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Our experience with Journolist member Ben Smith during the 2008 general election
HillBuzz ^ | July 22, 2010 at 6:24 pm | HillBuzz

Posted on 07/22/2010 7:06:59 PM PDT by Bratch

It was interesting to see Ben Smith, from Politico.com, listed as a member of Journolist — the committed Obama operatives in the Media who banded together to make sure negative stories about their Lightbringer were quashed while attacks were coordinated to label anyone opposing Obama “RAAACIST” during the 2008 campaign.

We had a brief encounter with Smith during September and October of 2008, where he repeatedly refused to run a story we were involved in that would have damaged Obama and drawn closer attention to his continued and longstanding ties to terrorist bomber William Ayers.

Here in Chicago, we’re friends with a woman who used to give the Obama girls swimming lessons. She, and others who worked in the Obama/Rezko Mansion for various projects and assignments, was a source for a lot of what we know about The Lightbringer personally (his affinity for men, his Parkinson’s disease, his chain-smoking and continued drug use, etc.). Between people who’d worked for the City with Michelle, people who attended Trinity United with the Obamas, and people who lived and worked in Hyde Park near the Obama/Rezko Mansion, we collected many anecdotes that raised a lot of questions about the man the Media was pushing to be our next president…if any journalist wanted to follow any of these leads.

The McCain campaign approached us with a story they had on Obama, which needed a second source to confirm. They had found a young woman in Hyde Park who had played with the older Obama girl on occasion, and knew about babysitting William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn did for the Obama girls. The young woman was the daughter of a McCain supporter in Hyde Park (probably the only McCain supporter in Hyde Park), and was barely a teenager. The McCain camp went to Ben Smith with this story, but he refused to look into it because the only witness to the Ayers/Dohrn babysitting operation was a teenaged girl who happened to be the daughter of a McCain supporter.

We were charged with finding someone else who could verify that Ayers/Dohrn babysat the Obama girls. We brought their old swimming instructor up, and Ben Smith shot that person (now a respected advertising executive) down because she, too, was a Republican and a McCain supporter. So, Ben Smith refused to do a write-up on the Ayers/Dorhn babysitting…despite getting two different people who didn’t know each other to verify that this happened on more than one occasion.

When you look at a map of the Hyde Park area, you see Louis Farrakhan, the Obama/Rezko Mansion, and the William Ayers residence in very close proximity to one another…about as close to each other as The Gap, Banana Republic, and Express are to each other in a typical suburban mall. Walking distance. So close, young children could easily walk between the houses without parents worrying about them.

It was impossible to prod the Media into doing any sort of investigative story on Obama, in any way, shape, or form. Ben Smith was not the only reporter we went to with this story. But, he’s the most memorable because he kept playing games with us. ”Get me someone else, someone more important, someone who is not a Republican, and I’ll do the story,” he said. Which made us waste a great deal of time running through contacts and leads trying to do the work of actual reporters, trying to flesh out this story.

To this day, the majority of people in Chicago won’t talk about the Obamas, for fear of their careers being ruined. The Left is vindictive and irrational. Anyone seen as working against Dr. Utopia, The Lightbringer, must be taken out. People are afraid to talk, and will probably remain that way until Obama leaves office. At which time, we expect all the flood gates to open. Secrets can’t be hidden forever.

Ultimately, every “journalist” involved with Journolist or who otherwise served as an Obama operative in 2008 will be exposed, and their careers will be ruined.

We hope the public makes the connection that absent the Journolist members and the support they gave Obama, perhaps he would not have been elected and then maybe many in the public would still have gainful employment in an economy that was not deliberately ruined so our wealth could be redistributed.

We hope the public’s ire is turned full-blast at people like Ben Smith. That’s long overdue.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bensmith; enemedia; hillbuzz; journolist; obama; parkinsonsdisease; pd
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Description of Parkinson’s symptoms.

Interesting.

http://www.pdf.org/en/symptoms


21 posted on 07/22/2010 7:46:40 PM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: little jeremiah
Obama having Parkinson is new to me. I did hear about the story of the Ayers baby sitting Obama's children. As for Ben Smith, he wrote a lame excuse today that he was only a passive observer on the Journolists listserve board.

POLITICO on Journolist (Ben Smith)



About 95% of the comments under his article at the Politico hammer Smith. Heehee.

22 posted on 07/22/2010 7:56:41 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Bratch

“The problem is, w/ truth staring all of his “fans” in the face, they were not intellectually bold enough to override their emotions.”
Best comment I’ve heard so far.


23 posted on 07/22/2010 7:58:14 PM PDT by griswold3 ('Regulation and law without enforcement is no law at all)
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To: Bratch

Obama has long been suspected of being a fruiter. This bunch have been a chancre not only in Hyde Park, but to the North where I live in Madison, WI. I have always hated these people, since I could think for myself and outside of their influence.
Still, they got a long way toward their goal of a race war and a revolution. Little did they know the revolution will carry them off on the point of a different set of pikes.


24 posted on 07/22/2010 8:00:13 PM PDT by februus
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To: Bratch
We hope the public makes the connection that absent the Journolist members and the support they gave Obama, perhaps he would not have been elected

Perhaps?

I KNOW he would not have been elected had the Journalistas not been covering for him.

25 posted on 07/22/2010 8:12:00 PM PDT by what's up
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To: Red Steel

Urinolist would be a good name for them.


26 posted on 07/22/2010 8:20:10 PM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: little jeremiah

Must be ine of the reasons why his medical records were never released?


27 posted on 07/22/2010 8:20:24 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: little jeremiah

Must be one of the reasons why his medical records were never released?


28 posted on 07/22/2010 8:20:33 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Red Steel

Look at the link I posted above of symptoms. One of them is a forward lean. Lots of photos show him sort of hunched or leaning forward as he walks.


29 posted on 07/22/2010 8:21:19 PM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: little jeremiah
Urinolist would be a good name for them.

I thought of calling them that too. You are the first I've seen post it.

30 posted on 07/22/2010 8:24:03 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: little jeremiah
Description of Parkinson’s symptoms.

A Non motor symptom listed.

- "Constipation"


His daughters have said Obama smells or stinks. ;-)

31 posted on 07/22/2010 8:29:26 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: little jeremiah
Secondary Motor Symptoms The secondary motor symptoms include those below, but not all people with Parkinson’s will experience all of these. Stooped posture, a tendency to lean forward

Well, this could explain the bowing to dictators.

32 posted on 07/22/2010 8:34:30 PM PDT by Aria ( "The US republic will endure until Congress discovers it can bribe the public with the people's $.")
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To: Bratch
This is a conspiracy of DOMESTIC ENEMIES. They were supposed to be the Fourth Estate. The guardians of our freedom. They abused that privilege and conspired to elect a communist activist who is hell bent on destroying the United States and its middle class. Millions of people are hurting because of the actions of these people. 20% employment. 50% plus employment among Blacks and it was caused by the actions of these *ssholes. NOT BUSH... These peckers. They must be brought to justice. Either by the justice system or by the people. YOU WANT A REVOLUTION? COMMUNIST? WE'LL GIVE YOU A F*CKING REVOLUTION, BILLY AYERS...
33 posted on 07/22/2010 8:47:33 PM PDT by April Lexington (Study the constitution so you know what they are taking away!)
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To: conservativeharleyguy
Parkinson’s???? That’s a first.

Agreed, however if true we are in for a world of hurt. Young onset PD is associated with earlier onset dementia. If there is a genetic basis from his mothers side, the course of the disease is always very rapid in the male offspring. A little secret about Parkinson's disease is that it is almost exclusively a non-black disorder unless there is a caucasian member in the pedigree history. I will pass this on to my wife (world PD authority) in the morning.
34 posted on 07/22/2010 8:51:42 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media.)
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To: penelopesire

I really like that. Stolen and copied and I know I will forget who to give permission to when I repost it. ;-)


35 posted on 07/22/2010 8:53:38 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media.)
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To: Red Steel

With all due apologies to natural urine, of course.


36 posted on 07/22/2010 9:05:46 PM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: PA Engineer

Interesting. If your wife gives you some info, could you ping me?

Just what we need. Dementia on top of crazy and evil.


37 posted on 07/22/2010 9:07:21 PM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: little jeremiah; PA Engineer

I still wonder where the scar on his head came from. It looks surgical.


38 posted on 07/22/2010 9:20:14 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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To: little jeremiah; PA Engineer
Has OBama had Brain surgery? (see picture)
39 posted on 07/22/2010 9:26:24 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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To: little jeremiah
Will do. We have been married for 24 years and I have gained substantial PD knowledge through osmosis (that is our joke). I have been on a couple PD nonprofit boards and for years did my Wife's stats. The one study that stood out was done in 1996. They sat down and did a 25 page questionnaire with 660 PD patients. The two findings which stood out was the maternal to son genetic connection. These patients had the absolute worse outcomes and the most rapid decline. This was based on the Hoehn & Yahr clinical scale. The troubling part of this group is the almost universal incidence of very young onset dementia.

I mentioned this thread prior to her heading off to bed. She mentioned that she hadn't noticed any give away signs, but would be looking much closer. I have been always amazed when we are walking about and she mentions different neurological disorders people have as they walk by. She would point out different symptoms that are very subtle to most people, but dead give aways to a specialist.

One thing we have noticed is what looks like a past craniotomy scar.
40 posted on 07/22/2010 9:28:36 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media.)
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