Posted on 10/18/2008 12:34:27 AM PDT by DrHannibalLecter
A Barack Obama supporter in Ohio with deep roots in Democratic politics — and a 2001 sex-related felony conviction to his name — is behind the two new confrontational videos that baited ignorant people into calling Barack Obama a terrorist.The first video was released Wednesday and currently has more than 1.1 million views on YouTube.
– In 2001, Russo was convicted of a fifth-degree felony for soliciting sex from a presumed minor over the Internet. He was caught in an FBI sting covered by a local news channel.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.eyeblast.tv ...
Tim (Russo) filmed voter registration list and call sheets in the McCain campaign office
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Tim Russo from Blogger Interrupted was about to start a new radio show, “Blog Talk,” at CWRU’s college radio station.
Student Affairs office of Case Western Reserve University has temporarily suspended Russo from his radio show on WRUW pending an investigation.
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Here are a few facts to keep in mind now that Russo’s video work is getting media attention:
— In 2001, Russo was convicted of a fifth-degree felony for soliciting sex from a presumed minor over the Internet. He was caught in an FBI sting covered by a local news channel.
— WRUW, the campus radio station of Case Western Reserve University, booted Russo from his volunteer show in September. Russo may sue as a result of that decision, and the potential defendants include YouTube, Facebook, the conservative publication Human Events, and Republican Ohio blogger Matt Naugle.
— YouTube removed one of Russo’s other in-your-face videos as “content inappropriate.” The site also pulled his upload of a video shot for now-Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, after a copyright claim. Vimeo yanked that video, too.
— Facebook recently canceled Russo’s account for violating its terms of service. Russo thinks he got booted because of his spat with liberal writer Matt Bai.
— And prominent Washington-based liberal blogger John Aravosis of Americablog has blacklisted Russo.
But journalists shouldn’t take at face value Internet videos that are produced by activists. They shouldn’t be duped into publicizing the work of online troublemakers like Russo, who by his own profanity-laced admission is unrepentant about pursuing an agenda at all costs.
“[I]f you watch a video from my blog and you feel a bit miffed that some whining Republican thug is on tape without their consent,” he wrote, “grow yourself a pair of onions and get the f-— over yourself. I’m fighting for my country.”
Journalists also should report where that mindset originated — with Obama himself. “I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors,” Barack Obama told a crowd in Elko, Nev. “I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face.”
Russo worked for the Clinton-Gore team in ‘96.
“When I learned how to hook up with guys on the Internet, I was managing Larry Friedman’s campaign for state representative,” writes the blogger. “Managing that campaign in 1996 was a lonely affair - underpaid, overworked and stuck in an office above a car phone installation garage. Boredom introduced me to AOL chat rooms, and ... it was like finding the perfect sex supermarket. Every variation on sex anyone can imagine was there, in stark relief, sorted by geography, city, desire, age, body shape, fetish, m4f, m4m, f4f, group ... the world’s most perfect index of sexuality.”
This is part of Tim Russo’s autobiography, dished out in short posts on his new site, BloggerInterrupted.com, which he launched in April. Russo is one of Ohio’s most infamous and influential political bloggers. He’s opinionated, educated and insightful. After years spent as a political consultant, he knows who is connected to whom and why. But instead of politics, Russo had to talk about himself when he started a new blog, because of what happened after Friedman’s unsuccessful campaign introduced him to the world of online cruising.
http://www.freetimes.com/stories/15/56/unforgiven
“One day in April 2001, someone pretending to be 13 years old showed up in the chat room,” he writes. “I struck up a chat. It proceeded very rapidly to discussions of sex.”
That 13-year-old boy was actually an FBI agent posing as a teenager online.
Adding to his sense of strangeness and isolation was his attraction to both girls and boys.
Russo the lawyer and Russo the political consultant
RUSSO RAN THE Dems’ coordinated campaign in New Hampshire in 1998.
TIM RYAN’S CAMPAIGN:
In order to keep Russo’s name off the campaign’s employee list, Russo says, Ryan paid him through a video production company run by a friend of Ryan’s. Russo was paid around $2,000, for “editing” (he sat next to the editing machine and explained how a few campaign commercials should be designed). Russo claims what he was really being paid for was the political consulting he provided Ryan - specifically how to spin the media after Tom Sawyer, Ryan’s Democratic opponent in the primary, leaked info about an illegal loan Ryan had received from a friend. During the campaign, while his court case continued in Cleveland, Russo lived at Ryan’s mother’s house near Youngstown and occasionally crashed at Ryan’s apartment in town.
In November 2005, he started BuckeyePolitics.net, which was funded by Gerardo Orlando of Bullz-Eye.com, a popular online men’s site. Russo was earning $2,400 a month, and thought he was getting his life back on track. Then, he introduced himself to Sherrod
Russo at the 1996 Clinton inauguration party.
Tim still lives in his parents’ house near Berea. He’s looking for work to supplement his blogging. He was recently turned down for a job managing a pizza parlor, so anything will do for now. “If this doesn’t work, I guess I’ll mow lawns at a golf course,” he says. “At least I’ll get free golf.”
Once again I am shocked, shocked! I had no idea that Obama and the democrat party had surrounded themselves with the scum of the earth.
He thought he was going after a 13 yr old BOY!!!
We got Joe The Plumber, they got Tim The Pedophile.
bttt
In an Obama presidency, pedaphiles will be the next group that we will be forced to tolerate, embrace and yes, verily I say unto you, CELEBRATE!
That was a long time ago, that “13 year old” would be at least 20 years old by now. In any case, seeing that Tim Russo is a distinguished film maker, he has obviously rehabilitated himself. ;-)
Where did you get that from, and if Obama said that, why isn't it ALL OVER the TV?
So in other words, its ok for people at their rally’s (most famously Cindy Sheehan) call President Bush the number one terrorist in the world? But if you call poor old Barack one, well you are just racist.
These people are soo hypocritical.
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