DUmmies jump on the smear bandwagon

[FDK]

Purveyor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Fri Mar-19-10 12:57 PM Original message

Hannity’s Freedom Charity A 'Huge Scam’: Right Wing Blogger

Fox News commentator Sean Hannity is routinely mocked by the left for his conservative positions, but now he has become the target of far more serious accusations from a fellow-conservative. Columnist and blogger Debbie Schlussel claimed on Friday that Hannity is profiting from a charity that raises money for severely injured US soldiers and the children of troops killed in action, and she described the Freedom Alliance as "a huge scam." "Less than 20% -- and in two recent years, less than 7% and 4%, respectively -- of the money raised by Freedom Alliance went to these causes, while millions of dollars went to expenses, including consultants and apparently to ferret the Hannity posse of family and friends in high style," Schlussel writes. "And, despite Hannity’s statements to the contrary on his nationally syndicated radio show," she continues, "few of the children of fallen soldiers got more than $1,000-$2,000, with apparently none getting more than $6,000, while Freedom Alliance appears to have spent tens of thousands of dollars for private planes." Schlussel cites an anoinymous source who she says told her that the promoter of Hannity's fundraising "Freedom Concerts" figured the cost of a Gulfstream jet, a "fleet" of luxury SUVs, and high-end hotel suites for Hannity's entourage as amounting to over $200,000 per event. More... http://rawstory.com/2010/03/conservative-columnist-hann...

Dummies lap it up:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7955638

Here's The Freedom Alliance response. Anybody got a burnable mole?

http://www.freedomalliance.org/images/pdf_and_largepics/freedom_alliance_response.pdf

[Megaguns91]

DUmbos apparently ignore the page in their own book ACORN .

[noonwitch]

It's another conservative taking Hannity to task, though. Debbie Schlussel is probably to the right of Hannity on the political spectrum.

[asdf2231]

It's another conservative taking Hannity to task, though. Debbie Schlussel is probably to the right of Hannity on the political spectrum.

So she's a Conservative. Why does that make her any less wrong?


False Accusations
The blog posting accuses our friend Sean Hannity of personally benefiting from Freedom Alliance.

This is FALSE. Freedom Alliance has never provided planes, hotels, cars, limos, or anything else to Sean. Sean gets nothing from Freedom Alliance except our gratitude for his personal generosity and for all he has done to help the troops and our organization. We have never had to ask Sean for anything, he always generously offers his help before we have a chance to ask him. But to be clear Sean pays for all his own transportation, hotels, and all related expenses for himself and his family and friends and staff, which over the years has added up to tens of thousands of dollars. He does not use any Freedom Alliance Funds or Concert funds in any way, period.

Sean Hannity has contributed $100,000 to the Wounded Warriors Foundation, over $200,000 to the 2. Freedom Alliance, and over tens of thousands of dollars to other military charities and individuals. We only make this information public because of the outrageous slander against him. Sean has no management or operational involvement in, or control over, Freedom Alliance. He has been a selfless patriot in his efforts to raise funds for the education of children of armed services personnel.

The blog posting accuses Freedom Alliance of spending less than 20% of money raised on program 3. activities. This is FALSE. Listed below are the amounts that Freedom Alliance spent for each of the past three years and the categories on which they were spent. The figures are taken from our Federal Form 990 which is filed with the Internal Revenue Service and posted on our web site and audited by an independent auditor using Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. This financial record not only meets, but exceeds standards of program efficiency set by most charity evaluators.

In 2008, Freedom Alliance spent a total of $6,745,717. Of that:4.
79 percent ($5,317,970) was spent on Program Activities•
14 percent ($945,950) was spent on Fundraising•
7 percent ($481,797) was spent on Management

[noonwitch]

So she's a Conservative. Why does that make her any less wrong?


I don't like either one of them. She's paranoid, especially about muslims.

Sean Hannity is obnoxious.

[Apache]

Is that a lawsuit I'm smelling?

[SarasotaRepub]

Dummies lap it up:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7955638

Here's The Freedom Alliance response. Anybody got a burnable mole?

http://www.freedomalliance.org/images/pdf_and_largepics/freedom_alliance_response.pdf


The DUmmies won't believe that response. They think Col. North is a criminal. :rolleyes: