Posted on 06/17/2008 8:01:06 AM PDT by ConservativeMajority
Last week, the campaign of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama announced that it had established a war room to battle rumors spread on the Internet and amplified by other media reporting. Obama supporters will use a website titled Fight the Smears to identify allegedly untrue statements about their candidate and provide evidence in an effort to refute them. That sounds like a good public relations strategy, but the implementation will ultimately have a negative impact on Obama.
The campaign employs the Media Matters for America model for dealing with so-called smears. In fact, Obamas war room uses the George Soros-funded organization to discern misinformation. Then Obamas flying monkeys, a reference to creatures from the childrens classic Wizard of Oz, attack the source or any media outlet, talk radio host, online discussion forum or blogger that makes reference to it.
Obamas flying monkeys are targeting the National Press Club (of which I am a member) because a man named Larry Sinclair reserved a meeting room to hold a press conference on Wednesday, June 18. Earlier this year, Sinclair released a YouTube video in which he made claims about sharing sex and drugs with Barack Obama. A lefty blogger has circulated a petition and launched a telephone campaign urging the National Press Club not to allow Sinclair to speak there.
The charges do not sound credible, however the ferocity with which Obamas flying monkeys are trying to silence Sinclair gives me pause. If this guy is a lunatic or liar as his critics say, what better forum to discredit him than before the Washington press corps?
Obamas flying monkeys have flooded the National Press Club blogs with their typically vicious and obscene comments. This is the part that will ultimately damage Barack Obama. The candidate of hope and change cannot have his hateful minions ferociously attack anyone who criticizes him.
I have a great deal of experience with the Media Matters goon squad and its acolytes. Their vitriol is as caustic today as it was in January 2005 when I first asked The Question. There has been no limit to their smears, libel and slander.
Barack Obama may be a gentle man, but he has surrounded himself with questionable characters like corrupt developer Tony Rezko, racists Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Father Michael Pfleger, domestic terrorist William Ayers and terrorist-supporting Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans, to name just a few.
The Founding Fathers thought freedom of speech was so important that they enshrined it in the First Amendment. To the Left however, free speech is only for those who share its point of view. Anyone who disagrees, the Left seeks to silence through speech codes or intimidation.
America is going to get a close-up view of how those on the Left view the basic freedoms they claim to cherish courtesy of Obamas flying monkeys.
Monkeys?!
Sounds like a job for “Annie Oakley” aka “Rocky”.
That’s his half brother’s occupation.
Jeff, don’t know if you have read extensively on the Larry Sinclair saga, but the left started their disinformation campaign on Larry right off the bat, and I have reason to believe it is being at coordinated at high levels in the DNC and/or camp Obama.
Just look at the fact that Whitehouse.com managed to schedule a hastily arranged presser to follow Sinclair’s tomorrow. Why would a purported news organization (former porn site) all the sudden be so willing to share the results/video of the polygraph that it had months ago decided was not worth sharing? Because their motivation has always been to sandbag him in any way they could.
Is it OK for Rush to talk about the National Press Club bookings on Wednesday?
ROFL
Racist Freudian slip, I’m sure. LOL
Really, really, reallly racist!
If that were so, there would not be coordinated attacks coming from all angles at Sinclair. Where there is pole smoking, there’s fire.
Your argument does not hold water, Mr. Gannon.
The National Press Club was never flooded with "vicious and obscene comments" before, was it?
With Obama, the National Press Club is being flooded with "vicious and obscene comments", right?
That's "Change".
You hope that the "vicious and obscene comments" stop, right?
That's "Hope".
Therefore, the candidate of Hope and Change CAN have his hateful minions ferociously attack anyone who criticizes him.
Yes. The BIGGEST ‘smear’ of them all, and the flying monkeys are fighting it instead under the radar, or trying to anyway. Tells you everything you need to know.
Rush could be away on a golfing vacation and he’d still get the blame.
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“Barry's people”.
Wow! a Freeper on first name basis with the most dangerous nincompoop in one Barracks Hussein Obama in America.
“Larry is a lunatic that needs to be ignored”.
Larry may well be a lunatic, that I do not disagree with.
However, that said, I consider most people who enjoy child porn sites, anal sex and sucking on lollipops to be just a tad on the fruiti lunatic side.
Larry certainly seems to be the embodiment of what the new Democrat party cherishes for members.
BTW, how do you know Larry is lying?
Yeah, I’ve been accused of being a paid Democrat operative in FReeper land. That’s fine. I guess my point is that Larry’s tale is pretty insane. I have no idea whether he’s lying or not. But I do know that Barry’s “flying monkey’s” are going to end up making Larry a real issue if they go after him the way they are.
Which is a mistake, if they want to win in November.
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It is a mistake, and some freepers intend to capitalize on it.
Some don’t or won’t.
They bring a Foley, we bring a Sinclair.
I call Obama the poop filled pinata because he's so full of it that every time you whack him poop flies all over your face. I think many FReepers "won't" use this because of that.
Yeah, Ive been accused of being a paid Democrat operative in FReeper land. Thats fine. I guess my point is that Larrys tale is pretty insane. I have no idea whether hes lying or not. But I do know that Barrys flying monkeys are going to end up making Larry a real issue if they go after him the way they are.
Which is a mistake, if they want to win in November.
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“Yeah, Ive been accused of being a paid Democrat operative in FReeper land.”
I’m not accusing you of being paid.
“But I do know that Barrys flying monkeys are going to end up making Larry a real issue if they go after him the way they are.”
My original palpitations concerned the tone of your post.
Question, why would any Freeper who understands the danger Obama brings to Americas political health be so concerned about his jack booted truth squad team of smear merchants “Flying Monkeys” making Larry Sinclair more than his current low life status?
“Which is a mistake, if they want to win in November.”
As a FReeper I know from prior radical left wing liberal actions that Democrats do not have the honorable, proper, decent, honest, moral or ethical capacity to NOT make the mistakes your are concerned about.
Given enough rope, Democrats will always tie a frilly yellow ribbon round the old Oak tree and angrily hang themselves.
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