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Obama Muzzling the Media [Update]

On the eve of his climactic convention speech, Obama’s camapign has turned its full energy to shutting down any media focus on his relationship with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. Obama’s ludicrous claim that Ayers was just some guy in the “neighborhood” is being exposed systematically for the lie it is. In fact, Ayers was a mentor and close associate for years and was instrumental in launching first his professional and then his political career. Obama has systematically covered up their links and lied about them.

Now Obama has unleashed his fury at Chicago’s biggest AM radio station owned by the Chicago Tribune for allowing a conservative writer and researcher Stanley Kurtz of the National Review to appear on a talk show to discuss his findings on the Ayers-Obama collaboration. [UPDATE: LISTEN to the MP3 of the WGN interview.]

Kurtz may be a conservative. His political views may be obnoxious. But his research is conclusive, factual and inarguable. Ayers and Obama have had a long relationship with Ayers playing the mentor and Obama as protege. And Obama has lied and lied and lied.

Kurtz’s work, unlike Jerome Corsi’s, is not a smear. It is factual.

Why is Obama reacting with such nervousness and such disproportionate anger? Because the truth is so damaging. You can’t hang with an unrepentant terrorist and then want to get elected as commander-in-chief to lead a global war on terror. The average voter won’t swallow that nonsense.

Will the mainstream media report the facts as Kurtz has done? Will it finally do the objective reporting it failed to do throughout the primary campaign? Will the media be upset at Obama’s effort at news suppression and censorship? Will the media discuss Obama’s assault on the First Amendment?

  • http://www.hillaryorbust.com Hillary or Bust

    I think my concern with all of this is that many Democrats are so numbed by years of Republican smears that they immediately dismiss any real information on Obama as yet another Republican smear. I’m not even sure if getting this info out will help much, except perhaps a few undecideds. So many Democrats are in denial that a Democrat might be just as bad and corrupt as Bush!

  • Kim

    Hey Larry, haven’t you ever heard the saying…the people who are guilty always scream the loudest. Well, in my life, I have found this to be very true. This has hit a nerve with the Obama camp, and I believe they are frightened that the voters may start looking at him and his past more closely.

  • Caya

    I saw William Daley last night on Greta and it was pretty funny, he accidentally said Tom instead of Bill and nobody has even brought up that Daddy Ayers was also involved. He quickly tried to correct himself of course but…

  • http://investigatebarackobama.wordpress.com/about/ kat in your hat

    Maybe a republican will lay all the details out at the republican convention?

    Imagine? If he/ she says all of it right at the podium, at prime time, with all the news networks covering it.

    THAT would get the message out for sure.

  • Elizabeth Reilly

    The answer to your questions is NO! The media haven’t done their job for close to 2 years and they won’t start now.

    It’s up to you wonderful folks in the blogosphere to root out Obama’s corruption and expose it to the rest of us. I have to wonder if despots of the past would have gotten away with their wars, genocides, etc., etc., had there been a blog world chronicling ther actions. I thank heavens that you guys exist!

  • camus

    Take a step back and remember what happened to Nixon. It was not the crime that got him. It has the covering up of the crime that did him in.

  • AnononoMale

    You are, unfortunately, exactly right.

  • tish

    republicans dont have to smear the dems all they have to do is point out the facts just the same way you have been pointing out the facts about obama, pelosi, reid, gore,

  • beverly leslie

    Well the republicans will keep hammering this information up until election day. The leftist dems will never care but those are not the people the repubs are targeting. The are targeting centrists, who will not vote for Barky when all this info is released.

    As far as the media doing their job, forget about it. Blogs such as these are the ones uncovering and doing the work the media long ago abandoned. Thanks Larry.

  • HARP

    Three out of four Democrats (74%) say the party’s ongoing national convention has unified them as they roll out now in full force to put their nominee, Barack Obama, in the White House. Just 14% think the convention has not unified them.

    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/74_of_democrats_say_convention_has_unified_them

  • VMorris

    Exactly.

  • SteveC

    Obama’s chickens…coming home to roost.

  • beverly leslie

    Who did they poll? Reid Pelosi Dean and Brazille?

  • HARP

    I figure McCain needs a 10 point lead going in or they will jigger the numbers somehow.

  • nickoury

    The Dumbacratic Party is playing America as fools selling inexperience as wisdom and hope as gold just to fill their party’s coffers with money and power.

  • VMorris

    1. We are constantly reminded that polls right now don’t matter. In fact, I wonder if they ever matter.

    2. The more important thing: how is this farce of a convention playing in Ohio and Pennsylvania?

    3. How will middle America feel about voting for a candidate who is friends with a domestic terrorist?

    4. How will middle America feel about a candidate whose pastor of 20-years yelled a screed of G_D America from the pulpit only a few days after 9/11?

    It’s not just about the Democrats anymore.

    I want to extend my thanks to Larry too for having a blog whose members are card-carrying O’BamaNuts or cowardly Democrats who are afraid to publicly buck the party line.

  • NITEOWL

    Bill O’Reilly is right when he says the media is corrupt. Bill should know, he and his network are part of it.

  • Lil’ Mike

    Even if the Rasmussen poll is true, Obama cannot afford to give up 14% of Democrats in a close election. And if the number is 14% after the highest point of Democratic goodwill that Obama can hope for, post convention, what will it be a few weeks or a month from now when the convention glow has worn off?

  • LindaA1

    It only takes 5-10% of Hillary supporters voting for McCain to hand Obama a loss in the general election. I think we’ll be more than capable of delivering that number in November.

    One would have to believe that Obama can come up with “new” stuff about himself that will just bowl us over – in a positive way. And one would have to believe that the GOP is going to be so ineffectual against Obama that he will have a clear shot at impressing us in a political vaccum over the next two months.

    Can anybody out there see that happening? I think not.

    President McCain. Senate leader Hillary. Bye bye Dean, Pelosi, Brazile and company!

  • http://www.deathofthedemocrticparty.com xax

    It’s creepy. You know if it was a separate group or organization that staged the protest, I wouldn’t have too much of problem with it. But this entire thing came from the obama team. And more importantly, indeed frightening, is that people obeyed the order. They did EXACTLY what the obama campaign wanted them to and no one seemed to question it.

    Funny thing is if they actually believed in what they were told to do, they would have continued the calls and complaints during and after the guy came on. I guess these people don’t understand what a REAL cause is and how to fight for it. They just want people to think like them. So they try it intimidate you and if it doesn’t work they move on to the next victim.

    When the word zombies is applied to obama supporters, I just thought it applied to some fringe group. But now I fear this actually applies to most if not the majority. Many of them are mindless.

  • roseeriter

    Hey- the Bush gestapo quelched the media and the New Dems are playing the Rovian game what the hell did we expect?

    I’m just as pissed at all the republicans not yelling louder as I am for the Dems hypocrisy Fraud, Lies surrounding the whole Primary.

    This has been the only TRUTH TELLING outlet inspite of all the bots and trolls that I have found that’s not tainted with Thuggery.

    Where are all the SMART citizens who believe in Democracy and honesty??

    The other serious truth is the CORPORATE OWNED MEDIA IS SQUELCHING HONEST UNFORMATION AND REAL NEWS AN HOW ANY REPORTER OR TALKING HEAD HACKS FEEL LIKE THEY ARE DOING AN honest days work is sad sad commentary.

    (sorry for the caps, my keyboard needs to be replaced from all my yelling..)

  • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

    Listen to Stanley here…2 hours long.
    http://caster.wgnradio.com/podcasts/x720full-043-080827.mp3

  • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

    Thanks for the link.

  • Total

    Well, Fox refused to air the 527 ad. Yet, Hannity sat there night after night blasting BHO. I don’t really see any difference. Furthermore, there are a number of articles in newspapers across the country in regards to Ayers/BHO.

  • Scully

    That would be AWESOME!!! I kept waiting for Bill to do it last night, but I figured that was a fruitless wish. :-(

  • http://www.deathofthedemocrticparty.com xax

    Chances are they polled people who actually watched the convention. So the poll is skewed from the jump.

    And if 14% of people who are watching still don’t feel confident in O, then that makes it all the worse.

  • red_sleeves

    What about this poll?

    How accurate is it historically? I believe it used to have Clinton up over Obama for most of the primary, which was accurate.

    http://news.aol.com/political-machine/straw-poll

  • Total

    The media ALWAYS have a little love fest right before the feast. LOL! This time is no different. As soon as this “Convention” is over, it’s on…

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/PaulFVillarreal Paul F. Villarreal

    I guess that the Obama people will have to work hard to cover up the almost unimaginable moral bankruptcy and extensive Communist ties of Obama’s long-time mentor, Frank Marshall Davis:

    http://www.postchronicle.com/commentary/article_212167696.shtml

    READ THIS. You need to see just how incredible detestable yet another one of Obama’s mentors was. It’s not just Ayers, it’s Davis, Wright, Pfleger.

    Obama is a seriously conflicted, poisonously-influenced (by his own choice) radical who is part of a large-scale authoritarian leftist coaltion that inclues MoveOn and others.

    Educate yourself on this. LJ’s post here is dead-on. These guys, Team Obama, are straight-out thugs and their “Camp Obama” gatherings are little more than the training of latter-day Brown Shirts such as those employed by a fascist leader 70 years ago.

    Spread the word, and help people wake up before these Hugo Chavez wannabes actually get hold of the reins of power.

    If that happens, no one will be beyond Obama’s capacity to bully, intimidate and strike back against.

  • nocturnal warrior

    Team Obama just started on a very slippery slope. It is one thing to try and use your clout as a political advertiser to try and prevent stations from running a negative 527 ad (these are not subject to election equal and fair access requirements,) it is wholly another to ogranize your minions to attack media outlets that offer up viewpoints that you disagree with or offend your high and mighty sensibilities.

    This makes no sense. The Obama camp has hundreds of friendly media outlets to make their case for them. Why challenge WGN and even bring this to light? It’s in Chicago, where Obama probably has an 85% approval rating and could carry the state of Illinois in November without spending another dollar.(The Chicago Political Machine is already bought and paid for!) Why piss of Tribune, one of the leading media outlets in the country?

    It must be desperation. They see something coming down the road and are trying to stifle it now. Desperately trying to hold back the flood gates.

    Well the flood just might be coming. And I doubt you will handle your flood any better than Bush handled his. You’re doing a heckuva job there Barky.

  • i am your commander in chief

    As Ralph Nader says the dems and repubs are the same this coming from person who is a 45 yr member of the carpenter union UBC, maybe it my age but I do not think so. Help and vote for Nader, before it is to late.

  • http://obamafact.blogspot.com/ Mel

    We know Ayers and Obama have had a relationship since 1987 with the ABC Coalition. What is forgotten is:

    Ayers former WU g/f blew herself up in NYC while making a bomb to blow up soldiers at a party at Fort Braggs and dumb luck was the only thing that had Ayers not there at the time unfortunately, because we’d not have this discussion otherwise now.

    Also, Ayers is so willing to talk about his rebel past and his views, it is a failure in judgement or it was known on Obama’s part to know Ayers true feelings.

    An excuse can be made for the period of 1987 to 2001 for working with Ayers to some degree for a non-political person and definately not a POTUS potential candidate, but the combining of the 9-11 attacks and Ayers published words of not doing enough on 9-11 is grounds for any person to throw the likes of Ayers under a bus and run the bus back anf forth many times!

    Yet Obama continued working with Ayers for a year after the 9-11 episode and gave a speech to a potest organized by Ayers co-Weathermen in 2002 against the Iraq war.

    Ayers relationship with Obama funnelled money to groups like ACORN, while together on the Woods fund, but Obama had been funnelling money to ACORN or years before Ayers joined the Woods Fund. Thus the cloth of Ayers and Obama are one in the same obviously.

    But a step out of the fantasy Obama expects to reality:

    Obama’s friend Ayers was planning on blowing up soldiers and their g/f’s – wives at a party, it failed, but the intent was there. Ayers and Dohrn blew up government buildings and killed police with bombs and fell not enough was done and are not repentant. This is Obama’s friend, the man who wants to be CIC over the military while having worked with a terrorist who wanted to blow up soldiers and he wants to have control over the CIA and FBI while his buddy killed law enforement officers.

    So Obama what is wrong with this picture?
    Answer is Obama!

  • Scully

    Yeah, I’ve been worried about that too. Sometimes I think it’s not going to matter how many more votes McCain gets in the fall. I mean, they didn’t look into the caucus fraud which would have reversed Obama’s delegate lead.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/PaulFVillarreal Paul F. Villarreal

    Here is Ben Smith’s (Politico) take on the thug tactics of Team Obama:

    http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0808/Obama_camp_blasts_National_Review_writer_as_slimy_character_assassin.html?showall

    We have to fight back against this wanton suppression of free speech. It is chilling. Obama’s camp didn’t try to send someone to rebut Kurtz, they just wanted to silence him, like Kim Jong Il might a dissenter.

    Chilling.

    Stand up, spread the word. Fight back.

    NObama. No totalitarian regimes in America.

  • Total

    You’re right about the polls. Why, just yesterday wasn’t it? That Pelosi said that the polls askew? They can’t get anyone to buy into their reasoning now that things have reversed on their arses. Too frickin bad. It was that the polls were “right” when Obama’s numbers were UP but now that they are down it’s boo-hoo – they are soooo unfair! Stomp feet. Tantrum.

  • http://! Buzz Latte

    It’s the individuals that the polls don’t reflect or talk to that already have this information via the internet and word of mouth. Those are the voters Obama needs to fear because the polls are just flash polls and are good for about the moment they are done.

    Sure the dems are united (wink, wink). But, Obama has several huge tasks to juggle at once.

    1) keep his past quashed when it’s already been out there for months on end.

    2) convince all democrats he’s worthy to be running – he hasn’t done that, yet.

    3) keep his own lying mouth and that of Biden’s out of hot water – he’s incapable of telling the truth. Biden’s incapable of shutting up!

    4) bone up on about 200 years of American history – he doesn’t know dick about anything really.

    5) keep his rampant narcissism in check which will be impossible for this emperor with no clothes on.

    6) answer to the lawsuits and pray that the TRO isn’t signed to bar him from running for president.

    7) be all the things Big Dawg said he was. Which we know he doesn’t hold a candle in the wind’s chance of doing that.

    8) keep the race baiting white hating wife under control – which we’ve already gotten a whiff of her and it ain’t good. She is the most negative influence to come on the political scene in a while. But she balances his mental illness and grandiosity by being a hateful junkyard dog.

    9) was keeping the lid on his past mentioned? Well this is probably the impossible one since the 527s and the GOP and even the pissed off Dems have had the goods for months/years.

    Sorry, despot Obama. We already know far too much about you. You’re going down in flames.

  • harvey

    The news stations I watched this morning was already laughing at Obama over his Grecian stage settings. Maybe that coupled with his Ayers affliation is more than the greek god can handle. Time is not Obama’s friend.

  • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

    We are not fools …now they are just lying…

  • s. hall

    hillary or bust — never has the Democratic Party nominated a candidate who was so unpopular with the American people. 48% of Clinton voters will not vote for Obama under any circumstances 28% will definitely vote for McCain. The rest are saying they will vote for others or stay home.

    Democrats get whats going on. Even Pelosi said the Party is not united. Democrats don’t win even when they are united behind their candidate. This time it will be a landslide for McCain. Believe me Democrats are very nervous over all this.

  • red_sleeves

    Obama and his campaign have called Stanley Kurtz a slimy character assassin and smear-merchant, while defending William Ayers as a mainstream English professor.

    Which deserves more calumny — a journalist or an unrepentant terrorist?

  • AX10

    Obama has a nasty authoritarian streak, just like Nixon. Yet, we are told that McCain has the bad temper.

  • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

    Read my post…I am sick of being lied to by the dems. All of them!

    http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/well-i-have-been-duped-againjust-wordslies/

  • Windy

    Larry,

    You continue to make a fool out of yourself. It is so glaringly apparent that you are merely a racist and use your disgusting rants as cover for your agenda.

  • harvey

    Time is finally working against Obama.

  • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

    this is for:VMorris

  • s. hall

    red sleeves — thats a poll I can believe in. As for Rasmussen — the poll is only as good as the person paying for it. Pelosi herself said the Convention did not unite the Party.

  • nickoury

    Nader is toast. He should stick to Consumer Affairs and watchdog issues. America cannot afford more wasted votes until there is a viable third party alternative.

  • John Lark

    Will the media discuss Obama’s assault on the First Amendment?

    Like Geraldine Ferraro said, “after the elections.” As a casual la la la la, C-Span little forum, we screwed you and you can’t do nothing about it. Too bad. You get what you deserve sort of discussion. Watch it at the National Press Club lunch meet sometime late in 2009.

    JL

  • DanO

    Don’t forget the faulty voting machines may give a 10 point lean on election day… to a random candidate.

    Why did we change from paper? Oh the holes don’t punch through all the way. Can we make a voting system that works please? :)

  • Blueray98

    CNN is reporting on the Political Ticker that McCain will air an “exciting” ad tonight before Obama’s speech in key battleground states.

  • s. hall

    30 year — Your post was right on the money. Its hard to believe that a candidate can cow the media like this. Lets see what happens when the Republicans take the floor.

  • harvey

    What would you know about race unless you belong to one?

  • SteveC

    Top ten townhall questions for Obama

    1. If you were never a practicing Muslim, how could you know and recite the Muslim “Call to prayer” as per your

    own words “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset”.

    Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a

    remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as one of the prettiest

    sounds on Earth at sunset.

    2. Do you feel that ones friends or associates has any direct bearing on one’s personal character.

    3. As a candidate for public office, does any candidate have the ablility to set bounds on public inquiry
    of a candidate’s view or background.

    Obama calling for his wife is off limits, and “I will let no one question my love of this country.”

    4. Have you ever has anyother name besides Barack Hussein Obama, and if so under what circumstances?

    5. What hospital were you born in?

    6. How is Barry Soetoro? And what relationship is he to you?
    Trick question, but with no teleprompter, you never know what answer you’ll get.

    7. What changed Joe Biden’s opinion about your qualification for President?

    Joe Biden stated “I think he can be ready but right now I don’t believe he [Barack Obama] is. The Presidency is

    not something that lends its self to on the job training.”

    8. Since none of your supporters can claim one accomplishment that lends to your credibility as a
    Presidential candidate, can you provide one?

    9. Numerous graffs during the campaign, such as the Banking Committee and your Uncle that liberated the WW2
    prision camp, how do you explain these?

    10. How do you define your relationship with Bill Ayers. A relationship that has been active for over 20 years,

    and what views do you and Bill Ayers share?

  • beverly leslie

    Stop blaming and stop the hate obot.

    You’ve used the word racist so much it really has no meaning anymore. Congratulate yourself on making a difference.

  • MartineinKY

    I suggest we use the email form provide by Obama to voice support to the Chicago radio station.

  • s. hall

    linda — 48% of Clinton Democrats will not vote for Obama under any circumstances. 28% will vote for McCain the rest will vote for others or stay home. Those are numbers we can believe in.

    Obama has the money to buy his own poll results — he did it before all the primaries in big states but he lost anyway. McCain would rather be the underdog but he looks like the cat that swallowed the creme. This election was going to be a Democratic Sweep of all three branches of Government until they put up Obama and split the party. Now they could lose it all.

  • Leibniz08

    Weathermen Get The H-Bomb

    Yes a President Obama opens the door to the Weather Oberground and the ODM Orange Democratic Movement to get the bomb…

    What this post by Johnson portends is the fact that the Obama New World Order police state is a very dangerous reality. Why did Obama vote for FISA? Because he wants these powers himself?

    This is all why breaking the Phil Berg’s lawsuit against Obama, the alien terorist operation, is so important.

  • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

    I am ready…I am so sick of being lied to and told it is for party unity….what about our country?

  • democracyfirst

    Where are all the SMART citizens who believe in Democracy and honesty??

    Where were they when they elected Bush – Twice!
    That is what really scares me. Are they still so oblivious?

  • SteveC

    Just imagine what Obama will do with the powers of the Presidency.
    Retgardless of what you might envision, make it 100x your worst nightmare.
    Pardon the prisoners, let the terrorists go free.
    Declare a Military State, confiscate all weapons.
    The list is endless.

    Phil Berg’s suit MUST have the light of day.

  • Peniel

    Kim,
    I agree. When the OBs blog the loudest … you know you’ve really spoken the truth that they can’t defend against.

    Plus you nailed it Larry when you said:

    You can’t hang with an unrepentant terrorist and then want to get elected as commander-in-chief to lead a global war on terror.

    That brought the Commander-in-Chief argument full circle … not only commanding our military but also heading-up the war on terror. Good way to bring it home!

  • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

    I like the new ad Remote Control.

  • democracyfirst

    His camp says it will feature McCain talking directly into the camera to Obama.

  • democracyfirst

    If the media were smart, which apparently they aren’t, they would not let the news be subverted by Obama. It will come back to bite them in the butt.

    This is all going to come out, sooner or later, and the media complicit in the cover-up will have to pay. The cost will be determined by the damage they allowed to happen.

    The media can make or break anyone. If they make Obama POTUS, he will likely put them out of business.
    I have no doubt he would outlaw free speech.

  • tzada

    Hey I have been right here and at other blogs for months, pointing out Barry and his deceits. Through fate or fraud I turned up as a Democrat at voting time. That said I am a Republican and I have supported either Hillary or McCain. Let’s not let someone try and start a fight between us. It may be the intention to divide and conquer. That is a play right out of the Arabs play book. If we don’t stand together we will get what they want and that would be king Obama.

    McCain 2008
    Clinton 2012

  • penguin

    You are so right. Everything you said is true. My fear is that if he gets elected he’ll be able to do whatever he wants and the Dems will not say a word.

  • http://mmb silverfox

    the sadness i now feel regarding the bogus hoopla of the past few days is a grey melancholy weight. almost everyone there in the convention hall was in a state of hopiated bamboozlement.

    Hillary Clinton was the only real truth in the whole circus. she has emerged as the most powerful figure in the struggling democratic party, and the party elites best bring her in from the cold shoulder or the millions of folks that she reached in her amazing speech will have their heads.

    . god, how i love that woman.

    aside from the corrupt power elites in the “new” democratic party, struggling to get obama to POTUS before the real shit hits the fan,and the miserable nasty trolls for obobo that have been loosed upon all of us, there are very good, well meaning folks out there who want obama to be who he says he is, no matter what is exposed. they simply cannot believe that any of it is true and that it must be the republicans dirty tricks at work.

    it is these idealist anti-repubs that are going to be hit very hard when the obama house of cards gets dismantled in the next few months.. their blinders are supported by the MSM which bombards them every day with “truthiness”. mention blog info to them and they scratch their heads, as they are only imbibing the hopium. all the misogyny, sexism, classism, and black on white bigotry that was played again and again from the obamacans in the primary went right by them.

    whooosh.

    whatever the reasons. ppor devils.

    a rude awakening awaits..

    thus they will go with obama no matter what to get the repubs out. they are the desperate ones. in a strange and surreal way, i identify with their desperation.

    these are the folks who will get obama to POTUS, along with the crooks who got him to where he now is.

    and dammit..i don’t want 4 more years of repub hooah either.

    i resign from the debating society. call me a racist,i don’t even care anymore. i am impervious to that slur. but i can never be accused of smoking the hopium.

    obama and co have hijacked Democracy. he himself is a conniving politician of the chicago variety. a willing player in an empty suit. the figurehead POTUS to be of the “new democratic pahtee”. the one male democrat who may pull it off….dean, kerry, kennedy, edwards, biden, et al couldn’t do when they were also ran’s. so now they are using the race strategy, and a sweet talking, wise cracking, African American teflon puppet to get the power they have so desperately failed to get on their own.

    make no mistake…mr obama controls nothing. he is the complicit manchurian. and nancy pelosi will be third in line for POTUS.

    i’m wide awake now, baby.

    and i’m taking my ball and going home for a spell.

    this game is a heartbreaking bad joke.

    thanks NoQuarter, and all you great truth tellers that travel the blogosphere.

  • hootnannie

    Hillary could have gotten back a great many Reagan Dems. Obama cannot. All the Repubs need do is show the photo of Ayers standing on the flag or play the audio of Bobo saying that getting help for live aborted babies “burdens a woman’s right to choose” by having to call in an extra doc. The right wing is just now introducing the public to Ayers, and I assume the flag-stomping pix will come later. There won’t be an American left who doesn’t know about all Obama’s neferious associates, including Soviet-linked Commie Frank Marshall Davis. I’ll bet the MSM is already talking landslide behind the scenes.

  • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

    I bet it will be good.

  • John Lark

    Yeah, by calling it appropriate speech or else send you to the watch list.

  • http://! Buzz Latte

    Count six of us in the percentage that WILL NOT vote for Obama. I’ve toyed with becoming an independent and then decided the bigger lesson is to Vote GOP as a Dem.

    I’ll become unaffiliated after the GE.

  • RMinNC

    WAKE UP AMERICA……

    obama is giving us a pre-presidentual preview of his intentions once he has control of our country.

    All right wing conservative media sources will be silenced (that’s you Rush, that’s you Hannety, that’s you O’Riley, and that’s you average Joe American, who believes in the Constitution of the United States).

    We will be spoon-fed his hyped up socialist line of “yes you better” stuff, and woo to those who do not accept him as lord and master (don’t pay any attention to that man behind the curtain).

    When berry sotoro takes center stage tonight in his Roman Ampatheather, will he be wearing the purple toga of royality, or a lily white toga representing his pureness of purpose?

    Will the band be playing Kombuya, or to Hell with the Chief? Will Rev. Jeramiah, or the “not so holy father” offer a silent prayer for his devine guidance?

    Will “the one” rise up center stage like a Roman god coming to humor his subjects, or will he walk out on stage like an average man?

    Will his crowning wreath be of pure (Soro) gold, or will it be an ordinary green like Ceasear wore when he marched into Rome?

    Will he have a slave posted behind him in his charoit as he parades around the arena as Ceasear did whispering “remember you are only mortal and all glory is fast fadeing”, or will the slave be required to whisper, “you are the one they have been waiting for”?

    Will the subjects in attendance be required to bow never casting eyes on his image, or will that formality be excused until after his true “crowning coronation”?

    Will that be in Washington DC as all other Commander’s in Chiefs have done, or will the event be in the Bird’s Nest in China, so the whole world can pay homage to his greatness?

    So many questions, so few answers.

    But that’s been the story of Barry’s life hasn’t it-
    to many questions, to few answers.

    I can’t speak for anyone but myself. But I am ONE. My voice along with MILLIONS and MILLIONS of other ONEs will speak loud and clear on November 4, 2008.

    We will not be silenced. We will not be bullied, and we will not be ruled by this great pretender. I’m a proud American, always have been, always will be until the last shovel of dirt is placed over me.

    Freedom is too precious for us to ignore what is now being planned for America’s destruction.

    We should all remember the short story about Hitler and his henchmen:

    I did not complain when they came for the Jew, because I was not a Jew.
    I did not complain when they came for the French, because I was not French.
    I did not complain when they came for the Poles, because I was not Polish.
    I did not complain when they came for the Russians because I was not Russian.

    Finally when they came for me, there was no one left to complain.

    For those who don’t read, understand , or care about history, they are poor lost sheep who are bound to repeat the same mistakes over and over, and over.

    Life is too short, and the stakes are too high for this blind hysteria we now witness in the main steam media made political arena.

    DON’T FOLLOW THE PIPER AND THOSE OTHER FOOLS OVER THE ENDLESS CLIFF !

  • http://! Buzz Latte

    I took a very unofficial poll of my own on the comments regarding Ben Smith’s article.

    At 25+ comments there were 4 pro Obama and 25 anti Obama and a couple that were indistinguishable.

    I’d draw the conclusion that either the Obots are too busy putting out other fires, gathering palm fronds for the emperor, or running for cover.

    Obama’s purpose has already been defeated just by the fact that this is out on NQ and everywhere else.

  • http://mccaindemocrats.wordpress.com/ 30yrdem-not any more

    Thanks for adding the mp3 in an update. I put it in other comments below…

    I am listening…almost over…Obama’s people are fighting the truth getting out when they call in.
    Think he (Stanley) has no right to be on the radio while the convention goes on….

    The truth has to get out about Odrama and Ayres. I update everyday on it.

  • destardi

    lol@gathering palm fronds

  • Peggy Sue

    I think you have a really strong point, Hillary or Bust. The Republicans have desensitized people to these sort of attacks. Democrats expect them and often discount them as pure smear and innuendo, simply to damage their candidate.

    But now, we have the Democratic Party leadership who have turned a blind eye and deaf ear to truely troubling and downright ugly connections that this man had in Chicago politics. Evelyn Pringle wrote an exhaustive and exhausting account of Obama’s history and dubious connections to Rezko and whole slew of slimy characters. Obama is a fraud.

    The MSM and the Democratic leadership ignored all the material and pushed Obama down our throats anyway. And that’s why I left the Democratic Party. Sadly, the DNC is no better than the Republican machine that most Dem members have always hated. And this faux Convention is only further proof. I hope they all burn in Hell.

  • SteveC

    Just imagine the uproar if my spectlation is right.
    The Annenberg money was funneled to Wright’s church.
    Think of it, a perfect tri-fecta.

    Ayers and Obama on the committee that went through 50+ million dollars [where was it spent], funneling to Wright’s church for public education in a racist church.
    Even if a small part was funneled, he’s toast.
    Obama is finished!!!!

  • Joel

    I think most of the Obamites don’t even care what Obama has done, or will do. They’re in love, and they’ll let nothing stand in the way.

  • IndayHill

    In response to the wonder of the tech, Elizabeth, is the collective power of people in a non-violent way. The apathy will kill the goal of exposing the truth.Passing the word in this blogsphere works wonder and action speaks louder at the poll, come November 4, 2008.
    I read one article clearly illustrating the radical views of the Obamas.Michelle’s DNC convention speech plagiarized from a radical book, “Rules for Radicals” by Saul D. Alinsky, http://workingmannews.com
    Mr.Larry Johnson, can you please give us more insight about this?
    Smart citizens, let us work harder to give our beloved country the most qualified leader. Vote for Senator John McCain ’08 ; Hillary ’12 !

    God Save America !!!

  • El

    “Senator Obama’s actions…were in direct conflict with the efforts and interests of US national security.”

    It could be arguable whether there are any violations of the Logan Act.

  • tzada
  • karen for Clinton

    That mp3 is such a thing of summation of all we have been through exposing this man, in audio form. The callers are so delusional in their utter sickening devotion and ill informed to the max. That was like listening to all their blog posts here. That the radio station was under the attack of callers before the show even started was pretty interesting in itself, but that that radio station had never seen such organized opposition of emails and calls from angry people who had no idea what the subject of the discussion entailed was so spot on.

    And they all used the exact talking points from the email they all received from the ob campaign even though each piece of propaganda was dispelled.

    Their brainwashing is astounding.

    Steve Diamond’s call was nice to hear and especially interestingly noted as coming from a different base and having another viewpoint and angle which dovetailed with the conservatives research too.

    The callers tried to disagree with the basic facts that are not even credible in any way to dispute. Ob WAS in close contact with Ayers, they deny it by using the”just a guy in my neighborhood” ob defense.

    Just wow. They’re sure a bunch of brown nose, brown shirt, propaganda believing and spewing sewer rats.

    And the quotes from the lobby on freedom of speech said it all. Ob rules their thoughts and allows for no variety. I hope they listen to the bits about Michelle and Uncle Jerry the marxist too, and really ponder what they are really about. The old “be careful what you wish for” is going to hit them hard pretty soon.

  • El

    “… a protest organized by Ayers co-Weathermen in 2002 against the Iraq war.”

    This particular detail is one I was unaware of. Can you give a link or further detail on this protest and the organizers?

  • tzada

    Money from the Wood Fund was given to Wrights church.

  • jwrjr

    There is an old saying that goes “better to be silent and thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.” Oborg in general and “Windy” in particular demonstrate the truth of this saying.

  • s. hall

    30 yr Dem listened to the program you linked us to. I believe that Obama’s real agenda is too far to the left for most people to go along with–a total redistribution of wealth done with our taxes. If people were aware of this there would be a public outcry — therefore Obama placates his supporters with the big okey dokey. I found it interesting that while no Obama representative would appear on the program with Stanley Kurtz they urged people to call to complain that Obama was not being treated fairly because he had no representation.

  • SteveC

    Found this – doing a quick search:

    Obama and Domestic Terrorist Ayers Funneled Money to Jeremiah Wright Church and Arab American Action Network – NRO

    The relationship between Barack Obama and unrepentant terrorist William Ayers (pictured at right) appears to be even more involved than we already knew. Papers just released by the University of Illinois-Chicago, after much public pressure, show that Obama and Ayers collaborated as members of the board of the Woods Fund to funnel money to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Trinity United Church of Christ and the Arab American Action Network – founded by Rashid Khaldidi who supported Yassir Arafat and the Palestinians against Israel.

    In fact, by 1997 Obama and Ayers were collaborators on a far more significant level. They sat together for several years on the board of the Woods Fund, a left-wing Chicago charitable organization. There, they doled out tens of thousands of dollars to such beneficiaries as the Trinity Church (where Obama was a longtime member and where another Obama mentor, Jeremiah Wright, preached a radical, anti-American brand of Black Liberation Theology) and the Arab American Action Network (co-founded by Rashid Khalidi, a Yasser Arafat apologist who has supported attacks against Israel and now directs Columbia University’s notorious Middle East Institute, founded by Edward Said).

  • IndayHill

    Windy, we are so tired of the race card you and your idol are using when you are in a defensive position.
    Your type have NO CLASS !!
    It is DUMB AND STUPID !!!

    IMO,it is you and your idol who have the agenda to continue better in blowing up America !
    Larry Johnson is a patriot doing his duty to save America from your idol’s radical views. Otherwise,join us in the march for truth: Barack Obama is not ready to be POTUS !!

    Vote for McCain ’08 ; Hillary ’12

    God Save America !!!

  • s. hall

    Paul Villarreal — What I find most interesting is the fact that David Mariness has decided this this is unimportant. I think if everyone you are close to is a Marxist and you are running for President of the United States then its very important that we know about it.

  • s. hall

    nocturnal warrier — I just listened to the program and I agree that Obama is desperate not to have his real agenda uncovered so he threatens the media. We are heading down a slippery slope when a candidate who has lots of money uses it to threaten our air waves. WGN Radio spoke about it –will others have the same courage? Once Obama and Ayers real agenda comes to light — Americans will run not walk to the voting booth to vote against him.

  • s. hall

    i am your commander in chief — and who says who Nader belongs to? He comes out every 4 years to run for President and takes home a nice piece of change for doing so. What does he do in between–God only knows.

    We do know this — Nader will not win and every vote McCain doesn’t get is a vote for Obama.

  • s. hall

    Mel — Ayers and Obama have an agenda to redistribute the wealth of this country with taxation. They are very close to one another and have been for many years. Obama must have been awfully confident that this would never surface.

  • IndayHill

    ABC did not escape the wrath of the Obama thugs when the producer of ABC’s Trail of Money, was doing his job standing on a public sidewalk in front of the hotel where the corporate VIPs’, DNC officials are staying. They had him & his crew arrested.
    http://workingmannews.com

    While you are there, please, check the link:
    Michelle’s DNC Convention Speech Plagiarized from Radical Book, “Rules for Radicals “, Saul D. Alinsky.

    God Save America !!!

  • s. hall

    indayforHill–Well said.l

  • Leisa

    The date of the coronation of Obama being the on the anniversary of MLK’s brilliant speech is a confirmation, IMO, that this night, this nominee, was planned long ago. I think the powers that be in the DNC had only this vision in their minds and all factual warnings and proper vetting was discarded for this one historic night.

    There is no way that Obama can measure up to the icons of the old Democratic Party. He is no MLK or JFK…

  • Leisa

    I read a poll today that claims the 40% of parents do their child’s homework.

    With how high stakes grades are to get into good colleges, these parents will throw ethics out the window and viola’, we now have a generation of people that think cheating is a means to an end, and if your win, all the better.

  • Francis

    Yawn. Spreading more lies and distortions on behalf of the Republicans. This is so getting old.

  • rjj

    Are we sure we have the Cause-Effect relationships right here? Looks to me like CorpsMedia are one set of Obama patrons/sponsors. He is their creature.

  • Francis

    How is fighting back against lies and distortions “muzzling the media”.

  • s. hall

    steve c — 110 Million was wasted by Obama and Ayers.

  • Leisa

    HARP, I do not tell anyone I am a democrat anymore. Too embarrassing.

    Fifty-two percent (52%) of voters overall agree that the convention has unified Democrats, while only 30% disagree, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.

  • snosandy

    Wow, great show! It also explains a lot about the “Coast to Coast” radio show I was listening to about a week ago with the attorney who was suing BO about his citizenship. All the callers sounded exactly like those that called into this show.

  • Annie Oakley

    Rest up and come back, silverfox. To quote Big Dawg, “I feel your pain.” To paraphrase the woman who should have been the first female POTUS, “We can never give up.”

    But sometimes we all need a rest.

  • tzada

    Chicago Police to Get Assault Rifles

    Weis’ decision to arm and train his 13,500 officers with more powerful weapons was disclosed as Daley emerged from a City Hall meeting……


    http://www.officer.com/web/online/Top-News-Stories/Chicago-Police-to-Get-Assault-Rifles/1$41168

  • tzada

    Obama’s Global Poverty Act goes beyond the Billions given to other countries. It also give many of our rights to the UN, including owning small arms.

  • Astra14

    That’s why you keep seeing the word “cult” keep popping up. It’s more like a cult mentality in many cases than anything else – especially when they start telling us older generation to die so we get out of their way. That has been popping up all around, too, intimidating the older people and trying to intimidate the rest of us. The Hillary Clinton grassroots website – I don’t remember the address – has a story about one of their women being pushed by Obama supporters while a bus was driving by.

  • mimi

    This is what I’ve been afraid of.

    The Repubs really don’t like McCain.

    Boy this whole election is a set-up!

  • Francis

    Hey Larry you indicated last week this site would try to take a critical lense to both candidates. You indicated you didn’t want this to just be a one-trick pony.

    How’s that coming along?

  • Astra14

    i am your commander in chief – I haven’t forgotten Nader! Then again I’m up there in age, been voting many many years, and yes, this is the worst I’ve seen. s.hall doesn’t agree with me – that’s fine – but you vote how you feel you must. AS LONG AS YOU VOTE!!! The more people we can get to the polls election day WHO DON’T VOTE FOR OBAMA, is a vote against him.

    And – what’s the figure up to now – 20% of Hillary’s voters aren’t voting for Obama – so that’s a lot of votes against Obama!!!!

  • mimi

    Yes the candidate is supposed to get a bounce.

    The people at the Convention are high on the experience right now. They’ve seen celebrities, they’ve rubbed elbows with them, met other Democrats… of course these people feel unified right now.

    And the people who have tuned in to watch on tv, are high to some extent too.

    This is what they’ve been counting on from the beginning. This is why I have REFUSED, for the first time since I was a child, to watch the Convention. I’m going to a movie tonight.

    I have faced the gruesome fact long ago that I cannot control this election. He just might get elected.

    I think the election is fixed. And the Republicans really don’t want to win with McCain.

    The whole scenario is appalling.

  • margarita

    And along those lines. Speaking into a microphone isn’t ok with the gestapo.

    DNC Protests: Police slam CodePink protester to the ground

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfISlq1gzK8

  • mimi

    Since when is it against the law for an employed journalist with ID to do their job.

    What’s going on here?????

  • mimi

    Francis,

    Shouldn’t you be napping so you can watch your Messiah’s speech tonight?

    Growing kids need their rest.

    So run along now, dear.

  • Babs

    I remember the first night Fox aired the Wright tapes on H&C, when I turned over to CNN to see what they had to say. They had already aired a few of the tapes when Anderson Cooper came on and APOLOGIZED to the viewers for having to air the tapes, calling them “less than newsworthy”.

    Flash forward to the outing of Edwards’ affair when we learn that the affair was common knowledge in political circles since before he started his presidential bid. More “less than newsworthy” information regarding a candidate?

    Now it seems the MSM has once again decided that Obama’s background is “less than newsworthy”, and I will be anxious to see how many of them report this Ayers information with even a semblance of concern about this man who aspires to be POTUS. If nothing else I would be expecting them to champion free speech, especially since none of the Obama objections to the ad have refuted one fact in the ad. But I don’t think I’ll hold my breath waiting….

  • Eidnoreid

    they’re not lies and distortions, they’re facts.

  • PewL

    Sounds like Mccain thinks like Many.Fixed Election.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4KIvRTg6KQ

  • PewL

    Why are you blaming the Clintons.What were they supposed to do? They were run out of town by Dean pelosi,and Reid,Howard..Blame the democratic Party..Not Clinton’s I think she was gagged,I guess is a good word.

  • PewL

    I’m hoping Mccain keeps his eyes open election nite for hanky panky at the polling places….I’d make sure Mccain has top security in place at all polls.

    If that percentage number is of today,wait until the Puma’s get revenge,and start adding more power to there followers…

    This convention looks like Black weekend in Daytona Beach.lol

  • PewL

    Thanks Larry for Keeping this sane site up,,,We need a place to come for our frustrations..

    Your doing a great job..

  • PewL

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4KIvRTg6KQ

    Here’s Mccain special ad,,,Looks sounds the fix was in..

  • MaggiefromMichigan

    Heard that an ABC reporter was arrested at the convention for trying to take pictures of donors being wined and dined or something. Maybe ABC will pick up the story about the assault on the First Amendment. It would be a good segway for them. I was listening to Talk Radio today and heard an interview with the attorney for the American Issues Project related stuff. She was described as very experienced in this area of the law and said she’s never seen anything like this tried before. She said that the Obama campaign has evidently asked the Justice Dept to investigate the board members, volunteers and the big donor for criminal activity. Since when did freedom of speech become criminal activity? And someone from Obama camp also asked for Tax information so she was guessing they might try to make a complaint to the IRS to get an investigation going. I think this story is both shocking and alarming that most freedom loving Americans would be appalled if they knew. If this is what Obama’s camp tries before he’s in office just think what they might try if he’s elected. Makes me think of “Enemy of the State” movie.

  • NEILA ORTEGA TOVAR

    El respaldo de Hillary a Obama me hace preguntarme si las personas escogen a un candidato o a un partido.no se debe presionar a un partidario para apoyar a otro con quien no estaba de acuerdo.El MUNDO vive momentos dificiles y no es hora para demostrar si son o no racistas, si son mas fuertes los DEMOCRATAS O REPUBLICANOS.Esta en sus manos elegir una persona a la cual le toca tomar decisiones que no solamente afectaran a USA, si no al mundo el general.NO ES HORA DE PASIONES, ES HORA DE ELEGIR UNA PERSONA LA CUAL INFLUIRA NO SOLO EN SU PAIS, SINO EN EL MUNDO.

  • BERNICE

    Isn’t it strange how the entire news media felt that Britney Spears was newsworthy day-after-day-after day, all day long, for how many months. Yeh, we were real interested. It was like if you heard theat name one more time you were going to scream.
    If that is what they are going to dish up. there has to be more to it. What is behind news and info that is important to us seem to be irrevelant to them? We either do not listen to the station or hold them accountable. I believe since they receive their FCC license from the government, this matter should call for an immediate Congressional investigation, if it would even be possible to have one that was honest.
    Americans need to open their eyes as to what is happening because our country is on the brink of something disastrous and we are sitting here leeting it unfold right before our eyes.

  • http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/08/31/smoke-and-fire-the-ayers-cover-up/ Smoke and Fire: The Ayers Cover-Up : NO QUARTER

    [...] Online, and although he’s of the Right, his reporting has been factual and his tone measured. Larry Johnson describes him this way: Kurtz may be a conservative. His political views may be obnoxious. But his [...]

  • http://budwhite.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/smoke-and-fire-the-ayers-cover-up/ Smoke and Fire: The Ayers Cover-Up « Bud White’s World

    [...] Online, and although he’s of the Right, his reporting has been factual and his tone measured. Larry Johnson describes him this way: Kurtz may be a conservative. His political views may be obnoxious. But his [...]

  • http://BHOtroll mary

    Yes indeed! The exDemocrats are in denial that their tactics are just as corrupt as Bush and his Rovian houndogs!

    Barack has done a lot to diminish and degrade the Democratic Party (exDemocratic) that is now his own Chicago exDemocratic Party Ayers Educational Fund!

    Barry should be exposed and the media should not be muzzled by Obama thugs. They’re experts at abusing and muzzling the opposition. The Obama campaign staff did it to 80-year-olds in Caucuses by threatening, harassing and pushing their fists a couple of inches from their faces to make their point.

    Obama campaign persuaders (or punks or thugs) made history by pushing and shoving elderly, women and girls and shift-workers during the caucuses! Why would they not attempt to threaten a mere radio station!

    Obamyopics love the media when they’re in the tank for His Hopeness! As they were and hte misogynist media frat-boys pushed an incompetent neophyte like BHO to a fraudulent ‘finish line’!

    Fascist Obama thug-supporters cannot muzzle all of the people all of the time!

    Come November, they’ll be seeing the light from the DNC’s exDemocratic ceiling when it’s shattered in front of their smug faces!

    Karma’s a Bitch, Barack!

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