White House pulls plug on fundraiser's 'briefing'

[Rose Siding]

A conservative Catholic magazine and think tank that advertised a "White House briefing" in exchange for a hefty contribution was forced to cancel the event yesterday after the White House suddenly backed out of the deal.

Crisis magazine and its affiliated think tank, the Morley Institute for Church and Culture, had advertised Monday's seventh annual 36-hole Lazarus Golf Tournament benefit at the Bull Run Country Club in Haymarket, Va., as including a White House briefing the next day.
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The tab for the golf tournament was $2,000 for one person, $3,500 for a twosome or $6,000 for a foursome. A priest could be sponsored for $1,500.

After being questioned by The Washington Times yesterday afternoon about the briefing, White House officials quickly canceled the event.

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050603-120131-8586r.htm

[Oreo]

1. But but but.... we're his base!

sorry religious right.... you've been used. Bush doesn't need you anymore.

[babylonsister]

2. Ha! Because the wh couldn't slip this under the radar,

they quickly cancel! I'm loving it! Duh, it's only illegal if they're caught!

[SnowGoose]

3. But he's still meeting with the porn star, right?

:crazy:

[corbett]

16. Keys To Impeachment

Hubris ought to be the preamble to this otherwise solid bit of prose:

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050601/the_key_to_impeachment.php

[wallwriter]

4. Why don't they just sell a combination pardon/indulgence?

[central scrutinizer]

5. "Lazarus" Golf Tournament?

does that mean you get unlimited mulligans so you can rise from the dead?

[Roland99]

10. LMFAO!!

1) For having the "balls" to call it that.

2) For these morans being ignorant in thinking Lazarus was actually physically raised from the dead (he was returned from ex-communication, not death.)

[havocmom]

6. "Lazarus Golf Tournament" ?

Maybe they could get Novakula for that one since the WH chickened out.

Did some of the fundamentalist leaders find out the WH was gonna talk to Catholics and pitch a hissy fit?

The WH didn't want it to look like they were using the place to raise $$. Hmmm since Moon already owns the place, maybe he got his royal knickers in a twist about them leasing it out for a Catholic fundraiser.

[leesa]

7. Moon owns it? Always the BFEE tie.

I hope real Catholics are outraged by this. Imagine. Buying a BRIEFING at the WH for the price of a golf tournament. Is there anything of our governent they haven't sold or looted?

[havocmom]

9. After he coronation in D.C. doesn't Moon own the whole place?

:shrug:

More people need to know about Moon and the D.C. Goons. THAT might turn some social Kool Aid drinkers off the sauce!

[remfan]

8. It gets better, kids

My first question was what dumbass at the WH scheduled the event, so I went to read the full article...here's a another snip...

(Morely Institute's director since January) Mr. Hudson, 55, was once a top consultant to the White House on Catholic issues and the former chairman of the Republican National Committee's Catholic outreach effort. He resigned the RNC post in August after an expose in the National Catholic Reporter about his 1994 dismissal from Fordham University after a sexual liaison with an 18-year-old student.

[Justitia]

12. How did I know there was something "there"? There always is, huh?

Always some unseemly underbelly with this group of thugs in DC.

Does anyone else find it weird you can rent a priest for your 4-some???? Egads.

[hedda_foil]

15. A sexual liason with an 18 year old student, huh?

Girl, boy, turtle?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

11. The Washington Times called them on this?

Wow! For me that's the real story here, the pay-per-briefing doesn't surprise me. The media source that exposed it does.

To give credit where credit is due, good work Washington Times. :thumbsup:

[MetaTrope]

13. Wonder if the Times offered a similar expose

When the Reverend Moon was crowned in the Dirksen Senate Office Building last year...

[Lone_Star_Dem]

14. They were too busy drinking champagne

Or so I would imagine.