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Obama Unleashes Flying Monkeys
Jeff Gannon - A Voice of the New Media ^ | 6/17/2008 | Jeff Gannon

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, Obama’s war room uses the George Soros-funded organization to discern “misinformation.” Then Obama’s “flying monkeys,” a reference to creatures from the children’s classic “Wizard of Oz”, attack the source or any media outlet, talk radio host, online discussion forum or blogger that makes reference to it.

Obama’s 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 Obama’s 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?

Obama’s 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 Obama’s flying monkeys.


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To: ConservativeMajority
Obama Unleashes Flying Monkeys

Monkeys?!

21 posted on 06/17/2008 8:18:33 AM PDT by al_c (Avoid the consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity)
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To: ConservativeMajority

Sounds like a job for “Annie Oakley” aka “Rocky”.


22 posted on 06/17/2008 8:19:45 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
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To: ClearCase_guy

That’s his half brother’s occupation.


23 posted on 06/17/2008 8:22:25 AM PDT by DManA
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To: ConservativeMajority
The AP is leading the flying monkey brigade...



How the AP Used Rush to Start Narrative on the Whitey Rumor
24 posted on 06/17/2008 8:23:20 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: ConservativeMajority; txflake

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.


25 posted on 06/17/2008 8:32:17 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Miss Didi; M. Thatcher

Is it OK for Rush to talk about the National Press Club bookings on Wednesday?


26 posted on 06/17/2008 8:32:56 AM PDT by txhurl
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To: Rebelbase

ROFL


27 posted on 06/17/2008 8:34:02 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: DManA

Racist Freudian slip, I’m sure. LOL


28 posted on 06/17/2008 8:34:56 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: al_c

Really, really, reallly racist!

29 posted on 06/17/2008 8:36:50 AM PDT by gridlock ( If Obama becomes "suddenly" radioactive, the Supers are going find new respect the Popular Vote.)
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To: Fox_Mulder77

If that were so, there would not be coordinated attacks coming from all angles at Sinclair. Where there is pole smoking, there’s fire.


30 posted on 06/17/2008 8:37:16 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: ConservativeMajority
Obama’s 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.

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.

31 posted on 06/17/2008 8:37:31 AM PDT by Polybius
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To: SueRae

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.


32 posted on 06/17/2008 8:39:12 AM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: txflake

Rush could be away on a golfing vacation and he’d still get the blame.


33 posted on 06/17/2008 8:40:04 AM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Fox_Mulder77
I’m mildly surprised Barry’s people are taking on Lunatic Larry. Larry must be doing back flips over this.
Bad move by Barry. Larry is a lunatic that needs to be ignored.

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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?

34 posted on 06/17/2008 8:52:41 AM PDT by OKIEDOC (OBAMATIZATION - A Liberals Religion ABORTION - The ultimate form of Liberal Child Abuse.)
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To: ConservativeMajority
You aren't allowed to use the word "Minkey" in association with ANY Democrats. Didn't you learn anything from the Macaca Moment?
35 posted on 06/17/2008 9:00:32 AM PDT by weegee (In 1988 Lenora Fulani was the 1st black woman to appear on presidential ballots in all 50 states)
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To: OKIEDOC

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.


36 posted on 06/17/2008 9:07:30 AM PDT by Fox_Mulder77
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To: ConservativeMajority

mark


37 posted on 06/17/2008 9:07:55 AM PDT by Christian4Bush ("In Israel, the President hit the nail on the head. The nails are complaining loudly." - John Bolton)
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To: Fox_Mulder77

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.


38 posted on 06/17/2008 9:12:48 AM PDT by txhurl
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To: txflake
Some don’t or won’t.

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.

39 posted on 06/17/2008 9:31:54 AM PDT by Fox_Mulder77
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To: Fox_Mulder77

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.

Comment:
“Yeah, I’ve been accused of being a paid Democrat operative in FReeper land.”

I’m not accusing you of being paid.

“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.”

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.


40 posted on 06/17/2008 9:53:45 AM PDT by OKIEDOC (OBAMATIZATION - A Liberals Religion ABORTION - The ultimate form of Liberal Child Abuse.)
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