Fox: Not So Much A Retraction as a Putting it Out There
ArchPundit
Truly, truly, postmodern.
Today’s Tosser
Fox News executive Bill Shine told CNN “Reliable Sources” anchor Howard Kurtz that some of the network’s hosts were simply expressing their opinions and repeatedly cited Insight as the source of the allegations.
Perhaps Fox should have a professional development session on the definition of opinion.
Daily Dolt
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.
CNN visits the Public Besuki School Obama Attended
Not a madrassa. A public school. Kudos to CNN. Will it kill the rumor? No. Should it kill the reputation of everyone trying to sell the story? Yes–including CNN’s Glenn Beck.
In fact, the school is downright, dare I say it, western.
Department of Corrections
Apparently that whole PEER thing about employees being told to not discuss the age of the Grand Canyon….not true. At all. Sorry. I’ll be double checking if not just ignoring their stuff from now on.
The Stupidest Person In Canada
Judi Mcleod!. To her credit, if one didn’t know what a crackpot she is, one might mistake her site for the Onion. The two different spelling of Barack are especially entertaining. It appears they only got the correct spelling after reading the Insight article since the original article used only Barak.
And to think, crackpot Andy Martin is the guy who seems to have gotten this all started.
Ms. Mcleod is worried that Rockefeller funds the University of Chicago and that such ties to the Instructor of Con-Law are troubling. Also, you know, his parents met at a Rockefeller and Bill Gates funded institute. Of course, Bill Gates hadn’t even dropped out of Harvard then, but who cares.
But the money quote is when she asks if he isn’t a Manchurian candidate, but a Mohammedan Candidate.
But The man who receives his mail at 555 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington D.C., Capitol Hill is Madrassa-trained with the same kind of schooling as those infidel-hating kids in Pakistan.
Is this media darling in reality a brainwashed man?
Is Obama Osama Barack not really a Manchurian candidate but a classic Mohammedan Candidate?
As one CFP wag mused: “What happens when “our” President goes on a pilgrimage to Mecca after he discovers his roots?”
“Hillary doesn’t have to make like Maggie Thatcher to convince me. If I have to choose my poisons, I’d rather have Hillary. Better the devil you know.”
These kind of loons are getting crap on Fox News.
Law of Unintended Consequences
From SaukValley.com via Rich
Q: Did competition develop, and how did it affect consumers?
A: Competition developed for the commercial market, as several companies emerged to provide electricity for businesses and industries. But ComEd and Ameren strengthened their grip on the residential market because potential competitors were scared off by the rate freeze, fearing prices were too low to make a profit.
With any luck, greater electrical choices should be around the corner as the caps are gone. Blue Star and Commerce are the only listed Residential choices as of now, and while the consumer market isn’t as valuable as the business market, I would expect some green energy companies to jump in now that the caps are gone. It would be especially smart if the Governor were to recruit some of those green companies in conjunction with the Sierra Club and other environmental groups in Illinois.
I’ve generally stayed away from the commentary on the rate freeze–I tend to think that a more gradual rate increase would have been the answer, with perhaps a built higher rate at the end to help the companies recoup. That’s too much compromise apparently. That said, the Lege and the Governor need to think of ways to spur residential and business energy development with green sources. In theory, deregulation should help that by allowing individuals to choose green energy over other sources even if there is a slight premium. Given the disincentives to date, a little bit of salesmanship might be in order once the rate increase is finally dealt with.
It also has important long term competitive effects in green energy tends to have far fewer greenhouse gas emissions and as such, will be far more cost effective when regulations force standard energy prices higher. Additionally, the presence of such power providers increases the research and development that would go on in Illinois, another side benefit then being the technology spillovers as people move towards greener energy.
Daily Dolts
The Sun Times editors who allowed Mark Steyn’s column past the fact checking process. Steyn’s a moron and so I’m not really too worried about him being a dolt, he’s established himself as that brand. However, the Sun-Times should know better than to allow supposed ‘facts’ into a column they are publishing when the facts are incorrect.
Today’s Tosser
I’m saving the Daily Dolt
The real problem would seem to be here:
nor his vile hatred of George W. Bush.
W. isn’t too popular in the black community, Fran. There are many, many good reasons for that, but disliking George Bush isn’t being a black supremacist. It’s being with about 65% of the public in the US, slightly more in Illinois, and a hell of a lot more in Trinity’s community.
It’s All So Clear Now
Andy Martin appears to have started the Obama/Muslim storyline on Free Republic. This is back from 2004. You remember Andy? The loon who ran for Senate and Governor and was sort of a resident in Florida too….
So from Andy Martin to Fox News. Perfect illustration of how Fox News works.