… and the story continues. Two Ohio voters, including a Domino’s pizza employee Christopher Barkley, claimed yesterday that they were pressured by ACORN thugs to register and vote several times, even though they made it clear they had already done so.
This comes after ACORN and Project Vote announced the completion of a 21 state voter-registration [...]
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9
Oct
ABC reporter David Wright continued to rail against John McCain’s "full-bore attack on [Senator Barack] Obama’s character" during Thursday’s "Good Morning America." Speaking of the McCain/Palin campaign’s references to Obama’s relationship with unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers, the network journalist complained that the Republicans were suggesting Obama is "yellow, disloyal and doesn’t belong."
After asserting that the strategy of talking about an opponent’s character has "been around more than 2,000 years" Wright darkly intoned, "But in the past couple of days, the Republicans have been laying it on thick. Chumming the waters. And, not surprisingly, ugly reactions are beginning to surface." Of course, no where in Wright’s segment did he mention any of Obama’s negative attacks, such as the nasty ad by the Illinois senator which implied that McCain is old and out of touch because he doesn’t use the internet. (And Wright himself has made quite a habit of gushing over Obama, once comparing the candidate’s rallies to "Springsteen concerts.")
Instead, Wright referenced "conservative" New York Times columnist David Brooks, someone who makes a habit out of bashing other right-wingers. Before playing a clip of Brooks calling Governor Sarah Palin a "cancer," Wright recited that the columnist is "troubled by Sarah Palin’s anti-intellectualism, which he fears could embolden the know-nothing wing of his party."
Perhaps previewing the media’s next line of attack, Wright closed, "For now, the Obama campaign is pointedly not accusing the McCain team of racism. Though, they did cock an eyebrow when McCain referred to Obama as ‘that one.’" For now?
On Tuesday’s GMA, Wright compared McCain’s attacks on Ayers to the Obama camp’s new ads about the Arizona senator and the Keating 5 savings and loan scandal. He asked, "Which is worse, a radical terrorist who wanted to blow up the Pentagon 40 years ago or a crooked banker whose failed savings and loan had to be bailed out by the taxpayers 20 years ago?"
A transcript of the October 9 segment, which aired 7:08am, follows:
ROBIN ROBERTS: Now, we’re going to move on to America votes and the presidential campaign that began with the candidates pledging to be respectful toward one another. Now that we’re in the home stretch, are those promises falling by the wayside? Our David Wright in Washington with more. Good morning, David.
DAVID WRIGHT: Good morning, Robin. Attacking your opponent’s character, nothing new in politics. It’s a strategy that’s been around more than 2,000 years. But in the past couple of days, the Republicans have been laying it on thick. Chumming the waters. And, not surprisingly, ugly reactions are beginning to surface. Asked by Sean Hannity whether he believes Obama is prepared to be president, John McCain gave a blunt, two-word answer.
SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN: I don’t. But I’ll let the American people make a judgment in just 28 days.
WRIGHT: McCain’s running mate has been even harsher, accusing Obama of palling around with terrorists.
GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN: Makes me question who he would associate himself with in the future.
WRIGHT: Now, even Cindy McCain is piling on, accusing Obama of waging the dirtiest campaign in American history and claiming he can’t sympathize with military families.
CINDY MCCAIN: I would suggest that Senator Obama change shoes with me for just one day. And see what it means- and see what it means to have a loved one serving in the armed forces.
WRIGHT: It’s a full-bore attack on Obama’s character, suggesting he’s yellow, disloyal and doesn’t belong.
CROWD CHANTING: Nobama! Nobama!
WRIGHT: It sure works up the crowds. Yesterday, some in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, shouted, "He’s a radical" And "Off with his head." Or how about this local sheriff, using Obama’s middle name as a rallying cry?
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: On November 4th, let’s leave Barack Hussein Obama wondering what’s happened.
WRIGHT: Joseph Biden isn’t the only one crying foul.
SENATOR JOE BIDEN: And the stuff people are yelling from the crowd, if she hears it, she should at least be saying, whoa, whoa, whoa. That’s overboard. I mean, you know, this is volatile stuff.
WRIGHT: Conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks, in this video posted online, say he’s troubled by Sarah Palin’s anti-intellectualism, which he fears could embolden the know-nothing wing of his party.
DAVID BROOKS: I’m more Republican than not. She represents a fatal cancer to the Republican Party.
WRIGHT: For now, the Obama campaign is pointedly not accusing the McCain team of racism. Though, they did cock an eyebrow when McCain referred to Obama as "that one."
SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN: You know who voted for it? Might never know. That one. You know who voted against it? Me.
WRIGHT: The Obama campaign now has a new website. Thatone08.Com, selling T-shirts and other trinkets. The McCain campaign insists that all of this stuff is fair game. That they’re simply making voters aware of who Barack Obama really is, raising questions about his contribute and his honesty. But in the primaries, John McCain insisted he wasn’t going to run a campaign like this. And that’s left some of his supporters to wonder why he’s doing it now. Robin?
9
Oct
While other liberal musicians have taken to publicly whining about the McCain campaign using their songs at rallies, the songwriter behind Martina McBride’s "Independence Day" — which conservative radio host Sean Hannity uses as his radio program’s theme song — has decided to take royalties from the song to donate fund abortion provider Planned Parenthood in the Arizona senator’s name.
Singer/songwriter Gretchen Peters has donated royalties from Hannity’s air play of the McBride hit to liberal activists groups such as MoveOn.org and Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG).
From her Web site:
When Sean Hannity began using Gretchen Peters’ song "Independence Day" as the theme song for his Citadel Broadcasting radio talk show, Peters quietly stepped up her donations to causes including the ACLU, PFLAG, and Moveon.org.
But when the GOP used "Independence Day" to usher Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin to the stage after the debate in St. Louis, Peters realized the party was truly perverting the chorus of her composition to suit their agenda and it was high time for Peters to make her feelings known.
"Independence Day," written by Peters, was a hit for country singer Martina McBride in 1994. The lyrics tell the story of a woman’s response to domestic abuse from the point of view of her daughter.
"The fact that the McCain/Palin campaign is using a song about an abused woman as a rallying cry for their Vice Presidential candidate, a woman who would ban abortion even in cases of rape and incest, is beyond irony," Peters says. "They are co-opting the song, completely overlooking the context and message, and using it to promote a candidate who would set women’s rights back decades. I’ve decided to donate the royalties from ‘Independence Day’ during this election cycle to Planned Parenthood, in Sarah Palin’s name. I hope with the additional income provided by the McCain/Palin campaign, Planned Parenthood will be able to help many more women in need."
Photo of Gretchen Peters via her eponymous Web site.
9
Oct
While the networks and much of the mainstream media channeled their outrage at Sarah Palin for daring to mention Barack Obama’s ties to terrorist Bill Ayers, the October 9 "Fox and Friends" featured a victim of Mr. Ayers, John Murtagh, whose home was bombed at the age of nine. Murtagh explained that the Obama-Ayers relationship goes back to the 1980’s, when they met at a law firm.
Further elaborating on the activities of a Weather Underground splinter group when Obama was attending college in New York City, Murtagh editorialized "for Barack Obama to attend Columbia shortly after these events, being in New York at that time and not know who the Weather Underground was, frankly, makes him the dumbest man that ever graduated from Columbia and Harvard Law School." When Brian Kilmeade replied "we know he’ not," Murtagh agreed.
The transcript follows.
STEVE DOOCY: This headline from 1970 says it all, four bombs at Murtagh home. The notorious terror group the Weather Underground claiming responsibility for an attack on the family of a New York state Supreme Court justice. The bombing was lead by radical Bill Ayers, the same guy screen right who eventually formed a relationship of some sort with Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama.
BRIAN KILMEADE: Yonkers city councilman John Murtagh was just nine years old when the blast went off inside his house. John this is a personal story for you.
JOHN MURTAGH: Clearly it is. I was nine years old at the time. My father was the judge presiding over what was called the Panther 21 trial, members of Panther party who were charged with attempting to bomb landmarks in New York. On a February night in 1970, while my parents, my brother, sister and I were asleep in our house, the Weather Underground launched the attack on our family and set off at least three, possibly four bombs, one of them under the gas tank of the family car.
DOOCY: Car bomb.
MURTAGH: Looking to kill us.
DOOCY: So when I read one of the things you wrote earlier in the spring, the headline was that Bill Ayers tried to kill my family.
MURTAGH: Well, Bill Ayers, the founder of the Weather Underground, Kathy Wilkerson, who is a former member of the Weather Underground, still lives here in New York, she wrote a memoir two years ago in which she acknowledged that it was the New York cell of the Weather Underground that launched the attack on my family. Three weeks later, at Bill Ayers direction, they were assembling bombs at Greenwich Village in order to attack the officers’ club at Fort Dix, New Jersey and they blew themselves up.
DOOCY: Right, they blew the nail.
MURTAGH: Exactly.
KILMEADE: So what do you think when you hear about this Bill Ayers back in the news and his links or lack thereof with Barack Obama?
MURTAGH: Well, you know, Barack Obama constantly says "I was only eight years old when this happened." That’s kind of his throw away line. I’m not questioning what Barack Obama was doing when he was eight years old. I’m questioning his behavior as an adult to choose his friend, mentor, and long time personal and professional colleague, a gentleman who engaged in acts of terror against families, against government buildings and whose organization crossed the lines of at least three if not more police officers.
DOOCY: Now, we’ve had the Obama camp on a number of times and they dispute the relationship and everything else. They say it goes back to when they simply served on boards and they only met at a couple of board meetings plus that get together at that guy’s, Bill Ayers’ house. But why is it you think- because this is something that happened- why is it that you think the relationship between Bill Ayers and Barack Obama goes back 20 years?
MURTAGH: Bill Ayers’ wife, Bernadine Dorn, also one of the original leaders of the Weather Underground. And the woman who took credit for the bombing at our home and other New York targets. Bernadine Dorn was an attorney by training. She couldn’t get admitted to the Bar because of her crimes. Bill Ayers’ family got a job at a large Chicago law firm from Sydney Austin in the 1980’s. She was a contemporary at the law firm in the 80’s with Michelle Obama. It was the firm where a year later-
DOOCY: They had known each other around the water cooler?
MURTAGH: Sure, and a year later it’s where Michelle and Barack Obama met. So I believe if the senator where to come clean and tell his full story, we’d find this relationship well predates the fundraiser in Ayers’ home and goes back to the 80’s.
DOOCY: I have never heard that connection before.
KILMEADE: I just can’t believe that a university would hire this guy with this type of background.
MURTAGH: You’d have to ask the University of Illinois to explain that.
DOOCY: Let, let me ask you one more question. You know, the Obama camp called me up and said "look they lived in the same neighborhood, but Barack Obama did not know Bill Ayers’ history at the time of that meet and greet where they launched his career in his living room."
MURTAGH: You know, Barack Obama was a student at Columbia in the early 1980’s. He lived in New York at Columbia at a time that a splinter group of the Weather Underground murdered two police officers here in New York as part of a failed banking heist. Frankly, for Barack Obama to attend Columbia shortly after these events, being in New York at that time and not know who the Weather Underground was, frankly, makes him the dumbest man that ever graduated from Columbia and Harvard Law School.
KILMEADE: Which we know he’s not.
MURTAGH: Absolutely not.
9
Oct
A single report by KFYI radio of Phoenix, Arizona highlights a shocking claim made by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). HUD says that five million illegal aliens hold illegal mortgages. This is just one more example of the lax lending laws put into place by Democrats like Barney Frank that have contributed to this economic crisis. One would think this would be big news. But, so far we have only this one report to cover it.
There have been earlier stories of home flipping schemes that made liberal use of illegal aliens as straw buyers and the FBI has followed numerous cases to prosecution and conviction. But the Old Media have not done much with this story.
KFYI reports that these fraudulent straw purchases of mortgages by illegal aliens has affected every state in the union.
One illegal alien was arrested this year in Tucson after allegedly using a stolen social security number to buy two homes and rack up over $780,000 in bad debt.
Some five million fraudulent home mortgages are in the hands of illegal aliens, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
It’s not known how many of those have contributed to the subprime housing mortgage meltdown, but it has affected every state, including Arizona.
The problem began years ago when banks were forced to give mortgages without confirming social security numbers or borrower identification. As a result, illegal immigrants were able to obtain home mortgages which they could not afford.
Lax immigration laws have also helped make this crime easy to perpetrate.
In 1965 a Democrat Controlled Congress under President Lyndon Johnson passed the concept of “chain” immigration into law. A later commission named the Hesburgh Commission convened during Ronald Reagan’s first term, found that this concept statistically allowed each single immigrant to bring into this country 84 of his family members. Of course, all these people have to live somewhere making such fraudulent mortgages quite attractive.
What illegal struggling to survive is going to pass up a free house that he can move into without having to present any identification, proof of employment, financial history or even a down payment?
This story should be in every paper and on every TV news cast. Yet it isn’t. I’ll leave the guessing as to why with you, gentle reader.
9
Oct
With the nation in the middle of what is being regularly reported as the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, a new poll found that 74 percent of America’s top business leaders fear "an Obama presidency would be disastrous for the country."
Don’t be surprised if you didn’t hear about this, for virtually no major mainstream press outlet felt it was important to share with the public.
Do you think Obama-loving media would be so apathetic if this poll found an overwhelming majority of business leaders were scared about what a McCain presidency would do to the economy?
Despite the answer, our supposedly impartial press seem totally disinterested in Chief Executive magazine’s just-released survey which found some CEOs worried that if implemented "[Obama's] programs would bankrupt the country within three years" (emphasis added, h/t Jazz from Hell, photo courtesy Time.com):
Chief Executive magazine’s most recent polling of 751 CEOs shows that GOP presidential candidate John McCain is the preferred choice for CEOs. According to the poll, which is featured on the cover of Chief Executive’s most recent issue, by a four-to-one margin, CEOs support Senator John McCain over Senator Barack Obama. Moreover, 74 percent of the executives say they fear that an Obama presidency would be disastrous for the country.
“The stakes for this presidential election are higher than they’ve ever been in recent memory,” said Edward M. Kopko, CEO and Publisher of Chief Executive magazine. “We’ve been experiencing consecutive job losses for nine months now. There’s no doubt that reviving the job market will be a top priority for the incoming president. And job creating CEOs repeatedly tell us that McCain’s policies are far more conducive to a more positive employment environment than Obama’s.” [...]
“I’m not terribly excited about McCain being president, but I’m sure that Obama, if elected, will have a negative impact on business and the economy,” said one CEO voicing his lack of enthusiasm for either candidate, but particularly Obama.
In expressing their rejection of Senator Obama, some CEOs who responded to the survey went as far as to say that “some of his programs would bankrupt the country within three years, if implemented.” In fact, the poll highlights that Obama’s tax policies, which scored the lowest grade in the poll, are particularly unpopular among CEOs.
Despite the poll’s findings, from what I can tell, even though this study was disseminated by PRNewswire, it has garnered very little mainstream media attention.
Think that would be the case if these business leaders were so negative about McCain’s economic policies?
No, I don’t either!