Brad Davis interviewed Matthew Vadum on “The Brad Davis Show,” WDRC AM 1360, Hartford, Conn., on August 19, 2008, regarding Al Gore and his global warming-related investments. Discussion centered on “Al Gore’s Carbon Empire: Cashing in on Climate Change,” by Fred Lucas, which appeared in the August 2008 Foundation Watch.

Commentary on the Greenlining Institute, which was profiled in the current Organization Trends. CRC's Matthew Vadum narrates.

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 The bill was withdrawn at the eleventh hour after California’s largest foundations promised to lavish millions of dollars on minority communities.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 later appeared 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.

Rush Limbaugh referenced a Capital Research Center report on the June 30, 2008, edition of “The Rush Limbaugh Show.” He discussed the Center for Constitutional Rights which is suing private U.S. contractors in connection with the Abu Ghraib prison controversy. Our report on the Center for Constitutional Rights, “The Terrorists’ Legal Team: Case by Case, the Center for Constitutional Rights Undermines America,” appeared in the September 2006 Organization Trends. The relevant segment runs from 18:30 to 21:18.

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)

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.