IRS Rep Told Dr. James Dobson They Wouldn’t Approve His Application Because He Had Been “Critical Of President”

Dr. James Dobson was a guest on the Hannity show Friday night to talk about the run-around his Christian, pro-family, group, Family Talk Action got from the IRS when they applied for a 501(c)(4), a process he said “went on and on and on” for 19 months.

When his lawyer called the IRS to find out what the problem was, an IRS rep named Medley told him, “we don’t think we’re going to approve your application.” And when he asked, “why not? She answered, because you’re a right wing organization, and you’re political, and you’ve been critical of the President and we don’t think you give other people an opportunity to express their views, and besides that – you’re not educational.” An answer Dr. Dobson took great umbrage at.

“Do you want to rewrite your application and resubmit it?” she asked.  He answered, “no, we’ll just have to litigate”, and about eight days later they gave them their 501(c)(4).

Obama definitely set the tone for these abuses. “Punish your my enemies”,  he ordered from on high. The only question is whether he was ever more explicit, or personally aware that his minions in the IRS was doing his bidding.

SEE ALSO:  

AIM:  The IRS Targeted Conservative Media:

Of the IRS abuse cases that have recently come to light, the use of the IRS to enforce the defunct “Fairness Doctrine” on broadcasters is one of the most disturbing.

“I am alarmed by reports that suggest a federal official at the IRS instituting a de facto Fairness Doctrine,” National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) President & CEO Dr. Frank Wright said in apress release. Wright was referring to long-time Christian radio host Dr. James Dobson revealing that his organization had to submit sample radio programs to the IRS, and that an IRS agent indicated that his criticism of President Obama would prevent his ministry from getting a certain form of non-profit status.

A press release about the controversy was issued under the headline, “IRS Subjects Dr. James Dobson and Family Talk Action to Viewpoint Discrimination.”

In other words, Dobson’s views were singled out by the IRS because they were conservative, Christian, and critical of President Obama.

The Right Scoop: MUST WATCH: Mega Romney donor says he was targeted by Obama campaign, then audited by IRS and Labor Dept

This is not my country. The Chicago thugocracy we have in the White House is every bit what Michelle Malkin has always said it was, using government to target and oppress political ‘enemies’.

In this segment, Frank Vandersloot tells BillO that after he gave Romney one million to help his campaign, he was then targeted by the Obama campaign on their official website along with seven others. Shortly after that he received a letter from the IRS saying he would be audited. And then on top of that, he also had the Labor Dept. come calling because they wanted to look at his books.

FLASHBACK:

July, 23, 2012

When Is The MSM Going to Condemn Obama’s Enemies List?

Just asking.

Because Obama does have an enemies list– literally.  His Orwellian “Truth Team”  lists on his campaign website  the names of some of Mitt Romney’s biggest donors.

While President Nixon kept his Enemies list secret, Obama’s list is right out in the open and designed to inspire scorn, rebuke and retribution from his minions.

The truth is,  anyone who runs as a Republican or donates to conservative causes can count on being targeted for intimidation by the organized left.

When did this become okay? When did it become okay for the President’s party to attack, insult, and slander private citizens for no other reason than they gave money to his opponent?

When did it become okay for a President to sic government agencies on private citizens who give to the “wrong” campaign?

Agreeing 100% With Michelle Malkin – Stop Saying Obama Is A “Nice Guy”

May, 10, 2012

…When we all know he ain’t.

This has been a point of contention for me, too…Does the Republican establishment think that the American people can’t handle the truth? Why do they insist on raising the white flag in the battle for hearts and minds, by ceding to the left one of their weakest propaganda points?

It’s so easy to point out all of the things that make Obama a not-so-nice bully, yet the establishment doesn’t even try.

There is a reflexive desire among a certain species of moderate Republicans to be perceived as “civil” by liberal opponents who believe that the mere existence of free-market, limited-government conservatism is an indecent affront to humankind. All aboard the U.S.S. Lost Cause.

This disastrous, bend-over bipartisanship is a hard habit to break. In 2008, Arizona Sen. John McCain rode the “Barack Obama is a nice guy, but vote for me” wave to crashing defeat. In 2012, McCain’s endorsee, Mitt Romney, has made “Barack Obama is a nice guy but in over his head” a standard stump-speech talking point.

Conservatives of good will who’ve watched President Obama brutalize his enemies have one question for the nice-guy niceties: Why, GOP, why?

Romney’s smarter-than-thou strategists explain that he can’t scare off independents and Democrats with straight talk about Obama’s thuggery. But he’s turning off the conservative base, on whom his hold is tenuous. More importantly, Romney’s McCain-lite impersonation is also writing off independents and Democrats who’ve come to realize what the myriad targets of White House bullying have learned the hard way over the past four years: Barack Obama is not a “nice guy.”

Ask Gerald Walpin, the former AmeriCorps inspector general who was pushed out of his job by the Obamas afterexposing fraud and corruption perpetrated by Democratic mayor of Sacramento and Obama friend Kevin Johnson. Walpin was unceremoniously fired and smeared by Team Obama. The White House baselessly questioned the veteran watchdog’s mental health and never apologized for slandering him.

Ask the family, friends and co-workers of murdered Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. They have been forced to sue the Obama administration to combat the Operation Fast and Furious cover-up of deadly policy decisions that led to their hero’s death. “I think they are liars, and I would tell them that,” Terry’s father, Kent, said of Obama’s henchmen.

As Townhall editor Katie Pavlich makes clear in her devastating new book, “Fast and Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-Up,” the president, his corrupt attorney general, Eric Holder, and their minions weren’t “in over their heads.” They knew exactly what they were doing and have obstructed investigations into the bloody consequences of their policies ever since.

That’s not “nice.” It’s rotten to the core.

Video: Glenn Beck Covers IRS and Bengazi Scandals With #BlogCon13 Attendees in the Audience

Glenn Beck dove into the IRS and Benghazi scandals, today, with conservative bloggers and activists who have been attending BlogCon 2013 in the audience. The conservative conference, hosted by Freedomworks and the Blaze, started on Saturday afternoon and ended on Monday afternoon. This year’s event  focused on giving bloggers the tools needed to turn the media on its head, move outside our echo chamber, and be on the offense for a change.

Beck started his TV show, Monday, calling out the Regime for all their lies on Benghazi.

He went on to hammer the Regime for the scandal that broke Friday: The Obama IRS has been targeting conservatives, and lying about it.

At approximately 2:20, a pan of the audience in the above video shows your blogress in the second row in a black shirt, seated next to Doug Ross, (who unfortunately suffered some discomfort, this weekend at the hands of some of the female bloggers in attendance. Those of you who are morbidly curious  can check out his blog later this week for  the gory details.)

Another segment featured some local conservative activists whose groups have been targeted by the IRS, but that one is not up, yet.. Among their shocking allegations  was the revelation that one of the groups was targeted for an audit as early as the Fall of 2009.

SEE ALSO:

The Blaze: Tea Party Attorney: IRS Questions Are ‘Far Left Wish List’…Scandal Is ‘Ongoing’

Big Government: Conservative Group Says IRS Leaked Docs to Rival

The Blaze: How High Up Does This Go? New Report Implicates Washington Officials in IRS Scandal

Big Government: Multiple Agencies Involved with IRS in Intimidation

Southern Baptist Convention ‘Hostile’ According to the US Army

If I didn’t know any better, I’d say the US Army is being run by the left-wing, anti- Christian hate group SPLC. They seem to be trying to stamp out any and all religious sentiment in its soldiers, as well as trying to discourage those with religious beliefs from even serving in the Army. Unless Congress steps up and does something to stop it, religious freedom in the military will be a thing of the past.

In its latest enemy action against Christianity, the United States Army blocked the website of the Southern Baptist Convention from government computers.

An Army officer assigned to a U.S. base says he tried to access SBC.net from his government computer but instead got a message that said the site was being blocked by “Team CONUS.” The message he received read:

“The site you have requested has been blocked by Team CONUS (C-TNOSC/RECERT-CONUS) due to hostile content.”

Team CONUS is the Department of Defense management and computer network overseer of the military’s Continental U.S. (CONUS) Theater Network Operations and Security Center (C-TNOSC) and Regional Computer Emergency Response Team (RCERT).

“So the Southern Baptist Convention is now considered hostile to the U.S. Army … It just corroborates the recent string of events highlighted by AFA,” the officer wrote in an email to American Family Association (AFA).

Earlier this month, a shocking story broke about an Army instructor in Pennsylvania who labeled Evangelical Christians, Catholics, Orthodox Jews and Mormons “religious extremists” alongside Hamas and al Qaeda during an Army Reserve Equal Opportunity training brief on extremism. An Army spokesman told Todd Starnes of Fox News that this was an “isolated incident not condoned by the Dept. of the Army.”

It was not an isolated incident.

A few days later, Todd Starnes reported at Townhall that an Army officer at Ft. Campbell, KY had recently sent an email to subordinates using similar descriptions to describe two mainstream Christian ministries that were put in the same category as Neo-Nazis, Racist Skinheads, White Nationalists and the Ku Klux Klan.

Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Va., told Fox News that soldiers have been seeing a steady attack on faith and religious freedom in the military. “We are getting a lot of calls from soldiers saying, ‘We’re afraid of going to church. We’re afraid to be seen praying. We’re afraid that would hurt our careers, our promotions.’”

Forbes questioned Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel about the religious liberty issue during a recent House Armed Services Committee meeting.

A couple of weeks ago, at least a dozen members of Congress signed a letter demanding the Secretary of the Army rescind and apologize for the patently absurd briefing that labeled Evangelical Christians, Orthodox Jews, Mormons and Catholics as religious extremist groups alongside Hamas, al Qaeda and the KKK.

Fox News obtained a draft of the letter:

“This is astonishing and offensive,” read a draft of the letter written by Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO). “We call on you to rescind this briefing and apologize for its content and set the record straight on the Army’s view on these faith groups by providing a balanced briefing on religious extremism.”

It’s almost like Obama  is trying to cultivate an Army of left-wing atheists.

SHOCK: ARMY INSTRUCTOR LABELS CATHOLICS, EVANGELICALS, MORMONS AND JEWS ‘RELIGIOUS EXTREMISTS’

Only in Obama’s world, where the truth about Islam and Jihad is banned, could such an outrageous insult to mainstream, peaceful religions be permitted by a US Army training instructor.

During the course of an Army Reserve Equal Opportunity training brief on extremism, Evangelical Christianity, Catholicism, ultra Orthodox Jews, and the Church of Latter Day Saints were listed among Al Qaeda, Hamas, the Ku Klux Klan, Sunni Muslims, and Nation of Islam as examples of religious extremism. Oddly enough, “Islamophobia”  was also listed as a form of religious extremism, and the Westboro Baptist Church was excluded altogether by the instructor who apparently got her information from the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Stating the obvious, Ron Crews, executive director of the Chaplain Alliance for Religious Liberty said, “it is dishonorable for any U.S. military entity to allow this type of wrongheaded characterization.”

Via Todd Starnes of Fox News:

Army spokesman George Wright told Fox News that this was an “isolated incident not condoned by the Dept. of the Army.” 

“This slide was not produced by the Army and certainly does not reflect our policy or doctrine,” he said. “It was produced by an individual without anyone in the chain of command’s knowledge or permission.”
Wright said after the complaint was lodged, the presenter deleted the slide, and apologized.

“We consider the matter closed,” he said.

The incident was made public by a soldier who attended the briefing. He asked for copies of the presentation and sent them to the Chaplain Alliance.

“He considers himself an evangelical Christian and did not appreciate being classified with terrorists,” Crews told Fox News. “There was a pervasive attitude in the presentation that anything associated with religion is an extremist.”

The Archdiocese for the Military Services was shocked to learn that the Army considered Catholicism to be an example of extremism on a par with groups like Hamas and al Qaeda.

“The Archdiocese is astounded that Catholics were listed alongside groups that are, by their very mission and nature, violent and extremist,” the Archdiocese said in a statement.

They want the Dept. of Defense to “ensure that taxpayer funds are never again used to present blatantly anti-religious material to the men and women in uniform.”

“In the notes it was clearly stated that the presenter was not a subject matter expert, and produced material after conducting Internet research, Wright said.

So if the presenter was not an expert, what were they doing presenting the material, Crews asked. 

He said he had a chance to speak with the officer who was conducting the meeting, and she told him that she got her information from the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Case closed?

No, I don’t think the matter should be considered closed until every soldier who attended that training brief receives new, corrected instruction, and the officer who conducted the defamatory, bigoted briefing is demoted.
Crew told Fox News that in the future, the military should consult with chaplains about matters involving religion.

 

Faking the Hate: Virginia Minister Painted Racial Slur On Own House Then Torched It (Video)

The alleged crime happened, last month.  Olander D. Cuthrell, a Virginia minister, said racists painted slurs on his home and torched it.

Via Gateway Pundit, Cuthrell told police at the time of the arson, “It’s hard now sleeping… There’s no peace, there’s no sense of security.”

Well surprise, surprise, surprise:

A Petersburg minister whose Chesterfield County house was set on fire last month and sparked a potential hate crime probe has been charged with setting the fires himself.

Chesterfield police arrested and charged Olander D. Cuthrell, 41, of the 7800 block of Little Ridge Court, on two counts of felony arson. Cuthrell is a minister at Good Shepherd Baptist Church in Petersburg.

Michelle Malkin has tracked the “self-victimization/manufactured racism impulse” of leftists for years. This is just the latest example among many.

Last month, she reported on Oberlin College: Still manufacturing hate crimes hoaxes after all these years where a student wrapped in a blanket was mistaken for a KKK member.

Rod Dreher comments…

They shut the college down and are forcing everyone to go to a day of political re-education and communal shrieking because of Linus Van Pelt.

It costs over $50,000 per year to attend this pants-wetting academy.

Malkin’s previous hate crime hoax coverage:

Hate crime hoaxer of the month: Sharmeka Moffitt
Blame Righty: A condensed history
Not again: Another act of Democrat vandalism falsely blamed on Tea Party
How the Left fakes the hate: A primer
The most convoluted Tea Party=RAAACIST smear ever
Unhinged update: Left-wing hate-crime hoaxer pleads guilty in Denver
Another racial hoax crime with the New Black Panther Party seal of approval
Busted: She made it all up
Why that McCain volunteer’s “mutilation” story smells awfully weird; Update: Police to administer polygraph; conflicting evidence at scene; Update: Hoaxer confesses
Fertile ground for fake hate
The left fakes the hate at GWU
Hate crime hoax at Ole Miss
Colleges perfect milieu for hate crime hoaxes
Unhinged: The Mugshot Collection [scroll down to Kerri Dunn]
Another hate crime hoax
Crimes of the phantoms
Tawana Brawley goes to college
Muslim “hate crimes”
Myth of the Muslim hate crime epidemic

The Adventures of Bob Woodward and the Obama Spin Machine

Incredibly, liberal legend Bob Woodward has now become a bete noire to the left, and a darling to the right. So much so, he’s been invited to attend the CPAC 2013 Blogbash. So much so that The GOP House Conference created this “Adventures of Bob Woodward comic strip:

President Obama and His Operatives at the White House Proposed the Sequester

• “Then-OMB Director Jack Lew, now the White House chief of staff, and White House Legislative Affairs Director Rob Nabors pitched the idea to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). (Bob Woodward book could bolster Republican attack on W.H., Politico, Austin Wright, September 7, 2012)
• “Lew, Nabors, Sperling and Bruce Reed, Biden’s chief of staff, had initially decided to propose using language from the 1985 Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit reduction law as the model for the trigger. It seemed tough enough to apply to the current situation. It would require a sequester with half the cuts from Defense, and the other half from domestic programs.” (The Price Of Politics, Bob Woodward, 2012, p. 341)
• “It was Obama’s negotiating team that came up with the idea for defense cuts in 2011.” (“The sequester is not something that I’ve proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed.” Politifact, October, 24, 2012)
• “What the president said is not correct (regarding sequestration),” Woodward told POLITICO Tuesday. “He’s mistaken. And it’s refuted by the people who work for him.” (Bob Woodward: Obama ‘mistaken’ on sequester, Politico, Leigh Munsil, October 23, 2012)
• “Woodward reports in his book that White House Office of Management Director Jack Lew and Legislative Affairs Director Rob Nabors took the proposal for sequestration to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and then it was presented to congressional Republicans.” (Bob Woodward: Obama ‘mistaken’ on sequester, Politico, Leigh Munsil, October 23, 2012)
• “Republicans demanded spending cuts in exchange for raising the debt limit last summer. The White House and Democrats in Congress insisted that steep cuts to the Defense Department accompany the domestic-spending reductions favored by the GOP.” (President Obama’s big sequester gamble, Politico, Jonathan Allen and Scott Wong, October 23, 2012)

President Obama Doubled-Down on His Sequester

• “My message to [Congress] is simple: No. I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off-ramps on this one.” (President Obama,Super Committee Statement, November 21, 2011)

House Republicans Acted to Replace the Obama Sequester

House Republicans took steps to replace President Obama’s sequestration, passing bills on two separate occasions. Neither of which the Democratic-controlled Senate considered.

• H.R. 5652, Sequester Replacement Reconciliation Act
• H.R. 6684, Spending Reduction Act of 2012

In case you missed him on Hannity, last night, Woodward said that although he never used the word, “threat” to describe Sperling’s email,  it’s no way for a White House to operate. He’s standing by everything he has said regarding the sequester, including his charge that Obama’s moving the goalposts.

Nuns in Habits For Obama? Yeah Right!

Father Z saw these Obama buttons in the Washington Post, yesterday,  and got a little sick to his stomach:

It’s not that there aren’t plenty of Catholics – even nuns who wouldn’t sell out their faith to support an enemy of the Church. We know all too well that there are.

But those nuns tend to look like more this.

Note that they’re all older women with short cropped hair in ugly pant suits. Liberal nuns do not wear habits. They just don’t.

The nuns pictured above are “the nuns on the bus” who toured the country, last year, to  protest Paul Ryan’s reasonable and responsible budget cuts. They wouldn’t wear veils to save their lives.

Via the Janesville Gazette:

The Nuns on the Bus is a tour traveling to nine states to protest the budget that Ryan wrote and the House passed May 10.

The tour began in Iowa on Sunday. It stopped in Ryan’s hometown Tuesday.

The nuns object to the Ryan budget’s cuts in social services.

“We cannot stand by silently when the U.S. Congress considers further enriching the wealthiest Americans at the expense of struggling, impoverished families,” the nuns say on their website.

A crowd of about 140 people jammed the Main Street sidewalk in front of Ryan’s office and cheered long and loudly as four nuns disembarked from their tour bus and crossed the street.

A couple of dissenting nuns watched the spectacle with disapproval:

“We’re kind of embarrassed that they’re sisters, because so are we,” said Sister Joselda Kuhle.

The bus nuns don’t talk about issues such as abortion or that marriage should only be between a man and a woman, said the other nun, Sister Rosalia Bauer.

Bauer supported Ryan’s approach to the national budget.

“Jesus didn’t say give out handouts, give out handouts, give out handouts,” Bauer said. “He said, ‘Work!’ We can’t keep giving out handouts because we’ll run out of money.”

I wish the Gazette had taken a picture of those two nuns. I suspect they would look like the one on the Obama button.

Like these gentle souls who stood up for religious freedom and against Obama’s HHS mandate, in Kansas City, last Spring:

Fox News EXCLUSIVE: CIA Operators Were Denied Request for Help During Benghazi Attack (Video)

Fox News’ Jennifer Griffen did a masterful job laying it all out:

Fox News has learned from sources who were on the ground in Benghazi that an urgent request from the CIA annex for military back-up during the attack on the U.S. consulate and subsequent attack several hours later was denied by U.S. officials — who also told the CIA operators twice to “stand down” rather than help the ambassador’s team when shots were heard at approximately 9:40 p.m. in Benghazi on Sept. 11.

Former Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods was part of a small team who was at the CIA annex about a mile from the U.S. consulate where Ambassador Chris Stevens and his team came under attack. When he and others heard the shots fired, they informed their higher-ups at the annex to tell them what they were hearing and requested permission to go to the consulate and help out. They were told to “stand down,” according to sources familiar with the exchange. Soon after, they were again told to “stand down.”

I don’t even know what to say….

As Scott Ott recently mused on PJ Media’s Trifecta in answer to the question, Should Congress Start Drafting Articles of Impeachment?: Only the verdict of the voters on November 6th should spare Obama from impeachment.

There are a lot complicit bad actors involved with this who need to be held accountable, as well.

This latest information makes the upcoming pro-Obama “Gutsy Call” movie being aired on Natl Geographic (which I’ll never watch again) two days before the election all the more sickening. Are they seriously going to go through with that?

Mark Charles Woods, the father of the slain Seal, Tyrone Woods is demanding answers: Who Made the Decision Not to Save My Son?

Anyone else in the MSM covering this?

So far, only the NY Post: CIA operators were denied request for help during Benghazi attack on US Embassy: report

Via Memorandum, here are the conservative blogs covering the story:

protein wisdom, Power Line, The Jawa Report, National Review, The Spectacle Blog, The PJ Tatler, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit, NO QUARTER USA NET, The Right Scoop, Atlas Shrugs, Conservatives4Palin, Pirate’s Cove, Patterico’s Pontifications and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

SEE ALSO:

Bob Owens, PJ Tatler: AC-130U Gunship was On-Scene in Benghazi, Obama Admin Refused to Let It Fire:

If you don’t get torches-and-pitchforks irate about this, you are not an American:

The security officer had a laser on the target that was firing and repeatedly requested back-up support from a Specter gunship, which is commonly used by U.S. Special Operations forces to provide support to Special Operations teams on the ground involved in intense firefights. The fighting at the CIA annex went on for more than four hours — enough time for any planes based in Sigonella Air base, just 480 miles away, to arrive. Fox News has also learned that two separate Tier One Special operations forces were told to wait, among them Delta Force operators.

There were two AC-130Us deployed to Libya in March as part of Operation Unified Protector.

Keep reading.

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None of it makes sense. It almost looks like they wanted Ambassador Stevens dead.

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Ace of Spades HQ: Blackfive: A US Troop Would Not Have Been Painting a Target Unless There Was a Spectre or Armed Predator In the Air to Fire On It:

Now that he points this out, it’s obvious– a laser designator isn’t a weapon. It’s a designator which a flying weapons platform sees and then strikes.

A SEAL wouldn’t just be pointing a laser designator at a target for shits and giggles. If there were no platform in the air that could fire on the target, he wouldn’t be pointing a laser designator at the target. He’d be pointing a gun.

So there was almost certainly a platform capable of firing the weapon in the air.

And further: At that point, only two men would have been in a position to veto the strike.

The AFRICON command, or the President.

Rush spoke with a man who claimed to be a retired Lt. Col/ Special Ops Planner who gave some “inside baseball information” about what went down, and why the President would have to have known about the attack on the Consulate from the onset. Ace has the video.

Rush summed it up perfectly at the end, “somewhere, somebody refused to make a gutsy call!”

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Which is what happened with the Bin Laden raid, too, until Obama was overruled by Panettaaccording to  reports.

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But they’re airing a movie in a week or so that glorifies Dear Leader for getting Bin Laden, anyway.

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Like I said. In light of all this – are they really going to go through with that?

Linked by Michelle Malkin, thanks!

Fireworks at the Forum – Jacob Turk Takes Hispanic Student To School (Video)

When Republican candidate for US Congress, Jacob Turk went to a candidates forum at Penn Valley Community College in Kansas City’s urban core, Tuesday morning, he knew that he was going to be a tough sell to the youthful, liberal audience.

A Hispanic girl certainly played her part well, when she asked what I imagine she thought was a trick question,  “what is your definition of America and freedom?”

“We have liberty to do what we each choose, without stepping on the rights of somebody else”, Turk responded.

The girl then pounced -  see if you can follow her logic:

“On your website – (so this would be quoting you directly) – you say,  I am against illegal immigration, I oppose amnesty and I support legal immigration. You just said that you shouldn’t be stepping on the rights of anybody else, and you said that freedom was for everybody… now, if you’re saying that, why can’t I can’t bring up my cousin and my uncle from Mexico to live with me to chase the same American dream that you want, and if he does come, why are you totally allowed to step on his liberties…?”

She bellicosely continued; “You say Hispanics and illegal aliens in general are the ones taking up all the space in your prisons….”

Jacob countered – “That’s not from my website…”

She insisted it was, much to the delight of the other students.

Oh, for crying out loud - here’s what’s on his website:

I am against illegal immigration. I oppose amnesty.

I support legal immigration.

The porous southern border MUST be closed, our northern border security beefed up, and our ports secured. For our southern border, I would insist that the 700 miles of double layer fence that was mandated by Congress in 2006 be built.

Hospitals are overwhelmed, school resources are used up, our law enforcement resources are drained, and our prisons are overflowing in large part due to the waves of illegal aliens invading this country. Americans are paying BILLIONS of dollars, hand over fist, to subsidize the cost of ‘cheap’ labor, and allowing it to continue is a loss for our economy.

I do not support any additional immigration reform until our borders are secured and illegal immigration is halted. When the fence is built and the border secured, we can move forward on retooling our immigration system.

We say loud and clear:

BUILD THE FENCE. SECURE OUR BORDERS.

So – no – he didn’t say Hispanics and illegal aliens  are the ones taking up all the space in our prisons. He  said “our prisons are overflowing in large part due to waves of illegal immigration invading the country.” And he’s absolutely correct about that.

But she thundered on, “you say we’re taking up space in your prisons… (and then her “coup de gras”)….when for a fact we take up less than 10% and the majority taking up space in your prisons are WHITE!!!11!

Oh dear….

Alas, no.

The latest statistics on the racial make up of the prison population doesn’t even come close to bearing out Little Miss La Raza’s claim.

In reality, Hispanics made up 20.6% of the total jail and prison population in 2009. Non-Hispanic blacks accounted for 39.4% of the prison population. So 60% of the prison population is comprised of blacks and Hispanics who together, only make up 30% of the US population.

On June 30, 2006, an estimated 4.8% of black non-Hispanic men were in prison or jail, compared to 1.9% of Hispanic men of any race and 0.7% of white non-Hispanic men. U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics.[41]

According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) non-Hispanic blacks accounted for 39.4% of the total prison and jail population in 2009.^{[43][not in citation given]} According to the 2010 census of the US Census Bureau blacks (including Hispanic blacks) comprised 13.6% of the US population.^[44][45][46]

Hispanics (of all races) were 20.6% of the total jail and prison population in 2009.^[43] Hispanics comprised 16.3% of the US population according to the 2010 US census.^[44][47] The Northeast has the highest incarceration rates of Hispanics in the nation.^[48] Connecticut has the highest Hispanic-to-White ratio with 6.6 Hispanic males for every white male. The National Average Hispanic-to-White ratio is 1.8. Other states with high Hispanic-to-White ratios include Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New York.^[49]

The Hispanic community is not monolithic, and thus there are variations, even with incarceration rates. Among the Hispanic community, Puerto Ricans have the highest incarceration rate, and are up to six times more likely to be incarcerated than whites, and may explain the higher incarceration rates for Hispanics in the Northeast region.^{[50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58]}Illegal immigrants, usually of Mexican origin, also make up a substantial number of Hispanics incarcerated.^[59][60][61]

In 2010 black non-Hispanic males were incarcerated at the rate of 4,347 inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents of the same race and gender. White males were incarcerated at the rate of 678 inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents. Hispanic males were incarcerated at the rate of 1,755 inmates per 100,000 U.S. residents.^[42][62] For female rates see the table below.

However, black majority cities have similar crime statistics for blacks as do cities where majority of population is white. For example, white majority San Diego has a slightly lower crime rate for blacks than does Atlanta, a city which has black majority in population and city government.^[63]

Census data for 2000, which included a count of the number and race of all individuals incarcerated in the United States, showed for each state that the proportion of blacks in prison populations exceeded the proportion of whites among state residents in every state.^[64] In twenty states, the percent of blacks incarcerated was at least five times greater than their share of resident population.^[64]

If she had been on her game, she would have cited the correct numbers and blamed it on institutional racism.

Jacob responded by making the obvious point that when he referred to our rights – he was talking about American citizens.

He made another obvious point in saying that he and his wife, Donna, “are not the Republican party”.

Then he went on to make the case for immigration reform, but only AFTER the United States follows our current immigration laws.

Who’s Ready For an October Surprise?

I’m not going to link to the countdown website because as many have already noted – it has a definite hactivist feel to it.

William Jacobson reported on this story, earlier today:

The tweets for the website (private to protect their sources) say the campaign knows about it and is scared. “It has the potential to change the election into a landslide.” This will come out right before the last debate on Monday and I would guess if it is truly something, it will shake the guilty one to the core (fingers crossed it is Obama).

I can’t see anti-Obama voters suddenly voting for him en masse after we have documented his illegal moves for the last 4 yrs (they would stay home if anything) but I could see some Obama voters seeing the light. Some, alas, will NEVER see the light even if he killed Hillary on the White House lawn in broad daylight by chewing off her head high on bath salts, as long as they get their freebies.

The link is to An October Surprise, which promises a game changing document release on October 22,  just before the final debate:

One of your presidential candidates isn’t being honest with you. Stay tuned to find out which one it is.

Most people who have examined the blurred and redacted documents at Buzzfeed seem to think they look like tax forms – if so -  we’re looking  at Obama’s political henchmen playing a very dirty trick weeks before an election in the same manner Obama/Axelrod did to his political opponents in Chicago.

Remember:  Obama’s signature move: unsealing private records.

Mitt Romney presents one enormous problem for Barack Obama’s campaign: No divorce records. That’s why the media are so hot to get their hands on Romney’s tax records for the past 25 years. They need something to “pick through, distort and lie about” — as the Republican candidate says.

Obama’s usual campaign method, used in 100 percent of his races, has been to pry into the private records of his opponents.

Democrats aren’t going to find any personal dirt on the clean-cut Mormon, so they need complicated tax filings going back decades in order to create the illusion of scandal out of boring financial records.

LI commenter Austin G. Hart did some sleuthing and managed to find an Occupy link.

Interesting. The teaser image that they posted in their twitter feed (http://t.co/cxtql58Y) looks different than the document they link to at Buzzfeed (http://www.buzzfeed.com/wiowsa/one-of-your-presidential-candidates-isnt-being-ho-4afz).

All the WHOIS info on the octsurprise website is private because they appear to have used a third party to register the domain (http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/octsurprise.com), but I wanted to follow what trail there was, if any, with the Buzzfeed poster.

The buzzfeed image appears to have been posted by a person with the handle WIOPSA which appears to stand for “What Is Occupy Wall Street About” (http://www.buzzfeed.com/wiowsa). Their profile links to whatisoccupywallstreetabout.com. WHOIS info doesn’t reveal the name of the individual that registered the (now expired) domain, but it does have an email address (http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/whatisoccupywallstreetabout.com). This same email address is associated with another domain name registration (http://www.networksolutions.com/whois-search/scatterfamily.com) that does list the account owner who appears to live in the Chicago area. A Google search did turn up a result for a person by that name who worked in that area (http://media.illinois.edu/images/_docs/alumni/alumninews_W08.pdf) who is or was an IT creative director for a TV channel, but I don’t know that they’re the same person. You can do a Google search yourself to see what other results come up – there were plenty of others.

Now, Just because the twitter account linked to the Buzzfeed image doesn’t mean the two are associated. And just because the person that posted the image at buzzfeed linked to the occupy website doesn’t mean they are related either. So the connections are tenuous and may not mean anything, but that’s all there was to go on.

Another LI commenter, Jack Sunday,  wrote:

This document => https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A5Ry869CAAEbHEn.jpg:large definitely has the Commonwealth of Massachusetts shield in the left hand corner. The second document in this array http://s3-ak.buzzfed.com/static/imagebuzz/web03/2012/10/17/16/6-docs-25763-1350504119-8.jpg, where everything is redacted, most likely has the Massachusetts Department of Revenue medallion in the upper left corner. See this example here => http://www.mass.gov/dor/docs/dor/forms/corp10/355/sch-cg.pdf

These are Commonwealth of Massachusetts documents, I’m afraid.

On the other hand, Mitt Romney has been poked, prodded and vetted to the nth degree. I see pyrite ahead.

This has the rancid smell of David Axelrod’s Chicago operation all over it.

Ann Coulter said it best just a few months ago: “It’s almost like a serial killer’s signature. Unsealed personal records have been released to the press. Obama must be running for office!”

One month before the 2004 Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate, Obama was down in the polls, about to lose to Blair Hull, a multimillionaire securities trader. But then the Chicago Tribune leaked the claim that Hull’s second ex-wife, Brenda Sexton, had sought an order of protection against him during their 1998 divorce proceedings.

Those records were under seal, but as The New York Times noted: “The Tribune reporter who wrote the original piece later acknowledged in print that the Obama camp had ‘worked aggressively behind the scenes’ to push the story.” Many people said Axelrod had “an even more significant role — that he leaked the initial story.”

Both Hull and his ex-wife opposed releasing their sealed divorce records, but they finally relented in response to the media’s hysteria — 18 days before the primary. Hull was forced to spend four minutes of a debate detailing the abuse allegation in his divorce papers, explaining that his ex-wife “kicked me in the leg and I hit her shin to try to get her to not continue to kick me.”

After having held a substantial lead just a month before the primary, Hull’s campaign collapsed with the chatter about his divorce. Obama sailed to the front of the pack and won the primary. Hull finished third with 10 percent of the vote.

As luck would have it, Obama’s opponent in the general election had also been divorced! Jack Ryan was tall, handsome, Catholic — and shared a name with one of Harrison Ford’s most popular onscreen characters! He went to Dartmouth, Harvard Law and Harvard Business School, made hundreds of millions of dollars as a partner at Goldman Sachs, and then, in his early 40s, left investment banking to teach at an inner city school on the South Side of Chicago.

Ryan would have walloped Obama in the Senate race. But at the request of — again — the Chicago Tribune, California Judge Robert Schnider unsealed the custody papers in Ryan’s divorce five years earlier from Hollywood starlet Jeri Lynn Ryan, the bombshell Borg on “Star Trek: Voyager.”

Jack Ryan had released his tax records. He had released his divorce records. But both he and his ex-wife sought to keep the custody records under seal to protect their son.

Amid the 400 pages of filings from the custody case, Jack Ryan claimed that his wife had had an affair, and she counterclaimed with the allegation that he had taken her to “sex clubs” in Paris, New York and New Orleans, which drove her to fall in love with another man.

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And that’s how Obama became a U.S. senator. He destroyed both his Democratic primary opponent and his Republican general election opponent with salacious allegations about their personal lives taken from “sealed” court records.

Obama’s team delved into Sarah Palin’s marriage and spread rumors of John McCain’s alleged affair in 2008 and they smeared Herman Cain in 2011 with hazy sexual harassment allegations all emanating from David Axelrod’s pals in Chicago.

They weren’t able to “shame” Romney into releasing all of his tax records after harping about it all year because as Romney said himself, last July -   it would provide “hundreds of pages” for opponents to “distort” and turn into attacks against his candidacy.

So now we’re at defcon 3:  Romney is on track to “wallop” Obama in the 2012 Presidential race. Time to unseal some personal records.

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Another dopier “October Surprise” comes to us via Ace: Just A Heads Up: The Leftist Outrage Factory Is Gearing Up:

I’m not going to link the lefty gals who are pushing this, but there’s audio of Tagg Romney saying he wanted to take a swing at Obama for calling his dad a liar.

Oh, whatever. I respect him more for saying that than the disingenuous – “We think Obama is a nice guy, but in over his head” garbage. Truth is – he wants to smack him in the face. After all the things they’ve said about his dad, (dog abuser, tax cheat, felon, murderer, etc) I don’t blame him.

Jacob Turk Bombshell: Internal Poll “Shows Us Slightly Ahead” of Emanuel Cleaver (Audio)

Jacob Turk, the Republican candidate for Emanuel Spittlegate Cleaver’s seat in District 5, Missouri, was a guest on the Kris Kobach Show, Sunday evening and he had some exciting information to share: an internal poll taken a week and a half ago shows him slightly ahead of Cleaver.

Kobach, the conservative Republican Secretary of State for Kansas, has a weekend radio talk show on 710 KCMO.

In the nearly ten minute interview, Turk weighed in on Obama’s debate performance, and his own race against the extreme left-winger Cleaver who has apparently been too busy trying to get out of paying his $1.5 million car wash loan to debate Turk.

Turk suggested to Kobach that he ask him how his debates are going with Cleaver.

Kobach played along; “Okay how are your debates going?”

“Seeing as he doesn’t show up to a single one, and I’m debating with an empty chair, they’re going real well”, Turk answered.

Kobach was incredulous; “are you kidding me?! Does the Kansas City Red Star print that – that he doesn’t show up???”

Turk: “We’ve had several forums and once he finds out that I’m showing up, he suddenly gets busy….because I’m not John McCain, either, I’ve never debated anyone, but I know what I stand for, and I know what I believe in, and he’s got a record he needs to defend…”

Kobach: Does he agree to at least one or two debates where he at least does show up?

Turk: He has agreed to show up to a couple of forums and then suddenly, when it becomes known that I’m going to be there, suddenly he’s a very busy guy.

Figures.

Towards the end of the interview, Turk dropped the bombshell:

“We did an exciting internal poll for us a week and a half ago, and … we’re slightly ahead, but it’s very close…”

He noted that there’s over 20% undecided in the race, which Kobach assured him would swing his way, because undecideds usually break for the challenger.

 The NRCC has launched ads in 27 House districts but Turk’s isn’t one of them. That’s why it’s important to share this good news in any way you can, and donate to his campaign if you want to see an end to the Democrat stranglehold on District 5 in MO.

Jacob Turk’s website is here.

His contribution page is here.

Reactions to Obama’s New Jobs Report: Widespread Distrust and Skepticism

Hot Air called the new numbers “disappointing.”

The Bureau of Labor Statistics delivered yet another disappointing jobs report.  In September, the economy only added 114,000 jobs, and while the jobless rate dropped to 7.8%, that mainly came from a mid-year adjustment last month on the number of current jobs…

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CNBC calls the numbers “tame,” but also notes the “contradictory” numbers:

Job growth remained tame in September, with the economy creating just 114,000 net new positions though the unemployment rate fell to 7.8 percent.

The report presented a slew of contradictory data points, with the total employment level soaring despite the low net number.

The falling jobless rate had been a function as much of the continued shrinking in the labor force as it was an increase in new positions.

But the government said the total number of jobs employed surged by 873,000, the highest one-month jump in 29 years. The total of unemployed people tumbled by 456,000.

Via Business Insider, former GE CEO Jack Welch weighed in on Twitter, saying what everyone’s  thinking:

Via Big Government, ABC News’ Chris Cuomo is also skeptical of the numbers:

#unemployment is at 7.8% in September. Except it really wasn't. It is much higher, w/ underemplyd and those who stopped looking. #notfixed

—
Chris Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) October 05, 2012

John Nolte puts the report into perspective:

Adding to the mystery is the fact that the U-6,  the longtime underemployment and unemployment number, remained fixed at a dismal 14.7%.

What this .03% drop means is that the number of unemployed people dropped by 456,000 when only 114k jobs were created–well below the monthly average, and below population growth. Where did 342k people go to lower the number so dramatically just 31 days before a presidential election? Did they retire, leave the planet, die of old age in the unemployment office?

Moreover, just 30 days before the election, 342K people dropped off the unemployment rolls and lowered the unemployment rate to below 8%–a benchmark number vitally important to President Obama who promised his stimulus would ensure we wouldn’t hit 8%.

Finally, this is the second hinky looking report/revision from the Bureau of Labor Statistics in as many months. Just days ago, 400,000 jobs were “discovered“–almost the exact number Obama needed to have a record of creating more jobs on his watch than were lost.

Meanwhile, over at Zero Hedge, Tyler Durden just discovered an “Odd Arima-X-12 Statistical Aberration”:

• Household Survey people employed: +873,000 (source)
• Part-time jobs for economic reasons: +582,000 (source)

-> 582,000 divided by 873,000 = 0.666666666666*

Precisely 2/3 if you can believe that….

Chuck Woolery just tweeted:

Watch for this, Obama campain taking illegal contributions, fixing the jobs #'s. MSM no coverage, they will over look the obvious. Will you?

—
Chuck Woolery (@chuckwoolery) October 05, 2012

Ace of Spades HQ: Unemployment Rate Plummets to 4.3%… For Government Workers:

Yes, that sounds about right.

The best news anywhere in the U.S. economy over the past three months has been in the government sector, where unemployment has dropped dramatically from 5.7 percent in July to 5.1 percent in August to 4.3 percent in September, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.Both the federal and state governments increased their employees in July, August and September.

Romney, meanwhile, has issued a statement on the still-awful unemployment (at a level which no incumbent president has been reelected with)…

Keep reading…

The Real Jobs Report. As Pethokoukis explains, it’s still awful.

Among his points:

3. The broader U-6 rate — which takes into account part-time workers who want full-time work and lots of discouraged workers who’ve given up looking — stayed unchanged at 14.7%. That’s a better gauge of the true unemployment rate and state of the American labor market.4. The shrunken workforce remains shrunken. If the labor force participation rate was the same as when President Obama took office, the unemployment rate would be 10.7%. If the participation rate had just stayed steady since the start of the year, the unemployment rate would be 8.4% vs. 8.3%. Where’s the progress? Here is RDQ Economics:

Such a rapid decline in the unemployment rate would be consistent with 4%–5% real economic growth historically but much of the decline is accounted for by people dropping out of the labor force (over the last year the employment-population ratio has risen to only 58.7% from 58.4%). We believe part of the drop in the unemployment rate over the last two months is a statistical quirk (the household data show an increase in employment of 873,000 in September, which is completely implausible and likely a result of sampling volatility). Moreover, declining labor force participation over the last year (resulting in 1.1 million people disappearing from the labor force) accounts for much of the rest of the decline.

But Obama’s out there telling supporters, “More Americans entered the workforce, more Americans are getting jobs.”

Via Twitchy, more reactions to Obama’s jobs report from on Twitter:

Jobs #s from Labor Secretary Hilda Solis are total pro-Obama propaganda--labor force participation rate at 30-yr low. Abysmal!

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Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) October 05, 2012

In regards to today's Jobs report---I agree with former GE CEO Jack Welch, Chicago style politics is at work here... tinyurl.com/9rbommz

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Allen West (@AllenWest) October 05, 2012

West wrote on Facebook:

I agree with former GE CEO Jack Welch, Chicago style politics is at work here. Somehow by manipulation of data we are all of a sudden below 8 percent unemployment, a month from the Presidential election. This is Orwellian to say the least and representative of Saul Alinsky tactics from the book “Rules for Radicals”- a must read for all who want to know how the left strategize . Trust the Obama administration? Sure, and the spontaneous reaction to a video caused the death of our Ambassador……and pigs fly.

Newsbusters: Santelli Smells A Rat: ‘I Told You They’d Get It Under 8%—They Did!’

Rick Santelli, the man who helped launch the Tea Party with his impassioned comments from the trading floor in 2009, sees the hand of politics at work in today’s announcement that the unemployment rate has dipped below 8%.

Speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box this morning just minutes after the number was announced, Santelli said: “I told you they’d get it under 8%–they did!

Tammy Bruce: Surprise! Unemployment Down to 7.8%; Yes, Economists & Others Are Calling Shenanigans:

Not entirely unexpected considering the regular numbers shenanigans from this administration. Horrible performance for 44 months and then suddenly an improvement–the month before the election. Right. Don’t get me wrong–I’d be thrilled if this number was real, but the fact of the matter is, like with everything else Obama does, it’s baked to benefit Obama with complete disregard about the impact on regular people’s lives. Santelli and Jack Welch have already chimed in with concerns about legitimacy. I would expect we’ll see an ‘adjustment’ just after the election reflecting the real number.

Daniel Horowitz, Redstate: Why Today’s BLS Jobs Numbers Make No Sense:

There is no good news in this report from any of the numbers that actually make sense, except for the revisions of the July and August numbers.  There is clearly a statistical anomaly here – one that is skewing the numbers counter to the current trend of the economy.  But somehow, despite the internal numbers of the household survey and the payroll numbers of the establishment survey, the topline U3 number always seems to decline…..Pay no attention to that 14.7% U6 broader measure of unemployment!

Free Enterprise: It’s Official: Worst Recovery in Post-World War II Era:

It’s official. With this morning’s jobs numbers, we have entered the longest recovery period of the post-World War II era.

This dubious honor means it’s been 40 months since the recession technically ended, but its reverberations continue to shake the economy. The Chamber’s chief economist, Dr. Martin Regalia, said:

“[Job growth] remains far too slow to reemploy the millions who remain unemployed or underemployed. With the economy still stuck in first gear, the policies coming out of Washington, such as the looming fiscal cliff, take on even greater significance.”

These are uncharted waters. Looking at previous recession and recovery periods, even some of the bleakest, we were out of the woods by now. But today, we are still 4.5 million jobs away from pre-recession levels. That’s a daunting number, even accounting for population increases.

How does today compare to previous recession and recovery periods? Check out the chart and photos below.

Legal Insurrection: Obama can celebrate the jobs report, the American people cannot:

Who could have predicted this, a made for headlines declining nominal “unemployment rate” which would be used by the Obama campaign to its advantage while the reality underneath the numbers showed a disaster.

I predicted it, as did many others.

The September jobs report has the headline the Obama campaign wanted:  September Jobs Report: Unemployment Falls to 7.8 Pct:

I don’t think arguing that the BLS “manipulated” the numbers is productive, it gives the MSM the perfect excuse not to look at what the numbers really show.

The reality is that the top line number of 7.8% was a huge drop with only 114,000 net new jobs created. How is that possible?  114,000 net new jobs is a horrible number yet the unemployment rate dropped by 0.3%?

James Pethokoukis explains…

Ace of Spades HQ: Why That 7.8% Unemployment Figure Is Raising Eyebrows

Linked by Doug Ross, thanks!

FINALLY! MSM Rags About to Expose Major Obama Donor Scandal

Atlas Shrugs played a leading role in bringing Obama’s campaign finance fraud to light in 2008. He raked in three quarters of a billion dollars by skirting the system, and got away with it. Last April, conservative bloggers discovered that his campaign was up to their old tricks: Deja Vu: Obama Camp Disables Credit Card Verification, Inviting Campaign Finance Fraud.

The Washington Examiner is now reporting that a “national magazine” and a “national website” are preparing a blockbuster story on the donor fraud. They speculate that it may be why Obama was so rattled during Wednesday’s debate.

Sources told Secrets that the Obama campaign has been trying to block the story. But a key source said it plans to publish the story Friday or, more likely, Monday.

According to the sources, a taxpayer watchdog group conducted a nine-month investigation into presidential and congressional fundraising and has uncovered thousands of cases of credit card solicitations and donations to Obama and Capitol Hill, allegedly from unsecure accounts, and many from overseas. That might be a violation of federal election laws.

The Obama campaign has received hundreds of millions in small dollar donations, many via credit card donations through their website. On Thursday, the campaign announced a record September donor haul of $150 million.

Media Matters is going to be up all weekend working on a viable spin to diffuse the story, but it seems to me that if the reporters investigated the story for nine months, they’ve been very careful to cross their Ts and dot their Is.

This has the potential to sink the Obama’s already listing ship.

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Allahpundit at Hot Air assumes like I do that the scandal has to do with the lax security on Obama’s campaign donation website.

No way to tell yet if this sort of thing is what the forthcoming scandal story is about, but the description in the excerpt sure sounds familiar. And if it is the same thing, then it’s essential to understand that people have been complaining about it for years. Team O is fully aware of the objections by now; if it’s still happening, it’s because they didn’t care enough to stop it. And if I’m wrong about all this and the story has to do with some entirely different donation scam, well, that’s even more interesting. To raise $150 million in a month, you need an awful lot of donors. And we know that when it comes to donors, Obama’s not picky.

Meanwhile, Team Obama has an October Surprise of their own: Bin Laden Movie From Obama Mega-Donor Harvey Weinstein To Air Two Days Before Election…

(CNN) — Two days before Election Day on Nov. 6, a movie detailing the raid that killed Osama bin Laden will air on the National Geographic Channel, the cable network announced Thursday.

The film is being distributed by the Weinstein Company, owned by a Harvey Weinstein, a major backer of President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign.

Titled, “SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden,” the feature-length film will chronicle the raid in Pakistan, an event that Obama’s campaign touts as one of his crowning achievements.

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Big Government: Obama Raises $150M in September, Tries to Block ‘Blockbuster’ Donor Scandal:

The Obama campaign’s September fundraising numbers may give people a feeling of déjà vu.

In September of 2008, the Obama campaign also raised $150 million, which was a record at that time, and added 632,000 new donors then.

And as the Examiner noted, the Obama campaign in 2008 was hit with a similar scandal in which the campaign let donors use “largely untraceable prepaid credit cards that could potentially be used to evade limits on how much an individual is legally allowed to give or to mask a contributor’s identity.”

10 Days Prior to Obama’s 2007 “Other Race Speech”, He Voted Against Appropriation that Would Have Waived the Stafford Act

The federal government’s unequal treatment of disaster victims  vis a vis the Stafford Act was one of the central themes of Obama’s poisonous race-baiting speech to black Pastors in 2007 – his insinuation being, the black victims of Katrina were treated differently because they’re not considered “part of the American family.”

From the transcript:

“Down in New Orleans, where they still have not rebuilt twenty months later, there’s a law, federal law — when you get reconstruction money from the federal government — called the Stafford Act. And basically it says, when you get federal money, you gotta give a ten percent match. The local government’s gotta come up with ten percent. Every ten dollars the federal government comes up with, local government’s gotta give a dollar.”

“Now here’s the thing, when 9-11 happened in New York City, they waived the Stafford Act — said, ‘This is too serious a problem. We can’t expect New York City to rebuild on its own. Forget that dollar you gotta put in. Well, here’s ten dollars.’ And that was the right thing to do. When Hurricane Andrew struck in Florida, people said, ‘Look at this devastation. We don’t expect you to come up with y’own money, here. Here’s the money to rebuild. We’re not gonna wait for you to scratch it together — because you’re part of the American family.’”

“What’s happening down in New Orleans? Where’s your dollar? Where’s your Stafford Act money? Makes no sense! Tells me that somehow, the people down in New Orleans they don’t care about as much!”

The Hayride found this funny, but I’m too disgusted to laugh:

Well, turns out that just 10 days prior to Obama’s speech there was a vote in the Senate on HR 2206, the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans’ Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act of 2007. That House Resolution amounted to a $6.9 billion appropriation to the Gulf Coast which would waive the Stafford Act.And guess which way Obama voted?

He voted AGAINST IT. He was one of just 14 Senators to vote against appropriating $7 billion to Katrina relief with no strings attached.

And then he went to Hampton and said the federal government doesn’t care about black people.

Seriously, what a disgusting, phoney, disingenuous demagogue.

A clearly agitated Mark Levin covered the story on his show, last night. He wondered,  “what kind of a mind works that way? What kind of a psychology does someone have to have to knowingly lie like that?”

Hello Fellow Conservatives – 2016 in Still In Theaters – You Shouldn’t Be Watching it Online

Citizen D. of Occupy White House Videos unleashed a hellstorm of fiery approbation on his blog, today, and his disapproval wasn’t directed at our corrupt President, or his Democrat minions in Congress or the MSM…

It was directed at fellow conservatives for posting and reposting a link to Dinesh D’Souza’s documentary 2016: Obama’s America, with the  headline: “Now online in its entirety on Youtube”, this weekend.

The blogosphere raced to watch and download (and upload?) 2016 for free. Meaning, of course, that Dinesh D’Souza and everyone else involved with this film, a film so incredibly important to history, to this election, a film that was 3 years in the making, received no royalties for the viewings.

When I followed the link to the video yesterday it had roughly 13,700 hits. At a $10/movie ticket price, the filmmakers lost $137,000 via that youtube link alone, assuming only 1 viewer at a time watched it. Of course there’s no way of calculating how often the film was downloaded and the exponential number of viewers and lost income resulting from that.

Citizen D. asks, “is watching 2016 without paying for it, without legal permission, some kind of conservative entitlement?”

Where was the honor, the honesty, the morals so often touted?? What happened to PAYING SOMEONE FOR THEIR WORK rather than stealing it because the opportunity presented itself?

Make this up to him and straighten out your own karma at the same time. The 2016 DVD can be pre-ordered NOW and all of his books are out there for purchase too.

Do the right thing.And be sure to read his latest article.

An important update: Dinesh & PJTV talk about the film’s distribution and future availabilty.

Dinesh points out the importance of the theater release:

“We want people to go to the theater, by the way, we want people to go to the theater because it’s so important, particularly for this kind of film that’s against the grain to demonstrate that it can do well at the box office, so we’re not done with that by any means.”

Read his entire post, here.

My husband and I actually went out to our local theater to watch the film, yesterday afternoon, and while I think D’Souza gives Barack Obama Senior way too much credit in forming the younger Obama’s worldview than I would, it’s an important film, and one I strongly recommend. If you haven’t seen it yet, go see it while it’s still in theaters, and take an independent or open minded Democrat with you. The scene in which D’Souza speaks with  Paul Kengor, the author of The Communist, the definitive biography on Obama’s mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, should be a deal breaker for any potential Obama voter who loves his country.

Father Z, in a post about Obama’s creepy new flag, recommended D’Souza’s book, The Roots of Obama’s Rage.

That’s what the Obama campaign is offering you: empty visual rhetoric harking to his prediction of the end of global warming and the rolling back of the oceans, or whatever that hogwash was.  This is the same guy who, having been honored at Notre Dame, promised to seek common ground with the Church.  This is the same gay, aggressively pro-abortion and even pro-infanticide, who lied to Card. Dolan.

Creepy.

Who is this guy?  Have you read Dinesh D’Souza’s The Roots of Obama’s Rage? (UK HERE and KINDLE).  And Jerome Corsi’s $2.99 Kindle book: Saul Alinsky:The Evil Genius Behind Obama.  And Hugh Hewitt’s book The Brief Against Obama: The Rise, Fall & Epic Fail of the Hope & Change Presidency.

And the first comment is one I could have written myself (typos in all).

The pretender president is doing everything we could ask him to in terms of not getting re-elected. He flaunts his narcissism, demonstrates his ineptness when it comes to foreign policy, insults and endangers Israel, continues to destroy the economy, etc etc. Yet surveys and polls show this race to be extremely close and, most disturbing, show that he still retains a high percentage of “catholic” votes. One must wonder why. Is it the entitlement mentality which has swept this once self sufficient nation? Is it the silence of Church leaders when CINO’s mouth heresy in support of this obamination of a leader? Have we desended into the same sort of complacency that allowed Hitler to rise to power? Is it a combination of all of the above? All I know is it is time for intense prayer because the futue of the country depends on a regime change after the November election.

We know that the polls are skewed in Obama’s favor – but this thing shouldn’t even be remotely close. It should be a blowout.

For me – the greatest disappointment I ever experienced in politics was in the American electorate in 1992. I felt that we citizens knew enough about “Slick Willie’s” character that he should never have been elected. I was sick when I woke up, that Wednesday morning after the election. Even sicker than I felt in 2008 because we so saw that one coming. I don’t know how I’m going to feel, this November if the Chicago Jesus manages to squeak this one out. I’m past despairing for my fellow countrymen. Now I despair for my children.

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UPDATE:

Hollywood Reporter: Filmmakers Behind ’2016: Obama’s America’ Claim Piracy and Disinformation Campaign Are a Coordinated Attack:

The movie showed up on YouTube over the weekend as rumors spread it would also be shown free on the Fox News Channel.

The filmmakers behind 2016: Obama’s America are claiming a coordinated attack engineered by supporters of Barack Obama to suppress the box-office results of the movie, which is a critical look at the president.

But but but but… “we were just trying to get the word out”, say conservatives who participated in the attack by watching and sharing online.