[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 <gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net> wrote:



	For your evaluation
	greenBubble
	
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	From: naomiragen at mail-list.com [mailto:naomiragen at mail-list.com]
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	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-trut
h-to
	-power.thtml
<http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/2550646/the-sacrifice-of-tru
th-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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