{"id":603,"date":"2008-01-31T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T20:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=603"},"modified":"2008-01-31T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T20:28:00","slug":"huckabee-newest-scandal-fundraiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=603","title":{"rendered":"Huckabee newest scandal fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=black><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span class=\"diarytitle\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">BREAKING: Huckabee Scandal<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\"><br \/>\n<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">by <a href=\"http:\/\/bouldergeist.dailykos.com\/\">Bouldergeist<\/a><br \/>\n<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/h3>\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 05:25:53 AM PST<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/h4>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">You<br \/>\nprobably haven&#8217;t heard of the Dallas-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trinityfi.org\/\">Trinity<br \/>\nFoundation<\/a>, but might be familiar with some of their work. &nbsp;<em><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">The Daily Show&#8217;s<\/span><\/em> classic<br \/>\n&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/God_Stuff\">God Stuff<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\nsegment with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joebobbriggs.com\/\">Joe Bob Briggs<\/a> (a.k.a.,<br \/>\nJohn Bloom) was their brainchild. &nbsp;They also publish <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wittenburgdoor.com\/\">the <em><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; text-decoration: none;\">Wittenburg Door<\/span><\/em><\/a>:<br \/>\n&#8220;pretty much the world&#8217;s only religious satire magazine.&#8221; &nbsp;They<br \/>\nlive in a kibbutz in one of the roughest neighborhoods in East Dallas,<br \/>\nroutinely taking in the homeless. &nbsp;But what they are most famous for is<br \/>\ntheir (often sub rosa) exposes of televangelists like Benny Hinn, Paul Crouch,<br \/>\nand the ubiquitous Kenneth Copeland.<br \/>\nMost of the hypocrisy they uncover is just plain funny, like the report in the<br \/>\nLos Angeles Times that TBN founder Paul Crouch was (allegedly) having sexual<br \/>\nrelations with a former drug addict working at the station &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rickross.com\/reference\/tbn\/tbn19.html\">who also happened to be<br \/>\nmale<\/a>. &nbsp;But occasionally, they come across a diamond in the rough.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nLooks like they&#8217;ve got the Huckster in a bit of a bother&#8230;.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: bold;\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bouldergeist.dailykos.com\/\"><!-- polls come after this -->Bouldergeist&#8217;s<br \/>\ndiary<\/a> :: :: <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">This<br \/>\nstory is just breaking, and could really use some legs. &nbsp;(It&#8217;s a press<br \/>\nrelease by Ole and the guys, and intended for wide dissemination; I used to<br \/>\nhelp them out with investigations back in the day.) &nbsp;The bottom line here<br \/>\nis that Charles Grassley is breathing down Copeland&#8217;s neck with his<br \/>\ninvestigation of televangelists who turn their ministries into ATM machines (on<br \/>\na <strong><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">MUCH<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nlighter note, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fartingpreacher.org\/\">Robert<br \/>\n&#8220;Tootin'&#8221; Tilton<\/a>); the Huckster ran to Copeland for a little<br \/>\ncash, and he just happened to be in the market for a little protection. &nbsp;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">Republican<br \/>\nhopeful Mike Huckabee reached out to a questionable funding source this week.<br \/>\n&nbsp;Texas televangelist Kenneth Copeland, one of the targets of a Senate<br \/>\nFinance Committee investigation into the funding and governance of<br \/>\n&#8220;prosperity gospel&#8221; ministries.<br \/>\nAt Copeland\u00c3\u201a\u00e2\u201a\u00ac&#8217;s annual by-invitation-only Minister&#8217;s Conference at his Newark,<br \/>\nTexas, headquarters Jan. 23, Copeland received a call during the meeting from<br \/>\nHuckabee requesting emergency financing. According Doug Wead, former Bush<br \/>\nfamily evangelical adviser, Copeland and his supporters at the conference<br \/>\nraised $111,000 in cash for Huckabee, with about a million dollars in pledged<br \/>\ndonations, after he temporarily adjourned the conference and then reconvened<br \/>\nthe group as a &#8220;private meeting.&#8221;<br \/>\nWead relayed a report in his blog from a source at the meeting that &#8220;Last<br \/>\nnight [Jan. 23] the Governor called his friend in the middle of a conference<br \/>\nand Copeland, carefully observing all the laws governing non profits, as a<br \/>\nprivate citizen, re-convened a private meeting, turned to his friends and<br \/>\nraised a few million dollars for Huckabee.&#8221; (See &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/dougwead.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/24\/mike-huckabees-big-mistake\">Mike<br \/>\nHuckabee&#8217;s Big Mistake<\/a>&#8220;)<br \/>\nAccording to video clips of the conference obtained by Trinity Foundation, an<br \/>\ninvestigative watchdog group in Dallas, Copeland revealed that Huckabee had<br \/>\npledged his total support to Copeland&#8217;s ministry while dismissing the Senate<br \/>\ninvestigation. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">Video<br \/>\nclips are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wittenburgdoor.com\/copelandclips\"><span style=\"color: rgb(129, 0, 129);\">here<\/span><\/a>(the second clip is on Huckabee &#8212;<br \/>\ntranscribed by them below).<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">&#8220;[Huckabee<br \/>\ntold me] Why should I stand with them and not stand with you? They&#8217;ve only got<br \/>\n11 per cent approval rating.&#8217; And then he said, &#8216;Kenneth Copeland, I will stand<br \/>\nwith you.&#8217; He said, &#8216;You&#8217;re trying to get prosperity to the people and they&#8217;re<br \/>\ntrying to take it away from &#8217;em.&#8217; He said, &#8216;I will stand with you any time,<br \/>\nanywhere, on any issue.&#8217; That settled that right there. I said, &#8216;Yeah, that&#8217;s<br \/>\nmy man! That&#8217;s my man, right there.'&#8221; <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\">The<br \/>\nHuckster&#8217;s association with Copeland might just put the final nail in the<br \/>\ncoffin of his presidential aspirations. &nbsp;Those who delight in oppo<br \/>\nresearch really ought to know.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; BREAKING: Huckabee Scandal by Bouldergeist Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 05:25:53 AM PST You probably haven&#8217;t heard of the Dallas-based Trinity Foundation, but might be familiar with some of their work. &nbsp;The Daily Show&#8217;s classic &#8220;God Stuff&#8221; segment with Joe Bob Briggs (a.k.a., John Bloom) was their brainchild. &nbsp;They also publish the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=603\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Huckabee newest scandal fundraiser<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-huckabee-shameful-record"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}