Barack Obama has proved the greatest fund-raiser of all time by a long shot. His campaign has raised more than $600 million - $150 million in September alone. But the campaign has also failed to adopt standard protections against fraudulent giving.
The average contribution to Obama in September was just under $86. And federal law only requires the disclosure of identifying information for contributions in excess of $200. Campaigns must keep running totals for each donor and report them once they exceed $200.
The Federal Election Commission says the Obama campaign has reported well over $200 million as coming from contributions of $200 or less. Only a small portion of that sum is attributable to donors the Obama campaign has disclosed.
No presidential campaign has ever before received such a gargantuan sum of money from unidentified contributors
Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has been convicted of lying about free home renovations and other gifts he received from a wealthy oil contractor. The Senate's longest-serving Republican, Stevens was found guilty on all seven counts of making false statements on Senate financial documents. The verdict throws the upcoming election into disarray.
(Good, another Congressional rat flushed...now when does it get to be William Jefferson's turn? -Roland)
Over the weekend, we at the Saloon posted a piece on The Radio Equalizer's blog of an interview of Democrat Senator Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico by Albuquerque radio station KOB, during which Bingaman admitted supporting the post-election plan to reimpose the anything-but-fair Fairness Doctrine. The misnamed Fairness Doctrine was enacted at a time when there were very few media outlets on television and radio from which Americans could get information on controversial issues. Americans had to rely almost entirely on journalists for information. However, the doctrine was dissolved during the Reagan administration, an act which opened the way for talk radio to flourish.
Why is Senator Bingaman so intent upon shutting out conservative opinion?
An answer may just possibly be found on the Republican Party of New Mexico website (link). From their site:
It took eight years, but on Oct. 8 I finally secured a copy of Fusion Telecommunications' 1999 contract with the Haitian telephone monopoly Teleco. By law the agreement is a public document but Fusion wouldn't give it to me until the FCC required them to do so. Now I think I know why.
Fusion is run by former Democratic Party Finance Chairman Marvin Rosen. It no longer does business in Haiti. But when it did, former congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II, a staunch supporter of former Haitian strongman Jean Bertrand Aristide, was on the board. So too was President Bill Clinton's former aide, Thomas "Mack" McLarty, and former Mississippi Democratic Gov. Ray Mabus. In other words, the Fusion name was synonymous with the Who's Who of the Democratic Party
Democrats were important to Aristide. President Clinton used the U.S. military to restore him to power in 1994 after he had been deposed in a coup, in part because he was fond of inciting violence against his political opponents. Upon his return in 1994, Aristide resumed his despotic ways. Haitians begged for U.S. help but their pleas fell on deaf ears. In February 2004, Aristide was finally run out of the country.
The traditional media are playing a very, very dangerous game -- with their readers, with the Constitution and with their own fates.
The media have covered this presidential campaign with a bias and that ultimately could lead to its downfall.The sheer bias in the print and television coverage of this election campaign is not just bewildering, but appalling. And over the last few months I've found myself slowly moving from shaking my head at the obvious one-sided reporting, to actually shouting at the screen of my television and my laptop computer.
The Warren Court wasn't radical enough in that "it didn't break free from the restraints" imposed by the founding fathers in the Constitution!...Redistribution of wealth SHOULD have been enforced to address "economic justice" in society...Obama says that the Constitution doesn't say what the federal government MUST do for you "on your behalf"!
Stunning bombshell stuff. Why won't the national news media pick this up and report it to the American people?
FTA: Wallston was one of the few mainstream media reporters to report on this radical Obama associate (Khalidi).
Wallston said that the article was written after he watched video taken at the Khalidi going away party. When I asked him about the video he said that as far as he was concerned he was through with the story.
I asked him if he was planning on releasing this video of Obama toasting the radical Khalidi at this Jew-bash. He told me he was not releasing the video. He also would not comment on his source for the video. Wallston also said he did not know if Khalidi's good friend Bill Ayers was at the event or not.
So, there you have it. The LA Times has video of Obama toasting a former PLO operative at a Jew-bash but will not release the video. This is outrageous. Obviously, this video would do great damage to Obama who struggles with Jewish voters due to his circle of close anti-Semitic friends. Maybe this is the reason it is not being released?
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