Billionaire Funder and Fox News Collude in Glenn Beck’s Affront to Martin Luther King

Tim Phillips, president of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation, flatly denies that his organization has any partnership with Rupert Murdoch, CEO of Fox News’ parent company, News Corporation. Still, the coincidental evidence keeps piling up.

Take, for instance, the cheapy-cheap deals available through the AFPF Web site for those wishing to travel to Washington, D.C., for the big Glenn Beck event, Restoring Honor — which happens to take place at the Lincoln Memorial on the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, which took place in the same hallowed location.

Okay, so AFPF doesn’t advertise the deals as being for the Beck event; they just happen to be wrapping their own annual D.C. conference around the Beck event, and will be ferrying attendees to their Defending the American Dream confab to the Beck event. And the buses will conveniently not leave D.C. until the Beck event concludes. (Coincidentally, FreedomWorks, which is using Glenn Beck’s image and endorsement to peddle membership in its Take America Back election campaign, is also hosting a conference the same weekend.)

Just how good are the deals? Well, check this out. (Bear in mind that the Beck event is on Saturday, Aug. 28, and the conference begins on Friday, Aug. 27.) Let’s say you want to travel from Orlando, Florida, and you insist on single occupancy in your hotel. A package that includes the conference registration fee ($99 if purchased separately), transportation, two nights in a good Washington, D.C., hotel, two meals, and transportation back and forth to the Beck event will run you $450. (One of those meals is a dinner banquet staged in honor of the late President Ronald Reagan.) If you choose double occupancy in the hotel, you still get all that (plus a roommate) for $300.

http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/08/20/americans-for-prosperity-offers-bushotel-packages-for-glenn-beck-lincoln-memorial-event/

It must be somewhat decayed by now.

I saw a clip on I think Countdown last week and Beck was talking about "something special" even "miraculous" happening at his event. He was talking about how "all" the hotels were booked as if this might be some kind of a "sign". I guess he didn't know about the two "other" conferences being held that same weekend! :crazy:

I really think Beck is trying to start some kind of movement with him as the "fearless" leader! He continues to hint that he is doing the work of God, and that people should be "leaving" their churches if they promote social programs that help those in need. He claims it's just part of the "plan" to turn the country into communist, socialistic state! He has listeners who are as crazy as he is, and who would never let a Mormon into their home to discuss religion because they don't believe Mormons are really christians, yet they listen to Beck, a radical, crazy Mormon with a God complex, and believe everything he says!

Faux news just wants to use all the people who listen to them to help the right wing take back the country, they don't seem to are how Beck rallies the "morons" as long as the "morons" do their dirty work! The right has created a monster with the tea party groups, and Beck is trying to capitalize on the gullibility of these people in order to push his own crazy agenda. I think not only has the right created a monster, but Faux news has created another "Hitler" wannabe in Beck. Hitler used the same fear and hate tactics to create his movement as Beck is using. I wonder how long it will be before the right sees just how bad their creation really is!

the whole right wing / republican party, is playing with the same mind games, psychology, symbolism, brainwashing, including using religion, that Hitler and other despots used. It's scary. If I thought they would be busted for this at some point, I wouldn't be so worried, but honestly, I don't have that much faith in Americans right now.

...for this deal, and then went to the MLK celebration instead of to Beck's Hate-a-Thon.

bemusedly,
Bright

http://americansforprosperityfoundation.com/foundation/about/directors

It sounds like they are violating IRS tax exemptions for 501(c)(3) organizations.



Be aware that there are two organizations, Americans for Prosperity and Americans for Prosperity Foundation.