Oliver North has written two recent columns regarding the request to film the histortic bomber Enola Gay at the Smithsonian for an upcoming segment of War Stories on FNC. Following is an excerpt from his second column and links to both columns.
It didn't happen. In a series of last-ditch phone calls all day March 12, it became apparent that the "hang-up" had nothing to do with artful phrases in a contract. In a phone call at 5:45 p.m., a Smithsonian representative told our FOX News attorney and my executive producer that, "your shoot would be a violation of our third-party agreement." Though they never mentioned the name of the "third party," it's now apparent: It is none other than Showtime/Viacom -- the new "owner" of America's history and heritage.
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Oliver North Ping!
This article is in regards to Secretary Lawrence Small of the Smithsonian. Oliver North was refused filming of the Enola Gay for an upcoming War Stories episode.
Any bets that Lawrence SMALL is a DEMOCRAT?? A LIBERAL DEMOCRAT?
"Public servant" ping.
Those expenditures don't make sense. I smell money laundering.
Does he have an aluminum foundry in the basement or what? I bet this guy is very concerned about 'Global Warming'.
"Small has submitted receipts for $152,000 in utility bills"
This guy should get the Al Gore Award from the American Electric Utilities. 25K a month. Must have been heating the pool with an "electric" heater while the gas was being repaired.
This would explain why the day my family went to the Air and Space Museum, half the first floor displays were roped off to prepare for a fund raiser dinner that evening. Takes a lot of loot to support this lifestyle.
Anyone know what department of the government is responsible for the Smithsonian? This turkey has got
a boss somewhere....I want to send him this thread.
Its my tax money...!
Anyone know what department of the government is responsible for the Smithsonian? This turkey has got
a boss somewhere....I want to send him this thread.
Its my tax money...!
Looks as though Mr. Small is living rather large at our expense! (no pun intended)
He has shelled out a lot of political donations, BTW.
From the link....
This was awkward in part because the owner, Lawrence Small, was head of the Smithsonian, one of the nation's premiere cultural institutions. And then there was the problem of his shifting stories. In December 2000, Small told Architectural Digest that he had legally purchased many of the artifacts while traveling through South America in the 1980s. But, when wildlife officials questioned him less than a year later, he claimed he had bought the bulk of his collection from an anthropologist in North Carolina in 1998 for about $400,000. After months of sifting through over 1,000 Amazonian artifacts, ornithologists and mammologists from the agency discovered that over 200 of the objets d'art contained feathers from protected birds, including the crested caracara and the roseate spoonbill. On January 5, 2004, a U.S. attorney in Raleigh, North Carolina, filed charges against Small for violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Small pleaded out to a class B misdemeanor; a federal judge ordered that he serve two years probation and 100 hours community service.