[GCFL-discuss] FW: Is America Really Going to To this?

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