Right wing conspiracy peddler dies.

[RandySF]

Richard Mellon Scaife died this morning at the age of 82. The cause was cancer, a diagnosis he announced in his newspaper less than 2 months ago. His national profile had diminished considerably since the middle 90s when he became a Koch brothers like figure, vilified by Democrats as the funder and propagator of various conspiracy-theory peddling groups attacking then-President Clinton, and cheered for the same reasons by conservatives. Oddly Scaife and Clinton himself managed a reconciliation of sorts during the late Bush years. There were also less known aspects of Scaife's philanthropy: he was a major supporter of and a contributor to Planned Parenthood.


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/richard-mellon-scaife-dies-at-82

[louis-t]

1. Wow, evil doesn't live forever.....

He was responsible for a lot of Clinton-bashing in the '90s.

[Brother Buzz]

2. What he spent bashing the Clintons was nothing but chump change

[orleans]

3. what was the deal with planned parenthood?

probably to keep the liberal & dem population down
those conservatives let jesus & god take care of their birth control.

yeah, it sounds good that he supported & contributed to planned parenthood but i would bet dollars to donuts his rationale was completely fucked up

[4139]

4. My father worked for R.k. Mellon and knew Dickie Scaife

in the 1950s and 60s.... Dickie was a loon even as a young man