So, Who's Funding Those Freedom-Watch Ads?

[Nbadan]

No doubt that if you listen to talk-radio in SA you've heard the new Freedom-watch ads urging members of Congress and the Senate not to waver for 'support for out troops in harm's way' and not to 'cut and run'....so who's funding the ads?


http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Aug-28-Sun-2005/photos/sheldon1.jpg
Neo-con owner of Sands Inc. and the Venetian in Vegas

Sheldon Adelson
From SourceWatch



Sheldon Gray Adelson ranked #6 of the world's billionaires in 2007, with an estimated net worth in excess of $26.5 billion. In 2006, Adelson ranked #3 in the Forbes 400 richest Americans, with an estimated net worth in excess of $20.5 billion.

In the Newsmeat Hall of Fame of political contributors, between 1984 and June 2007, Adelson has contributed nearly a million dollars, $791,563 to Republican candidates, $165,069 to Democratic candidates, and $37,000 to special interests.

In the 2008 election cycle, Adelson has already contributed $28,500 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee, $4,600 each to Nevada Republican candidates Rep. Jon Porter and Rep. Dean Heller; $4,600 to Virginia Repubican Rep. Eric Cantor; and $2,300 to North Carolina Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx.

Adelson is one of several prominent conservatives funding Freedom's Watch, a new White House front group which on August 22, 2007, began "a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign to urge members of Congress who may be wavering in their support for the war in Iraq not to 'cut and run'."

Freedom Watch's ad buys target both Porter and Heller in Nevada—to the tune of $202,110.

A Boston native, Adelson is the CEO of Las Vegas Sands. On August 17, 2007, the Associated Press reported that William P. Weidner, President/COO/Director of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, a Las Vegas, Nevada, resort and casino and another Freedom's Watch supporter, said that Adelson, who "keeps a home in Massachusetts and pays taxes in the state," had been lobbying local officials "to legalize casino gambling" in Massachusetts.


Controversy

"He's the third richest person in the U.S., worth $20.5 billion, with a rags-to-riches story: the son of a Boston cabdriver, Adelson inaugurated the Comdex computer trade show, and then went into tourism, real estate, and casinos. He is CEO of the Las Vegas Sands Corp., which operates the Venetian Casino Resort and the Sands Expo and Convention Center. Adelson is a major contributor to Jewish and Israeli causes, and to the GOP. This series of ads isn't his only propagandistic foray: the Vegas casino king has also gone into the newspaper business – in Israel. Yisrael Hayom is a new daily paper closely tied to the ultra-nationalist wing of the Likud party, and Benjamin Netanyahu's political aspirations. It was recently launched with a massive free mailing to hundreds of thousands, and has attracted considerable attention," Justin Raimondo wrote August 24, 2007, at Antiwar.com.

Source Watch (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sheldon_Adelson)

[Nbadan]

Watch carefully as Freedom-Watch morphs from a 'support-the-troops' campaign to a 'bomb-Iran' campaign...


Freedom’s Watch, a deep-pocketed conservative group led by two former senior White House officials, made an audacious debut in late August when it began a $15 million advertising campaign designed to maintain Congressional support for President Bush’s troop increase in Iraq.

Founded this summer by a dozen wealthy conservatives, the nonprofit group is set apart from most advocacy groups by the immense wealth of its core group of benefactors, its intention to far outspend its rivals and its ambition to pursue a wide-ranging agenda. Its next target: Iran policy.

Next month, Freedom’s Watch will sponsor a private forum of 20 experts on radical Islam that is expected to make the case that Iran poses a direct threat to the security of the United States, according to several benefactors of the group.

Although the group declined to identify the experts, several were invited from the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington research group with close ties to the White House. Some institute scholars have advocated a more confrontational policy to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, including keeping military action as an option.

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The idea for Freedom’s Watch was hatched in March at the winter meeting of Republican Jewish Coalition in Manalapan, Fla., where Vice President Dick Cheney was the keynote speaker, according to participants. Next week, the group is moving into a 10,000-square-foot office in the Chinatown section of Washington, with plans to employ as many as 50 people by early next year.

One benefactor, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the group was hoping to raise as much as $200 million by November 2008. Raising big money “will be easy,” the benefactor said, adding that several of the founders each wrote a check for $1 million. Mr. Blakeman would not confirm or deny whether any donor gave $1 million, or more, to the organization.

NY Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/us/politics/30watch.html?ex=1348804800&en=99584dd6163c334b&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss)

Didn't I post that this is exactly what was gonna happen after Labor day? I mean...the political drive to bomb Iran...where are all those nay-sayers who said it was just another Nbadan conspiracy theory today? Oh that's right, still relying on taking my posts out of context to attack me...

[George Gervin's Afro]

Boy those folks wo don't have to fight are sure itching for a war...war is fun for some..

[Nbadan]

Boy those folks wo don't have to fight are sure itching for a war...war is fun for some..


....all they see is the future profits......their sons are in Harvard or Yale....

[Поповић]

No doubt if you have a life you haven't thought twice about starting a thread such as this one.

[boutons_]

Поповић doesn't fight the wars, doesn't pay for the wars, can't defend or justify the wars. Classic right wing dickless twerp.

[Nbadan]

Well, well, well, guess who is also funding (a lot) Guiliani?...

Sunday, November 18th 2007, 4:00 AM
Sheinwald/Bloomberg



The Republican presidential hopeful anted up more than $122,000 last summer alone for jets traceable to casino kingpin Sheldon Adelson, whose Las Vegas Sands empire has made him the third-richest American, a Daily News review of campaign records shows...

Cargill, who views even legal gambling as a magnet for crime and vice, said, "If Rudy Giuliani wants to be the crimefighting candidate, why is he partnering with a large and growing gambling empire?"...

Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama accept no corporate aircraft, choosing instead to rent planes at full market cost to avoid the appearance of a conflict.

Some even rub elbows with the common folk: Democrats Christopher Dodd and Dennis Kucinich were spotted flying commercial to last week's Las Vegas debate...

NY Daily News (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2007/11/18/2007-11-18_rudy_giuliani_jets_to_campaign_stops_usi-4.html)

[Oh, Gee!!]

this is old news. I broke this story 5 months ago.

[Wild Cobra]

....all they see is the future profits......their sons are in Harvard or Yale....
Why are people so cynical? Maybe he is a true patriot?

[George Gervin's Afro]

Why are people so cynical? Maybe he is a true patriot?


well since it's really easy for those on the right to question people's patriotism why can't the left do it?

[boutons_]

Wolfowitz, Feith, Perle, Podhoretz, Kristol, etc, and now Adelson.

These neo-cunt Jews continue pushing/sustaining the US govt to throw mostly Christian kids against Muslims. What a deal! :lol

[Wild Cobra]

well since it's really easy for those on the right to question people's patriotism why can't the left do it?
Maybe it has something to do with the context of the statements made on the left...

Actually, no maybe about it. They are abusing freedom of speech for political gain, and are invested now in our defeat. A win proves them shamefully wrong.

That is not patriotism!

[boutons_]

"abusing freedom of speech for political gain"

dubya/etc lied, he/etc abused the country's good faith after 9/11, the non-right hasn't bullied the US into Iran.

There is no "shame" by dubya/etc. They know what they did in their war-for-oil, and they don't fucking care how many die/are maimed.

[Wild Cobra]

"abusing freedom of speech for political gain"

dubya/etc lied, he/etc abused the country's good faith after 9/11, the non-right hasn't bullied the US into Iran.

There is no "shame" by dubya/etc. They know what they did in their war-for-oil, and they don't fucking care how many die/are maimed.
Your opinion that cannot be factually supported. In fact, there are facts to support real reasons for going in. What I said can be factually supported.

How can a politician sit there, say we are losing, say all the wrong things we have done, then not be hurt when we win?

They are invested in our defeat, and that is pretty scary when thay hold the power they have.

[possessed]

"abusing freedom of speech for political gain"

dubya/etc lied, he/etc abused the country's good faith after 9/11, the non-right hasn't bullied the US into Iran.

There is no "shame" by dubya/etc. They know what they did in their war-for-oil, and they don't fucking care how many die/are maimed.
War for oil. :lol

That whopping 7% we get from Iraq. What about the places we get the other 93% from. How about you liberal honks guesstimating what year we'll be invading Venezuela and Nigeria.

:rollin

[Nbadan]

Your opinion that cannot be factually supported. In fact, there are facts to support real reasons for going in. What I said can be factually supported.

How can a politician sit there, say we are losing, say all the wrong things we have done, then not be hurt when we win?

They are invested in our defeat, and that is pretty scary when thay hold the power they have.

We will never 'win' in Iraq...if we 'won' then we would have to leave Iraq and that's clearly never on the table...it's the South and Central American policy the U.S. has had for decades played out again in the M.E. - keep the area as unstable as possible (i.e. via some threat, this time Islamo-fascists instead of socialist)...until you plunder all the natural resources...

[Nbadan]

War for oil. :lol

That whopping 7% we get from Iraq. What about the places we get the other 93% from. How about you liberal honks guesstimating what year we'll be invading Venezuela and Nigeria.

:rollin

Most of the oil we get now from Alaska we ship to Japan...so what? It's not about the control of oil, it's about the control of the flow of oil....the U.S. must be able to control the flow of oil so we can keep up the image of dollar hemogomy, lest the dollar collapses much quicker...the only thing that gives the dollar value over other currencies is the fact that the U.S. is willing to send troops to protect the control of it's assets that give the dollar value...

[Wild Cobra]

We will never 'win' in Iraq...if we 'won' then we would have to leave Iraq and that's clearly never on the table...it's the South and Central American policy the U.S. has had for decades played out again in the M.E. - keep the area as unstable as possible (i.e. via some threat, this time Islamo-fascists instead of socialist)...until you plunder all the natural resources...
We will win unless the left continue to sabotage our efforts, or unless the democrats in congress manage to pull our troops out before we can win.

If we lose, it will not be because we cannot lose, but because of all the pussies and seditious people in this nation.

[Wild Cobra]

Most of the oil we get now from Alaska we ship to Japan...so what? It's not about the control of oil, it's about the control of the flow of oil....the U.S. must be able to control the flow of oil so we can keep up the image of dollar hemogomy, lest the dollar collapses much quicker...the only thing that gives the dollar value over other currencies is the fact that the U.S. is willing to send troops to protect the control of it's assets that give the dollar value...
How about supporting some of those conspiracy theories please.