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

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GreenB, my friend found an article that seems to echo much with this
article: http://www.worldmag.com/articles/14587

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Lance Kirkman <romans832 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 <gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> For your evaluation
>> greenBubble
>>
>> -----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?
>>
>>
>> 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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