Claim: Teresa Heinz Kerry donates millions to 'fringe political groups'...

[Richardo]

...through the Tides Foundation.

Status: False.

You'll be getting this e-mail from your wing-nut acquaintances. (It's complete bullshit, as you may well guess...the desperation grows. :evilgrin:

Here's the snopes article debunking this crap...

http://www.snopes.com/politics/kerry/tides.asp

PS: Since it's a complete falsehood, listen for it on Hannity!

[truthspeaker]

1. even if it were true, so what?

A) Teresa is not running for president.

B) Bush supports all kinds of fringe political groups - including Bob Jones University, an unaccredited college that teaches creationism and requires women to wear skirts. You don't get much more fringe than that.

C) see A.

[Mr.Green93]

2. "fringe" to who?

[Richardo]

5. "Fringe" to the idiots that send out this crap.

[rpannier]

3. Define Fringe.

If you mean the DNC, ACLU, Salvation Army, PETA, Greenpeace, MoveOn.org, etc that's NOT fringe.
If you mean the KKK, the Aryan Brotherhood, the RNC then yeah that's pretty fringe.

[Richardo]

4. That's why I put it in quotes...

To these guys, EVERY group to the left of the Aryan Nations is a fringe group.

[OneTwentyoNine]

6. Planned Parenthood, the National Abortion Rights Action League..

Oh my GOD...lunitic fringe if I ever saw it!!!

Giving money to protect Womens rights,how damn bad can it get??

David

[Spangle]

7. Pot calling the Kettle BLACK!

Donation limits were to prevent rich people from totaly funding the election and to give the small donors a "worth."

Then came the "other groups". This idea was so that the rich could donate past the "limits."

The sad part about this WHINE, Kerry could drop every dime of his own money into the campaign. Past the donation limit. The fact that she is donating to these groups shows that she cares about these issues.

The big money for the Republicans come from business persons.. Who after the enron thing, are afraid to "get involved" anymore.

Democrats mainly are small money people. But each one of our donations are backed by a vote. $10,000 raised by both partys, For the republicans, that is most likly backed by 1 mybe 2 votes. For the Democrats.. (grin) This increase of donations to the democratic party is better then looking at polling results!

[dubyaD40web]

8. This is crap.

I just dBunked this yesterday:

Go Here: http://www.dubyad40.com/html/dbunker.html

[Richardo]

9. I guess I'm not making it clear. This thread is intended as a debunk-aid.

...in case you get this e-mail from a RW wingnut. I am NOT advocating or supporting the claim in any way.

Proactive, don'tcha see? Pre-emptive, some might say. :eyes:

[dubyaD40web]

10. Right.

Just helping the cause with additional info...

[Richardo]

11. Thanks, dubyaD..

:)