Blogcall3 will feature John Byrne and Larisa Alexandrovna of Raw Story.com exposing how Tom Delay's extravagant trips were illegally funded by a "charity" called NCPPR... how NCPPR illegally raised its money by scamming the elderly with Social Security fright letters... and how rightwing lobbyist Jack Abramoff connects the two.
Raw Story is one of the leading independent news sources online and has broken numerous investigative stories. Raw Story is also working with bloggers and progressive radio to create a conduit of "quick response" news.
John Byrne is the founder and editor-in-chief of Raw Story Media and Larisa Alexandrovna is the news editor.
Background articles for this discussion are:
http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=527
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=134
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/index.php?p=138
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BlogCall4:
Links:
Centerfield's Rick Heller
With regard to the substance of the blogcall3, I found it more professional than I expected for reputed conspiracy theorists, as Charlie Quidnunc would have it (by the way, I listened to Charlie's podcast yesterday, and found it a nice way to "listen" to blog posts instead of listening to the radio).
The speakers were blogger-journalists from rawstory, who were digging up dirt on House Republican and their relationships with Jack Abramoff, which was discussed in another Centerfield post today. As one listens to the web of connections rawstory is publicizing, one could imagine they have uncovered a conspiracy. Some on the left might think they are heroes, while some on the right may think they are paranoid. In fact, what they relate is credible information about relationships between politicans, lobbyists, and political operatives, most or all of which are probably legal. The one question I asked was whether there were any illegalities. The speakers pointed to possible violations by DeLay in the Korea and Britain trips, but at least so far, not in any of the further areas of their investigation.
