Any list of this sort should include Brock as a former member, cast out becaue he was gay and stopped playing ball. Details are in hs book.

They staged a platoon-sized ambush for her – 30 men with RPGs and crew served machine guns. Presumably they didn’t realise she was just some passing do-gooder.

Ok, so maybe we’re just pissed that we don’t have book deals or get on tv. But hey, I mean it’s not like we have any talent, or do anything other than be shrill. But since we are liberal wingnuts, it goes without saying that we are on welfare, at least until we finish school, if we ever finish school. I hope we never finish school, cuz then we’ll have to get jobs, and jobs are like below us and stuff.

You know what I mean. MORE DAYCARE!!!!!

Elliott Abrams…A book he wrote was underwritten by the Bradley foundation via the Hudson Institute.
Abrams was formerly (2000) the president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
Abrams is/was on the advisory board of the Media Research Center, an organization that opposes any traces of liberalism on TV or in films. Chairman L. Brent Bozell III publishes the newsletter TV, ETC., with an advisory board that includes Abrams, Mona Charen, Pete DuPont, and Rush Limbaugh.

Anne Applebaum is a foreign affairs columnist for The Daily Telegraph of London. She has written for the American Spectator, National Review, Weekly Standard and other conservative organs. In 2000 she received a grant from the Olin foundation to write a book, officially indoctrinating her into the sponsored conservative movement.

Fred Barnes is the executive editor of the Murdoch-subsidized Weekly Standard. He also sits on the Board of the Institute on Religion and Democracy.

William J. Bennett … is a “Distinguished Fellow” at the Heritage Foundation,
William J. Bennett …was one of the creators of Empower America, an organization whose main function seems to be to give its co-directors, which include Vin Weber, Jeane Kirkpatrick and Jack Kemp, access to the nation’s news media, talk shows and highest levels of government.

Elaine Chao …From August of 1996 until she joined the Department of Labor, Chao had been a Distinguished Fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

Linda Chavez …President of the Center for Equal Opportunity, which is funded by the Equal Opportunity Foundation. Abigail Thernstrom and Ron Unz (author of the anti-bilingual Proposition 227 in California) are on the board of the Center …Chavez was a research fellow at the Manhattan Institute during 1993 and 1994, which was funded by the Olin Foundation.

Ward Connerly…founded an organization called the American Civil Rights Institute, funded in large part by the ultra-conservative Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation of Milwaukee…recently written a book, called “Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences,â€? which is both an autobiography and an argument for the elimination of affirmative action. The book is published by San Francisco-based Encounter Books, a new conservative publisher also funded by the Bradley Foundation.

Frank Gaffney…While CSP boasts an impressive advisory list of hawkish luminaries, its star is Frank Gaffney, its founder, president and CEO…Not only are makers of the Osprey (Boeing) well represented on the CSP’s board of advisers but so too is Lockheed Martin (by vice president for space and strategic missiles Charles Kupperman and director of defense systems Douglas Graham). Former TRW executive Amoretta Hoeber is also a CSP adviser, as is former Congressman and Raytheon lobbyist Robert Livingston. Ball Aerospace & Technologies–a major manufacturer of NASA and Pentagon satellites–is represented by former Navy Secretary John Lehman, while missile-defense computer systems maker Hewlett-Packard is represented by George Keyworth, who is on its board of directors. And the Congressional Missile Defense Caucus and Osprey (or “tilt rotor”) caucus are represented by Representative Curt Weldon and Senator Jon Kyl.

David Horowitz…He is the president and founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center (formerly Center for the Study of Popular Culture – CSPC), which is a well-funded ($350,000 + from the Bradley foundation alone in 1998)…50 percent of the CSPC’s budget in 1992 came from three foundations: Olin, Bradley and Sarah Scaife (joint contributions totaling $482,500). COMINT itself was begun with $125,000 in start-up funds from the Sarah Scaife Foundation in 1988.

Cliff Kincaid…He has received significant support for his work from foundations controlled by right-wing financier Richard Mellon Scaife, who has funded AIM as as well as Kincaid’s own organization, America’s Survival.

Mara Liasson … sits on the board of the Freedom House, a Scaife, Bradley and Smith Richardson foundation funded outfit.

Gale Norton worked for four years for the James Watt-created Mountain States Legal Foundation, another tax-exempt entity subsidized by the conservative philanthropies.

Christina Hoff Sommers has written two major books, both subsidized by the conservative movement.

Thomas Sowell is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution…the Bradley Foundation has also begun awarding “Bradley Prizes” of $250,000 to individuals who advance ideas congruent with the Foundation’s conservative Christian and free market principles. Recipients so far include Thomas Sowell , an economist, journalist and author affiliated with the conservative Hoover Institution, and Washington Post and Weekly Standard neoconservative Charles Krauthammer [and recently George Will].

Shelby Steele now serves as a resident scholar at the Hoover Institution.

John Stossel…$50,000 Grant from Olin foundation to subsidize the selling of Stossel’s “reports” to schools…In an ethically questionable arrangement with ABC News, the Palmer R.Chitester Fund, a right wing foundation, has taken the network’s specials that are anchored by conservative reporter John Stossel and turned them into classroom study guides.

Ben Wattenberg makes the PBS television show called Think Tank that issues many players of the new right wing movement, which is probably why the Bradley, Olin, and Smith Richardson foundations lavishly fund it…See grants to the American Enterprise Institute, where Wattenberg is a Senior Fellow.

Those are my personal favorites. I skipped over a bunch of others.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/20/AR2007012000767.html

When Mr. Smathers ran for the Senate in 1950, the race turned out to be among the most contentious in Florida’s history. Mr. Smathers badgered incumbent Sen. Claude Pepper (D) on his support of civil rights and accused Pepper of being a communist sympathizer. Both sides issued scurrilous statements, but the most famous remarks may never have been uttered.

The comments appeared in Time magazine and were forever etched into public memory, but Mr. Smathers denied ever having made them. Pepper’s backers called Mr. Smathers a fearmonger and a bigot, but Mr. Smathers prevailed.

(As they say, the good die young.)

It could be argued that “Gorgeous George” Smathers was the original Southern-Democrat-in-Name-Only…

Now c’mon. I was refering to how she seems to be percieved, not how I perceive her. Me, I like lots of piercings and a couple more bright colors in her hair. I’m not chasing the cool point as much as I’m just trying to make sure nobody thinks I think AC’s hot. Or you know.

Hey. See that pony?

mikey

Speaking of, if y’all done see her thingy on C&L, I would just like to state for the record that she is SERIOUSLY underselling our Democratic racism. The walking and talking thing is old hat: went out with Zippy the Pinhead. Me? I’m simply amazed that there’s one out there who can understand written forms of communication and use rudimentary hand tools. It’s like, who taught them THAT?!

Also, you’d have a hard time convincing me John Stossel got his job due to his journalistic chops–hell, Bill O’Reilly is a better journalist than Stossel.

Whatever Olin/Scaife money Limbaugh may have taken, he really does have talent–he actually can be funny, and is a deft showman–on the radio; he’s hopeless on TV. Michael Savage, while insane, also has a real gift for radio theatre. Ken Hamblin, not so much; I think he got where he is by being a two-headed calf, a la Alan Keyes, who is brilliant but knows who his employers are. Melanie Morgan is a mere buffoon, a Mancow for the politically inclined.

I think you need two lists: one for wingnut welfare queens, first generation, like Lucianne Goldberg, and one for second-generation nepots like her boy Jonah. The second list will necessarily be shorter than the first, but not by much.

And what about Scooter Libby? I have no idea if he has any intelligence, skills, or experience, but he sure is benefiting from the wingnut welfare system, what with the think tank gig and the defense fund. Somebody is determined to keep him very, very happy and very, very quiet.

George W. Bush is the top “oil corporatocracy and nepotism” welfare queen, but I don’t know that it’s fair to call him “wingnut welfare”. He was on welfare long before wingnuts had any money to give.