10/27/2012
The Washington Post is up in arms:
The Swift Boaters are back for 2012
Posted by Dan Eggen at 02:43 AM ET, 10/26/2012The Swift Boat crew is back for another election.
Many of the top donors to a group that funded controversial attacks on the military career of Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) in the 2004 presidential race are now heavily funding a super PAC targeting President Obama, new records show.American Crossroads, a super PAC backed by former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove, received $6 million in October from the key backers of the earlier effort against Kerry, according to disclosures filed late Thursday. Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons gave $4 million; Houston homebuilder Bob J. Perry gave $1 million; and Dallas financier T. Boone Pickens chipped in another $1 million. …
Pickens had not previously given to the Rove group …
According to Wikipedia, T. Boone promised one … million … dollars in the 2004 election for proof tarnishing John Kerry’s military record, but didn’t pay up.
On the other hand, it also says, he has now donated $265 million to Oklahoma State athletics. (That’s $100 million more than the last time I checked.)
But, Oklahoma State’s football team is only ranked 33rd in the country at the moment, so I guess T. Boone’s attention is wandering back to politics.
If Karl Rove were the machiavellian genius everybody claims, he'd figure out a way to covertly get rich liberals more interested in college football.
For example, UCLA football could be a bottomless pit for Hollywood heterosexuals to toss their millions into.
Why should UCLA have to play home games 30 miles away in WASPy Pasadena? Why should Boone Pickens Stadium be so much better than what we've got? What UCLA needs is a billion dollar Jackie Robinson Brooklyn Dodgers Stadium (to be named after the UCLA football player who integrated baseball in 1947 by joining the Brooklyn Dodgers).
What? Are you against Jackie Robinson? Are you against the Brooklyn Dodgers? We in the Industry need to stick it to the red state racists by building the world’s finest college football stadium and doing whatever it takes to recruit a national championship team to play in it! Whateverit takes …
Haim Saban spends a certain number of millions per year to make sure he has a say in who gets to be Secretary of State. It’s pretty easy to do: you give some money to the Brookings Institution for a Middle Eastern think tank, you give some to the DNC, and so forth and so on. Not that many rich guys care about who is Secretary of State compared to number who care about who wins the BCS. So what if Saban got obsessed with improving the Bruin’s porous secondary? Fixing thatwould take real money.
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