Report from Hannity's "Freedom Concert" thing

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http://sdcitybeat.com/article.php?id=6027

[WCGreen]

1. The piddly amount of money dolled out is typical of these

adopted charities of the right...

Make more money for the right and toss a pittance to the charity...

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5. Yeah... their charity gives out $1 million, while their war costs $500 billion.

[Mojorabbit]

2. Kind of sad

in a way. Great review.

[ClintonTyree]

3. Only a little over $1 million for scholarships......

after 17 years? :wtf: Looks like those good patriots Hannity, North and Greenwood are taking quite a bit for "administrative" costs and actually giving very little to their supposed "charity". Why does that not surprise me? :eyes:

[salin]

4. the equivalent of 2 scholarships a year to a private college...

is given out a year. Yet the writer estimates that this once concert (they are doing a string of them) probably made twice than what is given out a year. There is a lot of money... going somewhere....

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. LOL

As the Sea Hawks churn overhead, I bump into two East County teenagers. I ask them who they are there to see.

"I don't know, really," the taller, more pimply one replies. "Our father won tickets on the radio and gave them to us."

This would become a recurring theme: people who couldn't quite put their finger on why they were there. The biggest cheers of the evening go to Hannity and Thompson�who, ironically or not, spend the least time talking. A genuinely touching reunion between soldiers in Iraq and their San Diego families�relayed via videoconference�is undermined by massive amounts of radio interference. Greenwood's set is greeted with stunning indifference. I scan the orchestra section for anyone singing along. I find 10 people (out of perhaps 1,000) who look like they're doing something more fun than checking their e-mail.