Here is a story about T. Boone Pickens. If you do not know who Boone Pickens is, you can google him and find more than enough articles. He is a native Oklahoman who now resides in DFW. If you would like to hear Mr. Pickens speak, he will be the keynote speaker on Wednesday, May 14 at the Texas Tech Rawls College of Business Scholarship Breakfast.


From Politico:

April 11, 2008
Categories: Parties

Reps. Pence and Tancredo witness charity at its finest


Last night was the Media Research Center's 20th Anniversary Gala.

A solo Mary Cheney was there, sitting at Larry Kudlow's table. He introduced her and asked her to stand and wave to those in attendance. She did, and there was a "polite round of applause," we're told.

Meanwhile, there was "LOTS" of Chris Matthews bashing, we hear. Tony Snow got the big William F. Buckley award - woo hoo Tony! - and Ann Coulter took her turn at the mic along with Reps. Mike Pence and Tom Tancredo.

Also, as these things go, there was a "nice moment" near the end where they showed a video of a medal of honor winner who was killed in Afghanistan. His father and brother went on stage, followed by T. Boone Pickens, who had a check for $100,000 to the Medal of Honor Foundation. While on stage, Pickens scratched out the $100,000 and changed it to $1,000,000.

Apparently, when first asked by MRC founder Brent Bozzell, Pickens agreed to $50k. Then he saw the video and upped it to $100k. Then having met the father and brother, he changed it to a cool mil.

Anyway, watch the Video