Enough of You, Helen Thomas
Helen Thomas defends the remarks that led to her resignation:
In a speech that drew a standing ovation, Thomas talked about "the whole question of money involved in politics."
"We are owned by propagandists against the Arabs. There's no question about that. Congress, the White House, and Hollywood, Wall Street, are owned by the Zionists. No question in my opinion. They put their money where there mouth is…We're being pushed into a wrong direction in every way."
I see.
Here's a partial list of American lobbyists, consultants, and public relations firms that have reported income from Saudi Arabia since September 11:
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP: $220,770
Boland & Madigan, Inc: $420,000
Burson-Marsteller: $3,619,286.85
Cambridge Associates, Ltd: $8,505
Cassidy & Associates, Inc.: $720,000
DNX Partners, LLC: $225,000
Dutton & Dutton, PC: $3,694,350
Fleishman-Hillard: $6,400,000
Gallagher Group, LLC: $612,337
Iler Interests, LP: $388,231.14
Loeffler Group, LLP: $10,349,999.99
Loeffler Tuggey Pauerstein Rosenthal, LLP: $2,350,457.12
Loeffler, Jonas & Tuggey, LLP: $1,260,000.00
MPD Consultants, LLP: $1,447,267.13
Patton Boggs, LLP: $3,098,000.00
Powell Tate, Inc.: $900,732.77
Qorvis Communications, LLC: $60,314,803.80
Sandler-Innocenzi, Inc.: $8,885,722.65
These are just contracts between the Saudi government and American firms. I leave it as an exercise for you to discover how much Saudi companies spend.
So what does this money buy?
One of the first projects of Qorvis was to launch a multimillion dollar media blitz of thirty-second television ads and sixty-second radio spots aimed at promoting the image of the Saudis as friends of the United States and allies against terrorism. ...
One series of radio ads produced by Qorvis in 2002 ran in thirty U.S. cities on behalf of a group of Arab American organizations it referred to as the Alliance for Peace and Justice. The spots called for an end to Israeli “occupation.” They also praised the Arab League’s “fair plan” for a Middle East peace settlement. This was the plan originally formulated by Saudi crown prince Abdullah. Time reported that the ads were actually financed by a “bridge loan” of $679,000 from the Saudi embassy, which was repaid with funds solicited by al-Jubeir from businesses associated with the Chambers of Commerce in Saudi Arabia and believed to be close to the Saudi government.
In 2004, the FBI raided three of Qorvis’s offices and delivered subpoenas to a fourth as part of an investigation into whether the alliance, which ceased to exist after the ad campaign, was designed to avoid violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which requires “political” or “informational” messages to be clearly labeled with a statement that they are sponsored by a foreign government. The Justice Department also revealed that Saudi Arabia paid Qorvis $14.6 million over a six-month period, ending in December 2002, “to promote public awareness” of the kingdom’s “commitment in the war against terrorism and to peace in the Middle East.” No further publicity was given to the investigation.
Here's a non-exhaustive list of donations to American universities from Arab states:
Arkansas, $20,000,000: Saudi Arabia: King Fahd
Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, Cornell, $11,000,000: Saudi Arabia
George Washington University, nearly $20 million from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait
Cornell, nearly $11 million from Qatar
The Colorado School of Mines in Golden, more than $19 million from the UAE
University of Virginia, more than $29 million from Saudi Arabia
Harvard, more than $42 million from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Kuwait, and Oman
Rutgers, $5 ,000,000: Saudi Arabia
Georgetown, more than $60 million from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Oman
George Washington, $3,300,000: Kuwait Foundation
Chair for Islamic Shariah Studies, Princeton: $1,000,000: Saudi Arabia
Harvard Law, $5,000,000. Saudi Arabia, King Fahd
Harvard, $2,500,000: Saudi Arabia
Harvard. $2,000,000: Saudi Arabia, Prince Khalid al-Turki
USC: Saudi Arabia
UC Berkeley, $5,000,000: Saudi Arabia—two Saudi sheiks
Chicago: Saudi Arabia
Georgetown, $8,100,000: Saudi Arabia: scholarship from Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
Texas A&M, $1,500,000: Saudi Arabia
MIT, $5 ,000,000: Saudi Arabia
UC Santa Barbara: Saudi Arabia, King Abdul Aziz ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies
Columbia: $2,000,000: UAE and other donors, Edward Said Chair
UC Berkeley: $5,000,000: Saudi Arabia—Sultan bin Abdulaziz al Saud Foundation and Sheikh Salahuddin Yusuf Hamza
Harvard: $20,000,000 Saudi Arabia—Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
Abdeljawad: Harvard, $2,000,000—Sheikh Khalid al-Turki
Georgetown: $750,000, Libyan government, Al-Mukhtar Chair of Arab Culture
Georgetown. $20,000,000: Saudi Arabia—Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
Duke University: $200,000, Saudi Arabia—program in Islamic and Arabian development studies
USC: $1,000,000, Saudi government: King Faisal Chair for Arab and Islamic Studies
American University: $5,000,000 Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi
Georgetown: $250,000, United Arab Emirates—visiting professor in Arab civilization
Cornell: $10,000,000, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
Phillips Academy: $500,000, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
Carnegie Mellon—nearly $111 million from Qatar
Helen, you Jew-hating gargoyle, I think we've heard quite enough from you.
(Source: Mitchell Bard, The Arab Lobby)
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Sep '10
Re: Enough of You, Helen Thomas
Is Helen's broom a push start or pull start?
May '10
Re: Enough of You, Helen Thomas
Anti-semites like Thomas would just maintain those lists just show how insidiously and completely the Jews have infiltrated and control everything.
Re: Enough of You, Helen Thomas
Thanks for this. When one adds up the details, it really is breathtaking. No wonder Yale University forced Yale University Press to censor the book on the Danish cartoons of Muhammad.
Aug '10
Re: Enough of You, Helen Thomas
They say some people deserve their face , what better match than this old bird and her mug ?
May '10
Re: Enough of You, Helen Thomas
Unless the Zantac kicks in, surely Helen Thomas is choking on her bile by now. Perhaps Helen and Gore Vidal can share a house in their old age.
You don't have to break the First Amendment - if you are Saudi, you simple take out the cheque book and buy it.
Iran may be building Nuclear weapons, but the Saudi's choice of attack to to promote Wahhabi fanaticism, and the latter can be just as dangerous to world peace.
Nov '10
Re: Enough of You, Helen Thomas
After Helen Thomas resigned, Andrew Breitbart reviewed her career and discovered that Helen had, in effect, spent her entire life as a second-rate wire service reporter. She never contributed a single piece of real journalism. No, she was promoted ("wafted ever upward," to use Mark Steyn's brilliant phrase) solely on the basis of affirmative action — she is a woman. More disturbingly, I suspect that she was also promoted specifically because of her anti-Semitism. Brit Hume confirmed that everyone in the White House Press Corps was fully aware that Helen is a vicious Jew-hater.
The burning question is this: If you are going to shamelessly promote a woman simply for being a woman, why not pick someone who is, you know, attractive?
I always felt that we should have taken Helen Thomas and Yasser Arafat, locked them up together in a tiny room, and just let them ugly each other to death.
Jul '10
Re: Enough of You, Helen Thomas
Claire, there is a time and a place for everything. Helen Thomas and Sauds for Sunday brunch is a bit much. Being absolutely dead right is no excuse.
And then Talleyrand rolls out the nukes and those Persian death eaters. I'm betting Peter Robinson saves the day with a mom recipe or Christmas ornaments or a Uncommon Knowledge with Kris Kringle.
And that is an awful lot of dollars funneled into DC area universities. I make it as $146M. Not a bad deal for the shutdown of American oil drilling industry. Thank you my festering boil of a vomitously corrupt government.
See Claire, now you've got me doing it.
May '10
Re: Enough of You, Helen Thomas
Sisyphus: Claire, there is a time and a place for everything. Helen Thomas and Sauds for Sunday brunch is a bit much. Being absolutely dead right is no excuse.
And then Talleyrand rolls out the nukes and those Persian death eaters. I'm betting Peter Robinson saves the day with a mom recipe or Christmas ornaments or a Uncommon Knowledge with Kris Kringle.
...See Claire, now you've got me doing it. · Dec 5 at 7:22am
Sisyphus - Je suis coupable, but if you are going to call yourself Sisyphus well your burdens are unlikely to be light
To save us all Claire has the Mozart vs Bach special above. That should remind you that not all is lost this Sunday.
Re: Enough of You, Helen Thomas
Claire, I know you're upset, but there's no need to insult gargoyles.
Sep '10
Re: Enough of You, Helen Thomas
Pat Sajak
Claire, I know you're upset, but there's no need to insult gargoyles. · Dec 5 at 8:14am
Sure, sure, anything to plug the Gargoyle Store for Christmas, Pat.
Jun '10
Re: Enough of You, Helen Thomas
Line of the day if not the week.
Edited on Dec 5, 2010 at 10:06amJun '10
Re: Enough of You, Helen Thomas
Gargoyles are supposed to protect buildings from evil spirits, not let them into press conferences.
Oct '10
Re: Enough of You, Helen Thomas
Is there a site that follows the money given to lobbyists and then track what those lobbyists are trying to get done in Washington? If not, this would make for some interesting reading... just wondering...
Jul '10
Re: Enough of You, Helen Thomas
Hey, it's Sunday. Don't get yourselves all upset. Don't think about Helen Thomas. Think about this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BcMof_kwNk
Jul '10
Re: Enough of You, Helen Thomas
Claire Berlinski, Ed.:
Here's a non-exhaustive list of donations to American universities from Arab states:
You know, I've never been able to figure out what a Hoya is. If you made me guess, though, I probably wouldn't have said, "it's Arabic for whore."
Aug '10
Re: Enough of You, Helen Thomas
Kenneth: Hey, it's Sunday. Don't get yourselves all upset. Don't think about Helen Thomas. Think about this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BcMof_kwNk · Dec 5 at 1:27pm
Oh, my... almost as beautiful as Mrs Kenneth.
Jul '10
Re: Enough of You, Helen Thomas
Midget Faded Rattlesnake
Kenneth: Hey, it's Sunday. Don't get yourselves all upset. Don't think about Helen Thomas. Think about this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BcMof_kwNk · Dec 5 at 1:27pm
Oh, my... almost as beautiful as Mrs Kenneth. · Dec 5 at 4:48pm
She's a pretty good shot, too.
Aug '10
Re: Enough of You, Helen Thomas
What I don't understand is how any sane member of Western Civilization can want to see Arab culture prevail over Israeli culture. It's sheer perversity.