Election 2010: Zombie ACORN, Pre-Programmed Ballots, and Free Food, Gift Card bribes? (with updates)

I knew this year was going to be bad, but judging from the latest early voting reports,  it may exceed my worst fears. Be vigilant at the polls, people. Bring a camera to record any problems you run into.

Matthew Vadum reports that ACORN has risen from the ashes of the O’Keefe/Giles Sting videos firestorm, last Fall:

Like a zombie in a horror movie, ACORN is alive! Even worse, it’s still in the business of registering Mickey Mouse and dead people to vote—and the person running its get-out-the-vote operation is under indictment for felony voter registration fraud.

Project Vote, ACORN’s scandal-plagued voter registration and mobilization division, continues to operate out of ACORN’s Washington, D.C., headquarters.

Although ACORN closed many of its offices, Lewis has been working with a skeleton staff. Congressional investigators say she is consolidating power and hoarding assets. They estimate ACORN has $20 million in cash and that its affiliates hold another $10 million.

ACORN plans to resurface under a new name soon, according to John Atlas, author of Seeds of Change, a book sympathetic to ACORN. ACORN chapters in at least 13 states and the District of Columbia changed their names and obtained separate nonprofit status.

In related news, the Obama Administration is stonewalling Capital Research Center’s Freedom of Information Act request that seeks correspondence between HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan and ACORN. HUD FOIA requests must be answered within 45 days but our request has been pending for seven months.

You can read the full report at Human Events.

Stonewalling is going to be Obama’s m/o for the next 4 years. In fact, the Treasury is already hiring FOIA officers with the specific job description of Withholding Information About TARP from Taxpayers.

But I digress.

Michelle Malkin has a great round-up of ongoing voter shenanigans from Arizona to Washington: Voter fraud watch: They’re at it again.

These cases underscore the need for voters to put secretaries of state into office who will protect election integrity from radical left-wing groups. I’ve said before we need candidates like Kris Kobach, running for secretary of state in Kansas on an anti-fraud, anti-corruption, anti-ACORN platform, in every state in the nation.

As if the threat of voter fraud wasn’t enough, there are also growing concerns about election fraud:

A report today from North Carolina may be only the tip of the iceberg: Voter reports problem with ballot machine.

A Craven County voter says he had a near miss at the polls on Thursday when an electronic voting machine completed his straight-party ticket for the opposite of what he intended.

Sam Laughinghouse of New Bern said he pushed the button to vote Republican in all races, but the voting machine screen displayed a ballot with all Democrats checked. He cleared the screen and tried again with the same result, he said. Then he asked for and received help from election staff.

“They pushed it twice and the same thing happened,” Laughinghouse said. “That was four times in a row. The fifth time they pushed it and the Republicans came up and I voted

They’re seeing the same thing in Nevada: Nevada Voters Complain Of Problems At Polls:

Voter Joyce Ferrara said when they went to vote for Republican Sharron Angle, her Democratic opponent, Sen. Harry Reid’s name was already checked.Ferrara said she wasn’t alone in her voting experience. She said her husband and several others voting at the same time all had the same thing happen.”Something’s not right,” Ferrara said. “One person that’s a fluke. Two, that’s strange. But several within a five minute period of time — that’s wrong.”

Doug Powers says: Attn. Nevada Voters: Carefully Proof-Reid Your Ballot Before Submitting

And Sharron Angle, who currently enjoys a 4 point edge in the latest Rasmussen poll, sent out this alert to voters:

I have some very grave news for you.  We are leading Harry Reid in the polls and meeting our early vote goals–and yet, Sharron Angle could still lose.

As Sharron Angle’s campaign attorney, I am sorry to report that the Democrats and their cronies are up to their same old tricks, of trying to manipulate the election in hopes of skewing the results in their favor.

Two days ago, the Democratic Secretary of State announced that voters can be provided “free food” at “voter turnout events.”  Harry Reid has been offering free food and, according to other reports, some Democratic allies such as teachers’ unions are offering gift cards in return for a vote for Reid.

Before we were even able to document the reported infractions to report to the authorities, the Democrat Secretary of State slammed the door shut on preventing this behavior and issued a public statement permitting these ACORN-style tactics.  THESE are the kinds of shenanigans that can turn this race.

As crazy as those allegations sound, it wouldn’t be the first time Democrats have stooped to such pathetic measures, in fact they’ve  been doing it all month, as Gateway Pundit recently reported: Democrats Lure Voters to Polls With Free Food and Rides.

In Appalachia democrats buy votes with pork rinds. In West Virginia democrats buy votes with booze. In East St. Louis democrats buy votes with crack

Here’s the latest… In South Dakota democrats are luring potential voters to the polls with free food and rides.
The Argus Leader reported:

Democrats in South Dakota are holding three early-vote rallies on reservations this week that will feature “feeds” to attract potential voters.

That activity continues a long tradition of pairing food with voter rallies in areas of the state where Democrats garner as much as 95 percent of the vote.

Folks, it’s going to take a massive wave to overcome the fraud, this year. Every able body that can vote R, needs get out to the polls.

You can find all the GOTV info you need, here. You can also sign up to be a poll watcher,

UPDATE:

More bad news…

Michelle Malkin: 9th Circuit overturns AZ proof-of-citizenship voting rule

UPDATE II:

Gateway Pundit: Breaking: Suspect Voting Machines in Nevada Are Serviced By SEIU

UPDATE ii

Weasel Zippers:Illinois: Thanks to Obama’s DOJ – Criminals Can Vote, US Soldiers Can’t

Be the WAVE:

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Video: Obama Tells Latino Voters To “Punish Your Enemies” At The Ballot Box

By “enemies”,  Obama means you and me…and the majority of Americans who oppose illegal immigration.

Laura Ingraham started off her show, this morning talking about this clip of Obama speaking to Latino voters, yesterday:

We are the “enemy” of Latinos? Are you kidding me?

This President has been pitting Americans against each other in ways we’ve never seen before, since the day he took office. He campaigned as a uniter, but has been nothing but divisive.  And this sort of divisive talk in front of certain audiences ends up hurting him in the end, too, because every time Obama allows his mask to slip, a few more Americans see Obama for what he is, a radical community organizer/agitator not above using Alinsky tactics to retain power.

SEE ALSO:

Gateway Pundit: Thug in Chief to Latino Supporters: “Punish Your Enemies” for a great round-up of the divisive language used by this President to date.

Previously:

How Obama Fights Pt. 2

Obama Sets The Tone, Part Trois: POTUS Refers To Tea Partiers As “Tea-Baggers”

Obama Sets The Tone, Part Deux

Obama Sets The Tone

Obama Lectures Washington On Civility At National Prayer Breakfast

How Obama Is Pitting Americans Against Each Other

More Thug Politics: Obama Administration Investigates Humana’s Free Speech

Obama Threatening T.V. Stations (Again)!

More Heavy Handed Assaults On Free Speech From Obama Brigades

How Obama Fights

Obama Threatening TV Stations For Airing Ayers Ad (UPDATE: AIP Responds)

Video: Juan Williams, Mary Katherine Ham Discuss NPR On O’Reilly

This clip starts off with an “ambush interview” with NPR villainess, Vivian Schiller, since she refuses to appear on Fox. She claims that Juan is guilty of  series of infractions, which one can only imagine, constitutes offering opinions not held by NPR. Juan continues to bristle with indignation:

While I’ve never been a “fan” of Juan Williams, I’ve always appreciated his open mind, and inclination for civil debate. That’s because Juan is a liberal, not a leftist…and there’s a difference.

Williams is not a leftist. He’s a liberal in the tradition of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. (Just take a look at the books he’s written on the Civil Rights Movement.) He’s not an Obama leftist who drank from the cup of Saul Alinsky, Billy Ayers, and Jeremiah Wright.

A “liberal” properly defined is someone in the middle of the political spectrum — an individual open-minded to different ideas and willing to consider all manner of solutions. That’s what Williams is. That’s why he’s willing to appear on Fox News regularly. And that’s why genuine leftists from Glenn Greenwald to Media Matters are throwing him under the bus. (Leftists hate genuine liberals even more than they hate conservatives.

I think we all owe Williams a debt of gratitude for putting the Corporation for Public Broadcsting (CPB) under intense public scrutiny. Republicans have tried to defund public broadcasting in the past, and have been unsuccessful, even when they were in the majority. But thanks to Juan, the public outcry over funding lefty propaganda may give Republicans the backbone they need to git-r-done.

 

Big October Surprise For KS-3 Republican Kevin Yoder: He Refused To Take A Breathalyzer Test In 2009

Amazing that this shocking, shocking story comes out right now…

His opponent’s  campaign manager Matt Sinovic, calls Yoder’s “irresponsible actions”, ” inexcusable”:

His lies in attempt to cover up these facts are an insult to the voters of the 3rd District,” Sinovic said.

Let’s backtrack and find out what happened:

Yoder, driving a 2002 Lexus, was pulled over on Kansas Highway 10 east of Lawrence by a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper at 2:31 a.m. Feb. 8, 2009, according to Branson.

He was given a ticket for going 80 mph in a 70 mph zone and for refusing to submit to the preliminary breath test. It appears he was given a citation at the scene and not taken into custody.

Alissa McCurley, a spokesperson for Yoder, said, “He was issued a speeding ticket and then asked to take a preliminary Breathalyzer test. He declined because he had passed the sobriety test. Kevin was not driving under the influence. He paid the fine for one citation, the other was dismissed.”

And that concludes KS district-3, Keven Yoder’s October surprise.

I’m afraid there is no other choice for KS-3 voters than to vote for Stephane Moore, the wife of retiring incumbent, Dennis Moore, whose great command of the health care  issue was on display  just a couple of weeks ago:

 

‘Nuff said?

 

Clinton: I almost Gag When I Hear Republicans Calling Democrats Big Spenders…Quasi Socialists

“Quasi”?

Judging from the videos of his latest campaign rally appearances, Slick Willie, ever the snake-oil salesman, had the drones eating out of his hand. Yes, there are actually people out there who believe this half-baked propaganda.

Photo credit AP

The Politico reports that  Clinton says he’s  “disturbed and ticked off” by what he’s seeing in the midterm election campaign.

Speaking at a rally for 28-term incumbent Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) Sunday, Clinton said argued “right-wing rhetoric” against government spending does not accurately frame how Democrats have tried to aid a country still reeling from a recession, and showed frustration that the attacks against Democrats seems to have stuck.

“I almost gag when I hear these Republicans lambasting the president and the Democrats in Congress, ‘Oh, they’re such big spenders, they’re just crazy, they’re quasi-socialist,’” he said during the rally at the University of Michigan. “I have a simple question: Who’s the last president to give you a balanced budget?

“I like all this enthusiasm, but frankly there are a few things about this election that have gotten me somewhere between disturbed and ticked off,” he added.

What he doesn’t tell them is that the last President to have a balanced budget had a Republican congress led by Newt Gingrich, who did all the heavy lifting. He just happened to be there when it happened.

I almost gag when I read that the national debt has increased $5 trillion since Speaker Pelosi took over the Speakership in Jan. 2007. Especially gag-inducing is the fact that she had vowed that there would be no new deficit spending. Her “left-wing rhetoric against government spending” turned out to have an expiration date of about 3 days.

When Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) gave her inaugural address as speaker of the House in 2007, she vowed there would be “no new deficit spending.” Since that day, the national debt has increased by $5 trillion, according to the U.S. Treasury Department.

“After years of historic deficits, this 110th Congress will commit itself to a higher standard: Pay as you go, no new deficit spending,” Pelosi said in her speech from the speaker’s podium. “Our new America will provide unlimited opportunity for future generations, not burden them with mountains of debt.”

Pelosi has served as speaker in the 110th and 111th Congresses.

At the close of business on Jan. 4, 2007, Pelosi’s first day as speaker, the national debt was $8,670,596,242,973.04 (8.67 trillion), according to the Bureau of the Public Debt, a division of the U.S. Treasury Department.  At the close of business on Oct. 22, it stood at $13,667,983,325,978.31 (13.67 trillion), an increase of 4,997,387,083,005.27 (or approximately $5 trillion).

You would think the former President would stay away from this Dem trainwreck in progress and leave what’s left of his dignity intact.

Guess not.

Video at CNS News.

Hat tip: Weasel Zippers.

New Ad: Barney Frank And The Sub-Prime Disaster

This is a campaign ad that needed to be made:

“Betrayed Our Trust” needs to air on MA  TV and radio stations from now until November 2nd, but funds are needed in order to do that:

https://www.icontribute.us/avfund/ini…
—DONATE AT LINK at left to put ad on air. Please help us put this ad on the air to voters who can retire him from the House of Representatives once and for all. Massachusetts is one of only 15 states that does not permit early voting. So this ad can influence every single voter right up to Nov 2nd!

BARNEY FRANK IS ON THE ROPES. His lead has dwindled into single digits against a very strong opponent, Marine and businessman Sean Bielat. Yet polls show many voters in his district are not aware of his pivotal role in the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the collapse of the U.S. housing market which resulted. Thousands of his constituents need to know how Frank systematically blocked reform of Fannie and Freddie that led to financial losses or foreclosure for their families or neighbors.

Ad created by Big Sky Group LLC.

Hat tip: Gateway Pundit, who has more on Frank’s role in the financial meltdown.

Video: Jacob Turk On The Chris Stigall Radio Show

Republican, Jacob Turk recently appeared on KCMO’s Chris Stigall Show, where he discussed his campaign to unseat Emanuel Cleaver in district 5, MO.

Turk, who’s only trailing Cleaver by single digits, is finally running a television ad, but he needs money to keep it on the air. Throw him some bucks, if you can. Cleaver needs to be sent packing.

Previously:

Jacob Turk (MO-5) Announces New Campaign Ads (UPDATED)

The Case Against Cleaver, Part 3: Democratic Socialists Of America

Jacob Turk Pulls Within Single Digit Striking Distance of Incumbent Emanuel Cleaver in Missouri’s 5th Congressional District

Midwest Voices: Watch out, Cleaver, here comes Jacob Turk

The Case Against Cleaver, Part 2: Spittlegate

The Case Against Cleaver: Part One

All American Blogger Interviews Mo-5 Candidate, Jacob Turk

Jacob Turk Wins in MO-5!

Introducing Jacob Turk, Republican Candidate For MO 5th District

Obama: Pelosi Will Go Down In History As One Of The Finest Speakers In The United States Of America

Best Speaker, evah!

Mind you, Congress only has an approval rating of 20%, (and I think we all know who those 20% are). Moreover, Independents are stampeding away from Democrats—in eight days, the American people are expected to rebuke Pelosi’s  Dem- led 111th Congress by  booting 40-70+ of them out of office.

Yeah, she’s doing a bang-up job.

Obama made the statement at a DCCC fundraiser in Minneapolis on Saturday.

Roll Call reports:

Obama said that Pelosi “will go down in history as one of the finest speakers in the United States of America” but also gave DCCC Chairman Chris Van Hollen (Md.) credit for shouldering the burden of leading Democratic efforts to retain the House.

“Chris is working like a dog. I want to make sure everybody knows what a good job he’s doing.”

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Like a good soldier, Pelosi stayed “on message” at the fundraiser, trotting out the WH’s favorite talking points while  introducing the President:

“Everything was going great and all of a sudden secret money from God knows where — because they won’t disclose it — is pouring in,” the California Democrat told about 100 donors at the fundraiser, according to a White House pool reporter in attendance.

*GROAN*

Truth be told, she will go down in history as one of the most profoundly dishonest, and  atrociously partisan, lefty hacks we’ve ever seen in the speakership.

Of course, Obama loves her.

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New Sharron Angle Ad: Harry Reid is…SuperMajority Leader!

This is new Sharron Angle ad is kinda humorous…

I love it when candidates get creative.

NPR Video Montage With Noam Chomsky, Juan Williams, Vivian Schiller, and Nina Totenberg making a Cameo Appearance At the End

Noam Chomsky once told an audience that NPR was considered to be “the outer limits of the left in the United States, with the sharpest restrictions….. I mean, they won’t allow a millimeter of deviation from the party line”.

I’m not sure if he was proud of that, or what…but you’ve got to hand it to him – he sure nailed it.

Created by Bullet People.

Previously:

Video: Keith Ellison Weighs In On Juan Williams Firing On MSNBC’s Ed Show

Video: Krauthammer Accuses NPR Of Intellectual Cowardice

Future Speaker: Why Are We Funding A Left-Wing Organization?

I Can Think Of Some Programs I’d Like To See Cut

Your Sunday Hymn: The Cry Of The Poor

 

Report: Obama At Occidental looked Forward To A “Social Revolution”…”A Kind Of Socialist Utopia”

Dr. John Drew, an associate of  Obama’s at Occidental College, was interviewed last week by Paul Kengor on The Glen Meakem Show.

Paul Kenger has lately been promoting his new 600 page book,  Dupes, which prominently features Frank Marshall Davis, Obama’s “Communist Mentor”. He spent years researching material from the Comintern Archives on Communist Party USA (CPUSA). Dr. Drew is a former Marxist who got to know Obama briefly at Occidental.

Doug Ross took the time to transcribe most of the podcast because of its importance.

Q: …John, you had told me before, and I’m reading from my book, that “Obama was already an ardent Marxist in the fall of 1980 when I met him. I know it’s incendiary to say this, but although he said in Dreams From My Father that he’d ‘hung out with Marxist professors’, he did not explain in that book or clarify is that he was 100% in total agreement with those professors.

A: Yeah, you’ve got that exactly right. Obama believed, at the time I met him, this was probably around Christmas time in 1980. I’d flown out on Christmas break from Corness, where I was in grad school. And Obama was looking forward to an imminent social revolution, literally a movement where the working classes would overthrow the ruling class and institute a kind of socialist Utopia in the United States. I mean, that’s how extreme his views were his sophomore year of college.

You can read the entire transcript at the above link.

I have no doubt that Obama’s Marxist ideology was not tempered in Chicago,  where he locked arms with Ayers and Dohrn,  Rev. Wright, and other Chi-town Communists  like Carl Davidson, and Michael Klonsky. And there’s no reason to believe that his Marxism was tempered after he came to Washington, where he was rated as the most liberal Senator by The National Journal, further to the left than avowed Socialist Bernie Sanders.  And I have no reason to believe it was tempered when he became the President of the United States.

Here, via Mike McDaniel at Pajamas Media, is a brief, but  by no means exhaustive list of his alarming, Marxist behavior as President:

(1) Mr. Obama’s many disturbingly communist propaganda-style posters.

(2) The communist cult of personality built around Mr. Obama from his campaign to the present.

(3) His vow to “spread the wealth around” (income redistribution is a hallmark of socialism/communism) to Joe the Plumber.

(4) His blithely uncaring flaunting of public opinion in living very, very large on the collective dime, with posh parties, command performances, golf excursions, frequent flights for “date nights,” and pricey vacation spots worthy of a member of the Politburo.

(5) The unashamed praise of Mao Zedong, a mass-murderer who made Hitler look like a neophyte, by Obama advisor Anita Dunn.

(6) The appointment of 9-11 truther, black racist, and avowed communist Van Jones as “Green Jobs Czar.” Let us not forget the cooing schoolgirl longing from Obama advisor and slumlord Valerie Jarrett in describing Jones.

(7) Obama’s seizure of the means of production in taking over two-thirds of the domestic auto industry, and his lawless dispossession of the shareholders of those companies to the benefit of corrupt unions.

(8) Obama’s reckless and unnecessary shuttering of countless auto dealers, which threw all of their employees and many in related, supporting industries out of work — done, no doubt, to help “the workers.”

(9) Obama’s constant meddling and thuggish tactics in dealing with the financial and insurance industries, and other business, and Republicans, and Democrats, and doctors, and everyone else who disagrees — or looks like they might be thinking about disagreeing — with his policies.

(10) Mr. Obama’s assertion that “at some point, you’ve made enough money,” and his ceaseless class warfare against the arbitrarily chosen “rich” class of those making $250,000 a year or more.

(11) Mr. Obama’s statement to journalist Bob Woodward that America can “absorb” another massive terrorist attack because 9/11 made us “stronger.” (One of the hallmarks of any socialist/communist government is a great deal of lip service paid to “the people,” but no caring whatsoever about individuals. A second is their willingness to expend the lives of millions of their citizens to achieve their goals.)

(12) HHS Secretary Sibelius’ comment that Americans were in for “reeducation” over their obvious lack of appreciation for ObamaCare (communists have “reeducated” untold millions to death). Let’s not mention the grossly false propaganda her agency has released on that topic — blatantly false, big lie propaganda being another communist hallmark.

Obama is a Marxist Pied Piper and he has a lot of dupes following him.

RELATED:

Here’s an interesting  interview I found on YouTube of Kengor talking about his book:

SEE ALSO:

Cliff Kincaid, AiM: The Marxist Roots of Obama’s Rage, Part One and The Marxist Roots of Obama’s Rage, Part Two

Big Dupes at Big Peace: Frank Marshall Davis, Obama Mentor – Part 1

Big Dupes at Big Peace: Frank Marshall Davis, Obama Mentor – Part 2

A chilling excerpt from part 2:

Big Peace: … give us an example from Davis’s columns that gets closer to what President Obama has done since taking office, given that Obama isn’t trying to “rule Russia,” for example.

Kengor: There are a lot of them, from Davis preaching government healthcare, wealth redistribution, bashing Wall Street, advocating all kinds of nationalizations, trumpeting the public sector over the private sector, lambasting profits, excoriating the “tentacles of big business,” you name it. But one that haunts me is a piece I read by Frank Marshall Davis from January 26, 1950, titled “Free Enterprise or Socialism?”

There, Davis targeted GM. Davis was enraged that General Motors, this “gigantic company,” had “made a profit last year of $600,000,000.” He felt that the federal government needed to get a hold of GM. He characterized GM as a “monopoly,” mainly because of this success, which infuriated Davis. He wrote: “the time draws nearer when we will have to decide to oust the monopolies and restore a competing system of free enterprise, or let the government own and operate our major industries.”

Davis concluded the piece by asserting, “Before too long, our nation will have to decide whether we shall have free enterprise or socialism.”

MORE:

A new report at Big Government shows Obama’s involvement with Democrat Socialists of America in Chicago.

Newsletters published by the Chicago chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America show President Barack Obama actively participated in a 1996 rally co-sponsored by the group and held at The University of Chicago during his first campaign for the Illinois state Senate

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Obama’s involvement in the 1996 rally does not surprise noted author Paul Kengor, who details many of Barack Obama’s socialist connections in his book “Dupes.”
“This is not a surprise at all, especially given Obama’s association with people from this group, in the Chicago chapter specifically, like Dr. Quentin Young,” Kengor said.

Young played a role in the violence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and testified before the Democratic-controlled House Committee on Internal Security in Oct. 1968 about his connections with the radical Students for a Democratic Society.

“Quentin Young, not coincidentally, is a major Obama supporter who has been calling for national healthcare for decades. He was there in that living room of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn in 1995 when Alice Palmer introduced a young Obama as her chosen successor. Obama knew this crowd very well,” Kengor said.

Previously:

Frankly Speaking…

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Nice: Debate Audience Gets Up And Says The Pledge Against Wishes Of Lib Moderator

You are going to love this. Prior to the debate between IL Rep. Melissa Bean and conservative Joe Walsh, the audience spontaneously got up and recited the pledge before the moderator could stop them.

Gateway Pundit reports that the debate moderator, Kathy Tate-Bradish, a member of the League of Women voters, and a former OFA member, later chastised the the audience for their “fake patriotism”. He also posts a great comment from AF vet, Joe Ptak, the man who stood up and requested that the pledge be recited.

Bradish apparently warned the audience after the the pledge, that she would not be “disrespected” like that again. Rebel Pundit was on the scene to interview her about that.

BREAKING VIDEO – Rebel Pundit Confronts Moderator Over Pledge Of Allegiance Flap

…Because there’s nothing more disrespectful to  than reciting the pledge of allegiance before a public political event.

UPDATE:

Musing Minds has an eye witness report, here.

Apparently, Bradish also accused the audience of planning the pledge incident in advance, but, according to MM  it happened completely spontaneously.

Cyber Attack Strikes Freedomworks As It Launches Fund-Raising Drive

Coincidence? I think not.

The WSJ reports:

A mysterious cyber attack apparently struck the computer servers at the pro-tea party group FreedomWorks this morning, just as it launched a major fund-raising drive.

FreedomWorks officials are investigating, but they suspect they were attacked deliberately, perhaps by a political opponent seeking the thwart its fund-raising efforts.

The attack crippled the site at about 9:45 a.m. just when the fund-raising drive was publicized on the radio by conservative talk show host Glenn Beck. The group estimates it lost about $80,000 in potential donations as it struggled to bring its site back online.

An “autopsy” showed a highly sophisticated hacker struck at 6:55 a.m., the group said, setting the stage for the eventual meltdown. The server was wiped out, though group officials said no data was lost or stolen.

“We think the idea was to take our site down until after the election,” said Kara Pally, web developer for FreedomWorks. “This was politically motivated.”

Why Freedomworks?

Well, our “post partisan” President did target the tea party group by name in his interview with the Rolling Stone, last month:

Obama, a politician propped up by well-funded corporate and special interests, had the gall to say that the Tea Party movement is controlled by “some very traditional, very powerful, special-interest lobbies. I don’t think this is a secret. Dick Armey and FreedomWorks, which was one of the first organizational mechanisms to bring Tea Party folks together, are financed by very conservative industries…”

Freedomworks is already having to move its office to a more secure location in the Capitol because of the barrage of threatening phone calls it’s been receiving..

One of Washington’s principal supporters of the Tea Party movement, former GOP Majority Leader Dick Armey’s FreedomWorks, has been receiving death threats and profanity-laced phone calls as it gets involved in the fall elections. The number and intensity have reached such heights that the organization is leaving its downtown location near the FBI and moving to a high-security building near the U.S. Capitol.

“FreedomWorks and Dick Armey receive dozens of threatening and harassing calls and E-mails each day. Many imply violence and use of weapons,” spokesman Adam Brandon tells Whispers. “As we get closer to the election we expect the harassment to increase.”

He says that FreedomWorks will hire additional security, meaning less money for its election-eve, get-out-the-vote, or GOTV, campaign. “Unfortunately, we may have to use resources for security guards that we would rather use for GOTV,” he said.

This is exactly why the Chamber of Commerce refuses to release the names of its donors. No one should have to put up with the intimidation tactics of  Obama’s minions.

Hat tip: Obi’s Sister at Potluck

Video: Keith Ellison Weighs In On Juan Williams Firing On MSNBC’s Ed Show

Ellison says he wants to throw away everything Juan ever produced into the garbage.

The 20 percenters act as if their bizarre musings represent mainstream thinking in America. In this case, since even many liberals are aghast at what NPR did, Ellison and unctuous Ed represent, what? 10-15% If that?  Yet, these two  pretend to know what constitutes “unAmericanism”.

Keep talking, you fools:

 

Were they purposefully taking Juan’s words out of context, or are they just stupid? I report, you decide.

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Contrast that tongue bath with Megyn Kelly’s tough interview with CAIR’s  Ibrahim Hooper:

video via iOWNTHEWORLD

Why did Hooper keep trying to get Kelly to admit she gets nervous on airplanes when she sees Muslim’s in Muslin garb? How was that supposed to boost his argument?

Networks and newspapers are so frightened of a Muslim backlash, they won’t even show the Mohammad cartoons…

 

Hat tip: The Blaze