Posted on 08/30/2002 1:24:49 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob
[This is exactly as I received it by e-mail, seconds ago, from the Editor of the Redneck Republican Digest, sent to an affiliation of good folks (including some independents like me, and a few lapsed Democrats) that I have known for some six years now. The source URL is my own, because the form demands one and there is none for this message. But I can vouch for its accuracy.]
I don't know if you guys are keeping up with O'Reilly. He complained about Ludicrous (a rap guy that gets pretty graphic I guess; let's just call him nasty to the core) being the chosen spokesperson for Pepsi. Said business should not be hiring anyone who is not a good role model - and took on a Pepsi spokesman on his radio program that he replayed for The Factor. He vented afterwards and kinda left it in the air if the public wanted to complain....the very next day Pepsi dropped the rap guy - seems they got flooded with mail complaints!!
That's it in a very loose nutshell.
LAST NIGHT he spoke with a guy from the Better Business Bureau - apparently they have a division that investigates charities and the guy was sharing the results of their Red Cross inspection. I could see it coming......!! sure enough, after the Red Cross was discussed, O'Reilly asked why they'd never looked into Jesse Jackson's charities. He gave some flimsy excuse (not enuf public concern, etc)....so WITHOUT the guy's permission or foreknowledge, I am sure, he puts up the BBB website and tells folks if they want to express their views, to let the guy know!
Knowing how you all love JJ, I include the website - Fire away! OReilly's last words to the guy were "Let me know how much mail you get." The guy was NOT smiling!! Give.org - http://www.give.org/inquire/index.asp Can y'all clean up my hastily thrown together explanation above and send this out, far and wide? Done as requested, to the best example of "far and wide" on the Not.
Y'all should note first the immediate success of O'Reilly's call to action with respect to Pepsi's choice of a new spokesman. Then consider what good it would do if a legitimate organization like the BBB were to look into the usual matters -- how much money to charity as opposed to expenses and staff salaries -- apply in PUSH and other Jackson scams. Think on it, then get those e-mails cranking to the BBB.
This is a combination of the alternative media and the Internet being used to accomplish one of the legitimate purposes of the IRS, not to allow personal cash boxes to function as charities for the benefit of the founders and owners. Of course, the IRS has gotten the word to lay off Jesse Jackson. But we FReepers did NOT get the memo on that.
"Cry havoc! And let slip the dogs of war."
Congressman Billybob
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