This is going to be entertaining.
Posted on 06/28/2008 8:46:59 AM PDT by mnehrling
Was Danielle Allen violating federal law by using tax-exempt facilities to do Obama campaign research? What are Allen's links to Obama and his campaign? The Washington Post is silent on these critical questions.
NEW YORK news conference: WASHINGTON POST NAMES AUTHOR ANDY MARTIN AS OBAMA SOURCE ANDY MARTIN Executive Editor ContrarianCommentary.com
'Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct'
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS
ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW YORK NEWS CONFERENCE JUNE 28, 2008
OBAMA AUTHOR ANDY MARTIN RESPONDS TO WASHINGTON POST ARTICLE NAMING MARTIN AS THE SOURCE OF COMMENTS ABOUT OBAMA'S RELIGIOUS ROOTS
MARTIN ACCUSES WASHINGTON POST OF CREATING "MANCHURIAN SURROGATE"
FOR OBAMA'S DISINFORMATION
MARTIN'S CONTROVERSIAL BEST SELLER ON OBAMA WILL BE AVAILABLE NATIONALLY WITHIN DAYS
WAS THE WASHINGTON POST DUPED BY THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN?
(NEW YORK)(June 28, 2008) Legendary Chicago Internet columnist and Obama author Andy Martin will hold a New York news conference Saturday, June 28th to respond to an article today in the Washington Post identifying him as the original source of information about Barack Obama's religion. Martin will also charge that far from being an innocent victim, Obama has been a perpetrator of the confusion over his religion and Obama is engaging in his own Internet terror tactics.
The Washington Post article is found at: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/27/AR20080 ..
Martin says the Washington Post article is accurate and factual as it applies to him, but that the Post story raises more questions than it answers.
"In so far as my contact with the Post," Martin will state, "Mr. Mosk accurately reports my role and, as far as I can remember, correctly reports our interview.
"But Mosk produced an incomplete form of journalism. He writes a long article about Danielle Allen, but she is a very suspicious character to say the least. Mosk uncritically swallows Allen's story.
"First, despite the fact that Allen claims to have conducted exhaustive research, she never contacted me. How could she claim to be conducting 'research' without contacting the putative source? Scholarly research would have mandated even a pro forma contact.
"Second, Ms. Allen has been using tax exempt facilities to conduct her political research. Once again, an Obama supporter is caught apparently violating the law.
"Third, although she is identified as a 'political expert' there is no indication that Allen has any experience in politics whatsoever. Perhaps that is why Allen's research was so amateurish and deficient. Her online resume shows no political background, unless she wants to count studying ancient Athens as a model for Obama's role in the Chicago Democratic Machine.
"Fourth, neither Mosk nor Allen disclose any contacts Allen had with the Obama campaign, perhaps because of the sensitivity of using tax exempt facilities to conduct political research for Obama's campaign. How could Mosk write an article and leave out a question about Allen's contact with Obama's campaign?
"Ms. Allen's role is left hanging. She literally appears out of thin air. She claims to have accumulated masses of information, done research, and yet had no visible impact on the campaign until Mosk identified her on June 28th. Very, very strange. What impact has she had to justify her sudden appearance in the Post?
"Perhaps she is Obama's new 'Manchurian Surrogate,' spoon feeding the mainstream media Obama's perverted and distorted version of the truth about his religious roots.
"How did Mosk find Allen if she had no public record of any involvement? Obviously he was steered to her by the Obama campaign, a fact Mosk neglects to disclose. I would suggest that if Mosk was steered to her by the Obama campaign Mr. Mosk needs to write a follow-up story and disclose his own research record; it raises serious suspicions.
"The article says Allen met Obama as a 'dean,' but Obama had stopped teaching at the law school by the time Allen became a dean somewhere else in the university. There is an inconsistency here.
"Obama's own evasion is the architect of his religious confusion; he is also the orchestrator of his own Internet terror tactics to silence the truth.
"First, the problem with Barack Obama is not that he is a radical Muslim; the Post correctly states that I have never made such an accusation, and thus the New York Times story falsely claiming I was 'debunked' is defamatory.
"The problem is that Obama wants the American people to elect him as a man of mystery, a stealth candidate. It is undeniable that at least until the age of ten, Obama was raised in a Muslim environment. Yet he has assiduously pretended these religious roots do not exist. He states 'I have always been a Christian' when that is an objective lie. Why lie about his childhood?
"Second, Obama has taken to terrorizing Muslims to expunge any depiction of their existence in his campaign. That's why his staff removed two veiled women from a campaign event. Obama has sought to blame lowly staff workers; he always blames his staff when he is caught acting abusively.
"Third, Obama is guilty of the same Internet terror tactics as his opponents. He harasses anyone who challenges his fairy tales. I have been repeatedly attacked by Obama minions, and I keep fighting back.
"But I keep the public up to date about the facts, see barackobamawasamuslim.blogspot.com/
"Now that the Post has reported the accuracy of my research, if not Allen's, I will increase the intensity of my attacks on Obama for his prevarication, distortion and disinformation.
"In conclusion, I thank the Post for correctly reporting my own role, and not stooping to the demagoguery of the New York Times. But, unfortunately, while reporting correctly on me, the Post has unveiled Obama's new 'Manchurian Surrogate' for the media, Danielle Allen, an Africa-American woman who appears to have been rolled out by his campaign to undermine truth-tellers about his religious roots. Allen is apparently using taxpayer subsidies to conduct Obama's political research. Ms. Allen has a lot of explaining to do.
"With all due respect to Mr. Mosk, how he found the secretive Ms. Allen now becomes the story. Why she never surfaced until June 28th, and how she surfaced, and when, are equally unanswered questions. Has the Post been inadvertently duped? Was the Post knowingly used by the Obama campaign to propagate more religious disinformation?
"I would be remiss if I did not end with a plug for my new book, 'Obama: The Man Behind The Mask.' Guests on Sean Hannity have also started pilfering my book's imagery. The book has gone to the printer and will be available nationally within days. I detail my four years of very public research-unlike Allen's surreptitious claims to have researched Obama-to unmask the very secretive and evasive Mr. Obama.
"If I say so myself, my book is a great read and well worth the price. Internet buyers get priority, since we are already oversold for the first edition," Martin states. "And if anyone finds factual inaccuracies in my writing, just let me know and I will correct them. I have always aim to be scrupulously accurate and I have succeeded." NEWS CONFERENCE DETAILS:
WHO:
Internet Columnist-Author/Editor/Andy Martin
WHAT:
Andy Martin responds to the Washington Post article naming him as the source of Obama's religious roots.
WHERE:
909 Third Avenue, public sidewalk in front of FDR Station, New York
WHEN:
Saturday, June 28, 4:00 P. M.
MEDIA CONTACT:
(866) 706-2639
TO PURCHASE BOOK:
www.OrangeStatePress.com
ANDY E-MAIL:
AndyMart20@aol.com - Legendary Chicago muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host and broadcaster, and media critic Andy Martin is the Executive Editor and publisher of www.ContrarianCommentary.com. © Copyright by Andy Martin 2008. Martin covers regional, national and world events with over forty years of experience. Andy is the author of Obama: The Man behind the Mask, being published in June, 2008, see www.OrangeStatePress.com. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law. Columns also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com. [NOTE: We frequently correct typographical errors and additions/subtractions on our blogs, where you can find the latest edition of this release.]
This is going to be entertaining.
Ping
Good find mnehrling.
You don't need no research. Senator Obama is an Isflamist, what he says is flam.
He has replaced Bill Clinton as the Grand Wallah of flim flam.
What was the injury to FR?
And here I thought we’d be bored this morning :)
Lots of inside baseball and people no one knows of.
Break it down for a simple guy like me.
Hmmmm, very interesting.
There are stories going around about Obama being a Muslim. Washington Post and Mrs. Allen ‘researched’ and discovered that the source is both a Hillary schill and Free Republic. HOWEVER, the WP nor Mrs. Allen disclosed that Mrs. Allen is an Obama schill and her research is rubbish.
Basically, they are looking for someone to blame for Obama smears.. Check the other thread I linked to, a lot more info there.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037786/posts
The concern will be in the long term if stuff like this is used as evidence to stifle internet free speech.
bump
BTTT
For those of you who are curious, here’s the link to Danielle Allen’s political contribution record: http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.php?name=allen%2C+danielle&state=&zip=&employ=&cand=&c2008=Y&c2006=Y&c2004=Y&sort=N&capcode=8c8bp&submit=Submit
As could be expected, she’s an early (2004) and often Obama contributor, and even shoved some money to Jean Francois Kerry.
Yep, posted on the other thread as well. $2350 so far this election cycle for Obama alone.
Yikes, color me confused!
Amature hack agrees to leverage reputation in Obama campaign bid to discredit alleged sources of rumor.
Amature miscalculates, exposed as a fraud. Now finds herself defending a manufactured report. Worse yet, has clearly advocated the revocation of the 1st Amendment of these United States in circumstances where she is politically at odds with speakers.
Sad.
Fact is Obama was raised Muslim over in Indonesia and has never been baptized Christian. Therefor he is still Muslim same as he was born to
Obama learned Koran recitation in Indonesia. Only serious Muslims sent their children to such classes
Does Obama fancy himself a Christian? Probably. But he needs to get baptized and make a clean break. He cannot serve two masters. Jesus and that fake prophet I will not mention
http://www.princeton.edu/~paw/web_exclusives/features/features_121901.html
Danielle Allen who is so stupid she has nothing better to do. Plus is a racist who will only vote for black candidates.
I can make lame ass accusation too
If I had her IQ I would put it to better use
Dennis, the halls and paths of the IAS are walked by do-nothings, excepting only the people who wash the whiteboards and change the erasers. It’s the dead-end of all dead-ends.
FYI.
Thanks for posting this. Allen appears to be a female clone of Hussein ObamaMessiaHamas. Because she is a black anti American radical, she has been promoted past her abilities. She has gotten by for years with lies like her so called study on Free Republic. Any conservative, white, black, asian or whatever would have nailed with the bs she presents as hard evidence.
She and the Compost forgot to note that she is a donor to the Obamaination.
Last but not least, did she waste our tax $’s for another Obamination hit against the truth when it is incovenient to him.
Below are some comments from Andy Martin about this latest elite Obamination bs artist:
“Danielle Allen, but she is a very suspicious character to say the least. Mosk uncritically swallows Allen’s story.
“First, despite the fact that Allen claims to have conducted exhaustive research, she never contacted me. How could she claim to be conducting ‘research’ without contacting the putative source? Scholarly research would have mandated even a pro forma contact.
“Second, Ms. Allen has been using tax exempt facilities to conduct her political research. Once again, an Obama supporter is caught apparently violating the law.
“Third, although she is identified as a ‘political expert’ there is no indication that Allen has any experience in politics whatsoever. Perhaps that is why Allen’s research was so amateurish and deficient. Her online resume shows no political background, unless she wants to count studying ancient Athens as a model for Obama’s role in the Chicago Democratic Machine. “
Right then. No basis for legal action of any kind on FR's behalf.
You are correct that this is a political matter. Which is one of the reasons I'm often pointy end of so many pitchforks around here.
I think it's important to offset some of the mindless witchhunts that seem to be more consistently occuring on FR of late. Infil-traitors perhaps?
The cheering section for vigilante baseball bat-lady in Seattle, the "you can tell an illegal just by looking," these such posts.
Those pitchfork and torch sessions are just so much counterproductive venting (the relieve the urge to actually DO something constructive about it,) and just provide google-searchable examples to be used to tar-and-feather us by the REAL pitchforkers over on the left.
I just hope the truth is allowed to surface.
If the source of the study is an Obama supporter, then it’s not an independent study. And Allen probably contacted the Washington Post to get it published. Seems like Allen is wasting her employer’s time - unless her employer is an Obama supporter, too.
Can’t disagree with a thing you said.
(I repeat for history’s sake)
Obama has no religion.
He has money now, he has no need to “cling” to religion any more, using his own word.
Please attribute this rumor to me and FR if it goes viral.
thanks!
Better buy some popcorn futures (speculators are evil) ‘cause the cost of corn and other commodities is going up with the rise in the price of oil under the Dem congress.
I don’t see any mention of IQ—but is there any way to find her high school SAT scores? Ivy League degrees aren’t enough to establish anything but having been patronized by the admissions department.
“Still, there is another aspect to this story that impugns Matthew Mosk’s journalistic integrity. He seems to have done little real investigating himself and merely took the word of our purportedly purely motivated Dr. Allen. Worse, Allen’s “investigation” seems to consist of a bunch of print outs from webpages she tracked down and little else.”
“For instance, Freeper Beckwith posted a response to the Washington Post story at his The Obama File web page, and he informs us that Danielle Allen never contacted him during her so-called investigation.”
“Martin is positing that if Danielle Allen is using her tax exempt facilities to do Barack Obama’s dirty work she might be breaking the law. Martin is also alarmed by the possibility that writer Mosk was “steered” to Allen by the Obama campaign in a back door effort to defame Martin and to further promulgate lies about Barack’s Muslim past.”
“And what of Allen’s real association with the Obama campaign, anyway? For one thing, Beckwith helpfully tracked down the fact that Allen donated $2,700 to the Obama campaign. And, it seems to me that Allen is a bit less of a mere “Obama supporter” as Mosk says in his piece and a bit more of an active player in his campaign, at least tangentially. Allen is a bit higher up the food chain than simple “supporter” as her April 6 Philly Inquirer pro-Obama editorial proves. Ties to Obama’s campaign might be even closer, but who knows?”
BTW Chuck Schumer and Elliot Spitzer both got perfect 1600 on SATs. Way back when. Wikipedia will back this up.
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