Reply #40: You're digging up information from Sciafe wingnut orgs?

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AIM's work

Vincent Foster conspiracy claims

Accuracy in Media has received a substantial amount of funding from Scaife who paid Christopher W. Ruddy to investigate allegations that President William Clinton was connected to the suicide of Vincent Foster.<15> AIM claims that "Foster was murdered",<16> which is contrary to three independent reports including one by Kenneth Starr<17>. AIM faults the media for not picking up on the conspiracy.<18> The organization has even gone to court for documents and recordings linked to the case.

AIM credits much of its reporting on the Foster case to Ruddy.<19> Yet, his work has been called a "hoax" and "discredited" by conservatives like Ann Coulter,<20> it was also disputed by the American Spectator, which caused Scaife to ending his funding of the Arkansas Project with the publisher.<21> As CNN explained on February 28, 1997, "The report refutes claims by conservative political organizations that Foster was the victim of a murder plot and coverup," but "despite those findings, right-wing political groups have continued to allege that there was more to the death and that the president and First Lady tried to cover it up."<22>

AIM speaker Hugh Turley (co author of Failure of the Public Trust) currently operates a Foster conspiracy website at FBICOVER-UP.com.<23><24> While Ruddy operates a conservative news website, NewsMax, that still claims there is a conspiracy and faults the media.<25>

Fox News

On October 20, 2006, Accuracy in Media released a list of 27 questions to pose at the Fox News Executive meeting that will be attended by AIM editor Cliff Kincaid.<26><27>

Of these 27 questions, 8 dwell on Rupert Murdoch's relationship with the Clintons and how that may have affected Fox News coverage.<26> Moreover, AIMS wrote "News Corporation hired the Glover Park Group, a public relations firm run by friends of Bill and Hillary Clinton, to block changes in the TV ratings system," and asks, "Was this part of News Corporation's move to the left?"<26>

In May 2007, Accuracy in Media raised questions about a conflict of interest in Fox News' co-sponsorship of the May 15 Republican Presidential Candidates debate,<28> pointing out that News Corporation, the parent company of Fox News, is as a client of presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani.<29>

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