Beloved former TV host and now senior citizens' spokesman Art Linkletter has decided to go toe-to-toe with the AARP on politics and policy.
Mr. Linkletter, the former host of "Kids Say the Darnedest Things" and current National Chairman of the United Seniors Association (USA), made his views on the AARP known Monday in an interview on Fox News' "Your World with Neil Cavuto."
During the interview, the 93-year-old conservative Linkletter touted the importance of Social Security reform with personal retirement accounts and went on to call the AARP, which opposes President Bush's reform plan, "the largest liberal lobbying group in Washington."
HUMAN EVENTS has learned USA has no intention of backing down from Linkletter's criticism of the AARP. In fact, the coming issue of USA Next, a quarterly publication by USA and a special supplement to HUMAN EVENTS, takes on the AARP directly.
In addition, USA CEO Charlie Jarvis will appear on Fox News' "O'Reilly Factor" on Thursday, February 10, to launch the "USA Next Stop Scaring Seniors NOW!" - a campaign focusing on the AARP and the alleged damage it has done and continues to do to America.
