{"id":177551,"date":"2019-08-20T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/20\/consider-the-source-2\/"},"modified":"2019-08-20T19:40:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T00:40:00","slug":"consider-the-source-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/08\/20\/consider-the-source-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Consider the Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"175\" src=\"\/\/embed.crooksandliars.com\/embed\/ce3JyB9f\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><br \/><i><\/i><\/div>\n<p>Given the latest news of the aggressive self dealing that National Rifle Association Chief Executive and Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre has been engaging in, it&#8217;s normally not newsworthy when someone calls him an, &#8220;Odious Little Grifter,&#8221; but <a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2019\/08\/fox-host-slams-odious-little-grifter-wayne\">this time it&#8217;s Fox News that is calling him that<\/a>.<br \/>Stick a fork in his corrupt white flabby ass, he&#8217;s done:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Fox News appears to have abandoned Wayne LaPierre, but not the NRA. Conservative weekend host Steve Hilton ripped LaPierre to shreds, calling him an &#8220;odious little grifter&#8221; before calling for his ouster. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWayne has a big, important job,&#8221; Hilton said. &#8220;If you want to buy a big house, good luck to him. Except it was not him buying the house. It was you.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The plot, Hilton explained, was for NRA advertising contractor Ackerman McQueen to create a new corporate entity, which the NRA would then fund for over $6 million, guaranteeing them 99 percent ownership. The new corporation would then buy the property for the benefit of LaPierre. Clearly there are not enough regulations on the relationships between nonprofits and corporate entities. <\/p>\n<p>Hilton also went over the other LaPierre grifts, like the request for nearly $14,000 to rent an apartment for a summer intern, spending hundreds of thousands on clothing, flights, and luxury hotel stays. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA new report revealed that tens of thousands of dollars of NRA donor funds were used on flights and luxury hotel stays for hair and makeup artists for Wayne\u2019s wife and they traveled with her for events because apparently those are the only two stylists in the whole country capable of doing the job,\u201d Hilton said. <\/p>\n<p>And it wasn&#8217;t limited to travel in the United States, either, noting that thousands of dollars had been spent on overseas travel. \u201cThere are other countries and other hotels you can stay at if you want to protect the Second Amendment,&#8221; Hilton sneered. &#8220;Try the Hyatt in Washington D.C. It\u2019s a short walk to places like the United States Congress and Supreme Court where American gun rights are actually decided, not Budapest or even Lake Como.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>He wrapped it up with a snappy conclusion: \u201cFor years Wayne has taken NRA members\u2019 money to live the life of a king but he\u2019s not a king. He\u2019s the head of a nonprofit trusted by millions to use its funds to secure constitutional rights. He\u2019s an odious little grifter and it\u2019s time for him to go.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fox News has turned on him.<\/p>\n<p>I am amused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given the latest news of the aggressive self dealing that National Rifle Association Chief Executive and Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre has been engaging in, it&#8217;s normally not newsworthy when someone calls him an, &#8220;Odious Little Grifter,&#8221; but this time it&#8217;s Fox News that is calling him that.Stick a fork in his corrupt white flabby &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,374,486,453],"class_list":["post-177551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-politics","tag-schadenfreude","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}