Oh, it's true all right...and now we just need to sit back and watch the circus...
Some of my co-workers have encouraged me to listen to Air America...to get a "balanced view of what is going on in the world"...so...I took their advice and have been stopping by once in a while...
Let me tell you...those people over at Air America are vile...hate-spewing...and just plain angry...you can hear it in every word that spews into the microphone, whether it is a local host or one of the few national ones...they prefer to trash the President of the free world while holding terrorists and murderers up as 'heros'...they would rather talk delightedly -- in lurid and graphic detail -- about the prospect of what Karl Rove would face with prison inmates than deal with reality...disgusting...
But, I digress...
Where is the outrage in the MSM? I haven't heard a whisper...
Looks like Brian Maloney over at RadioEqualizer broke the story last week...Great job, Maloney!
News Max carried a report as long as a week ago...and no one else has paid much attention to it...
Today Edward Morrissey over at the Weekly Standard wrote a great piece...One would expect that mainstream journalists would want to take advantage of this opportunity to cover this harmonic convergence: A greedy corporation had taken a half-million dollars of city grant money from two certifiably sympathetic and traditional victim groups in order to pay off its already-wealthy employees. Surprisingly, only three mainstream outlets did so: the Washington Times, in an editorial calling attention to the blog reports, a New York Post article doing much the same, and a New York Sun article detailing even more extensive malfeasance on the part of the CEO. After speaking with the president of the charity's executive committee, Jeanette Graves, the Sun's David Lombino discovered that the CEO in question got the loans using rubber-stamp replicas of Ms. Graves's signature on documents never seen by her. A wire transfer of over $400,000 of the charity's funds went to the corporation, also without her knowledge.
In fact, the amount in question now totals $875,000, which the corporation's new ownership discovered on its own but never revealed to authorities. This company has now belatedly agreed to repay the money--but over two years, while the charity remains under funded for its tasks and suffered the loss of other government contracts due to its nonperformance on these earmarked grants. What a story! What a blockbuster!
Yet most of the mainstream media has been oddly silent. Why?
WELL, FOR ONE THING, we have thus far neglected to name the corporation involved. The company that took money from poor kids and Alzheimer's patients to pay off its high-priced employees is Air America and the CEO was its original founder, Evan Cohen.
Michelle Malkin makes a good point...where's Jesse Jackson?...where's Al Sharpton?...Where are they? Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are the supermen of the civil rights establishment -- able to leap tall buildings in a single bound to get in front of a picket line. When victim politics calls, the demagogic duo leap into patented action: March. Boycott. Shakedown. Repeat.
Someone had better pay attention to this and shine the light of day on all the sordid details...
DR
