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Salon has run a series of articles alleging that right-wing philanthropist Richard Mellon Scaife paid off David Hale, a Whitewater witness.
This makes the black intellectual not only a propagandist but also an apologist, at times, of the most hypocritical sort, blowing up trivialities while ignoring profundities because of their ambiguous nature, all the while operating with the urges of a philanthropist, discarding merit in the name of equality of space or for "educating" the public in favor of a good cause.
Chernow's verdict: He was both (as well as a skirt chaser, a pathological tightwad, and a philanthropist whose giving was motivated by PR concerns).
But the defining philanthropist of our time is not a university builder or an art collector or a chair endower.
On June 7, 1996, the Maine Public Radio announcer, reading the midday news report, spoke of a local philanthropist who was doughnutting something-or-other—I did not learn what because I was straining to understand that mysterious verb and, too late, realized donating had been meant.