Podcast@CRC

On “The Roger Hedgecock Show” (San Diego, Calif.) Roger Hedgecock interviewed John Gizzi on July 16, 2008. They discussed California’s AB 624, a bill that would have forced foundations to publicly disclose the race, gender and ethnicity of their board trustees and the boards and staff of their grantees. The bill was withdrawn at the eleventh hour after California’s largest foundations promised to lavish millions of dollars on minority communities. The bill was pushed by the Greenlining Institute, a left-wing pressure group that threatens adverse public relations campaigns against lenders that refuse to bow to its agenda. Gizzi wrote about the bill in the July Foundation Watch and his article on the Greenlining Institute will appear in the August Organization Trends. The MP3 file covers about one full hour of the show, but Gizzi’s segment runs from 17:20 to 34:25.

Commentary on Barack Obama and his relationship with his close friend William Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist who bombed the Pentagon and other U.S. landmarks. CRC's Matthew Vadum narrates.

Commentary on how environmentalists fight against oil exploration. CRC's James Dellinger narrates.

On the July 1, 2008, edition of www.rightalk.com online radio show "Organization Watch," James Dellinger and Matthew Vadum interviewed the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Iain Murray about his new book, The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Don't Want You to Know About--Because They Helped Cause Them, and Joseph A. D’Agostino about his profile of the liberal Campaign for America’s Future (Organization Trends, July 2008).

On the June 3, 2008, edition of www.rightalk.com online radio show "Organization Watch," James Dellinger and Matthew Vadum interviewed author Timothy P. Carney about USCAP, a coalition of big businesses and left-wing nonprofits that hopes to profit from saddling U.S. industry with economically devastating carbon emissions controls. Our second guest was Kevin Mooney, a reporter with CNSNews.com, who discussed current political news and what's going on in Congress.

On "The G. Gordon Liddy Show" G. Gordon Liddy interviewed Matthew Vadum on May 14, 2008. They discussed George Soros and his new book, The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means, and the May 13 USA Today profile of Soros called "Soros sees 'reflexivity' theory of economics as life's work," by David J. Lynch. The MP3 file covers about one full hour of the show, but Vadum’s segment runs from 46:00 to 53:30.

Matthew Vadum moderated a Federalist Society panel discussion, "Charity: Whether and, if so, How Our Tax Laws Affect Charitable Activities, Religious Institutions, and Free Speech," at the Federalist Society conference "Our Nation's Founding Principles and Our Tax Code - Consistent or In Conflict?" at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C., May 7, 2008. 

This is an audio file. A video file, along with more information on the panel and the panelists is available at the Federalist Society website's archival page for the event.

(The CRC website is not yet video-friendly. We're working on it. -Webmaster)

On the May 6, 2008, edition of www.rightalk.com online radio show "Organization Watch," James Dellinger and Matthew Vadum interviewed Brandon Millett, president of the GI Film Festival and documentary film maker David B. Smith. Smith's film, The Undefeated: Why We Fight, will be shown at the GI Film Festival which runs from May 14 through May 18 this year in Washington, D.C.

CRC's James Dellinger discusses the rarely mentioned expensive household costs of global warming policies that are being debated at the state level and federal level and who some of the players are and who funds them, with Janesville, WI AM 1230 WCLO's "Stan Milam Show" on May 5th 2008.

Commentary on the release of Clinton White House documents and on the Clinton Foundation's reluctance to disclose the names of its donors who might be expecting favors from the Clintons should Hillary become president. CRC's Matthew Vadum narrates.

Commentary on the mission of Capital Research Center, which was founded in 1984. CRC's Matthew Vadum narrates.

Commentary regarding the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (BISC), which devises tactics for labor unions seeking to block ballot initiatives. CRC’s James Dellinger narrates the audio clip, which ran on the Radio America network as a public service announcement. Dellinger and Karl Crow wrote about BISC in the April 2008 issue of Labor Watch.

Matthew Vadum was interviewed by Mike Green on “Politics of Money,”  KCEO AM 1000, Carlsbad, Calif., April 9, 2008, regarding George Soros, the Democracy Alliance, and Al Gore.

On the April 8, 2008, edition of www.rightalk.com online radio show "Organization Watch," James Dellinger and Matthew Vadum interviewed New York Times bestselling author and global warming debunker Christopher C. Horner, and Paul Chesser of Climate Strategies Watch. They discussed the Center for Climate Strategies (CCS), a supposedly objective nonpolitical group which persuades governors to appoint “study commissions” on global warming, then steers the policy process, rigging commission proceedings to produce a predetermined, Big Government result. Horner, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism (Regnery, 2007), is a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Chesser is an investigative reporter who uncovered CCS's modus operandi. Horner's article, "The Center for Climate Strategies: How Governors Keep State Legislators Out of the Loop," appeared in the April 2008 issue of Organization Trends.

Michael Reagan interviewed Matthew Vadum on April 1, 2008. They discussed the William J. Clinton Foundation, Al Gore’s global warming business interests, and George Soros’s Democracy Alliance. The MP3 file covers about one full hour of the show, but Vadum’s segment runs from 28:30 to 51:50.

Fausta Wertz and Siggy interviewed Matthew Vadum on "Fausta's Blog Talk Radio Show," a live podcast, on March 25, 2008, regarding Hugo Chavez.

Commentary regarding former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's ethical shortcomings in the world of philanthropy. CRC’s Matthew Vadum narrates the audio clip, which ran on the Radio America network as a public service announcement.

Dan Lovallo interviewed Matthew Vadum on “The Brad Davis Show,” WDRC AM 1360, Hartford, Conn., on March 14, 2008, regarding Eliot Spitzer.

On the March 11, 2008, edition of www.rightalk.com online radio show "Organization Watch," James Dellinger and Matthew Vadum interviewed political and cultural commentator Rondi Adamson and Phil Brand, Director of Capital Research Center’s EducationWatch project. In the March 2008 Foundation Watch, Adamson wrote about the collaborative effort by George Soros’s Open Society Institute and Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute to finance left-wing movie-making. In the February 2008 Organization Trends, Brand wrote about the ongoing battles between education reformers and teacher unions.

G. Gordon Liddy interviewed Matthew Vadum on March 6, 2008. They discussed the saber-rattling Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his many friends on the American left. They discussed: Ted Kennedy’s nephew, Joe Kennedy of nonprofit Citizens Energy Corporation, and the fact that Joe, a former congressman, is a shill for Chavez, who controls Venezuela’s big oil company, CITGO; American actor-director Danny Glover who accepted $20 million from the Venezuelan government to make movies; and Chavez’s complicity with Colombian terrorist group FARC which wants to buy uranium, possibly to build a radioactive dirty bomb.
 

For more information on the topics discussed, read “The American Friends of Hugo Chavez: Dial 1-800-4-TYRANT,” by Ana Maria Ortiz and Matthew Vadum, which appears in the March 2008 issue of Organization Trends.

Commentary regarding America’s leftists, who are head-over-heels in love with Venezuela’s belligerent strongman, Hugo Chavez, an enabler of international terrorism. Useful idiot Joe Kennedy of nonprofit Citizens Energy Corporation has become Chavez’s principal spokesman as he hawks CITGO’s discounted home heating oil to the shivering masses of America. CITGO, of course, is owned by the Venezuelan government and controlled by Chavez, who replaced its CEO with one of his own army generals.

CRC’s Matthew Vadum narrates the audio clip, which ran on the Radio America network as a public service announcement. The article, “The American Friends of Hugo Chavez: Dial 1-800-4-TYRANT,” by Ana Maria Ortiz and Matthew Vadum, appears in the March 2008 issue of Organization Trends.

Commentary regarding the collaborative effort by George Soros’s Open Society Institute and Robert Redford’s Sundance Institute to finance left-wing movie-making. CRC’s Matthew Vadum narrates the audio clip, which ran on the Radio America network as a public service announcement. The article, “George Soros, Movie Mogul: ‘Social Justice’ Cinema and the Sundance Institute,” by Rondi Adamson, appears in the March 2008 issue of Foundation Watch.

On the February 20, 2008, edition of www.rightalk.com online radio show “Leave Us Alone,”  Brian M. Johnson interviewed Ivan Osorio about his upcoming Labor Watch article about the Hollywood writers’ strike. Johnson is director of policy for the Alliance for Worker Freedom. Osorio is editorial director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. (Osorio’s segment begins at about the two-thirds mark in the MP3 file.)

On the February 12, 2008, edition of www.rightalk.com online radio show "Organization Watch," James Dellinger and Matthew Vadum interviewed political pundit Rachel Marsden about current affairs and her new startup, GrandCentralPolitical.com, a political and media career website. Also on the show was Nathan Tabor, author of The Beast on the East River: The UN Threat to America's Sovereignty and Security. Tabor also founded a North Carolina-based nonprofit, the Faith, Family, Freedom Alliance (FFFA).

Commentary regarding the William J. Clinton Foundation and its many apparent conflicts of interest. CRC's Matthew Vadum narrates the audio clip, which ran on the Radio America network as a public service announcement. The foundation was profiled in Foundation Watch.

G. Gordon Liddy interviewed Matthew Vadum at the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 7, 2008.

Gregg Knapp interviewed Matthew Vadum at the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 7, 2008.

Commentary regarding the latest antics of labor unions and lawmakers that are trying to reduce funding for an important labor watchdog agency. CRC's Matthew Vadum narrates the audio clip, which ran on the Radio America network as a public service announcement.

G. Gordon Liddy discussed the latest news and activities of the Democracy Alliance with CRC's Matthew Vadum on the January 22, 2008, edition of "The G. Gordon Liddy Show." The group was profiled in the January 2008 issue of Foundation Watch.

On the January 15, 2008, edition of www.rightalk.com online radio show "Organization Watch," James Dellinger and Matthew Vadum interviewed Deborah Corey Barnes about her profile of the William J. Clinton Foundation and its many apparent conflicts of interest. The article appears in the February edition of Foundation Watch. Also on the show, Karl Crow discussed his article on liberal groups that are trying to undermine U.S. drug patent protections. Crow's article appears in the January edition of Organization Trends.

Commentary regarding the Democracy Alliance, a loose-knit group that is creating a permanent political infrastructure of nonprofits, think tanks, media outlets, leadership schools, and activist groups—a kind of “vast left-wing conspiracy” to compete with the conservative movement. Major players in the Democracy Alliance, whose day-to-day operations are run by Hillary Clinton's close personal friend, Kelly Craighead, include billionaire philanthropists George Soros and Peter B. Lewis. CRC's James Dellinger narrates the audio clip, which ran on the Radio America network as a public service announcement. The group was profiled by Dellinger and Matthew Vadum in the January 2008 issue of Foundation Watch.

Commentary regarding the National Council of La Raza. CRC's Matthew Vadum narrates the audio clip, which ran on the Radio America network as a public service announcement.

On the November 20, 2007, edition of www.rightalk.com online radio show "Organization Watch," James Dellinger and Matthew Vadum interviewed Jill Lacey, editor of Capital Research Center's Compassion and Culture newsletter, about good charities and CRC's Phil Brand about education reform.

Commentary regarding the Cambodian Hope Organization (CHO). Hope for some comes from the recently begun Khmer Rouge trials. But the CHO organization offers real hope for healing Cambodia. CRC's Jill Lacey narrates the audio clip, which ran on the Radio America network as a public service announcement.

Commentary on Christmastime giving. How to be a thoughtful donor. CRC's Jill Lacey narrates on the audio clip, which ran on the Radio America network as a public service announcement.

The search engine giant Google Inc. wants to give away $1 billion of shareholder money to save the world, but so far much of the money has gone to liberal think tanks and special interest groups. The money has also gone to help invent a new car engine and solve global warming, but wouldn't everyone be better off if Google just focused on doing what it does best? CRC's Matthew Vadum narrates. John Reosti wrote on the topic in the November 2007 Foundation Watch.

On the October 23, 2007, edition of www.rightalk.com online radio show, "Organization Watch," CRC's James Dellinger and Matthew Vadum interviewed Matthew Sheffield of Newsbusters.org who discussed the latest examples of left-wing media bias, and Leslie Graves of the Lucy Burns Institute who discussed her group's project, WikiFOIA, which helps Americans promote government transparency at the state and local level.

Liberal advocacy groups love to attack the subprime industry, which they call the “predatory” lending industry, even though such lenders are willing to give a chance to high-risk borrowers. CRC's Matthew Vadum narrates. Vadum and Melanie Sans wrote on the topic in the October 2007 Organization Trends.

Commentary regarding California-based Free Wheelchair Mission (profiled in Compassion and Culture here) which is a Christian charity that provides inexpensive wheelchairs to the poorest of the poor in developing countries. CRC's Jill Lacey narrates on the audio clip, which ran on the Radio America network as a public service announcement.

On the September 25, 2007, edition of www.rightalk.com online radio show, "Organization Watch," CRC's James Dellinger and Matthew Vadum discussed the activities of MoveOn.org and other liberal groups with Robert Stacy McCain, assistant national editor of the Washington Times. Also on the show, Annie Patnaude, spokeswoman for Americans for Prosperity, previewed her group's “Defending the American Dream Summit” on October 4 and 5 in Washington, D.C.

Commentary on reforming the No Child Left Behind Act. CRC's Phil Brand narrates on the audio clip, which ran on the Radio America network as a public service announcement.

On the August 28, 2007, edition of www.rightalk.com online radio show, "Organization Watch," CRC's James Dellinger and Matthew Vadum discussed the National Commission on Energy Policy with Max Borders of the Civitas Institute. Borders wrote about the NCEP in the September issue of Organization Trends, available here. Later on the show, Whitney Ball, executive director of DonorsTrust, explained how her public charity, a donor-advised fund, helps donors promote liberty by supporting nonprofits whose goals are compatible with limited government, free enterprise, and personal responsibility.

Commentary regarding education reform as the summer closes and America's children head back to the classroom. CRC's Matthew Vadum narrates.

Commentary regarding Wal-Mart's courting of liberal special interest groups. CRC's Matthew Vadum narrates.

G. Gordon Liddy discussed the latest news and activities of left-wing nonprofits and funders with CRC's Matthew Vadum on the August 9, 2007, edition of "The G. Gordon Liddy Show."

G. Gordon Liddy discussed the latest news and activities of left-wing nonprofits and funders with CRC's Matthew Vadum on the August 9, 2007, edition of "The G. Gordon Liddy Show."

G. Gordon Liddy discussed the latest news and activities of left-wing nonprofits and funders with CRC's Matthew Vadum on the August 9, 2007, edition of "The G. Gordon Liddy Show."

G. Gordon Liddy discussed the latest news and activities of left-wing nonprofits and funders with CRC's Matthew Vadum on the August 9, 2007, edition of "The G. Gordon Liddy Show."

Commentary regarding Al Gore's carbon footprint. The audio clip ran on the Radio America network as a public service announcement and is related to a Foundation Watch article, "Al Gore’s Carbon Crusade: The Money and Connections Behind It," by Deborah Corey Barnes.

Commentary from Dr. David Hogberg regarding a new coalition's push for a government take over of America's healthcare system.  He took a look at this issue in CRC's June Organization Trends. 

Commentary regarding the opening of Oprah's Leadership Academy. CRC's Jill Lacey narrates.

Commentary about the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank funded by George Soros that's off to a roaring start. CRC's Matthew Vadum narrates. John Gizzi profiled the Center in the May 2007 Organization Trends.

Commentary regarding Living Water International's hard work in Liberia with former child soldiers. CRC's Jill Lacey narrates.

Commentary on the powerful Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of socialist lawmakers in Congress. CRC's Matthew Vadum narrates. Cheryl K. Chumley profiled the group in the January 2007 Foundation Watch.

Commentary regarding Big Labor's latest "Corporate Campaigns." CRC's Matthew Vadum narrates.

Matthew Vadum discusses the involvement of George Soros and other donors in the secretive "Democracy Alliance," on "Janet Parshall's America." Vadum and James Dellinger profiled the Democracy Alliance in the December 2006 Foundation Watch.