Jack Cashill: The Left's Blind Eye to the Obvious

American Thinker ^ | December 29, 2009 | Jack Cashill

[neverdem]

The approach of the new year might be an appropriate time to summarize what I have learned in researching the several books and articles that I have written this decade. That I came to own -- or even break -- many of the stories involved, although satisfying to me, should appall any ordinary citizen.

These stories were too big for a responsible media to miss.  They became mine as a result of what I call the "ABETTO Syndrome."  For at least the last generation, the left in general, and the media in particular, have been turning A Blind Eye To The Obvious -- ABETTO. Here are some nuggets the media chose not to notice. These are all thoroughly and inarguably documented.

• More than half of those incinerated during Janet Reno's tank attack at Waco on April 19, 1993 were ethnic minorities -- 39 out of 74, to be precise. Six of them were Hispanic, six of Asian descent, and a full 27 of them black, ages six to sixty-one. They did not commit suicide.
• About a third of the Jonestown dead did not commit suicide either. Three-year-olds typically don't know how. Authorities dumped the bodies of more than 250 of these children, most of them black, into a mass grave in Oakland's Evergreen Cemetery. There they lie to this day, unsung and unmourned because they serve no useful political purpose.
• They serve no purpose because their killer, James Jones, was a self-professed "communist" in deep with a slew of leading Democrats -- George Moscone, Harvey Milk, Willie Brown, Jerry Brown, and even Rosalynn Carter and Walter Mondale. Moscone appointed Jones to the Human Rights Commission and then to the chairmanship of the city's Housing Authority.
• All witnesses who saw Timothy McVeigh on the morning the Murrah Building blew up saw him with a short, swarthy fellow. According to the Washington Post, a judge detained McVeigh without bail "after listening to four hours of testimony from FBI special agent John Hersley in which he described eyewitness accounts of a yellow Mercury with McVeigh and another man inside speeding away from a parking lot near the federal building."
• Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, the so-called "field commander" of the Oklahoma City task force, played an even more aggressive role managing the TWA Flight 800 investigation a year later. The Clintons appear to have rewarded her for her steely performance with the vice-chairmanship of Fannie Mae, a job for which she had no known credentials.
• Six years and about $25.6 million in salary and bonuses later, Gorelick responded to the call of duty once more and took one of five Democratic seats on the 9-11 commission.
• By the FBI's own count, no fewer than 270 eyewitnesses gave formal reports to the FBI describing a red-tipped object with a smoky contrail striking TWA Flight 800. About a hundred witnesses tracked the object from the surface. Astonishingly, the New York Times would interview none of them.
• Four weeks after the disaster, the Times' Don Van Natta would report, "Now that investigators say they think the center fuel tank did not explode, they say the only good explanations remaining are that a bomb or a missile brought down the plane."
• Likely under White House pressure, and without any new evidence, the FBI immediately shifted its storyline away from a missile to a bomb, and a month later, from a bomb to a mechanical failure. The Times reporter who got the call to document both shifts was Andy Revkin, the same reporter at the center of the Climategate scandal.
• Bizarrely, Richard Clarke, Clinton's anti-terror czar who knew next to nothing about aircraft technology, claimed to have discovered the official cause of the TWA 800 crash months, if not years, before the NTSB did.
• Clinton Commerce Secretary Ron Brown was dispatched on his fatal plane flight that same election year, 1996, for no more noble a purpose than to broker a sweetheart deal between the neo-fascist president of Croatia and the Enron Corporation.
• The Air Force concluded that the controlled descent of Brown's USAF plane into a Croatian mountainside was "inexplicable." The maintenance chief responsible for the airport's navigation system showed up with a bullet hole in his chest the day before his Air Force interview.
• Brown's fatal head injury struck the forensic photographer and attending pathologist as having the size and shape of a gunshot wound. He was nonetheless buried (over the protest of the pathologists) without an autopsy. The photographer and three Armed Service pathologists would sacrifice their careers going public with their discontent. The major media reported close to none of this.
• As the Nation of Islam plotted to kill "heretic" Malcolm X, Malcolm's wife Betty Shabazz approached the one person with the clout to dissuade Malcolm's fellow Muslims. "You see what you're doing to my husband, don't you?" she pleaded. Muhammad Ali blew her off, saying, "I'm not doing anything to him." Malcolm was gunned down shortly thereafter.
• If a young Ali jeopardized his liberal chic by betraying Malcolm X, a reformed Ali risked it again when he publicly supported Ronald Reagan and even attended the Republican National Convention. Who would have guessed?
• Alex Haley plagiarized his Pulitzer Prize-winning non-fiction bestseller, Roots, from a book written by white novelist Harold Courlander, who sued Haley for damages. Midway through the trial, the judge threatened to charge a dissembling Haley with perjury unless he settled, which he did for big bucks.
• Sorry, Virginia, but there was no Kunta Kinte. Writing in the Village Voice, literary detective Philip Nobile would call Roots "one of the great literary hoaxes of modern times."
• Speaking of the literary hoaxes, not a single one of the scores of mainstream book editors who reviewed Christopher Andersen's Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage chose to notice Andersen's most newsworthy revelation: "In the end, [Bill] Ayers's contribution to Barack's Dreams From My Father would be significant -- so much so that the book's language, oddly specific references, literary devices, and themes would bear a jarring similarity to Ayers's own writing."

For the more explosive of these stories -- the death of Ron Brown, the destruction of TWA Flight 800, the Ayers' involvement in Obama's Dreams -- I made every effort to alert the mainstream media. I talked in person to many reporters and producers, including a few household names, and offered to share what I had gathered. To a person, they did not want to know. 

I believe I was the first reporter even to request the USAF's twenty-two-volume report on the death of Ron Brown -- this despite the fact that the New York Times lost a reporter in the crash. It was in the report that I learned about the Enron connection. Even after the Enron scandal broke, no one wanted to know about Enron's role in Brown's fatal mission.

One last nugget. When questioned by the Air Force, U.S. Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith observed that Zdenka Gast, the liaison between Enron and Croatia, had been scheduled to fly with Brown but thought better of it.

Said Galbraith, "There were problems in-in-in this...in concluding this deal where they wanted to sign a letter of intent, and so, rather than...than go on the Brown trip, she stayed with the Inron [sic] people to do the final negotiations."

"We've been looking for her," volunteered Air Force Capt. John Cairney. The Air Force was apparently not allowed to look too hard. Investigators conducted 148 witness interviews, but Gast's was not among them. A few years later, they could have found her at a White House wedding reception.

A Croatian language magazine named Gloria featured a photo of three smiling women at the reception, all linked arm in arm.  In the middle is Zdenka, an attractive, full-figured redhead. On her left is the bride, Alexis Herman, who dispatched Brown on his fatal trip. On her right is none other than Hillary Clinton. Only forty people were in attendance, including Bill and Hillary Clinton, Al and Tipper Gore, and "several governors and senators."

I found this interesting.  Plagued as they were by the ABETTO syndrome, the bright lights of the mainstream media failed to share my interest. 

If only there were a vaccine.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Then I saw their handiwork during the Obama campaign. Faith no more.

Jeeze, what took ya' so long? 11 posted on December 29, 2009 3:53:15 AM EST by Bullish

Denial...Or else I’m just not that bright. Don’t get me wrong, I knew they sucked, I just didn’t realize it was to the degree it was. I didn’t even start paying attention to politics until the end of Clinton’s presidency, so it has been a gradual awakening since then.

13 posted on December 29, 2009 4:05:55 AM EST by Tom_Busch (The big media IS the enemy)

I can relate . . . I was almost 40 by the time I even fully realized there was "bias in the media." Hard to believe . . .

But then, we-the-people have been subjected to an unremitting propaganda barrage promoting journalism and its "objectivity" since the Civil War. "The big media" actually traces to the founding of the aggressive monopoly known as the Associated Press.

Why the Associated Press is Pernicious to the Public Interest

The Right to Know

[hennie pennie]

He wrote an entire book about TWA Flight 800, you really should read it.

That one snippet from this article which so intrigues you is just one of many facts about that incident which the MSM avoided reporting to the public.

Particularly troubling to me were his accounts of how eyewitnesses were treated by our LEOs.

You cannot ever again "believe" in the system after reading Jack's books, for you know that the political elite continually manipulate events and the truth about those events to their own narcissistic will to power.

[hennie pennie]

I agree with you, I do not believe that they were attempting to make a cop reality show. They wanted Koresh and all of his adult followers to die, else why would events have transpired the way they did.

Don't forget that they also murdered Randy Weaver's wife. So it is difficult to state that the MSM alone was responsible. The MSM is simply a tool of the corrupt elite in power.

Don't ever forget that the Clintons were particularly paranoid about the birth and growth of the militia movement. Remember that Hillary coined the term, "the vast right wing conspiracy" --- talk about denial, hey?

I think that alot of the events that transpire is because we typically elect sociopathic psychopaths to positions of power. We elect many "leaders" who are clinical narcissists, many who at their core have a psychopathic lack of conscience.

[hennie pennie]

Do they now have a name & bio for John Doe Number 2?

[Christian4Bush]

bump

[getitright]

“You’d think that, at some point, the so-called journalists of the MSM would get tired of sucking up to the Left “”

I agree. Will they ever get the itch to dig up dirt?

Actually I guess they do. They had Joe the Plumber dug up down to his alimony promptness before sunrise. Ditto with the hounds they unleashed on Palin.

[Girlene]

Thanks, Lancey. I haven’t read much from Jack Cashill except for his analysis of obama’s Dreams book. The analysis was quite intrigueing. I’ll keep an eye out for his writing.

[victim soul]

Because they (Clinton Administration) could and did.

[workerbee]

IIRC, right after the OKC bombing, there was talk about a “Middle Eastern type” suspect in the MSM. Then it seemed to suddenly disppear, or it was criticized as “racist fears” to suggest anyone ME would be involved. After McVeigh was arrested I remember thinking, yeah but what about the other guy they used to talk about? Does anyone else recall this?

[TheThinker]

I think that alot of the events that transpire is because we typically elect sociopathic psychopaths to positions of power. We elect many "leaders" who are clinical narcissists, many who at their core have a psychopathic lack of conscience.

I've always said that sociopaths are the most successful politicians in terms of gaining power. They are ruthless, cunning and thick-skinned and it's hard to weed them out since they usually act and look normal.

The only way I've been able to pick them out is by their smile. There's always a lack of sincerity because there's a true lack of warmth. You see that among many Democrats.

It's most evident with Hillary.

Obama has a convincing smile but the eyes are devoid of warmth like Hillary.

You look at W. smile when he sees the troops or meets a friend and you can see a world of difference.

[tarawa]

very interesting

[brityank]

Do they now have a name & bio for John Doe Number 2?

I don't recall that he's been definitively identified, but I believe Andreas Strassmeier's sidekick Peter Ward fits the bill. I found this whole book detailing the OKC Bomb Plot (Chapter 6), and a whole lot more of the failures and cover-ups of the DoJ in "The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror" by David Hoffman to be eye-opening.

Among Waco, Weaver, OKC, TWA800, GHWBush, Clinton, GWB, and Soetoro - and the myrmidons entrenched throughout this government from the UN, the CFR, and the Tri-Lat Commission within its ranks - I no longer believe we will ever recover without a new revolution, and I hold out no hope for that.

Where do we go to regain Freedom?

[Mamzelle]

Cashill--one of my favorite writers on the net. His series on the authorship of "Dreams" is fascinating. You can search them up on American Thinker.

Wow--isn't the net getting to be a great place for us cons? American Thinker, Newsbusters, Breitbart's Bigs. Fr is still the best conduit.

[neverdem]

Dr. Laurie Mylroie also wrote a fair amount about a “swarthy” character being seen with McVeigh in OKC, IIRC. Maybe she wrote a book about it.

[amom]

Excellent! Thanks for the heads up. I see we are readdressing old topics...very good to see.

For those interested, many of the above mentioned topics have also been researched by FReepers. The research is stored at Alamo Girl’s Downside Legacy at Two Degrees of Bill Clinton (link below). Topics include Ron Brown, Waco, Chinagate to name but a few.
http://www.alamo-girl.com/aboutdsl.htm

I hope many of you will avail yourselves to the wealth of information out there.

Truth is the light... Bask in it. PLEASE!

[neverdem]

The assault on Koresh’s compound occurred at the height of ‘Cops’-style reality TV. I swear the whole thing was orchestrated to be a TV show but it went horribly awry.

Lancey, I believe you're onto something. I ask myself why was a camera crew there catching on video the BATF taking casualties? I don't recall any initial LEO assault being caught on film before or after since the BATF assault at WACO. The gun grabbers like Brady, VPC, etc. were at the height of their influence right after Clinton took office.

[smoothsailing]

Thanks for the ping, Lancey. AT has archived Cashill's articles.

Articles By Jack Cashill The Left's Blind Eye to the Obvious Obama's Afghan Pickle The Competing Narratives of Barry and Sarah Fact-Check This, Associated Press! The New York Times Helped Build the Wall Obama Pal Edward Said Another Fraud Before Dreams, There Was Roots What Bill Ayers Saw in Barack Obama Obama Comes To The Mainland The NFL's Diversity Problem A Closer Look At Obama's Odyssey Rigoberta Menchu Won The Nobel Peace Prize Too How The VRWC Really Works Polanski Crime Worse Than People Know Literary Lion Obama Will Roar No More Did Ayers Help Obama Get Into Harvard? Obama, Ayers and the Knowledge 'Too Big' To Handle Who Wrote Audacity of Hope? Breakthrough on the Authorship of Obama's 'Dreams' Reopen the TWA Flight 800 Case Who Wrote Dreams and Why It Matters The Improvised Odyssey of Barack Obama The Odd Story of Romance in Dreams from my Father Newspapers Censor Their Way to Oblivion Evidence Mounts: Ayers Co-Wrote Obama's Dreams Who Wrote Dreams From My Father?

[SatinDoll]

Davis details in her book about a memo from Bill Clinton ordering all information concerning the nine ME males associated with the OKC bombing to be suppressed, and all copies of his memo ordering such action be destroyed in a coverup of radical Muslim/Iraqi involvement. (Clinton was definitely shy when it came to muscular military reaction towards Sadam Hussein.)

The only reason we even know about this is that a few FBI field agents disagreed with President Clinton and kept their copies of that memo.

[SatinDoll]

See my post at #38. There was a coverup orchestrated by Bill Clinton.

He made a lot of political hay out of the OKC bombing by laying it all at the feet of right-wing extremists. For him it was about a political advantage for himself; for the rest of us, it meant leaving the nation open to radical Islamic terrorists.

[Republic of Texas]

The government wanted the people to see what happens when you stand up to them. Dead. Burned. All of them.