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A Further Perspective
The Obama Thugocracy
Mark Stevens to Heritage: “This is war.” — AND — A Darrell Issa investigation of left wing bullies?
(Page 4 of 5)
What we are witnessing here is the iron-fisted use of raw political power to suppress political dissent. To intimidate, to instill fear, to ruin — and yes, to terrorize — those who have the temerity and guts to speak truth to power.
This, as I pointed out in The Plot to Get Rush, is standard operating procedure for the Left.
The late Austrian free-market economist Ludwig von Mises described the leftist method of operation as “fanatical and intolerant.” It works, he said, this way: “Socialism… works on the emotions…to stifle the voice of reason by awakening primitive instincts.”
In other words, what is going on here with these savage attacks is an attempt to instill the primitive emotion of fear in American citizens like Mark Stevens and Frank VanderSloot. This, as we also mentioned in the above article on Rush, is nothing more than the 21st century version of the threat of the guillotine used by leftists during the French Revolution. Or the Soviet version of labeling citizens “enemies of the state” and dragging them away to the Gulag, or to be shot outright. Or the “Chinese Roulette” favored by Mao’s Red Guards, herding dissidents to be executed…then selectively shooting a few, instilling a “bullet of fear” in their minds so they would be terrified of ever dissenting again.
The Stevens and VanderSloot episodes are nothing less than an Obama Thugocracy at work with an enemies list.
It isn’t working.
But that doesn’t mean that because the Obama Thugocracy has failed with gutsy Americans like Stevens or VanderSloot, or that because it failed to intimidate Rush Limbaugh, there should not be a direct response to the bullies behind all of this.
Such as?
• Let’s pick up on a favorite point of our friend Mark Levin, the need to constantly “educate, educate, educate.”
• Let’s begin with a congressional investigation: A demand to House Republicans for a congressional investigation to educate about the First Amendment and explore the threats to free speech from the American Left.
• Let’s call Mark Stevens and Frank VanderSloot to have them detail exactly what was done to them in their roles as private citizens exercising their respective rights to advertise on a radio show (Stevens) or donate to a candidate (VanderSloot).
• Let’s have a congressional investigating committee do the drill the Left loves to pull with business executives. Let’s see them call David Brock of Media Matters to discuss the group’s tax status and MM’s role in targeting Rush Limbaugh. Let’s call MoveOn.org and the Color of Change and Van Jones and all the others who have tried to intimidate companies into “boycotting” — the “sweet word” Stevens says has now become code for domestic terrorism. Let’s get to the bottom of their intimidation tactics — their attempts to bully talk show hosts, television hosts, and private citizens.
• Let’s have Congress turn the tables and investigate Glenn Simpson and Michael Wolf, the men at Fusion GPS whom Kim Strassel has positively identified as the agents of investigation in the terror directed at Frank VanderSloot.
• Let’s have this congressional investigation find out who exactly paid Fusion GPS to go after Frank VanderSloot, and exactly what that person’s connection is to the Obama campaign.
• Let’s call the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and see who specifically in the Obama camp was offering him $150,000 to forfeit his First Amendment rights to say what he wished to say in his own sermons. As per the blockbuster revelations by author Edward Klein in his new book on Obama called The Amateur. (Those allegations from Wright are discussed here.)
About the Author
Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com.
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Bev Gunn| 5.15.12 @ 6:23AM
The Republicans cannot even make a contempt citation against Holder appear. They are scarcely motivated to protect private citizens, sadly enough. One wonders if neutering happens upon entry into the District of Columbia. It seems so. Meanwhile, the heartland and good producers are shutting shops for one reason or hounded to closer by government regulations. I am beginning to think that not even winning the Senate, to go along with the House and Presidency will do anything. We have destroyed and torn down such a mighty nation that there is nothing left to build on and the ugliness will still be on display and perhaps even more vile and violent post November.
I do feel for the folks who were vilified and lost business. It is a bit reminiscent of the vets who came home from the Vietnam war, isn't it? My husband was called a baby killer, he was spat upon and had feces and urine thrown upon him while in uniform. It was a vile time and nothing was done about this. The same folks who perpetuated this have now grown children who learned well the lessons of their parents. Now, they turn their hatred upon our country, and its producers.
oldfart| 5.15.12 @ 6:54AM
I agree - it would seem that at every exit off the DC beltway has a sign "Deposit gonads before entry".
Mike Hawk| 5.15.12 @ 7:08AM
The Republican Establishment leadership is the problem. We still have more to throw out before the ones with spine have enough influence to do what needs to be done. It doesn't happen overnoght, it takes some time and several election cycles.
One does wonder - a lot| 5.15.12 @ 8:20AM
You write that the Republican leadership is the problem.
Well, is this man on of the problems?
I wonder why Mike Pence of Indiana didn't and hasn't taken on Boehner and Cantor. Is it because he is the same?
In year 2009 Mike Pence and his face and voice were EVERYWHERE. Feted at CPAC, on the TV, on radio....
Silence since.
Why?
He was a Republican leader when they were in the minority in the U.S. House of Representatives, now that the GOP controls the House, Mike Pence is silent.
I thought he was a real Tea Party kind of guy....??
Someone please explain. (Indiana -- watch Mike Pence closely. He wants to be your next governor after Mitch Daniels.)
One trolls a lot| 5.15.12 @ 9:03AM
Nice try, moron.
SUBVET| 5.15.12 @ 10:06AM
To drain the "swamp" will take time. I am not sure we will ever get the level low enough. I am old enough to know how "it was" and pissed off enough to do what it takes to give my kids the life and chances I had.
I have faith in my fellow man to change the direction of this country. There are enough of US to send a message to THEM that it's not going to happen on our watch.
Teaghan| 5.15.12 @ 7:15AM
Bev, I think the ones who treated your husband to terribly are the ones who are now in charge.
TLP| 5.15.12 @ 9:59AM
Maybe it's just me, but I fail to see any similarities between Daniel Ellsberg, and Mr. Vandersloot?
One of them - Ellsberg - was a TRAITOR. The other one - Vandersloot - is a Private Citizen who contributed money to the Campaign of this Hitleresque MFer's opponent! in the upcoming Election.
We have a White Hating, Jew Hating, America Hating, Marxist, Black President, who is Running a Putin Style Campaign of Threats and Inuendo against any and every American Citizen, who dares side against him.
This is Classic Schizophrenic behavior, associated with your every day, run of the mill, Classical Narccissist.
"I'm not an Ideologue." (Laughter) "I'm not."
Now, I'm not a Psychiatrist. Nor do I play one, on T.V. But, like Pornography, I know it when I see it.
What's next, Mr. NBC? Audits on all of Dear Leaders' enemies, both Real, and Imagined?
Will there be Cars, parked outside of the Opposition's offices, at their homes, and outside of their Children's Schools, Mr. CNN?
Will people begin DISAPPEARING in the middle of the night, Mr. ABC, ala South America - circa - late 20th Century?
Will those who Speak Out against this Dictator, find themselves under House Arrest, with the lives of their Families under constant threat, from this FURHER, Mr. CBS?
When will this be Stopped? Before the Polonium is used on an American Citizen, by this Regime?
Or after.
ARBEIT MACHT FREI.
It's closer than you think.
Doctor Right| 5.15.12 @ 10:45AM
Regardless of whether or not you think Ellsberg was "a traitor," the fact remains that Nixon's people were ILLEGALLY digging through private information, while Fusion GPS was digging through public information.
Sleazy? Yes. Illegal? No.
Occam's Tool| 5.15.12 @ 1:19PM
We need that damn Khalidi-Obama tape.
9thID| 5.15.12 @ 11:14AM
Not to defend Nixon's actions, but you are spot on that Ellsberg was and is a traitor and I hope to see him tried for treason. Last I heard, there is no statute of limitations for treason and that Congress can issue a capital sentence. Add Hanoi Jane Fonda to that list...
Al Adab| 5.15.12 @ 2:40PM
Agreed. Remember that Nixon lead the nation through its greatest crisis since the Civil War and yet was more restrained than Lincoln in any actions he took.
Pseudo Intellectual | 5.15.12 @ 7:35AM
Yes, it's Speaker Boner who won't allow a contempt citation. Republicans absolutely need to get rid of that coward, the sooner the better.
Get some courage, House Republicans and get rid of Obama's golfing buddy.
Russel| 5.15.12 @ 10:48AM
I had a feeling that Bonewad was behind a stop /stall on Issa's investigation 's . We the Tea Party are doing the heavy lifting kicking out these loafers . Six more months and the cleaning commences . With or without Dumbo , congress should be back on solid footing .
Dittohead| 5.15.12 @ 10:32AM
Anybody who voted for Obama should be locked up at Gitmo.
oldfart| 5.15.12 @ 6:52AM
The title to Mr. Lord's piece is very appropriate. “The Obama Thugocracy” And here is my reasoning. Alphonse Capone ran Chicago in the 1930's. Because of unwanted attention to the murders and violence of this mob, to me it appears, that just changed their tactical operations and got themselves elected to political office. The ultimate strategic goal is the same, total control of the population for personal ego and financial rewards. Intimidation, payoffs, patronage and personal assassination are the tools of the day, not the Thompson Sub-machine gun. It is a lot less messy. You can tell that when the Pretender-in-chief speaks he has an extreme ego and frankly, does not come across as being particularly intelligent. You can see his true self revealed in his facial features and body language. Obama is a thug. And he uses a thug's tactics to get what he wants. Mr. VanderSloot is very accurate in his assessment.
dbsdey| 5.15.12 @ 8:21AM
How do you think Obama was elected to the Senate in the first place? He had investigators find every bit of dirt possible against his opponents in IL. When all was said and done, he was the only candidate left on the roster, because everyone else had pulled out to stop the attacks against themselves and their families. He is using the power of the Federal Government to destroy his "enemies". If he is reelected, he will be unstoppable and finish the destruction of America.
Von Mises Jr| 5.15.12 @ 8:45AM
Freedom Center published a short 50 page pocket edition "Barack Obama's Rules for Revolution" The Alinsky Model. It explains that the only goal is POWER and for the left it is a WAR.
This is why I do not tolerate Perp the Perpetrator, Little Ellen Brooksie or Twitvin. Whether they are smart enough to know it or not (like DRed), they are revolutionary "Useful Idiots." They will be the first one's betrayed if we follow the footsteps of France 1789-1799, Russia in 1917 or Mao's China. Once totalitarianism is complete, protestors and mooches are not tolerated.
richard ryan| 5.15.12 @ 9:31AM
In the end, it's all about force. In the end, it's a black SUV pulling into your driveway to complete your government "processing" if you did not stand in line at the processing center. After all of the words, promises, legislative blunders, and failed attempts to maintain freedom, the use of force is the final common pathway.
Von Mises Jr| 5.15.12 @ 10:29AM
"If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately."
Al Adab| 5.15.12 @ 11:29AM
It is indeed war. A war for the very existenct of the American theory of government: a government limited in scope which exists to protect the rights of its citizens, not to grant favors or privileges to favored groups.
We are increasingly government by a mandarin class of professional bureaucrats, not accountable to voters, who decide in their alcoves what rules must apply and to whom. Such a condition is anathema to our way of life. Yet, we a saddled with a GOP which accepts as legitimate the centralized social-welfare state instead of one which seeks to reduce its size. That was the clarion call of Conservatism at its birth. Where might such be found today?
Von Mises Jr| 5.15.12 @ 1:04PM
Good points Al. We still have much work to do. Roll up your sleves.
Do you have any idea what this moron Perp is even saying? Take this for example in this Perp diatrive below:
"but it's through money purchasing it it will happen"
Do we have any English Teachers present???
Do we have a doctor in the house???
Occam's Tool| 5.15.12 @ 1:21PM
Most people on the Left ARE blithering idiots. My parents and sister and their friends are all Lefties. I KNOW.
Al Adab| 5.15.12 @ 2:25PM
Our frind Purp mostly just tries to stir the pot qwithout contributing much to the conversation. I find it hard to believe people actually adhere to what he espouses. I'd like to meet him some day over a nice Scotch to see if its for real.
Maybe we should all sign up for the AmSpec Great Lakes Cruise coming up. That would be a party. The magazine just didn't inform us what it costs.
Purp| 5.15.12 @ 12:33PM
It isn't Socialism you have to fear. That and Communism are the bogie men you are told to fear. Most people on the left are not socialist, just not as far right as you are. They want to live their lives just as you do, with their family and friends, have a nice life with a job to make reasonable living and that's about it.
It's your Corporate Masters with all the money and power you really should be afraid of. They want more and more all the time. If you even paid attention you'd see that people like Rupert Murdoch or the Koch Bros. on the right and George Soros on the left and many other of the super rich on both sides, and the Big Corporations, Oil, Big Pharma, Insurance, Wall Street and Banking all buy influence and access to the point many politicians are "owned" by these types.
They are the new Al Capones of today. Our democracy is in danger - and it isn't from the little guys on the left or the right - it's from the big money power brokers who live under a different set of rules than the rest of us.
Totalitarianism is a real possibility, but it's through money purchasing it it will happen, not by a revolution.
richard ryan| 5.15.12 @ 12:42PM
You are pointing out the fact that money corruption and influence peddling are common in our government. So far so good, I agree. I don't see a direct link between this and constitutional freedom, however. I see it as this: voters elect a representative, representative sells out, voters interests are not voiced. What should follow is this: representative fails to win re-election. That is what our republic provides for us. Unfortunately, most voters don't get it. They continue to elect moderates and democrats who do not honor the Constitution.
Purp| 5.16.12 @ 9:48AM
No, what they continue to do is fall for the advertising that the money buys. Only when someone is egregiously convicted of some horrible crime or transgression, do the voters respond the way you expect. And that is across the spectrum, from right to left, politicians. That is what the danger is for our democracy. Money is buying not just influence and power, but propaganda and therefor results too.
Oldefarte| 5.15.12 @ 12:45PM
DA, what we have to fear is illustrated by the Newsmax article quoted below. Read it and possibly learn something!!!!
idalily| 5.15.12 @ 2:02PM
No, Purp, the left doesn't want to just their lives as I do". They want to live their lives as I do while they SPEND MY HARD-EARNED MONEY on their stupid ideas of social justice, legislated equality and utopian pipe dreams. You on the left just want to live your lives? Fine. Do it with YOUR money, not mine.
idalily| 5.15.12 @ 2:03PM
Oh, and totalitarianism NEVER happens through capitalism. It ALWAYS happens through government force. That's the brutal truth you libs just can't face, despite thousands of years of history.
Al Adab| 5.15.12 @ 2:22PM
Semantics is everything as we were once told. No matter what we might call it, Socialism, Communism, Fascism or redistribution, the immorality of any system which claims one persons money or property as rightfully belonging to others or to the community at large should be recognized as theft through force. Stealing is the appropriate word.
Even the Democrats once believed that. John W. Davis the Dem candidate in 1924 said, "To tax one person, group or class to benefit another person, group or class is theft."
carnot| 5.15.12 @ 10:59PM
oh pls...the politicians themselves are rich....marry rich.....inherit rich.
the Left has been and always will be about power. power in the service of its values...and its personnel welfare.
WinnieR| 5.17.12 @ 2:39PM
Couldn't agree with you more.
Check out this analysis of our fearless leader:
http://homelandsecurityus.com/archives/4979
Pecos Pete| 5.15.12 @ 6:58AM
East Texas Rancher: Thank you Mrs. Gunn. I've missed reading your letters to the editor. Please do provide more regular comments.
I do not think we will have to wait for post November to see "even more vile and violent" ugliness ... should the Supreme Court rule ObamaCare unconstitutional in June.
Appleby| 5.15.12 @ 7:07AM
It's time to start pointing out the obvious and ignoring the cries of YOUARACIST, because frankly my dear, those words have no teeth any more to anyone under the age of 60. The Civil Rights Act has been law since we were children, and anything that holds Blacks back these days is their own fault, just as the rest of us know to be true in our own cases.
I worked for a lawyer once who had a sign over his desk that said "Fight Crime. Shoot Back." It's time we all heeded that terse, effective exhortation.
Teaghan| 5.15.12 @ 7:18AM
I let that "you're racist" accusation go long time ago. It means nothing to me because I know I'm not a racist person. They can scream it all they want till they are blue in the face. It is the left that uses the color of people's skin to get what they want, not me.
Mike Hawk| 5.15.12 @ 8:35AM
Those of us over 60 (most of us anyway) are not afraid of that. It is the under 60 crowd that cowers in fear. More so the 20 somethings who have not gained any wisdom or experience in that arena.
SUBVET| 5.15.12 @ 10:14AM
Mike..........do you blame the parrents for the 20 somethings lack of wisdom ?
Oldefarte| 5.15.12 @ 12:49PM
What parents? Most of them do not know who or what their non-parents are. Parents would take their children to religious churches, not let their children finance Hollywood's filth aka movies, would take charge of their public schools indoctrinating propaganda, etc. There are no parents anymore!!!!!!!
Mike Hawk| 5.15.12 @ 5:57PM
It would be the uneducation bureaucarcy as well as uninformed parents who either don't care or are naive. When kids are graduating with serious lack of knowlege of American History, can't spell or compose a coherent sentence and can't balance a checkbook, they are unprepared for life.
Mike Hawk| 5.15.12 @ 6:01PM
Wisdom is imparted to youth by elders and/or learned over time. Wisdom is not what the 20 somethings have much of. (Purp is a prime example.) Absent fathers is alsoa huge problem leading to uncivilized and uncultured children.
Jeamar| 5.15.12 @ 10:50PM
Mr. Hawk: Of course Wisdom is what the 20-somethings lack. In our 20s, you and I probably lacked wisdom also. Many of them will become wiser as they grow older--that is what growing older is for.
W| 5.15.12 @ 7:12AM
Daniel Ellsburg is a poor choice for comparison to Vander Sloot. Ellsburg was the Pentagon employee who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press about how Kennedy and Johnson got us into Vietnam. Vander Sloot has not leaked any classified documents.
Alej| 5.15.12 @ 8:23AM
Agreed.
Gary B| 5.15.12 @ 8:25AM
I agree. The comparison doesn't work.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 5.15.12 @ 8:36AM
My thought as well.
Anthony| 5.15.12 @ 9:24AM
Yes, both Ellberg and "Deep Throat" were disenchanted lefties looking for a way to bring down a R president. They committed worse crimes, but were hailed by the left for bringing down a R president. The ends justify the means!!
Hell, if your gonna use that warped standard, you could have slandered Mr.Vander Sloot by calling him the Joe Wilson (ex CIA liar and lefty dirtball) of the Right, but that would have been really mean and below the belt.
Don't forget Scooter Libby, convicted for not having the same memory as Tim Russett, thank you hack Mr. Fitzgerald, another Chicago thug!!
W| 5.15.12 @ 12:03PM
The irony is that in the Pentagon Papers case, Nixon was trying to keep secret the government studies of how we got into Vietnam that was critical of Kennedy and Johnson. Nixon has nothing personally to gain from the prosecution of Ellsburg, but was trying to protect classified documents classified. Nixon should have publicly stated that the Pentagon Papers hurt the reputation of the two Dem presidents. Of course in those days the Dem party was coming apart with the McGovern/Clinton/lefty party that exists today and the Scoop Jackson wing.
Purp| 5.15.12 @ 12:42PM
Uh - Nixon was doing his job as President to keep government secrets, and it hurt his credibility that security was lax enough under his administration for it to occur.
W| 5.15.12 @ 1:24PM
So, according to Purp, it is Nixon's fault that Ellsburg was a traitorous scum? It is the fault of the "security" but not the fault of Ellsburg?
Do you ever read what you write? It is stupid and illogical. No common sense.
Al Adab| 5.15.12 @ 4:28PM
Ellsburg was a theif, a spy and a traitor. Still, he meant well and to the Left the ends justify the means.
W| 5.15.12 @ 5:31PM
Ellsburg is a saint of the Left for stealing and leaking classified documents about the Left's "favorite" war to be against, Vietnam, before Iraq.
I is amazing how Purp parrots every left wing cliche. We don't have to watch the MSM, we have Purp.
9thID| 5.15.12 @ 11:18AM
Maybe Jeff Lord's ignorant comparison came from his involvement in the 60's hippie culture that defended the likes of Ellsberg and Hanoi Jane Fonda types...
martin j smith| 5.15.12 @ 7:23AM
Obama will force on the Republican leadershit one two choices. If they want to win fight back harder than ever have dreamed before or face defeat by propaganda. And, the Leadershit must ditch the likes of Boehner,and McConnell if those two do not change course. This election could be our last if the Leadershit of the Republican Party fails.
Steve| 5.15.12 @ 7:43AM
Count upon the failure of Republican leadershit (wonderful turn of phrase)....either the Tea Party seizes the GOP or the GOP and its *leadershit* are long gone and deservedly so. Lord help us. Like the German troops at Stalingrad, the generals caught the last flight out of the pocket but we're still here.
Deborah D| 5.15.12 @ 7:51AM
If not now, when... Let's remind our representatives and senators that it's the country that's at stake. The Chicago Crime Syndicate that is running our country wants to make it look just like Illinois. Is that so hard to grasp, Republicans? I left Illinois in 1983 -- I don't want to go back to that type of corrupt, run-down, Detroit-lite mess. They have ruined Illinois. Don't let them continue to do it on a national scale. Throw the bums out and then throw them in jail.
Purp| 5.15.12 @ 12:54PM
Chicago's a world-class city, so you don't know what you're talking about. I'm sure there's a pig farm in Illinois you didn't like though. You didn't say where you live, so I don't know about that.
Occam's Tool| 5.15.12 @ 3:39PM
I grew up in Chicago's suburbs, Purp. I went to the same high school Hillary Clinton did.
Chicago has an outrageous taxation scheme, horrible city schools, a traffic pattern that is worse than Los Angeles' (I did my psychiatric training at UCLA---I KNOW both cities.), and a pattern of municipal corruption unrivalled in the USA.
Thanks for playing, Purp. I live in rural NW Minnesota. I make more money than I would in Chicago (I'm in the top 4% or so Nationwide in my field) with NO overhead, no malpractice, a better tort situation than Chicago (many Illinois MDs, including my cousin, went to the Wisconsin border for this reason), and a much higher overall quality of life. The airport is 15 minutes from my house with no traffic or problems getting in. It connects directly to the Twin Cities' airport, and thence to O'Hare. Or I can drive the 8 hours.
I wouldn't live in Chicago if you paid me. I make about $350,000/yr in rural NW Minnesota. I would need to make $438,000 to live in Chicago. To exist in private practice add another 30-40% to get the earnings. $600,000 for a 50 hr week of seeing patients means that I would work 60-70 hrs for it given the managed care, etc. It also would mean $300.00/hr. No insurer pays $300.00/hr.
Plus, I have a 3300 sq foot house, 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms in NW Minnesota, on close to 3 acres. How much would that cost in Chicago? My kids can play without worries that they would run into scumbags, either---and they can bicycle around a mile long loop. That's priceless.
Sorry, Purp---you are wrong and nekultynoo as well.
Occam's Tool| 5.15.12 @ 3:39PM
Sorry: nekulturnyoo.
Jeamar| 5.15.12 @ 10:53PM
As I've said before Ocam. You're wonderful! In case anyone doubts it, just ask you.
irish19| 5.16.12 @ 10:42AM
He's also absolutely correct about Ill-annoy and the Chicago Way. I grew up in Chicago under Richard I, and still live in a suburb (fortunately no longer in C(r)ook County) as I haven't yet been able to escape. zero and his merry band of hacks have brought this culture to DC, and want to inflict it on the rest of us.
Skippy| 5.15.12 @ 4:14PM
Chicago was a world-class city that is under the boot heel of Dem. thugs and has been for decades.
It will look like Detroit does now in 20 years.
Ken (Old Texican)| 5.15.12 @ 8:00AM
Jeffrey,
Issa's committee has a pretty full plate what with fast and furious etc. What other committee/s could help rout these thugs
Alej| 5.15.12 @ 8:27AM
The author suggests contacting Issa. I will. And I'll find a way to contribute to his re-election fund. This guy is the antithesis of McConnell and Boehner... he stands out like a Horatio at the bridge... we can't afford to lose him, and I'll bet the illegal alien's sights are already on him.
Gary B| 5.15.12 @ 8:29AM
Unfortunately, Mark Stevens was speaking to a room filled with Republican cowards. I'm afraid he's on his own. Luckily, he's very capable of taking the fight to the enemy.
Regarding a Congressional "investigation"... don't make me laugh.
Louis Jenkins| 5.15.12 @ 8:39AM
Obviously Issa's plate is full. More for the doing. Considering Obama's minions many projects no small wonder. Vandersloot spoke on Fox News last week about the debacle, from his Eagles Lair in Idaho, and yes, he is being grossly man-handled by the libs. Obama is from Chicago, and his methods tell the tail. It will take a room full of Issa's to handle the mess.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 5.15.12 @ 8:53AM
It might be a bridge too far to expect much from the House Government Affairs committee. Much of the thugocracy occurs beyond its direct reach, so while an organization’s tax exempt status can be challenged, if it is lost, they re-constitute under a new tax exempt banner. While these tactics tie up resources of an opponent, they are largely nuisance tactics, like partisans cutting the telephone wires to the local barracks. It generally only is important when done to negatively affect their ability to reinforce when the main invasion force starts to land.
Meanwhile, we listen to our radios, awaiting “Blessent mon coeur d'une langueur monotone”.
NoBlahBlah| 5.15.12 @ 9:04AM
Dear Jeffrey,
Another fine article. I enjoy the structure of your articles, but you are preaching to the choir here.
Let's just hope that choir is growing.
Issa has had enough to carpet bomb the o'Ba'Mao regime for more than a year now. (crickets)
Until the progressive 'republicans' in leadership posts are removed, business as usual will continue.
Anthony| 5.15.12 @ 9:08AM
Mr. Stevens has more guts and brains in his little pinky than the entire R establishment combined.
This is the voice of leadership, a man willing to stand tall and take heat for what is right, as compared to our R "leaders" who sit behind closed doors, with one finger in the wind and the other up their asses, hoping Chris Matthews will not excoriate them today.
And speaking of Issa, his contempt citation of hack Holder is apparently arriving by pony express. Again, those R fingers are working overtime.
Holder and Obozo should be under arrest for the murder of two American agents, but the only other R with guts on this subject is Sheriff Arpaio.
Well, if Romney does blow this election, like McLame and Schmidt did, we can start afresh and play by General Stevens' rules, WAR, by any means necessary.
Some wars are indeed necessary!!!
Dr robert Mandraccia | 5.15.12 @ 9:23AM
I think the citizensof the USA should file a class-action lawsuit against the big media for hiding what the president is really up to. (Is Mark Levin listening?)
Anthony| 5.15.12 @ 9:31AM
Don't look for Rush and Levin to do everything. It's up to us to take action, if you want to bring down the lefty media, boycott them, as many of us have been doing.
They're all going broke and bankrupt. It's just a matter of time.
Newsweek sold for $1.00. The NY Times will go for 50 cents, less if Maureen Dowd has a no fire contract .
Albert Constantine Jr.| 5.15.12 @ 10:14AM
Doctor, I seem to recall a few weeks back someone attempting to silence you by putting your personal information out there, so don't forget "small media" as well.
johnd2| 5.15.12 @ 10:15AM
There has to be a personal component to efforts to "go after" political this particular political donor. Romney has thousands of supporters with bucks. Going aginst enough of them to affect his campaign finances would cause a massive stink and guarantee Romney wins.
Darin| 5.15.12 @ 10:31AM
If the November election starts looking bad for Obama, don't be surprised to see some concocted "national emergency" and an immediate suspension of voting "until the crisis is over." A supposed cyberattack from China comes to mind. Except the crisis will never be over and we'll fall into a dictatorship.
Anthony| 5.15.12 @ 1:07PM
Darin, Part of me says good, finally, a perfect excuse to open fire and not stop shooting until all the professional political scum from both parties are lying in the Washington gutters.
Not even that secret hiding place in the mountains will protect these political scum, if indeed this happens.
Conservative Not Republican| 5.15.12 @ 10:36AM
My God this Jeff Lord character is the worst writer and the worst thinker the Spectator has ever had. Just awful.
JP| 5.15.12 @ 11:02AM
I think it is Mr Lord's writing style that is so distracting. He really doesn't follow the rules of structure. But the web does that. There is nothing wrong with the content of his pieces, and he did serve in the Reagan Administration. Mr Lord follows a common trend of web punditry - he posts sentences as paragraphs. And many times there is no linkage between his paragraphs; it is all very much stream of consciousness.
All quite distracting.
Drunken Sailor| 5.15.12 @ 11:08AM
What's wrong, no pictures?
JP| 5.15.12 @ 11:41AM
Nope, just a rotten writing style.
Drunken Sailor| 5.15.12 @ 12:14PM
So submit your own article if your style is better.
Georga Collins| 5.15.12 @ 3:39PM
Disagree.
Georga Collins| 5.15.12 @ 3:33PM
Disagree.
Ken (Old Texican)| 5.15.12 @ 10:46AM
Sorry, Conservative NAR
We simply do not have the tools to fix stupid here.
Jeffrey is just brilliant...and you are stupid.
Georga Collins| 5.15.12 @ 3:33PM
Agree.
chuck| 5.15.12 @ 8:47PM
Right on Ken,
Conservative Not Republican thinks he's a conservative because he conserves things!
Jack London| 5.15.12 @ 11:02AM
Jeffrey - are you suggesting that the huge amounts of cash donated to the Super PACs by these wealthy people should not be subject to any scrutiny? That the motivations of people who want to buy votes is off limits? As a devout defender of the constitution, I would expect you to be all for transparency.
And we all know your side is busy digging up things on people such as Elizabeth Warren. It's just that there's a lot more unpleasantry with folk such as VanderSloot, who's been busy suing anyone who dares discuss why he intervening in our democracy. How dare we!
Drunken Sailor| 5.15.12 @ 11:08AM
So you agree with should be investigationg Unions role in Democrat fundraising and George Soro's?
Jack London| 5.15.12 @ 11:15AM
Indeed – I believe all funds used for political means should be openly disclosed according to law and the donors be identified so we all see what their backgrounds and political motivations are. What do you want to know about the unions and Soros?
Drunken Sailor| 5.15.12 @ 11:32AM
For starters how about the donations given to Democrats, without the input of their union members. Super Pacs' are the rights answer to Unions. Why else do you think the Dems threw such a fit? It leveled the playing field.
As for Soros, how about the all the liberal media he supports, or the Secretary of State initiative he was behind. Or his purposeful intent to tank the dollar so he can make a buck in trading?
Since when should a sitting president publicly go after a private citizen for excercisesing his right to back whoever he sees fit?
Jack London| 5.15.12 @ 11:56AM
Union members can get rid of their leaders if they don't like them. There's a long tradition between labor and left leaning parties globally - it's all out in the open. Indeed, some unions founded labor parties.
Do you think corporations that donate to far right causes such as ALEC should first do a poll of shareholders (and maybe employees)?
Soros hardly makes any secret of his causes. And he ain't going tell you when he's doing a trade - why should he?
As for VanderSloot, he seems to be he real thug in all this. See http://tinyurl.com/7ub4omq
Drunken Sailor| 5.15.12 @ 12:12PM
I get it now. If the left does it it's ok, but if the right does it they are up to no good. Got it.
Jack London| 5.15.12 @ 12:29PM
Huh? The point is we should know who's doing what from both sides.
Drunken Sailor| 5.15.12 @ 2:14PM
Ok then, Here is what Soro's has been up to lately.
The Soros Summit
Free Beacon exclusive: Inside the secret Miami meeting of George Soros’s liberal conspiracy
http://freebeacon.com/the-soros-summit/
Drunken Sailor| 5.15.12 @ 2:17PM
By the way, please not all the Democrat Pacs mentioned as well as Media matters.
Troll
Jack London| 5.15.12 @ 2:53PM
Come on – this in no trolling but an attempt to actually establish some facts.
First, the Democracy Alliance was set up to counter the much more organised Republican machine. Second, it hasn't funded anything anywhere near the level of GOP causes.
And third, I entirely agree that when it comes to political donations we need transparency - but from both sides. Someone just gave $10 million to the GOP super PAC American Crossroads - shouldn't we know who that is?
And for your information, and which I'm sure you're very happy about, GOP super PAC donations are running way ahead of Dems'.
Drunken Sailor| 5.15.12 @ 3:14PM
So it hasn't been as successful as the Super Pacs, so what? Does that mean we outlaw the Super Pacs? And for transparency I seem to recall that Obama raised a lot of money that was traced back to Pre-paid Credit cards. Where was the transparency then?
My friends and I can form a group, pool our resources and donate money to a political cause. Does that mean that each of us should have to declare what we each gave? Why so we can be attacked like the Koch Brothers or Mr. Van der Sloot?
Al Adab| 5.15.12 @ 3:39PM
It is not so much about who contributes what, but rather about what they expect- and get - in return that is the issue. Still, full disclosure and no limit contributions would do something to help solve the problem. Any payoffs, even down to Ambassadorships (a common payoff) would be criminal and officeholders subject to prosecution.
Jack London| 5.15.12 @ 4:14PM
A very reasonable comment Al and I agree, bar unlimited contributions – no one side should be allowed to buy an election. There should be limits, and full disclosure above a certain limit.
Interestingly, I believe the GOP has been ahead in wanting disclosure, but has forgotten that now that they got Citizens United. They opposed the Disclosure Act, although so did some on the left.
Oldefarte| 5.15.12 @ 12:52PM
No what some of us want to know is the ID of the ME oil money from Arab/Muslim shieks flowing to this POTUS [and the reasons why]!!!!
JP| 5.15.12 @ 11:09AM
"It's just that there's a lot more unpleasantry with folk such as VanderSloot, who's been busy suing anyone who dares discuss why he intervening in our democracy. How dare we!"
And it isn't his democracy as well? Is slander a Democratic Party virture?
Jack London| 5.15.12 @ 11:20AM
What slander? I think you can assured that a litigious and wealthy person such as VanderSloot will sue for any lies.
On the other hand, would you want to know or not know about what is truthfully behind a person's motivation for giving a million dollars?
Simon Templar| 5.15.12 @ 11:35AM
That is the the whole point, Jackass. The man has spent all week correcting the lies and slander posted on this reelection web site with his customers. You know damn well he is not going to sue as he does not need more negative publicity than already created by Obama hacks.
Truthfully. Do you know that that word means?
So, now you mentally deranged and unethical lying liberal morons want to talk about truth. Apparently, you can now see into people motivations? Yeah, let us truthfully look into his donors starting with Soros, the foreign contributors, and the Unions and their motivations. Or perhaps, the deals he is cooking up with Russia and China. Go away troll.
DRed| 5.15.12 @ 11:55AM
Vandersloot has a long history of suing or threatening to sue any of his critics. So I'm not sure why anyone would know damn well that he's not going to sue.
Jack London| 5.15.12 @ 12:07PM
Indeed, as detailed here: http://tinyurl.com/7ub4omq
Also, the part he played in trying to silence a brave campaign by a local newspaper on pedophiles in Mormon scouts is shameful. See http://tinyurl.com/cy6xwhz
Simon Templar| 5.15.12 @ 7:50PM
As usual you two morons miss the point and I am sure you do it intentionally.
JP| 5.15.12 @ 11:40AM
Allegations without proof is libel. And I could care less the motivations of someone like Bill Maher (he donated $1 million to Obama's SuperPac) or Vandersloot.
Georga Collins| 5.15.12 @ 3:36PM
It's his, VanderSloot's, democracy...republic....too. If I had a million to give, I would to get Obama and his thugs out of the WH. Ad then you could break into my records and air them to try and make MY CHOICES invalid according to YOUR standards.
Controse| 5.15.12 @ 11:11AM
Mark Stevens. The male Sarah Palin. As Rush Limbaugh says often "You never win anything playing defense." The communist agenda of the left must be exposed and out maneuvered relentlessly. As relentlessly as we breath.
Simon Templar| 5.15.12 @ 11:21AM
The comparison that you make between Watergate and this affair of intimidation, slander, and threat that the Obama team has recently played against Vandersloot is rather awkward but your overall point that this administration has crossed the line into very unethical and possibly criminal territory is taken.
The real issue issue here that once again seems to get overlooked is the accountability factor. You saw it clearly being abandoned by O'Reilly himself who rushed to provide cover for Obama in quickly pointing out that the president did not know anything about his own web site and his OWN campaign team that created this web site for his reelection. The lack of courage and brains that the GOP establishment has demonstrated in not doing anything to confront this nor any other ethical violations and violations of law that this administration is guilty of is another part of this story that needs to be told and part of this lack of accountability.
Why is this? It is this way because it is this way with EVERYTHING from gay marriage, abortion, the Trayvon case, border control, illegal invasions, the Arizona laws, to entitlements.
Republicans as well as many Americans are more afraid of being called a name than telling the truth, defending the truth, and granting themselves their right to have a different opinion or value. This will all stop the day someone actually stands up to the Left and says go to hell when they roll out out the racist, homophobic, granny hater, one percent accusations and when they stop running away from these accusations like scared chickens. Is this not what "Boner" was telling us the other day in regards to the fast and furious contempt charges? So, he is the first black attorney so we will just let him do whatever the hell he wants. This is the sickness under all this that need to be dealt with and scourged from our body politic.
This is the main weapon and means by which the Left has been using quite successfully, since the 1960's, in getting get what they want. This is the fundamental and most important aspect of what has gone wrong and that which needs to be changed. The story itself is an example of this....
Purp| 5.15.12 @ 12:14PM
Mr. Lord - "Thugocracy? " - you are obviously shamelessly racist, and should be removed from this site. It's shameful you are allowed to write for this site.
And "With the obvious distinction that Fusion GPS went after public information, while the Plumbers were after private information on Ellsberg and committed burglary to try and achieve their objective, the driving motivation appears to be identical." - searching public information vs. burglary? The right wing sees this as the same? How ridiculous. If you are going to step into the public arena (Van der Sloot) to have an impact on the politics of the day, then you are fair game for any and all information that anyone cares to dredge up and plop at your door. Perhaps you should have thought about what you're doing and how it might impact your reputation. If your past deeds are clean and above reproach, you have nothing to fear. If they are not able to stand the light of day - well, it's your own fault.
I feel no sympathy for bullies and millionaires who throw their money around to buy influence and politicians. You get what you deserve.
After the tactics displayed on Fixed News by right-wing stalkers and the like, it's amazingly hypocritical for the right to complain about the tactics used on the left in this struggle. I wouldn't call it a war - we are all Americans after all. All that means to me is that the right is not going to restrain any effort to smear anyone to get their way. In so doing, you get what you deserve.
Drunken Sailor| 5.15.12 @ 12:47PM
News flash Purp (not that you'll agree) Thugocracy has nothing to do about race.
thugocracy
•noun. Rule of a country or state by a group of thugs.
http://onlineslangdictionary.c.....thugocracy
And to your other point. Mr Van der Sloot did not step into the public arena. It was a donation as a private citizen. It was the left that threw him into the public arena.
Purp| 5.15.12 @ 1:40PM
News Flash to you - This guy is the Finance Chairman for the Romney Campaign! - some private donor!He opened the door to criticism, tough if he doesn't like it. He made his bed...
Just like the members of ALEC, people are being held accountable for their actions - apparently a new phenomenon for the righties. And, boy does Vandersloot whine and squeal. Poor baby. Crush his critics, but don't touch him... Pfft. If you give it, you better be able to take it.
http://www.salon.com/2012/02/1.....e_critics/
He's running a Ponzi scheme of products and has skirted the law several times.
He uses intimidation to silence any critics, so he deserves what he gets. He
Another News Flash to you - in common dialect, "thug" today refers to the hoodied individual, typically portraying African Americans in the less than desirable light. It refers to rap music and the words they use as well. It's a double entendre, if you know what that is, meant to hide the real meaning - but you all know what he meant, in the race connotation.
idalily| 5.15.12 @ 2:09PM
God, can't you people ever make an argument that doesn't blame this tired old canard? Take your projectionist racism and shove it.
Drunken Sailor| 5.15.12 @ 2:42PM
Back up and try again. Thugs was originally used as a term to describe street hoods and Mafia. Thug today only refers to African Americans in the liberal mindset. Among most people it is simply a person of undesirable attitude and actions.
Psst. and if Van der Sloot is fair game then so is Obama's Finance director Rufus Gifford and his gay lover, who happens to be the White House Social Secretary, JeremyBernard.
Now you don't suppose the fact that they are gay and Van der Sloot has bumped heads with gays has anything to do with the White House attacks on him do you?
Naw, not in this transparent organization.
Tool!
Occam's Tool| 5.15.12 @ 3:42PM
Purp: the racist thing grows old and decrepit. I worked with guys who experienced THE REAL THING.
Oldefarte| 5.15.12 @ 12:54PM
DA, see below Newsmax article quoted!!!!
W| 5.15.12 @ 1:05PM
In the opinion of the Purp Mr. Lord is a racist who must be censored. Typical lefty. Can't make any logical arguments so you want to silence opposing views. Call the other person a racist or homophobe and that ends the argument for lefties like Purp. This is the lefty mindset to disparage Fox News for reporting facts and presenting opinions that the Purpie crowd cannot handle.
Purp| 5.15.12 @ 1:45PM
No, again you are wrong... Not silenced, just use words that are not racist or bigoted. Is that so hard? But to make his point and for sensation, he does it purposely and you know it.
And, it doesn't end the argument whatsoever, but at least you righties could learn to be civil and speak and write intelligently, not in perjorative terms, can't you?
For the record, Fixed News is loaded with propaganda they call "News"... at least I can admit that MSNBC is biased to the left.
And, there isn't anything you can say or do that I cannot handle. My being on this site should have taught you that by now. But you will not learn, will you?
idalily| 5.15.12 @ 2:10PM
Which of Mr. Lord's comments are racist and why? Make a cogent argument, for once in your life.
Al Adab| 5.15.12 @ 3:41PM
Purp has become a simple agitator and no longer even converses. I once had a good discussion with him, but that was before he found himself on the losing side of history. Just ignore him.
Drunken Sailor| 5.15.12 @ 3:58PM
It's the polls Al. He sees Romney is ahead on Rasmussen and the CBS/NYtimes poll. Then he see's the war on women theme didn't stick and Romney is ahead there as well (Washington Examiner). He is beginning to see the writing on the wall and it has him in a sour mood.
W| 5.15.12 @ 5:33PM
Romney by a landslide with a Republican Congress.
idalily| 5.16.12 @ 12:37AM
Al Adab, I know I should ignore Purp, but some days the fish just jump into the barrel, you know? Shooting them becomes irresistible.
Purp| 5.16.12 @ 9:43AM
Would it make any difference to you?
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/.....er-perform - did you see this?
idalily| 5.16.12 @ 11:25AM
It makes no difference to me. Why should it? Again, try to make a cogent argument. Cutting and pasting irrelevant links is not a cogent argument. God, you're such a tool.
skip| 5.16.12 @ 9:31AM
skip | 5.5.12 @ 8:18PM:
"As astonishing to witness as the prolonged denial and anger stages have been, the inevitable bargaining, depression, and acceptance stages will almost certainly boggle the mind. Promise you will keep posting through the entire process. Please?"
Progress! Welcome to the bargaining stage.
Thank you for for being here to drive home the point that liberalism is wholly lacking in intelligence and honesty and that liberalism is based only on emotional prattle without even a shred of reason and experience.
You deserve the credit as you have very nearly been as effective at driving this point home as Obama and Biden and Reid and Pelosi and Frank and liberty oppressing tyrants of every sort.
Simon Templar| 5.15.12 @ 1:28PM
This is really amazing. The local liberal troll does EXACTLY what I described in my comment above.
Liberalism is truly a mental disorder.
I will be the first, go to hell Purp with your phony racist accusations, your fascist political correctness, your hatred for ideas and thoughts different from yours, and your filthy, phony political race baiting! You are a joke and an amateur just like your secular messiah.
Besides being mentally disorder, Purp, you are self deluded, a hypocrite, and illogical. Your arguments are not only bizarre but are strange, weak, and a perfect example of projection.
It is time we all face what people like you are and ignore you and expose what you are. It is time we stop wasting time responding to your liberal baloney and attempting to use logic and reason with your ilk.
Purp| 5.15.12 @ 1:48PM
You do exactly what you accuse me of and you don't see it, do you?
And you call me deluded? " Physician, heal thyself", seems so appropriate for your diatribe against me.
idalily| 5.15.12 @ 2:13PM
What arguments, Simon? Purp doesn't make arguments. That would involve critical thinking, honest self-examination and putting forth political theories backed by evidence of success. All Purp and his ilk have are blaming, whining, and insulting those who don't agree with them.
Purp| 5.15.12 @ 2:54PM
Look in the mirror - you're self-description is amazing.
Mike Hawk| 5.15.12 @ 3:08PM
P, Quit projecting your naive sophistry on others you nebbish.
Russel| 5.15.12 @ 8:45PM
MK , Twerp and Jack get PAID , so let them blow . This site pest's for so long no one even bothers to read the first two words .
idalily| 5.16.12 @ 12:39AM
Projection: look it up, Purp. It's what you do. And you still haven't given Simon an argument, thereby proving my point. You're a brainwashed tool.
George Gamard| 5.15.12 @ 12:16PM
Mr. Lord. Ezra Klein identified the person who tried to pay Wright to shut up on Hannity's Radio Show yesterday. It is one of Obama's closest friends. I believe his name is Dr. Wilkinson.
Anthony| 5.15.12 @ 1:10PM
Yeah, great article in the New York Times about this, NOT!!
RA McClain| 5.15.12 @ 12:45PM
One of the best articles I have seen in a long time, and minces no words. I do take issue with contacting Issa, as have done so several time, and have come to the conclusion the he and other entrenced GOPers, are complicit with the democrats in far too many ways. He and his committee have done nothing but 'talk' since the beginning. The time for action is way past due.
Red Ryder| 5.15.12 @ 12:46PM
Other thuggish highlights of the Obama "daze" include:
*Wisconsin recall election
*Richard Trumka
*The famous words of Andy Stern: "We know how they voted and we know where they live."
Oldefarte| 5.15.12 @ 12:54PM
'......NewsmaxRev. Wright Was a Second Father to Obama Tuesday, May 15, 2012 12:01 PM
By: Ronald Kessler reporting from Washington, D.C. — The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. was like a second father to Barack Obama and helped shape his political philosophy, author Ed Klein tells Newsmax based on his interview with Wright.For his book “The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House,” which hits bookstores this week, Klein interviewed Wright for three and a half hours. Wright told him of Obama’s secret efforts to keep him quiet during the presidential campaign. But the more significant material spotlights how important Wright was to Obama’s thinking even before the future president began going to Wright’s church in 1988.Rev. Jeremiah Wright, former pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.“It’s one thing for Obama to sit in the church and listen to the Rev. Wright spew his hatred against whites, Jews, and America,” Klein says. “But in my view, having spoken to the Rev. Wright, that paled by comparison with the personal relationship that Obama had that went way beyond his simply being a member of the church listening to all this stuff.”Obama began his relationship with Wright, whom he has called a mentor and sounding board, three years before he began attending Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.“Obama went to the Rev. Wright at every stage of his career whenever things went wrong,” says Klein, a contributing editor of Vanity Fair and a former editor-in-chief of the New York Times Magazine.“For instance, when he lost the 2000 congressional election for the seat that Bobby Rush, the former Black Panther, holds from the South Side of Chicago,” Klein says. “He was in a state of terrible depression, and he owed a great deal of money, and his marriage was on the rocks. Who did he go to? He went to the Rev. Wright for marriage counseling. He went to the Rev. Wright about what shall I do next, Rev? Every step of his career, every step of his development as a political figure was made in conjunction with conversations that he had with the Rev. Wright personally.”As revealed in my book “In the President’s Secret Service: Behind the Scenes with Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect,” just before Wright spoke at the National Press Club, Obama secretly met on April 4, 2008 with Wright at Trinity’s parsonage where Wright then lived.So that they would not be noticed, agents made a point of driving Obama in a mini-van instead of the usual Suburban. They parked their other vehicles a block away. Obama spent an hour with Wright and then left.“At this secret meeting with him, Obama practically begged him not to go on and speak any further,” Klein says. “This was after one of Obama’s best friends had sent an email to a member of the church saying that he was prepared to give the Rev. Wright $150,000 if he would shut up. The Rev. Wright told me that he has saved that email.” In the recorded interview, Wright says he basically could not afford to shut up for $150,000, Klein says.“Wright explained he had expenses that he had to pay,” Klein says. “He had a child and a couple of grandkids in college that he was paying for. And so he goes around the United States giving sermons and making speeches, and he gets paid for that.”Klein says Obama originally sought out Wright to discuss community activism.“Quickly the conversations turned from picking up garbage on the street and getting streetlights put up on street corners to political matters and religious matters,” Klein says. “And the Rev. Wright turned into really a substitute father figure, who guided Obama in the two major areas of his life.”The first area was Obama’s identity — just who was he?“Obama was steeped in Islam but knew nothing about Christianity,” Klein says.
Klein asked Wright if he converted Obama from being a Muslim into a Christian.
“He said, I don’t know about that. but I can tell you that I made it easy for him to come to an understanding of who Jesus Christ is and not feel that he was turning his back on his Islamic friends and his Islamic traditions and his understanding of Islam,” Klein says.
The second area was Obama’s political philosophy. Wright introduced Obama to Black Liberation theology.“Black Liberation theology is based essentially on the Marxist belief that there is an oppressor class and an oppressed class,” Klein says. “And in the case of Black Liberation theology, the oppressor class are the whites, and the oppressed are the blacks. And there is a ‘maldistribution’ of wealth in this country, a quote from Black Liberation theology.”The point is that wealth should be redistributed.“This is quite close, if not identical, to Marxist beliefs,” Klein says.As noted in my story Media Blackout on Rev. Wright Started in 2007, for three months during Obama’s primary campaign. The mainstream media ignored Newsmax stories reporting on Rev. Wright’s hate-filled sermons; his denunciations of America, whites, and Israel; and the fact that he gave an award for lifetime achievement to Louis Farrakhan. By the time the media picked up the stories, Obama was ahead of Hillary Clinton in the primary elections.
According to a Hillary Clinton aide quoted in David Remnick’s “The Ridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama,” if the media had run the Wright story just two months earlier, Obama’s candidacy “would have been over.”
“Everybody says Obama sat there for 20 years listening to the Rev. Wright spew his anti-white, anti-Jewish, anti-American tirade in church,” Klein says. “The fact of the matter is that his relationship with the Rev. Wright goes back further than his membership in the church and sitting and listening to the Rev. Wright.”
Klein says it was clear from his interview with Wright that he felt abandoned and stabbed in the back by Obama.“For many, many years, Wright was Obama’s single most important intellectual and spiritual guide, and when things got rough, Obama threw him under the bus,” Klein says. “Wright was still stinging from that experience.”........'
Oldefarte| 5.15.12 @ 2:44PM
As to Jeffrey's editorial, of course liberals are DOMESTIC TERRORISTS, because that is what they are, what they are trained as, and what defines them. This POTUS is the out-of-the-closet-supreme-liberal that was only hinted at from the Kennedys, Gore, Clinton, Humphrey, Johnson, Carter, Roosevelt, etc. His ''''Change''''' was a declaration to come out of the liberalism closet entirely and not disguise the effort any longer. His recent proclamation of being in favor of homosexual marriage is just one example. He notched his political gun on the streets of Chicago and in the pew of Wright's church. These terrorists are Acorn and OWS. That's what they do, what they say and who they are. As indicated by this editorial, this is a WAR, and the ultimate victor will determine whether this country survives and prospers or continues down the socialisitic path to ultimate distruction. WAKE UP AMERICA, IT'S THE DEMOCRATS STUPIDS!!!!! How do you/we fight this domestic terrorism? Easy, by bringing a gun to a gunfight and to any/all other fights they wish to have. What gunfight you ask? ELECTIONS, that what! Get off your rears and VOTE for non-domestic terrorists....... vote against Democrats. Congressional investigation will do little good. Elections, from local through state and definately nationals are all important. You know [or should] who to vote FOR and who to vote AGAINST in all elections, and the only place to start is with those candidates with a '''''R'''''''next to their name. Not that they're perfect or adequately conservative, but what they are NOT is DOMESTIC TERRORISTS [and that today is all the Democratic Party represents]. Additionally, all/any employers need to investigate their employees as to who is a supporter of this domestic terrorism, and any same employee discovered being sympathatic to same should be fired/terminated for whatever cause legally possible. Companies/employers need to protect their survival not just from declining profits but also internally from corruption of these domestic terrorist sympathizing employees earning a paycheck from the employer and philosophically undermining the employer [and others] from their political subversion activities. It's a war folks, it ain't paddy-cake romper-room. Get your heads out of your backsides and do the necessary for the sake of all of us!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Capatolistmom| 5.15.12 @ 4:18PM
Very well said. OReilly just fired a PRODUCER who was a turn coat. He WAS working for OReilly, taking his money and then negatively blogging about this situtation. All business need to think about their survival and it starts with their employees!!
Georga Collins| 5.15.12 @ 3:10PM
What a great article! Thanks, Jeffrey, for writing it. It's so very clear what Obama thugs are doing and you make it crystal clear with specifics.
Capatolistmom| 5.15.12 @ 4:08PM
Mr. Lord, GREAT ARTICLE!!! The end brought tears to my eyes!!!
I will be contacting Congressman Issa!!!And everyone who read this should do the same!!
Red Dawn | 5.15.12 @ 4:43PM
No doubt; the perennial war between civilization and barbarism continues.
Tiddly| 5.15.12 @ 5:16PM
The "wonderful young woman" that Mark Stevens and Jeff Lord can't praise highly enough would have done much more for her country by getting married and raising a family than by taking a man's place as a military officer or the pilot of a jet fighter.
The feminization of the country is one of the major reasons we have the problems that we face to day.
GENE HAUBER| 5.15.12 @ 5:43PM
to be fair, when we take our knives to their knife fight we should just starting slitting their throats immediately.
BarocheDique | 5.15.12 @ 6:37PM
Mr. Lord - I have commented numerous times on this very post about the opposition party's reluctance to "go after" these thugs and criminals. I have asked whether or not there are ANY American patriots left in either party who care more for their country than their individual political goals. Sadly, it appears that the answer is 'no'. This realization pains me deeply as I am a disabled, multiple-combat veteran Army paratrooper and Ranger. But, it is election time, so Speaker Boehner should be morphing back into something of a conservative.....where is Sen. Sessions from Alabama when we need him? I cannot adequately express the absolute contempt and rage that I feel towards these domestic enemies of my country (democrats generally and obamites in particular); they are truly disgusting and repulsive to decent Americans everwhere.
E B | 5.15.12 @ 7:51PM
Great work! Keep it up.
Cal| 5.15.12 @ 9:16PM
There were no threats of any kind. This is the most pathetic excuse for a fake "scandal" that the GOP has ginned up yet.
sotto voce| 5.16.12 @ 3:09PM
Yes, there were threats. Mark Stevens has the emails to prove it.
POST American| 5.15.12 @ 11:39PM
------------HUAC is NOW Nuremberg 2012-----------
Betina| 5.16.12 @ 10:10AM
Did you really need someone to SAY what is going on to notice?? Come on. We have been in an open WAR since the 1930's. The problem is that those on the right were either too dumb or too well mannered to see if for what it is. We need to start employing the full Alinsky on all of these bastards. No need to reinvent the wheel. Just give it BACK TO THEM. In spades.
sotto voce| 5.16.12 @ 3:07PM
Excellent article. I've been following the Mark Stevens story since I first heard about it and emailed Mr. Stevens thanking him for his courage (he sent a courteous reply). I used the link in this article to contact Congressman Issa urging him to start an investigation. This kind of intimidation can't be allowed to stand, and unmasking it before November would have the wonderful benefit of exposing the Left's thuggery; like switching on the lights and watching cockroaches scurry for their lives.
Caroline| 5.16.12 @ 9:36PM
Barack Hussein Obama is a terrorist. Who needs a plane or bombs when you can run for office without any documentation of birthplace, college records, etc., get enough stupid people to vote for you, and have all of the government agencies at your disposal. He's committing terror on us daily from trying to destroy our economic system, our traditions, our Constitution, and no one will stop him. I will never feel safe in this country again, because he was allowed to do what he's done.
I used to think, well surely when he does this, they'll stop him, only to see him get away with it. Then I would think, well surely when he does this other thing they will stop him, only to see him get away with it.
Why are our soldiers in the Middle East when they gave a terrorist a key to the White House to do what he wants? Do they not care that their children are not going to have a safe, free, happy country to live in?
POST American| 5.17.12 @ 11:17PM
"The [Globalists} realize that Marx was WRONG.
You CAN'T get rid of religion. To bring in their
NWO they know they need a religious component
--to generate conflict ---and to bring in social
control over vast populations.
They've now decided what that religion's to be. ----ISLAM!"
"ALLLLLL the rituals, spiritual practices of
'MAY--Sin--re' from 'Scottish' Rite ---through
Jesuitry ----is ISLAMIC in character and origin.
I have laid this out before one of the
most important 33rd degree Masons in the country,
in detail, for 2 hours, and all he did was shake
his head ----in the AFFIRMATIVE!"
'Clash of Civilizations' hr 2
RED Ice radio
(available on Yahoo videos)
ESSENTIAL LISTENING in this ----the 11th hour.