Reply #43: What a load of absolute crap!

[Steve A Play]

The way I remember it was I was listening to Randi and she started going off on some shit about Bev using donor funds to make a movie (absolutely a lie!) and then went on to say that Bev wouldn't answer her phone. (Another absolute LIE) As a member of BBV.org I immediately called Bev at the number listed on the front page of the web site and she answered right away. I was the one who told her what Randi was saying on air and I called Air America in New York and spoke to them. They in turn gave me a phone number in the studio where Randi was broadcasting from that Bev could use to talk to her on air.

Bev was in Volusia County florida at the time trying to obtain the poll tapes and other election records that had been requested under the FOIA request submitted some time earlier. It's true that Randi's producers had called the BBV number back in Seattle trying to reach her but they never tried to contact her cell phone number listed as the BBV.org 'media contact' number on the web site. Bev never "disappeared", in fact she was with Andy Stephenson in Florida at the time. Randi was the one who attacked Bev over claims made by people on this web site that she was using the donated money to make a movie for her own enrichment. That claim was absolutely false just as most of the claims in your post are.

The show segment was pulled from the AAR archives because Randi's producers and the AAR brass realized that they had libeled BBV.org by making those unsubstantiated claims, but not before it had been archived elsewhere. It's still available on the Internet if you search for it. If you can't find it I'll be happy to make arrangements to get it posted to the BBV.org web site from my personal stash.

Steven P. :kick: