Liberty Chick
Big Journalism
10/21/2010
…Is the Tides Foundation going after the NY Times for influencing Byron Williams’ behavior? After all, Mr. Williams, dubbed “the Freeway Shooter” by the media, did say in a jailhouse interview with the Examiner.com’s Ed Walsh that he was already familiar with the Tides Foundation and its activities before Beck ever began shining a light on the organization. He also said that Glenn Beck did NOT incite him to violence.
Here’s another question. While the Tides Foundation and its grant recipients like Media Matters are demanding that FOX News advertisers stop subsidizing the violence of a would-be domestic terrorist, why are they are silent on the Tides Foundation’s funding of a convicted domestic terrorist?
Last Monday, we published the story of convicted domestic terrorist, Brett Kimberlin, known as “the Speedway Bomber.” He spent nearly 17 years in prison after being convicted of launching a week-long bombing spree that terrorized the residents of Speedway, Indiana in the late 1970’s. One of the blasts horribly maimed a man so badly that it directly led to that man’s suicide a few years later, which was proven when the widow of that bombing victim successfully sued and won a civil judgment against Kimberlin for $1.6 million. Kimberlin was also convicted on drug charges in another case, and has a long history of telling lies.
But today, Kimberlin is embraced by the left, having proclaimed himself a political prisoner and martyr to the Republican cause, a portrayal that’s been proven false in research and court documents. Kimberlin went on to co-found Velvet Revolution. The organization describes itself as a progressive coalition that was formed “to go toe to toe with the right” because “the tactics and the power of the Democrats and progressives in this country have not been sufficient to check the actions of a corrupt Republican agenda.” Last October, Velvet Revolution launched an ad campaign which offered a “$200,000 bounty on the head” of Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Donohue. Today, the organization is still behind some of these smear campaigns that are frequent topics of President Obama’s recent speeches.
Where does some of Velvet Revolution’s funding come from? The same place Media Matters gets much of its money:
The Tides Foundation…
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