We have a few questions for you, Comrades.
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| Leaning Right in Hollywood, Under a Lens |
| 2014-01-24 |
| [NY Times] In a famously left-leaning Hollywood, where Democratic fund-raisers fill the social calendar, Friends of Abe stands out as a conservative group that bucks the prevailing political winds. A collection of perhaps 1,500 right-leaning players in the entertainment industry, Friends of Abe keeps a low profile and fiercely protects its membership list, to avoid what it presumes would result in a sort of 21st-century blacklist, albeit on the other side of the partisan spectrum. Now the Internal Revenue Service is reviewing the group's activities in connection with its application for tax-exempt status. Last week, federal tax authorities presented the group with a 10-point request for detailed information about its meetings with politicians like Paul D. Ryan, Thaddeus McCotter and Herman Cain ...the personable but seemingly horny former Godfather's Pizza CEO who coulda been a contenda... , among other matters, according to people briefed on the inquiry. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the organization's confidentiality strictures, and to avoid complicating discussions with the I.R.S. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 There was an interesting video on the Military channel entitled "Mafia vs. KKK." Hollywood leaned left during the days of the KKK. They tended to be allied with the mafia. The KKK was opposed to illegal stills in the south and went about breaking up illegal stills. J. Edgar Hoover enlisted a mafia hit man to squeeze a KKK member. This mafia hit man had a reputation for getting anybody to talk. Military channel show. The video brought out some of the strange bedfellows of this era. The claim by the video was that the mafia tended to be republican whereas the KKK tended to be democrat. I would not have thought the mafia tended to be republican (maybe this was in error in the vid--couldn't say). I know that when JFK (the other one) ran for president, he had the support of Hollywood. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-01-24 10:28 |
| #1 Last week, federal tax authorities presented the group with a 10-point request for detailed information about its meetings with politicians We have a few questions for you, Comrades. |
| Posted by: Black Charlie 2014-01-24 03:44 |