Joe Cafasso featured as Fox Whistleblower by Moveon.org

Here's the flyer. Although they don't mention any of them by name, we already know Joe Cafasso had a small bit part to play in the film "Outfoxed", approximately 34 minutes into the film.


However, he had a much larger role as one of the panelists in a discussion hosted by the Center for American Progress. The Center for American Progress is the leftist think tank run by Hillary Clinton and John Podesta, Clinton's former chief of staff.

The Center for American Progress (CAP) describes itself as "a nonpartisan research and educational institute" aimed at "developing a long-term vision of a progressive America" and "providing a forum to generate new progressive ideas and policy proposals."

Robert Dreyfuss reports in the March 1, 2004 edition of The Nation: "The idea for the Center began with discussions in 2002 between [Morton] Halperin and George Soros, the billionaire investor. … Halperin, who heads the office of Soros' Open Society Institute, brought [former Clinton chief of staff John] Podesta into the discussion, and beginning in late 2002 Halperin and Podesta circulated a series of papers to funders."

Soros and Halperin recruited Harold Ickes -- chief fundraiser and former deputy chief of staff for the Clinton White House -- to help organize the Center. It was launched on July 7, 2003 as the American Majority Institute. The name was changed to Center for American Progress (CAP) on September 1, 2003. The official purpose of the Center was to provide the left with something it supposedly lacked - a think tank of its own.

But back to the "Outfoxed" event we're discussing with Joe Cafasso as one of the former Fox employees in the limelight. We can clearly see now the Columbia University connection; Nicholas Lemann, the dean of the Columbia University School of Journalism was in attendance, keeping company with Arianna Huffington and Eric Altermann. So it would appear as though Joe Cafasso has found the adoration and acclaim he's been looking for for so many years; he's been welcomed into the heart of the progressive community with his 'badge of courage' for having worked once for Fox News.

Let's leave out the part that he was fired for being a fraud.

He's their hero!

A tremendous coup for the aging con artist Joe Cafasso; this event catapulted him into the limelight he so desperately craves, for something he actually DID in his life, although his stint at Fox was short. Gee, it's still SOMETHING. Instead of hanging at a flop house with others of his true caliber, he was treated as a special guest by rich progressives at the Ritz-Carlton.

It is my personal belief that this is a part of the reasons why Columbia University is so interested in the contents of the profile and the blog posts here.

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