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David Axelrod-- Gets Obama's opponent's sealed divorce records opened up
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| 2/4/2007
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Posted on 09/05/2008 10:07:36 PM PDT by dennisw
2/4/2007
There was a question that came up yesterday about Blair Hulls difficulties here in Illinois, and what in the heck precipitated it? We all have our theories, right? What Im looking for is some kind of documentation to attest to the facts in this; bearing in mind that Obamas chief media advisor at the time was David Axelrod, who was an advisor to the Clinton campaign. Axelrod, in fact, railed against the politics of personal destruction in the 1990s, and was also once a columnist for the Tribune and an advisor to Mayor Daley. Lynn Sweet at the Sun Times shows us Obamas 2008 Whitehouse team, and at the top of the list is:
David Axelrod, media strategist. Founder of Chicago-based AKP Media. Handled Obamas 2004 Senate race. A client list: consults for Mayor Daley, Rep. Rahm Emanuel.
According to CBS Radio, hes even more accomplished than that:
David Axelrod, Chicago-based Democratic Media Advisor/Strategist for U.S. Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and presidential campaign for Senator John Edwards.
It just seems to be too great of a coincidence that Obama, who wasnt backed by the kind of money Ryan and Hull had, ended up benefiting from the misery of two men who appeared to have been set up; one a democrat, the other a republican. Still, if you look at it from one viewpoint, they both could have been considered his political rivals. I have often voiced deep concerns about George Soros candidates which include Hillary, Kerry and Obama. But its not like we havent been aware of setups for scandal before.
There was a campaign the gay activists were putting together in order to crucify republicans in sex scandals, and we saw evidence of that with list that David Corn obtained in Washington regarding the Foley incident.
The scale was tipped on purpose.
In this piece from 2004, when I was about a week-old as a blogger and was still on blogspot, I wasnt familiar with citing work, and using the blockquotes, and hadnt mastered blogging 101 yet. Heres the passage that prompted the inquiry:
..the Tribune finally admitted that it was Axelrod and the Obama campaign that brought pressure on the press to demand the unsealing of M. Blair Hull divorce records, which had had their contents leaked to media outlets by the Obama campaign even earlier. The Obama campaign also helped orchestrate a demonstration by womens groups demanding Hulls withdrawal from the race. Coincidentally, this was the same weekend Obamas first commercials hit the airwaves. Interestingly (or maybe not), the same exact thing happened to another of his rivalsJack Ryan. Certainly gives one pause.
Certainly does. It was WLS-Channel 7 TV and the Chicago Tribune that filed suit to open Hulls sealed divorce records. To be fair, the Chicago Tribune exposed Jack Ryans past, too, so this was a case of bipartisan snooping. Brent Bozell at the Media Research Center is right, though; journalists dont cover liberal political scandals in quite the same way as conservative ones.
Theres not a whole lot else to say about this except that were looking for validation and citing beyond this blog; from the Tribune itself or some other source, into the veracity of that claim. I dont recall how I stumbled upon that, and Im sure that a lot of bloggers can relate to surfing the web, and not saving something into favorites, and ending up somewhere, not being able to retrace your steps.
From the Chicago Tribune:
In the Democratic primary, Obama found himself the overwhelming beneficiary when the campaign of former securities trader Blair Hull crashed in the aftermath of Hulls release of court files from a messy divorce. Though Obama has been a passive beneficiary of Ryans latest problems, the Democrats campaign worked aggressively behind the scenes to fuel controversy about Hulls filings.
Zenpundit:
Memogate is an aberration you say ? Did not Clarence Pages own Chicago Tribune and local Chicago newsman Chuck Goudie give unusually heavy coverage of the divorce records of Democrat Blair Hull and Republican Jack Ryan to the benefit of a previously invisible, underfunded, candidate with the slenderest of legistative records, named Barack Obama? Was it accidental or a coincidence that the two opponents with the financial resources to bury Mr. Obama in the primary or general elections were relentlessly hammered on scandals by the Trib while the same paper ran multipage puff pieces on Saint Obama ? If we searched the email database and phone records of senior editors at the Tribune how many messages would we find from the staff of David Axelrod ? Who happened to slip Chuck Goudie an ( allegedly) anonymous letter detailing Mr. Ryans many year old attempt to bring the then Mrs. Jerri Ryan to a sex club ? Did these two men do anything to deserve having their careers destroyed by a local media that had placed themselves so obviously in Mr. Obamas corner that no Illinois politician dared to step into Mr. Ryans shoes ?
If the rest of the mainstream media does not come out front and center with strong ethics policies mandating nonpartisanship ( outside of the op-ed. page) they will find the public regarding the CBS fiasco as merely the tip of a liberal iceberg.
If you have any further information that can shed more light on the Tribunes admission that Axelrod put pressure to open Blair Hulls divorce records, you can email me at caoilfhionn1 at gmail dot com.
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Thanks to Basils Blog, Adams Blog, Outside the Beltway, Blue Star Chronicles, Stuck on Stupid, Faultline USA Jos Cafe
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 2008; corruptdems; corruption; democrats; dirtytricks; fraud; obama; obamabiden; obamatruthfile
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To: Political Junkie Too
And now he forced the divorced friends of the Palins in Alaska to unseal their divorce papers looking for dirt on Sarah.
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posted on
09/05/2008 11:17:12 PM PDT
by
beckysueb
(Drill here! Drill now!)
To: dennisw
This just makes my blood boil...The nerve of these creeps trying to take down Sarah Palin...Obama, Axelrod, and Soros...remember those thugs names..
They can use their thuggery skills on one of their own dimRATS but they better keep their mitts off our Sarah or they will see a backlash like they have never seen before...
She’s off limits..along with families and children...got it? Well get it otherwise you’ll find out what SwiftBoot means.
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posted on
09/05/2008 11:22:44 PM PDT
by
billmor
(Friday:Red Shirt Day- silent no more..,McCain and Palin-the right team for '08)
To: cw35
“Jack Ryan was a sexual deviant and had no place in the Republican party.”
And do we remember who *Mrs* Ryan was?
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posted on
09/05/2008 11:24:35 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
("Unarmed, one can only flee from Evil. But Evil isn't overcome by fleeing from it." Jeff Cooper)
To: cw35
Jack Ryan was a sexual deviant and had no place in the Republican party. I'd take Jack Ryan over Barack Obama any day.
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posted on
09/06/2008 12:07:40 AM PDT
by
taraytarah
(If your only strategy is attacking the life choices of 17-year-old females, you got nothin'.)
To: arrogantsob
You doubt that Ryans divorce records were unsealed? Why would I doubt that?
I am awaiting the day when it is proven that Obama highly influenced Judge Schnider's decision to release the Ryans' records.
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posted on
09/06/2008 12:16:11 AM PDT
by
taraytarah
(If your only strategy is attacking the life choices of 17-year-old females, you got nothin'.)
To: taraytarah
I am awaiting the day when it is proven that Obama highly influenced Judge Schnider's decision to release the Ryans' records.
You have to take one step back if you want to be rational
You have look at how this case ended up in Judge Schnider's lap
It was due to a lawsuit by the Chicago Tribune where David Axelrod worked
The Trib was in the tank for Obama and did his dirty work at the instigation of the Obama campaign
Run along and find me some other examples where sealed divorce records are opened up for a political campaign. I dare you to find one!
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posted on
09/06/2008 9:02:29 AM PDT
by
dennisw
(Never bet on a false prophet! ::::::::::: Never bet on Islam!)
To: billmor
Now you get how evil and power mad the true believer leftists are. And their friends the socialist parties of Europe, Muslim candidates always seem to run in the Euro socialist parties. Their alliance
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posted on
09/06/2008 9:16:32 AM PDT
by
dennisw
(Never bet on a false prophet! ::::::::::: Never bet on Islam!)
To: dennisw
Another thing we’re not fooled by, David Axelrod: Your comb-over.
You’re only fooling yourself, dude.
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posted on
09/06/2008 9:19:32 AM PDT
by
savedbygrace
(SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
To: dennisw
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posted on
09/06/2008 11:04:12 AM PDT
by
lesser_satan
(Satire today, headlines tomorrow...)
To: dennisw
Is Axlerod standing in that the same alley at the same Ayers was (only to the side) when he, Ayers, trashed and tromped on the American flag?
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posted on
09/06/2008 11:19:43 AM PDT
by
Old Badger
(Both houses of Congress: Clean sweep-down Fore and Aft!)
To: dennisw
The only way she would end up off the ticket is if we buy into the Axelrod tactics.
Tell Dave to cram it and that there is really nothing worse than Barry and Co.
In otherwards, we no longer care about his smear merchants, we are supporting our candidate and intend to vote for them.
Sorry Barry, won’t happen this time. This ain’t just a Chicago thang anymore.
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posted on
09/06/2008 11:25:39 AM PDT
by
dforest
To: dennisw
You do understand that I was not using sarcasm, correct? I have been convinced for a very long time that Obama, The Eliminator, was behind the Judge's caving to release the Ryans'records. I'm very glad to see this garbage getting some exposure, at long last.
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posted on
09/06/2008 11:47:55 AM PDT
by
taraytarah
(If your only strategy is attacking the life choices of 17-year-old females, you got nothin'.)
To: taraytarah
You could be flying an airplane upside down for all I know
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posted on
09/06/2008 3:09:35 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(Never bet on a false prophet! ::::::::::: Never bet on Islam!)
To: dennisw
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posted on
09/06/2008 6:39:08 PM PDT
by
taraytarah
(If your only strategy is attacking the life choices of 17-year-old females, you got nothin'.)
To: taraytarah
“I’d take Jack Ryan over Barack Obama any day.”
That wasn’t the choice for IL. It was Keyes against Obama.
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posted on
09/06/2008 8:30:30 PM PDT
by
cw35
To: cw35
It clearly was the choice before Obama made sure his competition was once again eliminated. After that, he had virtually no competition. The last-minute replacement, an outsider from Maryland, Keyes never had a chance.
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posted on
09/06/2008 9:12:15 PM PDT
by
taraytarah
(If your only strategy is attacking the life choices of 17-year-old females, you got nothin'.)
To: dennisw; sheikdetailfeather
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posted on
01/18/2012 5:56:13 PM PST
by
Matchett-PI
("One party will generally represent the envied, the other the envious. Guess which ones." ~GagdadBob)
To: dennisw
Obama is too much of a punk to take someone on directly Sounds about right...he's lived his life hiding behind others play acting his role.. and that not very good at his best, I don't see that changing.
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posted on
01/18/2012 8:11:58 PM PST
by
caww
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