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Insider Report: Hillary Story Spiked; Imus, Giuliani, More Special From NewsMax's Most Informed Sources
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1. NewsMax Poll: Just 4 Percent Favor Immigration Plan By a margin of more than 23 to 1, Americans overwhelmingly oppose the Senate's plan for immigration reform, an Internet poll sponsored by NewsMax reveals. Respondents in the poll - which drew more than 100,000 participants - also said they would oppose any 2008 presidential candidate who supports the Kennedy-McCain plan.
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2. Clinton Backer's Firm Alleged to Aid Scammers A businessman facing allegations that his company aids scam artists who target the elderly has helped direct more than $3 million to Bill and Hillary Clinton's political campaigns and projects. The firm infoUSA, Inc., repeatedly rented marketing databases to unscrupulous persons who used the information to engage in fraud, according to the New York Times. Chris Hoofnagle, an attorney at the University of California who studies marketing issues, said an infoUSA subsidiary has provided lists of consumers described as "mature" and "impulsive," the New York Sun reports. Hoofnagle told the Sun: "'Mature' and 'impulsive' are keywords for 'Come rob me, come swindle me.'" Steve St. Clair, an assistant attorney general in Iowa who investigated how infoUSA distributes its databases, said the company's assertion that the probe is closed, "self-serving, and speculative on their part." The company's chairman and CEO, Nebraska entrepreneur Vinod Gupta, has many ties with the Clintons, according to the Sun:
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3. Aid Cutback Could End Hamas Attacks The militant Palestinian group Hamas has resumed firing rockets into Israel in an apparent attempt to goad the Jewish state into a war that Israel does not want. But an opinion writer has a proposal that could curtail the attacks without Israeli intervention: A cutback in world aid to the Palestinian territories. International aid to the Palestinians has actually increased since they elected a Hamas government in January 2006, David Frum points out in Canada's National Post. The Palestinian areas received $1.2 billion in official aid in 2006, up from $1 billion the previous year. Aid from America increased from $400 million in 2005 to $468 million last year. "Look at the incentives that have been created for the Palestinians: vote for terrorism, get an increase in your foreign aid," Frum writes. "The Palestinian areas now receive more than $300 per person, per year, making them the most aid-dependent population on Earth." Frum's proposal: The U.S. and the European Union could reduce their aid by $1 million for each rocket Hamas fires into Israel. With that procedure in place, the 80 rockets that Hamas fired during a recent 3-day period would have meant $80 million less to pay for salaries, food, and other benefits. Frum notes: "For the first time, Hamas' adventurism would exact a serious and predictable cost." The alternative, he adds, is for the rocket attacks to continue unabated, with the likely prospect of a rocket eventually hitting a school or day-care center. "Then it will be very difficult for any Israeli government to restrain itself." Editor's Note:
4. Organic Beekeepers Report No Colony Collapse Scientists are struggling to understand the dramatic decline in the honeybee population in the U.S. and other countries. But organic beekeepers' hives are doing just fine, one keeper disclosed. Nationwide, one-half to a 1 million colonies out of a total of 2.4 million died this past winter, and scientists aren't sure why. Genetically modified foods, mites, pathogens, pesticides and electromagnetic radiation from cell phones have all been blamed as possible causes of the bees' demise, although the underlying problem remains unknown, Science Daily reports. But organic beekeeper Sharon Labchuk of Prince Edward Island, Canada, wrote in an e-mail excerpted by informationliberation.com: "I'm on an organic beekeeping list of about 1,000 people, mostly Americans, and no one in the organic beekeeping world, including commercial beekeepers, is reporting colony collapse on this list. "The problem with the big commercial guys is that they put pesticides in their hives to fumigate for varroa mites, and they feed antibiotics to the bees. They also haul the hives by truck all over the place to make more money with pollination services, which stresses the colonies." Another beekeeper, Michael Bush, explains on his Web site that commercial keepers use hives with larger honeycombs, which results in larger bees. The article on informationliberation.com, also cited by the Progressive Review, states: "Who should be surprised that the major media reports forget to tell us that the dying bees are actually hyper-bred varieties that we coax into a larger than normal body size. It sounds just like the beef industry." Editor's Note:
5. Reporter: New York Post Killed Anti-Hillary Story A former contributor to the New York Post's Page Six column says the paper killed an item about Edward Klein's unflattering book about Hillary Clinton. The former contributor, Jared Paul Stern, was dismissed last year after he was accused of trying to extort money from billionaire and major Bill Clinton backer Ron Burkle in exchange for good press in Page Six. No charged were filed against Stern and he threatened to sue the Post for wrongful dismissal. In an interview with the New York Observer, Stern said that in the summer of 2005, he was preparing an article on Klein's then-forthcoming Hillary Clinton tell-all, "The Truth About Hillary." "We had heard that there was some pretty juicy stuff in there. We had heard that he had gone into the lesbian kind of thing and that stuff," Stern said. But according to Stern, Page Six editor Richard Johnson emerged from an editorial meeting and told Stern that he had been ordered to kill the article. "So, basically, what we ended up doing is reconfiguring the story and working with Hillary Clinton's people on this, and the story we ended up printing was that Ed Klein had done a sloppy hatchet job," Stern told the Observer. The Post's spokesman Howard Rubenstein said: "This book was attacked by critics as reckless and having unsubstantiated claims. Richard Johnson did not want to carry something that was unsubstantiated and could very well be considered libelous." But Stern's lawyer has sent an unsworn affidavit provided by another former Post staffer, Ian Spiegelman, to the paper's publisher. It read in part: "Page Six was ordered to kill unflattering stories about Hillary and Bill Clinton on numerous occasions." Rupert Murdoch, whose media empire includes the Post, hosted a fundraiser for Hillary's Senate campaign last year. At the time, Democratic consultant Hank Sheinkopf told London's Financial Times: "That's a smart move for Mr. Murdoch to make. Why not have a friend?" In March, Stern filed a lawsuit against Burkle, the Post's archrival New York Daily News, and Bill and Hillary Clinton, claiming they attacked him in an effort to suppress negative stories about themselves. Editor's Note:
6. We Heard...
THAT Fox News Channel's White House correspondent Greg Kelly
has been promoted from major to lieutenant colonel in the Marine
Reserves. Imus was at Deidre's side during an earlier promotional appearance for her book "Greening Your Cleaning." But when she spoke at the Westport Public Library on May 22, Imus was spotted in the hallway outside the room. He later entered the room, but sat in the back during Deidre's talk and did not take part in a scheduled photo opportunity, Westport.com reported. Deidre's book touts the use of nontoxic cleaning materials.
Meanwhile a Boston radio station withdrew its offer to Imus' longtime producer and sidekick Bernard McGuirk to begin a 3-day stint as a guest on a talk show hosted by Tom Finneran, a former speaker of the Massachusetts House. Station WRKO "decided that it would not be appropriate for Bernie to be a co-host at WRKO at this time," said spokesman George Regan.
McGuirk was the first to utter the word "ho" on the Imus broadcast that led
to the firing of both Imus and McGuirk. THAT Focus on the Family founder James Dobson said if the choice in the 2008 presidential election comes down to Rudy Giuliani or a Democrat, he would rather not vote at all. Dobson is sharply critical of Giuliani for his pro-choice and pro-gay rights positions, as well as his two divorces.
If Giuliani wins the GOP nomination, Dobson wrote in an online column: "I
will either cast my ballot for an also-ran - or if worse comes to worst, not
vote in a presidential election for the first time in my adult life." THAT NewsMax chief Washington correspondent Ronald Kessler has garnered attention - and praise - from a prominent political blogger for his online article about Mitt Romney and his wife Ann. In an item headlined "Talk about a must-read," Jonathan Martin of politico.com writes: "I don't even know where to begin. This Ronald Kessler story about the Romneys has so much to offer. "Go read the whole thing now." Kessler was also the author of the in-depth profile "Romney to the Rescue," the cover story of NewsMax Magazine's April issue. Editor's Notes:
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