<div>WOW GreenBubble that's INSANE! Have you done any back log searching to validate all of this?</div>
<div>That's a wicked article. Looks like Melanie Phillips did a lot of research, but any research done on her work?</div>
<div>Looks too new for Snopes to have touched yet.</div>
<div>~Lance<br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net">gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><br>For your evaluation<br>greenBubble<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:naomiragen@mail-list.com">naomiragen@mail-list.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:naomiragen@mail-list.com">naomiragen@mail-list.com</a>] On Behalf Of <a href="mailto:nragen@netvision.net.il">nragen@netvision.net.il</a><br>
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 2:04 AM<br>Subject: Is America Really Going to To this?<br><br><br>Friends,<br><br>Is America really going to do this, allow itself to be brainwashed by its<br>enemies? Journalist Melanie Phillips says it all about the shocking,<br>
Orwellian spectacle of this disaster in the making. "It is that media class<br>which, in refusing to tell the public what it needs to know about Barack<br>Obama, may now finally install in the White House the man who personifies<br>
the repudiation of the American power and western values that the media and<br>left-wing intelligentsia (of which the media is the mouthpiece) have<br>themselves spared no effort to destroy these past seven years."<br>
<br>Absolutely true.<br><br>Naomi<br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>----<br><br>The sacrifice of truth to power<br>Melanie Phillips<br>The Spectator<br><a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/2550646/the-sacrifice-of-truth-to-power.thtml" target="_blank">http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/2550646/the-sacrifice-of-truth-to<br>
-power.thtml</a><br><br>SUNDAY, 26TH OCTOBER 2008<br><br>What's happening in this terrifying, Orwellian US presidential race is the<br>flip side of the madness that's been on display since 9/11 itself, when<br>swathes of the UK population decided that 'America had it coming to it'<br>
because it supported Israel, and that George W Bush was the most dangerous<br>man on the planet. After the Iraq war started this irrationality swelled<br>into pathological proportions on both sides of the Atlantic, when the 'Bush<br>
lied, people died' narrative fuelled a hatred of Bush and 'the neocons'<br>exceeded in its hallucinatory and murderous venom only by the truly deranged<br>way in which the media and intelligentsia systematically either ignored<br>
evidence that did not fit this narrative or, even more astoundingly,<br>reported it in such a way that it delivered the opposite of what was<br>actually happening or being said.<br><br>In this way not only has history been rewritten, not only have Britain and<br>
America been to a greater or lesser extent turned against themselves and<br>demoralised by the propaganda of their mortal enemies recycled as truth by<br>our fifth-column Big Media, but they have been incited to an ugly and<br>
dangerous level of irrationality, hatred and hysteria which history tells<br>us presages the twilight of freedom. It is that media class which, in<br>refusing to tell the public what it needs to know about Barack Obama, may<br>
now finally install in the White House the man who personifies the<br>repudiation of the American power and western values that the media and<br>left-wing intelligentsia (of which the media is the mouthpiece) have<br>themselves spared no effort to destroy these past seven years.<br>
<br>As ABC columnist Michael Malone protests:<br>What I object to (and I think most other Americans do as well) is the lack<br>of equivalent hardball coverage of the other side -- or worse, actively<br>serving as attack dogs for the presidential ticket of Sens. Barack Obama,<br>
D-Ill., and Joe Biden, D-Del. If the current polls are correct, we are about<br>to elect as president of the United States a man who is essentially a<br>cipher, who has left almost no paper trail, seems to have few friends (that<br>
at least will talk) and has entire years missing out of his biography....<br>Why, for example to quote the lawyer for Republican presidential nominee<br>Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., haven't we seen an interview with Sen. Obama's<br>
grad school drug dealer -- when we know all about Mrs. McCain's addiction?<br>Are Bill Ayers and Tony Rezko that hard to interview? All those phony voter<br>registrations that hard to scrutinize? And why are Sen. Biden's endless<br>
gaffes almost always covered up, or rationalized, by the traditional media?<br><br>The absolute nadir (though I hate to commit to that, as we still have two<br>weeks before the election) came with Joe the Plumber. Middle America, even<br>
when they didn't agree with Joe, looked on in horror as the press took apart<br>the private life of an average person who had the temerity to ask a tough<br>question of a presidential candidate. So much for the standing up for the<br>
little man. So much for speaking truth to power. So much for comforting the<br>afflicted and afflicting the comfortable, and all of those other<br>catchphrases we journalists used to believe we lived by.<br>So much indeed. That's why, as Mark Steyn observes, the media has had a<br>
feeding frenzy over Sarah Palin's clothes allowance while all but ignoring<br>the evidence of criminal fundraising for the Obama campaign being<br>facilitated by the Obama campaign :<br> <br>The gentleman who started the ball rolling made four donations under the<br>
names 'John Galt', 'Saddam Hussein', 'Osama bin Laden', and 'William Ayers',<br>all using the same credit card number. He wrote this morning to say that all<br>four donations have been charged to his card and the money has now left his<br>
account. Again, it's worth pointing out: in order to enable the most basic<br>card fraud of all - multiple names using a single credit card number - the<br>Obama campaign had to manually disable all the default security checks<br>
provided by their merchant processor. <br> <br>Now look at this. Back in April, the LA Times ran this story reporting on<br>the going-away party for Rashid Khalidi, Obama's close friend, who justifies<br>Palestinian violence against Israel and who was leaving for a job in New<br>
York. Khalidi is a deeply troubling individual, a former PLO operative and<br>close friend of unrepentant former Weatherman terrorist William Ayers. As I<br>have reported before, in 2000 Khalidi and his wife Mona held a fundraiser<br>
for Obama's unsuccessful congressional bid. The next year, an Arab group<br>whose board was headed by Mona Khalidi received a $40,000 grant from the<br>Woods Fund of Chicago when Obama was on the fund's board of directors. Obama<br>
has said that his many talks with the Khalidis "had been consistent<br>reminders to me of my own blind spots and my own biases... It's for that<br>reason that I'm hoping that, for many years to come, we continue that<br>
conversation -- a conversation that is necessary not just around Mona and<br>Rashid's dinner table, but around this entire world."<br> <br><br>The LA Times reported:<br>During the dinner a young Palestinian American recited a poem accusing the<br>
Israeli government of terrorism in its treatment of Palestinians and sharply<br>criticizing U.S. support of Israel. If Palestinians cannot secure their own<br>land, she said, 'then you will never see a day of peace.' One speaker<br>
likened 'Zionist settlers on the West Bank' to Osama bin Laden, saying both<br>had been 'blinded by ideology.'<br> <br><br>The paper reported that not only had Obama been present at the party but had<br>praised Khalidi - and it actually had obtained a videotape of the whole<br>
event. Yet it has refused to make this video public - even though it would<br>be of great interest, to put it mildly, to see who else was there. Indeed,<br>as the now defunct New York Sun reported:<br>In Chicago, the Khalidis founded the Arab American Action Network, and Mona<br>
Khalidi served as its president. A big farewell dinner was held in their<br>honor by AAAN with a commemorative book filled with testimonials from their<br>friends and political allies. These included the left wing anti-war group<br>
Not In My Name, the Electronic Intifada, and the ex-Weatherman domestic<br>terrorists Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers (my emphasis). <br><br>As Gateway Pundit comments:<br>It's hard to imagine that the LA Times would hold onto a video of Sarah<br>
Palin praising an antisemitic radical and former PLO operative...But, that<br>is today's mainstream media. <br>But now look at what happens when the media does begin to do its job<br>properly. As the Orlando Sentinel reported:<br>
WFTV-Channel 9's Barbara West conducted a satellite interview with Sen. Joe<br>Biden on Thursday. West wondered about Sen. Barack Obama's comment, to Joe<br>the Plumber, about spreading the wealth. She quoted Karl Marx and asked how<br>
Obama isn't being a Marxist with the 'spreading the wealth' comment. 'Are<br>you joking?' said Biden, who is Obama's running mate. 'No,' West said. West<br>later asked Biden about his comments that Obama could be tested early on as<br>
president. She wondered if the Delaware senator was saying America's days as<br>the world's leading power were over. 'I don't know who's writing your<br>questions,' Biden shot back. Biden so disliked West's line of questioning<br>
that the Obama campaign cancelled a WFTV interview with Jill Biden, the<br>candidate's wife. <br>In that interview, Biden also flatly denied that the Obama campaign was<br>funding corrupt Acorn to deliver voter registration. But as the Investor's<br>
Business Daily has reported, it did - and then tried to hide it:<br>Obama paid ACORN, which has endorsed him for president, $800,000 to register<br>new voters, payments his campaign failed to accurately report. (They were<br>
disguised in his FEC disclosure as payments to a front group called Citizen<br>Services Inc. for 'advance work.') <br>At NRO Mark Levin identifies a terrifying historical echo when he shudders<br>that, such is the tide of irrationality running in this campaign, the<br>
American public appears to be falling under the cult-like spell of an<br>authoritarian demagogue. He is surely correct. For all Obama's laid-back,<br>attractive appearance this election is being fought in an atmosphere of<br>
menace. Menace in the way ACORN is intimidating voters into multiple<br>registrations. Menace in the way criminal donations to the Obama campaign<br>have been institutionalised. Menace in the serial lies being told by Obama,<br>
Biden and the campaign rebuttal team. Menace in the way the few remaining<br>proper journalists such as Stanley Kurtz are finding sources of information<br>shut down and themselves shut out when they attempt to probe Obama's deeply<br>
dubious associations. Menace in the smears and hysterical abuse directed at<br>anyone who questions The One. Menace in the threat of violence if Obama<br>doesn't win. Menace in the pre-emptive smear that the only thing that could<br>
bring about an Obama defeat is the inherent racism of the American voters -<br>a smear that potentially identifies all those who vote against him as public<br>enemies.<br>Over the past seven years, the media has created the Big Lie that America is<br>
the biggest rogue state in the world, with Israel its proxy. Now it is<br>ensuring that a man who will act on that very premise to crush America and<br>destroy Israel will be placed in the White House to do so. It is not just<br>
that the west's Big Media can no longer be trusted. It has become the most<br>important weapon in the arsenal of the enemies of the free world. <br><br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------</blockquote>
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