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	<title>Obama&#039;s Enemies List: A Growing List of Obama&#039;s Enemies &#187; freedom</title>
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		<title>Freedom and the Battle of 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.obamashitlist.com/2010/09/07/freedom-and-the-battle-of-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markboabaca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ At last. Summer ending, autumn looms. The 2010 election is at hand. Let's rock and roll. The other week, Sir Paul McCartney of Beatles fame caused a dust-up while visiting the White House. Accepting the Gershwin Award for Popular Song, McCartney made a distinctly un-classy mention of former President George W. Bush and an alleged (if decidedly not true) aversion to books. But there was another McCartney visit to America that was received with nothing but respect and affection -- this one nine years ago. On October 20, 2001, barely a month after 9/11, McCartney stepped up to the plate to organize "The Concert for New York City." Featuring a veritable platoon of famous musicians including Elton John, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, The Who, Billy Joel, James Taylor , Bon Jovi and on and on. The concert was a benefit for the members and families of the New York police and fire departments as well as other rescuers. The Concert went on even as the NYPD and NYFD were mourning the loss of colleagues and still pulling bodies out of the wreckage of the World Trade Center. Towards the end of the Concert, McCartney stepped forward, got the huge Madison Square Garden audience clapping rhythmically through their tears and sang a brand new song he had written for the occasion. It was called Freedom . Said Sir Paul: "It's about freedom. That's one thing these people don't understand. That's worth fighting for… to me it's a We Shall Overcome ... That's sort of how I wrote it. It's like, 'Hey, I've got freedom, I'm an immigrant coming to America, give me your huddled masses.' And that's what it means to me, is, 'Don't mess with my rights, buddy. Because I'm now free.'" McCartney, liberal that he apparently is, stopped performing the song after the liberation of Iraq. (One might ask why freedom is OK for Paul from Liverpool but not Aziz from Baghdad, but I digress.) The point here: the lyrics that Sir Paul once found so suitable in the aftermath of a vivid attack on freedom and then so unsuitable at a later time and place. Feel free to sing along. Here they are: This is my right, a right given by God To live a free life, to live in Freedom talkin' about Freedom I'm Talkin' bout Freedom I will fight, for the right To live in Freedom Anyone, who tries to take it away Will have to answer, Cause this is my right I'm talkin' about Freedom I'm Talkin' bout Freedom I will fight, for the right To live in Freedom, yeah oh There's more , but you get the point. Ronald Reagan couldn't have done better. Unintentionally, the McCartney lyrics serve as a potent anthem as millions of Americans gear up to fight what they feel has gone so wildly off-track in America in the 2010 political concert currently playing with the Obama/Pelosi/Reid No Freedom Band. To begin, the lyrics draw attention to the assumption -- the correct assumption -- that the demand for freedom has been around in one form or another for centuries. In fact, the 2010 election is but the next chapter in one of the greatest ongoing dramas in history, American or otherwise. It is a story that has gained force across the centuries, filled with heroes and villains, good and evil. A riveting drama of the life and times of legendary people and millions unknown whose ranks began to swell as they understood over time their instinct for freedom and the very basic human need to have it eventually rising to the very top of the list of fundamental human rights. Whether it was the English Magna Carta in 1215 that forced King John to grant a charter of liberties and rights to his subjects or the Declaration of Independence in the Philadelphia of 1776 that addressed the abuses of another British monarch, George the Third, freedom has been the cri de coeur of mankind. Sometimes desperately, as with the Jews in 20th century Nazi Germany or the Russians of the Gulags. Sometimes proudly, as with African-Americans in the 1960's or supporters of the pro-life movement today . But always, always the demand has come insistently -- the sentiments of that Paul McCartney song expressing but a solitary if eloquent hymn to one of the most basic of human demands:]]></description>
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		<title>Sabato: “It’s an Anti-Democrat Year”</title>
		<link>http://www.obamashitlist.com/2010/09/03/sabato-%e2%80%9cit%e2%80%99s-an-anti-democrat-year%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markboabaca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[University of Virginia&#8217;s Larry Sabato says, &#8220;It not an anti-incumbent year; it&#8217;s an anti-Democrat year.&#8221; Here&#8217;s the video. Hat tip: Freedom&#8217;s Lighthouse]]></description>
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		<title>Now This Is Just Dumb</title>
		<link>http://www.obamashitlist.com/2010/09/01/now-this-is-just-dumb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 06:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markboabaca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ If you ever want to see how liberal pundits try to gin up division within conservative ranks, look no further than this bit of beclowning. Sean Hannity did not talk about Glenn Beck&#8217;s &#8220;Restoring Honor&#8221; rally on Sean Hannity&#8217;s show. Really. Apparently, because other Fox hosts did, Sean Hannity is supposed to do it too. I didn&#8217;t realize that Glenn and Sean had editorial control over each other&#8217;s shows. Sean Hannity is no more required to cover the Restoring Honor event than Glenn Beck is required to cover Hannity&#8217;s Freedom Concerts. This is ludicrous and trying to start controversy where there isn&#8217;t any. But ginning up an &#8220;internal rival&#8221; will do nothing but help ratings over at Fox. ]]></description>
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		<title>Beck Underlings Sniping at Hannity?</title>
		<link>http://www.obamashitlist.com/2010/08/31/beck-underlings-sniping-at-hannity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ On the heels of a tremendous success for Glenn Beck, a half million Americans attending a rally that was his idea from start to finish, somebody is being terribly ungracious to Sean Hannity. This story has suddenly popped up over at Mediaite . The gist: that Hannity in some fit of … what, professional jealousy? pettiness? … didn't cover the Beck rally on his show last night. As somebody who watches both Beck and Hannity with regularity (and yes, for the record, has been on the old Hannity and Colmes and Hannity's radio show), this is both professionally unfair to Hannity and…well…just a petty…make that lousy…thing to do. If designed by some publicity whizbang unknown to hurt Hannity they will hopefully learn this stuff only backfires. If that whizbang is in Beck's orbit, he or she should be taken to the woodshed for making Beck look like something he clearly is not: small. It would be astounding if after something this big and this important the end result is some dope running around saying the whole reason for it was a better time slot at Fox. Not to mention that this surfaces the same day Beck announces a new website. Is this somebody's idea of how to get good PR? Hannity and Beck have very different shows. They are…newsflash…very different people. Hello? Beck has justifiably gotten tons of favorable coverage for this rally…as well he should. Nearby you can find my own piece on this, with the mildest of concern expressed about the sharpness of Beck's message. Make no mistake…I think Beck and the Tea Party folks and all those involved did a fabulous thing here. I've been hearing from Beck fans all day and they are thrilled, as am I. The criticism in this Mediaite story is that Hannity didn't hand over his show to Beck to reprise the rally for the umpteenth time yesterday. Just as a viewer, I would have to ask…why would he? Beck was on at 5 and O'Reilly had him on at 8. Hannity did in fact have Sarah Palin on his show. If we're headed down that road, then the question has to be why did Fox viewers have to watch the rally on C-SPAN instead of live on Fox? Was Roger Ailes caught up in some super-secret move to zap Beck? Why doesn't Beck feature Hannity talking about the latest round of 8 years of Freedom Concerts where Hannity has honored the troops, the Goldstar families -- and raised millions -- say again -- millions of dollars for scholarships for kids who have lost a parent in the military? Where's the segment on Beck devoted to Mark Levin's book? Why isn't this person or that person or that person's grandma on Beck? Yada yada yada. Seriously. There is a lot going on in this country. After decades of being trapped in the Mainstream Media cocoon, at last Americans have Fox and talk radio to turn to and finally get real news and real conservative viewpoints. They love watching Beck be Beck, and they love watching Hannity be Hannity.]]></description>
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		<title>The Success of the Beck Rally</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I love watching Glenn Beck on TV. Day winding down, he makes so many good points. As someone who has spent a lifetime studying history, been there in government and politics, I find it great to watch Beck's particular insistence on educating Americans about real history that has gone missing. Having long ago learned first hand the progressive-race connection, for example, by having lived for a couple years in Woodrow Wilson's hometown, I am stunned to see someone have the wit and the chops to detail this particularly disturbing history of America's "progressive" president on popular television. Bravo. So I watched the rally on C-SPAN.]]></description>
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		<title>Crabs vs. Kochs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markboabaca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The sometimes organized Left has caught on to the big dirty secret about the Tea Parties and it is now blasting the news all over its blogs and media outlets : that conservative patrons exercise total mind and body dominion. Look, for example, at the weekend's Lincoln Memorial rally hosted by Glenn Beck (from whom they take their cues ). Somehow the coercive Astroturf effect of Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks made hundreds of thousands of people -- from all over the country -- appear suddenly in Washington. They spilled off the steps of the Memorial past the Vietnam War Wall, the Korean War Memorial, the Reflecting Pool, the World War II Memorial, and onto the hill in front of the Washington Monument. As leftists like the New York Times ' Frank Rich and the New Yorker 's Jane Mayer reported, the billionaire private oil profiteers Charles and David Koch enabled AFP/FW to make it all happen. You see, the Kochs have lots of money -- intoxicating, limb-controlling gobs of it . With it they lured those flag-waving lawn chair-toters onto planes and buses from all over the South and Midwest to head to the nation's capital. These zombies, after enduring long lines to obtain their Metro farecards, then rode the subway to the Mall where they could congregate in the August heat for several hours and listen to Beck talk about God. And everyone knows that's the message the Big Oil Kochs are paying for everyone to hear. But it's pretty hard to put a good conspiracy like that over the deep-thinking Left , especially the environmentalist ones -- at least for very long. Now nearly all of them have caught on to the scheme: Greenpeace , Center for American Progress , Media Matters for America , Mother Jones , the Rockefeller Brothers Fund , MSNBC , among many others -- oh, and the White House too:]]></description>
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		<title>What Mission Was Accomplished?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markboabaca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In his Oval Office speech tomorrow night, President Obama will proclaim the end of Operation Iraqi Freedom, an end of American combat operations in Iraq. Obama will take credit for living up to a campaign promise by ending operations in Iraq, but he is doing no more than was required by the Status of Forces Agreement the Bush administration negotiated with the Iraqis. More than 4,200 American lives have been lost in Iraq since the 2003 invasion. Already, about 100,000 American troops have been withdrawn from Iraq. But nearly 50,000 remain, and more Americans will die in Iraq before all our troops are withdrawn at the end of next year. The neocons are now proclaiming that the troop surge in Iraq "won" the war and that we now have to "win the peace" in Iraq. Which amounts to a re-commitment to their nation-building strategy and would require that which we will not -- and should not -- do: remain in Iraq indefinitely. What have we accomplished in Iraq?]]></description>
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		<title>The Leftist Tailspin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Apparently in hopes of upping their game heading into November, the Left has decided that the best way to win is by, you know, offing the opposition. The movement has proven to be incredibly powerful throughout this primary season - more powerful than I think even the protesters and activists themselves even believed. As a result, the Left is in full panic mode. They have been so busy demonizing the liberty movement since its inception that they have no idea what to do now that we have voter support. They don&#8217;t have a backup plan. Their voter turnout and morale are significantly down, and they&#8217;re trying to minimize impending disaster in November. Democrats are spinning wildly to give the base a shred of hope so a few of them bother showing up to the polls. Meanwhile, voter turning in the Florida GOP gubernatorial primary is up 30% from what it was in 2006 . GOP establishment candidates have either been eliminated in their primaries or run out of the Republican party in Nevada, Utah, Florida, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Washington; Alaska will most likely be next on the list. Going into the general, almost every one of these candidates is poised to beat the Democrat on November 2nd. The Left is stunned&#8230; and as a result they&#8217;re upping the level of vitriol against the people it perceives as threats. You&#8217;d think, at some point, a sense of human decency would kick in. Maybe threatening to brutally rape and kill the family members of people you&#8217;ve never even laid eyes on is a little over the top? However, everyone&#8217;s apparently invincible online, so maybe if you don&#8217;t use your real name, then human decency is rendered irrelevant? Who knows? Regardless, the threats of beheadings, rape, and murder come on a daily basis for the outspoken among us - bloggers and pundits can all attest to this. A while back I posted the audio of the response from the D.C. Douglas call to &#8220;tell FreedomWorks what you think.&#8221; (If you click that link, be prepared for unedited nastiness from our voicemail boxes) More recently, we&#8217;ve received an influx of emails that, in all honesty, I can&#8217;t post here due to vile content. As our Press Secretary Adam Brandon said in a US News and World Report article yesterday , it&#8217;s only going to get worse. FreedomWorks and Dick Armey receive dozens of threatening and harassing calls and emails each day. Many imply violence and use of weapons&#8230; As we get closer to the election we expect the harassment to increase.&#8221; Go read the piece for the full story. It&#8217;s fun. We will soon be moving our offices for increased security. The misinformation and the hatred are perpetuated by the left-wing blogosphere, which is - without exception - loose with facts and totally disinterested in civil discourse. Take today&#8217;s Crooks and Liars piece for example. Anyone doing their homework would know that FreedomWorks has never received a dime from the Koch Foundation. The Kochs themselves have explained this . Pretty clear statement&#8230; unless you are just determined to believe that the Kochs are the George Soros of the Right and nothing happens without them. In which case, the facts are pretty inconvenient, and research is hard. Also, the guy in NYC who stabbed the Muslim cabby? TOTALLY a Tea Partier. ISLAMOPHOBIA! HATE! KKK! Except&#8230; oh, wait . Crap. All this to say, step it up, Lefties. You&#8217;ve been reduced to hateful, spiteful, vindictive whiners who talk like a 12 year old who just discovered YouTube comments, and it&#8217;s time to think things through a little. Is sending death threats to FreedomWorks going to make your loss a little less miserable in  two months ? We&#8217;re fully prepared to receive more bomb threats and then march again on 9/12. you focus on the teeth-gnashing and rage. We&#8217;ll focus on November. ]]></description>
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		<title>Charlatans and the Horse They Rode In On</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markboabaca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I have been biting my tongue so hard for so long that I&#8217;m surprised I haven&#8217;t developed gangrene, but the time has come to open my mouth, or at least put fingers to the keyboard. I have for years been shouting into the wind about those I believe are conservative charlatans abusing the money of donors, burning bridges, and making it all the more difficult for solid conservative activists to gain the trust of large conservative donors. As I told Ken Vogel a few weeks ago , “Every movement — left, right, center or no political affiliation whatsoever — attracts its contingent of scammers and con artists and charlatans, and it takes a while for that to sort itself out . . . . And that’s why a lot of the money is still sitting on the sidelines.” And now there is this. Launching under the umbrella of the group Americans for New Leadership, Liberty.com will be led by tea party organizer Eric Odom and begin its venture with $700,000 and 70,000 members, according to a spokesman. Odom previously built conservative coalitions under the American Liberty Alliance and The Patriot Caucus. [Emphasis added] Yes, it is another conservative organization purporting to be the next MoveOn.org for the right. These things come and go like objects best flushed down the toilet. Along the way they consume large amounts of money, burn the goodwill of donors, and leave a wake of destruction in the online conservative movement behind them. God knows the Vanguard , no, not this Vanguard and not this Vanguard , has been selling itself as the next MoveOn.org since around 2006. Any group selling itself as the next MoveOn.org for the right needs to keep moving on. We shouldn&#8217;t be trying to be them, but be better than them. But I digress. There is more here that particularly troubles me about this one and it all goes back to a lot of unanswered questions not from me or anyone else other than the Federal Election Commission related to ventures previously set up by Eric Odom — questions so far unanswered despite multiple letters from the Federal Election Commission seeking additional information and filings. First there was the for profit American Liberty Alliance set up by Eric Odom. I know people, some are friends, who were employed by this organization and left without the money they were due. Neither I nor they have any idea what happened to the money. At some point the for profit American Liberty Alliance was rolled into Liberty First PAC , which was also set up by Eric Odom. I have no idea how the transaction occurred as it is not inside the FEC filings of Liberty First PAC. Considering American Liberty Alliance was for profit and Liberty First PAC is a PAC, I assume there is some transaction to show how it occurred, except there is not one and there should be, at least as a line item in a report to the FEC. Though the language is no longer there, originally the American Liberty Alliance website contained this language: The American Liberty Alliance is not a 501c3, 501c4 or a PAC. We are not registered as a non-profit and we do not raise funds as such. Our primary focus is on content. We publish information and sell advertising on our network of sites. We also occasional [sic] seek contributions from our readers. These contributions are seen as &#8220;gifts&#8221; to our network and are not tax deductible. On August 23, 2009 , Eric Odom wrote, &#8220;We&#8217;re currently in the process of filing for our non-profit, 501c4 status which will allow us to become even more aggressive in the political environment,&#8221; but that does not appear to have ever actually happened. No records exist in Guidestar and, for that matter, there appears to be no incorporation record for American Liberty Alliance in Illinois, Tennessee, or Delaware. I searched those states because initial principals of ALA were connected to both Illinois and Tennessee and it is pretty common to register as a corporation in Delaware. Additionally, in a review of Lexis-Nexis I can find no incorporation paperwork or Articles of Organization (assuming it might be an LLC) anywhere in the nation for American Liberty Alliance, which, if it really has not been incorporated (and a failure to find it does not mean it was not actually done), would mean ALA operates/operated as a sole proprietorship with its income taxed in the individual 1040 tax return of the sole proprietor, who would be Eric Odom. As you can see here from this screenshot of the Freedom Activist website, American Liberty Alliance is shown as a &#8220;project of Liberty First PAC after Feb 1 2010.&#8221; Likewise, I had more than one person tell me it was public knowledge American LIberty Alliance had been moved into Liberty First PAC. The same people have told me it was then pulled back out of Liberty First PAC after Liberty First PAC ceased doing business. Both before, during, and after its ties to Liberty First PAC, American Liberty Alliance still had a donation form on its website without any notation as to its status as a PAC, for-profit, 501(c)(4), or anything else. The actual submission function for a donation, however, appears not to be working (at least when claiming to send a check). Eric Odom organized Liberty First PAC on November 24, 2009, with an amended statement of organization filed on January 24, 2010. Both of these statements of organization were filed before the for-profit American LIberty Alliance was rolled into Liberty First PAC. That is problematic. Why? Because there has only been one filing of receipts and expenditures and it does not show ALA rolling into Liberty First PAC. What it does show, however, is that Liberty First PAC had been taking contributions prior to the date it filed its Statement of Organization with the FEC. The original Statement of Organization was filed on November 24, 2009, and its FEC filing shows itemized contributions as early as November 9, 2009 , when all that existed was American Liberty Alliance. There are also a high number of unitemized small dollar contributions. If any of those contributions were meant to go to ALA and got rolled into Liberty First PAC there could be a problem, given that ALA had been set up as a for profit venture and, therefore, was not subject to contribution caps, citizenship requirements, etc. Additionally, the FEC report shows a $6,000.00 payment to something called Vector Solutions, Inc. located in Reno, NV. The purpose of the expenditure was &#8220;email marketing and online communication&#8221; to oppose Senator Harry Reid. According to Nevada corporate filings , Vector Solutions, Inc. is also owned by Eric Odom. In other words, Eric Odom seemingly transferred a for-profit entity, American Liberty Alliance, into a PAC. There is no documentation for that transfer with the FEC. There is a documented transfer of $6000.00 from Liberty First PAC to Vector Solutions, Inc., which, like ALA and Liberty First PAC, are both entities under Eric Odom&#8217;s control. Now we have Americans for New Leadership and their Liberty.com . While we have this new group, we also have a number of demands from the FEC for Liberty First PAC to file requested filings showing what it has done with the rest of its money . Specifically there is a May request from the FEC for additional information pointing out that the financial figures for LIberty First PAC do not compute, a May 5, 2010, notice from the FEC that Liberty First PAC had failed to file a quarterly return, and an August 4, 2010 notice from the FEC that Liberty First PAC had failed to file another quarterly return. Having contacted the FEC, I&#8217;ve hit a brick wall here. No additional filings have been made, but when last Liberty First PAC filed a return, it had over $2300.00 cash on hand. This doesn&#8217;t even go into the disaster that was the bus tour across America, the low turn out tea party gatherings, the RootsHQ event in Nashville that I spoke at, and the list of disasters and questionable stuff arising out of American Liberty Alliance and whatever happened to it (both factually and as a legal entity) goes on and on and on. I&#8217;m not even sure if the bus tour made it all the way across America as its web journal stopped well before its end point and its blog has now somehow become a Christine O&#8217;Donnell site , except it hasn&#8217;t been updated since June. This is all par for the course. A further irony is that on January 13, 2010, after Libety First PAC had been organized, but while American Liberty Alliance continued as a separate entity, American Liberty Alliance pulled out of sponsorship of the National Tea Party Convention based in part on the tea party convention operating as a for-profit entity . To be clear, the for-profit model has its place in the movement. Many, MANY groups in the movement operate this way. But these groups should always have boards and oversight, and should never, ever process donations through personal paypal accounts. There are a lot of questions unanswered, including whether the email lists, names, 70,000 strong membership, etc. was transferred from Liberty First PAC or American Liberty Alliance or what. I know I got Liberty First PAC emails without ever having signed up and now I&#8217;m getting Liberty.com emails. I&#8217;m not the only one. If a list was rented, surely it would show up in the FEC filings. Oh wait — there aren&#8217;t any! This is wholly and completely unacceptable. For months we have seen competing people and competing groups claim the mantel of &#8220;tea party leader&#8221; and portray themselves as grand gurus of the movement, spin, and technology. More often than not it keeps blowing up in our collective faces and I am really tired of it. I hate to ruin some friendships in the process, but somebody needs to say this. At some point the media is going to start digging and the usual guilt by association stuff will happen — hurting a lot of good people along the way, including some fine candidates. There are too many questions and a very dubious web of connections. Frankly, I also know way too many people who have been burned in this tangled web. For a number of months I have had more than my share of phone calls from conservative donors, bloggers, activists, campaigns, and others wishing someone would speak out. Several tried pushing this story into the mainstream media, but we all know what would happen there — we&#8217;d turn people into martyrs who shouldn&#8217;t be. At best this conduct looks like ignorance of the complex bureaucracy and regulations surrounding the FEC. At its worst, it looks like . . . well, you decide. I&#8217;m sure even more will come out now that I&#8217;m willing to speak up and it does not look like a case of simple ignorance. If it were an isolated incident it&#8217;d be one thing, but it is a pattern. There are way too many questions and concerns here and conservative activists and donors should be wary. &#8212;&#8212;- *I should add here that this should not be viewed as an indictment of whatever Liberty.com may or may not be or become. I have a number of friends who tell me they will be involved in the project and I trust them all and value their competence. But having Eric Odom as the front person, given the problems outlined above, is not reassuring. If the past is the best indicator of future performance we know how this will wind up. ]]></description>
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		<title>UK: Anti-Israel Group Urging People to Take Action Against the BBC’s “Shocking Bias” in Favor of Israel…</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>markboabaca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Oh yeah, because when one thinks of pro-Israel media outlets the BBC  is the first one that comes to mind&#8230; LONDON – An anti-Israel group, still unhappy with last week’s BBC documentary on the Gaza flotilla incident, is now urging supporters to take complaints all the way to the BBC Trust’s Editorial Standards Committee. The radical fringe group Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) has called on supporters to follow a whole series of actions to express unhappiness with the Panorama program that screened last Monday, and put pressure on the BBC for its “shocking bias.” The UK’s media regulator Ofcom has already said that it is unable to consider complaints from activists as it is unable to hold the BBC accountable on questions of accuracy and impartiality. The critics are furious that program, titled “Death on the Med,” was not as hostile to Israel as they thought it should be. “Many of you will have by now received a reply from BBC Audience Services, justifying the broadcast about Israel’s deadly assault on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla as ‘balanced and impartial.’ “This is not good enough, and we’re now asking you to take the next steps needed to keep up the pressure on the BBC and bring it to account for this shockingly biased piece of reporting,” the group’s campaign material and e-mails state. The group wants people to write again to the BBC then contact the BBC Executive. “Tell them [the BBC] you are not satisfied with their response, and that you now want your complaint to be dealt with formally by the BBC Executive.” ]]></description>
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