// API callback
related_results_labels_thumbs({"version":"1.0","encoding":"UTF-8","feed":{"xmlns":"http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom","xmlns$openSearch":"http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/","xmlns$blogger":"http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008","xmlns$georss":"http://www.georss.org/georss","xmlns$gd":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005","xmlns$thr":"http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0","id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628"},"updated":{"$t":"2022-02-10T16:15:44.663-05:00"},"category":[{"term":"recent"},{"term":"Democrats"},{"term":"Islam"},{"term":"Biden"},{"term":"Important Posts"},{"term":"Left"},{"term":"Satire"},{"term":"Israel"},{"term":"Race"},{"term":"Coronavirus"},{"term":"Parsha"},{"term":"Terrorism"},{"term":"socialism"},{"term":"resistobama"},{"term":"politics"},{"term":"Big Tech"},{"term":"immigration"},{"term":"California"},{"term":"Jewish"},{"term":"New York"},{"term":"Pro-Crime"},{"term":"US Election"},{"term":"Black Lives Matter"},{"term":"War on Terror"},{"term":"Media Bias"},{"term":"Racism"},{"term":"future of the west"},{"term":"Anti-Semitism"},{"term":"Crime"},{"term":"Investigations"},{"term":"Liberalism"},{"term":"America"},{"term":"Antisemitism"},{"term":"Bernie Sanders"},{"term":"Afghanistan"},{"term":"Europe"},{"term":"Islamic terrorism"},{"term":"Islamization"},{"term":"Kamala Harris"},{"term":"culture war"},{"term":"environmentalism"},{"term":"Hollywood"},{"term":"riots"},{"term":"China"},{"term":"black nationalism"},{"term":"corruption"},{"term":"Corporate America"},{"term":"Cuomo"},{"term":"global warming"},{"term":"big government"},{"term":"urban model"},{"term":"videos"},{"term":"Culture"},{"term":"Jewish Matters"},{"term":"entertainment industry"},{"term":"history"},{"term":"Arabs"},{"term":"New Jersey"},{"term":"Russia"},{"term":"UK"},{"term":"iran"},{"term":"Los Angeles"},{"term":"censorship"},{"term":"homeless"},{"term":"investigative"},{"term":"Murphy"},{"term":"Obama"},{"term":"illegal aliens"},{"term":"Coup"},{"term":"Hillary Clinton"},{"term":"Holocaust"},{"term":"Portland"},{"term":"Tech"},{"term":"feminism"},{"term":"green energy"},{"term":"political correctness"},{"term":"sexism"},{"term":"ADL"},{"term":"Elizabeth Warren"},{"term":"Jamal Khashoggi"},{"term":"Newsom"},{"term":"San Francisco"},{"term":"Texas"},{"term":"Venezuela"},{"term":"humor"},{"term":"radicals"},{"term":"rape culture"},{"term":"9\/11"},{"term":"Alexandria Ocasio Cortez"},{"term":"Chicago"},{"term":"De Blasio"},{"term":"International"},{"term":"Middle East"},{"term":"Minnesota"},{"term":"Muslim Brotherhood"},{"term":"Palestinians"},{"term":"Soros"},{"term":"Trump Derangement Syndrome"},{"term":"UN"},{"term":"cancel culture"},{"term":"drugs"},{"term":"education"},{"term":"gun control"},{"term":"unions"},{"term":"Abortion"},{"term":"Baltimore"},{"term":"Beto O'Rourke"},{"term":"Buttigieg"},{"term":"Communism"},{"term":"Cory Booker"},{"term":"Fake Hate Crimes"},{"term":"Freedom"},{"term":"Gillibrand"},{"term":"Hamas"},{"term":"Islamophobia"},{"term":"Marxism"},{"term":"Michigan"},{"term":"Minneapolis"},{"term":"Ohio"},{"term":"Omar"},{"term":"Pelosi"},{"term":"Pennsylvania"},{"term":"Philosophy"},{"term":"Social Issues"},{"term":"South America"},{"term":"Supreme Court"},{"term":"Sweden"},{"term":"Trump"},{"term":"Virginia"},{"term":"Washington D.C."},{"term":"Whitmer"},{"term":"gender"},{"term":"grooming gangs"},{"term":"media"},{"term":"military"},{"term":"nursing homes"},{"term":"olmert"},{"term":"slavery"},{"term":"ACLU"},{"term":"Austria"},{"term":"Bangladesh"},{"term":"Barry Chamish"},{"term":"Bend the Arc"},{"term":"Bill Gates"},{"term":"Blinken"},{"term":"Cincinnati"},{"term":"Colorado"},{"term":"DOJ"},{"term":"Daniel Greenfield"},{"term":"DeBlasio"},{"term":"Ethics"},{"term":"Fake News"},{"term":"Florida"},{"term":"France"},{"term":"GOP"},{"term":"Georgia"},{"term":"Granholm"},{"term":"Indian"},{"term":"Iraq"},{"term":"Jewish recent"},{"term":"Kerry"},{"term":"Libya"},{"term":"Lincoln"},{"term":"Mali"},{"term":"Massachusetts"},{"term":"Mueller"},{"term":"Nicaragua"},{"term":"PLO"},{"term":"Personal"},{"term":"Philadelphia"},{"term":"Pierre Omidyar"},{"term":"Republicans"},{"term":"Saudi Arabia"},{"term":"Scam"},{"term":"Schumer"},{"term":"Science"},{"term":"Somali"},{"term":"Sports"},{"term":"Star Trek"},{"term":"Steele"},{"term":"Taliban"},{"term":"Tennessee"},{"term":"Tlaib"},{"term":"Tunisia"},{"term":"USSR"},{"term":"VA"},{"term":"Woke"},{"term":"Yemen"},{"term":"Zero Hussein"},{"term":"aboutme"},{"term":"amona"},{"term":"cities"},{"term":"class warfare"},{"term":"foreign policy"},{"term":"gang violence"},{"term":"israeli police brutality"},{"term":"judicial activism"},{"term":"medicine"},{"term":"photoshops"},{"term":"social justice"},{"term":"society"},{"term":"universities"},{"term":"white privilege"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Daniel Greenfield \/ Sultan Knish articles"},"subtitle":{"type":"html","$t":"Daniel Greenfield's articles and writings on the Sultan Knish blog"},"link":[{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/posts\/default"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/-\/corruption?alt=json-in-script\u0026max-results=5"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/search\/label\/corruption"},{"rel":"hub","href":"http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"},{"rel":"next","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/-\/corruption\/-\/corruption?alt=json-in-script\u0026start-index=6\u0026max-results=5"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"generator":{"version":"7.00","uri":"http://www.blogger.com","$t":"Blogger"},"openSearch$totalResults":{"$t":"12"},"openSearch$startIndex":{"$t":"1"},"openSearch$itemsPerPage":{"$t":"5"},"entry":[{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-2982969888660776284"},"published":{"$t":"2021-11-28T22:24:00.009-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-12-02T13:59:32.050-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"corruption"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Democrats"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Real USC Scandal is How Democrat Pols, Not Celebs, Got In"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cp\u003EThe arrest of Los Angeles Councilman Mark Ridley-Thomas over a bribery scheme was nothing special. Recent arrests and indictments have decimated the ranks of the Cincinnati and Detroit city councils. The corruption of urban Democrat machines is a dog bites man story and the responsibility of those machines for much of the misery they blame on the myth of “systemic racism” may well be the single most underreported story in the establishment media.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhat makes the Ridley-Thomas arrest stand out is that the bribe was academic.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-4dJUHO5pS10\/YZ6QcW8hYDI\/AAAAAAAATm8\/hBdai5Wu3OMzVUKfKUXAjjaUVdaXO8vMgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s576\/karen%2Bbass%2Bframe.png\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"400\" data-original-width=\"576\" height=\"222\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-4dJUHO5pS10\/YZ6QcW8hYDI\/AAAAAAAATm8\/hBdai5Wu3OMzVUKfKUXAjjaUVdaXO8vMgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/karen%2Bbass%2Bframe.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ESebastian Ridley-Thomas, Mark's son, had followed his father into Democrat politics, and was elected to the California State Assembly before being accused of sexual harassment. The second generation of the Democrat dynasty was falling apart and Sebastian stepped down while blaming health problems. The health problems didn’t prevent him from creating Millennial Advisors, and the Policy, Research and Practice Initiative to “research” black voters.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAnd he got a job at the University of Southern California.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUSC named Sebastian a\u0026nbsp; \"professor of practice of policy and social work\" and also gave him a scholarship to study for a master’s in social work. Prosecutors allege that Marilyn Flynn, the dean of USC's School of Social Work, and a major donor to Mark Ridley-Thomas, told \"multiple USC officials about Sebastian Ridley-Thomas, explaining who his father was and saying his admission should be given the highest priority.\"\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAn hour earlier, the dean had been told that a $9 million contract was ready to go.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFlynn urged USC figures to rush it through “in the interests of showing MRT that we can deliver.” The indictment emails show the USC dean greedily salivating that, “there are significant amounts of county funds available” and “should give us $1M each year for three years.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhere was that money coming from? Contracts with the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services and Department of Mental Health. Some of the most vulnerable members of society, the people whom the Democrats and the USC social workers claimed to be protecting were actually being used as counters in a corrupt scheme to enrich Democrats.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe whole thing came apart when the Mark Ridley-Thomas Committee for a Better L.A. funneled $100,000 through the USC School of Social Work to Sebastian's Policy, Research and Practice Initiative. Whistles were blown and both Mark and Marilyn Flynn were busted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDespite the massive abuse of taxpayer money, the corruption of both government and academia by the largest social work program in the country and a Democrat dynasty, this USC scandal has received practically no coverage outside the local media. The difference between the national media’s gleeful coverage of allegations that B-list celebs had bent the rules to get their kids into USC and this much more serious case is strikingly revealing. And it’s not over.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Mark Ridley-Thomas may be an obscure name to most people outside Los Angeles, that’s not the case with Rep. Karen Bass, a member of Congress, who had been touted as one of the top two Biden VP picks, and is considered a front-runner to become LA’s next mayor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBass, a Castro supporter with Communist ties (“‘I’m Not a Communist’: Potential Biden Running Mate Reassures” an NBC News headline had read last year) hasn’t been charged with anything, but her case is in some ways even more curious than that of Sebastian.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe lefty House Democrat had received an unsolicited $95,000 tuition award from the USC School of Social Work allowing her to “earn” an online master’s degree.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Los Angeles Times noted that, “some of her coursework was supervised by a prominent campaign donor who was also a USC professor at the time”. Flynn, “offered the scholarship to Bass even though she had not directly applied to the social work program.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFlynn approached Bass and offered her a \"scholarship\" that was not available to students. The USC School of Social Work dean claimed that Bass was chosen because she \"demonstrated an exceptional potential for contribution to the field\" and had “obvious leadership skills.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhat did Flynn actually expect from Bass’ “contribution to the field”? Good question. Just don’t expect the same national news media that was defending Bass over her support for Castro and other Communists to ask any such basic questions even while the Castroite runs for mayor.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe LA Times also noted that, “The full value of Bass’ scholarship was not listed on her congressional disclosure forms until 2019, when forms from several years were amended and a total of more than $80,000 in free tuition was added to her gift disclosures.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAcademia’s lefty bias is nothing new, but USC represents a more complicated financial entanglement with the Democrats. The university spends half a million a year on lobbying, it takes in millions in government contracts, and its faculty, administrators and other employees plowed over $2.6 million into political campaigns in 2020 alone. The vast majority of that money, 96.5% or nearly $1.8 million donated to federal election candidates, went to Democrats.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe USC School of Social Work had grown so big because of an online “deal with the devil” that the university had struck with 2U, a multi-billion dollar online education platform founded and run by Christopher “Chip” Paucek who had served as the deputy campaign manager for Democrat Senator Barbara Mikulski. (Another Mikulski alum is Democrat political consultant Bob Shrum, who heads the USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future, and was quoted by the LA Times.)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUSC and 2U offered a $115,000 online social work master's degree, aggressively targeting minority and underperforming students with GPAs as low as 2.5 and leaving them with huge debts and low income careers. 2U allegedly got 60% of the revenue from the program which helped make it a huge player in the online education space while USC was left with the debt.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMass education and the welfare state have proven to be quite profitable for Democrat elites while poisoning everything that they touch and leaving broken lives in their wake.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe real scandal at USC was the familiar one of Democrat elites exploiting black people in the name of empowering them and black leaders happily participating in the program. Some of the damage was passed along to taxpayers in the form of scholarships, and the varied players were able to move money around to each other until a few of the players became too brazen.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt’s a much bigger scandal than a Full House cast member trying to get her daughter into USC.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMarilyn Flynn, now the USC School of Social Work's former dean, has been indicted, and pled not guilty. Mark Ridley-Thomas also pled not guilty and was suspended from the Los Angeles City Council. In a bizarre arrangement, his chief of staff is serving as the district’s “caretaker”.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBut it’s implausible that Flynn or Ridley-Thomas acted alone. In their alleged corrupt actions, they consulted and coordinated with multiple USC and local government officials. This isn’t the story of a few corrupt people, but a corrupt system which exploits those it claims to be helping.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHow did Rep. Karen Bass, with her six-figure government salary, qualify for a $95,000 scholarship? Don’t ask USC whose spokesperson sneered that they had no idea, “what policies and procedures were in place at the School of Social Work 10 years ago.”\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe cynicism is almost as breathtaking as the corruption.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/2982969888660776284\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/11\/the-real-usc-scandal-is-how-democrat.html#comment-form","title":"5 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2982969888660776284"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/2982969888660776284"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/11\/the-real-usc-scandal-is-how-democrat.html","title":"The Real USC Scandal is How Democrat Pols, Not Celebs, Got In"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-4dJUHO5pS10\/YZ6QcW8hYDI\/AAAAAAAATm8\/hBdai5Wu3OMzVUKfKUXAjjaUVdaXO8vMgCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/karen%2Bbass%2Bframe.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"5"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-938007196128289777"},"published":{"$t":"2021-04-19T06:16:00.001-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2021-04-19T06:16:00.283-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"corruption"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"drugs"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Boehner Stands to Make Millions in Drug Money From Biden Win"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Nine years ago, the New York Times was \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.mrc.org\/articles\/editorial-page-editor-calls-boehner-racist-asking-obama-delay-speech-congress\"\u003Eaccusing\u003C\/a\u003E John Boehner of racism. Now it’s eager to lap up every drop of vomitous bile from the former Republican House Speaker.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen Boehner asked Obama to move his speech by one day to avoid clashing with a Republican debate, NBC political analyst Richard Wolffe suggested that Boehner only did it because of \"the color of his skin\". Wolffe meant Obama's skin, not Boehner's, which always looks like spoiled meat served in some blackmarket back alley cafe in Havana.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESince then Boehner has followed the usual career track of former RINOs from “worse than Hitler” to “sleazy lobbyist” to “author of unnecessary memoir bashing Trump”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-nzHdey0qPLw\/YHz1wI5MgUI\/AAAAAAAATBA\/6v0ZjNngBCsJKPi1elacTmgNzJkozQCKACNcBGAsYHQ\/s454\/image_2021-04-18_201512.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"393\" data-original-width=\"454\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-nzHdey0qPLw\/YHz1wI5MgUI\/AAAAAAAATBA\/6v0ZjNngBCsJKPi1elacTmgNzJkozQCKACNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/image_2021-04-18_201512.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EBoehner’s memoir On The House, like his political career, has no reason to exist. Even when he occupied one of the most powerful elected positions in the country, Boehner was mostly notable for looking like he was on the edge of tears. That and the time his bartender was arrested for wanting to poison him. That seemed unnecessary as Boehner was doing the job for him.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“If you’ve got a long night ahead of you, you usually find that drinking liquor for several hours is pretty much unsustainable. Plus, nothing that sweet can be good for you in the long run. And so I settled on wine. Drinking wine is a marathon, not a sprint, and makes sense for the more mature drinker,” Boehner writes in On The House.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThis sort of thing might be more interesting if Hunter Biden hadn’t set the bar pretty high and it’s not what the American subsidiary of an English subsidiary of a German publishing giant is paying the weepy politician for. And so Boehner’s interviews are littered with “exclusives” about how much he hates Republicans. Even there, On The House is a failure. Boehner left office before President Trump’s shocking victory and his Trump-bashing comes from cable news.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOn The House tries to settle grudges against Freedom Caucus members and Senator Ted Cruz from a decade ago that, like everything Boehner has to say, no one cares about. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll that's left is for Boehner to join the roster of ‘ex-racists’ touting Biden. When the slimy ex-speaker calls Biden a \"good guy\", that's not an endorsement anyone would want.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd when Biden quipped that he \"loved\" Boehner, that's almost as bad.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat’s there to love? Let’s forget the booze and go right to the pot.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile Boehner can be found addressing the Bank of Montreal, the Edison Electric Institute (an electric company lobby), and a Portland life insurance company offering services to the \"ultra-affluent\" for pay, he's better known for going to pot.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBoehner, who had opposed drugs as an elected official, received the high honor of heading up the National Cannabis Roundtable to lobby for drug legalization. The former House Speaker came by the position naturally since he was already on the board of Acreage Holdings.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAcreage Holdings has one of the biggest marijuana operations in America. As Democrats began to legalize drugs in select states, companies were formed to get in on the action. But despite all the hype, the marijuana business was a disaster. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELegalizing and taxing pot just meant users buying cheap ‘illegal’ pot from drug dealers.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAcreage tried opening operations everywhere only to pull back. The marijuana company suffered\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.greenmarketreport.com\/acreage-holdings-reports-286-million-net-loss-in-2020\/\"\u003E $286 million\u003C\/a\u003E in net losses in 2020. But there was some good news. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECanopy Growth, a Canadian company, controlled by Constellation Brands, a liquor company which owns everything from Svedka Vodka to Robert Mondavi, has a deal to buy Acreage on the condition that marijuana is \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.seekerstime.com\/canopy-growth-to-buy-acreage-holdings-once-marijuana-is-federally-legal\/\"\u003Efederally legalized\u003C\/a\u003E in the United States.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd the only way that could happen is with a Democrat in the White House.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs one headline \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/money\/markets\/canopy-growth-is-headed-to-0-without-a-biden-victory\/ar-BB1948DP\"\u003Ebluntly put it\u003C\/a\u003E, “Canopy Growth Is Headed to $0 Without a Biden Victory”.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Canopy Growth, will need U.S. federal legalization to survive. Without it, the marijuana company’s negative cash flow will eventually bankrupt it,\" the Investor Place article pointed out. \"Four more years of a Trump presidency, however, would push CGC over the edge... CGC will likely close its doors before the 2024 election comes around.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFortunately, Biden had promised to legalize pot, and \"Senator Kamala Harris... introduced the Democrat-championed bill that would essentially legalize marijuana on the federal level.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut, \"the MORE Act will need a Democratic-controlled White House and Senate to pass.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAcreage and its investors needed President Trump and Republicans to lose across the board. And they need to retain control of the House and Senate long enough to legalize marijuana.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhat’s at stake for Boehner? A lot.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs Bloomberg News\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-04-18\/ex-speaker-boehner-can-score-big-on-pot-deal-with-weed-legalized\"\u003E reported\u003C\/a\u003E, he can “collect $1.59 million in cash once shareholders approve Canopy Growth Corp.’s acquisition of Acreage Holdings Inc..”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBoehner had 625,000 shares of Acreage at the time the article was written and it noted that, \"if his former colleagues in Congress help make marijuana federally legal, he’d be eligible to receive Canopy shares worth about $16 million.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA New York Times article wrote that, “Boehner’s pro-weed epiphany coincides with the prospect of a payday as high as $20 million.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s a lot of money. And to collect all that drug money, Boehner needs Republicans to lose.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWho was Boehner going to back in the election? Not the Trump administration which had tossed Obama’s pro-marijuana Cole memo which had been used to build a new drug industry.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd not Republicans who aren’t friendly enough to his new drug industry friends. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBoehner is a founding board member of the National Institute for Cannabis Investors, where he could be seen on video assuring investors that the ban on pot is almost over and the money is about to come pouring in.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“Speaker Boehner has the inside track on the future of this green gold rush” a 2018 promo titled \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/john-boehner-to-headline-pot-summit-advise-investors-on-future-of-green-gold-rush\"\u003Efor an event\u003C\/a\u003E titled, \"American Cannabis Summit: Countdown to Legalization\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2020, Acreage had borrowed $15 million at \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/thcnet.com\/news\/cash-strapped-cannabis-firm-acreage-holdings-borrows-15-million-at-staggering-60-interest-rate\"\u003Ea 60% interest rate\u003C\/a\u003E. The gold was rushing out.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFederal legalization of pot would be Acreage’s salvation and for that to happen, the Democrats need to maintain control of the government.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf Boehner’s financial situation hasn’t changed significantly, there are millions at stake. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDefeating Republicans in 2020 and 2022 would be in his financial interest.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll of this is at odds with Boehner’s feeble attempt to build a reputation as a principled legislator decrying the fanatical excesses of House conservatives. Boehner has no principles. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EYou can see why Biden loves Boehner. And why Boehner loves him back. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media doesn’t want to puncture the spectacle of the sleazy sad sack doing a tour for a book no one wants and taking the same old cheap shots at President Trump and Republicans by asking him how much money was at stake for him in Biden’s win. And how much money is at stake if Republicans lose again in 2022 and Democrats hold on to control of the government?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat would be awkward. After falsely calling Boehner a racist for years, media outlets are happy to nod along as he launches into the same talking points we’ve heard from Kasich, Schwartzenegger, and the rest of the RINO gang who can’t wait to talk about the golden days. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA decade ago the media was smearing Boehner as a radical bigot who was obstructing Obama. Now, Boehner is happy to smear Republicans as radical bigots who are obstructing Biden. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt’s cynical, dishonest, and sleazy. But compared to selling drugs, it’s actually not that bad.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAsk John Boehner about his principles. And then ask him how much his principles cost.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIs it $15 million or $20 million?\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/938007196128289777\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/04\/boehner-stands-to-make-millions-in-drug.html#comment-form","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/938007196128289777"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/938007196128289777"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2021\/04\/boehner-stands-to-make-millions-in-drug.html","title":"Boehner Stands to Make Millions in Drug Money From Biden Win"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-nzHdey0qPLw\/YHz1wI5MgUI\/AAAAAAAATBA\/6v0ZjNngBCsJKPi1elacTmgNzJkozQCKACNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/image_2021-04-18_201512.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6418476871114633265"},"published":{"$t":"2020-11-25T12:13:00.001-05:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-11-25T12:13:08.370-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Cincinnati"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"corruption"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Democrats"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Ohio"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"How a Trump Prosecutor Took Down a Third of the Cincinnati City Council"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\"As Donald Trump returns to Cincinnati today, I think it's important to say in my role as an elected leader for the city that he does not represent our values - not anywhere close. Indeed, he undermines them daily,\" Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld tweeted two years ago.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-p9A89TbG0oc\/X76QeiVuUII\/AAAAAAAASmI\/WEIofhJrGt0_H14uWKaZeJD4kQfPm5H0wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s502\/sittenfeld%2Bbiden.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"301\" data-original-width=\"502\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-p9A89TbG0oc\/X76QeiVuUII\/AAAAAAAASmI\/WEIofhJrGt0_H14uWKaZeJD4kQfPm5H0wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/sittenfeld%2Bbiden.png\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ENow, P.G. Sittenfeld, the leftist mayoral candidate, whose Senate bid had been funded by Obama and Biden backers, was arrested on corruption charges. In some places that might be a shameful distinction, but in Cincinnati it just means a third of the city council has been busted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOr 40% of the ‘Gang of Five’, the five Democrats who had illegally colluded on city business via text messaging \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.wcpo.com\/news\/local-news\/hamilton-county\/cincinnati\/cincinnati-city-council-gang-of-five-admits-breaking-the-law-in-text-messaging-scandal\"\u003Eresulting in\u003C\/a\u003E $101,000 in fines and attorney fees to be paid for by taxpayers. When Democrat politicians violate the law, it's the taxpayers who still end up on the hook.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESittenfeld, a young leftist, was being touted for bigger things. One of his fundraising events was hosted by Bill Burton, Obama's former deputy press secretary and the co-founder of Priorities USA, the biggest Democrat super PAC formed to support Obama and then Hillary Clinton, Mike McCurry, Bill Clinton's ex- press secretary, and Tad Devine, Bernie Sanders’ former top strategist.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDuring his Senate primary bid, a PAC known as New Leadership for Ohio was formed to support Sittenfeld. The PAC raised \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/outsidespending\/detail.php?cmte=C00586867\u0026amp;cycle=2016\"\u003Eand spent\u003C\/a\u003E $788,104 in 2016. Questions \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/news\/politics\/ohio%20government\/2016\/01\/31\/who-filled-coffers-pro-sittenfeld-super-pac\/79622190\/\"\u003Ewere raised\u003C\/a\u003E at the time, why an English literature professor at the University of Cincinnati donated $275,000 to it. While that was an earlier election, Sittenfeld’s current troubles revolve around a corrupt PAC.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESittenfeld’s\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/local12.com\/news\/local\/report-pg-sittenfeld-latest-cincinnati-city-council-arrested-for-corruption\"\u003E indictment\u003C\/a\u003E states that \"Sittenfeld corruptly solicited and received payments to the PAC, controlled by Sittenfeld, all in connection with Project 1.\" The PAC is not named in the indictment, but Sittenfeld \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/news\/2020\/11\/19\/people-want-invest-winning-endeavor-right-indictment-5-things-p-g-sittenfeld-said\/3779040001\/\"\u003Ehad allegedly \u003C\/a\u003Edescribed it as a PAC, “that my name is not connected to... basically no one knows about it...  my name and no filings, and no paperwork.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut he promised that he could \"deliver the votes\" in exchange for contributions to the PAC, and showed voting data to prove that bribers were \"making good bets and good investments.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd he was also running for mayor on a platform of equity and justice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow much did it cost to buy into what Sittenfeld called a “winning endeavor”? $40,000.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESittenfeld joins Councilwoman Tamaya Dennard, who \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fox19.com\/2020\/06\/29\/former-councilwoman-tamaya-dennard-set-plead-guilty-court-monday-faces-years\/\"\u003Epled guilty\u003C\/a\u003E to wire fraud, after charges of bribery and attempted extortion were dropped, but vowed to continue fighting for racial justice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDennard, who had complained about “classism” within the black community, was arrested at a Starbucks before she could lead an “equity” meeting. Dennard had gotten started as an activist with Sittenfeld’s campaign, then worked on his staff, including as political director of his Senate campaign, before running for office while wearing an “unbossed and unbought” button.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe FBI \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fox19.com\/2020\/06\/29\/former-councilwoman-tamaya-dennard-set-plead-guilty-court-monday-faces-years\/\"\u003Eaccused her\u003C\/a\u003E of taking $15,000 from a developer in exchange for favors.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I could really use your help. It's kind of urgent to get it today. Happy to help you. But need yours too,\" the unbought and unbossed Dennard \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/news\/2020\/11\/19\/timeline-cincinnati-city-hall-corruption\/6337638002\/\"\u003Eallegedly\u003C\/a\u003E texted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAs a member of the Gang of Five, Dennard \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.fox19.com\/2020\/05\/11\/former-cpd-official-drops-lawsuit-against-tamaya-dennard-over-racist-text\/\"\u003Ewas also \u003C\/a\u003Esued by Retired Assistant Police Chief David Bailey for calling him a racist. Dennard, who had attended Black Lives Matter protests and thrown around terms like ‘intersectionality’, had been one of BLM’s backers on the council.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"Since I filed it, Ms. Dennard has been indicted by a grand jury on public corruption charges related to her attempt to sell her council vote for money,\" the former cop noted. \"I have come to the conclusion that her words no longer mean anything in the public arena.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe third of the trio, Jeff Pastor, is a Republican, by party identification, who had tried Islam, and then Judaism, before announcing that he was a “polyamorous atheist”. Pastor, a supporter of Black Lives Matter congratulated Biden on his “victory” shortly before his arrest by the FBI.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESome of the $55,000 that Pastor allegedly\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/news\/2020\/11\/10\/cincinnati-city-council-jeff-pastor-federal-bribery-case\/6233493002\/\"\u003E accepted\u003C\/a\u003E, including bags of cash, was laundered through a non-profit, Ummah Strength. Ummah, an Islamic term, was in this case apparently used as the basis for a fitness non-profit and development company.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAll the scandalous details aside, a third of the Cincinnati City Council has been busted on fairly similar charges and similar crimes in under two years. What does that say about Cincinnati?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECincinnati's city council is dominated by Democrats. David DeVillers, a Trump pick for U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, wasted little time in going after crooked politicians since taking office in 2019. After \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdoh\/pr\/cincinnati-city-council-president-charged-honest-services-wire-fraud-bribery-attempted\"\u003Etaking down\u003C\/a\u003E Dennard, he brought down Pastor, and now Sittenfeld, accounting for an incredible third of the city’s town council.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“The fact that we had two in one year, that tells you all you need to know,\" DeVillers had said about the city's culture of corruption. “We’re going to prosecute those cases. Our goal is to make people nervous and stop them from doing this.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Democrat majority on the council has to be getting nervous every time they take a bribe.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Cincinnati, we welcome and actively want immigrants and refugees to live here. In Cincinnati, we believe climate change is real,\" Sittenfeld had ranted before President Trump's visit. \"In Cincinnati, we affirm that Black Lives Matter.\" But the leftist Democrat, who is running for mayor and was once touted for the Senate by Obama allies, forgot the most important thing in Cincinnati.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Cincinnati, thanks to President Trump, crooked politicians who take bribes now get busted.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDeVillers had advised the Iraqi High Tribunal in its trial of Saddam Hussein, so he's equipped to tackle political corruption. And his approach of aggressively pursuing public corruption cases has unquestionably paid off. And it’s in keeping with President Trump’s promise to clean up the Democrat machine. Too many Americans have been abandoned in corrupt cities controlled by crooked politicians who are out for themselves and face little competition and less oversight.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"I really think we did a disservice by not being aggressive,\" DeVillers told The Cincinnati Enquirer. \"The idea of taking shots is what we need to do in cases like that. We do it in murder cases. We do it in drug cases. We should do it in public corruption cases.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe shakeup of the Cincinnati City Council sends a message that political corruption will no longer be tolerated. And the fall of a third of the Cincinnati City Council is just one small local measure of the impact that President Trump is having on draining the swamp in America.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6418476871114633265\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/11\/how-trump-prosecutor-took-down-third-of.html#comment-form","title":"4 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6418476871114633265"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6418476871114633265"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/11\/how-trump-prosecutor-took-down-third-of.html","title":"How a Trump Prosecutor Took Down a Third of the Cincinnati City Council"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-p9A89TbG0oc\/X76QeiVuUII\/AAAAAAAASmI\/WEIofhJrGt0_H14uWKaZeJD4kQfPm5H0wCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/sittenfeld%2Bbiden.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"4"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6741985489476882654"},"published":{"$t":"2020-10-29T12:21:00.004-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-11-02T22:01:56.115-05:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Biden"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"corruption"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Investigations"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"recent"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Bidens Cashed In While a Pennsylvania Hospital Couldn't Care for Patients"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"The old slogan, \"The Best of Care\" can still be found on Ellwood City Medical Center's old promotional materials. When the pandemic began, the old rural Rust Belt country where President Trump beat Hillary Clinton could have used a hospital. Any hospital.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere was even talk of reopening the defunct hospital again to treat coronavirus patients.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut, like so much in Pennsylvania, the Ellwood City Medical Center never recovered from the Democrats. The FBI raided it in January and the hospital lost its license next month. Not that it mattered at that point because the hospital had already been shut down since December.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite that, the hospital managed to score \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/finance\/americore-receives-bailout-puts-3-hospitals-on-the-market.html\"\u003E$1.8 million\u003C\/a\u003E in coronavirus relief funds.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWith no hospital, local residents face a trip if they’re injured. And if the injury is bad enough, they might not survive. The closed hospital in Pennsylvania is just another piece of the Biden legacy.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-D3CjH74P72o\/X5rr6BFW3UI\/AAAAAAAAShc\/RYaLrnZPlAEe0toEIlUUpfBwck6w7iCAQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s480\/bidenism.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"360\" data-original-width=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-D3CjH74P72o\/X5rr6BFW3UI\/AAAAAAAAShc\/RYaLrnZPlAEe0toEIlUUpfBwck6w7iCAQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s320\/bidenism.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EIn the three years since Americore CEO Grant White was allegedly introduced by James Biden to Joe Biden at a fundraiser for the Beau Biden Foundation, a charity co-chaired by Hunter Biden whose laptop bearing the foundation's sticker is at the center of a new scandal, there have been lawsuits, an FBI raid, and investigations in different cities and states.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“James Biden mentioned that his brother’s connections to labor unions and the Department of Veterans Affairs would help DMM expand its model nationwide,” a\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/08\/26\/joe-biden-brother-2020-1475897\"\u003E lawsuit\u003C\/a\u003E filed by one company claims.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EMayor Anthony Court, a Democrat, recalls White constantly dropping Biden's name.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhite would \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/05\/21\/lawsuit-documents-allege-james-biden-committed-fraud-racketeering\/\"\u003Elater claim\u003C\/a\u003E that Biden told him, \"there’s not a single door in the country that we can’t open.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJames Biden, Joe’s brother, had \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/pittsburgh.cbslocal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15909642\/2020\/02\/08-1.pdf\"\u003Ebecome a principal \u003C\/a\u003Eat Americore whose business model was based on buying and turning around rural hospitals. But the turnaround was into the grave.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObamacare had hit rural hospitals hard, forcing many of them to shut down. By Obama’s last year in office, \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/opinion\/blogs\/policy-dose\/articles\/2016-03-24\/rural-hospitals-are-disappearing-after-obamacare-how-do-we-save-them\"\u003E4% of rural hospitals\u003C\/a\u003E had closed down, and hundreds more were on the brink. And the Bidens had figured out a way to profit from the devastation caused by Obama-Biden.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"His brother was very interested in rural health care and very interested in veterans’ health care, and it was something he really wanted to get behind,\" an Americore executive recalled Biden telling him. \"This would help his brother get elected.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter Americore took over the Ellwood City Medical Center, it racked up \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.therecordherald.com\/news\/20200120\/ellwood-hospital-cited-40-times-by-pa-health-department-under-americore\/1\"\u003Eover 40 citations\u003C\/a\u003E from the Department of Health. Cardiovascular services were cut, the wound unit was closed, and access to its MRI machines was sidelined.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn 2018, James Biden was renovating his Americore office and demanding \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/03\/09\/james-biden-health-care-ventures-123159\"\u003Eexpensive furniture\u003C\/a\u003E as part of an office that was described as a “little shrine to him and his brother and Obama.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUtilities threatened to turn off the gas and the water at Ellwood. Instruments weren’t being sterilized because there was no equipment, and the hospital couldn’t even afford to order tests.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThings got so bad at the hospital that hazardous waste was just piling up in garbage bags.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHospital patients might have been able to get basic care and supplies, but the money wasn’t there. Meanwhile, James Biden had allegedly \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/03\/09\/james-biden-health-care-ventures-123159\"\u003Emade off\u003C\/a\u003E with $650,000.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAccording\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/05\/21\/lawsuit-documents-allege-james-biden-committed-fraud-racketeering\/\"\u003E to the \u003C\/a\u003EAmericore CEO, “Jim Biden directed me to loan him approximately $400,000 of this money for him to use to repay a past-due personal loan.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELater, \"Biden took additional amounts totaling approximately $250,000.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat was in January 2018. By the summer, Ellwood was closing departments, and by the fall, it couldn’t pay its power or gas bill. Meanwhile Biden only allegedly \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/05\/21\/lawsuit-documents-allege-james-biden-committed-fraud-racketeering\/\"\u003Epaid back\u003C\/a\u003E $25,000.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJames Biden had promised that the money would be coming from the Muslim world.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBiden and his partners had allegedly \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/03\/09\/james-biden-health-care-ventures-123159\"\u003Egone to the\u003C\/a\u003E Qatar Investment Authority, the Islamic terror state that acts as the patron for the Muslim Brotherhood, controls Al Jazeera, whose royal family had ties to the mastermind of 9\/11, and which is allied with Iran, for money for Americore.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut Qatar didn’t pay up and James Biden and his partners denied ever taking the meeting. The Americore CEO claims he was told that President Trump’s sanctions on Iran blocked the deal.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe former Americore CEO also \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/05\/21\/lawsuit-documents-allege-james-biden-committed-fraud-racketeering\/\"\u003Eclaims to have met\u003C\/a\u003E with Hunter and James Biden at a meeting that looked for ways to raise money from China.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“We've got people all around the world who want to invest in Joe Biden,” James Biden \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2019\/08\/02\/joe-biden-investigation-hunter-brother-hedge-fund-money-2020-campaign-227407\"\u003Ehad\u003C\/a\u003E once boasted. There’s no denying that. How else could a college dropout and\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/the-profitable-business-of-being-joe-bidens-brother\"\u003E failed nightclub owner\u003C\/a\u003E be in demand around the world, or help score a billion dollar contract to build homes in Iraq?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ETogether James and Hunter Biden had built a business around Joe Biden. But what happened in Pennsylvania, in St. Louis, and Arkansas ended with more than greed.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESt. Alexius Hospital in St. Louis had become famous as the scene of a forties exorcism that had inspired the novel and the movie, The Exorcist, but there was no one to exorcise the Bidens.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe famous hospital is another of the failed Americore properties and as it crawled agonizingly through bankruptcy, \"two preventable deaths\" were \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/stlouis\/news\/2020\/09\/18\/investigations-hold-up-hospital-sale.html\"\u003Eamong the\u003C\/a\u003E casualties. Like Ellwood, St. Alexius had to\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/jge98b\/bankrupt-st-louis-hospital-fires-top-doctor-cuts-costs-amid-covid-19-outbreak\"\u003E cut patient care\u003C\/a\u003E, sacrificing its operating room, and its wound care clinic.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe hospital’s nursing school shut down and the facility was down to four contracted nurses and was operating at a fraction of its capacity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe victims of the disaster were the largely black residents of the south St. Louis neighborhood.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESt. Alexius, which began as a Catholic hospital in 1828, is now being used to house the homeless, and its bankruptcy sale has \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/business\/local\/state-investigation-stalls-sale-of-south-st-louis-st-alexius-hospital\/article_579ed0fe-fe5e-563e-98d1-462550e25870.html\"\u003Ebeen stalled\u003C\/a\u003E because of a state investigation triggered by an “immediate patient jeopardy” tag.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn Izard County, Arkansas, the\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.arkansasonline.com\/news\/2020\/jan\/01\/bankrupt-hospital-owner-say-in-filing-2\/\"\u003E only hospital\u003C\/a\u003E in the county, listed as a critical access hospital, is also on the chopping block.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"We have difficulty in securing pharmaceuticals simply because of lack of money,\" a doctor at the hospital warned.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELast year, two medical firms \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/pittsburgh.cbslocal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15909642\/2020\/02\/DMM-FILES-MOTION-TO-DISMISS-GRANT-WHITE-FROM-SUIT.pdf\"\u003Esued\u003C\/a\u003E, among others, James Biden, claiming that, \"millions of dollars in funds may have been taken by these defendants outside of the ordinary course of business.\"\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOne of the men claimed that James Biden had promised\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/story\/news\/2019\/08\/02\/joe-biden-brother-jim-accused-fraud-federal-lawsuit\/1901987001\/\"\u003E to sell the plan\u003C\/a\u003E to the White House. Instead Biden accidentally texted him a plan to defraud him even as Biden's partner was encouraging him to make up numbers to defraud a Turkish company.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnother partner was promised \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/08\/26\/joe-biden-brother-2020-1475897\"\u003Ethat their\u003C\/a\u003E “model would be used by Joe Biden as part of his campaign.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe “investment capital originating from and flowing through foreign entities” did not materialize, neither did Biden’s alleged promise that the company’s model “would play an integral role in health care policy at the highest levels of the United States government.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhen there were concerns about the government, the \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/08\/08\/joe-biden-brother-fraud-scheme-1453527\"\u003Emessage was\u003C\/a\u003E, “Jim told me. Don’t worry every time someone threatens to sue you you’re with us now nobody is gonna touch You,”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAfter they sued Biden and his partners, they received an envelope \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2019\/12\/04\/joe-biden-brother-jim-biden-fraud-case-fbi-probing-terroristic-threat-tennessee\/4349068002\/\"\u003Efilled with\u003C\/a\u003E \"blood-stained currency from a Middle Eastern country\" linked to terrorists and a \"torture ticket\" resulting in an FBI investigation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the real price is being paid in Ellwood City, in St. Louis, and Izard County.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJoe Biden has run on a promise to tackle the pandemic. But when coronavirus cases shot up 40% in Lawrence County over the summer, the Ellwood City Medical Center wasn’t there.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENew cases have been rising sharply in Izard County and in St. Louis, there is one hospital less able to help and treat the sick.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E“All the promises were on the Biden name,” one of the men James Biden dealt with said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EJames Biden has moved on and as his brother aspires to the White House, has no doubt found new investors who “who want to invest in Joe Biden”, but in a place without a hospital, no one can move on. And when Election Day comes to Pennsylvania, that’s one place Biden won’t win.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe next time Joe Biden promises to fix healthcare, he can start in Ellwood City.\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ci\u003EDaniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/6741985489476882654\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/10\/the-bidens-cashed-in-while-pennsylvania.html#comment-form","title":"2 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6741985489476882654"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/6741985489476882654"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/10\/the-bidens-cashed-in-while-pennsylvania.html","title":"The Bidens Cashed In While a Pennsylvania Hospital Couldn't Care for Patients"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-D3CjH74P72o\/X5rr6BFW3UI\/AAAAAAAAShc\/RYaLrnZPlAEe0toEIlUUpfBwck6w7iCAQCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/bidenism.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"2"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4025262712545872900"},"published":{"$t":"2020-05-06T15:31:00.000-04:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2020-05-11T13:21:52.680-04:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Coronavirus"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"corruption"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Investigations"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Media Bias"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"The Media Took Millions in Loans Meant for Small Businesses"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"Even while the media is blaring stories about the abuse of the Payroll Protection Plan loans from the Small Business Administration, its own industry took millions in loans and wants billions more. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EUnlike many small businesses which were forced to shut down because of the lockdown, the media has been wrongly listed as ‘essential’ and exempted from the shutdowns, but that hasn’t stopped it from taking money that should have been used to compensate small business owners who can’t stay open. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEven when the media operations cashing in on the SBA loans aren’t anyone’s idea of a small business. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-72XZ3e_3jyM\/XrBV-lRVPjI\/AAAAAAAASA4\/kEs0UTmhjQ0JRJTn4DKuUqO0b_y2IQSewCNcBGAsYHQ\/s1600\/soros.png\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"267\" data-original-width=\"534\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-72XZ3e_3jyM\/XrBV-lRVPjI\/AAAAAAAASA4\/kEs0UTmhjQ0JRJTn4DKuUqO0b_y2IQSewCNcBGAsYHQ\/s640\/soros.png\" width=\"640\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Seattle Times maxed out its PPP loan with a $10 million payout. The Seattle Times is not only Washington State's largest daily, but its parent company, the Seattle Times Company, owns two other papers, and had, as recently as 3 years ago, put out 7 papers. It also owned multiple newspapers in Maine which it sold off for over $200 million. It had two printing plants, one of which it sold. The Rotary Offset Press, which it still owns, continues to print a variety of magazines and newspapers. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut while the Seattle Times is, like the New York Times, a multi-generational family property, the McClatchy Company owns 49.5% of voting stock and 70.6% of voting stock in the Seattle Times Company. McClatchy has dozens of papers and had revenues of over $800 million in 2018. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWhile McClatchy has operated at a loss and filed for Chapter 11, it’s not a small business. Neither is the hedge fund likely to run it which is partially backed by, among others, CalPERS, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the largest and most politically correct pension fund in the country. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIs this really a small business? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDespite the façade of family ownership, national chains have owned much of the Seattle paper business since the Great Depression with McClatchy taking over from Knight Ridder. Even if you ignore all the wizards behind the Emerald City paper’s curtain, the Seattle Times Company has 849 employees. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHow was the Seattle Times able to max out the SBA’s PPP loan? Double and triple standards. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIf you deal in fresh fruit and have over 100 employees, according to the SBA, you're not a small business. If you supply toys, you're limited to 150 employees. But if you're a newspaper publisher, you can have up to 1,000 employees and still be considered a small business. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s how a company that owns 3 papers, a printing plant, and its silent partner is one of the largest news publishers in America, was eligible to grab loans intended to keep small businesses afloat. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Seattle Times wasn't unique among the media in seizing loans meant for shuttered small businesses. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Tampa Bay Times got an $8.5 million loan, close to the max. The Times Publishing Company also puts out 10 papers, a few magazines, and Politifact, a site which claims to 'fact check' politicians, but frequently makes false claims, puts out spam, and smears conservatives. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Company is owned by the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, which is funded by leftist billionaires like George Soros and Pierre Omidyar. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd just to make matters worse, the Poynter Institute, which is officially a non-profit, also got a stimulus loan of $737,400 to cover its coronavirus \"business losses\". \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPoynter notes that as, \"a nonprofit with under 60 employees, Poynter qualified for the loan.\" But Poynter’s documents suggest that its newspaper business had $123 million in revenues with assets of $43 million. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThat’s not a small business. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Tampa Bay Times and its shady operations, the intermingling of non-profits and for-profits, is already suspect on its own. It should not have been taking money meant for small businesses. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut the media has been eager to pig out on small business loans even as it attacks public companies that took PPP loans.  Axios, a media venture by Politico bigwigs, with around 200 employees, funded by venture capital and investment firms, including Jeffrey Katzenberg, the Hollywood tycoon with a net worth of $750 million, and NBCUniversal, scored a $5 million PPP loan. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBut this obscene piggery isn’t enough for the media which wants a much bigger exemption. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESenator Maria Cantwell, Senator Amy Klobuchar, and Senator John Kennedy dispatched a letter urging a waiver on the affiliation rule \"which restricts assistance to companies owned or controlled by larger entities.\" This would potentially allow huge multi-billion-dollar conglomerates like Gannett to raid money intended for small businesses even as they lobby politicians to shut those businesses down. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe senators falsely claimed that keeping the media going was \"essential to public health\". \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAffiliation waivers would lift the 1,000-employee limit and allow newspapers owned by national chains to apply for loans as if they were small businesses. It's the equivalent of having every Starbucks outlet claim that it's just a small business serving the local community and won’t pass the money upward. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media has been shaming other corporations that took PPP loans, yet it is entirely without shame. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThere ought to be no more sanctimonious lectures about corporate bailouts from Democrats who want to bail out billion-dollar corporations while small business owners can’t get inside the front door. If affiliation rules are waived for the media, Gannett’s thousand plus newspapers would be ready to raid the SBA for loans that would likely never be repaid, while justifying the looting by arguing that the media is suffering because small businesses can’t afford to take out as many ads in local papers as before. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media has already managed to loot at least $23.5 million meant for small businesses. Affiliation waivers would turn PPP loans into a bailout for media conglomerates that would be worth billions. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe media has already been allowed to operate while actual small businesses were shut down, even though there’s been a coronavirus infection spike in the media which, as far as we know, killed several people. It’s used its megaphone to push for more shutdowns of local businesses as non-essential even as it demands the right to raid the money intended for those businesses to fund its massive operations. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEnough. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENational media chains on the verge of bankruptcy want to exploit small business loans intended for coronavirus relief to keep their broken business model going for another few years before they fold. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe PPP loan program was not designed as a bailout for media giants and their pension fraud. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Seattle Times, the Tampa Bay Times, Poynter, and Axios ought to be pressured into returning the money they took. And while that may never happen, any effort by politicians to apply affiliation waivers to the media ought to be fought as an obscene cash grab from small businesses to lefty corporations.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EDaniel Greenfield\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003EFront Page Magazine\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EClick\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/blogging-hara.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Ehere to subscribe\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;to my articles. And\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/paypal.me\/DgreenfieldWriting\" target=\"_blank\"\u003Eclick here to support my work with a donation\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv style=\"font-family: \u0026quot;times new roman\u0026quot;;\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThank you for reading.\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/feeds\/4025262712545872900\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/05\/the-media-took-millions-in-loans-meant.html#comment-form","title":"6 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4025262712545872900"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/11368628\/posts\/default\/4025262712545872900"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/www.danielgreenfield.org\/2020\/05\/the-media-took-millions-in-loans-meant.html","title":"The Media Took Millions in Loans Meant for Small Businesses"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Daniel Greenfield"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/13575285186581875356"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"20","height":"32","src":"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-ywx0Wkms-cU\/Vm75eobzYVI\/AAAAAAAAPg0\/kAlR7rDxOIc\/s113\/picture%2Bnewspapery%2Bsmall.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-72XZ3e_3jyM\/XrBV-lRVPjI\/AAAAAAAASA4\/kEs0UTmhjQ0JRJTn4DKuUqO0b_y2IQSewCNcBGAsYHQ\/s72-c\/soros.png","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"6"}}]}});