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People on dkos have suspected Richard Mellon Scaife from the start in regard to the "Path to 9/11" History project.
This story on Huffington Post seems to confirm those suspicions. Discover the Secret Right-Wing Network Behind ABC's 9/11 Deception by Max Blumenthal.
Hat tip to katier for this comment which led me to the HuffPost article.
In fact, "The Path to 9/11" is produced and promoted by a well-honed propaganda operation consisting of a network of little-known right-wingers working from within Hollywood to counter its supposedly liberal bias. This is the network within the ABC network. Its godfather is far right activist David Horowitz, who has worked for more than a decade to establish a right-wing presence in Hollywood and to discredit mainstream film and TV production. On this project, he is working with a secretive evangelical religious right group founded by The Path to 9/11's director David Cunningham that proclaims its goal to "transform Hollywood" in line with its messianic vision.
Here's a bit more, but really to do it justice you have to go over and read this article. Blumenthal did a great job.
Since the inauguration of Bill Clinton in 1992, Horowitz has labored to create a network of politically active conservatives in Hollywood. His Hollywood nest centers around his Wednesday Morning Club, a
weekly meet-and-greet session for Left Coast conservatives that has been graced with speeches by
the likes of Newt Gingrich, Victor Davis Hanson and Christopher Hitchens. The group's headquarters are at the offices of Horowitz's Center for the Study of Popular Culture, a "think tank" bankrolled for years with millions by right-wing sugardaddies like eccentric far right billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife. (Scaife
financed the Arkansas Project, a $2.3 million dirty tricks operation that included paying sources for
negative stories about Bill Clinton that turned out to be false.)
With the LFF now under Horowitz's control, his political machine began drumming up support for Cunningham and Nowrasteh's "Untitled" project, which finally was revealed in late summer as "The Path to 9/11." Horowitz's PR blitz began with an August 16 interview with Nowrasteh on his FrontPageMag webzine. In the interview, Nowrasteh foreshadowed the film's assault on Clinton's record on fighting terror. "The 9/11 report details the Clinton's administration's response -- or lack of response -- to Al Qaeda and how this emboldened Bin Laden to keep attacking American interests," Nowrasteh told FrontPageMag's Jamie Glazov. "There simply was no response. Nothing."
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About Richard Mellon Scaife
Here's a bit more information about Mellon Scaife, for those who may not be familiar with him:
Richard Mellon Scaife (born July 3, 1932, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), a U.S. billionaire and owner-publisher of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. He owns 7.2% of NewsMax. With $1.2 billion, Scaife, principal heir to the Mellon banking, oil, and aluminum fortune, is No. 283 on the Forbes 2005 list of "The 400 Richest People in America."
Scaife is particularly well known for his generous support of the Heritage Foundation and other conservative public policy organizations that have contributed to the growth and success of these organizations over the past two decades.
Scaife also helped fund the Arkansas Project which led to the impeachment of then-President Bill Clinton. He provides financial support for conservative and libertarian causes in the U.S., mostly through the private, nonprofit foundations he controls: the Sarah Scaife Foundation, Carthage Foundation, and Allegheny Foundation, and until 2001 the Scaife Family Foundation, now controlled by his daughter Jennie and son David.
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About David Horowitz
Some wiki info about Horowitz below. He's an interesting character indeed.
David Horowitz is an American conservative writer and activist. A prominent member of the New Left in the 1960s, Horowitz later rejected Leftism and now identifies with the right wing of the political spectrum. He is the founder of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture (as of July 2006, the David Horowitz Freedom Center), a writer for the conservative magazine NewsMax, and the editor of the popular conservative website FrontPageMag.com. He is affiliated with activist groups such as Students for Academic Freedom and Campus Watch, and frequently appears on the Fox News Channel as an analyst.
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