Lamont's true flag.
Posted on 08/13/2006 10:27:57 AM PDT by Koblenz
"As a child, Ned's family dinners were animated by political discussions, with lively exchanges between his grandfather, a banker, and his uncle, a Democratic activist," reports Ned Lamont's Web site. This passage could just as easily have been written by the mainstream news media in one of their incurious biographical sketches of the state's newly minted Democratic U.S. Senate candidate.
But this is how the Lamont propaganda machine wants it. As The New York Times reported Aug. 3: "Mr. Lamont prefers not to talk about his background. 'I've been blessed,' he will say, but beyond that he can turn testy." Ordinarily, such cantankerousness would raise suspicions among inquisitive reporters -- "What's he hiding?" But liberal journalists adore him because they share his world view on abortion, homosexual marriage, universal health care, racial quotas, loopy environmentalism and especially the war against Islamic terrorism.
They are blood brothers, or more accurately, fellow travelers. Just as journalism has become a hornet's nest of socialism (communism not yet perfected), if you shake Mr. Lamont's family tree, a lot of Red apples will fall.
His great-grandfather, Thomas W. Lamont, was chairman of J.P. Morgan. A wealthy progressive pacifist, he was the sugar daddy for the American Communist Party and other extreme left-wing organizations. His wife, Florence, belonged to such subversive groups as the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship and American Committee for Friendship with the Soviet Union.
Their son, Corliss Lamont, was an unapologetic Stalinist and atheist. Congress once declared him "probably the most persistent propagandist for the Soviet Union to be found anywhere in the United States." As national chairman of The Friends of Soviet Russia, he refused to condemn Josef Stalin's show trials in the 1930s. For 22 years, he was director of the American Civil Liberties Union, which has been financed by communists and dedicated to advancing Marxism since its inception and to this day seeks to impose socialism and atheism on America. He also chaired the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee for 30 years, during which time he fought efforts to root out Soviet spies and sympathizers in the U.S. government and military. He ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate from New York in 1952 with the American Labor Party and in 1958 with the Independent Socialist Party; both parties fronted communist causes. Near the end of his life, he befriended Cuba's Stalinist tyrant, Fidel Castro.
According to one recent commentary, Corliss' nephew, Edward M. "Ted" Lamont Sr., embraced liberal-socialism "and passed his religious devotion to atheistic materialism along to his son." Ned Lamont, in turn, has surrounded himself with people who may be characterized fairly as dedicated socialists and borderline communists.
Race hustlers Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton stumped for Lamont and were present for his victory party Tuesday, as was Castro sophist Lowell P. Weicker Jr. "We have long known that the majority of the so-called black civil-rights leaders and black preachers are communist-socialist pigs who hate America and hate Israel, passionately despise President Bush, and can't stand the melting of their once widespread power since 9/11," the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, founder of the Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny, wrote in a 2003 commentary. The Communist Party USA endorsed Mr. Jackson's presidential bid in 1988 and Mr. Sharpton's in 2004. In June, the party's convention declared that Lamont "can make a positive contribution toward changing control and direction of Congress."
Corliss Lamont was the only Lamont unashamed to declare his communist sympathies and beliefs publicly, but that doesn't make Thomas, Ted and Ned any less Marxist. Red Ned may label himself a progressive, but when he espouses goals shared by Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Castro, et al., he gives away his true color.
This editorial certainly won't help him!
Connecticut Ping!
Corliss Lamont was appalling, and I bet there are still enough voters around old enough to remember him...and will not like the idea of voting for any family member of the nutty hard-left Lamont family. I hope this connection is well-publicized.
Lamont's true flag.
Uncle Ned should give his fortune to the oppressed of the world...
That's like lifting up a toilet seat... when someone left it backed-up a week ago.
I have a confession to make.
In my youth while in New Jersey I used to dislike rich people. Now looking back I found that what I disliked were limousine liberals ( then I called them Park Avenue Penthouse Liberals)- like Ned Lamont
The absolutely vile thing about Ned Lamont and all the other like him (The Swimmer, The Traitor, etc.) isn't that they're rich. It's that they're absolutely determined to destroy history's greatest wealth creation machine, thereby impoverishing everybody else and making it impossible for anybody else to acquire the same amount of wealth.
It always gets me when the Democrats try and perpetuate the myth that they are "for the poor and the working man" and then trot out these super rich elitist socialists.
Yet their view is "I got mine, now I'm kicking away the ladder". The exact same view as George Soros, an admitted limousine liberal.
Yellow.
Ned Lamont? No. Red Lamont.
Ping
Transcript: Connecticut Senate Candidate Ned Lamont on 'FNS'
Sunday, August 13, 2006
WALLACE: Mr. Lamont, does your victory show that at least some Americans are weakening in their will to fight the War on Terror?
LAMONT: No, I think on the contrary. What this election showed is that a lot of people in Connecticut think that the invasion of Iraq has nothing to do with our War on Terror. It's been a terrible distraction.
Here you are talking about the failed terrorist plot today. It originated in Pakistan, goes through London, and here we have 132,000 of our bravest troops stuck in the middle of a civil war in Iraq.
I think it was that disconnect that a lot of people focused on in Connecticut.
WALLACE: When Vice President Cheney said that your victory encourages the Al Qaeda types, did you find that offensive?
LAMONT: Yeah, I did find that offensive. I find that terribly harsh and wrong. Look, what's going to — what we ought to be doing is fighting the War on Terror in a serious way. I think we've gotten a little bit complacent, to tell you the truth. Maybe we've had a wake-up call in the last couple of days.
We ought to be focused on homeland security. We ought to be focused on our ports, on our airports and public transportation, a lot of which you were talking about here today.
We also are much stronger when we work in concert with our allies, when we have shared intelligence. And I think that we've taken our eye off the ball there a little bit, and I think it's time to focus.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,208143,00.html
WALLACE: You've also been critical of the Patriot Act. Are there some elements of that that you wish had not been passed?
LAMONT: Look, when it comes to the Patriot Act, again, I think it ought to be tightly drawn to respect our civil liberties but also give the American intelligence community all the tools they need to fight the War on Terror. And I think it's a careful balance we have to have there.
WALLACE: Is there any specific measure in the Patriot Act that's in there now that you would like to see taken out?
LAMONT: Well, certainly, there's been an awful lot of talk about going after librarians and seeing what books that, you know, Chris Wallace's kids are taking out and not taking out. That seemed to be casting a net a little too wide, that jeopardizes some of our liberties, sure.
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Name ONE librarian that has been 'gone after'?!!
Not that there's anything wrong with that...
Ummm what feeling was that?
Again with the library records. Pretty touchy about that ain't they? Isn't obtaining library records pretty much standard operating procedure in criminal investigations?
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