“At any time when Los Angeles will get into bother, the musicians are proper there, and I’m proud to be certainly one of them,” Graham Nash
“It’s one of the vital vital gigs we’ve ever performed,” Inexperienced Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong
January’s FireAid profit live performance got here and went. A staggering array of stars assembled to boost cash for, what the occasion’s organizers dubbed, “short-term and long-term restoration efforts” following the devastating California fires, in line with Reuters.
Oh, actually.
FireAid raised $100 million to go on to Los Angeles wildfire victims. As you may see the $100 million went on to anybody however Los Angeles wildfire victims. pic.twitter.com/ELW661SlRh
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) September 10, 2025
A brand new report from The New York Publish shared the place a few of the cash went. Let’s simply say that $100 million went nearly in every single place and, in some instances, to “short-term and long-term restoration efforts.”
In different instances…
The outlet describes some the 197 charities as “a wide range of area of interest, woke and DEI causes indirectly associated to serving to fireplace victims.”
Want examples?
- Uniforms for youngsters’s choirs
- The Buddhist Tzu Chi Basis
- Podcasters discussing the wildfires
- Free veterinary look after “fire-affected animals”
- Sanitizing pre-schools
- NAACP Pasadena
- My Tribe Rise
- The CA Native Vote Challenge
- The Los Angeles Black Employee Heart
It’s a scandal, one which places the celeb members in a harsh mild. That’s why the media has been largely silent on the Publish’s stunning report.
The far-Left TheWrap.com took the group’s spin job on the report, courtesy of an unbiased investigation.
The report said that they didn’t discover any proof of misconduct or ill-intent taken by FireAid in its distribution of funds. Moreover, they discovered that FireAid enacted its mission and didn’t “deceive donors.”
Different information retailers shared that spin, preferring to not add the small print shared by The New York Publish.
Did Joe and Jane Sixpack give their hard-earned money for youngsters’s choir uniforms? DEI-based teams? Hearth-related podcasts?
Will any Hollywood journalist ask the celebrities who took half in FireAid their ideas on the cash distribution? Do they approve of the choices? What about Miles Teller? Right here’s what he stated throughout the live performance:
“All the cash raised will go on to individuals who want it now.”
John Mayer prefaced his cowl of “Free Fallin’” by telling the FireAid crowd how the live performance will assist make issues proper.
“This [song] was our first perception into the dream of residing in California – and it’s a dream. And for these whose goals have damaged… we are going to get collectively tonight and plenty of different nights to verify these goals are repaired.”
A Washington Free Beacon story on FireAid shared related outcomes to The Publish’s exposé.
Among the teams which have acquired funds explicitly exclude white individuals from their providers, whereas others promote packages for unlawful aliens.
It, too, received largely ignored by different press retailers.
The conservative retailers didn’t share the full handouts from FireAid. It’s probably some cash went to worthy causes – individuals and communities immediately impacted by the fires. Breitbart Information shared particulars about one such instance:
The audit cited the instance of After the Hearth, a survivors’ help group that was singled out for criticism by Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-CA) however which has, in face, helped native residents set up to advocate for his or her curiosity in opposition to abusive practices by insurance coverage corporations.
What about the remaining?
The story hasn’t gotten mainstream consideration, at the least not but. It could by no means attain mass publicity. But when it does, think about how shoppers will react to future profit concert events.
Would you give them a nickel?