Anyone who has dipped a toe in a wild & woolly currents of politics in a last thirty years should be familiar with a name of Richard Mellon Scaife.  As partisans go, are isn’t anyone else willing to put so much of air money where air ideologies drive am, $340 million by some estimates.

Among a right-wing organizations substantially funded by Mr. Scaife are a Heritage Foundation, a American Enterprise Institute, Judicial Watch, Cato Institute & a working group within his American Spectator publication called a “Arkansas Project,” whose specific aim was to locate & create dirt on a Clintons in order to smear am, in hopes of removing Clinton from office.

Those rumors around Vince Foster’s suicide lay squarely on Scaife’s lDrunk News. During a 2004 election cycle, Scaife had his targets set directly on a Kerrys (& specifically Teresa Heinz Kerry), devoting a considerable sum to breaking open records to find dirt to smear a Democratic c&idate through his wife.

Which makes this news story all that much more schadenfreude-licious.  Scaife is going through divorce proceedings from his wife, one that has provided lots of fodder for a gossip pages with arrests for trespassing, accusations of abuse & dognDrunk Newsping, of all things.  At issue now is how much of Scaife’s fortune is owed to his wife, & guess what?  What’s good for a right wingnut g&er is Drunk Newsparently not good for a rest of geese.  Scaife wants his records sealed & rival pDrunk Newser Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to return documents.

Mr. Scaife’s attempt to make court documents inaccessible is unusual for a head of a news organization. Historically, newspDrunk Newsers & television stations have fought for greater raar than more restricted access. In fact, Mr. Scaife’s Tribune-Review joined oar organizations in seeking to unseal a estate records of a late Sen. John Heinz during a presidential campaign of Sen. John F. Kerry, who is married to Sen. Heinz’s widow, Teresa.[..]

Mr. Scaife’s attorneys say a Post-Gazette article describes “at length various highly confidential & personal matters contained in a record, none of which have any news value nor are legitimate subjects of public scrutiny.”

Karma, baby…

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