but wholesale obliteration of any mention of Al Gore and totally reworking the news of the day for political purposes.

Read on:
>"The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, on orders from >publisher and longtime conservative activist >Richard Mellon Scaife, pulled all photographs
>of the Democratic presidential nominee and also >reworked an Associated Press story to play down >any mention of the vice president.
>
>Scaife instructed top editors to make certain >that no photographs or prominent mention of Gore >appeared on the front pages, resulting in a >Sunday front page that included Bush in all >campaign-related headlines and photos. While a >Tribune reporter was assigned to cover a rally >by Gore on the South Side Saturday night, the >story, originally slated to accompany a Bush >piece, was moved from the front page to the >inside."

So Richard Mellon Scaife has a lot to answer for -- this is nothing other than a wholesale betrayal of his country. Lying, distorted, Orwellian, and unfair news coverage, illegal financing of political campaigns, financing of smear campaigns and character assassinations of Dems.

This country is not about some bizarre Aristocracy -- Scaife's opinions notwithstanding. The only question is why Scaife isn't in jail, why he is somehow above the law (very unAmerican, that), and why area residents haven't had him tarred-and-feathered and run out on a rail to Britain, or Cuba, or Bermuda, or Moscow, or wherever folks actively betray their God, Country, and Family without risk of arrest, indictment, and jail time.

Posted by: Hale at Jul 26, 2004 10:09 AM

And you are trying to take it seriously. What a silly little thing you are.

Posted by: zizka / emerson at Jul 26, 2004 6:18 AM