Minor Fill for CQCaptain Ed's been doing a bang-up job of pounding on John McCain. I can't stand the little admiral (see note) myself, despite my recognition of his service in Vietnam and especially in the Hanoi Hilton. I have nothing but respect for McCain up till about 1988; since then he has started to wear on me increasingly through the years.
I disagreed with
Ed's take on the relationship between McCain and Charles Keating. I lived through that era and worked in Phoenix in commercial real estate finance, while one of my close friends was a major lobbyist at the statehouse. So I had good contacts in both the real estate and politics, plus I read the Arizona Republic (generally sympathetic to McCain) and the Phoenix New Times (generally opposed to McCain). The Keating Five scandal is a big nothing, and any notion that it's going to rise up and slay McCain is misguided.
But the Captain seems to be on
a more promising tack with this post.
Why would a close political advisor to John McCain go to these sources almost exclusively for the major funding of the non-profit that seeks to support McCain, a supposedly conservative Republican?
* The Tides Foundation, which heavily promotes "reproductive justice", giving over $500,000 to pro-abortion efforts. They also actively oppose the death penalty (so do I, FYI). John McCain opposes abortion and supports the death penalty, so why is his chief political advisor getting so much support from those who ostensibly oppose him?Oddly, Ed misses a detail here. The Tides Foundation is tied in with Teresa Heinz Kerry. We blogged about this
at Kerry Haters last year:
Money may explain some of Kerry’s support among Muslim-American activists. The Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR), for example, has pocketed grant money from the leftwing Tides Foundation. The Tides Foundation, wrote FrontPage Magazine’s Ben Johnson, has been generously supported with fungible money from the Heinz Endowments controlled by John Kerry’s wife Teresa.And
here:
The Ketchup Queen financed the shadowy Tides Foundation to the tune of $4 million to date. The Tides Foundation funds the Ruckus Society, a notorious group of anarchists who rioted and looted Seattle during the 1999 World Trade Organization riots.And way back in the
second week of Kerry Haters:
The NY Post highlights the suspicious funding for Peaceful Tomorrows, an anti-war group with some members who are relatives of 9-11 victims. Money point:
Little surprise there - because Peaceful Tomorrows' parent group, the San Francisco-based Tides Foundation, has received millions from foundations controlled by Kerry's heiress wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry.(Note: After I wrote this I realized that Captain Ed sometimes refers to his son as "The Little Admiral". My jibe is pointed at McCain, who is short of stature and the son of an admiral.)
