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Barack Obama has since condemned the Vietnam war-protest tactics of William Ayers, though a top adviser said today Obama didn't know of his past when Ayers hosted a campaign reception for Obama in 1995. So when did Obama learn that Ayers, now an education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, was a founding member of the militant Weather Underground in the 1960s? "It was sometime after their first meetings, you know, he became aware of that,'' David Axelrod, Obama's chief campaign strategist, said on board the Obama campaign plane on a flight from Asheville, N.C., to here for...

In what will probably go down in history as the most audacious statement ever, David Axelrod, chief strategist for Barack Obama, now claims that Obama had no idea who Ayers was when he started his political career at Ayers' house. OBAMA: NO KNOWLEDGE OF AYERS' TERRORIST PAST Barack Obama's top political adviser said today Obama "didn't know the history" of unrepentant bomber William Ayers' activities in the violent Weather Underground movement when the candidate attended a political event at Ayers' home in 1995. "When he went he certainly didn't know the history," chief Obama strategist David Axelrod told CNN -...

Barack Obama ’83 was sworn in this month as the sole African American in the U.S. Senate, and only the fifth in history. He is the highest-ranking African-American elected official in the United States. But that’s not all he is being celebrated for. After delivering an eloquent, energizing keynote address at the Democratic National Convention last July, Obama became a national figure whom some are calling the future of the Democratic Party. Politicians from both sides of the aisle acknowledge that he has a natural ability — partly stemming from his biracial and itinerant background — to connect with a...

NOTE: this was posted already but has joined the million posts currently in cyber purgatory. I thought it was important for you to see. Rusty Skakleford has done great work on this story at THE JAWA REPORT. LATEST STORY FROM THE JAWA REPORT LISTEN TO THE VOICE COMPARISONS ON THIS VIDEO *** When I have gone back to the video, it shows that there is no video. If that happens to you, try clicking on the start and pause button. *** Let me tell you why this may be important. A hit piece was run on Sarah Palin with false...

Original investigation is from THE JAWA REPORT Here are voices, side by side, from an official Obama ad, the anti-Palin hit piece, and a voice over actress. Listen to the voices. Is it the same person? If it is, the voice over actress is in Chicago. What a coincidence, David Axelrod runs his operation from Chicago. WATCH THE SHORT VIDEO TO COMPARE......what do you think? NOTE: this is hosted on tinypic.com. The first time I watched it, there was no problem. The second time I clicked on it, to make sure the link worked, the sound was there but no...

The media love covering grassroots attacks on major political candidates. The attacks signal a large base of Americans disturbed by a particular candidate or issue. When those grassroots attacks are manufactured by public relations firms, they aren’t real: they’re astroturfed -- fake attacks designed to look like a grassroots movement. David Axelrod, Barack Obama’s chief strategist, is a master of astroturf campaigns. It should come as no surprise then that Axelrod and the Obama campaign appear to be behind anonymous attacks against Sarah Palin surfacing on the internet. The attacks on Palin started online shortly after McCain named her his...

HERE IS THE ORIGINAL FR STORY OF THE SMEAR ON SARAH PALIN WATCH THE COMMERCIAL ON THIS PAGE FROM MYPETJAWA WEBSITE OF VICKI KAYWOOD - listen to her 1-min commercial From THIS SOURCE I found some of the female voice over talent in the Chicago area. The Talent Speaks By Milt Smith The column for this Issue ought to be bannered "Sounds Good To You" because we're going to be talking about and to six of the premier voice talent artist in the Chicago area who, together, represent over 100 year of 'voice work experience~ I'm going to shut...

The master of "Astroturfing" has a second firm that shapes public opinion for corporations David Axelrod has long been known for his political magic. Through his AKP&D Message & Media consultancy, the campaign veteran has advised a succession of Democratic candidates since 1985, and he's now chief strategist for Senator Barack Obama's bid for President. But on the down low, Axelrod moonlights in the private sector. From the same River North address, Axelrod operates a second business, ASK Public Strategies, that discreetly plots strategy and advertising campaigns for corporate clients to tilt public opinion their way. He and his partners...

Rusty at TheJawaReport connects the dots between the Obama campaign, a major PR firm, and a variety of baseless anti-Palin smears being circulated by lefty bloggers. As he notes, "Within an hour of this post going up, YouTube videos implicating Ethan Winner were yanked, sockpuppet accounts deleted, and more importantly, the Wikipedia entry on David Axelrod began to edit out mentions of his well-known astroturfing campaigns." If he were totally off base, would everything be coming down off the net? Sure seems like somebody's got something to hide. UPDATE: I like the way Ace puts it: "eswinner" is not sitting...

Just when you think the Obama campaign can't get any dirtier, it does. This is breaking this morning. David Axelrod, Obama's Rove, hired a PR company to produce videos for YOUTUBE from so called "grassroots" groups. Everything about the so called grassroots campaign was phony including the comments. The video went up and was rapidly taken down when it was discovered by savvy white knights (my words) tracking the Obama campaign's every move.

Lot's of blog reaction about the initial story that a major PR firm is most likely responsible for spreading smears about Sarah Palin, that the advertisement being spread has links to David "Astroturf" Axelrod and the Obama campaign, and that this is evidence of a broader effort organized from the top to spread false rumors about Obama's political enemies. Let me get this out of the way: much of the hemming about whether or not "eswinner" is actually Ethan Winner and about whether or not Winner & Associates or other Publicis owned firms were behind the astroturfing campaign came on...

Rusty Shackleford has posted the results of his and his Jawa team's investigation to determine the source of smears directed toward Sarah Palin. The smears include false allegations that she belonged to a secessionist political party and that she has radical anti-American views. Shackleford's research suggests that a subdivision of one of the largest public relations firms in the world most likely started and promulgated the rumors, that the rumors were spread in a surreptitious manner to avoid exposure and that the firm was paid by outside sources to run the smear campaign. While not conclusive, Shakleford's evidence suggests a...

Extensive research was conducted by the Jawa Report to determine the source of smears directed toward Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Those smears included false allegations that she belonged to a secessionist political party and that she has radical anti-American views. Our research suggests that a subdivision of one of the largest public relations firms in the world most likely started and promulgated rumors about Sarah Palin that were known to be false. These rumors were spread in a surreptitious manner to avoid exposure.

Here is video of Fox News' Chris Wallace bursting the bubble of Barack Obama as the great bipartisan "aisle-crosser" to pass historic reform legislation. He asks Obama adviser (actually Chicago machine-politics hack) David Axelrod to give one example of when Obama ever took on his own party to get something done. As you will see, Axelrod fumbled and flailed trying to come up with a credible response - without success. . . . (see video at link)

Barack Obama says we have “an obligation” to fix the current health care system. In his plan, “No American will be turned away.” Michelle Obama disagrees. While an executive at the University of Chicago Medical Center, she developed the hospital’s Urban Health Initiative, a program to refer patients without private insurance to other health care facilities in their neighborhood. Those shown the door tend to be poor minorities, mostly blacks. In order to sell the program to the community, the hospital hired ASK Public Strategies, co-owned by David Axelrod, a top aide to the Obama campaign. The recommendation to hire...

Michelle Obama's job at the University of Chicago Medical Center included responsibility for a program to steer the uninsured away from its emergency room. The wife of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is now on leave from her position. She was earning $317,000 a year as vice president of the hospital. Some top Obama advisers are also involved with the Urban Health Initiative, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Dr. Eric Whitaker took over the program when the hospital hired him in 2007, and the hospital contracted with a company owned by David Axelrod, Barack Obama's top strategist, for a public...

This fall, watch for David Axelrod, Obama's campaign manager, to choreograph at least two post-convention mass events at least slightly reminiscent of the stagecraft of Leni Riefenstahl in 1934 Germany. Ms. Riefenstahl first heard her idol at a 1932 rally. She was enthralled by his public speaking ability and became a devotee, dedicating her genius to making films that deified The Leader. Her 1934 work entitled "Triumph of the Will," documenting a mass rally in Nuremberg, remains a movie classic with its pioneering dramatic camera work and superbly suggestive imagery. Riefenstahl, a former dancer, put a camera on a semi-circular...

  His strategy was to market a personality, rather than market policies or issues. According to liberal political consultant Saul Shorr: “What David is basically doing – and this is somewhat new for Democrats – isn’t trying to figure out how to sell policies. It’s a matter of personality."How do we sell leadership?Axelrod’s strategy has been to promote a personality, not issues. Perhaps this is why Obama’s campaign speeches have been more like Saturday Night Live Matt Foley motivational speeches than serious attempts to lay out what an Obama presidency would mean to our nation.” _________________ Who Is David Axelrod – Obama’s...

Delineate your suggestions for presumptive (D) nominee Barack Hussein Obama's Cabinet.Here's mine: Minister of Domestic Affairs - Jimmah Carter Minister of Foreign Affairs - Jerimiah Wright Minister of Propaganda - David Axelrod Minister of Terror -William Ayers Minister of Finance - Tony Rezko Minister without Portfolio - Michael Pfleger Ambassador to Israel - Louis Farrakhan

WASHINGTON -- The Rev. Michael Pfleger's "I'm white! I'm entitled ... black man stealing my show" outburst about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton from the pulpit of the Obama family church, Trinity United Church of Christ, created a political problem for likely Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama that won't disappear. Pfleger's crusades against guns, prostitution, porn and tobacco have made good copy for years for a fairly admiring local press corps hooked on cheering for the underdog, the poor and the powerless. Pfleger is the subject of a documentary being made by Chicago-based David Axelrod, Obama's top strategist. On Friday, Axelrod...

David Axelrod tries to clarify Barack Obama's position on the surge. Basically, he says of course Obama thought by throwing more troops at the problem, it would help the situation on the ground. The problem lies in the video of Barack saying just the opposite...

Pfleger a headache for Obama. Axelrod documentary on Pfleger.WASHINGTON -- The Rev. Michael Pfleger's "I'm white! I'm entitled ... black man stealing my show" outburst about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton from the pulpit of the Obama family church, Trinity United Church of Christ, created a political problem for likely Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama that won't disappear. Pfleger's crusades against guns, prostitution, porn and tobacco have made good copy for years for a fairly admiring local press corps hooked on cheering for the underdog, the poor and the powerless. Pfleger is the subject of a documentary being made by Chicago-based...

The Talk Shows Sunday, May 25th, 2008 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Reps. Tom Cole, R-Okla., and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; Col. Michael Colburn, director "The President's Own" U.S. Marine Band.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Panel discussion of 2008 presidential election. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Howard Wolfson, campaign adviser for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton; Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill.THIS WEEK (ABC): Karl Rove, former White House deputy chief of staff; David Axelrod, campaign adviser for Sen. Barack Obama.LATE EDITION (CNN) : Maj. Gen. Mark Hertling, the commander of...

The Talk Shows Sunday, May 11th, 2008 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): David Axelrod, campaign adviser for Obama; Howard Wolfson, campaign adviser for Clinton; actor Ben Stein. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn.; Clinton campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C.; Terry McAuliffe, campaign chairman for Hillary Rodham Clinton. THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.; Carly Fiorina, adviser to John McCain's campaign. LATE EDITION (CNN) : Reps. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; Retired Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez,...

The Chicago Tribune, which once employed Barack Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod, is refusing to publish the truth about a Weather Underground terrorist bombing that killed a policeman. The paper apparently does not want to tarnish the image of Obama friends Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who were allegedly part of or had direct knowledge of the bombing plot that also injured several other police officers. The Tribune considers Ayers an education expert and has published various articles by him. Please help Accuracy in Media expose the Tribune's cover-up. I sent a copy of the following email message to Tribune...

The master of "astroturfing" has a second firm that shapes public opinion for corporations. David Axelrod has long been known for his political magic. Through his AKP&D Message and Media consultancy, the campaign veteran has advised a succession of Democratic candidates since 1985, and he's now chief strategist for Senator Barack Obama's bid for President. But on the down low, Axelrod moonlights in the private sector.

The fan accused of harassing the wife of New York Knicks forward Antonio Davis will drop threats of a lawsuit if the couple says it's sorry, the man's attorney said Friday. No way, Davis said. "I'm not apologizing to anybody for anything," Davis said on a conference call. "I don't think that my wife did anything wrong, I don't think that I did anything wrong." ... Axelrod's [the Fan's] father, David, is a prominent Democratic political consultant in Chicago who has worked with Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley.

Chicago - As New York Knicks forward Antonio Davis awaited word Thursday on whether he will be suspended for climbing into the stands to confront a man during a game in Chicago, that fan said he did nothing wrong and was attacked by Davis' wife... "It's a lie," 22 year old Michael Axelrod said... Axelrod's father, David is a prominent Democratic political consultant in Chicago who has worked with Senators Barack Obama and Hillare Clinton....

Report: Multimillionaire Fugitive Spends Time Fishing, Writing in Cuba Apr 25, 2004 The Associated Press HAVANA (AP) - A multimillionaire fugitive wanted on federal tax charges is spending his time fishing for marlin, writing and puffing on cigars in Cuba, according to a published report. "I'm an old man," Herbert Axelrod told The Sunday Star-Ledger of Newark during an interview at his Havana bungalow, where he fled from federal tax charges in New Jersey last week. "I worked hard all my life and I want to relax." A federal fugitive warrant has been issued for Axelrod, 76, on charges he...