Craven Coke Caves To Anti-Voter ID Intimidation Campaign

Loud, but representing nowhere near the majority

The Blogocracy has the disappointing story:

The recent push for Voter ID laws has become a pet peeve of the Left. Knowing that it will be harder to pull off fraud, they are mounting a campaign of resistance. They have targeted Coca Cola and Walmart because of their association with American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC focused mostly on food and beverages taxes. They were also supporting Voter ID laws. Coca Cola has discontinued its association because of the Democratic boycott threat.

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In caving into the economic threat by liberals against a pro-voter ID law group, Coke issue this statement Wednesday afternoon: “The Coca-Cola Company has elected to discontinue its membership with the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).  Our involvement with ALEC was focused on efforts to oppose discriminatory food and beverage taxes, not on issues that have no direct bearing on our business.  We have a long-standing policy of only taking positions on issues that impact our Company and industry.”

And here, I had always considered Coke to be the freedom-loving American’s alternative to the grody fetal stem cell soda of choice for the Obama generation.

Coke  allowed itself to be cowed by a maybe a couple dozen Dem party operatives who probably look like this.

They could have learned from Mark Stevens’ experience. When his company, MSCO, was targeted by the organized left, he decided to double down.

MSCO was now being targeted because it was an advertiser on The Rush Limbaugh Show. The calls and now an increasing volume of hostile e-mail were pouring into MSCO.

Mark Stevens is a smart guy — and he quickly realized he was being targeted by somebody using a highly skilled, highly organized campaign that was deliberately designed to make the target feel besieged. When in fact marketing expert Stevens understood he was on the receiving end of a campaign involving a tiny handful of people extremely skilled in making others think dozens were tens of thousands.

Mark was right.

Stevens could have taken a cowardly, crouching posture – he could have dropped Rush so the bad phone calls and emails would go away. But, instead, he stood up.

Which in 21st century America means he accepted an invitation to appear on Stuart Varney’s Fox Business show, Varney and Company.

Sitting calmly in the television lights he let it rip. This wasn’t a boycott, he said, this was “an organized terrorist attack.” Part of “the war on business.” He recounted tales of being told he and his company were “under surveillance.” With “every move” being watched. There had been threats of physical violence. The attacks — coming from all over the country to a company that advertised in the New York media — were “insidious” and, tellingly, they were “all the damn same.” “You hate women,” they said to the man whose female employees out-numbered males. He kept going: “I’m saying here publicly, if you’re a liberal and don’t want to do business with my company — MSCO — please don’t. Don’t .”

Then he laid down his response. Mark Stevens was not simply going to continue advertising on The Rush Limbaugh Show. No not after this. No, now Mark Stevens was going to “…double down…triple down.”

Now, the public had heard. Furious Americans got it. The lid blew off a political pressure cooker, and Mark Stevens was inundated with support from Americans around the country.

He had received tens of thousands of e-mails.

Emails of support, Coke. Americans who are paying attention, see through the left’s squalid intimidation campaigns. They could have had your back, too.

Asked about advertisers who had pulled their ads, he said that “I think the failing to take a stand in defense of America” is a mistake. He had no sense he was going to be swept up in the middle of this firestorm, but now that he was, he said: “Bring on the buses!” He was going to advertise more heavily, and he was going to stand his ground to try and be a bulwark against the bullies.

Stevens, humbled by the outpouring of support he received from Americans, sent a statement to Jeffrey Lord:

Subject line: The Battle for America

Ever since I appeared on the Stuart Varney show in response to the “terrorism” — Rush Limbaugh advertising boycott — directed at me and my company, my team and my clients, it has set off a chain reaction of emails being sent to me from citizens across the country:

* Seals have volunteered to protect our offices.

* Retired police officers are asking if they can help in anyway.

* Citizens want to play a role, join the stand and contribute to the cause. They are thanking me for having the courage to stand up for free speech and for the American Dream.

Stevens told Stuart Varney that his company has done very well advertising on Rush’s Show, even after the boycott. His business has not taken a hit, at all.

That’s what makes this so disappointing.

Whether or not Coke supports voter integrity laws, (and why wouldn’t they?), there was no reason why they should have allowed the Stalinists to intimidate them into discontinuing their association with a group that does. When you stand up to the bullies, they lose.

UPDATE:

Legal Insurrection:Conservatives better wake up to anti-conservative boycott movements:

There has been a determined effort by left-wing groups in the past couple of years to demonize ALEC, and Color of Change seized on the issue of voter identification laws.

Here’s how it works.  An issue which is neutral, such as voter i.d. laws, is portrayed as racist and hostile to minorities.  The advertiser then is confronted with a flood of social media contracts threatening, sometimes implicitly and sometimes explicitly, with a boycott for supporting “racist” laws.

There are few corporations, not even ones as large as Coca-Cola, which can risk being labeled “racist” or as “supporting racism” regardless of how inaccurate and outlandish the accusations.  It is toxic, and groups like Media Matters and Color of Change know it.

Faced with the accusation and thousands or tens of thousands of people who are willing to spread the lie, the corporation caves in to the pressure and withdraws the advertising or sponsorship.

This is exactly what happened when Color of Change a organized a massive social media campaign against Coca Cola on April 4:

Keep reading – they even managed to work  Trayvon Martin  into their message.

Coke, you let Van Jones’ commie thugs at the Color of change scare you into ditching a fine organization?

For shame.

 

As Sheriff Arpaio Continues His Investigation of Obama, the DOJ Escalates Its War Against the Sheriff

In a not unexpected move, the  Obama Dept of Injustice is preparing to sue Arizona county sheriff Joe Arpaio and his department for violating civil rights laws. This comes in the wake of two Arpaio new conferences,  March 1 and March 31, disclosing to the public his posse’s findings  regarding Obama’s long form birth certificate and his selective service registration  card.

Reuters reports:

The sheriff’s high-profile crackdown on illegal immigrants has helped thrust the issue onto the national political stage with some states passing tough new laws aimed at pushing out those in the country illegally.

The administration’s Justice Department and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office have been in settlement talks for months over allegations that officers regularly made unlawful stops and arrests of Latinos, used excessive force against them and failed to adequately protect the Hispanic community.

Those negotiations have broken down because of a fight over the Justice Department’s demand that an independent monitor be appointed by a federal court to oversee compliance with the settlement, which has now reached 128 pages in draft form, according to the Obama administration.

As you can imagine, Arpaio has objected to being assigned a “monitor” to hamstring his law enforcement efforts.

The Justice Department in a December report outlined numerous alleged civil rights violations, including that Latino drivers were four to nine times more likely to be stopped than non-Latinos by Arpaio’s force.

The sheriff has steadfastly denied any wrongdoing and lashed out at the Obama administration for targeting his department and failing to deal with the problem of illegal immigration with some 11.5 million believed to be in the United States.

In a strongly worded statement on Tuesday, Arpaio said the appointment of a monitor would force him to abdicate responsibility for his police force, including decisions about policies, operations, jail programs and enforcement.

“To the Obama administration, who is attempting to strong arm me into submission only for its political gain, I say: This will not happen, not on my watch!” Arpaio said in the statement.

Arpaio may be on to something, there. As J Christian Adams has written, “if the public had any idea just how politicized the (Civil Rights) Division has become under this administration, outrage would follow.”

For those who have followed this series, you know that much of the culpability rests with former Acting Assistant Attorney Loretta King. As I pointed out in a piece last week, King rewrote the hiring guidelines back in 2009, resulting in hiring committee members being forced to toss any resume that did not describe a radical background. She didn’t believe that lawyers who represented defendants in civil rights cases also have expertise in the law. She didn’t believe anyone who didn’t work for a left-wing group deserved to work in the Civil Rights Division.

Apologists of this disgrace say DOJ only wanted people “with experience in civil rights law.” That’s called a pretext. Plenty of lawyers have experience defending civil rights cases. Plenty of lawyers who didn’t work for left-wing groups have the willingness and dedication to enforce the law fairly.

The truth is that most of the “experience” this series has described is meaningless for a DOJ lawyer, except to do one thing: demonstrate their political and ideological allegiance with the Obama administration. Kavitha Sreeharsha’s work promoting abortion won’t have anything to do with litigating cases at DOJ. Daria Neal’s nutty environmental advocacy won’t help her win a case at DOJ. But it will give Eric Holder and DOJ political appointees comfort they are hiring fellow travelers who will try to move the law, who will work to aid the political aims of the administration.

Last month, Arpaio held two news conferences in which he tried to publicize his investigation’s findings regarding the legitimacy of the President’s long form birth certificate which was finally posted on the White House website, last April.  Arpaio’s team of investigators were hoping to put an end to the nagging controversy  by finding everything on the up and up, but instead, they came to the opposite conclusion. The thing that was posted online is as fake as a three dollar bill, a “computer-generated forgery”, Arpaio’s cold case posse declared.  Arpaio’s invesigation also found that “the INS records for foreign flights arriving in Hawaii during the week of Obama’s birth were missing, not only on the microfilm reels examined, but also in the primary database itself.” Climate change skeptic and fraud detector, Christopher Monckton met with Arpaio, recently, and concurred that that the BC is a forgery.

Arpaio has now expanded his probe to include the allegations of Hillary Clinton supporters:

Sheriff Joe Arpaio has decided to expand the scope of his law enforcement investigation into President Obama’s eligibility to include evidence and affidavits documenting alleged criminal activity by the Obama campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party primary race.

Hollywood film producer Bettina Viviano and Hollywood-based digital photographer Michele Thomas have given Arpaio’s investigators the names of dozens of Hillary Clinton supporters willing to come forward with evidence and affidavits. Among their claims is that the Clintons were the first to charge Obama is not a natural born citizen as required by Article 2, Section 1 of the Constitution and that his birth certificate is a forgery.

 Moreover, the Hillary supporters identified by Viviano and Thomas have argued that the pattern of questionable and possibly illegal activity suggests that the alleged act of producing forged birth certificate documentation for Obama may have been merely more of the same.

Needless to say, the  media – right, left and “mainstream”, have been less than eager to share any of this news with the public.

The media blackout  was tackled by Diana West, last month in her post, “Silence of the Lapdogs“:

Warning: This column contains news of evidence of possible forgery and fraud in the long-form birth certificate of the president of the United States and – bonus – his Selective Service registration card.

I figure the warning is necessary to prevent Americans, particularly Americans who work in news media and politics, from hurting themselves on any hard, sharp facts that might poke through my discussion of what is surely the biggest scandal to emerge around the seemingly dodgy docs Barack Obama is using to verify his identity.

I refer to the logic- and history-defying news and political blackout of the March 1 press conference called in Maricopa County, Ariz., by Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse.

I ask you: Have you read in your local paper about the technical evidence that led the posse’s three retired criminal investigators and two attorneys to conclude that the birth certificate image White House officials uploaded at the White House website on April 27, 2011, did not originate in a paper format, but rather was created (forged) as an electronic file on a computer?

She referred to a leading leading conservative editor, who complained that “It’s an issue on which people are being marginalized very easily and very quickly at this point.”

Marginalized by whom? The Soros-funded attack machine? The liberal-dominated “mainstream media”? Fox News-dominated conservative media? The Obama White House?

Clearly, something has us all on lockdown. That’s much, much scarier than even the amazing possibility that some con artist might be pulling off the biggest scam in history.

Now the con artist is doing everything in his power to shut down the one Sheriff in the country who’s willing to put it all on the line by exposing the scam.

We facilitate their intimidation tactics by our silence.

UPDATE:

Via The Right Scoop: Arpaio: If DOJ wants to take me to court, fine, I’ll meet them in court:

Arpaio has more backbone than anyone I’ve ever seen – this simply isn’t common among elected officials. But there’s no way he’s gonna let Obama’s DOJ bully him around, especially when it is only about politics. He says if they want to take him to court, he’s more than willing to call their bluff and make them substantiate their allegations, something he says they’ve refused to do thus far and something he doesn’t think they want to do in court.

CFP: Exposing the Obama-Soetoro deception:

On Saturday, March 31, 2012, a press conference was held by a commissioned law enforcement body to present additional findings from their investigation into the bona fides and background of a man currently occupying the highest elected position in America. The investigation not only includes the forensic irregularities of the birth documentation submitted by Barack Hussein Obama, but into two additional areas. The official law enforcement investigation is also encompassing problems confirmed to exist with the authenticity of his selective service registration, a matter we’ve previously reported. Additionally and perhaps more explosive, investigation has broadened into the actions of Hillary Clinton and her closest political operatives during the latter part of the 2008 presidential campaign.

Most people following this issue are aware of the irregularities surrounding Obama’s selective service registration. Yet few appear to be aware that detectives from the Arizona investigative team have been methodically securing affidavits documenting alleged criminal activity by the Obama campaign during the 2008 Democratic Party primary.

“Something” happened during the latter portion of the campaign that involved Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama. Recall that Obama and Clinton ditched the press and their respective staff members to meet in secret during the late night hours of Thursday, June 5, 2008, at the home of Senator Dianne Feinstein. The meeting lasted about an hour, and what was discussed was never publicly disclosed.

The Final Insult: Napolitano Considering Exempting Muslims From Airport Pat Downs

Excuse me?

Uh…..

Pssssst TSA: Doesn’t this sorta defeat the purpose?!

According to Judicial Watch, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is actually considering waving airport pat downs for Muslim women who consider them offensive. I consider them offensive – do I get an exemption, too?

The demand came last week from the politically-connected Muslim rights organization that serves as the U.S. front for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. Calling the searches “invasive” and “humiliating,” the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) advises Muslim women wearing religious head covers known as hijabs to reject full-body checks before boarding planes.

Those who are selected for the secondary screenings should remind Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers that they are only supposed to pat down the head and neck and that they should not subject Muslim women to a full-body or partial body pat-down, according to CAIR’s advisory. It further says that, instead of a body search, Muslim women can request to check their own hijab and have officers perform a chemical swipe of their hands.

While Americans are forced to deal with the degrading searches, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is actually considering exempting Muslims as per CAIR’s demands. Madame Secretary confirmed this week that there will be “adjustments” and “more to come” on the issue of Muslim women in hijabs undergoing airport security pat-downs.

In the meantime her agency is targeting a San Diego man who received worldwide media coverage for refusing to let a TSA agent conduct a thorough body search that he felt amounted to a “sexual assault.” Referring to his genitals, the man told the TSA officer; “you touch my junk and I’m going to have you arrested.”

The head of TSA in San Diego called a press conference this week to announce that the agency has launched an investigation into the 31-year-old software programmer who was not allowed to board the plane. The feds plan to prosecute and fine him thousands of dollars for making them look bad. Actually, the official charge is leaving the airport’s security area without permission, which is prohibited to prevent terrorism.

This is how completely upside down this country’s national security posture has become. The people who frankly, should be receiving the most attention at airport screenings may get exempted from the offensive grope and grabs, while innocent toddlers  in wheelchairs get worked over.

The “Don’t Touch My Junk” guy is a national hero. In saner times, he would be given a medal for refusing to submit to an insane, and unjust policy.

Linked by Maggie’s Notebook, thanks!

Andrew Breitbart Dead at 43

“Mild-mannered family guy. Husky male model. “

Unexpectedly, from —natural causes?

Fox News reported that he collapsed while walking near his home in Brentwood, and he has a history of heart problems… that’s all we know as of yet. I am shocked, and devastated…I had the opportunity to see him again, a few weeks ago at CPAC, and he was so full of life with two movies about to be released – Occupy Unmasked, and Hating Breitbart. He also made the announcement that he had some shocking video of Obama from his college days that he was going to release at an unstated time.

Here is the entire announcement from Big Government:

Andrew passed away unexpectedly from natural causes shortly after midnight this morning in Los Angeles.

We have lost a husband, a father, a son, a brother, a dear friend, a patriot and a happy warrior.

Andrew lived boldly, so that we more timid souls would dare to live freely and fully, and fight for the fragile liberty he showed us how to love.

Andrew recently wrote a new conclusion to his book, Righteous Indignation:

I love my job. I love fighting for what I believe in. I love having fun while doing it. I love reporting stories that the Complex refuses to report. I love fighting back, I love finding allies, and—famously—I enjoy making enemies.

Three years ago, I was mostly a behind-the-scenes guy who linked to stuff on a very popular website. I always wondered what it would be like to enter the public realm to fight for what I believe in. I’ve lost friends, perhaps dozens. But I’ve gained hundreds, thousands—who knows?—of allies. At the end of the day, I can look at myself in the mirror, and I sleep very well at night.

Andrew is at rest, yet the happy warrior lives on, in each of us.

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Media inquiries: jpollak@breitbart.com

Rest in peace, Andrew Breitbart. Thoughts and prayers go out to him, his friends and family. He will be sorely missed by many.

As you can imagine, tears are flowing, and tongues are wagging, this morning. You can follow the discussion on Twitter, here.

I’ll be looking for my favorite Breitbart videos to put up, later today.

MORE:

Michelle Malkin has published some of the hate tweets that are already appearing on Twitter. Conservatives are retweeting with gusto, just as Andrew would have liked it.

Blaze: Jonah Goldberg Breaks Down During Fox Interview Moments After Breitbart News Hits

Pat Dollard: Watch Andrew Breitbart’s Final TV Appearance On Piers Morgan Tonight

WebProNews: Matt Drudge Shares His Grief on the Death of Andrew Breitbart

Publius Forum: RIP, Andrew Breibart

Newsbusters: Media Still Getting It Wrong About Andrew Breitbart and Shirley Sherrod

Dan Riehl: Andrew Breitbart Loves Today

Peter Ingemi: Essay: Remembering Andrew Breitbart

Breitbart TV: Rush Remembers Breitbart

Breitbart TV: Greg Gutfeld Reacts To Breitbart’s Death

Breitbart TV: Fox News Remembers Breitbart

The Other McCain: R.I.P., Andrew Breitbart: Innovative Genius of New Media Dies at Age 43

Matthew Boyle , The Daily Caller: Andrew Breitbart: Warrior, friend, mentor

The Conservatory: Behind the Quarrel Between Beck and Breitbart

IowaHawk: Andrew Breitbart, 1969-2012

The Lonely Conservative: RIP, Andrew Breitbart – Updated

Zilla: A Great American Hero Has Died

Melissa Clouthier: Andrew Breitbart: R.I.P. Happy Warrior- speaking for many: “I wish he was still here. There’s too much work to do. Who will do it? Who will do it like Andrew? Someone will have to do the work, but no one will do it like Andrew.”

Ace: Breitbart’s CPAC Speech:

The left makes all of his arguments for him. All Breitbart had to do was add two letters: “RT” [re-tweet].

The left had a chance to prove Andrew Breitbart wrong today.

Instead, they proved him right. Even in death, Andrew Breitbart makes the stupid hate-bag puppets dance for his amusement, and for ours.

I thought at first his death was a punking. In a way, it is. He continues punking the left into exposing exactly what it is.

Ace: That About Wraps It Up For David Frum:

Andrew Breitbart died today. But he took David Frum’s last shred of credibility with him.

UPDATE:

More on the circumstances surrounding his death via Fox News:

Breitbart was walking near his house in the Brentwood neighborhood shortly after midnight Thursday when he collapsed, his father-in-law Orson Bean said.

Someone saw him fall and called paramedics, who tried to revive him. They rushed him to the emergency room at UCLA Medical Center, Bean said. Breitbart had suffered heart problems a year earlier, but Bean said he could not pinpoint what happened.

“I don’t know what to say. It’s devastating,” Bean told The Associated Press.

Those who knew and worked with him described Breitbart almost uniformly as “fearless,” sharply intelligent, witty and devoted to his work.

“He was the modern conservative iteration of a 1960s radical,” conservative commentator Jonah Goldberg told Fox News, minutes after Breitbart’s death was reported.

“When I say he was the most fearless guy I ever knew, it really is true. I mean, he truly loved the fight,” he said.

UPDATE II:

Lot’s of people are linking to Andrew’s CPAC speech. Here it is, I said he was always a crowd favorite, and he was. I just loved the guy:

Here’s video I took myself of his speech at Smart Girl Summit in St Louis, last summer.  He had driven down with his 12 year old son from Grand Rapids where he was on vacation with his family:

After lunch on one of the days, Andrew Breitbart took questions from the smart girls.

Breitbart crashes Rep. Weiner’s press conference:

This is classic Breitbart from September 2010, exposing the hatred, ignorance and hypocrisy of the left:

Andrew Breibart’s speech at the 9/12 rally in DC: Calling out the Media:

Video: Andrew Breitbart Addresses Uni-Tea Rally In Philly – Watch in three parts at the link.

Breitbart Exposes the “N” Word Lie On Hannity: (April, 2010):

Video: Andrew Breitbart Rocks The Washington DC Tea Party: (April 2010)

Video: Andrew Breitbart’s SRLC Speech:

This video from March 2010, is a classic: Andrew Breitbart Gets Waylaid By Egg-Throwing Moonbats On The Way To Searchlight:

Video: Andrew Breitbart’s CPAC Speech, (Feb 2010) In two parts at the link.

Video: Andrew Breitbart vs Salon’s Max Blumenthal At CPAC: “You are a despicable human being – you are the lowest life form that I’ve ever seen…Your entire job is trying to destroy people with Alinsky tactics….”

Andrew Breitbart takes on Maddow, leftist academia and “post-modernism” at CPAC:

Andrew Breitbart introducing Sarach Palin at the Nashville Tea Party, Feb 2010 tells  MSM: “It’s not your business model that sucks, it’s you that sucks.”

Rick Santorum Puts Campaign On Hold As Youngest Daughter Is Admitted to Hospital

A gut-wrenching a ordeal for any parent to go through, especially while running for President:

Rick Santorum admitted his three-year-old daughter, Isabella, to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia on Saturday, the campaign said in a statement.

Isabella was born with Trisomy 18, a rare genetic disorder. Most infants with this disorder don’t live to see their first birthday.

The campaign has cancelled Santorum’s Sunday morning Florida events, but said he will return to the Sunshine State as soon as possible.

Here’s a moving video I’m pretty sure I’ve posted before of Rick Santorum talking about his family.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the Santorum family.

UPDATE:

Sarah Palin: Beautiful Bella Santorum:

Thank you, Rick and Karen Santorum, for living the Christ-like example of sacrifice and right priorities. Nothing is more precious or important than the life of an innocent child. Our prayers are with Bella, a perfect child in an imperfect world.

 

God bless the beautiful Santorum family.

 

- Sarah and Todd Palin and family

January 18 A Banner Day For Race Card

 

Today, I tracked six separate examples of  Dems flagrantly flaunting the race card, bringing the total for the week, thus far, to ten. You would think that Obama sychophants would be pacing themselves – it’s only January, after all. But hey – they’ve got a narrative to push and Americans are not going to figure out that every single Republican candidate is a virtual Klansman who wants America to “return to Jim Crow days” all by themselves.

Jan 18:

Newsbusters: Matthews: Gingrich Is Race-Baiting Calling Obama Food Stamp President – ‘He Ought to be Ashamed of Himself’

Weasel Zippers: Dem Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: Gingrich Calling Obama Food Stamps President Has “Underlying Suggestions,” He’s Developing An “Explosiveness” In America…

Weasel Zippers: Dem Rep. James Clyburn: Black People “Understand What Newt Is Saying, He Wants Poor People To Be “Servers”

Big Journalism: Obama Pollster Calls Herman Cain ‘Racist’ Then Denies It

Weasel Zippers: Obama’s Campaign Pollster Calls Gingrich A Racist, Says He’s Using “Dog-Whistle Politics”…

Weasel Zippers: Dem Rep. Donna Edwards Says GOP Candidates Are Racists: “It’s Not a Dog Whistle or Code Anymore But Plain As Day”…

The full list since I started keeping track, here.

All this fussing about Newt’s ” food-stamp President” remark isn’t directed toward just Newt, by the way. It’s for any Republican who would dare address the issue of sky rocketing food stamp usage. Especially Mitt.

Just like the Reverend Wright issue was off the table by April of 2008, Obama’s race-baiting surrogates are making sure the food stamp issue is off the table for the rest of  the 2012 election cycle.

Jarrett and Holder Politicize MLK Day

I know. Not exactly a surprise, huh?

Valerie Jarrett and the current Pastor of MLK’s Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta should be very proud that their sermons brought to mind a black leader who has influenced many. Unfortunately, that leader wasn’t Martin Luther King.

We haven’t seen political propaganda this obnoxious, spoken from the pulpit, since Jeremiah Wright. It’s feeling like 2008 all over again.

The CBS Atlanta reporter said, at times, it sounded like a political rally. Disgusting:

On the Sunday before the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett visited Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta to give a political speech, in support of her boss (Barack Obama) and congressional Democrats:

“Teachers, and firefighters, and policemen, whose jobs are now in jeopardy because Congress–well let me be specific–because the Republicans in Congress,” Jarrett told the crowd. According to the CBS affiliate in Atlanta, at this point, “Before she could finish her sentence, people in the congregation were laughing, and applauding.”

Video via Weasel Zippers:

Whenever you hear a racialist Democrat yapping about “the Southern strategy” your hair should stand on end. Republicans like Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, who spent their entire  political careers fighting Democrats to end racial discrimination were spitefully accused of  having a “Southern Strategy” because Democrats were witnessing their political domination in the South, end.  The reason the South flipped to Republican was not because Republicans with proud civil rights records were reaching out to racists. It was a reaction to how the Democrat endorsed 60′s hippy, drippy, (occupyish) “worst generation”  was polluting everything it touched.

In an  interview with Human Events’ Jason Mattera, Ann Coulter talked about this and more from the Civil Rights chapter of her outstanding book, Demonic, (which you really need to read, if you haven’t already.)

 Ann Coulter in  Demonic tackling the popular myth that Democrats are the party of civil rights.  It’s the exact opposite, she states, noting, “It was Republicans who overwhelmingly introduced, promoted and passed every civil rights act from the end of the Civil War right up to and including the 1964 Civil Rights Act.”

But as the fable goes, conservative hero Barry Goldwater opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act in order to appeal to racists in the South, and for that reason, the GOP started to lose the black vote.  The reality is that Goldwater didn’t have a racist bone in his body.  As Ann Coulter tells HUMAN EVENTS in our sit-down interview, Goldwater founded the NAACP chapter in Arizona, integrated the Arizona National Guard and ended racial segregation in his family-owned department stores.  In other words, Goldwater was a vociferous foe of race discrimination, and actively fought to abolish all the Jim Crow laws that Democrat politicians adopted.

So what gave rise to the “Southern Strategy” tale and how did it gain momentum? Take it away, Ms. Coulter:

Not to be outdone, Eric Holder also used MLK Day as a pretense to blast Republicans.

Specifically, Republican  backed voter ID laws:

(Politico) — Attorney General Eric Holder used Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy on the anniversary of the civil rights leader’s birthday Monday to emphasize the Obama administration’s dedication to protecting the American people from discriminatory voting practices.

“Despite our nation’s record of progress, and long tradition of extending voting rights – today, a growing number of citizens are worried about the same disparities, divisions, and problems that Dr. King fought throughout his life to address and overcome,” Holder said at an MLK Day event in Columbia, S.C.

Holder’s remarks in the Palmetto State come just weeks after the Justice Department blocked the state’s new voter ID law from taking effect, citing an unfair burden on minority voters.

What kind of mental gymnastics does it take to turn a simple ID requirement into “a discriminatory voting practice”?  Why isn’t the TSA racist for requiring a photo ID to get on a plane?

It seems racist to me to think that minorities are somehow not mentally competent enough to procure picture IDs, (even when provided free by the state!) in order to vote.

Of course, in Holder’s case, it’s not the “soft racism of low expectations” – it’s a blatant attempt to circumvent legitimate new laws in order to facilitate voter fraud.

What it obviously isn’t –  is a “civil rights” issue. If being made to show an ID in order to vote is a violation of our rights, than we are all victims. But I don’t have a problem showing ID to vote, nor do I have problem showing ID to get on a plane.

Now would be a good time to promote a new movie that seeks to correct decades of dishonest liberal spin on civil rights.

Pastor C.L. Bryant was once a “black radical, and member of the NAACP. Now, he’s a “Runaway Slave”.

Blog Critics reviewed his new movie, which debuted in theaters, Friday:

He points out that the Black community has 40 percent of its population on welfare, 72 percent of its children born out of wedlock and a 48 percent abortion rate, and asks “Is this what the black community has to show for its 95% support of the Democratic Party?”

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But, filling in the blanks and shattering myths is what this film is all about.

He also fills in some of the history of the civil rights movement and the Democratic and Republican Parties that is not generally known. Even as a college history major, I didn’t realize that it was Republican President Eisenhower who desegregated the American military and introduced the first civil rights act since reconstruction – The Civil Rights Act of 1957.

But, filling in the blanks and shattering myths is what this film is all about. According to Bryant, who had a front row seat to the civil rights movement in the South, “There is a 50-year-old lie that has caused an entire people to become harlots to the political idea that government knows what is best.”

Bryant is not alone in supporting this belief. The film’s theme reveals itself as Bryant travels the country interviewing people from every economic and social background. Dr. Alveda King, Economist Thomas Sowell, Florida Congressman Allen West, Presidential Candidate Herman Cain, commentator and activist Star Parker and talk show host David Webb are a few of the people Bryant encounters on his trek along the new Underground Railroad.

Find out where the film is playing at the Runaway Slave website.

SEE ALSO:

Human Events: Why Martin Luther King Was Republican

Pj Media: Eric Holder, Voter ID, and the Chicago Way

Linked by The Foxhole , and Michelle Malkin in Buzzworthy, thanks!

Video: Repugnant Debbie Wasserman Schultz Still Blaming Tea Party For Tucson

What. a. bimbo.

Almost a year ago, on January 14, 2011 to be exact, I wrote The Tucson Massacre’s Hall Of Shame: Liberals Who Used Tragedy To Smear The Right, where I cataloged all of the shameless liberals who jumped at the chance to implicate an entire movement, and their leaders, (most notably Sarah Palin) as accessories to the crime.

See – by the 14th, enough was known about the assailant, Jared Loughner, that to the degree he held any political positions at all, we knew,  they were on the kook left - emphasis on kook. He didn’t like the government’s grammar! It was obvious that Loughner was not a tea party member/follower/supporter in any capacity what-so-ever, and he probably had no idea who Sarah Palin even was.

So – a whole year ago, I was mocking this cavalcade of cretins  for their obtuse slanders – and here we have the leader of the Democrat party today,  trying to revive the old smear — because what?  It was such a winner for them a year ago? It didn’t make the ones who did it look like bottom feeding slime, at all?

She dares impugn the tea party after we’ve witnessed months of Obama/Pelosi/Wasserman-Shultz endorsed occupiers infesting parks all over the nation, increasing the levels of filth, stench,  vermin and crime wherever they go? Oh, and I almost forgot  – incivility. 

When the LA arson suspect was caught on January 2nd,  I complimented the right-wing blogosphere for their restraint. The fact of the matter is – I know a lot of us were thinking, “maybe it’s an occupier…” because they’ve been so prone to destructive behavior, especially on the left coast. But nobody went there because it would have been irresponsible to do so – and stupid, because we would have ended up with egg on our faces like the idiot left did after they insisted on blaming ‘tea party incivility’ for the Tucson shooting.

But the shameless left seems to be impervious to eggs…

Here is what Debbie Wasserman Schultz had to say about the precious occupiers, last October:

“We understand their frustration, we applaud their activism and hopefully they’re going to help get the Republicans in Washington’s attention so we shift the Republican’s focus from just Barack Obama’s job, to everyone’s job,” she said of the protesters.

Once again, via The Jawa Report, here’s a side by side comparison of the Tea party vs OWS:

The craven dishonesty and hypocrisy of some people- it’s almost too much to bear.

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As Michelle Malkin ruefully noted:

They just couldn’t help themselves.

This weekend’s one-year anniversary of the Tucson massacre passed quietly and respectfully.

And then femme-a-gogue Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz had to open her big mouth.

Linked by Michelle Malkin, thanks!

Jan 2009: Iranian Press TV Interviews Iran’s Favorite US Congressman Who Bashes Israel and Defends Hamas (Video)

Stop with the lies and misinformation, Paulbots sneer –Ron Paul has nothing against Israel, in fact, he really loves Israel.

– Except when he’s saying things like, “the Palestinians have been ripped off and all of the blame is on Israel”.

In this incredible interview he gave to the Iranian state owned English language propaganda channel, Press TV in January of 2009, he said that, and much more. Paul said he favored ending the United States’ special relationship with Israel because if Israel has a problem it should have to deal with by itself, and it shouldn’t be any of our business.

“If I personally favor one side over the other side, it’s really pretty academic, because politically I don’t want to be involved.”

Paul called Gaza essentially a “concentration camp” where they (read Hamas) defend themselves with homemade bombs, “like they’re the aggressors?”

“If I say the Palestinians have been ripped off and all of the blame is on Israel, then I’ve sort of stepped in a little more than I want to…”

He  stepped in it, all right.

SEE ALSO:

Morris: Ron Paul is ‘the most liberal, radical, left-wing person to run for president’

Bolton: If You’re Thinking Of Voting For Ron Paul, ‘Think Again’

Ron Paul: U.S. Shouldn’t Have Fought Hitler Just to Save Jews From Holocaust

Ron Paul Walks Out On CNN Interview When Asked About His Newsletter Blaming Israel for 1993 WTC Attack

Ron Paul’s Racist Newsletters

Phillip Klein: Why I’d back Obama over Ron Paul

Ron Paul Praises Occupy Wall Street

Ron Paul’s War on Israel

Former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke Says He’s Voting For Ron Paul: He Understands The “Powers of International Zionism”…

Hat tip: Brian B.

Linked by Michelle Malkin in Buzzworthy, and Doug Ross in Larwyn’s Links, thanks!

Non-Republican Mischief Voters Pushing Ron Paul To The Head Of The Pack

Yeah, I’m sure you’ve been wondering about this, too. The idea that this anti-Israel, racist newsletter-writing, extreme isolationist, 9/11 truther would be leading in some Iowa polls had me questioning the sanity of the Iowa GOP. Can this possibly be?

In short – it can’t. Byron York, upon perusing the latest polls, reports that much of his support is coming from non-Republicans:

The Texas congressman is leading some polls in Iowa and is in a tie for second in New Hampshire. A candidacy once dismissed as sideshow is now being taken very seriously; the front page of Monday’s Des Moines Register featured a huge spread under the headline “COULD RON PAUL WIN?”

Given Paul’s views on the Fed, the gold standard and social issues, not to mention his isolationist foreign policy, the polls have left some politicos wondering whether Republican voters have somehow swerved off the rails. But there’s another question that should be asked first: Who are Ron Paul’s supporters? Are they, in fact, Republicans?

In an analysis accompanying his most recent survey in Iowa, pollster Scott Rasmussen noted, “Romney leads, with Gingrich in second, among those who consider themselves Republicans. Paul has a wide lead among non-Republicans who are likely to participate in the caucus.”

The same is true in New Hampshire. A poll released Monday by the Boston Globe and the University of New Hampshire shows Paul leading among Democrats and independents who plan to vote in the January 10 primary. But among Republicans, Paul is a distant third — 33 points behind leader Mitt Romney.

York spoke with Andrew Smith, head of the University of New Hampshire poll, who indicated that many of these Paul voters are engaging in election mischief…

 In New Hampshire, Paul is the choice of just 13 percent of Republicans, according to the new poll, while he is the favorite of 36 percent of independents and 26 percent of Democrats who intend to vote in the primary. Paul leads in both non-Republican categories.

“Paul is doing the best job of getting those people who aren’t really Republicans but say they’re going to vote in the Republican primary,” explains Smith. Among that group are libertarians, dissatisfied independents and Democrats who are “trying to throw a monkey wrench in the campaign by voting for someone who is more philosophically extreme,” says Smith.

Paul tops the field when pollsters ask Republicans which candidate they are certain not to support. “When you ask people which candidate they are least likely to vote for, Ron Paul is pretty high, because most Republicans here really don’t want to vote for him,” says Smith. “His support is not coming, by and large, from Republican voters.”

Why are non Republicans even allowed to vote in some Republican primaries and caucuses?  Isn’t that how we ended up with John McCain in 2008? This needs to stop.

Related:

Ace has the latest fun fact revealed about Ron Paul:

Ron Paul on Video: The Bildersbergers Are Plotting To Control The Banking System And Our Natural Resources:

Remember, we’re fighting a “phony war” against Al Qaeda, and it’s all ginned-up neocon nonsense that Iran is cooking up a nuclear bomb, and Hamas was created by Israel.

But the thing we’ve got to really keep our eyes on is the Bildersbergers and Trilateral Commissioners.

MORE:

The Right Scoop: Bolton: If you’re thinking about Ron Paul, think again!

Doug Ross: 10 Fun Facts You May Not Have Known About Ron Paul

Linked by Michelle Malkin, thanks!

Court Order Allows #OWS Squatters To Return To Park – Bloomberg Plans To Fight It (With Video) UPDATED

This video features one of  America’s favorite #OWS trust fund hippies:

Approximately 70 #OWS squatters were arrested, early this morning as hundreds of police in riot gear raided the Zuccotti park, but hours later, the Marxist National Lawyers Guild obtained a court order allowing the protesters to return with their tents to the park, where they have camped for two months.

Fox News Reports:

The guild said the injunction prevents the city from enforcing park rules on the protesters who are now looking for squatters rights, despite park rules banning camping overnight.

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Bloomberg said the city knew about the court order but had not seen it and would go to court to fight it. He said the city wants to protect people’s rights, but if a choice must be made, it will protect public safety.

By 9 a.m., the park was power-washed clean by sanitation workers. Police in riot gear ringed the public space, waiting for orders to reopen it.

The city told protesters they could come back after the cleaning, but under new tougher rules, including no tents, sleeping bags or tarps, which would effectively put an end to the encampment if enforced.

“The law that created Zuccotti Park required that it be open for the public to enjoy for passive recreation 24 hours a day,” Bloomberg said. “Ever since the occupation began, that law has not been complied with, as the park has been taken over by protesters, making it unavailable to anyone else.”

Concerns about health and safety issues at Occupy Wall Street camps around the U.S. have intensified, and protesters have been ordered to take down their shelters, adhere to curfews and relocate so that parks can be cleaned.

Is NYC’s Mayor Bloomberg actually showing signs of intestinal fortitude?He’s gonna need it. These cockroaches aren’t going to stop infesting the park without a huge fight.

UPDATE:

NY Judge Rules Against OWS

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Michelle Malkin: Live from New York…It’s Operation Monday Night Un-Occupy Zuccotti Park; at least 25 reported arrests; “They’re throwing and breaking everything!”; dump trucks and tear gas rumors; the “People’s Kitchen” is closed; they’ll be back; UPDATE: ACLU-tied judge ordered off case:

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Is Conservatism Doomed In 2012?

I won’t lie. I’m starting to despair. I’m starting to believe Republicans are going to be stuck with anyone but Mitt as their 2012 nominee. The one Republican who appears to have no standards will be our standard bearer.

My favorite candidates opted out of running a long time ago. After seriously considering a run for the White House, reliable conservative, Mike Pence decided to run for Governor of Indiana, instead. And Paul Ryan is staying put in his leadership position on the House Budget Committee. Ryan had captured my attention in a big way during the ObamaCare debates, and shortly after the bill was passed. He was the man conservatives looked to for answers and assurances that the damage could be undone – and the wonkish and appealing conservative delivered. Paul Ryan for President!, I said in March of 2010. As the Republican field was taking shape in the Spring of 2010,I was optimistic in the face of gloomy predictions. No, We Are Not Sunk In 2012, I said.

Sure, Gingrich has baggage that would hurt him with women, Cain has no experience in government, people aren’t interested in a social conservative like Rick Santorum at a time of fiscal crisis…. Perry leaves me cold, and Johnson ….eh . Love Palin, but the left will crucify her. Someone better like Ryan or Pence will come through, I thought…

Eventually I even flirted with the idea of a Chris Christie run, only because the man is such a bulldog. I may not agree with him on all of the issues, but you have to respect a guy who is not only willing to fight entrenched liberal interests, but has the ability to persuasively explain every blow he makes to the status quo..

Conservatives have flirted with Donald Trump, Michelle Bachmann, Rick Perry and Herman Cain…anyone but Romney.

All the flavors of the month are souring, now, leaving only one still unspoilt – - the one who has been avoiding the media’s lethal gaze as fervently as conservatives avoid him. How is it that Romney is even a frontrunner? Just because he has the most money?

You want to read something really depressing? Read Eric Erickson’s take on the 2012 election: Mitt Romney as the Nominee: Conservatism Dies and Barack Obama Wins.

Why Mitt Romney Will Not Beat Barack Obama

You’d think that given the economy, jobs, and the present angst about the direction of the country that the GOP would have an easy path to victory. You would be wrong.

You forget the electoral college. The vote is coming down to a handful of states and Barack Obama still maintains the advantage of incumbency and not terribly terrible polling in those swing states.

Mitt Romney, on the other hand, is a man devoid of any principles other than getting himself elected. As much as the American public does not like Barack Obama, they loath a man so fueled with ambition that he will say or do anything to get himself elected. Mitt Romney is that man.

I’ve been reading the 200 pages of single spaced opposition research from the John McCain campaign on Mitt Romney. There is no issue I can find on which Mitt Romney has not taken both sides. He is neither liberal nor conservative. He is simply unprincipled. The man has no core beliefs other than in himself. You want him to be tough? He’ll be tough. You want him to be sensitive? He’ll be sensitive. You want him to be for killing the unborn? He’ll go all in on abortion rights until he wants to run for an office where it is not in his advantage.

Along the way, he’ll drop lots of coin to grease the skids for himself. Mitt Romney is the silly putty of politicians — press on him real hard and he’ll take on whatever image you press into him until the next group starts pressing.

Republican billionaires have a fantastic track record of getting Republican opinion leaders to support them and an even better track record at losing elections. Mitt Romney will be no different.

To beat Barack Obama, a candidate must paint a bold contrast with the Democrats on their policies. When Mitt Romney tries, Barack Obama will be able to show that just the other day Mitt Romney held exactly the opposite position as the one he holds today.

Voters may not like Barack Obama, but by the time Obama is done with Romney they will not trust Mitt Romney. And voters would rather the guy they don’t like than they guy they don’t trust.

Erickson made one small miscalculation there….I – and I’m guessing most conservatives – don’t like or trust Obama. I’m not sure the country can survive another year of him, let alone  another four years of him. I think we could survive a Romney. I may not trust him, but I don’t dislike him. And I don’t question his love for this country like I do Obama’s. There are millions like me who will hold their noses and vote for Romney without hesitation. No, Obama cannot win with the sorry numbers he has, now.

I understand his bitterness, but if Romney ends up being the nominee, Erickson will need to join the conservatives he’s now preemptively deriding for rallying around our disappointing nominee. Conservatism won’t die just because it had to make a bitter choice. It will live on to fight another day.

84 Year Old Philly Man Savagely Attacked By Black Thugs Plans To Continue His Walks

Via Philly.com, another aggravating story about black youths with nothing better to do than gang up on defenseless citizens.

AN 84-YEAR-OLD ex-university official savagely attacked by four young punks during a walk in Wissahickon Valley Park earlier this week theorizes that the beating he endured was a cruel game of “get the old geezer.”

Most likely, it was “the knock-out game”:

The knockout game involves “unprovoked attacks on innocent bystanders,” according to police who have had to deal with it.  A retired officer explained, “Normally it was a group of black males, one of which would strike him as hard as he could in the face, attempting to knock him out with one punch,” says retired Sgt. Don Pizzo.  The victims are typically not robbed, but simply punched with no provocation.  Such attacks have been reported in Illinois, Massachusetts, Missouri, and New Jersey.

Now, we can add Pennsylvania to the mix.

Jim Shea, a former vice president of university relations for Temple, from 1968 to 1983, walks up to five miles on Forbidden Drive, in Fairmount Park, three times a week, but that type of stamina wasn’t enough to stave off the lowlifes who not only beat him bloody, but dealt a blow to one of the things he holds most dear – his pride.

Shea was near the Valley Green Inn, on Forbidden Drive, in the Wissahickon Valley Park, about 1:15 p.m. Monday when he was hit from behind.

“I felt a real something to the head, a real blow to the head from behind,” he said. “It knocked me to the ground; that was the biggie.”

Shea said the four assailants continued to beat him for minutes while he was on the ground. He said they were black, appeared to be between 16 and 20, and three of them were wearing La Salle sweatshirts.

Police and Shea said that at least one of the attackers used a rock to hit him, causing deep cuts above his eyes. They all kicked and punched him while he was on the ground, conscious the entire time.

“There was only one I really saw well because he came back to kick me,” Shea said. “The others spent a great deal of the time laughing.”

The real “stunner” to Shea is that they left without trying to take his wallet, keys or cellphone.

“I think it was just to get the old geezer,” Shea said. “They were some bad kids with rancid souls.”

Shea ended up with stitches from his eyelid to his cheek, large scrapes on his leg and elbow, and a broken nose -all for taking his “daily constitutional”, which he plans to continue because, “it’s been a wonderful thing for me at my age.”

This attack fits an all too familiar pattern, as described in this American Thinker piece from last July:

“black attackers on a white victim — and the victim was often an older person walking alone.”  In a thorough and sensible piece on the subject in a local arts and entertainment magazine, eight of the victims interviewed were white, one was black, and one was Latino.  All of the attackers, or “players,” were black.  Some witnesses claim that they have white relatives who play the game and that therefore the game is not a racial issue.  But anyone who reviews the reporting — when race is revealed, at least — will see that the attackers are predominantly if not exclusively black.

Why it matters…

But the knockout game must be seen in the context of black-on-white violence in America.  The big picture is that black-on-white violence is a social problem that deserves more attention, regardless of whether the overall crime rate is rising or falling.  Department of Justice statistics show that 33% of white murder victims are killed by a non-white, while only 8% of black murder victims are killed by a non-black¹.  Even greater disparities exist in violent crime and robbery^2.

As Thomas Sowell noted in his piece at Townhall: Social Degeneration:

All around the country, people in politics and the media have been tip-toeing around the fact that violent attacks by blacks on whites in public places are racially motivated, even when the attackers themselves use anti-white invective and mock the victims they leave lying on the streets bleeding.

This is not something to ignore or excuse. It is something to be stopped. Mayor Michael Nutter of Philadelphia seems to be the first to openly recognize this.

This needs to be done for the sake of both black and white Americans — and even for the sake of the hoodlums. They have set out on a path that leads only downward for themselves.

Hat tip: Retired Geezer.

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On Sale Now: Three Days In August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier’s Fight for Military Justice

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Bob McCarty’s first book, Three Days In August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier’s Fight for Military Justice, goes in print versions at booksellers everywhere Oct. 19. The ebook is on sale, now.

The book tells the story of the wrongly convicted soldier,  Sgt. 1st Class Kelly A. Stewart, who recently spoke out in an email to friends and supporters:

For the first time since he was convicted by a court-martial panel and sentenced to eight years behind bars at Fort Leavenworth, former Army Special Forces Sgt. 1st Class Kelly A. Stewart — the man whose story is chronicled in the new book, Three Days In August: A U.S. Army Special Forces Soldier’s Fight for Military Justice — reached out to his friends and supporters today via the email below:

Ladies and Gentlemen,

It seems strange that I am finally addressing what is going on with my family, and in my life. Throughout this whole ordeal, I have tried to protect my friends and family from the stigma associated with my trial and conviction. I have in no way been disloyal to the Army or my Regiment. I have not been outspoken about the mishandlings of my trial. And I will not begin today.

I am writing now because a book is being published with detailed information regarding my case. While still in prison, a manifesto of the book was written. After my parole, I gave the author my first ever interview with strict guidelines that the official trial transcript be included so readers would be fully informed about the events that had transpired. I wanted the book to tell the whole truth. I have exposed my entire life in detail to allow the reader to make their own assessment.

I am INNOCENT of the crimes for which I have been convicted and sentenced. I am guilty of betraying my wife and words can never express the sorrow I feel for what I have done to those that I love. I decidedly had a one night stand and thought getting caught would be the worst case scenario. At the time, I could never have imagined that the ripple effect from the stone I cast would touch so many people.

Throughout these past 2 years, the ripple hasn’t slowed. I am not referring to the loss of my career or my time spent in prison. Larger in scale are issues to include my parent’s daily struggles with finances and health during their golden years, my friends’ military careers being affected due to their support of me, and my children growing beyond what I ever knew of them. I yearn for the day that the ripple will stop negatively affecting those around me.

To date, my family and I have had a small group of reliable supporters; My mother, Father, Heidi, Spike, Credie, Darlene, Neil, Bob, Jim, Clay, Gerri, Feryat, Bojan and Michael. (There are more but they will remain anonymous per request.) Through it all, they have NEVER wavered. Many of these people have asked for your support in some form but until now, I personally have not; this was not because of my pride, it was because I was hopeless and lost. I have always prided myself on helping and giving to others and during this dark time, I have been fortunate enough to call certain people brothers, sisters and mothers, for the support they have given to my family. Unfortunately, there have also been many people making judgments based solely on hearsay and those who think ‘this is not directly affecting my life so why get involved?’ The book coming out will address the hearsay and I hope after reading it, you will see the injustices and be motivated to speak out against them.

I have remained quiet for a long time but today I am standing here before god and everyone acknowledging my faults, and making a promise to NEVER again betray my wife or bring shame upon our military or country. Today I ask for your help. I ask that you support this book. I ask and plead with you to stand by me in this fight. Every voice is more important than you will ever know. I have attached links below I hope each and everyone of you will do your best to support them. Either with sending it to our community, or to future supporters . Anything you do I am grateful beyond words.

I love our country. I love the Army. But mistakes have been made and not just by me. I hope what you read angers you. I hope it inspires you.

I hope the truth will finally set me free…

A one page synopsis of the book can be read, here.

Video: CBS Reporter Sharyl Attkisson On Laura Ingraham Show – WH Spokesman Screamed and Cussed at Her Over Fast and Furious Investigation

Eric Schultz, WH Flack

Via JWF at AoSHQ:

Today Attkisson appeared on The Laura Ingraham Show and detailed the reaction of White House and DOJ spokesthings when she questioned them last Friday.

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6:05 – Laura: So they were literally screaming at you?
Attkisson: Yes. Well the DOJ woman was just yelling at me. The guy from the White House on Friday night literally screamed at me and cussed at me. [Laura: Who was the person? Who was the person at Justice screaming?] Eric Schultz. Oh, the person screaming was [DOJ spokeswoman] Tracy Schmaler, she was yelling not screaming. And the person who screamed at me was Eric Schultz at the White House.”

His bio according to Potomac flacks:

 First reported by Politico, Eric Schultz is headed to the White House communications shop after serving as Communications Director at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) for the 2010 cycle.  At the White House, Schultz will directly handle press matters related to the U.S. Department of Justice and investigations held by the House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA).

Previously, Schultz handled press for Al Franken’s 2008 Senate campaign and was National Press Secretary for the 2008 presidential bid of Sen. John Edwards (D-NC).

Schultz is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis. (Politico)

 

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