The sheep are lining up on this one.
As of yet, no one has refuted any of the material presented in the list. As per protocol on this forum, bashing the source/cite is the only argument anyone can come up with.
Forget that the organization is comprised of attorneys, and the list of most corrupt in '07 and '08 included a number of republicans.
Sorry folks, facts is facts.
The misdirection, scandals, hoodwinking and outright law-breaking have been researched, identified and substantiated by a credible source.
So keep attacking the OP and attacking the source, but completely ignore the material and the topic.
Everybody is use to it.
The sad thing is, sweetie, is that NOBODY is ignoring the content. It doesn't matter that their list of corrupt politicians included some Republicans in previous years, or the fact that a few Republicans were included on the current one (yes, I did see that already). But to show you just how deep this goes (and to bring to light things that YOU don't even know about that site), let me show you how it's pretty easy to demonstrate the lack of nonpartisanship this "Judicial Watch" site really has. Now, pay attention and let this "blind liberal" destroy your credibility even more.
1. The site was founded by a person named Larry Klayman in 1994. If you don't know who that is, he ran for the United States Senate in Florida but lost in the
Republican primary.
Larry Klayman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2. The Judicial Watch attained notoriety through the initiation of
18 civil lawsuits against the Clinton Administration, and subsequently, an unsuccessful lawsuit against Vice-President Dick Cheney in order to obtain information about the White House's energy task force (which just happened to be a group created by George W. Bush. Kinda ironic knowing all that we know now that back then they couldn't find a thing wrong with Cheney).
3. The organization received financial support from prominent Clinton critics, including $7.74 million from conservative billionaire
Richard Mellon Scaife. Scaife is known for his financial support of conservative and right-wing public policy organizations over the past two decades. He has provided support for conservative and libertarian causes in the U.S., mostly through the private, nonprofit foundations he controls: the Sarah Scaife Foundation, Carthage Foundation, and Allegheny Foundation, and until 2001, the Scaife Family Foundation. Scaife also helped fund the Arkansas Project, which ultimately led to the impeachment proceedings of President Bill Clinton.
Richard Mellon Scaife - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
4. And I'm sure you remember what the Arkansas Project was, right? If you need a reminder, it was a series of investigations (mostly funded by businessman Richard Mellon Scaife) that were initiated with the intent of damaging and ending the presidency of Bill Clinton regarding a possible sexual harassment of an Arkansas state employee Scaife spent nearly $2 million on this anti-Clinton project.
5. Judicial Watch is also heavily funded by the John M. Olin Foundation, Inc, a grant making organization that has disbursed over $370 million in funding, primarily to conservative think tanks, media outlets, and law programs at influential universities.
John M. Olin Foundation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
That includes, but is not limited to, the following "think tanks": American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Center for Equal Opportunity, Center for Individual Rights, Eagle Forum, Free Congress Foundation, Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institution at Stanford University, Hudson Institute,
Manhattan Institute for Public Policy Research, National Association of Scholars, Palmer R. Chitester Fund, Philanthropy Roundtable.
And every time I see universities and academic organizations involved, I can't help but sense a real problem. So, I investigated some of the schools and individuals that may have benefitted from the John M. Olin Foundation's generous contributions. It eventually lead me to a person by the name of
Heather Mac Donald, a John M. Olin fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor to City Journal who canvassed a range of topics including homeland security, immigration, policing and "racial" profiling, homelessness and homeless advocacy, educational policy, the New York courts, and business improvement districts. She also wrote a notorious book called
Are Cops Racists which is supposed to investigate the workings of the police and downplays the controversy of racial profiling. It also tries to explain how the anti-profiling lobbies are supposedly harmful to black Americans. Quoted from her book, as listed in a review from Amazon: "The anti-profiling crusade thrives on an ignorance of policing and a willful blindness to the demographics of crime." Hmmmmmmm... where did I see some of this bullshit before?
But I digress, of course...
How about we look at some of the more recent actions of the Judicial Watch:
• Suing the town of Herndon, Virginia to stop a "day laborer" program on the grounds that it may provide employment for illegal aliens.
• Suing the U.S. Senate to disallow the filibuster in their debates over confirmation of judicial nominees, coinciding with proposed efforts by Republican Senate leaders to internally do the same thing.
• Initiating a request to the Naval Inspector General for an investigation into the "legitimacy and propriety" of the awards John Kerry received for his service in Vietnam.
• Criticizing the U.S. Navy for securing a public relations firm to encourage Puerto Ricans to vote to keep a Naval testing range at Vieques, Puerto Rico.
• Investigating fund-raising activities relating to the 1996 United States campaign finance controversy. Otherwise known as "Chinagate".
• Rejecting the formal judgement of innocence of David Rosen, who served as campaign finance director for Democrat Hillary Clinton's campaign for the U.S. Senate and had been indicted for filing false reports.
• Condemning as murder the death of Terri Schiavo, who lived for 15 years in a diagnosed persistent vegetative state and whose husband wished to allow to die. Her parents wished that she be kept on life support, and were joined in their pursuits by prominent Republicans.
• Filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Secret Service for denying Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for access to Obama White House visitor logs from January 20 to August 10, 2009.
Unlike you, a conservative leaning instigator who purposely omits selective words in statements and adheres to a "look, they got some Republicans too" mentality in order to sneakily suggest that a source is supposed to be "unbiased", I DO MY DAMN RESEARCH. I stand by my statement that your so-called source is FAR from being nonpartisan. All one has to do is follow the money trail and you can ALWAYS find the real motives of people.
Now please, star... get to work counterpointing these findings. That's if you even got a pair. I know the truth hurts.
