In my DailyKos diary on Monday, using multiple links that come directly from Sean Hannity or Oliver North's group Freedom Alliance, I detailed how Sean Hannity "Freedom Concerts" appear to be a politically driven scam masquerading as benefitting the troops when most of the money goes to him, his buddies, and Oliver North's BS charity while less than 1% of the ticket price actually goes directly to military families.
Now I'm quite confident of what the facts show so far and was willing to give Hannity an opportunity to tell his side of the story.
So I called Hannity's radio show around 3:15 EST Wednesday and spoke to his screener. I told her that I was DavefromQueens and that I wanted to discuss Sean's so called "freedom concerts" and where the money was actually going. Alternatively I said I can discuss Petraeus' phony forthcoming report.
Hannity's screener puts me on hold. They know who am I. She comes back 10 minutes later and patronizingly says "Are you Ok Dave." I Responded, "Oh I'm great." Then a few minutes later she hung up on me. Apparently, fair and balanced does not permit an articulate, well spoken, caller to bring up topics Sean wants censored notwithstanding how Sean was self promoting the concerts on his radio show much of the day.
So Sean, Here is the question I have for you since I know you check out this site regularly.
Will you Release all the books related to your concerts?
Show us how many concerts you have attended, how you arrived at each concert, any hotels you stayed in overnight and all expenses related to these transactions including bar tabs, meals, or entertainment. Be sure to include any "guests" that you had accompanying you to these concerts and the expenses paid for. I'm especially interested to learn if you have used the services of New World Aviation to arrive at any of these concerts. A simple yes or no will do.
Detail for us how much each of the musicians is getting paid for performing at the concerts, and what meals, hotels, transportation, and other "expenses" they had paid for them. Include such details for any of their staffs and personnel.
Release the records of how many tickets you sold, how many tickets were given away, the prices of the tickets sold, and how all of that money is allocated.
Detail for us the costs spent setting up these concerts including renting the venue, lighting, printing costs of concert tickets, promotions, advertising, equipment at the venue, and staff hired to assist you in running these events.
On your website you claim that $4 of every ticket sold goes to the Freedom Alliance. How much of that goes to the scholarship fund? And release the books on the amount given to either the Alliance or fund. Also, tell us why you tell your radio audience that "Oliver North will be stopping by" when you KNOW he is the founder of the so called charity.
You've set up a separate website for your concerts and copyrighted the group. Detail all your costs associated with this website, whether you have staff members working for your Freedom Concerts organization, how much each person gets paid, and all expenses related to your little corporation there.
Release for us all the relevant tax records for you and your organization to determine what, if any, tax benefits are bestowed upon you related to your so called Freedom Concerts.
Stop hiding behind the troops Sean. You've been using them as props for way too long. You're fronting for Oliver North knowing full well that these concerts become near unmarketable if they were labeled Oliver North's Freedom Concerts.
These concerts aren't about military families. They're profit generating political gatherings with dual purposes of a) compelling Republican politicians to show up; b) providing superfluous cover when you point out how Sean Hannity supports policies that actually hurt our soldiers; and c) profiting from concerts by using the hard times of military families as your primary promotion.
Hannity's primary method of 'debating" is to demonize a person with a few false labels. Well here are some truthful labels that describe Sean Hannity.
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Called Bob Grant his mentor and the Great one. Grant calls Blacks Savages and said blacks would be swinging from trees if not for white people.
Defended James Dobson's comparison of stem cell research to the Holocaust.
Suggested Chelsea Clinton was conceived by rape.
Said keeping Nancy Pelosi from being speaker of the House is worth dying for.
Advocated shooting "queers" on his website.
Is buddies with Nazi Ann Coulter who advocates killing all non Christians.
Defended Bill Bennett's disgusting comment that crime would go down if you abort every black baby in America.
Support Hal Turner for Senate. Turner overtly is an admirer of Hitler
And it appears we are going to add to this list that Hannity uses troops as props to make a profit for him and his buddies.