January 2007

Daily Dolt

Tom Roeser:Degenerate Liar

Now that Lynn Sweet has reported that CNN has sent a reporter to Barack Obama’s old school and found that it is not teaching militant Islam, we are supposed to die of mortification and beg apologies for even questioning his educative background. Well, not me. This is the first occasion in modern times when matters of a personal biographical nature have been responded to-not by the candidate nor his official surrogates-but by unofficial media sources. John Kennedy was obliged to go to the Houston Ministerial Association and outline his views on Catholicism. Why is it that with only a few scant references in his writings, Barack Hussein Obama is allowed to scamper? Disdaining the asking of pertinent questions is in itself racism: the idea prevalent in those white liberals under 50 who missed the civil rights marches and must erect their own superficialities. I fully accept the blame for setting up the federal office that enacted the minority set-aside program-but I wanted it to last for only a decade. This virulent form of set-aside where it pertains to Barack Obama argues that any questions about his past must be set-aside, ergo the one who asks them is a racist.

Small problem. Obama and his people did answer the questions. In fact, Axelrod responded to Eric Zorn on the 19th.

Tom Roeser is an insufferable windbag without even a passing acquaintance with the truth.

The problem wasn’t that Obama and his operation wouldn’t answer the questions, it is that right wing gasbags like Roeser didn’t like the answer. Oh, and Obama wrote about it in a book. Details.

And In the Imaginary World

From the Republican Talking Points:

Many companies only allow their employees to choose their health care plan once a year during open enrollment. Meanwhile, if consumers want to buy a cell phone, they get options every day . The President believes our health care system should be as responsive to individual needs as our other consumer marketplaces.

Seriously, do the people who write these not understand that getting out of a cell phone contract can be a huge pain in the ass? It’s almost identical to the yearly contract at a minimum and often a 2 year contract.

A Surprise to Some that Obama Endorsed Daley

After all he passed up Dorothy Brown.

It took me a bit to stop laughing. I pointed out in comments Meeks called her a loser (and since apologized), but the larger thing is that no one of any import in Illinois is going to endorse someone against Daley unless someone like Jackson Jr. ran.

Frankly, I’m more annoyed when Costello gets endorsed, but I’m alone on that for the most part. I’ve never believed in the purity notion that someone cannot have anything to do with someone under investigation in a political party. In Illinois there wouldn’t be much of a political party on either side.

The caterwauling over this and the Stroger endorsement kind of crack me up. I’m not a fan of Todd or his father, but endorsing a member of your party is hardly earth shattering behavior. I find the Giannoulis endorsement the dumbest move, but then again Alexi won and the first signs are promising.

We have people who are pure in who they back and we call them Greens, Constitution Law Party Members and Libertarians. Good for them.

It’s Bigoted to Point Out a Cult Leader Runs a News Organization

So Insight tells me:

Both Wolfson and Kurtz raise the issue of Insight being owned by the Unification Church. This is not only irrelevant, but bigoted and, unfortunately, consistent with The Post?s 25-year attempt to discredit if not destroy the one major opposition print publication in their market. It is a form of religious bigotry that tries to smear our credibility by implying that we are owned by religious zealots. And hence, our reporting should not be taken seriously. As Kurtz knows, the truth and veracity of our reporting is what is relevant. We at Insight developed our publication concept, gained support of the Board of Directors, and have run with it ever since, being selected as the top conservative magazine by Rolling Stone in just our first year. So what?s the point in mentioning religion when referencing a relevant and credible secular publication, except as an underhanded ploy to try to marginalize us?

That might be true other than the Unification Church appears to subsidize the Washington Times and Insight as an extension and takes a role in the editorial policy from reports gathered by FAIR.

That is there right and it harkens back to when papers were the arm of political parties. The First Amendment doesn’t make exceptions for newspapers owned by entities, but pointing out the fact that a guy who declared himself the Messiah owns and influences editorial content of a major daily newspaper is hardly bigoted.

Perhaps me calling Moon a cult leader is bigoted, but only if you view the Unification Church as anything other than a cult. John Gorenfeld has a great comparison of Moon to Soros that’s hysterical.

For more Moon fun go here.

Daily Dolt

Andy Martin:

CONTRARIAN COMMENTARY FOR JANUARY 23, 2007

“I TOLD YOU SO,” PART FOUR:

“THE MAN WHO BROUGHT DOWN BARRACK OBAMA”

MADRASSA MADNESS EXPLODES, BUT CNN WON’T PUT OUT THE FIRES

[Editor’s note: With “I told you so,” Part One, Andy initiated a beginning-of-the-year series of comments on some of his columns, predictions and projections that have stood the test of time and continue to generate intense public interest.]

(CHICAGO)(January 23, 2007) Two and a half years ago, in August 2004, I held news conferences in London and New York to expose Barack Obama as a complete fraud. My news release is posted on the web, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1189687/posts, so there is no doubting the date or authenticity or content of our original research.

Since then, all opposition research on Obama has relied on our seminal work from the London Bureau, working through our special contacts in the Foreign and Commonwealth office for Kenya analysis and Chicago headquarters for political insight.

ArchPundit.com, a site that identifies itself as “the best blogger on the Illinois political scene,” now states that “Andy Martin is the guy who seems to have gotten all this started.” I should point out that ArchPundit.com is no friend of mine and gives credit only grudgingly and venomously.

When the history of the Obama fall-from-media-grace is written, our columns will have been the fuse that exploded the Obama myth and stripped the mask off Barack’s face.

Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg [http://www.suntimes.com/news/steinberg/221436,CST-NWS-stein21.article] refers to some of Obama’s opponents as “crazies” and “nuts” who live in an “intellectual wasteland.”

I can’t speak for other writers and other groups, but for myself I just write the news as I see it. At ContrarianCommentary.com we go where other media are too lazy or incompetent to tread, perhaps including Mr. Steinberg.

We broke the original Obama stories in 2004 because we conducted the international investigative reporting concerning Obama’s invented family history that Chicago newspapers had failed to perform. We did the same from Baghdad beginning in 2003; those columns were the first to predict the chaos and collapse of Paul Bremer and the Coalition Provisional Authority; many can still be found on the web. It is an enviable track record of impartial accuracy and unerring analysis.

I don’t bear Obama any animus as a person or as a politician, any more than I take media criticism of myself personally. Neither Mr. Steinberg nor ArchPundit are drinking buddies on Friday afternoons.

Nevertheless, while people are entitled to their own opinions, they are not entitled to their own facts. We deal in facts and even those who disagree with us can’t dislodge our facts. So let it be with Obama.

So, as ArchPundit states: “Andy Martin is the guy who seems to have gotten this [Obama controversy} all started.” Well.

REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE: Does anyone have a copy of Lynn Sweet’s Chicago Sun-Times article on Obama’s book on August 8, 2004 available to send me? I would appreciate a copy as I have misplaced my own and I can’t find it on the web.

TOMORROW: MORE analysis on Obama and why he should not be president.

CNN claims it has extinguished the “Madrassa Madness” about Obama with a report from Jakarta supposedly exploding the myths about his Indonesian education, but don’t bet on it. We will have more to say, of course. (Question for Barry: Do you still speak Bahasa?)

COMING: a CIA-style psychological profile of Barack (Barry) Obama.

And thank you ArchPundit for stating the truth. We have “gotten this all started” and we will keep adding fuel to the fire. Keep reading the controversial truth, only at ContrarianCommentary.com. “Just the facts, mam’m.”

Lucky me, I just made another loon e-mail list. Your Fox News sources at work.