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.
I would hope that no one on FR ever clicks on PoliticO ever again. Don’t take their polls, don’t read their articles.
Always assume their information is false and therefore irrelevant.
Indeed.
Real journalists usually find a way to get the story even if they have to arrange some kind of protection or economic security.
Obama's "community organizing" left Chicago neighborhoods in ruins.
Grim proving ground for Obama's housing policy"About 99 of the units are vacant, many rendered uninhabitable by unfixed problems, such as collapsed roofs and fire damage. Mice scamper through the halls. Battered mailboxes hang open. Sewage backs up into kitchen sinks. In 2006, federal inspectors graded the condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale - a score so bad the buildings now face demolition."
Gerbolists?
Parkinson’s???? That’s a first.
Obama has Parkinson’s disease? First I have heard of this.
The truth will out....
It’s refreshing to see that hillbuzz while openly Gay and liberal, still abides by some form of honor...
When they praised Bush I was simply awestruck....I cant imagine the hate mail they got from the rest of the libtards...
Yeah, the Hillbuzz guys have asserted that for a long time. They are very much "behind enemy lines."
If George Bush's kids had been babysat by a Nazi, the press would have covered it... they would have gone to the ends of the earth to get that story...
.. and nobody at Politico cares?
[Politico's Ben Smith] 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.
Justice Department: 'Zip it' on Ayers probe
Looks like the Obama-Holder Department of JustUs needs more time.. 30 years is not enough time.
To be fair the foot dragging started 30 years ago.
MSM and university employees have been protecting the Ayers for decades.. if they are innocent I'd like to hear it from a jury!
Parkinson’s?
Their lives and livelihoods are threatened constantly. They are courageous dudes.
I guess I’d just never heard it before.
“Obama has Parkinson’s disease? First I have heard of this.”
Likewise, although the dopamine-related correlation between cocaine use and Parkinson’s is fairly well established.
As far as Hillbuzz goes - these people are PUMAs... They uncovered huge amounts of information on Obama during the primaries (and later in the general) that was completely ignored by the ‘newsmen’ in the Journolist. Of course, much of this information was unverifiable - it is in fact where the “Whitey” tape rumors originated. Not to say that the things Hillbuzz uncovered aren’t true - but they are motivated by an extreme hatred of Obama (not just a dislike of his policies, but an actual hatred) due to the tactics his campaign used against Hillary (ie the New Black Panthers, calling Bill Clinton racist, saying she wanted Obama assassinated, take your pick).
Therefore, while their complaints about the media are totally valid (and for the most part proven) they cannot be mistaken for objective sources, and freely mix rumor with their facts. Clearly, they are far more patriotic and freedom loving than other liberals, democrats, and democrat-aligned independents, but it’s always safest to bear in mind that they are, in fact, liberals.
However, they shoulda also be considered allies, insofaras they believe Obama is terrible for this nation. However, that is because they want Hillary in his position. Heck, for that matter, I would prefer Hillary in his position. Of all the things she might be, at least she isn’t weak.
It's the cause of him flipping people off during speeches.
I love Hillbuzz. Thanks for posting.
Nothing scandalous about having Ayers/Dorhn babysit the Obama children, other than Ayers was “just someone I knew in the neighborhood” according to Obama and the pair are unrepentant terrorists who ought to be serving time in prison rather than being college professors.
And there’s nothing unusual about Ben Smith doing this dance because almost every lib reporter will do the same thing. They simply refuse to report anything that contradicts their worldview. Just contrast the media’s interest in Matthew Shepard with Jesse Durkhising if you have any doubts.
In other words, all “business as usual” for the Left and I doubt any careers will be ruined, other than anyone who strays off the liberal plantation.
It’s a first for me, too.
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