-
Obama’s Radical, Tasteless Defilement of 9/11
September 9, 2011 | 5 comments
-
Vadum vs Thom Hartmann on Registering the Poor to Vote (Cloward-Piven Strategy)
September 8, 2011 | 3 comments
-
Van Jones To Emcee Center for American Progress 9/11 Event?
September 7, 2011 | 4 comments
-
No, Your Majesty, Congress Will Not Be Available Wednesday
August 31, 2011 | 43 comments
-
Weigel Laughs in the Face of Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
August 29, 2011 | 7 comments
The Spectacle Blog
Rush Limbaugh is talking right now on his radio show about the widening scandal related to a teleconference call in which the White House used the NEA to push artists to produce pro-Obama art.
The story comes from Patrick Courrielche of Andrew Breitbart's Big Hollywood.
What's new here is the proof Courrielche just now revealed that the Obama White House was actually participating in and coordinating the conference call.
It turns out Buffy Wicks, deputy director of President Obama's White House Office of Public Engagement, was on the teleconference call.
Wicks is a political operative who was worked with ACORN.
My sources in the progressive movement say Wicks handled the Obama campaign in Missouri last year. Obama lost in Missouri and activists in that state and people within the Obama campaign placed the blame for the defeat squarely on her shoulders.
After failing to win Missouri for Obama, Wicks had a very hard time finding a job but somehow she landed a job in the Obama White House. It's unclear how she did that.
Wicks used to work for Wake Up Wal-Mart (wakeupwalmart.com), which is not a formal affiliate of ACORN but is an ACORN-sponsored spinoff group. The group works very closely with ACORN and is modeled after ACORN's own anti-Wal-Mart affiliate W*A*R*N* (Wal-Mart Alliance for Reform Now).
Wake Up Wal-Mart entered into a national partnership with ACORN in 2005. In a Wake Up Wal-Mart press release from 2005, ACORN national president Maude Hurd said: "This is a new day in the fight to change Wal-Mart. We have created an unprecedented, bottom-up force for change which will demonstrate why Wal-Mart needs to change now."
The group's legal name is Change Wal-Mart Association. It has a Federal Employer Identification Number (FEIN) of 20-2643179. It is a 501(c)(5) nonprofit, which means it is a labor-oriented organization. The group was formed in 2006 but no tax return (IRS Form 990) is available for the group at guidestar.org. This is unusual.
Donations to the group do not appear in philanthropy databases. Fortune reports that the group is funded entirely by UFCW.
Nexis reports that its office address is 1775 K St. NW, Washington DC 20006. This is the same address as the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW). This is not surprising because Wake Up Wal-Mart is a project of UFCW.
Wicks is identified as a Wake Up Wal-Mart employee in a press release issued by the group.
View all comments (20) | Leave a comment
Leave a Comment
More Blog Posts by Matthew Vadum
http://spectator.org/blog/2009/09/21/new-breitbart-bombshell-white
Follow us:
ADVERTISEMENT
Current Issue
- The One Percenters’ Fortress City
- Capital Bound
- I Take the Secret Service Scandal Personally
SPONSORED LINKS
Special Feature
Better that we become a nation of choosers rather than beggars. Our symposium on choice from the May, 2012 issue:
FLASHBACK TO: 1984
-
The Fairness Delusion
The speech our President should make.
-
Media Smears: One Man’s Experiences
A noted economist fires back.
-
Chuck Colson vs. The Fundamentalists
How political can you get?
-
The Reagan Doctrine
You might have missed it, but it was boomed in January.
-
The Woman Problem
Farcical feminism is a decades-old phenomenon, as George Will's essay from 1970 reminds us.
Clip of the Day
ADVERTISEMENT
S.L. Toddard| 9.21.09 @ 1:52PM
"Rush Limbaugh is talking right now on his radio show about..."
Just what America needs: more entertainment news. What about Maury Povich and Jerry Springer and other talk-show hosts? What are they up to?
Chris| 9.21.09 @ 1:54PM
Re-Toddard:
Ummm...Rush in not only entertainment, he's also news. And he is in the news delivery business as well. So - widen your horizons and take your pettiness elsewhere.
Tim| 9.21.09 @ 2:02PM
IS there any room left under that bus?
Michael Harry| 9.21.09 @ 2:56PM
Obama lost in Missouri because of Palin's appeal to Missourian voters and their love of freedom. We're going to need a 2nd edition of Malkin's "Culture of Corruption" before we get past year one of Obama's presidency.
S.L. Toddard| 9.21.09 @ 3:17PM
"We're going to need a 2nd edition of Malkin's "Culture of Corruption"
Is it not a wonderful country, this USA, where an anchor baby like Michelle Malagan can Americanize her name and go on to great fame and fortune pontificating on the evils of immigration? It's inspiring, truly.
jross| 9.21.09 @ 3:21PM
Yes it is a wonderful world S.L. One in which a Indonisian named Barry Soetoro can change his name...
S.L. Toddard| 9.21.09 @ 4:14PM
"One in which a Indonisian named Barry Soetoro can change his name..."
Right - he changed his name to "Obama" to Americanize it. Very crafty.
JupiterSuite| 9.21.09 @ 3:23PM
The Big Government-Media-Hollywood Complex…
NEA: Nefarious Expenditures on Agitprop
http://bigchase.files.wordpres.....1/obey.jpg
ACORN: Child “Services”, Financial “Services”, “Voter” Registration ---Democrat Funded
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
kingsmill| 9.21.09 @ 3:48PM
Yes a great country.where an empty suit like BHO can find a willing flock of sheepeople to consume "art" that reflects his hollow visage.
S.L. Toddard| 9.21.09 @ 4:10PM
I think Matt Vadum should expand the focus of his Entertainment News pieces. There is no reason to confine Entertainment News to the doings of Carson Daly, Rush Limbaugh, Riki Lake and other talk show celebs. Why not expand his scope to include more of the entertainment world? Why not find out what the Olsen Twins are up to, or the Kardashians? Like neoconservatives, liberals also look to entertainment-industry celebs for political guidance, though they are more inclined to heed the advice of actors than chat-show hosts. Still though, with both Liberal Internationalist Republicans and Liberal Internationalist Democrats looking to celebs for political wisdom, why confine your scope to one fragment of that field (talk-show hosts) rather than the whole shebang?
I think Matt's selling himself short here, frankly.
Leon| 9.21.09 @ 4:17PM
Yes, it is a great country. And I lived outside of it for eight years so have exposure to other cultures.
All the more reason to fight the current administrations efforts to turn it into just another gray socialist pest hole.
S.L. Toddard| 9.21.09 @ 4:56PM
The test of your sincerity will be whether you oppose the next GOP administration's efforts to do the same.
Nobama| 9.21.09 @ 4:30PM
Matt, looks like you picked up a different (?) troll: What happened to LibReader and Bob?
Interested Conservative| 9.21.09 @ 4:30PM
SLT - Actually, the Olsen twins are turning out to be incredible success stories just like the much derided El Rushbo. No less an authority than the NYT is covering the move from entertainment into fashion (what's the distinction, you ask?), and how they are creating markets and wealth along the way.
Meanwhile the intolerance and insensitivity and ad hominem attacks serve the democrats well because . . . ? ? ?
tonypal| 9.21.09 @ 4:47PM
I predict that one day, S.L. Toddard (if that's his real name - possibly changed for purposes of Americanization) will actually deal with the substance of a story instead of engaging in one of the left's favorite methods of distraction, shoot the messenger. I'm not sure when it will happen, but I'm pretty sure it will. Just be patient folks.
S.L. Toddard| 9.21.09 @ 4:55PM
"if that's his real name"
Of course it's my real name! Soetoro Lewinsky Toddard. My abbreviated celebrity tabloid name is Soe-Lew.
Oldefarte| 9.21.09 @ 5:21PM
This is another Acorn-styled [or Chicago Way] propaganda mechanism of using government [taxpayer funded] money to brainwash Americans toward liberal Democrat socialism!!!!!
Skip MacLure| 9.21.09 @ 6:42PM
Hey Toddard...was that a shot at all Phillipino Americans or just Michelle in particular? Her family name is Maglalong and her parents are US citizens...hardly an anchor baby...I know it may strain your neurons to absorb this but many American MEN died fighting alongside Phillipino MEN in the Pacific theater during ww2...Man...something you'll never aspire to.
Ps. Your brain transplant failed.
Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis
Nobama| 9.21.09 @ 6:58PM
Skip, only a REAL Conservative would attack Michelle Malkin and defend Barack Obozo, right?
Sowell Disciple| 9.21.09 @ 7:53PM
Toddard - Today's lesson concerns a custom in which a woman takes on the surname of the man she marries. It's known as a married name! And that's how Michelle Malkin got her name. Such a big world out there for you to learn about, if only you could.