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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJustice Ginsburg's Family Decries Bestowing RBG Award on Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/03/justice-ginsburgs-family-decries-bestowing-rbg-award-on-elon-musk-and-rupert-murdoch/On Wednesday, the Dwight D. Opperman Foundation announced the 2024 recipients of the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leadership Award. The winners: businessman Elon Musk, right-wing media kingpin Rupert Murdoch, lifestyle guru Martha Stewart, felonious Wall Streeter turned philanthropist Mike Milken, and actor Sylvester Stallone. The Foundation hailed these iconic individuals for their extraordinary achievements.
Veteran corporate lawyer Brendan Sullivan, who was Oliver Norths attorney during the Iran-contra scandal and who now chairs the RBG Award, noted, The honorees reflect the integrity and achievement that defined Justice Ginsburgs career and legend. And the chair of the foundation, Julie Opperman, a big Republican donor and the widow of publishing titan Dwight Opperman, who once was CEO of Thomson Reuters, remarked that that the award embraces the fullness of Justice Ginsburgs legacy.
Attaching Ginsburgs name to Musk, who has amplified racist and antisemitic posts and ideas on X, and Murdoch, whose Fox News purposefully spread Trumps disinformation about the 2020 election and has repeatedly deployed falsehoods to challenge and undermine the values that Ginsburg fought for her entire life, seemed an odd and inappropriate choice. Thats what Ginsburgs family believes.
It has released a statement denouncing the awards:
The decision of the Opperman Foundation to bestow the RBG Womens Leadership Award on this years slate of awardees is an affront to the memory of our mother and grandmother, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Her legacy is one of deep commitment to justice and to the proposition that all persons deserve what she called equal citizenship stature under the Constitution. She was a singularly powerful voice for the equality and empowerment of women, including their ability to control their own bodies. As it was originally conceived and named, the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Woman of Leadership Award honored that legacy by recognizing an extraordinary woman who has exercised a positive and notable influence on society and served as an exemplary role model in both principles and practice. This year, the Opperman Foundation has strayed far from the original mission of the award and from what Justice Ginsburg stood for.
The Justices family wish to make clear that they do not support using their mothers name to celebrate this years slate of awardees, and that the Justices family has no affiliation with and does not endorse this award.
*snip*
So disrespectful to RBG
DURHAM D
(32,628 posts)Glad the family is standing up to the Nazis.
peggysue2
(10,914 posts)Good for the family pushing back.
elleng
(131,870 posts)KPN
(15,714 posts)mountain grammy
(26,738 posts)they went to the bottom.. surely they know RBG would not approve.
Abigail_Adams
(309 posts)Musk, Milken, and Murdoch? Really? REALLY??!! I concur with others--this was a deliberate kick in the teeth, and why are these jackasses in charge of that award anyway? Ginsburg's family should sue to revoke their ability to use her name on this "award."
peppertree
(21,927 posts)Best known for being Ollie North's "don't recall" lawyer, his family was the Sullivan in Sullivan & Cromwell.
The firm that represented Nazi interests in the U.S. before, during - and even after the war.
But they've got God's unlisted phone number, so it figures they'd get their claws even into RBG.
elleng
(131,870 posts)marble falls
(58,411 posts)Nevilledog
(51,582 posts)malaise
(270,028 posts)That is all
republianmushroom
(14,378 posts)Thank you family.
2naSalit
(87,446 posts)The names listed are all criminals and authoritarians.
Raven123
(5,052 posts)Almost makes a mockery of her legacy
Easterncedar
(2,426 posts)How dare they
niyad
(114,553 posts)rubbersole
(6,838 posts)mopinko
(70,602 posts)hes zealously guarded her name and image. i hope he takes some action here.
if any of these recipients had a shred of decency, theyd refuse the award.
Raven123
(5,052 posts)wolfie001
(2,412 posts)JoseBalow
(2,897 posts)brer cat
(24,776 posts)Ocelot II
(116,421 posts)It feels almost like an intentional insult.
Easterncedar
(2,426 posts)Owning the libs by spitting on RBGs name.
Like the Susan B Anthony organization. Damn them.
ificandream
(9,513 posts)Makes absolutely no sense. Surprised he didn't give it to Trump.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,890 posts)markodochartaigh
(1,245 posts)for Workers' Rights.
/s
CousinIT
(9,342 posts)....a family should be able to protect its name. This is a nasty insult to her family.
AllaN01Bear
(19,452 posts)just like rush limbaugh getting the freedom medal
Martin68
(23,225 posts)sheshe2
(84,305 posts)It is an insult to her legacy.
Wonder Why
(3,528 posts)moniss
(4,274 posts)got in the same room together.
Rebl2
(13,735 posts)ever been in prison?
Mblaze
(274 posts)But integrity? Please
Quanto Magnus
(917 posts)a joke award?
thesquanderer
(12,030 posts)patphil
(6,321 posts)Really? Musk, Murdoch, and Milken?
This is pure BS, Republican style.
How do these three guys embrace the fullness of Justice Ginsberg's legacy?
Answer: They don't.
This used to be the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Woman of Leadership Award.
I only see one woman in the list of 5 recipients.
Farmer-Rick
(10,318 posts)Unless they added a few mass murderers. They have a convicted felon, a convicted drug runner, accused rapist, convicted sexual abusers, known Nazis and vile misogynists on the list. Maybe they should award it to David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam murderer, or Dennis Rader, the BTK murderer, too while they are at it.
It was an obvious insult. Naming the award after the first Jewish female judge is appalling. Her family say they have absolutely no connection to this award. It's such an insult, you got to think it's a hoax.
Her family appropriately asks for her name to be removed from the award. "Unless the original award criteria, as accepted by Justice Ginsburg, are restored, they very much want their mothers name to be removed from the award.
keopeli
(3,536 posts)disdain for the iconic liberal justice.
With the exception of Martha Stewart, the whole list is of rabid Republicans. I am sure they all had a good laugh at RBG's expense afterward. This is such a travesty that it is beyond words.
bucolic_frolic
(43,860 posts)Any of youz know something we can grand larcenize this weekend?
GB_RN
(2,516 posts)Right? No way this can be real.
Nevilledog
(51,582 posts)GB_RN
(2,516 posts)I did see where the family had nothing to do with it and wanted her name removed from it. Looks like a Reichwing scam that aims to pervert/subvert her good name and works by giving awards to crackpots and criminals.
HariSeldon
(465 posts)Nobel didn't create the "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel", as he did the actual Nobel prizes (physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace). The money-people got butt-hurt about being left out and made their own "Nobel prize." Mathematicians were left out of eligibility for Nobel prizes as well, but they did the honorable thing and created their own awards (the Fields Medal and Abel Prize).
How did this odious organization get any right to use RBG's name? Shouldn't those rights belong to her estate?
FelineOverlord
(3,626 posts)However, you can tell them exactly how you feel but sending them an email:
press@rbgaward.org.
dickthegrouch
(3,213 posts)Im no longer sure these outrageous incidents arent just a way to collect information from dissenters
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(109,008 posts)spanone
(136,124 posts)SleeplessinSoCal
(9,265 posts)It makes no sense. Never mind the Musk portion. Sylvester Stallone?
MorbidButterflyTat
(1,940 posts)Fucking trolls.
BootinUp
(47,313 posts)Can her family rescue her name from the frauds running this award?
TeamProg
(6,557 posts)turbinetree
(24,779 posts)and that these jerks, being put mildly and they reflect integrity and achievement............
Trust_Reality
(1,736 posts)pecosbob
(7,589 posts)I consider three of them to be horrible examples of human beings.
ColinC
(8,409 posts)How is that a thing that happened?
GiqueCee
(727 posts)... think they're clever, but they're the furthest thing from it. Malice is their default setting, but it won't be long before they realize that they are being shunned and ostracized by decent people, which they, of course, know they will never, ever be.
Every time I think that Republicans can't possibly sink any lower into the putrid muck at the bottom of their cesspool of malice and mendacity... it's Friday, and we gotta recalibrate... yet again.
budkin
(6,768 posts)And giving them total control of SCOTUS and ending Roe, this doesnt surprise me at all.
onecaliberal
(33,214 posts)Sanity Claws
(21,873 posts)The Estate of RBG should be able to sue for appropriation of RBG's name
Bayard
(22,455 posts)And what would those be? Lying, cheating, and spitting on the little people?
RBG has to be rolling in her grave. This is a deliberate insult to her memory and legacy. Her family should sue.
C Moon
(12,242 posts)Rhiannon12866
(208,465 posts)Blue Owl
(50,920 posts)Zambero
(8,993 posts)Remarkably Bogus Gaslighting