Doug Hagmann says it was from Obama’s lawyers to the media heads (including Fox and 3 other cable news networks, as well as radio companies) that they would be annihilated by FCC and anti-monopoly measures after the election if they allowed anybody to discuss the eligibility issue. He says the threats can be directly traced back to George Soros, David Axelrod, and Rahm Emanuel.
The media heads had meetings with their on-air personalities explaining the threat that was made and implying (according to a signed statement by one of the talk show hosts who was at the meeting) that their careers, lives, and families were all at risk if they or anybody on their shows discussed the issue.
Hagmann says he has corroborating schedules, notes, and statements by media staff and personalities to show that these meetings did take place and the threats were made.
When Hannity publicly supported Trump’s stance on the birth certificate issue, Soros responded by having Media Matters reveal to Politico’s Ben Smith their “guerilla warfare” against Fox, including an attempt to get “regulators” to act as hit-men on News Corp’s financial interests in both the US and Britain (which is outside of the reach of Darryl Issa’s House Ethics Committee investigation). That interview was reported 11 days after Hannity expressed support for the eligibility issue.
On his radio show the next few days (which is all I can see/hear since we don’t get cable), Hannity immediately called this an attempt to “intimidate” Fox personnel. And of course it is. If you intend to bring people down by guerilla warfare you need the element of surprise; you don’t announce a sneak attack. The reason they announced the plan they had already been carrying out for a while - at that particular time - was to reiterate in a very public way the same threats they had made before, that anybody who credibly reports on eligibility will have their financial interests attacked by “regulators”.
And I believe the specific mention of Britain was added because Britain is outside the reach of Issa’s investigations. Issa is hot on the trail of the FCC and whether they have been Obama’s stooges who allowed the White House to write the illegal “net neutrality” rules. On March 24th Issa wrote a letter to the FCC Chairman saying very pointedly that the “requests” of his committee are not FOIA requests that are subject to disclosure rules, but a legal investigation - and that they can investigate anything they want. Two days after Issa’s hardball response showing he would not be pushed around, the Ben Smith article voicing Media Matters’ threats to Fox was published.
IOW, in response to Issa’s investigation of whether Obama/Soros are using FCC for their own political purposes, Media Matters announced to the whole world that they were trying to use “regulators” as stooges for their own political purpose of bringing down Fox - and that they would get the job done in Britain if they couldn’t get it done under Issa’s watchful eyes in the US.
Don’t know if you saw it yet, but Miki Booth has posted a copy of a long-form birth certificate (her child’s I presume) at her Facebook page. It contains a March 15, 2011 datestamp and is signed by Alvin T. Onaka Ph.D. Can’t tell if it has the raised seal, but by most accounts, this refutes the faither lie about the state of Hawaii not issuing long form birth certificates.