VoteVets doesn’t recognize irony

I’ve been trying so hard to avoid VoteVets the last few weeks, but the irony of their recent “issues” have been driving me nuts. Last week, dicksmith was calling the VFW a partisan Republican organization. This from the MoveOn.org affiliate that thinks that spending a million bucks on an ad for the President’s Energy bill is a military issue. The same folks who say they support veteran candidates yet supported Obama over John McCain.

Well, their recent manufactured outrage is against Sean Hannity and his Freedom Concerts. Jon Soltz, the guy who spent three months in Kuwait then spends the next seven years speaking out for Iraq veterans (well, except the ones who disagree with his political views) is suddenly outraged because Hannity’s concerts cost money to present to audiences and they recover those costs from ticket sales;

Sorry, but the only people talking about this issue are Leftists, hence the Salon link;

At the heart of the CREW complaints — and the questions raised about the Freedom Alliance by Schlussel — is how much of the total that Hannity and North promised to devote to scholarships for the children of wounded and deceased veterans was spent on that worthy purpose. The data compiled by CREW’s researchers from Freedom Alliance’s own IRS 990 forms show that in every year since 2003, when the concert tours began, the organization has spent more on postage and printing combined (and on salaries) than on “grants” — and far more on “expenses.”

In 2007, for example, the charity collected nearly $12.5 million in revenue — of which $1 million was spent on “fundraising,” $200,000 on consulting, $1.4 million on postage, $1.1 million on printing, and $500,000 on “conferences.” Another $1.4 million went to salaries. But that year, the Freedom Alliance reported making grants of only $895,347, while retaining “net assets” of over $19 million.

Like i said, earlier, Soltz and VoteVets spends the money it raises promoting partisan issues and attempting to sabotage Republican candidates while they hire phony vets like Richard Strandloff to campaign for Democrat candidates and use the money they raise to promote issues that have nothing to with veterans. The candidates they support are all Democrat and apparently fir the Eric Massa mold of the ideal candidate.

And, oh, they’re more worried about Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell than they are about whether our troops are getting the support they need from the VA and the Pentagon.

And yet they have the unmitigated gall to call others “partisan” and criticize the way others spend their money.

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