Delaware Corrupt Bastards 'Forget' to Air O'Donnell Campaign Ad Video

Sarah Palin referred to Alaskan reporters as "corrupt bastards" after plotting to portray Joe Miller's followers in a bad light. Today we know "corrupt bastards are spread from Alaska to Delaware. Christine O'Donnell. The O'Donnell campaign paid for two local ads, which the TV station "forgot" to air. View this very effective video ad below. I can see why the corrupt bastards in the press didn't want this ad to get out. It is one of the most effective campaign ads I've seen.

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Christine O'Donnell: We the People - Delaware Speaks

If you missed the Palin story "Corrupt Bastards," read it here.

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Rachel Maddow Steve Stockman: Stockman Received Prior Notice of OKC Bombing Says Maddow

Rachel Maddow accused a woman now dead, of being a member of a militia, as if that is unlawful and egregious, and then claimed that then-Republican Texas Representative Steve Stockman received written information of the Oklahoma City Bombing prior to the disaster that killed 168 people, including 19 children and babies, and injured hundreds. And worse, she said Stockman faxed the information to the NRA, but not the FBI. See the video below.

Rachel Maddow

...Mr. Stockman actually received advanced notice that the Oklahoma City bombing was going to happen. 

MADDOW: Yes, this has happened to a smaller degree before. In 1994, in the first mid-term election after the last Democratic president was elected, we got a slate of candidates that included Helen Chenoweth of Idaho and Steve Stockman of Texas. These two were so close to the militia movement in this country that Mr. Stockman actually received advance notice that the Oklahoma City bombing was going to happen.

A bit of Internet research showed this by Jim Simmon writing for the Houston Press on June 22, 1995.

Contrary to suggestions in some initial reports, Stockman's office had received the fax after the bombing and promptly passed it on to the FBI (ironically, the initial misunderstanding about the fax was propagated by the National Rifle Association, Stockman's chief patron).

I live in Oklahoma and knew nothing of this story. This intrigued me: according to NewsBuster's Jack Coleman, the fax said this:

According to the Morning News, a hand-written message on the fax read, "First update. Bldg 7 to 10 floors only. Military people on scene -- BATF/FBI. Bomb threat received last week. Perpetrator unknown at this time. Oklahoma." The machine that sent the fax to Stockman stamped "Wolverine" at the top of the page, the Morning News reported. 

 Militias are not everyone's cup of tea, and anarchist militias are certainly not acceptable, but we must remember that militias are a guaranteed right under the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution - for a very good reason: it is not impossible that our government might seek to take control in an unconstitutional manner. The Second Amendment allows militias to be our guardians.

Having said all that, I don't know about Stockman's militia connections, but it does seem that now, in 2010, trying to tie him to the deaths of those murdered in the Murrah Building in 1995, is a particularly cruel and highly improper thing to do. One thing we is, every word out of Maddow's mouth is calculated and measured. She knew what she was doing.

I'm not sure what the implication of evoking Helen Chenoweth is about. She was a Republican Representative from Idaho from 1995 to January 2001. She died in an automobile accident in 2006, while a passenger in the back seat of a car that flipped and ejected her on a Nevada road. She apparently did have militia connections - but again, there is nothing illegal there. One interesting thing about Chenoweth, in 2003 she attempted to board a flight to her Nevada home. TSA "selected" her for a hand search. She refused and drove a rental car to get to her destination, and made this statement:

"Our borders are wide open and yet they're shaking down a 66-year-old white grandmother they greeted by name," she said of the incident. "It's time the American people say no to this kind of invasion. It's a question of personal privacy. There shouldn't be that kind of search without reasonable cause."

So a defenseless dead woman has been placed in the same company as a person Maddow alleges hid prior knowledge of the Oklahoma City bombing. Is there anything we can expect from MSNBC about this - like a reprimand, an apology to the family of Chenoweth and to Stockman, a firing? No, I don't think so. These are despicable people. Others talking about Maddow's accusations: BlackFive and Political Byline.

 

Rachel Maddow on Steve Stockman

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JournoList on Islamic Terrorism and Rush Limbaugh

The Daily Caller tells us not all those on the JournoList want to see Rush Limbaugh dead and believe there is no Islamic extremism in the U.S. After Army Major Nidal Hasan massacred 14 at Fort Hood Texas, yelling "Allahu Akbar" as he gunned down American soldiers, civilians and an unborn child, the JournoList groupies had a conversation about the media's responsibility to show the obvious ties to Islamic jihad, and someone actually defended Rush Limbaugh.

JournoList

James Surowiecki, The New Yorker:

Luke Mitchell, then of Harper’s magazine, said doing so “points the way to things that are actually alarmingly dangerous, such as the idea that there is a large conspiracy of Islamists at work in the United States, that we need to ‘do something’ about this conspiracy.”

[James] Surowiecki replied to Mitchell and others that the truth was worth pursuing.

“I find it bizarre that anyone would argue that an accurate description of what happened is somehow pointless,” Surowiecki said. “That is, that it’s not useful to offer up an accurate picture of Hasan’s actions because nothing obvious follows from it. We want, as much as possible, to have a clear picture of what’s actually going on in the world. Describing Hasan as a violent Islamist terrorist is much closer to the truth than describing him as a disturbed individual.” ~ James Surowiecki, The New Yorker

Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, CNN after Sarah Spitz said she would like to watch Rush Limbaugh die from a massive heart attack and see his "eyes bug out:"

Rush cannot be replaced. What people miss about Rush is that he is just astonishingly good as a broadcaster. He is compelling, funny, entertaining....But Rush is the man." ~ Jeffrey Toobin The New Yorker

There's a few more. Read about General David Petraeus and the MoveOn General BetrayUs ad, and the deeply annoying Al Gore at The Daily Caller.

Tim Geithner Knew About Lehman Accounting Gimmicks? $50B Lehman Accounting Shuffle

U.S. Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, was president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank at the same time Lehman-Brothers was using financial engineering (accounting gimmicks) to shuffle $50B in toxic assets off its books, before collapsing in September 2008. There is little doubt Geithner had to know, concealed the facts and failed to take appropriate action.

New York Federal Reserve Bank

No coincidence that the New York Times and Huffington Post fail to cite the Fed's, and Tim Geithner's, lack of action made clear from the 2200 page report.

Naked Capitalism takes a look at a new examiner's report into how and why Lehman failed, showing Tim Geithner is likely complicit in cover-up:

It also emerges that the NY Fed, and thus Timothy Geithner, were at a minimum massively derelict in the performance of their duties, and may well be culpable in aiding and abetting Lehman in accounting fraud and Sarbox violations.

We need to demand an immediate release of the emails, phone records, and meeting notes from the NY Fed and key Lehman principals regarding the NY Fed's review of Lehman's solvency. If, as things appear now, Lehman was allowed by the Fed's inaction to remain in business, when the Fed should have insisted on a wind-down (and the failed Barclay's said this was not infeasible: even an orderly bankruptcy would have been preferred....) the NY Fed at a minimum helped perpetuate a fraud on investors and counterparties.

Yves Smith at Naked Capitalism updated his post at 3 AM this morning after reading pertinent sections of the report.

Every page is stunning...the nonsense is mile high. Lehman had been doing this sort of things since 2001. No US law firm would give them cover via an opinion letter for their phony repo accounting...

So, let's get busy demanding release of items that will likely incriminate Tim Geithner, and the Federal Reserve.

Read it all at Naked Capitalism.

Others talking about Tim Geithner's culpability in the Lehman collapse:
LOLFed
Jr Deputy Accountant
The Daily Caller

Colbert Health Care Video: Colbert Humiliates Kathleen Sebelius

Colbert invited Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, to the show to discuss the health care soon to be forced on taxpaying Americans. This is precious video. All Sebelius could do was sit there and try to cover her humiliation. Watch this sketch, which I found at Storm'n Norm'ns - who asks, is this a great country or what!!!

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Colbert on Obama Health Care (video)

Watch another Colbert health care rant here.

Percy Sutton Khalid al-Mansour: Percy Sutton Dies, Named al-Mansour aka Don Warden as Obama Harvard Law fundraiser

Remember the story quickly quashed by media, when elderly Percy Sutton said he assisted Khalid al-Mansour in getting Barack Obama into Harvard Law? Two years later, Percy Sutton, age 89, has died. So, what is so controversial about al-Mansour helping a young student, and specifically the future President of the USA? See a video below.

Percy Sutton

New evidence has emerged that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was closely associated as early as age 25 to a key adviser to a Saudi billionaire who had mentored the founding members of the Black Panthers.

Khalid al-Mansour aka Don Warden

 

Al-Monsour has direct ties to the Saudi royal family. He is an adviser to Prince Alwaleed, an enormously wealthy man - at one time, and perhaps still, one of the 14 wealthiest men on the planet. Al-Mansour is the man who offered New York City $10 million to help rebuild downtown Manhattan, then ciritcized the U.S. saying we had contributed to the 9-11 attacks. Then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani refused to take his money.

The question is, what did Barack Obama accept from the Saudi's? Percy Sutton gave a few hints, and quickly, a spokesman said Mr. Sutton misspoke. The msm refused to talk about it.

When Percy Sutton was 87-years-old, he told a New York cable news channel that Dr. Khalid al-Mansour helped fund Barack Obama's Harvard Law School days. Sutton, the former attorney for Malcolm X, a former borough president of Manhattan, and the founder of Inner City Broadcasting said al-Mansour asked him to support Obama's Harvard Law application:

“He wrote to me about him,” Sutton recalled. “And his introduction was there is a young man that has applied to Harvard. I know that you have a few friends up there because you used to go up there to speak. Would you please write a letter in support of him?”

Sutton said he acted on his friend al-Mansour’s advice.

“I wrote a letter of support of him to my friends at Harvard, saying to them I thought there was a genius that was going to be available and I certainly hoped they would treat him kindly,” Sutton told NY1.

Khalid al-Mansour is a Texas native. His full Muslim name is Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour, his American alias is Don Warden. He is said to be a Black nationalist and an outspoken enemy of Israel.

A graduate of Howard University with a law degree from the University of California, al-Mansour sits on numerous corporate boards, including the Saudi African Bank and Chicago-based LaGray Chemical Co. LaGray, which was formed to do business in Africa, counts former Nigerian President General Abdusalam Abubakar on its advisory board.

He also sits on the board of the non-profit African Leadership Academy, along with top McCain for President adviser Carly Fiorina, and organized a tribute to the President of Ghana at the Clinton White House in 1995, along with pop star Michael Jackson.

But his writings and books are packed with anti-American rhetoric reminiscent of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s disgraced former pastor.

In a 1995 book, “The Lost Books of Africa Rediscovered,” he alleged that the United States was plotting genocide against black Americans....

According to the Social Activism Project at the University of California at Berkley, Warden, a.k.a. Khalid al-Mansour, was the mentor of Black Panther Party founder Huey Newton and his cohort, Bobby Seale.

Read more about al-Mansour at Discover the Networks.

Percy Sutton on Khalid al-Mansour and Barack Obama (video)