Secret Service: “Kill Him” Comment At Palin Rally Did Not Happen, Journalist Lied?

In a follow up to my article about how the media is inventing White racists and racist comments from people that were never made, comes new news…  apparently they are inventing death threats against Obama…

And Obama, his supporters, all the major media outlets and the DNC are carrying this myth to the far corners of the country….

BUT, now…  the Secret Service has called bullshit on the reporter saying that this never happened.

Good.  It’s about time.

TimesLeader

SCRANTON – The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled “kill him” when presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s name was mentioned during Tuesday’s Sarah Palin rally are unfounded.

The Scranton Times-Tribune first reported the alleged incident on its Web site Tuesday and then again in its print edition Wednesday. The first story, written by reporter David Singleton, appeared with allegations that while congressional candidate Chris Hackett was addressing the crowd and mentioned Oabama’s name a man in the audience shouted “kill him.”

News organizations including ABC, The Associated Press, The Washington Monthly and MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann reported the claim, with most attributing the allegations to the Times-Tribune story.

Agent Bill Slavoski said he was in the audience, along with an undisclosed number of additional secret service agents and other law enforcement officers and not one heard the comment.

“I was baffled,” he said after reading the report in Wednesday’s Times-Tribune.

He said the agency conducted an investigation Wednesday, after seeing the story, and could not find one person to corroborate the allegation other than Singleton.

Slavoski said more than 20 non-security agents were interviewed Wednesday, from news media to ordinary citizens in attendance at the rally for the Republican vice presidential candidate held at the Riverfront Sports Complex. He said Singleton was the only one to say he heard someone yell “kill him.”

“We have yet to find someone to back up the story,” Slavoski said. “We had people all over and we have yet to find anyone who said they heard it.”

Hackett said he did not hear the remark.

Slavoski said Singleton was interviewed Wednesday and stood by his story but couldn’t give a description of the man because he didn’t see him he only heard him.

John Lewis And His Disgusting Comments.

In a follow up to my post about the baseless accusations of racism on the part of Palin, Rep. John Lewis has made comments that indicates that he has lost his damn mind.

From CBS

Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat and veteran of the civil rights movement, says the negative tone of the Republican presidential campaign reminds him of the hateful atmosphere that segregationist Gov. George Wallace fostered in Alabama in the 1960s.

Republican candidate John McCain on Saturday called Lewis’ remarks “shocking and beyond the pale.”

In a statement issued Saturday, Lewis said McCain and running mate Sarah Palin were “sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse.” He noted that Wallace also ran for president.

“George Wallace never threw a bomb. He never fired a gun, but he created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans who were simply trying to exercise their constitutional rights,” said Lewis, who is black. “Because of this atmosphere of hate, four little girls were killed on Sunday morning when a church was bombed in Birmingham, Alabama.”

One of the seminal events of the civil rights movement was the bombing of Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church on Sept. 15, 1963. Four black girls died in the blast, which was linked to a Ku Klux Klan group.

Seriously?

This is getting out of control.

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Big apologies required.

Ficticious Life, Ficticious Record, Ficticious Voters, Ficticious Donors

Fiction.

It is what Barack Obama is best at.

His life story…  fiction. His record…  fiction.   And donors and voter registrations…  fiction.

Obama’s father was not just a “goat farmer.”  Obama Sr’s father was a major landowner in Kenya, incredibly wealthy and very powerful.  Grandpa Hussein Obama’s (from whom Obama Jr gets his middle name) wealth and power is why Obama Sr. was awarded the scholarship to an American University.  Sr eventually became a Harvard educated economist who became a part of the Kenyatta regime in Kenya, one of the most brutal governments in modern history.

Obama did not grow up poor.  His grand parents were upper middle class, Obama Sr was very well off, Lolo Sotero was VERY wealthy and Obama attended the best Prep School in Hawaii, followed by the crown jewels of the American university system.

Michelle did not grow up poor.  She grew up in a middle class neighborhood and while it was on the Southern end of Chicago, it was most certainly not the projects.  She had a very nice home in a middle class working neighborhood.

Obama was not born as a result of Selma or the Kennedy Airlift.  The Kennedy Airlift that Obama claimed brought his father to the United States started a year after his father arrived in Hawaii.  Selma happened years after Obama was born.

Obama has never published anything except for 1 unsigned and heavily edited note in the Harvard Law review and 2 autobiographies…  a nearly impossible feat for anyone who claims to have been in Academia and a “constitutional law professor.”

Obama’s status as having graduated “Magna Cum Laude” is not that stupendous…  Unlike most schools, where MCL’s comprise the top 10% of graduates, at Harvard…  it’s the top 20%.  That means that with an average graduating class of 600 or so out of Harvard, he could have been #120.  And hell, you get Cum Laude at Harvard if you are in the top 50%.

Obama was not the first African American editor of the Harvard Law Review…  there were two others before him.  There are also many many editors of the Harvard Law Review each year, not to mention the fact that at the time, you did not become an editor at the Harvard Law Review because of grades or accomplishments.  He was given the title “editor” of the HLR because he won a writing contest.

No one knows what Obama’s grades were like.  He has not released his school records.  He has had nothing published.  Classmates at Columbia don’t even remember him and he didn’t even appear in the yearbook.

During his years as a “community organizer” he accomplished basically nothing.  He had 2 accomplishments in total.  He got people sign a petition to open up a summer jobs office for teens on the Southside of Chicago as a supplement to the on that was located downtown, and he had people sign another petition to have the city remove asbestos from a building.  In both instances, the city gave in immediately.  Other than that, Obama taught “get out the vote” classes to ACORN volunteers.  Yes… that ACORN.

Obama pretends that he was a one man legislating machine while in the Illinois Senate.  Obama did not pass one bill for his first 5 years in office.  He only started passing legislation when the head of the legislature took him under his wing and literally put Obama’s name on bills the day of the vote.

Obama claims to be an agent of change and yet in Illinois he funneled money to supporters and family members, cozied up to political fixers, had his own questionable real estate deals, knocked opponents off ballots thru shady and less than honorable means, made friends with questionable people, smeared opponents with the dirtiest of political moves, “borrowed” speeches from peers, and has accepted millions of lobbyist money…  especially from the banks, wall street and fannie mae/freddie mac.

Obama claims to have been against the Iraq war all along and that proves his superior judgement.  While it is true that he said he was against the war, he said it once and only once…  at an anti-war rally, to a largely middle eastern crowd, while running for office.  He then changed his stance for the following couple of years…  basically, until running for President.  (As for his judgement…  where was the judgement when he opposed McCain’s calls for reforming Fannie and Freddie or when he said that “the surge” would never work?)

Obama claims that the reason for his massive fund raising is because of millions of different people have been making small donations, and yet we are finding out now that there are HUGE irregularities in Obama’s fundraising with ficticious donors making multiple donations, donors from other countries, and a tremendous amount of unnamed donors.  (McCain on the other hand has every donor to his campaign in public record, even the small donors he doesnt have to disclose.)

Obama claims that he is the spark that has brought millions of new voters into the fold, and yet as we are finding out that Obama and his buddies in ACORN (whom he hired and paid nearly a million dollars for get out the vote work) have registered legions of ficticious voters…  dogs, cats, dead people…  one guy was even bribed and registered to vote 72 times…  ACORN workers have traded crack cocaine for registration cards, and now Indianapolis has more people registered to vote than people over the age of 18.

Obama has distanced himself from his poker buddies, church, pastor, several mentors, friends, co-workers, associates, neighbors, supporters, fundraisers, former employers and more…  Does he have any friends he has not distanced himself from?

When Obama says that his number one goal is to get the US out of Iraq as soon as possible, it is fiction.  Obama went so far as to try to convince the Iraqi government against making a deal with Bush on getting the US out of Iraq.  Let’s repeat…  for political advantage, Obama wants the US and Iraq to wait before they make a deal to get troops out.  Obama wants to WAIT on troop removal.  Seriously.  Bush and Iraq said…  lets make a deal, but Obama said, hold on…lets wait a few months.

Obama has promised to fight for the little guy and that he is the only one that we can trust to change this country, and yet he has yet to keep a campaign promise.  From FISA to Campaign Financing, he has thrown every promise he has made under the bus.  He has even basically telegraphed that he isn’t gonna deliver on any of his promises.

Obama has said he wants to move past race and yet all of his congressional supporters are smearing John McCain, a man with a Bangladeshi daughter, with accusations of racism.  The celebrity supporters are out of control with comparisons to Hitler and hinting that McCain is somehow the cause of African starvation.  These accusations are disgusting and revolting.

And the list goes on…  Is there anything real about this guy?

Fiction.  It’s what Obama is best at and he is rewriting his story every day just to get elected.

The Presidential Debate, The Sequel.

Well, this time around was much better for McCain than the first. 

What most people don’t know is that McCain immediately broke one of the rules of the debate by walking more than 3 feet from his stool, right over to a concerned citizen to talk directly to him.

Why?

Because McCain cared. 

McCain walked right over to the guy, looked him in the eye and gave him the classic McCain “Straight Talk.”

Also, McCain landed quite a few heavy blows, with very little as far as a response from Obama…  just obfusification, especially on the question of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac when McCain charged Obama and his “cronies” for blocking his legislation to reform the two GSE’s. 

Obama’s only response to the five or six sentence explanation that McCain gave showing how Obama and his buddies were tied into the housing crisis…  “I never promoted Fannie Mae…” and then he moved on.  That was his only response! 

Weak.

McCain clearly won this debate, but he missed the jugular.  He didn’t land the knock out punch he really needs.  So in a way, because Obama survived the match still standing, he wins a little too.

The polls will probably show an uptick of a point, maybe two, for McCain because of the debate, but not much more than that.

The real impact on how people are going to vote is probably going to result from the pitbull Sarahcuda and her attacks, which will drive Obama’s negatives up.  These results are already showing up in the polls, as can be seen in this group of four quoted in the American Sentinel;

National	Rasmussen Tracking	Obama 51, McCain 45	Obama +6
National	Reuters/CSpan/Zogby Tracking	Obama 47, McCain 45	Obama +2
National	Hotline/FD Tracking	Obama 45, McCain 44	Obama +1
National	GW/Battleground Tracking	Obama 49, McCain 45	Obama +4

The Obama campaign is trying to counter with accusations of racism and by rehashing a badly warped version of the Keating 5 story.

In my opinion, in and of itself, the debate was a net tie, but McCain laid the ground work for a very tough October for the Obama camp.

Black Congressmen: Palin Is A Racist! She Uses Code Words!!!

From The New York Observer

As the McCain campaign ratchets up the intensity of its attacks on Barack Obama, some black elected officials are calling the tactics desperate, unseemly and racist.

“They are trying to throw out these codes,” said Representative Gregory Meeks, a Democrat from New York.

“He’s ‘not one of us?’” Mr. Meeks said, referring to a comment Sarah Palin made at a campaign rally on Oct. 6 in Florida. “That’s racial. That’s fear. They know they can’t win on the issues, so the last resort they have is race and fear.”

“Racism is alive and well in this country, and McCain and Palin are trying to appeal to that and it’s unfortunate,” said Representative Ed Towns, also from New York….

….Ms. Palin told donors in Englewood, Colo.,….  “This is not a man who sees America like you and I see America,” she said. “We see America as a force of good in this world. We see an America of exceptionalism.”

An Associated Press analysis characterized those remarks as “unsubstantiated” and carrying “a racially tinged subtext…..”

“Some may say their true colors are showing,” said Representative Yvette Clarke of New York. “Others may say they’re just not being thoughtful. But certainly a lot of the language I’ve heard I consider to be incendiary. I believe it is meant to generate a certain sentiment within their base that engenders fear and certainly appeals to a group of people within our society who would pursue this along racial lines.

“It’s very clear,” she said.

Ms. Clarke also found a racial subtext in Ms. Palin’s repeated appeals to “Joe Six-Pack” and “hockey moms.”

“Who exactly is Joe Six-Pack and who are these hockey moms? That’s what I’d like to know,” she said. “Is that supposed to be terminology that is of common ground to all Americans? I don’t find that. It leaves a lot of people out.”

New York State Senator Bill Perkins, an early supporter of Mr. Obama, said, “They are obviously playing on people’s fears and prejudices in a desperate way. While not explicitly relating to race, they are clearly creating the opportunity for those inclined to come to those conclusions. I think it is going to become more explicit as we move forward. It’s subtle now, but not so subtle as to be mistaken.”

And Kevin Parker, a New York state senator from Brooklyn, said, “If you have to remind people that Barack Obama is African-American, you have reached the bottom.”

 

I have a very serious question…

Have all the Democrats that drank the Obama koolaid become paranoid schizophrenics?  I really wanna know.  If you tell me yes, it will make me feel much better.

I will understand that they have a mental illness that they can’t help…  the delusions of persecution from an oedipal female mother figure archetype would just be the product of a disease and not what these people REALLY think…

Or perhaps they all share a strikingly similar form of Tourette’s Syndrome where “code words” and “racist” gets blurted out at nonsensical times…

I don’t know, but this bullshit is friggin crazy, it is incredibly irresponsible, and to be honest, it is incredibly dangerous.

Add this to the coments of other Democrats of all races that have screamed the word “RACISM!!!” and pointed their fingers at everyone from all the Republicans to Bill Clinton of all people!!!  (Holy God, was that some serious dumb.)

Regardless…  This is only further dividing our society and creating a dangerous sentiment of suspicion and anger…  and in this case, it can create a very different situation where, if these irresponsible politicians and the media that perpetuates their message continue to push this idea that there is rampant racism in white America and that racism could be the only explanation as to why Obama would not win the election…  we could very well see irreparable damage done to race relations in the country AT BEST, and at worst we will see racial violence and rioting.

It’s almost as if that is what they want?  They may not, but they are definitely not hiding the fact that violence and repercussions are what they are threatening.

The anger these people are toying with is real, it is dangerous and it is explosive.  There are historical precedents to situations with much less gravity than the Office of the President that have sparked violence  that we can point to, so we know the threat is real.

The saddest part of this whole thing is that it is THE standard campaign tactic in Obama campaign manager David Axelrod’s playbook.  Axelrod has done this same thing many times before, and in many campaigns, even as recently as the primary versus Hillary Clinton.

Inciting racial hatred and suspicion to gain power is what these people do.  This is quite literally David Axelrod’s niche in political campaign management.  This is his job and this is why Obama hired him.

This is dangerous and they need to stop.  It is wrong and irresponsible.

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Am I saying racism does not exist, no I am not.  It does still exist, regrettably.

But the vast majority of Americans are not racist, and when they cry racism in an undeserved context, they are actually  diminishing not only themselves but the one they sought to defend.

When these people cry racism in such situations, they remove the humanity and the complexity of the man that Barack Obama is and reduce him to his skin color.

There are a great many reasons to love Barack Obama, just as there are innumerable reasons to really dislike him.

When they reduce the reasons why people feel about Obama the way they happen to down to just skin color, THEY are the ones dehumanizing him, not Palin, not McCain.

When they reduce Obama to his skin color, THEY are the ones that have issues with race, not Palin, not McCain.

McCain campaign spokesman Peter Feldman said it best:

“It is disappointing that Barack Obama and his supporters continue to play the race card from the bottom of the deck. This is a tactic that the Obama Campaign has used before, and which McCain campaign manager Rick Davis correctly called ‘divisive, shameful, and wrong.’ It is legitimate for John McCain to ask questions about Barack Obama’s relationship with the unrepentant domestic terrorist William Ayers because Senator Obama has not been truthful about this relationship. Many Americans want these questions answered. Despite the fact that Barack Obama has been running for president since joining the Senate, many Americans are still wondering, ‘who is Barack Obama?’ These comments are a sure sign of a flailing campaign that refuses to be honest with voters and that is bordering on desperation.”

Instead of Obama bringing us together like he promised to do when he gave his rhetorically brilliant yet somehow empty speech on racism, it seems his sole aim is to divide us as much as possible to gain a political advantage.

He wants power so bad, he is willing to wreck America to get it.

Hell No, No Bama, No Deal, No Friggin Way.

Country First.

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UPDATE:  I woke up this morning and turned on CNN and guess what was on…  a special about Union activists campaigning door to door in PA and OH, and their struggle to deal with racism against Obama….  Nice, right?

So I listen for a while and then it peeks it’s head out in one of the comments…  a canvasser talks about how he has run into the problem “a few times.”  Well, as a canvasser you can visit hundreds of homes a week…  and in a predominantly white, blue collar, working class, heavy union neighborhood, they run into the problem a “few times?”

And this justifies a CNN special report why?  Oh yeah, it’s spin and bullshit.  That’s why.

And then there was the statement from Obama…  I am doing this from memory, but this is what he said almost word for word…

I don’t think race is a problem in the race.  Look, I am ahead in the polls…  that means that the American people are basically good.  They are judging me on my policies and on what I want to do, not my skin color.

Ok, on first pass, not a bad statement, right? 

But we have to look at the more subtle meaning of what he said… 

“Look, I am ahead in the polls…  that means that the American people are basically good.”

He subtly hints that if he were behind in the polls or that if people were to vote against him, then they would not be good and they would be racist.

Those are code words.  Real code words.

Palin’s comment about terrorists…  not code words.