> Scaife 'n' Snitch (and the Hitch)

[Michael Pugliese]

I'll go out tomorrow morning and find an Examiner. Since Fang took over I
have bought it maybe a dozen times. First few weeks they were full of typos.
At least they print cockburn and Norman Solomon and Roberty Fisk from the
London Independent.
As for his Willieness...Recently ther was a protest in front of City Hall~
500 attended~ organized by Rev. Amos Brown (during Gulf War I saw Ramsey
Clark speak at his Church, pictures of Paul Robeson, M.L. King, Jr. Amos
when he was on the Board of Supes was a total ass on homeless. Take away
their shopping carts! Saw him speak at a rally against Clinton impeachment
at the Embarcadero. The freepers there were more interesting to talk to than
the liberals. The other contingent was from Cecil Williams church.
On Willie Brown. I've only glanced through it (the other day read section on
Jim Jones) but, a good bio is by John Jacobs, the late Sac Bee reporter.
Another one on John Burton is good too.
The race politics line really could have gotten uglier here when Ammiono
ran., I had visions of white gay men, of not terribly advanced consciousness
around race getting into confrontations with Blacks not very advanced on gay
issues.
As for Hitchens, I really hope that this Scaife money rumor is just liberal
BS but, I'ver heard of his style of journalism before from others and would
not be surprised.
Michael
P.S. On right-wing money and media check out website, Media Transparancy.
Bill Berkowitz of the Data Center in Oakland (a great place for research)
mentions it in his piece in the new ITT on Horowitz.
P.P.S. I run into Hinckle on occasion walking his dog. What a character.
Wonder how much money he lost for Ramparts? His book, "The Fish Is Red, "
with William Turner on the Castro CIA Mafia assasination attempts is good.
Have nopt read his, "If You Get A Lemon, Make Lemonade." Back when Art Agnos
was running for re-election, the Fangs had Hinckle write the big pamphlet
hit on Agnos. 64 pgs. Landed on everyone's doorstep in the days before the
election. Think it was called , "The Agnos Years."
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Gulick" <jlgulick at sfo.com>
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Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: > Scaife 'n' Snitch (and the Hitch)


> Michael,
>
> This isn't by any stretch my terrain of expertise, but ...
>
> ... that the allegations against Hitchens may or may not be
> true, and that Hitchens undeniably practices a shabby brand of
> palace intrigue journalism masquerading as critical thought,
> _does not_ mean that the jokers at "mediawhoresonline.com" are
> not shameless defenders of Clintonian corporate liberalism.
> Your post prompted me to visit their web site -- what a load
> of smug garbage. Their most stirring critique of the paleocons
> is that the Dow (and hence their mutual funds) has tanked since
> they usurped state power. (Oh, they also seem _embarrassed_ that
> the U.S. is now the "laughingstock of the world"). These self-
> righteous idiots do little other than confirm that Clinton loyalists
> are a bunch of navel-gazing bicoastal BMW drivers and chardonnay-
> sippers. The only public service they perform is to call a reactionary
> capitalist coup a coup and to remind us how narrow the political
> spectrum in this sorry-ass country is.
>
> Don't even get me started on how the Willie Brown and his hangers-on
> are launching an "identity politics"-type smear campaign against all
> genuinely left-wing criticims of their policies as being "racist" (did
> you see that outrageous hit piece by Hinckle in today's Examiner ?).
>
> John Gulick
>
> >Say it ain't so Hitch... www.mediawhoresonline.com
> >Peter Kilander, you still around? http://www.enteract.com/~peterk/
> >Speaking to the Judicial Watch convention, now this? Is this Stalinesque
> >fascist baiting? Defensiveness of a Liberal Democrat pissed at
Christopher
> >for the book on the Clinton's?The book by Conason and Lyons has lotsa
stuff
> >on the Arkansas Project, should read now that it is pb. And a new book by
> >poli sci guy, Peter Merkl (expertise Euro far right), on the impeachment,
> >might have some useful data on Scaife. Seem to remember a good piece in
> >CJR,
> >"Citizen Scaife, " a while ago. Given the secretiveness of Scaife, and
how
> >he does not funnel his gazillions through orgs like 501(c)3's that gotta
> >file reports with State Secretaries of State and/or Charities watchdogs,
> >how
> >does one follow the $ ??? Manhattan Instutute appearance? Maybe, Michael
> >Tomasky has some juicy stuff on this?
> http://www.tnr.com/040901/crowley040901.html
>http://www.tnr.com/040901/grunwald040901_print.html
>> >Michael Pugliese
>