Who Is Really Choosing The Next President

THE FREE-MARKET AL-QAEDA: Neoliberal Think Tanks and the Harm They Do" by Richard W. Behan, Baltimore Chronicle: "12 right-wing philanthropic foundations ... set out in the 1960’s and in concert to overturn a century’s accumulation of progressive public policy. Convinced the nation was drifting into socialism, they sought wherever possible to replace government mechanisms of command and control with market solutions. The foundations are the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Carthage Foundation, the Earhart Foundation, the Charles G. Koch, David H. Koch and Claude R. Lambe charitable foundations, the Phillip M. McKenna Foundation, the JM Foundation, the John M. Olin Foundation, the Henry Salvatori Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation, and the Smith Richardson Foundation." (Dubbed the Diligent Dozen.)
"How successful have they been? The most conspicuous and powerful beneficiaries of this effort are the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Cato Institute, all in the nation’s capital, and all funded by the Diligent Dozen—since 1985 alone, with more than $88 million. These three think tanks have crafted or influenced virtually the entire programs of both domestic and foreign policy for the George Walker Bush administration.
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Funders

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Castle Rock Foundation (also known as Coors)
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The Coors family is well known for its conservative ideology and for its financial contributions to advance this ideology, both individually and through its company and foundations. In 1973, Joseph Coors backed Paul Weyrich, a champion of right-wing causes and later co-creator of the Moral Majority, when he decided to create a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C., that eventually became the Heritage Foundation. Joseph Coors provided $250,000 in start-up funds.
http://www.mediatransparency.org/funders/castle_rock.htm
http://www.mediatransparency.org/search_results/recipientsoffunder.php?providerID=14
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Adolph_Coors_Foundation

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John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.
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The New York-based John M. Olin Foundation, which grew out of a family manufacturing business (chemical and munitions), funds right-wing think tanks like the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation, the Manhattan Institute for Public Policy Research, and the Hoover Institute of War, Revolution and Peace.
http://www.mediatransparency.org/funders/john_m_olin_foundation.htm

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Richard Mellon Scaife
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http://www.mediatransparency.org/funders/scaife_foundations.htm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/scaifemain050299.htm
http://www.tylwythteg.com/enemies/scaife.html
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/04/27/scaife.profile/
http://archive.salon.com/news/1998/04/07news.html
http://www.mediatransparency.org/funders/scaife_foundations.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/scaife050299.htm
http://www.politicalamazon.com/scaifeorama.html
http://www.politicalamazon.com/news.html
In his hilarious 2003 book Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them), Al Franken argues that the abusive tone of rightwing zealots like Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter can be traced back to Scaife, and in particular to one episode in 1981 when Scaife verbally assaulted a reporter. When the reporter, Karen Rothmeyer of the Columbia Journalism Review, asked Scaife about his funding of conservative groups, he replied, "You fucking communist cunt, get out of here." Franken writes that Scaife "went on to tell her that she was ugly and that her teeth were 'terrible.' Of Ms. Rothmeyer's mother, who was not present, he said, 'She's ugly, too.' Sensing that it was time to wrap up the interview, Ms. Rothmeyer thanked Scaife for his time. He bade her farewell with a cheery 'Don't look behind you.'"
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/scaife/scaife.php

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Smith Richardson Foundation
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http://www.mediatransparency.org/search_results/display_recipients_by_sr_total.htm
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3Fi=19991122&s=alterman2

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The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
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http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Lynde_and_Harry_Bradley_Foundation
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Bradley_Foundation
http://www.mediatransparency.org/funders/bradley_foundation.htm
http://inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=216_0_3_0_C
http://www.bradleyfdn.org/about.html


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Koch Family Foundations
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http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Koch_Family_Foundations