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Thread #68025 Message #1141462
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
20-Mar-04 - 12:10 AM
Thread Name: BS: Which Newspaper do you read?
Subject: RE: BS: Which Newspaper do you read?
Jean, I would cross the street to avoid his newspaper stands. Ugg.
From CNN:
Who Is Richard Mellon Scaife?
He's very rich and very partisan, but is he behind an anti-Clinton conspiracy?
By Brooks Jackson/CNN
WASHINGTON (April 27) -- Who is Richard Scaife? He's a 65-year-old billionaire Republican wielding power from the shadows.
According to President Bill Clinton's allies, he's the main money man behind a right-wing anti-Clinton conspiracy, attacking with his money. Former White House counsel Lanny Davis argues, "He's using it to destroy a president of the United States."
If it's a conspiracy, it's a pretty open one. Scaife's tax-exempt foundations disclose their grants on the Web. Among them: $2.4 million over several years to American Spectator to pay for anti-Clinton reporting, even a private eye to dig up dirt. And millions more went to other anti-Clinton groups.
The rest is at the page link above.
SRS