Did You Know That Lieberman was a "Wed. Morning Club" Speaker?

[Khephra]

From David Horowitz's site:

snip............

The Wednesday Morning Club is a lunch forum that provides a platform in the entertainment and media industry for conservative speakers and ideas. In 1999, then Governor George Bush made his first public speech in California at the Wednesday Morning Club. Other speakers have included Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Senator Joseph Lieberman and George Will. The steering committee of the WMC includes actor Robert Duvall and Icon executive Steve McEveety who produced Braveheart, The Patriot and We Were Soldiers.

Thus far in 2003, speakers have included author Christopher Hitchens, David Frum, former Israel Ambassador to the United Nations Dore Gold and U.S. Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona and author Tammy Bruce. Past speakers include:

Dick Cheney
Former Secretary of Defense

Fred Barnes
Editor, The Weekly Standard

Jack Kemp
Vice Presidential Nominee

Judge Robert Bork
Author, Slouching Towards Gomorrah

Tom DeLay
Representative (R-TX)

Henry Hyde
Chairman, House
Judiciary Committee

John Kasich
Representative (R-OH)

Sam Brownback
Senator (R-KS)

William Bennett
Author, The Book of Virtues

Dinesh D'Souza
Author, The End of Racism

Newt Gingrich
Speaker of the House

Dore Gold
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations

Larry Elder
KABC Radio Talk Show Host

George Gilder
Author, The Richest Man In Babylon

Chris Cox
Representative (R-CA)

Sonny Bono
Representative (R-CA)

Bill Carrick
Political Consultant

Dan Coats
Senator (R-IN)

Spencer Abraham
Senator (R-MI)

Jeffrey I. Cole
Director of UCLA's Center for Communication Policy

Sky Dayton
Founder and Chairman of the Earthlink Network, Inc.

David Dreier
Representative (R-CA)

Steven Goldsmith
Mayor of Indianapolis

Gerald Isenberg
Executive Director of Electronic Media Programs at USC's School of Cinema-Television

J.C. Watts
Representative (R-OK)

Bill Kristol
Political Consultant and Editor, The Weekly Standard

Fred Thompson
Senator (R-TN)

Ben Wattenberg
Author, Values Matter Most

Joe Lieberman
Presidential Candidate and U.S. Senator (D-CT)

Christine La Monte
Executive Vice President of Motion Picture Group, Rogers & Cowan

Trent Lott
Senate Majority Leader

Frank Luntz
Political Consultant

Paul Maslin
Political Consultant

Les Moonves
President of CBS Entertainment Division

Sam Nunn
Former Senator (D-GA)

Tony Puryear
Writer, Eraser

Frank Riggs
Representative (R-CA)

Jim Rogan
Representative (R-CA)

Dana Rohrabacher
Representative (R-CA)

Ed Royce
Representative (R-CA)

Rick Santorum
Senator (R-PA)

Bill Schneider
Political Consultant

Arlen Specter
Senator (R-PA)

Billy Tauzin
Representative (R-LA)
Chairman of the Telecommunications Subcommitte

Jeremy Verba
President, E! Online

Sriram Visuanathan
Director of CAA Intel Media Lab

Anne Volokh
President & Executive Publisher of Movieline Magazine


The idea for the Wednesday Morning Club was conceived the morning after the 1992 elections, hence the name. The Wednesday Morning Club does not necessarily meet in the morning, nor on Wednesday.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/readarticle.asp?ID=9904&p=1

[WhoCountsTheVotes]

1. Lieberman is a Democratic mole in the Republican party

or something like that

[FauxNewsBlues]

9. Here's what is truly sad

Lieberman has a better voting record than Zell Miller.

[Atlant]

2. Well, knock me over with a feather! Who'd'a guessed??? (NT)

[LynneSin]

3. And I'll still vote for Lieberman IF he gets the nomination

But you knew that hun!

[Khephra]

4. Well...if more people knew about info like this

Then we won't have to worry about that, now will we?


Seems I remember a few Lieberman supporters attacking Nadder for speaking to this same group, iirc.

[Q]

5. This type of ABB attitude baffles me...

...why would a Democrat vote for someone SO conservative that he's accepted among the GOP ranks?

[LynneSin]

7. Real Simple:

1. Lieberman has supported every democratic filibuster against rightwing judicial ideologues. I have every confidence that he will not push through nominees like Estrada, Owens, Pickering, Kuhl and Pryor.
   
2. Lieberman has always received high ratings from Environment groups and will do his part to roll back the Environmental cutbacks that Bush made.
   
3. Lieberman has been a strong supporter of a Woman's Right to Choose
   
4. Joe will not have Cheney, Ashcroft, Rumseld, Wolowitz, Perle and about a dozen other horrible members of Bush's Cabinet as part of his
   

But the beauty of this all is I don't have to vote for Lieberman because there are so many of us out there who are working so hard to ensure one of the other 9 candidates are on the ticket instead of him. I am very active in the Dean Campaign here in Delaware and I know many people who are just as active in campaigns for Kerry, Clark, Kucinich, and the other 5 candidates running. I am confident that our hard work will ensure that Joe is NOT the democratic nomination; however, if I'm wrong then I've known that we've done all we could and it's time to get behind Joe and get Bush out of the White House. I think the odds of it being Joe are very slim it'll be him, but I will never do anything in my power to vote for anyone who could feasibly help keep Bush in the White House for another 4 years

[KoKo]

6. Good catch, Kef....the more we find out about Lieberman the worse he looks

he seems to have insinuated himself into all kinds of Repug. organizations. No doubt about it.....he's a Mole. Why the hell did Gore ever choose him. I'm becoming more convinced that he cost Gore lots of votes that he needed so that he didn't get trapped in Florida. I wish I knew which advisor pushed Lieberman over Edwards.....I don't know how to find out......but i wish I knew.

[Khephra]

8. Info on the Club

snip...........

To open the Hollywood front in his crusade against The Left, Horowitz formed the Wednesday Morning Club, a group that now has about 170 members. The group was established the morning after Bill Clinton's victory in 1992–hence the name–but its origins stretch back to 1980. That year, Lionel Chetwynd, an accomplished screenwriter (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz), was working with the Ronald Reagan campaign and hosting meetings where Reagan boosters talked up their candidate before Hollywood denizens. After a session featuring supply-side guru Arthur Laffer, Stanley K. Sheinbaum, a prominent LA liberal, chastised the attendees for flirting with Reaganism. "Sheinbaum pointed his finger and said, 'You are consorting with people who ran the Hollywood blacklist. I know who you are and I know where you work,'" Chetwynd recalls. "It was chilling. No one came back. A lot of people said, 'I'm with you, but don't tell anyone.'" (Sheinbaum vaguely remembers the event but does not recall being openly hostile.)

After that, Chetwynd, who was born in Britain and raised in Canada, backed away from electoral politics. Following the 1987 release of his film The Hanoi Hilton, a movie about American POWs that conservatives embraced, Horowitz sought out Chetwynd. It took Horowitz several years to persuade Chetwynd to saddle up for his effort to break The Left's hold on Hollywood. After Clinton won in 1992, Chetwynd was willing to take another stab at corralling Hollywood's cons. "I had had nightmares about the Sheinbaum episode," Chetwynd, 55, says. "But I felt that if we cannot have an alternative view here, it's bad for the Republic. We create the popular culture here, and there's no political debate in Hollywood? That cannot be healthy."

The two set up the Wednesday Morning Club in the office that houses Horowitz's think tank, the Center for the Study of Popular Culture. (In 1997 the center received $500,000 from right-wing billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife.) Horowitz and Chetwynd recruited actor Tom Selleck, entertainment power-lawyer Bruce Ramer (who represents Steven Spielberg) and writer-producer Bob Gale for the steering committee. Soon the club was drawing A-list politicos, mainly Republicans, as speakers. Occasionally a star or two were present at the events, but sometimes Pat Sajak was the most recognizable face. Last April, Texas Governor George W. Bush spoke at a club breakfast before 500 people. He assailed "moral decay" in America but steered clear of Hollywood-bashing. "I advocate abstaining from sex until you find your right life partner," he remarked. Senator Orrin Hatch appeared before the group and griped, "When I come out here I get about $30,000. For Gore, it's about $2 million."

more..............................

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=19990405&s=corn

[Freddie Stubbs]

10. So was Sam Nunn,

who was the last Democrat to be elected to consecutive Senate terms from Georgia.

[cosmicdot]

11. Sam served as president in the mock disaster "Silent Vector"

Sam being on this list comes as no surprise ... he's one of the most powerful corporate board members in America ... including GE, Texaco, Coca Cola, Dell ...


the folks at http://www.theyrule.net set up a special 'Sam Nunn' page to show how far his own little octopus tentacles reach via interlocking directorates ... his Board associates help link him to a multiplex full of other companies ...

if you visit theyrule.net ... after it loads, click 'they rule' ...
then at bottom left, click "load map", click "more maps" a couple of times, and the Sam Nunn should show up in the list

“Silent Vector” was a two-day national security simulation that focused on the pre-attack phase of a major terrorist incident on the American homeland. The exercise was designed to explore difficulties and reveal vulnerabilities that might arise if the nation were faced with a credible, but ambiguous, threat of a terrorist attack on American soil. http://www.nei.org/doc.asp?catnum=3&catid=959

[ulysses]

12. but...but...the ADA

says he's a flaming liberal!