THE JOURNOLIST CONTROVERSY CONTINUES TO FESTER

When the Daily Caller published several stories back to back that exposed a mainstream media conspiracy of collusion and collaboration about how to best push the leftwing agenda, it was like a mack truck of information hitting the alternative media. As the days have passed, however, the most egregious revelations to come out of it are rising to the top, causing many people to take a second look, and re-think some things.

Among them, and perhaps the most relevant to an issue that is at the forefront in America today is what Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent wrote on the Journolist Listserv that a good way to bury the Jeremiah Wright story in the spring of 2008 was to slander conservatives as racist.

Here is what Ackerman said, via Pajamas Media:

It’s not necessary to jump to Wright-qua-Wright’s defense. What is necessary is to raise the cost on the right of going after the left. In other words, find a rightwinger’s [sic] and smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let the right know that it needs to live in a state of constant fear. Obviously I mean this rhetorically.

If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they’ve put upon us. Instead, take one of them — Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists. Ask: why do they have such a deep-seated problem with a black politician who unites the country? What lurks behind those problems? This makes *them* sputter with rage, which in turn leads to overreaction and self-destruction.

Take note of that very last sentence because it virtually mirrors one of the Rules for Radicals authored by Barack Obama's ideological mentor, Saul Alinsky.

Rule #5 to be exact:

Rule 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.

Alinsky was a man who advocated slander and libel, which are nothing more than false attributions in order to destroy character. He did this not because it was ethical. On the contrary, in the world of Community Organizing, the ends justify the means.

Here is Andrew Breitbart talking about the leftwing media scandal exposed by Daily Caller.

Via Gateway Pundit.

VIDEO: CAIR LEADER LIES ON O'REILLY

Nihad Awad, Executive Director of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) appeared on Bill O'Reilly's show on August 3rd and had the unmitigated gall to say that there are no links between Islam and 9/11. Awad is clearly attempting to put distance between his group and the extremists. The truth is that aside from means, there is no difference in the desired ends. Awad's group was an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism funding trial in our history.

Video via Breitbart:



Even former counter-terrorism advisor, Richard Clarke understood the linkages between the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, al Qaeda, and by extension, CAIR - a group with proven ties to Hamas.

As I wrote over at Big Peace, CAIR is part of the Muslim Brotherhood, which desires the destruction of western civilization:

Instead of declaring war on terror in the days after 9/11, it should have been declared on the Muslim Brotherhood – the umbrella under which al Qaeda resides. Even the term “terror” has become taboo when attempting to identify an enemy our military should engage. Proper identification would have put the onus on groups like CAIR to prove they were not affiliated with America’s enemies, instead of on Americans to prove they themselves were not racists; Islam isn’t even a race but let’s not quibble.

Such a declaration would not have been partisan, either. Richard Clarke notwithstanding, Democrat Senators Chuck Schumer of New York, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Barbara Boxer of California, and Dick Gephardt – formerly of Missouri – all seemed to understand this. Schumer, Durbin, and Boxer all vocalized the connection between CAIR and terrorist groups in 2003 while in 1999, Gephardt withdrew the nomination of Salam al-Mayarati to a terrorism commission because of connections to MPAC.

The one common denominator is the Muslim Brotherhood – the enemy we won’t identify.

Awad has also had very endearing things to say about Hamas, a group with the desired destruction of Israel in its charter.

I hope you read it all.

ANOTHER CHICAGO DEMOCRAT TONY'D UP?

We have yet another in a long line of people it would have been more than just a little interesting to see testify in the Rod Blagojevich trial. His name is Alexi Giannoulias and he is the Democrat candidate for Senate this year. Instead, the Blagojevich defense team didn't call any witnesses, including Giannoulias, who was caught in several conflicting statements and claims courtesy of audio recordings presented by the prosecution and witness testimony.

Another interesting aspect to the trial came courtesy of a recording that was played of a conversation between Blagojevich and his Chief of Staff John Harris on November 12th, 2008. Also known as Session 545, you can HEAR Blago tell Harris that "This guy (Obama) is more Tony'd up than I am." The former Illinois governor was referring to his belief that the reason Obama wasn't willing to make a deal with Blago for his Senate seat replacement was because of Blago's ties to Rezko.

Now we have Alexi Giannoulias, who appears to be a little "Tony'd up" himself according to the Chicago Sun-Times:

By February 2006, businessman and political fixer Tony Rezko was already politically radioactive, caught up in a federal investigation that would see him criminally charged by the end of that year.

News reports had linked Rezko, a key adviser and campaign fund-raiser for then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich, to shady deals involving state pension funds -- among the crimes that ultimately would send him to prison.

This was the Tony Rezko who, looking for millions of dollars for a massive South Loop development, turned to Broadway Bank, owned by the family of Alexi Giannoulias. Giannoulias, the Democrat now running for U.S. Senate, had left his post as a senior loan officer at the Chicago bank in late 2005 to mount a successful campaign for Illinois state treasurer, though he still held an ownership stake in the bank.

Rezko's company asked. And Broadway Bank came through.

On Feb. 14, 2006, newly obtained records show, the bank made a $22.75 million loan to a company called Riverside District Development LLC, whose owners, it turns out, included Rezko.

The outcome of the corruption trial of Blagojevich was almost inexplicably fortuitous for the Obama administration, which was at great risk of political catastrophe averted when the defense failed to call even one witness, Giannoulias among those subpoenaed.

However, there were very important things revealed in the trial. Notably, in private conversations, it became apparent that Obama didn't want Blagojevich joining them in Washington, D.C. That also very likely included not wanting him to appoint himself to Obama's old Senate seat. Now that Giannoulias appears to be at least as "Tony'd up" as Blagojevich was - perhaps more - the White House has got to be looking at these findings with a bit of anxiety.

Read it all.

h/t to Hot Air