{"id":488310,"date":"2010-03-30T04:30:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T08:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=75803"},"modified":"2010-03-30T04:30:35","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T08:30:35","slug":"my-inner-captain-renault-is-shocked-shocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/488310","title":{"rendered":"My inner Captain Renault is shocked, SHOCKED!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/03\/oliver-north-mug-shot1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/03\/oliver-north-mug-shot1-118x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"oliver north mug shot\" width=\"118\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-75806\" \/><\/a>Who would have thought that the gentlemen at left and Sean Hannity would be accused of being frauds&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/opinion\/joe_conason\/index.html?story=\/opinion\/conason\/2010\/03\/29\/hannity\">yet again<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>A potentially damaging scandal erupted today that implicates Fox News Channel personalities Sean Hannity and Oliver North in the worst kind of charitable fraud. According to complaints filed with the Federal Trade Commission and the IRS, the two right-wing icons have exploited American veterans for personal and partisan gain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Is Iran involved?  Is<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hal_Turner\"> Hal Turner<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>\nIn its IRS complaint against Freedom Alliance, CREW says that the group\u2019s charitable tax status should be voided because it has engaged in &#8220;prohibited political activities&#8221; such as its annual &#8220;Freedom Cruise&#8221; with Republican politicians, including Newt Gingrich and Michael Steele.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Michael Steele <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/03\/29\/michael-steele-resignatio_n_517533.html\">&#8220;makes it rain&#8221;<\/a> and Newt then leaves his last wife for the one who collects the most bills.  It&#8217;s quite a system.<\/p>\n<p>This sure sounds like the ultimate summation of how conservatives have exploited the armed forces over the last ten years.  And who better as  representatives than Hannity and North?<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=75803&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_75803\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who would have thought that the gentlemen at left and Sean Hannity would be accused of being frauds&#8230;yet again? A potentially damaging scandal erupted today that implicates Fox News Channel personalities Sean Hannity and Oliver North in the worst kind of charitable fraud. According to complaints filed with the Federal Trade Commission and the IRS, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}