Glenn Beck To Donate Fee From Alaska 9-11 Appearance

[RamboLiberal]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Representatives say Glenn Beck will donate his speaking fee from his upcoming appearance with Sarah Palin in Anchorage.

Christopher Balfe, president of Beck's media company, says the fee from Saturday's event at the Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center will go to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. The organization provides scholarships and services to families of military members.

The amount is not being disclosed.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/10/glenn-beck-to-donate-fee-_n_711922.html

So why wasn't this announced up front? You got caught you fake!

[Blue_In_AK]

1. Eggzactly.

A protest is planned. I'll post pictures.

[asdjrocky]

4. I'm really looking forward to seeing those. nt

[gratuitous]

2. So he gets a tax deduction instead of a fee

Big whoop.

[lpbk2713]

3. They usually have a disclaimer they don't mention.

**After expenses



And of course, expenses always add up to 95% of the gate or more. :eyes:

[FSogol]

6. Bendy straws and Nieman Marcus panties don't buy themselves

:eyes:

[FSogol]

5. It'll really get funny when Beck and Palin turn on each other.

They can't go on working the 2 person grifts for very long....

Hope the cameras are rolling when Tawd assaults Beck.

[Blue_In_AK]

7. I don't like to start Palin threads here

but this piece by Geoffrey Dunn at Huffington Post is kind of disturbing. I believe Sarah really IS planning a run for the Republican nomination. I doubt she'll have much success, but who knows, as crazy as things are here in the US these days.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoffrey-dunn/palin-advisor-is-a-former_b_711709.html

Palin Advisor is a Former BP Lobbyist and Foreign Agent

In the aftermath of the catastrophic BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Fox News commentator and 2012 GOP presidential wannabe Sarah Palin talked tough from the sanctity of her Facebook and Twitter accounts about playing "hardball" with BP executives. "(V)erify what BP reports," she proffered in a Facebook posting riddled with distortions of her own record with Big Oil in Alaska. "Demand answers."

Palin rattles off a good game about standing up to oil interests and lobbyists. Yet government documents provided by both the Senate Office of Public Records and the Federal Elections Commission reveal that Randy Scheunemann -- Palin's most ardent supporter in the McCain camp during her disastrous performance in the 2008 presidential campaign -- not only remains on Palin's payroll as a well-paid foreign policy advisor, but that he served as a lobbyist for BP Amoco from 1999-2000, receiving payments through his former lobbying firm the Mercury Group.

Scheunemann later served BP's interests as an agent for the so-called Caspian Alliance -- a consortium of global oil interests pursuing petro-profits in the former Soviet republics (Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan) that border the Caspian Sea.

According to sources close to the Palin camp, Scheunemann plays a major role in advising Palin on foreign policy issues as she positions herself for a run at the White House in 2012. As Ben Smith of Politico pointed out, it was Scheunemann who drafted Palin's first major foreign policy speech in Hong Kong a year ago. Scheunemann accompanied Palin overseas to that engagement.

FEC records indicate that Palin's political action committee, SarahPAC, is paying Scheunemann's Virginia-based Orion Strategies $10,000 per month and has expended $90,000 to date for his services.

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[Contrary1]

8. She's running alright. Her ego demands it. n/t

[HipChick]

9. Didn't he scam the same Charity last time?

[Blue_In_AK]

10. Yes.

I'd hate to say this, but maybe this charity is a money-laundering operation.

[Bitwit1234]

11. Hey by the way I saw in an article that is was just a

"coincidence" that the speaking engagement is on September 11th. They really didn't realize it, like he didn't pick August 28th for his "mocking" rally, to Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream". Boy how stupid does he think people are. Oh jeez I forgot he is talking to tea bags and republicans.

[spanone]

12. ...cause everybody found out about it.