Andy Martin: Contrarian Commentary

2011-02-16T23:16:00.000-08:00

I save a woman’s life, on the worst night of my life

Republican Party Presidential Candidate and conservative columnist Andy Martin says reports of the attack on Lara Logan reopened memories of a similar incident in Iran 32 years ago. Martin took time off from preparing for his upcoming trip to New Hampshire to reflect on an event that reshaped his life. Here is his flashback.

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Republican Presidential Candidate Andy Martin offers a highly personal reaction to the attack on CBS News’ Lara Logan

The Logan incident reopens painful memories for Andy

(NEW YORK)(February 17, 2011) Once in a blue moon a news report hits me in the heart. I have been exposed to so many experiences that sometimes experience just bounces back and smacks me in the face. Memory is a difficult quality to discard. I had an eerie remembrance reading reports of the attack on CBS News’ Lara Logan in Cairo. Logan thought she was in a celebratory environment and thus was probably surprised when she was attacked.

I saved a woman’s life on the worst night of my life.

In 1979 I was in Iran during the hostage crisis. I was tipped off that something had happened in Tabriz, a remote city in Azerbaijan Province. Together with a reporter from Associated Press, Alex Efty, and a Miami Herald scribe, Guy Gugliotta, we decided to travel as a group to Tabriz.

Flying to Tabriz I sat in the cockpit jump seat with the Iran Air crew. It was a scary insight. The co-pilot said that Iran was training suicide bombers. If Iran was threatened they would strike back at America. I didn’t know what to say. Because I had trained briefly as a military pilot, we spoke as pilots and not as people discussing politics. But it was still uncomfortable being in that cockpit. Finally we landed in Tabriz. Alex, Guy and I headed for a hotel.

Just beyond the hotel, a mini-revolt was in progress about half a mile away. Anti-Ayatollah Khomeini forces had taken over the local TV station which sat on a hilltop. While we cased the station thousands of pro-Khomeini demonstrators stormed the facility and retook it. We were engulfed with people who wanted to know why we were there.

That night I received a tip that something was brewing at the Government House. I think the term “Government House” is best described as a local municipal building, perhaps a county courthouse or office building.

Little did I know that the worst night of my life was about to unfold.

When we got to the facility a source led Alex and me into the building. I still remember the screaming and the cries coming from the second floor to the angry crowd in the front yard. Perhaps five hundred people were outside in front of the building, armed with rifles, pistols and automatic weapons. They were chanting. They were whipping themselves into a frenzy to counterattack the TV station. Over a dozen men were to die that night in firefights on the hill.

Finally my guy came back and said the building was about to explode, and we had to get out. The crowd was being herded up to the TV station. Alex and I moved out on to the front steps of the building to watch. The steps were about six feet high and gave us an overview of the ground where the crowd was still yelling and screaming. We hesitated and looked out at the mob. The men were getting increasingly agitated as they prepared to launch their counterattack.

Out of the corner of my right eye I saw a woman. I recognized her visually but didn’t know her name. I had seen her earlier in the day at the hotel. She had a camera crew. As I remember she had three men with her, rather smallish types. She had a pale complexion, reddish hair and was wearing a white coat. The white coat sticks out in my memory. She walked on the periphery of the mob trying to find an opening into the crowd for an angle shot.

Suddenly the men in the mob discovered her. They grabbed her and she started screaming. The screaming was piercing.

In a moment, Alex’s eyes and mine met. His look said, “I’m too small to rescue her. It' you.” Somehow I made a flying leap off the steps into the crowd. I don’t remember that second.

I remember swimming in a sea of humanity, using my arms push forward towards the screaming woman. If you are familiar with the Lara Logan episode last week you can see why her incident triggered these memories.

Finally I pushed my way through the crowd and grabbed the woman in a bear hug, face-to face. I said something, probably “Don’t worry, I’m here.” She kept screaming.

I was scared she might think I was one of her attackers. Seconds became years. I drifted a few feet away, as though floating in violent river rapids. She kept screaming. Each second was like a lifetime. My mind snapped to. I realized she had lost control and was in a breakdown state. The more she screamed the more agitated the crowd became. I swam back to her and grabbed her a second time.

She kept screaming. Slowly I maneuvered her to the side of the mob. Her crew was on the side, outside the crowd, as though on a bank trying to reel her in from the raging river. We got her out. I was alone with the woman and her crew, in the middle of a smaller mob that was still following us.

We started to walk through what appeared to be a garden, towards a car NBC News had rented. Somewhere along the line someone told me she was with NBC News. The woman was Hillary Brown.

Alex and I were separated.

As we approached her car, her men got in and I helped her in. She had stopped screaming as we walked through the garden.

But the car was now surrounded by a potentially hostile mob. Again I looked inside myself. What to do?

In an instant, I started screaming at the top of my voice: “Death to the Shah! Death to Carter.” The crowd was flummoxed. Then they joined in. “Death to the Shah! Death to Carter!” In the confusion the driver saw an opening and drove off to the hotel where all of us were staying.

I think my guy drove me back to the hotel; I don’t remember how I got there or when I reunited with Alex. The night had become totally insane.

But the terror was only beginning.

There was relentless small arms fire. From the hotel windows you could see tracers going towards the TV hill, and tracers coming back from the station.

The street outside the hotel was filled with trucks, packed with people driving to the TV hill. They had more rifles, more pistols, more automatic weapons. I looked at myself and said truly this is madness.

Alex wandered towards the gunfire at the entrance to the TV hill. After hesitating, I went after him to be sure he could get out.

By the time we got back to the hotel the gates were locked and we had to climb the fence to get in.

I tried to get on the telex machine but Pranay Gupte of the New York Times was monopolizing the telex. I waited.

And then disaster struck.

Two men approached me. One said I was under arrest as a spy. The other one had an M-16. With his rifle he pointed for me to go outside. I hesitated, but politely. The men spoke no English and I spoke no Farsi. I asked the hotel clerk to tell them we should stay inside where he could interpret. Amazingly, they agreed. The senior of the two said he was a komiteh, a sort of neighborhood vigilante. He said he had witnessed me orchestrating the battle. Utter nonsense. Very politely I told him he was incorrect. But there was no way to reason with him.

He wanted to take me somewhere, outside the hotel compound. I resisted. Again very politely. I knew if I left the hotel I was dead. I realized that with all the gun fire and automatic weapons relentlessly punctuating the darkness people were dying. This man was trying to blame me. I was in dire danger.

Because Gupte was monopolizing the telex I kept stalling the men and asking the desk clerk to tell them to wait because I had to send a telex to let people know I was under arrest. I don’t know how long the komiteh waited. Every second took forever to pass.

Finally, the men got irritated, then tired of waiting. They grabbed my identification and said I had a forged ID. They promised to return in the morning.

I spent the entire night terrified of what would happen the next day. Should I run? Of course not I said to myself. There was no way to escape Tabriz. The city was isolated. I was trapped.

Pranay and his lady friend eventually helped calm me down.

Next morning the komiteh returned and tried to take me away again. Alex, who was not under arrest, started yelling at the man. The komiteh opened his coat and showed a pistol. He told the desk clerk to tell us that unless Alex shut up, the komiteh would shoot both of us. I thanked Alex and said “Please let me handle this.”

The episode then took on an Alec Guinness air. I told the komiteh, “I’m happy to go with you, but if you are a policeman, you need to have a police car. So I can leave with you in the police car.” He looked puzzled for a moment; he made a call. Shortly a police car arrived and took us to the local police station.

The police profusely thanked the komiteh and said they would take it from there. The komiteh left.

After calling Tehran, the police handed back my identification and said I could leave. They drove me back to the hotel. Alex told me he wanted to do a story on the daring rescue he had witnessed but Hillary Brown killed the idea because it would damage her career. I found out they were friends and both lived in Cyprus.

Hillary had no idea she had cracked in the crowd. She had no idea of the risks she had created for herself or her crew. She had no idea how close she had come to being killed by the mob. And she was angry at me for rescuing her and saving her life.

I learned over a dozen men had died the night before.

Word of the massacre spread to Tehran. People started streaming in to witness the aftermath. My life-threatening night of terror slowly became something of a lighthearted matter. Friends joked, “We don’t care if you are a spy; we still like you.” Gee, thanks.

A Japanese cameraman, Mr. Nagasaki, came up and said “You Jamesu Bondu.” “Thank you,” I said, not knowing what to say to that encomium.

The hotel staff told me I was booked on a flight to Tehran. I headed for the airport. Faster, faster I said silently.

I had no idea yet that the night had changed my life in ways I could not yet anticipate. I would be coming back to Iran. My escape from Tabriz would lead to new dangers in the days ahead.

A few weeks later I returned to Iran, alone, still during the hostage crisis, and linked up with the mujahideen in Afghanistan who were fighting the Soviet army. Maybe I was in as much danger in Afghanistan, or even more danger, but I was never in as much fear as that night in Tabriz. That night has stayed with me.

I have had horrible experiences since them. But never in my life have I felt so vulnerable, so afraid of being close, too close, to death. And yet, if I hadn’t been in that place, the woman might have died. Thankfully, she didn’t.

That night has made a difference in my life. More about the incident later, someday. Maybe.

Postscript. Years after the Tabriz rescue, I was at a dinner in New York with a date. We were seated next to CBS' Mike Wallace and his wife. My date thought of me as being kind of quiet, maybe too cautious. As the dinner was ending a woman came up to me and threw a glass of wine in my face. It was Hillary Brown. She was still angry that her rescue had precipitated an incident. I suppose Hillary will go to her grave angry at me, because she has no idea what happened on a fateful night when she could have died.

Thankfully, I was there to save her.

It was the worst night of my life.

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LISTEN TO ANDY’S TALK RADIO INTERVIEWS (cut and paste the entire link below and not just the underlined portion):

http://www.briantilton.com/

[See December 29th entry, for two-part podcast]

To hear Andy in Denver go to http://www.khow/, click on Peter Boyles show, go to left margin for “Past Shows” and look for February 14, January 21 and 7, 2011 and December 31, 2010 Andy Martin audio (you can download) (Boyles can also be heard on EinhornPress link below)

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ABOUT ANDY: Chicago Public Radio calls Andy Martin a “boisterous Internet activist.” Andy is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” [www.OrangeStatePress.com] and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawaii’ Years” [www.BoycottHawaii.com]. Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring http://www.americaisreadyforreform.com/. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us

Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” http://www.contrariancommentary.com/. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

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2010-12-27T17:03:00.000-08:00

Republican Presidential candidate Andy Martin announces live on New Hampshire radio station

Obama author and conservative Republican leader Andy Martin will make a live announcement of his candidacy on the “Bulldog Brian Tilton Show” on WTPL-FM at 10:00 A.M. [listen live at www.wtplfm.com] and then head for the Legislative Office Building in Concord, New Hampshire for an additional media appearance and announcement at 11:00 A.M. on Wednesday, December 29th. Martin virtually created the anti-Obama “Birther” movement with his series of columns and TV appearances in which he questioned Barack Obama’s academic history and family origins. Martin is the first presidential candidate in either party to formally announce.

Internet powerhouse Andy Martin shifts presidential announcement from Chicago to Concord, New Hampshire

Martin will make his initial announcement live on a Concord-area radio station, and then take questions at the State Capitol’s Legislative Office Building.

Bestselling Obama author Martin says Hawai’i Governor Neal Abercrombie’s’ latest attacks on loyal Americans who question Barack Obama’s family origins prompted the final decision to run

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2012
“The Right Republican” for
President of the United States
www.AndyMartinforPresident.com
Campaign mail:
P. O. Box 1851
New York, NY 10150-1851
(866) 706-2639

www.AndyforPresident.blogspot.com
www.AndyforPresident.wordpress.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

ANNOUNCEMENT OF “BUNKER BUSTER” PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN NEWS CONFERENCE IN CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Andy Martin will launch a 2012 Republican Party presidential campaign designed to force Barack Obama to authorize the release of Obama’s original birth certificate and college records

Martin will also promote “Creative Conservatism” in the Republican Party’s presidential campaign so all of America’s working families can unite and “Stand Up to Wall Street”

Martin says Obama owes Americans “full documentation” of his college records and original, typewritten birth certificate before Obama attempts to run for reelection

Martin’s Granite State family ties make him New Hampshire’s “Favorite Son” candidate in the presidential primary

Martin charges Obama is a “socialism and surrender” president

(CONCORD, NH)(December 28, 2010) In a dramatic example of how nimble a campaigner Andy Martin will be in the Republican Party’s 2012 presidential campaign Martin moved his candidacy announcement from Chicago to Concord, New Hampshire after he was snowed in and unable to fly home to Chicago.

Andy Martin, who created the anti-Obama “Birther” movement with his original columns in 2004, and thereafter detailed the gaps in Barack Obama’s personal history, and who became the target of smear operations by David Axelrod’s Obama campaign mud merchants, will “take it to the next level” when he formally announces as a candidate for President of the United States with dual announcements, first live on WTPL-FM in Concord and thereafter at the State Capitol Legislative Office Building in Concord, New Hampshire on Wednesday, December 29th.

“After I announced that I would make a formal presidential announcement in Chicago, I was literally ‘snowed under’ by the East Coast blizzard. My flight home was cancelled. My team responded by making an advantage of adversity; our ‘Road Warrior Squadron’ came up with a new announcement location in Concord, New Hampshire.

“I want to thank Hawai’i Governor Neal Abercrombie for motivating me to make a final decision to run. Abercrombie’s Christmas Eve attacks on ‘Birthers’ were disgraceful. (link below) While I am not a reluctant candidate I am not particularly looking ahead to criss-crossing the nation.

“But I saw the Republican Party’s ‘establishment’ forfeit the 2008 election when John McCain was afraid to take on Obama and confront him over Obama’s missing family history and resume. I do not want Republicans to repeat 2008’s mistakes. Americans can’t stand four more years of Obama’s ‘socialism and surrender’ policies. Republican Party primary voters deserve a genuine anti-Obama presidential candidate.

“I am also going to try to start some TV production while I am in New Hampshire. We will be the first presidential campaign to air advertising if our financial resources permit. We’ll do as much as campaign contributors provide us with in the way of a budget.”

Martin will be New Hampshire’s Favorite Son in the primary. He spent summers at Hampton Beach as a child. His mother was born in Manchester; she is a 1940 graduate of the University of New Hampshire. Martin’s family emigrated from Greece and was part of Manchester’s vibrant Greek-American community in the early decades of the twentieth century.

“Although I am best known as the author of the columns and book that exposed Obama’s hidden part,” Martin says, “I will not be a one-issue candidate. I have concerns about the Republican Party’s attitudes towards consumer protection. Republicans are too dependent on Wall Street campaign cash. The moneyed leadership of both political parties is too removed from the daily struggles of ordinary Americans.

“I want to build within the Republican Party a ‘Creative Conservatism’ that unites every American family so that united we can ‘Stand Up to Wall Street.’ There will be some very tough and very creative policy proposals coming from my campaign.

“Last week Neal Abercrombie threw down the Birther gauntlet; I hope Abercrombie is ready for the response,” Martin will state.

WTPL welcomes any media that want to view the live announcement at 10:00 A.M. at the radio station.

December 29th Concord, NH news conference details:

LIVE ANNOUNCEMENT:

Andy will make a live-on-the-air-and-on-the-Internet announcement starting at approximately 10:00 A.M. on the “Bulldog Brian Tilton Show.” At 11:00 A.M. he will take questions at the Legislative Office Building in Concord. [WTPL is live-streamed on the Internet for worldwide listening.]

WHO:

Internet Powerhouse and Obama truth warrior Andy Martin

WHERE:

Main Lobby, Legislative Office Building, Concord, New Hampshire
WHEN: Wednesday, December 29th 11:00 A.M.

WHAT:

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin will announce his candidacy for the Republican Party’s 2012 nomination for President of the United States based on his “Creative Conservatism” platform and his record of seeking to discover and disclose the truth about Barack Obama’s family origins and educational records

MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329

WEBSITE: www.AndyMartinforPresident.com (to come)

E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com

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LINKS TO THIS STORY (cut and paste the entire link below and not just the underlined portion):

Abercrombie:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/25/us/
25hawaii.html?ref=politics

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/
la-na-obama-birthers-20101224,0,3744847.story

Andy on Hannity:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT41uM1-
dPs&NR=1&feature=fvwp

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ABOUT ANDY: Chicago Public Radio calls Andy Martin a “boisterous Internet activist.” Andy is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” [www.OrangeStatePress.com] and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawaii’ Years” [www.BoycottHawaii.com]. Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.Facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; ContrarianCommentary.wordpress.com.
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2010-12-26T01:38:00.000-08:00

ANDY MARTIN: “Birther King” to run for President in 2012 as anti-Obama Republican

Obama author and conservative Republican leader Andy Martin has scheduled a Chicago news conference for Wednesday, December 29th to announce that he will mount a campaign for the Republican Party’s 2012 presidential nomination focusing on Barack Obama’s ineligibility for the office. Martin has been known as the “King of the Birthers.” He is the author of a bestselling book on Obama. Martin’s original writing and research in 2004 are the acknowledged origins of the anti-Obama “Birther” movement. Martin says what tipped the scales in favor of his presidential candidacy was Hawai’i Governor Neal Abercrombie’s latest attacks on Americans who question Obama’s family origins.

Internet powerhouse Andy Martin expected to launch a presidential campaign as a “Birther” candidate for the Republican Party’s nomination

Bestselling Obama author Martin says Governor Neal Abercrombie’s’ latest lies about Obama’s origins were the “last straw” in provoking Martin’s 2012 presidential campaign

ContrarianCommentary.com
“The Internet Powerhouse”
Andy Martin
Executive Editor

“Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

ANNOUNCEMENT OF WEDNESDAY NEWS CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO

Andy Martin says Hawai’i Governor Neal Abercrombie is only the latest Obama stooge to demean Americans who have doubts about President Barack Obama’s family origins

Martin says that his ongoing efforts over the past six years to expose Obama’s religious roots and murky family history have devastated Obama’s credibility with the American people

Martin says John McCain would be sitting in the White House if McCain had had the guts to challenge Obama’s qualifications

Andy will offer a full platform of conservative pro-American issues if he becomes a presidential candidate

Andy calls Barack Obama “the ultimate anchor baby in the White House”

Martin says that Obama’s putative father was a legally married man and that President Obama is an “illegitimate” child of Anne Dunham

Martin challenges Hawai’i Governor Neal Abercrombie to also seek the release of Obama’s Punahou School, Occidental College, Columbia University and Harvard Law School records

(NEW YORK)(December 26, 2010) Internet Powerhouse and conservative Republican Party corruption fighter Andy Martin has scheduled a Chicago news conference for Wednesday, December 29th at which he is expected to announce his candidacy for the Republican Party’s 2012 presidential nomination. Martin is currently in New York.

Martin says the “last straw” in inducing him to run was Hawai’i Governor Neal Abercrombie’s latest attacks on the “Birther” movement. Martin is the de facto founder of the anti-Obama Birther movement that reflects doubts about Obama’s family origins

Abercrombie has said he is going to attack Birthers (see links below) by opening Hawaii’s records.

Martin triggered a firestorm of left-wing attacks and a front-page smear by the New York Times when he appeared on a Fox News program and exposed Obama’s socialist agenda during the 2008 campaign.

“Since Barack Obama is ‘vacationing’ in Hawai’i,” Martin stated Sunday in New York where he is meeting with potential supporters for his campaign, “Maybe he could call over to the Hawai’i Health Department and authorize them to release the typewritten copy of his 1961 birth certificate, the so-called ‘long form’ that Obama has steadfastly refused to disclose. What is Obama hiding?

“Has Governor Neal Abercrombie seen the long form?

“There is nothing in Hawaii law that prevents the release of the typewritten long-form birth certificate for the President of the United States. Hawai’i law was intended to prevent the release of personal information involving private citizens, not to conceal a conspiracy by President Barack Obama to hold office when he is constitutionally ineligible to do so.

“Ironically, Mr. Abercrombie is implicitly joining the Birther movement if he really wants to release Obama’s secret Hawai’i records; I say ‘Welcome to the party, Neal. How about starting with the typewritten 1961 long form? Why is it being hidden?’”

“I have made so many trips to Hawai’i to investigate Obama that a local newspaper once called me a resident of Honolulu. I feel at home in Hawai’i. I am the only one of Obama’s critics that has done extensive research in Hawai'i. Obama fears me precisely because I am devoted to finding the facts and searching for the truth, unlike some Birthers who are money-grubbing hucksters and incompetent attorneys.

“What is interesting is that Obama appears to be behind Abercrombie’s latest gambit. Obama arrived in Honolulu and within hours the Birther attacks started, using Obama bird-dog Abercrombie.

“I believe Republican Party presidential primary voters should have the option of expressing their concerns about Obama’s origins, and voting for a candidate who is unafraid to tackle the issue of Obama’s qualifications to serve as president. As a legal scholar and someone who has studied this issue extensively, I am convinced Obama is ineligible to be president. He is an illegitimate president.

“Likewise, Obama is the product not of a Hawai’i ‘marriage’ but rather of an illicit affair if you believe Obama's own fairy tale. His ‘father’ was legally married to a woman in Kenya. There is no way under Hawai’i law Barack Obama Senior could have contacted for a legal Hawai’i marriage. The fact that Obama’s own story leaves him as an illegitimate child motivated me to search for an alternative explanation, which I found in my theory (underscore theory) that Frank Marshall Davis was Obama’s biological father. Obama has never attacked my ‘Davis Theory.’

“Six years ago I created the anti-Obama movement when my research disclosed that Obama was concealing his Muslim origins. I have produced a film on Obama's origins (see below) as well as a bestselling book. In all of this work I have tried to separate my partisan views, i.e. opposition to Obama’s political agenda, from my duties as a scholar and researcher to seek and write the truth. I have consistently and conscientiously stuck to a search for the facts about the Mysterious Mr. Obama. That is why Obama and his thugs fear me, and do not fear other Birther characters.

“My writing and research triggered a movement that now has 100 million Americans questioning Obama’s origins. I call myself a ‘doubter,’ but I accept the media’s use of the term ‘Birther.’ What matters is not what they call us; what matters are the facts and truth about Barack Obama’s origins. That's all I want. That’s what the American people want, and that’s what they are entitled to from their presidential candidates,” Martin said in announcing his news conference.

“John McCain would be sitting in the White House today if he had tackled the Birther issue,” Martin says. “Conventional Republicans are afraid to raise the question of Obama’s origins. That’s why Republican presidential primary voters deserve the option of voting for me as a Republican Birther.

“I will not be a one issue candidate. There are a lot of conservative issues that ‘Wall Street Republicans’ would like to sweep under the presidential campaign carpet. I will be there to speak on behalf of Main Street, not Wall Street.

“And, P.S., while Abercrombie is at it, why doesn’t he ask his pal Obama to release his Punahou School [Honolulu] records, and his Occidental College, Columbia University and Harvard Law School records? How did Saudi stooge Khalid al-Mansour end up on Obama’s list of law school supporters?”

Martin’s Chicago news conferences are known as “Bunker Busters” because of the firestorms they create and the myths they explode.

THE FOLLOWING SCHEDULE IS TENTATIVE. A FINAL NEWS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT WILL BE MADE ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28TH.

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE for December 29th news conference details:

WHO:

Internet Powerhouse and Obama truth warrior Andy Martin

WHERE:

Sidewalk news conference, SE corner of Huron and Wabash,
Chicago (weather permitting; otherwise indoors)

WHEN: Wednesday, December 29th 10:00 A.M.

WHAT:

Andy Martin is expected to announce that he will run for the Republican Party’s 2012 presidential nomination as a “Birther” candidate. Martin will also offer a full platform of conservative, “pro-American” issues to support his candidacy

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LINKS TO THIS STORY:

Abercrombie:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/25/us/
25hawaii.html?ref=politics

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/
la-na-obama-birthers-20101224,0,3744847.story

Andy on Hannity:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT41uM1-
dPs&NR=1&feature=fvwp

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ABOUT ANDY: Chicago Public Radio calls Andy Martin a “boisterous Internet activist.” Andy is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.Facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; ContrarianCommentary.wordpress.com.
ContrarianCommentary.typepad.com[NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]

MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329

E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com
© Copyright by Andy Martin 2010

2010-12-21T12:22:00.000-08:00

ANDY MARTIN: In defense of Governor Haley Barbour

Conservative columnist Andy Martin strikes back at liberal lies about the civil rights era and brands the Washington Post’s Gene Robinson a resident “Racist-in-Chief.” Martin says efforts by the mainstream media to demonize Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour are part of a relentless attack on Republicans and Conservatives. Andy says “Gene Robinson’s ‘Big Lie’ shall not pass.” Liberals are not going to be allowed to rewrite the history of the civil rights revolution and the Republican Party’s leading role in that great moral crusade.

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin says the liberal media are lying about the civil rights era

Martin says racist journalists at the Washington Post are trying to rewrite history and demonize Governor Haley Barbour

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Martin accuses the Washington Post’s Gene Robinson of becoming become the newspaper’s resident “Racist-in-Chief”

Andy says Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour is the victim of a liberal smear campaign

(NEW YORK)(December 2, 2010) It’s “holiday" time for some (for me Christmas). While most people have good cheer in their hearts, the relentless disinformation and racist smears of the mainstream media are going full blast to demonize Governor Haley Barbour and Republicans in general. As someone with actual knowledge and experience of the civil rights era, the media and the Republican Party, I rise unhesitatingly to stand up to and condemn the Washington Post’s resident Racist-in-Chief, Gene Robinson, and to condemn efforts to demonize Barbour. I have no links of any sort to Governor Haley Barbour.

The origins of the latest controversy are an article in the Weekly Standard in which Barbour discusses in passing the civil rights era from his perspective. (link below) The gist of Barbour’s view is that as the civil rights era unfolded, different communities reacted differently. Out of this tiny acorn the Washington Post has created a mighty oak of lies, more lies and damn lies. The Post’s Gene Robinson is the prime orchestrator of this despicable behavior.

The Post began by reporting Barbour’s comments as though the governor was a racist. (links blow). Then the Washington Post’s latest “conservative writer” Jennifer Rubin buried Barbour’s presidential campaign before it was even announced (link below). The Washington Post always keeps a liberal-Democrat-as-“conservative” on its staff. Rubin is the Post’s latest liberal “conservative.” Rubin’s “conservative” predecessor, Dave Weigel, was fired by the Post when he was outed as a liberal: Weigel promptly became a flack on Keith Olbermann’s nightly left-wing tirade. Some “conservative.” [Full disclosure: Weigel has also written lies about me.]

Younger Post writers trying to make sense of the attacks on Barbour looked back to Gene Robinson’s despicable earlier attack on Barbour that had slipped by unnoticed during the heat of the recent campaign (link below).

Robison’s Big Lie: that Republicans in the South were racists during the civil rights civil war, and that Barbour’s claim that Republicans led the civil rights era is nonsense. Gene Robinson is a bald-faced liar.

Robinson’s distortion and disinformation of Barbour’s views: “He [Barbour] has the gall to try to portray Southern Republicans as having been enlightened supporters of the civil rights movement all along.” (link below)

Here are the facts:

1. Slaves were emancipated by a Republican president, Abraham Lincoln. In gratitude, from the end of the Civil War well into the 20th Century most African-Americans were Republicans, not Democrats. Jim Crow racism was a creation of Democrats, not Republicans.

2. During the years when the “solid South” was a bulwark of the Democratic Party, the most vicious racists were all Democrats.

3. The only federal civil rights advocates were Republican judges. Due to segregation, the actual Republican Party in the racist south was skeletal. But the handful of southern Republicans had one powerful trump card: they controlled federal patronage during periods of Republican presidents. When Dwight Eisenhower took office as a Republican president in 1953 he began to appoint “Republican judges” to the Court of Appeals in New Orleans and the federal district courts in the south. Republican appointees to the Court of Appeals Elbert Tuttle, John Minor Wisdom and John R. Brown were the men who captained the assault on Jim Crow and segregation.

4. The most illustrious federal judge of the civil rights era was probably Frank M. Johnson, a Republican who was appointed by President Eisenhower in 1955. Johnson was at the center of the desegregation wars, constantly battling Alabama Governor George Wallace.

5. In 1960 Presidential candidate John F. Kenney weakened the lingering support of African-Americans for the Republican Party by reaching out to civil rights advocates such as Reverend Martin Luther King.

6. But once elected, Kennedy and his brother Robert Kennedy renewed the Democratic Party’s practice of appointing racist judges to the federal courts in the South.

7. More Republicans than Democrats voted for the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965.

8. In the 1964 presidential election the South switched from Democrat to Republican. Southern voters backed conservative Republican Barry Goldwater. But Goldwater was no racist. Goldwater was as decent a man as ever served in the senate. Goldwater had a conservative vision that saw an excessively limited role for the federal government; his vision, when followed to its logical conclusion, was wrong on the issue of civil rights. If anyone believed in 1964 they were voting for a racist in backing Goldwater, they were mistaken.

9. In 1968 President Richard Nixon crafted the “Southern Strategy” to appeal to conservative white voters. The wisdom of that approach is open to debate. But by 1968 the climate had also shifted in the North. Bitter civil rights disputes had broken out in Chicago, where Mayor Richard Daley clubbed and arrested civil rights advocates (I was there). Angry Whites had already stoned Reverend Martin Luther King in Chicago in 1967.

10. Boston, home of the Kennedy dynasty, was also the scene of vicious civil rights resistance.

11. To say that Republicans had a monopoly on the growing resistance the civil rights agenda is demonstrably false. History, not even morally correct history such as the civil rights revolution, does not always move in a straight line.

The bottom line:

1. Segregation in the south was entirely a construction of the Democratic Party.

2. For decades almost all of the southerners fighting to maintain Jim Crow and segregation were Democrats. Most leading advocates of civil rights reform were Republicans.

3. Without Republican federal judges the civil rights revolution would have been stymied.

I know. I was there and saw it unfold before my eyes.

One closing observation about media lies and modern media mythology:

Today we are flooded with media contacts and images. We have cable TV bobbleheads, news, opinion, blogs, the Internet. We even have “dead tree media” (national newspapers). There is a daily avalanche of information. That was not the world in which Haley Barbour and I grew up.

The evening news was still 15 minutes going into the 60’s. “National” newspapers did not exist. Actual information and “news” was scarce. Almost all of our daily news came from local papers and the odd radio news report; they in turn were dominated by clipped wire service journalism.

Looking back half a century from today’s perspective, we instinctively and unconsciously compress years of civil rights activity into a few dramatic moments and a linear narrative. But that was not the way the civil rights revolution actually unfolded and took place day-by-day in the earlier media age.

There was scant “news” coverage, except for reporting on the occasional dramatic demonstration (Bull Conner in Birmingham or Governor George Wallace barring the door) and most people in Illinois, as well as those in Yazoo City, Mississippi, were only peripherally aware of the civil rights maelstrom taking place beyond the horizon.

Gene Robinson wants to rewrite history to paint Republicans as racists. That is a Big Lie. Robinson has sadly become the Washington Post’s resident “Racist-in-Chief.” For shame, Mr. Robinson.

P. S. Resident liberal “conservative” Jennifer Rubin has the Barbour-as-a-racist brouhaha backwards. The fact that the Barbour controversy is being ventilated now, before the governor even announces, means the issue of media lies is out in the open to be confronted and deconstructed.

WATCH FOR A DRAMATIC ANNOUNCEMENT BY ANDY MARTIN DECEMBER 29TH.

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http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/21/
barbour-seeks-to-clarify-comments-on-civil-rights-era/?scp=3&sq=Barbour&st=cse

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/21/us/
politics/21barbour.html?scp=2&sq=Barbour&st=cse

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2010-12-19T00:07:00.000-08:00

ANDY MARTIN: “Gays in the military” is political malarkey and a massive Obamination

Andy Martin explains why the so-called “gays in the military” legislation is one of the great fiascoes in American politics. Martin uses his combat experience to explore just what it means to be “openly” gay in the military. Martin predicts that the “gays in the military” battle is going to backfire on President Barry Obama (D-Kenya) in 2012.

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin says President Barry Obama’s “gays in the military” policy will boomerang politically in 2012

Martin compares homosexual “rights” in the military to Birther “rights” in the military

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Andy Martin explains why President Barack Obama’s “gays in the military” legislation could boomerang on Obama in 2012

Martin says the military is not a democracy and homosexuals have no “right to serve”

(NEW YORK)(December 19, 2010) Well, the Congress has voted to allow “gays” to serve “openly” in the military. It is time for ContrarianCommentary to prick President Barry Obama’s balloon on this non-issue.

The nation is bankrupt, the housing market is moribund, the war in Afghanistan is going poorly and the national government is focused on and fixated on whether homosexuals can serve “openly” in the military? Is it any wonder we can’t find Osama Bin Laden or that the Taliban is winning while losing? Where is Julian Assange when we really need him?

After you read this column you will never look at the “gays in the military” circus quite the same way.

It is a myth that the “American public” and military brass and personnel support gays in the military. This is complete nonsense.

Few Americans know anything about military service because fewer and fewer have actually served. Out of over 300 million Americans, how many veterans are there under forty? Several million, perhaps, but a relative handful. So most Americans are expressing an opinion on a topic, homosexuals serving in the military, that they know nothing about.

One of the joys of our modern society is that pollsters constantly ask people what they think about issues where the polled have no idea what they are talking about. In politics, it is Ok to have an opinion without being knowledgeable about the topic. We all get to vote. But in corporate activity, medicine or the military, few people can express an informed opinion.

The fallacy in polling Americans about “gays in the military” is that people being polled tend to equate “gays in the military” with “gays next door” or gays in the workplace. But the military and the demands of military service bear no connection to civilian life.

Most of us agree that that there should not be discrimination against homosexuals in ordinary daily life. (Additionally, I support civil unions because they have been applied to gays and non-gays alike.) Persecuting people in public for what they do in private is wrong. Perhaps we as a nation were not always this enlightened. OK, so our views have changed. I have no problem with that. But I do have a problem when people unconsciously conflate their views on civilian homosexuality with military homosexuality. The two environments are totally different.

The military is not a democracy. We do not get to express our “constitutional rights” in the military the same way we do in civilian life. Let me provide an obvious example. Civilians have a virtually unrestricted “right” to believe and act on their belief that Barack Obama is a usurper president. One hundred million Americans have doubts about Obama's origins—rightly or wrongly—and tens of millions of those people whom the liberal media consider misguided souls got to vote in November. They voted against Obama and his policies because of their doubts about his "birth." They had a “right” to do so, and they did.

But Lt. Col. Terry Lakin had no “right” in the military to act on his Birther beliefs. He is being locked up and thrown out of the military for expressing the same sentiments as civilians. No, the military is not a democracy and military men and women do not get to express their opinions on civilian “rights” or to act on their beliefs concerning civilian matters.

In the Gospel According to Obama, it is now all right to practice homosexuality in the military but a criminal act to believe Obama is an illegitimate president. This is “elitism" and "discrimination" in its most embarrassing juxtaposition.

The Pentagon conducted corrupted “polling” by requiring most troops to state their views in open meetings. There was apparently little, if any, anonymous polling.

I have never served on active duty in the military, but I did enlist in the reserves, received an honorable discharge and have worked alongside military officers and enlisted men in battle zones from Viet-Nam to Iraq and elsewhere. So I have some experience with military operations.

The “military” is not a monolithic operation. Military service differs widely. When I was in Dong Ha during the Viet-Nam era, the Air Force had had an air conditioned bar, with a selection of beverages, on a military installation. Airmen lived comfortably. Literally across the street a Marine company lived in tin-roofed “hooches” with no plumbing and no walls. And, no air conditioning. The services are not the same. What works in one service may not work in another.

In the Air Force, recruits probably have private rooms in basic training. I don’t know that for a fact but I suspect airmen and women have rooms with a lock.

Conditions in the Air Force, however, bear no relationship to warrior training in the Marine Corps where men are packed in tightly, purposefully, to create unit cohesion and to break down a recruit’s individuality.

The first time I saw a Navy sleeping room I was stunned by the folding bunks stacked five or six from top to bottom with minimal space between the bunks. Men at sea are packed in tightly. That was on an aircraft carrier. Submarines anyone?

In combat, the situations even more extreme. If you saw the recent movie “Restrepo” you got a good glimpse of conditions in the field in Afghanistan. In Viet-Nam we used to make fun of “Saigon commandoes” who had rooms and maid service, while soldiers and Marines in the field lived in tents, or worse.

I vividly remember one special forces operation with Team A-109 at Thuong Duc where there were only two of us, the Captain and myself, out in the boonies in an area surrounded and crawling with North Vietnamese troops. We were looking for them! Out in the field the Captain and I at Thuong Duc were living next to each other. There were no twin beds in the middle of a combat patrol. Back at the camp, the team was packed into a tiny bunker.

So military life varies greatly between the services, and within the services. Life on the front lines, moreover, bears no relationship to civilian life. Using civilian life and its panoply of “rights” as a template to analyze homosexuality in the military is totally misinformed.

Gays in civilian life are used to an environment where lawsuits and threats of litigation are a part of expanding “gay rights.” There are no "rights" in the military. When you take the oath as an officer or enlisted person you voluntarily surrender your personal rights to the group. You are not allowed to question orders or authority. What happens when the sergeant picks out a gay solider and says “You walk point?” Is the gay troop going to protest and say he is being discriminated against?

Gays are welcome to serve in the military, today, right now, this instant. But they are expected to subordinate their individuality to the overwhelming mission of the military. By trying to create a protected class of “open” gays Obama is trying to shred the fabric of military obedience and submission to command authority.

Finally, Congress itself appears to have purchased a pig in a poke. The new law requires the Pentagon to plan and make preparations for homosexuals to serve “openly” in the military before the new law is actually implemented.

Can anyone who supports homosexuals-in-the military please tell me what “openly” means? Do you, dear reader, if you are a supporter of “gays in the military,” know what “openly” means? What are the limits of “openly?”

Some aspects of “openly” serve as a homosexual are obvious. A person should be able to walk into a gay bar off base without being thrown out of the service (yes, there are gay bars near military installations). Whether you go to a “straight” bar or “gay” bar makes no difference.

But the “gay rights” movement is a lot broader than just homosexuals and lesbians. The acronym usually used is “GLBT” to compress “Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender.” Will the military also have to accommodate Bisexual and Transgender personnel? And who decides what is what or which is which? It is not surprising that the Marines, our preeminent fighting force, said they had more important things to do right now than decide how to implement gay rights.

And back to “openly.” Just what does “openly” mean? Will you register as a “gay” (or GLBT) when you enlist? Will two men or two women be allowed to occupy married housing? Will the “wives” of officers be entitled to membership in the officer’s clubs? Will a Marine now be allowed appear, in full uniform, made up to resemble Adam Lambert? Lipstick for gays—is that part of “openly?” Will gays be entitled to special facilities on military posts or bases? Where does “openly” begin and where does “openly” end? Or does it end?

Does “openly” mean you can merely claim to be “openly gay,” or does it mean you have a right to practice homosexuality or engage in homosexual acts on military reservations or while in combat? Congress is creating a monster with “gays in the military” legislation. The blowback will not be pretty.

In civilian life, if you disagree with a government ruling you can appeal administratively or file a lawsuit. Are gays going to have gay rights tribunals to review implementation of gay rights in the military? No one knows where we are headed.

There is no “right” to serve in the military. The military services get to pretty much choose who they want as personnel. Do we allow excluded gays to sue? To file claims that the term “openly” is not being employed “openly” enough?

If the U. S. were prospering right now, and if Congress had nothing better to do with its time, examining the issue of “gays in the military” might be a harmless activity. But the obsession today with creating homosexual “rights” to “serve” is going to prove hugely disruptive and highly embarrassing to President Obama. By 2012 the issue may be politically toxic.

Now you get some idea of why the “gays openly in the military” crusade could be just a political maneuver to confuse and disrupt military operations in the middle of a war. (Attention conspiracy theorists: Perhaps even an Al Qaeda plot?)

We know that gays have served honorably in our military services, and they should be encouraged and welcome to do so. Perhaps “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” could be tweaked to remove potential abuses. But gays should be welcome to serve on the same terms as anyone else, by subordinating their “rights” to military order and discipline.

I respect and honor and salute any American, gay, straight or whatever, that takes on the responsibility and risk of wearing a uniform. Especially in wartime. But if Col. Terry Lakin has to surrender his political views at the entrance to the Army post, shouldn’t gays be required to surrender their personal beliefs as well? Or is it a “crime” to believe Obama is an imposter and a “right” to actually practice homosexual acts while on military duty in a combat zone?

Take another look at the movie “Restrepo” and tell me (send me a letter) telling me what “gays serving openly in the military” would mean in the Korengal Valley. In other words, what are the limits of gay rights on active duty? Because the real world and the end of the line in the military is the battle front. Tell me what “openly” means in battle. I have no idea. And I’ve been there, done that.

P.S. I have nothing against gays or gay rights in principle. I belong to a church whose leadership supports expansive gay rights although I do not. I have gay friends and gay neighbors and the whole shebang. I bear no human being any hostility or hatred. I believe gays are created by God, not men or women, and I believe that tolerance is one of the great virtues of any civilization. But I still don’t know what serving “openly” in the military as a homosexual means. And, dear reader, neither do you. Is this any way to legislate in the middle of a war? No.

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Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

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2010-12-16T00:47:00.000-08:00

ANDY MARTIN: After Colonel Lakin, “Birthers” will continue to batter Barack Obama

The harder President Barack Obama and Anderson Cooper try to stamp out the “Birther” virus, the faster the movement spreads. “King of the Birthers” Andy Martin explains why CNN and Obama are fighting a losing battle as long as Obama refuses to provide public access to his original, typewritten 1961 birth certificate and academic records. Martin analyzes the court martial and conviction of Lt. Col. Terry Lakin.

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin says his “Birther” movement continues to gain strength

Martin says Lt. Col Terry Lakin’s military case was an unfortunate diversion from the facts and the truth of Obama’s ineligibility

ContrarianCommentary.com
“The Internet Powerhouse”
Andy Martin
Executive Editor

“Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Andy Martin explains why president Barack Obama’s refusal to release his original birth certificate dooms his reelection campaign.

Martin says Lt. Col. Terry Lakin’s court martial reflected a flawed legal strategy

Public perception is everything, Martin notes; he suggests the views of Baltimore Orioles “Birther” are more pertinent

“’Birther nation’ has a long way to go,” MARTIN SAYS

(NEW YORK)(December 16, 2010) Almost seven years ago I started looking and writing about President (then State Senator) Barack Obama’s past. I’m still looking.

I was particularly interested in Obama’s religion and family origins. Since 2004 Obama has done everything he can to obstruct access to information about his family history and personal history. Last month we convened a convention in Honolulu to discuss the open questions about Obama; committees are still drafting reports which will be released later this month. Tellingly, there is no plaque celebrating an "Obama Birthplace" in Hawai'i. Obama is a man without a birthplace. Hmmm.

My columns created the “Birther movement.” One leftist writer later anointed me as the “King of the Birthers.” Do I agree with everyone and everything Birthers say? Absolutely not. I have been in the forefront of exposing some of the charlatans and thieves in the Birther movement. My loyalty is only to finding the facts and speaking the truth about the Mysterious Mr. Obama. Others are not so fastidious.

In other words, as a "king” of the Birther movement I preside over an unruly kingdom. There are those who claim Obama was born in Kenya (I do not agree the evidence supports that view). Others say Obama traveled on foreign passports (I have my doubts).

The key question is whether Obama meets the U. S. Constitution’s requirement of being a “natural born citizen” eligible to serve as president. On that issue, I do not believe Obama is in fact constitutionally eligible to serve as president.

The mainstream media originally created the term “Birther” to ridicule people who had doubts about Obama’s “origins.” I turned tables on the media and adopted the term Birther as my own. That is a prerogative of “royalty.” Today, the research and writing that I began has grown to the point where 100 million Americans have doubts about Obama’s life story.

The public debate over Obama’s origins keeps popping up everywhere and almost in every sort of forum. Saturday Night Live recently joked about doubts concerning Obama’s origins (see link below). Baseball player Luke Scott expressed his Birther sentiments (his team promptly disassociated itself from Scott’s beliefs)(see link below).

And then there is the case of Army Lt. Col. Terry Lakin who became a Birther icon for refusing to deploy to Afghanistan on the basis of his doubts about Obama’s eligibility to serve as president.

Wednesday (December 15th) Lakin was convicted by an Army court martial (see link). Later Wednesday Lakin recanted his beliefs and said he was now ready to serve (see link below). The Lakin trial even drew New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, who ridiculed the Birther movement (see link blow).

CNN host Anderson Cooper is obsessed with Birthers (see link below). Cooper called them all sorts of names on December 14th (no link yet). Cooper has repeatedly featured Birther guests, only to attack them and attempt to ridicule their beliefs. Although I disagree with much that is attributed to some Birthers, I am also aware that Cooper deliberately keeps calling inexperienced advocates to defend Birther beliefs instead of inviting me to be a guest. He is afraid to face me on camera.

So what does all of this mean? Are the Birthers winning or losing?

The Birthers are Winning. Hands Down.

I continue to refine and expand and develop the Birther movement. That’s why I am known as the “Internet Powerhouse.” Like a submarine service we work beneath the waves to focus and form public opinion, and to continue my efforts to expose Barack Obama as a charlatan and a fraud.

Today even Dick Morris of Fox News says Obama is a socialist. In 2008 I was the first person to call Obama a socialist on national television (see link below) which explains why Obama is obsessed with attacking and undermining me.

The Lakin case has ended badly because the strategy of using a senior army officer to confront Obama was flawed from the start. I had no connection to or part in Lakin’s case. I am entirely independent of his actions. I did, however send a letter to the Army Chief of Staff defending Lakin and his beliefs (which I posted on the I’net).

So why did I disagree with Lakin's approach? The power of the government, which Obama temporarily controls, is at its greatest in dealing with the military. Military officers do not operate in a democratic environment. The army is not a democracy. Officers must follow orders. The power of the individual is therefore at its weakest when embodied in a military officer.

The “illegal orders” doctrine which grew out of World War II was never intended to allow an officer to challenge the authority of the chain of command for routine orders. It was intended to stop the massacre of innocents, not to allow an officer to hamstring military operations. The very essence of a military officer is obedience to general orders. Lakin’s case was the wrong test case.

Despite his ill-advised strategy, his guilty plea on one count, and his conviction on a second count, the military is likely to deal with Colonel Lakin leniently. First, he has now recanted his beliefs and expressed a willingness to deploy to Afghanistan. I expect him to be sent there. Second he has a very distinguished service record. Officers look at other officers in a lenient light.

Finally, a lenient disposition of Lakin’s case is in the interests of the Obama administration. If Lakin is imprisoned he will become a martyr. Deployed to Afghanistan Lakin will soon be forgotten. I expect Lakin to be fined, and perhaps reduced in rank temporarily. I do not expect him to do jail time. In all probability Lakin will be allowed, after suitable public flogging, to complete his military career and retire with a pension. Any other outcome will only fuel the Birther fires.

Why has Obama refused to release his original typewritten 1961 birth certificate? There are a number of possibilities, each of them very plausible. First, Obama was in fact born illegitimate (we now say “nonmarital”). His father was married to another woman. There is no way his “parents” ever marred legally under Hawai’i law. The Obama “marriage” was a sham.

Second, Obama’s birth was in all probability not attended to by a doctor. Third, Obama was in all probability not born in a hospital. Fourth, Obama’s “Father’s Religion” was probably listed as Muslim on the birth certificate. These are just some of the obvious possibilities which were typed on Obama’s original document in 1961.

None of this detailed information is part of the “Certificate of Live Birth” Obama released in 2008.

Obama does not want the truth to come out until he is out of office. Maybe not even then.

The same is true about Obama’s academic records. Obama in all probability sought “affirmative action” as a Muslim and Kenyan when he applied to Occidental College and other schools in his educational career. Obama’s massive ego does not allow him to admit he benefited from affirmative action, or that he lied about his religious and familial background.

Finally, Obama’s “father” (the one he claims as a father; my research in Hawai’i leads me to believe Frank Marshall Davis was Obama’s biological father) was obviously not a U. S. Citizen, and not even a permanent resident. He was here on a transient student visa.

The “natural born citizen” requirement in the U. S. Constitution applies to only one office, that of president. The founders inserted “natural born” in the Constitution for that one office because it obviously was intended to mean something special.

Obama and his supporters—Anderson Cooper, CNN, Robert Gibbs and others--try to pretend the very specific language of the founders was meaningless and should be ignored. As a constitutional scholar I do not believe that is the case. And I do not believe Barack Obama is remotely eligible to serve as president (unless, of course, his real father is really Frank Marshall Davis, in which case both of his parents were American citizens).

The Birther movement will continue to grow and metastasize as we approach the 2012 election season. We have political plans that will be unveiled shortly.

Today even baseball players are aware of Obama’s constitutional ineligibility. Tomorrow the American people are going to rise up and throw the usurper (sorry, Ms. Dowd, he is a usurper) out of office. Today 100 million Americans have doubts about Obama’s origins. In due course the entire world will learn the truth, and learn that Barack Obama was the biggest scam artist in American political history. It’s only a matter of time.

Our democracy died when Obama lied.

In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate, Imam Obama, please tell the truth and stop lying about who you are.

Obama’s religion? That’s a story for another day (coming soon).

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LINKS TO THIS COLUMN:

http://watching-tv.ew.com/2010/12/12/saturday-night-live-paul-rudd-paul-mccartney/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/08/
luke-scott-obama_n_793657.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2010/12/15/AR2010121501134.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2010/12/15/AR2010121501134.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/15/opinion/
15dowd.html?ref=opinion

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/01/
anderson-cooper-demolishes-birther_n_790696.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgjQhnDEGSk

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ABOUT ANDY: Chicago Public Radio calls Andy Martin a “boisterous Internet activist.” Andy is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).
UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.Facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; ContrarianCommentary.wordpress.com.
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2010-12-08T07:14:00.000-08:00

ANDY MARTIN: The Political Obituary of President Barack Obama

Conservative columnist Andy Martin explains why Barack Obama has written his own obituary as a political leader: Obama had to “Destroy the Democratic Party to save it.” And liberal Democrats are none too happy about being “saved” by Barry Obama. Or, as that great theologian Reverend Jeremiah Wright would say, “Barack Obama’s chickens are coming home to roost.” Chicken salad anyone? Or chicken ____?

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin says Barack Obama may have to run as a Republican in 2012

Martin says that “Obama had to destroy the Democratic Party to save it,” and liberal Democrats are none-to-happy at being “saved”

ContrarianCommentary.com
“The Internet Powerhouse”
Andy Martin
Executive Editor

“Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ANDY MARTIN EXPLAINS WHY PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA HAS ABANDONED THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS WHO MADE HIM A “SUN GOD”

MARTIN SAYS IT WAS AND IS LIBERAL DEMOCRATS WHO WERE NEVER OPEN TO COMPROMISE ON TAX POLICY

OBAMA HAS DELIVERED THE “POLITICAL HEMLOCK” TO LIBERAL DEMOCRATS; WILL THEY DRINK IT?

ANDY MARTIN’S 2008 PREDICTION HAS COME TRUE: DEMOCRATS ELECTED A “LIBERAL REPUBLICAN” AS PRESIDENT

(NEW YORK)(December 8, 2010) Six and a half years ago I became Barack Obama’s first critic. Later I became the first name on Barack Obama’s enemies list. Obama’s political thugs, led by Robert Gibbs, smeared me. George Soros’ bully boys slimed me. But I kept writing the truth about Barack “Barry” Obama.

While I am personally a conservative, when I write as an analyst I am neither right nor left. I fight to find the facts, and I work to tell the truth. Let the chips fall where they may. But the truth was never what Barack Obama wanted. Barry Obama had pumped himself up to believe he was some sort of “god” who floated above the American people or, as I called him, the “Lion King.” The “truth” was the last thing Obama wanted me to write.e had pumped himself up into believing he as some sort of “god” whofloated above the American people. It was all a delusion.He

In the wake of the November election Obama has finally had to act like a president, not a sun god. And the Democratic Party’s left is in frenzy. The last thing the Democrats wanted was a mere “president.” They thought they had elected a liberal dictator.

We now find out all of my earlier criticisms about Obama were true, from way back in 2004 to the present date. Obama is really the “little man on the wedding cake” that I called him in 2008.

Yesterday someone from Harvard called Obama an “alien mediator” with “little experience” in leadership. “Alien?” “Little experience?” Those are not kind words:

http://views.washingtonpost.com/leadership/
panelists/2010/12/obama-needs-to-take-a-stand.html

But Obama’s “Et tu, Brute” moment may have arrived with a bitter attack posted yesterday by an Illinois liberal. It was Illinois liberals, after all, that originally gave us Obama-the-Myth and papered-over Obama-the-Man.

Ellen Gill is a leftist blogger in the north suburbs, and she posted a guest blog by Lee Goodman, a North Shore liberal. Lee Goodman is a former congressional candidate in the liberal 10th congressional district. I have added own annotations to Mr. Goodman’s cri-de-coeur; mine are the capital letters.

Where does Obama go from here? He has become the “Charley Crist” of national politics, abandoned by his own party. Who will become the liberal “David” that will slay “Obama-the-Goliath” in 2012? It’s not clear right now [Hillary Clinton, anyone?]. Democrats elected a liberal Republican in 2008, only they didn’t realize it at the time. Obama may have truly become a “man without a party.”

Obama is pursuing George Bush’s policy in Iraq, and has doubled down on Bush's approach in Afghanistan and he is getting ready to teach the Chinese a lesson. He has now adopted the “Bush tax cuts” as Obama’s own. Obama has done more to resurrect and rehabilitate George Bush’s reputation than any Republican.

How can liberals run against "Bush tax cuts" in 2012 after adopting them as their own in 2010? What’s next? A “Mission Accomplished” sign for the White House? Is Obama going to a Charley Crist and bolt the Democrats to run as an Independent? Or will he take on the mantle of becoming the Republican candidate for president in 2012? Or just retire and cash in financially, à la Bill Clinton?

As always, I will be fighting to find the facts, and trying to tell the truth. In the meantime, buy a copy (there are a few left) of my book Obama: The Man Behind the Mask, still available from the publisher. It was all there, way back in 2008. I told you so. My book is still all you need to know about Barack Obama. Yes, I knew Barry way back when. When he was still a man, not a god. The “Chicago Obama.”

Obama the Sun God, R. I. P.

NEXT: ANDY MARTIN ON THE “DEATH OF SOCIAL SECURITY” (YES, BARACK OBAMA KILLED IT)
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http://ellenofthetenth.blogspot.com/2010/12/
guest-blog-by-lee-goodman-obama-bombs.html

http://leeforme.com/index.html

[THE CAPITAL LETTERS ARE ANNOTATIONS BY ANDY MARTIN]

Guest Blog by Lee Goodman: Obama Bombs
by Lee Goodman

As the curtain comes up on the second half of his presidency, Barack Obama will find that many of his supporters, disappointed by his poor performance, left during the intermission. They will not be back. [LEFTIST CAPITULATION]

Where will they go? Anywhere but the Democratic or Republican parties, both of which are seen as hopelessly controlled by corrupt individual and corporate interests. [THIS IS TRUE] Many will sit out the next election, and perhaps many more elections after that. After two years of making apologies for an ineffective President and clinging to the hope that he would reveal that his spineless capitulation on major issues was actually a strategic step in his master plan, they are finally talking openly about their feelings of having been betrayed.
[BETRAYAL!]

Having helped elect the nation's first African-American president [AFFIRMATIVE ACTION], many felt obligated and eager to give Obama a fair chance to settle into the job and find a way to overcome whatever lingering racism might impede his efforts. But his lack of dedication to the causes he was elected to champion has finally led his backers to concede that although race should not be a disqualification, neither should it be used to insulate a president from criticism. One can be both an African-American president and a bad president. [REALITY SETS IN]

Mr. Obama's inexhaustible desire to get along with those who oppose his purported objectives has left progressives doubting that the goals he spoke of during his campaign were ever really close to his heart. Early on, when he realized he could attract vast contributions, he retreated from his pledge to accept only public funding, pretending that the lobbyists and special pleaders who gave him millions of dollars would not expect or receive anything in return. [TWO-FACED OBAMA, FINANCED BY GEORGE SOROS & CO.] Even as he sought his party's nomination by promising to stop the wars, he interjected into his speeches the violent language of the militarists and said we must kill our enemies. Turning his back on key supporters, he gave a highly visible role in his inauguration to an opponent of civil rights. Relentlessly, he has trodden upon the hopes of those whom he swore to protect. And most recently, while pledging to protect Social Security, he struck a deal that will rob that system of the revenue it needs, paving the way for its collapse. [THIS IS TRUE] He has outdone Bush by cutting needed taxes that no one was asking to have cut. [BUSH LIVES!]

There may never have been any reason to expect anything more of Obama. He had an undistinguished career as a state senator, then went on to the U.S. Senate where he did virtually nothing except campaign for President. [NOW YOU TELL US] Once in the White House, he chose as his chief of staff a bully who had no desire to put the nation's or the president's interests above his own and an attorney general who is now harassing the very individuals who carried the banners of peace and justice under which Obama once paraded. [IS THAT THE GUY WHO WANTS TO BE MAYOR OF CHICAGO?]

On his journey towards failure, Obama also had help - lots of it - within his own party. Instead of challenging him when he rejected their counsel, they played the loyal hacks. [DEMOCRATIC PARTY HACKS; ROUND UP THE USUAL SUSPECTS] Misunderstanding their constitutional duty to be a co-equal branch of government, they mostly deferred to his limp plans. Taking the president and Democratic congress together, there was not enough backbone to support even a moderately strong policy.

The role the Republicans played deserves no more than a passing comment. They sabotaged their own country. [BLAME THE REPUBLICANS FOR OBAMA’S FAILURES]

The situation is not hopeless, but progressives have some very difficult choices to make. First, they will have to decide whether they even want to bother working for the change that Obama preached about but did not try to deliver. To bring about this change, they will have to find new ways of doing things, and they can expect the entrenched powers to resist their efforts. [ST. PAUL’S “PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS?] They will have to struggle mightily and be willing to take personal risks, just to lay the groundwork for reforms that many of them will not see in their lifetimes. They will have to understand that the phrase of the Declaration of Independence, “when in the course of human events,” which led to a momentous revolution more than two hundred thirty years ago, starts with the word “when.” “When” is now.

Posted by Ellen Beth Gill at 12/07/2010 09:52:00 PM

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LINKS TO THIS COLUMN:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/08/us/
politics/08deal.html?hp

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/08/us/
politics/08impact.html?hp

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ABOUT ANDY: Chicago Public Radio calls Andy Martin a “boisterous Internet activist.” Andy is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” [www.OrangeStatePress.com] and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.Facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; ContrarianCommentary.wordpress.com.
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2010-12-06T12:21:00.000-08:00

Andy Martin: closeted homosexual U. S. Senator Mark Kirk is targeted by gay activists

Illinois corruption fighter and media analyst/critic Andy Martin explains why “Republican” Mark Kirk has been targeted by gay activists one week after Kirk was sworn in as a U. S. Senator. Martin suggests that Kirk will be constantly subject to blackmail during the next six years.

Political corruption fighter Andy Martin says gay activists are trying to “blackmail” Senator Mark Kirk

Andy exposes how Gay activists are targeting Mark Kirk in the battle over repeal of DADT

ContrarianCommentary.com
“The Internet Powerhouse”
Andy Martin
Executive Editor

“Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Andy Martin says that Senator Mark Kirk is being asked to betray conservative Republican voters who nominated and elected him

Martin says Kirk should do the right thing and come out of the closet now that he has been sworn in

Martin says that the conflicts arising out of Kirk’s closeted gay lifestyle will be a continuing and constant problem over the next six years

(WASHINGTON, DC)(December 6, 2010) A year ago, December 28th, 2009, I held a Chicago news conference to release the information that Republican Party rumors alleged that Congressman (now Senator) Mark Kirk was a closeted homosexual. My statements were based, in part, on objective facts that had been posted and are still posted on the Internet:
[listen to Segment Two]
http://www.championnews.net/article.php?sid=2165

I pointed out the obvious: that if elected, Kirk would be subjected to pressure and blackmail from homosexual activists because of Kirk’s closeted homosexual lifestyle.

Not surprisingly, the Chicago media attacked me instead of Kirk. I had no problem with Kirk being gay; but I did have a problem with his closeted lifestyle. The mainstream media are totally under the control of gay sympathizers.

Kirk was eventually outed by gay activists last June after he voted against repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” earlier this year. After being exposed as a homosexual by the homosexual community, Kirk recruited his former wife to promise that Kirk would vote “for” repeal of DADT if he was elected to the senate.

Because of his psychiatric problems, namely a pathological addiction to lying about his military service and personal history, Kirk was barely elected to the U. S. Senate on November 2nd.

Now, just a week after being sworn in, Kirk is being targeted by supporters of repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t tell.” Anti-DADT repeal Senator John McCain came to Illinois during the fall campaign to cover up Kirk’s personal peccadilloes. Will Kirk now betray McCain’s support?

Mark Kirk is a ticking time bomb for the Republican Party. Kirk is following in the footsteps of his friend Mark Foley, the closeted pedophile congressman who embarrassed and then defeated Republican Party reelection prospects in 2006.

I don’t have a problem with Kirk’s homosexuality. I do have a problem with Kirk’s remaining closeted while serving in national office for the generally conservative Republican Party. Illinoisans deserve better than six more years of a senator who is being blackmailed by gay activists. As that great Obama theologian Reverend Jeremiah Wright would say, “Kirk’s chickens have come home to roost, one week after he was sworn in.”

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Following is the text of an e-mail being issued today by supporters of repealing DADT

The President has been on the phones.

He's asking senators to end "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Now, with a vote coming any day, we need as many Americans as possible to join the effort.

Senator Mark Kirk's vote is critical: The last time repeal came up in the Senate, he voted against it -- and it failed by just two votes.

Now that a Pentagon study confirms that ending this policy would not negatively affect our military readiness or troop morale, there's a real possibility we could get him to change his mind.

Call Sen. Kirk at (202) 224-2854 now. Tell him that Illinois supports the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" -- and he should, too.

Then click here to let us know how it went.

"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" discriminates against patriotic men and women who sacrifice so much for our country -- gay and lesbian members of our military who deserve to be treated equally.

The Pentagon's findings are just the latest signal that our troops are ready for this change. And top military leaders across the board -- from Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Admiral Michael Mullen to Defense Secretary Robert Gates to General Colin Powell -- have publicly voiced their support for repeal.

Sen. Kirk needs to know we're counting on him to stand up and support this important legislation regardless of his party affiliation. He needs to know we're watching and ready to respond to discrimination of any kind.

He needs to know a majority of Americans believe, as the President said, we must end this law "because it is the right thing to do" -- that those who are brave enough to stand up and serve our country deserve to do so openly.

It's up to us to tell him.

Support the President's efforts and hop on the phone.

Call Sen. Kirk today at (202) 224-2854 to tell him to do the right thing.

Then please let us know what you heard:

http://my.barackobama.com/DADTcalls

Thanks for your help,

Yohannes

Yohannes Abraham
Political Director
Organizing for America

Paid for by Organizing for America, a project of the Democratic National Committee -- 430 South Capitol Street SE, Washington, D.C. 20003. This communication is not authorized by any candidate or candidate's committee.
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ABOUT ANDY: Chicago Public Radio calls Andy Martin a “boisterous Internet activist.” Andy is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.Facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; ContrarianCommentary.wordpress.com.
ContrarianCommentary.typepad.com[NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]

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2010-12-03T11:34:00.000-08:00

ANDY MARTIN: Was President Barack Obama’s latest “visit” to Afghanistan really necessary?

Foreign policy/intelligence analyst Andy Martin explains why Imam Barack Obama is embarrassing the United States in Afghanistan. Andy says it is time for the “Flying Muslim” in the White House to be grounded. We should take the keys to Air Force One away from President Barack Obama.

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin says Obama’s latest trip to Afghanistan is a joke

Martin says Congress needs to shut down the “Fling Muslim’s” overseas trips

ContrarianCommentary.com
“The Internet Powerhouse”
Andy Martin
Executive Editor

“Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ANDY MARTIN EXPLAINS WHY PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FOREIGN POLICY IS A SHAMBLES

MARTIN SAYS IT IS TIME FOR TOUGH ACTION IN AFGHANISTAN

“KARZAI HAS TO GO, AND NOW,” MARTIN SAYS

(PALM BEACH)(December 3, 2010) Drama Queen Barry Obama is off on another “holiday” (Christmas?) junket to exploit American forces for his own flagging personal popularity. The Flying Muslim, who also doubles as President of the United States, is going to be in the air somewhere around 24 hours in total, and burning up millions of dollars in taxpayer money, to visit American puppet Hamid Karzai and speak with our officers for three hours “on the ground” in Afghanistan.

Two thousand American service men and women are also being used as a backdrop to showcase Obama as the Muslim “commander-in-chief" of U. S. forces in Afghanistan.

Was this trip really necessary?

Republicans constantly make fun Obama because he is expected to “manage” the U. S. government when Obama has never managed anything more complex than his household budget, with Michelle’s help, before becoming Imam-in-Chief in the White House. Let's be blunt about this: Obama is no “manager.” It shows in Afghanistan. Obama doesn’t even reflect middle management ability. He is not competent to be a Foreign Service Officer in the State Department, let alone president.

We have a policy in “Afghanistan” that is not a policy. Our “middle management” in the field, the Afghan government, is really our enemy. We are playing a game of “pretend” with American lives and tax dollars that we borrow from China to finance our imperialist policies in Asia.

Obama’s latest trip has been met with the usual media malarkey.
Today’s media report that his travels, as always, are “unannounced,” and go to “heavily guarded” Afghanistan, where Obama is conducting a “comprehensive assessment” and “detailed review” of conditions in that conflict (see links below). Been there, done that.

I don’t want to stick (shtick?) yet another fork in Obama, but does anyone remember back in the days (during the Bush years) when American leaders wistfully hoped for a “Karzai” to lead Iraq? Has Obama learned nothing from recent history? No one calls Karzai a model of local leadership any more. He's a crook. Karzai is just another small-time dictator who is maintained in power through American blood and treasure.

Obama’s war is a joke. It is time for the new Republican Congress to develop a coherent anti-terrorism strategy that targets our real enemies and shuts down Obama’s “Muslim apology tour" of Islamic capitals. Air Force One should be grounded until further notice.

Why does Obama need to spend a day going, and a day coming, to Afghanistan when he has competent commanders on the scene?

And what about our military weather forecasters?

Did anyone tell Obama the weather can be poor in Afghanistan in December? (Yes, I have been in Afghanistan in the winter; don’t ask.) Did the White House ask for a local weather forecast yesterday before flying off on its magic carpet to Afghanistan? Apparently not. Part of Obama’s trip, helicoptering to Kabul, had to be cancelled because of “bad weather.” Surprise? Can this gang even forecast the weather properly?

Hamid Karzai is upset that U. S. Special Forces are killing Taliban troopers, because the jihadis also double as opium smugglers and Karzai’s “own” drug dealers. Can Afghanistan be any more ridiculous? A waste of U. S. resources? Well, yes. Last month we found out that a “Taliban leader” we were negotiating with was merely an imposter. Disgraceful. Humiliating. Karzai didn't know who he was negotiating with? Or was he deliberately trying to undermine the U. S. by making us look like jerks? Guess.

Karzai is both a fool (for insulting our intelligence) and a psycho (for expecting the American people to endlessly play along with his circus). I don’t want to endorse the shamelessly criminal Wikileaks scandal, but the documents which are now public reflect that Obama actually knows the truth. Karzai has not fooled our leadership in Afghanistan. So why is Obama fooling us? Thanks Wikileaks. We may deplore the breach of security (and our own incompetence) but it is refreshing to know Americans in Kabul know who and what Karzai really is. A thug, crook and pretender. An enemy.

Afghanistan and Pakistan are serious problems. Much as I would like to see us pull up stakes and leave, we can’t. In the absence of any government in the region, the Taliban and Muslim terrorists would immediately fill the vacuum.

So we don’t want to stay, and we can’t leave. That’s a real foreign policy conundrum.

In a nutshell, where do we go?

First, we have to stop pretending Karzai is a “president” (Karzai is as much of a “president” as Obama) and give Karzai twenty-for hours to clear out and leave Afghanistan. We need to file criminal charges against the Karzai clan for looting billions of dollars in American aid, and trace the money right back to where the cash is sitting in Middle Eastern banks.

Second, we need to crate some form of U. N. “trusteeship” in Afghanistan, and create a government that’s selected locally under U. N. supervision. No more allowing Karzai to rig the vote and then intimidate the vote-counters so he can steal even more local offices from his own people. Islamic extremists should be banned from the elections. It is time to stop coddling any murderers and thieves who falsely travel under the banner of Islam. Violent Islamists have nothing to contribute to the peace process.

Third, we need to integrate Afghanistan forces into the NATO/U. S. matrix and teach Afghan soldiers and police on the job. The belief that Afghan forces can independently defend against a terrorist insurgency, now, next year or ten years from now, is sheer nonsense. Afghans in general have no problem fighting; the Taliban do a very good job of fighting us. So the issue is not fighting ability. The issue is management, leadership, credibility and force/family protection.

Sixty years ago we created a South Korean military by joining Korean recruits with U.S. units. It worked then; it can work again.

Fourth, we should kill terrorists wherever we find them. Karzai is complaining because we are killing too many of his drug-smugglers-cum-“soldiers.”

Fifth, we ought to stop pretending that Barry Obama knows anything about the military, about leadership or about anything else really. Obama is obsessed with gays-in-the-military, not winning the war against terrorists. Obama is a leftist scarecrow who slipped into office because of Americans’ dislike for George Bush and the (formerly?) arrogant Republican Party. It’s time for Republicans in Congress to take control of foreign policy by using the power of the purse to block Obama’s globaloney.

Finally, Obama should stop spending millions of dollars to generate photo ops with American troops. If the country is too dangerous for Obama to leave the base on the ground (which is why he had to helicopter to Kabul) he ought to stay home.

It’s time to run the Karzai circus out of Kabul and adopt a hard line policy against Islamic terrorists and Afghanistan’s political pretenders. It’s also time to tell our two-faced “allies” in Pakistan that the game is up along the border. We will kill every terrorist that poses a threat to either world safety or the local population until every terrorist is in the ground and on the way to his heavenly reward. We will kill terrorists wherever we find them along or close to the Af-Pak border. No excuses.

If Obama had been in charge of World War II, we would still be fighting the Third Reich. Our patience is running short.

Barry Obama needs more time to practice his basketball moves. In the meantime we prevent him from practicing management and leadership with American lives and our national security.
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Andy Martin has over forty years of familiarity with Asia and the Middle East; he is regarded overseas as one of America’s most respected independent foreign policy, military and intelligence analysts. His analysis of the terrorist threat in Iran during the 1979-80 hostage crisis, and again in Iraq in 2003, were leading-edge predictions of what Americans faced in the future. Andy first went to Afghanistan in 1979 to link up with the anti-Soviet Mujahideen. Martin was in Af-Pak long before Congressman Charlie Wilson’s support popularized the conflict.
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LINKS TO THIS COLUMN:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/04/us/politics/04prexy.html?hp

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/03/AR2010120302572.html?hpid=artslot
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(THIS IS NOT MY ORIGINAL WORK/NO COPYRIGHT CLAIMED):

Quote of the day
"If you want to keep our nation's secrets 'SECRET'... store them where President Obama stores his college transcripts and birth certificate."

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ABOUT ANDY: Chicago Public Radio calls Andy Martin a “boisterous Internet activist.” Andy is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.Facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; ContrarianCommentary.wordpress.com.
ContrarianCommentary.typepad.com[NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]

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2010-12-02T23:13:00.000-08:00

ANDY MARTIN: Can this marriage be saved? CNN’s Parker-Spitzer

Media analyst/critic Andy Martin explains why the CNN program “Parker-Spitzer” was doomed to failure from the start. Andy says that Eliot Spitzer and Kathleen Parker were mismatched as TV talk show hosts. Andy Martin has experience with both talk TV and talk radio.

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin says CNN’s “Parker-Spitzer” show was doomed from its inception

Martin says Jay Leno’s joke on the Tonight Show Thursday is the final sign that Kathleen Parker and Eliot Spitzer were a mismatch

ContrarianCommentary.com
“The Internet Powerhouse”
Andy Martin
Executive Editor

“Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ANDY MARTIN EXPLAINS WHY CNN’S PROGRAM “PARKER-SPITZER” IS A DISASTER

MARTIN SAYS THAT PAIRING A STRONG HOST WITH A WEAK HOST WILL ALWAYS LEAD TO FRICTION AND FAILURE

KATHLEEN PARKER FAILED TO UNDERSTAND WHY SHE WAS THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE: TO BE A PUNCHING BAG FOR ELIOT SPITZER

(PALM BEACH)(December 3, 2010) I have followed Kathleen Parker’s career since she was a writer at the Orlando Sentinel in the 1980’s. Parker is a liberal’s idea of what a conservative should be. That's why she won a liberal Pulitzer Prize. She is “conservative” in a middle-of-the-road sort of way, nonconfrontational and pleasant without being pungent. That’s why CNN chose Parker to be a punching bag for Eliot Spitzer.

The strange thing is, Parker appears to have been the last one in on the joke. She apparently thought she was selected to be on CNN because of her “gravitas” and “manners.” Wrong.

Thursday night (December 2nd) Jay Leno cracked a joke about the coming crackup at Parker-Spitzer. Bad sign. The late-night jokesters are usually the last stop before you get put on the midnight bus to Milledgeville.

Personally, I thought that Kathleen Parker was wrong for the job. She was a total mismatch for Eliot Spitzer. I did not write about the new show when it opened for a couple of reasons. First, I had applied to go up against Spitzer. Parker beat me out. If I came out as critical from the gitgo it might have looked like sour grapes. Second, you hate to be down on something at the start. So I let time take its toll. Now that Parker-Spitzer is all but buried, I can comment.

Parker and Spitzer were mismatched for a number of reasons.

Parker made a big point in media interviews, and even on her own show, of her superior “manners.” Puuuhleeze. When someone tells you how upstanding their manners are, that’s a sign of bad manners. Or sheer stupidity.

Second, love or hate Eliot Spitzer, he’s an experienced advocate. To put a tough advocate up against a creampuff journalist was like putting a heavyweight boxer in the ring with a lightweight “contenda.” It’s no match.

I watch all the cable TV bobbleheads during the evening but I did not pay much attention to Parker-Spitzer because it was so wimpy. Parker would look adoringly in the direction where guests were sitting, and Spitzer would bang away at his agenda. It was “no match” and soon it will be “no mas.”

You can’t pair an experienced aggressive lawyer with someone who is new to TV, and trying to flaunt her manners, and expect a fair fight.

The negative publicity in the New York Post (see links below) is an invitation to Parker to take her leave. CNN sources are portraying Parker as a churlish eccentric who is angry at being pushed around by Spitzer. Worse, we now know Parker has her dog on the set. Not many people write an employment contract that calls for their dog to be in the office.

The fact that “dog-in-the-office” stories are now surfacing on Page Six in the New York Post is a sure sign CNN is hoping Parker will walk the plank voluntarily and not have to be pushed overboard.

You don’t need a liberal/conservative split on a show to have an interesting program. Keith Olbermann is a vicious leftist with a Chavista agenda, but his show is interesting (and humorous) because of the leftist spear-chuckers he brings out to support his majesty. Likewise, Sean Hannity usually manages to hold attention even though his show is heavily skewed to the right. Leftists are under no illusions when they appear on camera with Hannity; they are there to be punching bags for Sean’s agenda.

CNN has a fundamentally flawed broadcasting strategy, and it’s going to get worse. Here’s why. You can be left, or you can be right. But you can’t be mush. If you want to serve up a real conflict between left and right (which Parker-Spitzer was incapable of delivering) you need balanced talents on both sides. You can’t have Miss “Manners” on one side (Parker) and Mr. “Tough Guy” on the other (Spitzer), and expect a fair food fight.

CNN continues to perpetuate a flawed strategy. I am not an admirer of Rachel Maddow’s views (MSNBC) but I occasionally sample her program because of her passionate leftist inanity. She’s entertaining. Larry King was a colossal bore. Now CNN is replicating King’s boring show with a British bore. Piers Morgan is equally doomed to failure.

Reality: not many celebrities today can sustain an interesting one-hour conversation. Most celebs are just plain dumb, and boring. Fifteen minutes, maybe half an hour at the most. King was out of another era, and CNN’s attempts to “freshen” a dated format with a new practitioner won’t move the ratings very much.

Well, CNN can now hire me to replace Parker. No one has ever called me a creampuff. And I’d also like to take on Anderson Cooper and all of his anti-Birther lies as well. CNN can’t do any worse with me than they did with Parker. In the meantime, Kathleen can head back to South Carolina and luxuriate in her superior “manners.” It’s the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. They need her down there. Kathleen, call home.

CNN, get a life, and get a real programming schedule before MSNBC and Fox News eat any more of your lunch. You can’t draw viewers with creampuff programs. Piers Morgan will follow in Larry King’s footsteps. Just give Morgan a few moths. You’ll see.

Footnote to history: I was one of the early guests who helped pioneer talk television. And I helped Fox News launch in 1966, by reporting for Fox from Palm Beach. Been there, done that, darling. Parker-Spitzer? Done in.

THE VERDICT: The Parker-Spitzer marriage is doomed. Call the next case.

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LINKS TO THIS COLUMN:

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/park_row_on_cnn_set_gJfdMPIa0UIoFEi51ZYLGN

http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/kathleen_parker_demands_to_bring_ULESrSEIlxsx6cImDzAION
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ABOUT ANDY: Chicago Public Radio calls Andy Martin a “boisterous Internet activist.” Andy is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” http://www.contrariancommentary.com/. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.Facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; ContrarianCommentary.wordpress.com.
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2010-11-16T13:17:00.000-08:00

HONOLULU NEWS CONFERENCE TUESDAY: Hawaii’ is Al-Qaeda target

Obamacon 2012 Chairman Andy Martin will hold one of his legendary Chicago-style “Bunker Buster” news conferences in Honolulu today, Tuesday November 16th, to release the result of his own independent analysis of terrorist threats to Hawai’i.

Obamacon 2012/Honolulu 2010 ends Tuesday, November 16th. The Honolulu convention has explored all aspects of Obama’s roots in Hawai’i; secondary and college schooling; and religious beliefs and practices. Separately, Martin, a well-known expert on the Middle East, and military and intelligence operations, has been doing field research on the terrorist threat to Hawai’i and President Obama. Martin believes that although most Americans are unhappy with Obama, Islamic extremists are even more angry and determined to attack the president.

“BUNKER BUSTER” HONOLULU NEWS CONFERENCE: Andy Martin says that Al-Qaeda has targeted President Barack Obama in Hawai’i

Martin says most Hawaiians are unprepared for terrorist attacks and believe the threat of “Al-Qaeda in Hawai’i” is illusory

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ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

ANNOUNCEMENT OF TUESDAY AFTERNOON NEWS CONFERENCE IN HONOLULU

Obamacon 2012 conference leader/author/film producer Andy Martin says that Al-Qaeda has targeted Hawai’i for terrorist attacks

Martin notes that the arrest of Abdel Shehadeh may have been a “sideshow” in the real planning for an attack on Honolulu

Martin says that recent disclaimers by the FBI suggest that terrorism is a real threat to Hawai’i

Andy predicts that President Obama is at risk in Hawai’i, and that the islands will “most likely” be the next target of attacks

Martin says the Muslim community must be an integral part of any “terrorist watch” in Hawai’i

(HONOLULU)(November 16, 2010) Obama conference leader, author and film producer Andy Martin will hold a Honolulu news conference this afternoon, November 16th, to question whether Hawai’i officials take the threat of terrorism seriously. Martin says the reaction to the recent arrest of Abdel Shehadeh reflects complacency which is not warranted by the available circumstantial evidence. Martin says “Al-Qaeda in Hawai’i” is targeting President Barack Obama when he visits Honolulu. In Chicago Martin is well-known for using “Bunker Buster” news conferences to explode public complacency and to highlight major new revelations.

“The response of the FBI to the arrest of Abdel Shehadeh in Honolulu was kind of interesting” Martin says. “The FBI said there was ‘no evidence of a terrorist plot targeting the Hawaiian islands in this case…’

“We have taken a long, hard look at Hawai’i and feel that it almost certainly will be the next terrorist target for Al-Qaeda.

“Unlike some people who study terrorism, I do not see local Muslims as the enemy. I see them as a resource in fighting extremism. People have a right to worship in peace. President George Bush made that clear. He was completely correct. We must protect that right. But everyone also has a civic duty, Muslims included, to assist in protecting the community from violent attacks on our society.

“Local Muslims were concerned by Mr. Shehadeh’s activity as well they should have been. They must remain on alert.

“Before Hawaiians forget about Mr. Shehadeh, however, we need to revisit his case. Shehadeh was spending $3,000 a month in rent for a Manoa residence. That money was obviously not coming from him. There was an attempt in the media to portray Shehadeh as a hapless terrorist-wannabe. But no one has explained who was footing the bill for the de facto ‘Al-Qaeda in Hawai’i’ terrorist headquarters at 3361 Huelani Drive.

“Who paid the rent at 3361 Huelani drive? Honolulu media have not pursued that question. They are asleep. What does the landlord at 3361 know about Shehadeh? Silence.

“If Shehadeh was a terrorist ‘Sad Sack,’ as media have portrayed him, who was paying for all of his travel? We don't know. His family denies any involvement. Again, no explanation has surfaced for his access to cash. Federal authorities have confirmed that Shehadeh was part of a group. But we don’t yet know if that group has already been prosecuted, or if it is still under observation. Many questions remain.

“Based on my extensive analysis of this case in New York and Honolulu, and my experience with the world of terrorism generally, I would like to put forward our hypothesis.

“First, Hawai’i is a ‘high value, low risk’ terrorist target precisely because locals do not take the threat of an attack seriously.

“Second, the fact that Shehadeh was being maintained at an expensive residence, and seeking to burrow into the University of Hawai’i community, is as of yet unexplained significance.

“Third, President Obama was probably the target of this preliminary assessment into what I characterize as ‘Al-Qaeda in Hawai’i.’

“We have taken an extensive look at Obama’s Christmas rental home in Kailua where he has stayed for the past couple of years. The place is not particularly well protected. We have a photo archive of the ‘Obama Hawai’i White House’ which we took in the off-season. Anyone else could have done the same. President Clinton used to stay at a military facility on his visits. Obama is much more visible and exposed in Kailua. Has the federal government accurately evaluated the threat to the president inherent in his relative openness in Hawai’i?

“The irony in all of this is that most Americans are irritated at Obama for what they believe is his groveling to Islamic interests. But Islamic extremists despise Obama for exactly the opposite reason: Obama has pretty faithfully carried on the Bush war against terrorism. In an interview on Al-Jazeera during the 2008 election I was asked what Obama’s policy would be towards the war in Afghanistan.

“My other panelists were shocked to hear me predict that there would be more, not fewer, predator drones in the air once Obama moved into the White House. I was, of course, completely correct.

“Last week Obama began to leak elements of his ‘revised’ AfPak policy, which calls for substantial combat operations through 2014. My remarks today are analytical, not political. While I am a critic of Obama’s overall approach to government, it is hard to accuse him of starving the AfPak region of military resources. Military people always knew the July, 2011 withdrawal promise was a chimera. {NOTE: Obama's latest AfPak policy modifications may reflect his awareness of a one-term presidency; you saw it here first.] Obama’s attacks must be driving Al-Qaeda batty.

“The result: I fully believe that Al-Qaeda is going to be ramping up its efforts and energy to attack Obama personally. That is why I view the Shehadeh case and the unspoken aspect of his activity in the islands as a critical security risk to the State of Hawai’i. Whether we support or oppose Obama we need to ensure that he is protected.

“The bottom line: Hawaiians need to wake up and face reality: the islands are very possibly the next target of a terrorist attack against the United States. If I had to bet on where Al-Qaeda will strike next, my money would be on a strike in this region,” Martin will state. “Local authorities need to take the threat of an attack much more seriously than they are.”

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Andy Martin has over forty years of familiarity with Asia and the Middle East; he is regarded overseas as one of America’s most respected independent foreign policy, military and intelligence analysts. His analysis of the terrorist threat in Iran during the 1979-80 hostage crisis, after 9/11 and in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2003 and thereafter, were leading-edge predictions of what Americans faced in the future.

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NOVEMBER 16TH NEWS CONFERENCE DETAILS:

WHO:

Obamacon 2012/Honolulu 2010 Chairman Andy Martin

WHERE:

Sidewalk news conference, intersection of Atkinson Drive and Kapiolani Boulevard in front of the Hawai’i Convention Center (statue), Honolulu

WHEN: Tuesday, November 16, 2:00 P.M.

WHAT:

Obama conference leader Andy Martin says Al-Qaeda has targeted Hawai’i for terrorist attacks

MEDIA CONTACT:(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329

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ABOUT ANDY: Chicago Public Radio calls Andy Martin a “boisterous Internet activist.” Andy is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com

Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
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2010-11-15T07:29:00.000-08:00

HONOLULU NEWS CONFERENCE MONDAY: Martin says Lingle is finished as a Republican Party leader

Obamacon 2012 Chairman Andy Martin will hold a Honolulu news conference today, Monday November 15th, to comment on media reports that Linda Lingle is dreaming of a future career as a Republican Party candidate for federal office. Martin says Lingle is delusional if she thinks Republican Party activists have forgotten her dirty tricks that helped elect Barack Obama. Martin says that when Lingle leaves the governor’s office on December 6th, she’s through as a Republican.

Andy Martin says Linda Lingle is through as a national Republican Party leader

Martin says Republican activists and Tea Party supporters are waiting to repay Lingle for her ongoing dirty tricks in support of Barack Obama’s election to the White House
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ANNOUNCEMENT OF HONOLULU NEWS CONFERENCE MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15T

ANDY MARTIN SAYS GOVERNOR LINDA LINGLE IS FINISHED AS A NATIONAL REPUBLICAN LEADER

MARTIN SAYS LINGLE WAS A SABOTEUR FOR BARACK OBAMA INSIDE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

MARTIN SAYS HE WILL ENSURE THAT LINGLE HAS A CONSERVATIVE/TEA PARTY OPPONENT IF SHE EVER TRIES TO RUN AS A REPUBLICAN AGAIN

MARTIN SAYS LINGLE HAS MANIPULATED HAWAII STATE ARCHIVES TO PROTECT OBAMA FROM EMBARRASSING INFORMATION ON OBAMA’S ORIGINAL TYPEWRITTEN 1961 BIRTH CERTIFICATE

(HONOLULU)(November 15, 2010) Obamacon 2012 Honolulu conference leader Andy Martin will hold a news conference this morning, Monday November 15th, to comment on Linda Lingle’s “California dreamin’” that she has a future role in the national Republican Party. Martin predicts that on December 6th when she leaves office, Lingle is through as a national Republican.

“Normally I would not comment on a local Hawaiian issue,” Martin says. “I am here on a terrorism investigation and an Obama conference. But I have been reading local reports that Linda Lingle thinks she has a future as a national Republican Party leader. Pardon me, but that’s simply ‘California dreamin’. Lingle is delusional.
“I would never suggest to Hawaiian voters whom they should elect as their local officials (including national offices). Overall, Hawai’i voters have shown a unique propensity to take their wealthy state and to beggar their own economy. I expect more of the same from proto-socialist Governor Neil Abercrombie. Hawaii’s wealth is being frittered away in high taxes and socialist programs that are not sustainable, not even in the short term. As a one-party state, the concept of checks and balances is nonexistent.

“Lingle had eight years to build a sold base for the Republican Party. She failed.

“But Lingle’s failure to grow the Republican Party during eight years in office is not why I think she is through nationally.

“Other than John McCain, who ran a pathetic and incompetent campaign for president in 2008, Lingle did more to elect Barack Obama than any other Democrat.

“Lingle’s dirty tricks on the last weekend of the 2008 campaign, when she told Chiyome Fukino to go out and tell the Associated Press that Hawai’i had Obama’s ‘original’ birth certificate and he was ‘legal,’ was a political dirty trick of the first order.

“The Lingle-Fukino axis has kept on trying to rehabilitate Obama as questions about Hawai’i public records have grown into a national obsession. Instead of releasing Obama’s birth certificate after the election, since the original document had obviously become a national archive of the presidency after the election, Lingle has continued to fight in court to prevent release of Obama's records with the bogus claim that Obama is a ‘private citizen.’

“Lingle also signed the Obama ‘Birther’ bill. That law only became necessary because of her own conspiratorial cover-up activity. Lingle has triggered intense national frustration because of her corruption and manipulation of Hawai’i government to protect the ‘Mysterious Mr. Obama.’

“Republicans are not stupid. They are aware that Lingle bolstered Obama just hours before the 2008 election because she was for Obama despite her nominal endorsement of McCain. If Lingle had released Obama’s birth certificate, we would not be facing the constitutional crisis that exists today, where 100 million Americans have doubts about Obama’s origins. There are serious doubts that Obama is constitutionally eligible to hold the office of president. I place a major part of the responsibility for this mess on Lingle’s doorstep.

“We have the ridiculous situation where today’s Star Advertiser (November 15th) has a story saying UH is fighting for the Obama presidential library, when there is not even a simple plaque anywhere in Hawai'i to memorialize the physical structure where Obama was born:

http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/108064644.html

“No one can say for certain where Obama was born, if he was in fact born in Hawai’i, because there is no public documentation of his birth here. Obama’s birth is shrouded in lies, all of which have been orchestrated and controlled by Lingle’s manipulation of her power as governor.

“The Tea Party does not control the Republican Party. But Tea Party activists are vocal, and they are waiting to have a whack at Lingle. Just ask party officials in Delaware, Colorado, Nevada and elsewhere, states where Tea Party activism took down establishment candidates.

“Tea Party activists will not allow Lingle to ascend to a national role when she was Barack Obama’s saboteur inside the Republican Party in 2008. Payback time is coming for Ms. Lingle; her dirty tricks against democracy and transparency will doom any future national role or support for her once she leaves office on December 6th.

“Be real Linda. Be real. You carried water for Obama and helped elect him in 2008. You helped stick us with the clown in the White House. You have continued to conceal his birth certificate to defraud the American people and to allow a political fraud to reside in the White House.

“Your career as a Republican is over on December 6th. If you run for the senate, I will see to it you have a conservative opponent,” Martin will state.

“Because I am in Honolulu I just had to tell the people of Hawai’i Linda Lingle is delusional. She should not take a 6-month vacation, she should take a permanent vacation from the Republican Party. Maybe Obama will give her a job. She helped elect him.

“Why is there a total lack of any reasonable introspection and examination of Lingle’s nonsense in the local Hawai'i media? Why do media parrot Lingle’s daydreams as rational political discourse? This state is not only a one-party socialist republic; it is a state devoid of any meaningful and intelligent media activity.”

NOVEMBER 15TH NEWS CONFERENCE DETAILS:

WHO:

Obamacon 2012/Honolulu 2010 Chairman Andy Martin

WHERE:

Sidewalk news conference, intersection of Kalia Road and Ala Moana Boulevard, (Hilton Hawaiian Village pond), Honolulu

WHEN: Monday, November 15, 10:00 A.M.

WHAT:

Obama conference leader Andy Martin says Governor Linda Lingle is finished as a national Republican Party leader

MEDIA CONTACT:(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329

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ABOUT ANDY: Chicago Public Radio calls Andy Martin a “boisterous Internet activist.” Andy is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” http://www.contrariancommentary.com/. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
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2010-11-01T12:44:00.000-07:00

NEWS CONFERENCE TODAY/WHEATON Mark Kirk is a military fraud

Illinois political corruption fighter Andy Martin will hold a news conference Monday evening outside Wheaton Bowl, [Wheaton, Illinois] to ask conservative DuPage County Republicans to reject Mark Kirk. Martin says Kirk is a military fraud who has duped the media and who would doom the Republican Party in Washington.

Political corruption fighter Andy Martin says that Mark Kirk is one of the most dishonest officials in Illinois and Washington because of Kirk’s fraudulent military career

Kirk’s campaign is being financed by millions from crooked Wall Street interests that created the current economic collapse

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ANNOUNCEMENT OF MONDAY EVENING NEWS CONFERENCE IN WHEATON

Andy Martin says that a vote for Mark Kirk is a vote to disgrace the Republican Party

Martin says that Kirk’s “lifetime of lies” shows pathological tendencies in the GOP candidate

Martin predicts that if Kirk is elected, the “new Republican Party” will be doomed to disgrace and defeat

(WHEATON, IL)(November 1, 2010) Illinois political corruption fighter Andy Martin will hold a Monday evening news conference in Wheaton, Illinois to urge conservative DuPage County Republicans to reject Mark Kirk for the U. S. Senate.

“Mark Kirk lied about his military credentials,” Martin says. “He didn’t lie once. He didn’t lie by inadvertence. He lied over and over again, year after year. He created a false persona, complete with bogus pictures of himself in combat garb. The military fraud scheme was sophisticated: it fooled all of Chicago’s print and broadcast media. Kirk came back from a short visit as a congressman to Afghanistan in January with dramatic stories of being under Taliban fire. It was all a lie.

“Kirk claims he has ‘taken ownership’ of his lies, and claimed that as a ‘Navy officer’ he is responsible for his lies. What military organization would promote a habitual, pathological liar to a position of responsibility? When Admiral Jeremy Boorda was found to have exaggerated his military career, Boorda committed suicide because he knew he had dishonored the Navy. No one is suggesting Kirk should commit suicide. But for him to claim any legitimacy as a leader of the Republican Party is a joke. Kirk knows nothing about honor; he has none.

“Kirk lied about commanding the War Room. Kirk never did. The only think Kirk ever did in the War Room was to violate federal law by sending out campaign notes from a federal building.

“Kirk was ordered by the Pentagon to stop using Navy property in his political campaigns—and launched the only ‘attack’ of his military career. Kirk attacked the U. S. Navy for putting an end to his misuse of federal property. Last month, Kirk was back using phony props in campaign ads to suggest he is a combat veteran.

“What was interesting about comments on the editorial pages of the Springfield and Rockford newspapers was that the editors felt they ‘didn’t know’ who Kirk was. For real. No one does.

“Kirk’s wife, who was a military officer, didn’t know him either. He fooled her too. Kirk lied about his marriage vows. Why would anyone vote for a middle-aged man that no one knows?

“Kirk told Chuck Sweeny of the Rockford register that Kirk had fought ‘in two wars.’ Kirk never ‘fought’ in any war. Kirk lied about coming under fire in Iraq. (Full disclosure: Kirk had the nerve to say he was ‘fighting for Andy Martin’ when Kirk went on a junket to Afghanistan.)

“In 2003 Kirk said he had seen ‘evidence’ of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There was no such evidence, and there were no such weapons. Kirk’s lies cost thousands of American men and women their lives. (Kirk claims to be an ‘intelligence officer.’)

“After being a close confident of George Bush, last week Kirk turned on Bush and called Bush a ‘liar.’ Was Kirk lying when he praised Bush? Who knows what confused thoughts run through Kirk’s disturbed mind?

“And yet Republicans nationally tell us they have ‘learned from the mistakes of the past’ and they are now ‘new Republicans’ this time, who are committed to ethics. If Mark Kirk is elected to the senate that will be the death knell of the ‘new Republican Party.’ Kirk is a disgrace to Illinois, a disgrace to the Republican Party and a disgrace to the U. S. Navy.

“Why would ‘conservative’ DuPage County Republican leaders ask rank-and-file voters to support Kirk? There is something wrong with the party when we urge voters to cast ballots for a pathological liar and a military fraud.

“Kirk also lied about his ‘teaching career,’ and he has lied about just about everything else in his life. Kirk voted against repeal of ‘Don’t ask, Don’t Tell,’ and then had his former wife come out and say he promised her he would vote the other way after November 2nd. Like John Kerry, Kirk was ‘for’ cap and trade before he was ‘against’ it.

“Barack Obama was a pathological liar, and no one listened when I explained why. Now Obama has devastated the Democratic Party as well as our economy. DuPage County Republicans must reject Kirk to save the Republican Party and to save the honor of our genuine military heroes who are serving in uniform,” Martin will state outside a DuPage rally for Kirk at Wheaton Bowl.

“I am a Republican loyalist,” Martin says. “Kirk has brazenly betrayed the Republican Party. He did so in the past; he will do so in the future. Why reward betrayal? Beats me.”
November 1 news conference details:

WHO:

Illinois political corruption fighter Andy Martin

WHERE:

Sidewalk news conference, Wheaton Bowl, 2031 N. Gary Avenue, Wheaton, Illinois

WHEN: Monday, November 1, 5:00 P.M.

WHAT:

Andy Martin says that conservative Republicans should reject Mark Kirk as a military fraud who dishonored the U. S. Navy

MEDIA CONTACT:(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329

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ABOUT ANDY: Chicago Public Radio calls Andy Martin a “boisterous Internet activist.” Andy is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
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2010-10-31T18:52:00.000-07:00

Mark Kirk’s thugs attack Andy Martin at Joe’s Bar

Illinois political reformer Andy Martin promised Sunday night that Republican conservatives would defeat Mark Kirk on Tuesday night. “The people coming out of Mark Kirk’s event looked like they wanted to die,” Martin said. “I am leading the anti-Kirk movement because so-called pro-family conservatives are too afraid to stand up and be counted. But they will stab Kirk in the back on Tuesday. As for Sunday night,” Martin says, “Kirk’s bully boys tried to intimidate me at Joe’s Bar. They failed.”

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin was not intimidated by Mark Kirk’s thugs on Sunday night

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Kirk supporters attack Andy Martin

Chicago Police are called as Kirk’s “boys” attempt to intimidate Martin

Andy stands his ground and tells the truth about Kirk: Kirk is unfit for public office

(CHICAGO)(October 31, 2010) Supporters of military masquerader Mark Kirk attacked Andy Martin Sunday evening and attempted to intimidate Martin from exposing Kirk as a military and political fraud. Martin was outside a Kirk campaign event. Martin’s bullhorn kept broadcasting.

Martin’s loudspeaker reminded Republicans that earlier this year Kirk claimed (and Chicago media supinely reported) that he had come under fire in Afghanistan. Kirk’s claim was a “fairy tale.”

“I saw a lot of big Republican machers traipse into Kirks event at Joe’s Bar,” Martin says. “But Kirk had his ‘Praetorian Guard’ outside to harass me. Kirk’s ‘guard’ was originally disclosed by Lake County’s Colonel Ray True. The Republican big-wigs looked desultory going in, and looked like they wanted to shower on the way out. They looked unclean. They are disgusted with Kirk. They are probably disgusted with themselves as well for being afraid to stand up and tell the truth about Kirk. Kirk is a disgrace to the U. S. Navy and a disgrace to Illinois Republicans.

“Loyal Republicans are faced with an inner crisis: they know Kirk is bad for Illinois but they are not used to dumping a bad candidate and especially an imposter such as Kirk. Well, for me, the truth trumps party loyalty. I don’t agree with every Republican on the ballot, but I am voting for everyone except Kirk. The U. S. Senate is special; Kirk is not.

“Unless and until Republican leaders recognize that the Republican Party in Illinois is its own worst enemy we will continue to lose elections. In a year when Republicans nationally are winning, see Wisconsin next door as an example, we have Kirk the disgraced candidate who is barely hanging on.

“I predicted Sunday night loyal Republican conservatives are going to reject Kirk on Tuesday. We are going to defeat Kirk.

“The bullhorn will be back Monday night at Wheaton Bowl to encourage DuPage County conservatives to ‘Just Say No, to Mark Kirk,’” Martin says. “Every veteran should vote against Kirk.”

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ABOUT ANDY: Chicago Public Radio calls Andy Martin a “boisterous Internet activist.” Andy is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
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2010-10-31T13:22:00.000-07:00

ANDY MARTIN: Mark Kirk has been sexually compromised by the Israeli Mossad

BUNKER BUSTER NEWS CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO – SUNDAY Illinois corruption fighter Andy Martin will hold a Chicago news conference Sunday evening, while appearing at a campaign event for Mark Kirk, to disclose that Kirk has been targeted and compromised by “sex spies” of the Israeli Mossad. Martin says Kirk is a threat to the CIA and the entire U. S. intelligence system. Martin was the first person to correctly identify Kirk as a closeted member of Washington, DC’s gay community, a fact that has since been repeatedly confirmed in gay media.

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin reveals that Mark Kirk has been sexually compromised by the Israeli Mossad

Andy charges that Kirk’s closeted personal life poses a danger to the CIA and America’s intelligence system

Andy Martin drops his latest “Bunker Buster” on Mark Kirk

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ANNOUNCEMENT OF SUNDAY EVENING NEWS CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO

Andy Martin says there is strong circumstantial evidence that Mark Kirk has been targeted and compromised by “sex spies” of the Israeli Mossad

Andy Martin claims that Mark Kirk’s closeted sexual identity is central to the national security risk he creates in the U. S. Senate

Martin says that Kirk’s cruising of gay bars in Washington, DC is a national security threat

Martin says that allowing Kirk access to intelligence data will endanger the CIA and our foreign intelligence apparatus

Martin believes Kirk poses a serious “Jim McGreevy/Golan Cipel”-style threat to the CIA

(CHICAGO)(October 31, 2010) Illinois corruption fighter Andy Martin will hold a 6:00 News conference tonight at the Joe’s Bar to disclose that Mark Kirk has been targeted and compromised by “sex spies” of the Israeli Mossad. Martin says that Kirk is effectively being blackmailed by the Mossad. Martin’s notorious “Stinksters” that operate throughout the Middle East continue to seek additional corroboration.

Andy Martin, a conservative Republican, is leading efforts to defeat Mark Kirk for the U. S. Senate. Martin says Kirk is a disgrace to Illinois, and a disgrace to the Republican Party. Other than Kirk, Martin is (with some reservations) voting a straight Republican ticket. Martin’s own intelligence operation, the “Stinksters,” has become well-known over the years for being able to pry loose embarrassing information from both U. S. and other Middle East sources.

Andy has over forty years of familiarity with Asia and the Middle East; he is regarded overseas as one of America’s most respected independent foreign policy, military and intelligence analysts. His analysis of the terrorist threat in Iran during the 1979-80 hostage crisis, and again in Iraq in 2003, were leading-edge predictions of what Americans faced in the future.

“I don’t know if CIA Director Leon Panetta realizes it, but American intelligence faces a far greater threat than the Valeria Plame scandal,” Andy Martin will state. “Plame was an innocent victim of dirty politics. Mark Kirk has been targeted and compromised by the Israeli Mossad because of Kirk’s closeted sexual identity.

“I realize that people don’t like to talk about ‘sex’ in politics,” Martin says. “But ignoring someone’s sexual orientation can be as critical as ignoring their party affiliation when that candidate/public official is closeted. The gay lobby has effectively silenced American media from discussing the security risk of closeted gays. But the threat is real and in Kirk’s case the threat has ripened into reality. I feel honor-bound and compelled to share our information with Illinois voters and the American intelligence community.

“Gay media have repeatedly identified Kirk as someone who ‘cruises’ gay bars in Washington and Chicago. See, e.g.:

http://lezgetreal.com/2010/08/mark-kirks-ex-wife-
denies-that-kirk-is-gay-gives-other-reasons-for-divorce/

http://hillbuzz.org/2009/12/18/what-chicago-democrats-
are-planning-to-do-to-out-republicans-mark-kirk-and-aaron-schock/

“Kirk likes to style himself as an ‘intelligence officer’ in the Navy, although he was not very intelligent about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (which he claimed existed) and his other lies about his imaginary military service. Kirk says he ‘commanded’ the War Room in the Pentagon. He was not a commander, but he was there (compromising even the War Room with political tweets in violation of federal law).

“Kirk poses perhaps as great a potential threat to U. S. intelligence and the CIA since turncoat Jonathan Pollard. As a senator Kirk would have expanded access to U. S. intelligence. That is precisely the type of individual who is targeted by the Mossad.

“As unpleasant as the topic may be, every national intelligence agency of any consequence has on staff homosexuals who are used to lure potential blackmail targets into compromising situations. That was how former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevy found himself seduced by Mossad operative Golan Cipel.

“No one can blackmail Barney Frank, by comparison, because Barney is open about his private life. You attack Frank because of his political views, not his private behavior. He is open and above board. But Kirk is not open and above board. That is why when he betrayed by gay community by voting against the repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,’ Kirk was ‘outed’ by gay media:

http://blog.blogactive.com/2010/06/
truth-or-consequences.html

“Any voter who casts a vote for Mark Kirk is voting to endanger the national security of the United States. The Republican Party and the moneymen in Washington should be ashamed of the dirty dollars being used to buy a senate seat for Kirk when his election would endanger the national security of the United States.

“At a time when America is literally under attack, this weekend, by terrorists, preserving our intelligence secrets and methods must be paramount. People such as Kirk who can be blackmailed are a security threat. Kirk represents a danger to every American, not just Illinoisans.

“Last December I disclosed ‘rumors’ about Kirk’s hidden private life. Everything I said then ultimately checked out as factually correct. The media attacked me instead of Kirk. In January I posted documents showing that Kirk’s military record was a lie, www.MarkKirk.us. No one paid attention. Instead the Associated Press, Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times delivered fairy tales on Kirk’s ‘combat’ experiences in Afghanistan. All lies. Republican primary voters were victimized by Kirk’s lies and the scumbag tactics of corrupt ‘Combine’ leader Pat Brady.

“Now Illinoisans face the ultimate challenge: will they send someone to the U. S. Senate who has been compromised by Israeli intelligence because of his closeted sex life? Will Illinois voters endanger America?

“Please don’t say you were not warned. I was right before. I am right again,” Martin will state. “For shame, Illinois.”

Martin will be demonstrating outside Joe’s Bar in Chicago, where Kirk is staging an event Sunday evening.

October 31st news conference details:

WHO:

Internet Powerhouse and foreign policy expert Andy Martin

WHERE:

Joe’s Bar, 940 W. Weed Street, Chicago (sidewalk news conference)

WHEN: Sunday, October 31st 6:00 P.M.

WHAT:

Andy Martin reveals that Mark Kirk has been sexually compromised by the Israeli Mossad

MEDIA CONTACT:(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329

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ABOUT ANDY: Chicago Public Radio calls Andy Martin a “boisterous Internet activist.” Andy is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
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2010-10-30T23:31:00.000-07:00

ANDY MARTIN: Mark Kirk faces demonstration at Wheaton Bowl

Illinois corruption-fighter Andy Martin will hold an anti-Kirk protest at Wheaton Bowl on Monday, November 1st. Kirk is promoting a rally starting at 5:00 P.M. “We’ll be there to remind DuPage Republicans Mark Kirk disgraced the Navy uniform and lied habitually about his military service,” Martin says. “Why anyone would vote for this military imposter and anti-Republican crusader is beyond me. Kirk is now running ads saying he votes against Republicans. I would hope DuPage voters will reject Kirk. I am predicting, officially, we are going to defeat Kirk on Tuesday. It will be a squeaker but we win, Kirk loses.”

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November 1, 2010

Hon. Mark Field
Chief
Wheaton Police Department
900 W. Liberty Dr.
Wheaton, IL 60187
via fax (630) 260-2154

with copy to:

Sheriff John Zaruba
501 N. County Farm Road
Wheaton, IL 60187
Via fax (630) 407-2380

WPD ASSISTANCE AT PICKETING OF POLITICAL EVENT

Dear Chief Field:

I want to give you a “head’s up” on a political demonstration I will be staging on Monday afternoon-evening (later today). I assume there is a public sidewalk outside Wheaton Bowl but there may be close quarters. Given recent desperate acts of violence by isolated Republicans, and Colonel Ray True’s Internet recording which claims Mark Kirk’s is surrounded by a praetorian guard, there is always a potential for violence on Kirk’s part at Wheaton Bowl.

I am sending Sheriff Zaruba a copy of this letter because I am not clear on whether Wheaton Bowl is located in unincorporated or incorporated real estate. (If WB is in incorporated Wheaton, the Sheriff’s office will not be involved unless, of course, there is a disturbance.)

Because I will also be holding a “Bunker Buster” sidewalk news conference outside WB and making blockbuster disclosures about Mr. Kirk’s sexual escapades, Mr. Kirk’s thugs may be in a mood to retaliate.

I will be completely peaceful. I am completely committed to nonviolent resistance.

As always, your officers can be assured of my full cooperation. We plan to have a power megaphone (bullhorn) to use and we will do so consistent with any instructions from your officers.

Respectfully submitted,

ANDY MARTIN

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2010-10-30T16:07:00.000-07:00

CHICAGO NEWS: ANDY MARTIN: Mark Kirk “raped” his former wife Kimberly Vertolli

Illinois corruption fighter Andy Martin explains why and how Senate candidate Mark Kirk emotionally raped his former spouse Kimberly Vertolli. Martin says reports of Kirk’s latest efforts to “appeal to women voters” are disgusting.

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin says Mark Kirk “raped” his former wife, Kimberly Vertolli

Andy says that any woman who votes for Mark Kirk is endorsing emotional rape

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

ANNOUNCEMENT OF SATURDAY EVENING NEWS CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO

Andy Martin says the evidence is overwhelming that Mark Kirk emotionally raped Kimberly Vertolli

Andy Martin says that Mark Kirk’s closeted sexual identity is central to his abuse of his former wife Kimberly Vertolli

Martin says that Kirk has never explained why he cruises gay bars in Washington, DC

Martin says that voters must judge a candidate’s personality as well as his or her stands on the issues

Andy Martin’s “Blockbustier” news conference tonight on Mark Kirk’s secret life and former spouse

“Holy, holy, where’s Vertolli?”

(CHICAGO)(October 30, 2010) Illinois corruption fighter Andy Martin will hold a 7:30 News conference tonight at the Lincoln Restaurant to accuse Mark Kirk of “raping” his former wife Kimberly Vertolli. Martin will then make a presentation to the College of Complexes on the 2010 U. S. Senate Race, http://www.collegeofcomplexes.org/October.html;
http://www.collegeofcomplexes.org/

Andy Martin, a conservative Republican, is leading efforts to defeat Mark Kirk for the U. S. Senate. Martin says Kirk is a disgrace to Illinois, and a disgrace to the Republican Party. Other than Kirk, Martin is (with some reservations) voting a straight Republican ticket.

“Emotional rape can be just as invasive and just as devastating to the victim as physical rape,” Martin says. “The evidence is overwhelming that Mark Kirk emotionally raped Kimberly Vertolli and discarded her when she no longer served his political needs.

“Now Kirk is asking women to vote for him. What kind of a woman would vote for an emotional rapist?

“Last December when I exposed the rumors, all of which turned out to be true, about Mark Kirk's secret sexual identity, many people were offended. The Puritan Ethnic still pervades our public life. We play ‘pretend’ games with the private lives of our public officials. But let us take a liberal icon as a first example. Who would have voted for John Kennedy for president if they had known of his secret life as a rake? Very few people. The Kennedy brothers’ cavorting with Marilyn Monroe and other escapades would have horrified Americans.

“More recently, the ‘story book’ romance of John Edwards and Elizabeth Edwards was shattered by the disclosure of his illicit relationship with another woman. The Clintons? Go figure.

“When ‘Mark met Kimberly’ he was an aspiring politician in 2000. The rumors about his sexuality were already circulating. Kirk needed to put an end to speculation that he was a homosexual. Ms. Vertolli was a high-energy individual who was probably also highly susceptible to being misled. Kirk was able to use Vertolli as a foil for his 2000 campaign.

“We don’t know if Ms. Vertolli was in fact a willing complicitor, i.e. if she was trying to conceal her own lesbianism, or whether she was Kirk’s victim, but she played along with the ruse for years. They lived separate lives and Vertolli does not appear to have questioned why her husband was cruising Washington’s gay bars. Lesbian web sites always refer to Kirk’s ‘cruising’ as a mark of his sexuality:

http://lezgetreal.com/2010/10/rep-mark-kirk-does-
not-know-any-lesbian-or-gay-service-members-
after-21-years-in-service/

“The reality is that while ‘straight’ people may not know who is gay, gay people almost always can decipher who is gay and who isn’t. Why do gays claim Kirk? Why did gay activist Mike Rogers ‘out’ Kirk after Kirk voted against repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell?’

http://blog.blogactive.com/2010/06/
truth-or-consequences.html

“There is no doubt that attitudes toward homosexual behavior are changing. But certain truths persist. People such as Kirk who ‘closet’ themselves are exposed to blackmail. Public officials are legitimately called on to vote on gay issues such as gay marriage, gays in the military, etc. Gays have been especially critical of Kirk because he has voted against their agenda and, in their minds, betrayed their efforts to allow Kirk to remain as a closeted public official.

“All of which leads us back to Ms. Vertolli. After Kirk and Vertolli were divorced, we ordered and analyzed the divorce file. The settlement was peculiar. Kirk gave Vertolli much more money than a professional woman who was always employed would have received, given that there we no children in the marriage.

“Although I did run ads raising the issues about the rumors (now facts) about Kirk’s sexuality, I paid no ongoing attention to Vertolli. She had resumed a private life.

“That is, until Ms. Vertolli suddenly came crashing into public view on August 4th of this year claiming she was an abused wife whose marriage had been destroyed by another woman:

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/Felsenthal-Files/August-2010/Kimberly-Vertolli-on-Mark-Kirk-and-Dodie-McCracken/

“A year and a half after being divorced, Vertolli was manifesting the posttraumatic behavior of emotional rape. She was a woman with a sham marriage to a gay man, no children, no life and no way forward. She blamed ‘another woman’ as the cause of her angst, but there is no evidence that Dodi McCracken was having sex with Kirk. Vertolli's ‘denial’ that Kirk was gay was more of a confirmation that he was.

“Today’s New York Times [October 30th] says Kirk is appealing to women in the closing days of the campaign. But have women really considered what kind of a person would emotionally rape a woman, use her as a beard for his own selfish purposes, and then emotionally abandon her when she was no longer of any political utility?

“If a straight man had acted in that kind of abusive manner, women’s’ journals would be all over the story. But because Kirk is a homosexual, media are afraid to discuss Kirk’s manipulative personality and the way he seduced and abandoned Kimberly Vertolli for his own mendacious political purposes.

“Kirk reacted quickly to Vertolli’s latest outbursts by offering her a position as an ‘adviser.’ Has anyone seen Vertolli around lately? Advising Kirk? Kirk’s offer was another maneuver to quiet Vertolli until after the election. But she fell for it. Victims always do (“this time will be different”):

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2010/08/ex-kirk_wife_to_advise_campaig.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/17/mark-kirks-
exwife-joins-c_n_685002.html

“How long is Kirk going to be allowed to get away with his abusive conduct? He was for cap and trade before he was against it. Kirk was a close confidant of President George Bush before he called Bush a liar last week and said Bush lied to the American people.

“It is Kirk himself who is the pathological liar. (We'll deal with his military lies tomorrow, as well as disclosing Kirk's blackmail conundrum.)

“Sadly, one of the biggest victims of Kirk’s pathologically abusive personality was his former wife, Kimberly Vertolli,” Martin will conclude. “How will voter react? They can’t say they ‘didn’t know’ who and what Kirk is.

“For shame, Illinois.”

October 30th news conference details:

WHO:

Internet Powerhouse expert Andy Martin

WHERE:

[Prior to] College of Complexes presentation, Lincoln Restaurant, 4008 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago

WHEN: Saturday, October 30th 7:30 P.M.

WHAT:

Andy Martin says that women voters should reject Mark Kirk because of the way he emotionally “raped” his wife Kimberly Vertoli

MEDIA CONTACT:(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329

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ABOUT ANDY: Chicago Public Radio calls Andy Martin a “boisterous Internet activist.” Andy is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
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MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2010

2010-10-29T17:20:00.000-07:00

Chicago Friday evening news conference: Terrorism is a threat to every American, not just synagogues

Chicago Foreign policy expert Andy Martin says the threats directed at Jewish houses of worship are targeted at every American, and at civilization itself. Barack Obama is a failed leader in the foreign policy area. It is time for a change in policy and a change in approach at the White House. Martin suggests that Obama invite former President George Bush to a bipartisan meeting on the War Against Terror.

Foreign policy expert Andy Martin says that today’s terrorist provocations confirm that Barack Obama’s foreign policy is a failure

Andy has studied Middle East terrorism since the late 1960’s

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ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

ANNOUNCEMENT OF FRIDAY EVENING NEWS CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO

Andy Martin says today’s terrorist incidents are an indictment of Barack Obama

Martin says the Obama administration’s pretense that terrorism does not exist is self-defeating

Martin says that all Americans must stand with the intended victims of today’s terrorist incidents

(CHICAGO)(October 29, 2010) Illinois foreign policy expert Andy Martin will hold a Friday evening news conference in Chicago to comment on the latest terrorist incidents directed at Chicago-area synagogues. Martin says that despite Barack Obama’s efforts to pretend that “terrorism does not exist,” America faces a genuine national security challenge.

Andy has over forty years of familiarity with Asia and the Middle East; he is regarded overseas as one of America’s most respected independent foreign policy, military and intelligence analysts. His analysis of the terrorist threat in Iran during the 1979-80 hostage crisis, and again in Iraq in 2003, were leading-edge predictions of what Americans faced in the future.

“We must stand with the Jewish community at this time,”Martin says. “Our friends and neighbors must know that we are united as a nation against our unseen enemies. An attack on any American is an attack on every American.

“The Constitution vests the presidency with primary responsibility for protecting this nation. Sadly, Barack Obama has failed his duty. He entered the White House claiming terrorism was a Bush-era fantasy and that his groveling to Islamic nations would improve our international standing. Mr. Obama was egregiously wrong. The people who protect us today are Bush holdovers; they are the people at the operational level who implement the security policies which were created years ago. Barack Obama is not pursuing terrorists vigorously enough, because he and Janet Napolitano do not believe they exist.

“Nevertheless, having criticized Obama and observed the inescapable, that Bush created our national security apparatus, I call on every American make an effort to work on a nonpartisan basis.

“The reality is that we are likely to live in the shadows of terrorism for decades, not years, not presidencies, not congresses. Decades. The ‘terrorist world’ is falling further and further behind civilization. The savages who mutilate women and oppress their own peoples are not likely to go away any time soon. Indeed, during the Obama era the enemies of civilization are becoming more, not less, popular because of Obama's ham-handed leadership. There is no ‘clash of civilizations’ as one scholar wrote. But there is a coming apart of civilization, as civilized nations advance into a bright future and backward nations continue to be held hostage to their internal terrorist mechanisms.

“We are not attacking terrorist nations, though we must remain vigilant to protect ourselves against the threat some of their citizens pose. Terrorist nations are attacking America, Israel and the entire civilized world.

“I send this message to Mr. Obama: wake up! We cannot be afraid to make peace, but we must be prepared to make war, and to guard every American and our borders with the utmost in technology and security. Maybe it’s time to invite George Bush to the White House for a bipartisan effort.

“After I survived the Vietnam era, I hoped peace would come. I was wrong. When I initially went to Iran and Afghanistan in 1979, I thought ‘maybe it will end after this.’ I was wrong. Living in Iraq in 2003 I hoped, again, that peace might come. It hasn’t. I am convinced we face a semi-permanent terrorist threat and we must be prepared to accept terrorism as a fact of life for ourselves and our children.

“Sadly, the White House is not a place for on-the-job training. Barack Obama and his minions were unrealistic two years ago. Maybe now reality will set in. Maybe. Obama apparently does not like to attend Church. I do suggest he attend a synagogue service this weekend to affirm that our Jewish neighbors can count on a united America to stand up for their right to live in peace and security here at home, even as we press the Israeli government to adopt a practical approach to peace with their own Palestinian neighbors.

“Politically, a terrorist threat the weekend before the election does not help Obama. Chris Cilizza of the Washington post is wrong. But this latest attempt to intimidate Jewish houses of worship should be seen as a threat to every American. I take it as a threat to my own church. We must react accordingly.”

Andy Martin is the author of the [2000] Andy Martin Peace Plan for the Middle East. The ideas he espoused a decade ago have increasingly become the core proposals for peace on all sides. Andy Martin has been associated with the study and analysis of terrorism and revolutionary war since the 1960’s when he became involved with Professor Bernard Fall. Martin is the executive director of the Revolutionary War Research Center which studies terrorism and asymmetrical warfare.

October 29th news conference details:

WHO:

Internet Powerhouse and foreign policy expert Andy Martin

WHERE:

Sidewalk news conference, SE corner of Huron and Wabash,
Chicago (weather permitting)

WHEN: Friday, October 29th 8:00 P.M.

WHAT:

Andy Martin says that Obama’s foreign policy initiatives have failed to discourage terrorists

MEDIA CONTACT:(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329

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ABOUT ANDY: Chicago Public Radio calls Andy Martin a “boisterous Internet activist.” Andy is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” http://www.contrariancommentary.com/. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
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2010-10-29T12:46:00.000-07:00

ANDY MARTIN: Sunday “Bunker Buster” may provoke Mark Kirk confrontation

Illinois corruption fighter Andy Martin told a Chicago news conference Friday that he has advised Chicago Police to be on the alert for possible campaign violence by supporters of closeted congressman Mark Kirk. Kirk will be holding an event Sunday; Martin will be outside protesting. Martin also plan to holds a “Bunker Buster” news conference and make new disclosures about Kirk’s “private” life at Joe’s Bar. “Mark Kirk is a disgrace to the navy uniform, and a disgrace to the Republican Party,” Martin says. “All are welcome to show their disgust with Republican efforts to promote Kirk as a macho military man. Kirk is a complete fraud. [Details on Bunker Buster news conference to follow.]

ANDY MARTIN
“The name you can trust”
Illinois Reform Party for U. S. Senator/2010
Suite 4406, 30 E. Huron Street
Chicago, IL 60611-4723
Toll-free tel. (866) 706-ANDY
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Please donate:

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Andy Martin’s anti-Kirk blogs:

www.DefeatMarkKirk.blogspot.com
www.MarkKirk.us

October 29, 2010

Hon. Jody Weis
Superintendent
Chicago Police Department
3510 S. Michigan Avenue, 5th Floor
Chicago, IL 60653
via fax (312) 745-6963

CPD ASSISTANCE AT PICKETING OF POLITICAL EVENT

Dear Superintendent Weis:

I want to give you a “head’s up” on a political demonstration I will be staging on Sunday evening. I assume there is a public sidewalk outside Joe’s Bar but there may be close quarters. Given recent desperate acts of violence by isolated Republicans, and Colonel Ray True’s Internet recording which claims Mark Kirk’s is surrounded by a praetorian guard, there is always a potential for violence on Kirk’s part at Joe’s Bar.

Because I will also be holding a “Bunker Buster” sidewalk news conference outside Joe’s and making blockbuster disclosures about Mr. Kirk’s sexual orientation, Mr. Kirk’s thugs may be in a mood to retaliate.

I will be completely peaceful. I am completely committed to nonviolent resistance.

As always, your officers can be assured of my full cooperation. We plan to have a power megaphone (bullhorn) to use and we will do so consistent with any instructions from your officers.

Respectfully submitted,

ANDY MARTIN

AM:sp

W/encl.

2010-10-29T01:58:00.000-07:00

ANDY MARTIN: Mark Kirk is again misusing Navy uniform in a TV ad

Illinois Corruption fighter Andy Martin says Mark Kirk’s latest TV ad once again has Mark Kirk falsely claiming he was in combat wearing a flack jacket. Kirk was previously admonished by the Department of Defense for using military uniforms as costumes in his political campaigns. Kirk traveled to war zones as a congressman on a congressional junket; Kirk then tried to “double dip” by also claiming his congressional junkets as “reserve training” periods.

Corruption fighter Andy Martin says that that Mark Kirk is again misusing a military uniform in his latest TV ad

Andy exposes Kirk’s latest lies and use of military garb as a costume in his political campaign

ContrarianCommentary.com
“The Internet Powerhouse”
Andy Martin
Executive Editor

“Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

ANNOUNCEMENT OF FRIDAY NEWS CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO

Andy Martin says Mark Kirk is becoming increasingly bold about resuming his lies about military service

Martin says Kirk is misusing a military uniform in Kirk’s latest campaign ad, after being warned not to use Navy gear as political props

Martin will ask Secretary of Defense Gates to block Kirk from misrepresenting his Navy service

(CHICAGO)(October 29, 2010) Illinois corruption fighter Andy Martin will hold a Friday news conference in Chicago to announce he is again asking the Pentagon to prevent Mark Kirk from misusing military uniforms. In his latest TV ad Kirk falsely portrays himself as a combat veteran; Kirk’s ad has him in a flack jacket, as Kirk seeks to mislead voters by making inflated claims about his Navy service.

“Kirk was told to stop using Navy uniforms as costumes for his campaign,” Martin says, “And he is ignoring that order. In his latest ad Kirk appears in a flack jacket, when Kirk was not on active duty in any war zone. Kirk went to war zones as a congressman on a junket, not as a combat warrior. Mark Kirk has mental problems with his endless pathological lying abut being someone who (Kirk falsely claims) told Chuck Sweeny of the Rockford Register-Star that he ‘fought in two wars.’

“Kirk seems to think he can ‘take ownership’ of his lies and by confessing to a crime simply erase his unlawful activity. That is simply not the case. You can’t work at a bank for 20 years, for example, and embezzle money, and then claim you worked at the bank for 20 years and have ‘banking expertise.’ Kirk’s persistent abuses and fraudulent military claims have nullified his service. Why are veterans’ organizations and the American Legion allowing this scam artist to continue misusing military insignia?

“Navy officers are proud men and women. They should be disgusted with Kirk’s misuse of the uniform.

Martin is asking the Secretary of Defense to block Kirk’s latest lies.

Martin originally exposed Kirk as a military imposter in January of this year, see www.MarkKirk.us

October 29th news conference details:

WHO:

Internet Powerhouse and Illinois anti-corruption crusader Andy Martin

WHERE:

Sidewalk news conference, SE corner of Huron and Wabash,
Chicago (weather permitting)

WHEN: Friday, October 29th 2:00 P.M.

WHAT:

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin says that Mark Kirk’s latest TV commercial violates restrictions placed on Kirk by the Pentagon

MEDIA CONTACT:(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329

-----------------------------ABOUT ANDY: Chicago Public Radio calls Andy Martin a “boisterous Internet activist.” Andy is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
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2010-10-24T22:51:00.000-07:00

Andy Martin: Allen West is a true American patriot (Florida)

Andy Martin takes a look at Florida congressional candidate Allen West and sees a real American hero being demonized by disgraceful Democrat Ron Klein’s lies, distortions and misrepresentations. Based on decades of experience with the military, Martin puts West’s career in perspective and focuses attention on what Andy believes is the most moving political commercial of 2010 (go to Sergeant Delgado’s story on West’s media page).

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin says Florida congressional candidate Allen West is a true American hero

Martin contrasts West’s exemplary military career to Illinois’ military imposter Mark Kirk

ContrarianCommentary.com
“The Internet Powerhouse”
Andy Martin
Executive Editor

“Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ANDY MARTIN SAYS FLORIDA CONGRESSMAN RON KLEIN IS TRYING TO SLIME HIS OPPONENT ALLEN WEST

MARTIN SAYS KLEIN’S ADVERTISING IS OVERTLY RACIST

(PALM BEACH)(October 25, 2010) In Illinois, Republicans do not have a U. S. Senate candidate. Mark Kirk is a Democrat running on the Republican ticket. More important than political philosophy is Kirk’s imaginary military career and his flawed character. Kirk has awarded himself nonexistent medals, fought in imaginary battles and claims to have been in war zones where he never served a “tour of duty” but was instead merely a congressional junketeer.

Florida voters in congressional district 22, however, have the opportunity to vote for a genuine military hero.

Allen West served 22 years in the U. S. Army. West has perhaps the most moving campaign ad of the year. One of the men who served under West in Iraq has produced an intense testimonial to the way West saved his life:

http://www.allenwestforcongress.com/media

(go to SGT Delgado’s story)

West’s career provides us with an insight into the “fog of war” which appears in every conflict and which was and still is especially prevalent in Iraq and Afghanistan. West was accused of interrogating a prisoner with excessive pressure. Having been in Iraq in 2003, and being aware of the conditions out on the frontiers of the war, I cannot condemn West. He felt his men were in danger. He took action to save their lives. Who among us would want to leave Sergeant Delgado’s children fatherless because we were afraid to extract information essential to mission security?

Incumbent Ron Klein can’t attack West’s proud service (unlike Kirk, West did not award himself imaginary medals and claim to have served in nonexistent battles) so Klein has resorted to racist distortions and manipulations.

Most of us today do not know any real soldiers; we don’t associate with military personnel and our lives are distinct from the war zones overseas where our brave men and women are fighting and dying. Real soldiers are sometimes raucous, often boisterous, and always full of camaraderie for their own. Real soldiers are truly a band of brothers.

The loyalty of West’s men says it all: they knew their commander would put it all on the line to protect them from their insidious unseen enemy. He did.

Klein’s commercials portray West as an angry African-American, wearing a do-rag and spouting revolutionary accusations. West is also portrayed as a crazed biker who is more Hell’s Angels than hell-on-wheels as a military officer. All of Klein’s commercials are lies. The ads are despicable distortions and a disgrace to the Democratic Party.

Ron Klein is nothing more than a career politicians who has been at the public trough all of his life. Klein is a typical South Florida political parasite. (I have met Klein and have followed his career.)

Let me be clear: West would be a formidable presence in congress. He would be intimidating in the face of Democratic prevarication and manipulation. West would also stand up in support of conservative principles. He’s just a stand-up guy. Republicans need more Allen Wests. Lots of them. Just as he stood up for his men, and saved Sergeant Delgado’s life through an act of generosity, West would fight for Florida and for the 22nd congressional district.

I have never met West and don’t like a couple of his supporters (personal conflicts from the past) but I unhesitatingly support Allen West for Congress. He is a credit to the Republican Party, and he will be a credit to the next congress. Florida’s 22nd congressional district is fortunate to have him as a candidate.

NEXT: Mark Kirk, the greatest fraud in U. S. Navy history (can you point to bigger one than Kirk? Suggestions invited) (Illinois candidate)

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ABOUT ANDY: Chicago Public Radio calls Andy Martin a “boisterous Internet activist.” Andy is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with decades of investigative and analytical experience. He has over forty years of familiarity with Asia and the Middle East; he is regarded overseas as one of America’s most respected independent foreign policy, military and intelligence analysts.

He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
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MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2010

2010-10-24T21:13:00.000-07:00

Honolulu, November, 2010: Obamacon 2012

Third National Conference on Barack Obama's Missing Birth Certificate, College Records and Religion, November 9-16, 2010 Honolulu

Sponsors:
http://www.thepostemail.com/
http://www.contrariancommentary.com/
http://www.stopobamacoalition.com/
http://www.committeeofonemilliontodefeatbarackobama.com/

Honolulu 2010 blog for Obamacon 2012:
http://www.nationalconferenceonobama.blogspot.com/

EMAIL: contact@StopObamaCoalition.com

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FORM

PLEASE ENCLOSE A COPY OF A PHOTO ID WITH THIS REGISTRATION FORM.

We will notify you of the conference location by e-mail.

You can also follow developments on our blog.

NAME:

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Registration $50

Please note: there will not be any “at the door” registration

Although the conference is in Honolulu, registrations will be processed in advance in New York.

PLEASE MAKE CHECK PAYABLE TO: COMMITTEE OF ONE MILLION

PLEASE MAIL CHECK, COPY OF PHOTO ID AND SIGNED REGISTRATION FORM TO:

Andy Martin
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P. O. Box 1851
New York, NY 10150-1861
(to arrive before November 8th)

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I CAN’T ATTEND BUT HERE IS MY CONTRIBUTION TO HELP MAKE Obamacon 2012 A SUCCESS: $ ___

DONATE ONLINE AT:
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2010-10-24T21:11:00.000-07:00

Obamacon 2012

Third National Conference on Barack Obama's Missing Birth Certificate, College Records and Religion, November 9-16, 2010 Honolulu

Sponsors:
www.ThePostEMail.com
www.ContrarianCommentary.com
www.StopObamaCoalition.com
www.CommitteeofOneMilliontoDefeatBarackObama.com

Honolulu 2010 blog for Obamacon 2012:
www.NationalConferenceonObama.blogspot.com

EMAIL: contact@StopObamaCoalition.com

October 25, 2010

Dear Friends:

The 2012 presidential campaign begins in Honolulu on November 9, 2010. Barack Obama fooled a lot of voters in 2007-2008. He won’t fool the American People again in 2012.

Our November 9-16, 2010 Honolulu meeting is titled: Obamacon 2012

The “Third National Conference on Barack Obama’s Missing Birth Certificate, College Records and Religion” will be a landmark in American political history. Never before have ordinary Americans prepared in advance to legally remove an occupant of the White House due to serious questions about his eligibility to serve as president.

Because I have always limited myself to searching for the truth and finding the facts about Barack Obama, I enjoy worldwide credibility as the first investigative scholar on Barack Obama’s early years. I believe it is inappropriate to attack Obama with anything less than the facts and truth. My book on Barack Obama, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” continues to sell through the publisher [OrangeStatePress.com] because it is an attempt to get at the truth behind Barack Obama.

As a result of the efforts which I began in 2004 to shed light on Barack Obama’s family history, nearly 100 millions have eventually come to have doubts about Obama’s credibility.

We are the most spontaneous political movement in American history.

All of you want to discuss and review developments in 2010 concerning Obama’s birth, high school/college/law school records and religion. That’s why we organized the Third National Conference for November 9-16 in Honolulu, the supposed “birthplace” of Obama, although Hawai’i officials continue to refuse to release his original 1961 birth certificate.

Why does Obama persist in refusing to release his original typewritten 1961 Hawai’i birth certificate? Why does he refuse to release any of his Punahou School (Honolulu private school) records, his Occidental College records, his Columbia University records or his Harvard Law School records? Obama’s says “trust me.” Nearly 100 million Americans do not.

1. Location

The conference will be held in Honolulu November 9-16, 2010. We plan a number of sessions over that period, as well as ample opportunity for you to conduct your own investigative activity and familiarize yourself with the Obama myth.

Obama saboteurs stole the tapes of our first National Conference in Washington, DC. We will ensure they do not steal the tape of Obamacon 2012. For some reason, Obama and his associates are terrified of the investigative work we do on his personal history. What is he hiding? What doesn’t he want us to find out?

2. Hawai’i freedom of information materials

We are still fighting in court to release Obama’s birth records and Hawai’i state records on the political cover-up orchestrated by Hawai’i Democrats.

3. Conference Registration fee and ID requirement

As always, we need some advance indication of how large the attending group could be to make space-planning decisions. Therefore, we have added a nominal $50 advance registration fee which covers all sessions. Please fill out the attendance form and mail it back with the $50 to arrive in New York before November 8th. Please include a copy of a photo ID so we can confirm your identity when you arrive at the conference. (In order to enhance security there will not be any “at the door” registration.) Once we know how many to plan for, we can work out how formal or informal to be.

We are currently scouting meeting options in Honolulu. We will notify you by e-mail as to the locations. You can also follow developments on our blog. We will be using our original blog, http://nationalconferenceonobama.blogspot.com/, for the third time.

4. Conference agenda

In the near future you will be receiving the first draft of our proposed agenda. You are invited to begin submitting suggestions, comments and proposals for any future revisions.

5. All are welcome—but please bring evidence, not illusions

Anyone is welcome to register and attend our conference. But please, if you want to express a theory, bring some rational, tangible evidence to support your claims about Mr. Obama. Those of you who know me know I am committed to working only with accurate information and, as we lawyers say, “reasonable inferences drawn from the available facts or available documentation.”

Pie-in-the-sky will not fly. Hucksters who use bogus documents to obtain anti-Obama publicity only undermine legitimate inquiries into Obama’s opaque past. We need to search for the truth and look for the facts.

6. Security

We will have adequate arrangements for security in case Obama’s desperate sycophants try to disrupt us again.

7. Media

Media are welcome to register. We will be providing twitter.com updates during the conference (twitter.com/AndyMartinUSA).

8. Visitors to Honolulu

We selected November 9-16, 2010 for the conference because the dates fall just before air fares dramatically increase for the holiday season. There are many accommodations options in Honolulu. Please avoid lavish or extravagant spending while attending because we are there on business. Otherwise, we encourage a tourist/vacation boycott of Hawai’i (go to www.BoycottHawaii.com).

We will be issuing updates of this letter, so please feel free to make suggestions.

And please remember we operate on a shoestring, so contribute any shoestrings you can afford to help make Obamacon 2012 a success. We are going to be issuing separate fundraising letters. Please donate online at:
www.CommitteeofOneMilliontoDefeatBarackObama.com

There are two dimensions to the tragedy Obama has inflicted on the American people. After rigorous study I have come to believe there is a compelling case that he is ineligible to serve as president. That’s the first tragedy: Americans were lulled into voting for a man who was not eligible to serve as president because they were betrayed by the mainstream media and Democratic Party.

But even if it is ultimately held that Obama is eligible, he is unfit to serve as president. His socialist agenda is undermining our national security and destroying our economy. I was the first person to “out” Obama as a socialist on national television in 2008; go to the tape:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT41uM1-dPs&NR=1&feature=fvwp

You will receive a separate email with the Obamacon 2012 conference registration form.

God Bless the United States, and God protect us from Barack Obama until the day he is removed from the White House.

With best wishes,

ANDY MARTIN
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

AM:sp

2010-10-24T01:15:00.000-07:00

ANDY MARTIN: Barack Obama is a bankrupt leader for a bankrupt nation

Andy Martin, who has been both Barack Obama’s Boswell and tormenter for the past six years, rips into he “World’s Greatest Entertainer” (Obama) as a man who cannot lead and is leading America to economic and worldwide disaster. Martin says Obama’s campaigning is hurting, not helping Democrats in the 2010 election. Martin’s Honolulu convention on Obama, Obamacon 2012, begins in just 15 days!

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin says “Barack Obama is a bankrupt leader for a bankrupt nation”

Martin says we may be in a “recession” but Obama is “depressing” Americans

ContrarianCommentary.com
“The Internet Powerhouse”
Andy Martin
Executive Editor

“Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ANDY MARTIN SAYS THAT IF AMERICANS DO NOT REMOVE THE DEMOCRATS ON NOVEMBER 2D, AMERICA WILL BE BANKRUPT BY 2012

MARTIN WAS BARACK OBAMA’S FIRST CRITIC; ANDY COMPARES HIMSELF TO THE “TORTOISE” CHASING OBAMA-THE-HARE

OBAMA TRIED TO “MOVE THE MOUNTAIN TO MOHAMMED;” HE FAILED

(NEW YORK)(October 24, 2010) To take a line from Dr. Martin Luther King, “Barack Obama has been to the mountaintop.” In 2008. But that was then and this is now. Barack Obama never fooled me. But he fooled tens of millions of Americans. In two years, reality has set in.

Barack Obama is bankrupting our economy and endangering our national security. He may not be a “Manchurian Candidate” in the sense that he is an actual agent of our enemies. But he might as well be. The effect is the same. Obama is the enemy of the American people.

Saturday night (October 23rd) Saturday Night Live made fun of Obama’s missing birth certificate. Funny, but the missing birth certificate is not such a joke any more. What is Obama hiding? Even Saturday Night Live wants to know. [Remember, we will open Obamacon 2012 on November 9th in Honolulu, just a few days away.]

Watching Obama on the campaign trail this month made me reflect on my first column about Obama’s bogus life story. When I wrote about Obama in August, 2004 I felt very lonely. I was alone. It was not long before the mainstream media were smearing me; creepy-looking characters like Jim Rutenberg of the New York Times were scrounging around trying to find people to attack me.

Obama had a “smear squad” during everything they could to denigrate me. They are still at it in 2010.

Fox News used my research. And then stuck a fork in me.

But when you have survived wars and revolutions, as I have, you don’t scare easily. I kept telling the truth about Obama. “Just wait,” I said to myself. “Just wait.”

How sweet it is.

Obama has become a sad sight. He is like a boxer who has lost his punch, a quarterback who can’t throw. I once called him the “World’s Greatest Entertainer,” and he was. But he’s not so entertaining any more.

Obama is taking a sledgehammer to our health care system. He is subsidizing profligate spending by bankrupt state governments. He kowtows so low to the Chinese that they have to get down on the floor to see his forehead touching the floor. How about a new Broadway show: “Obama: The Man of La Manchus.”

As for the Muslims? Well, Imam Obama is am embarrassment to the Muslims as well as us. The “first Muslim president” turned out to be a loser. He may have groveled to Muslims, but they have growled back. “Is Iran afraid of Obama?” That could be a musical comedy on Broadway. Or a tragedy.

If Barack Obama stays in the White House, America will be bankrupt by the time he vacates the premises. His trillions of dollars of welfare spending, his deficits, his “reforms” and his “bankrupt” foreign policy are destroying a nation that was carefully built up over the past two centuries. Is this what Americans voted for in 2008? Obviously not.

Now Obama is out on the campaign trail:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
content/article/2010/10/22/
AR2010102206931.html?hpid=topnews

I am amazed. Obama does more harm than good to Democrats. If Barry called me (Obama will always be "Barry” to me; I’ve been to Honolulu) I’d say “Bar, hide your face and keep your mouth shut. That’s the best way to help Democrats. Every time you pop up, you energize the American people to come out and vote against you.” Obama isn’t listening.

Obama is even dredging up his old 2008 lines. “Yes we can!” My response: “No you didn’t.” You borrowed more, spent more and taxed more in the first two years of your presidency than any predecessor in history. What do you have to show for it?

Obama may be tired, but obviously I’m not. We are still fighting for the facts and searching for the truth about Obama’s past. When I started out in 2004, I was the only American who doubted Barry’s opaque origins. Now nearly 100 million Americans have doubts about The Great Obama. My movement keeps growing; Obama’s keeps shrinking. Revenge is a dish best eaten cold.

Or if you prefer G-rated entertainment, this is a classic story of the tortoise and the hare. Obama may have tried to smear me in the short run, but in the long run I am taking him apart like a piece of fried chicken. I had a deeper, clearer picture of who Obama was, and who he was not, before anyone else. That is why Obama has attacked me so relentlessly. I tell the truth.

And I tell the truth about both parties: I may have been the first name on Barack Obama’s Enemies List; but I was also the first name on George Bush’s Enemies List. How’s that for bipartisanship?

Voters are not starry-eyed abut the Republican Party. Nosiree. Republicans have been equal partners in destroying our economy, so that a tiny sliver of Americans could get rich while almost all of us went into debt. Washington has made all of us victims of the robo-signers. Voters are casting votes against Obama, not for the Republican record from 2001-2007.

Republicans will be on probation. If they start up with the crazy legislation, and fail to take control of the budget, the Republican dynasty will last about as long as Obama’s. People that are losing their jobs and losing their homes want results, not promises. They want a fresh start, not a bunch of stale slogans.

Every time I think of the way Republicans have helped Democrats export our jobs to other countries around the world my blood boils. In a few days I will be launching an initiative to rebuild and revitalize American manufacturing. Yes we can!

No more Chinese borrowing.

Last week I outlined the serious challenges Obama faces in 2011. Well, let me be clear: they are our challenges. Our leaders may have made the mess, but we are the ones who are responsible for the cleanup. Obama may have run up the tab, but we get to pay the bill. Young Americans from the heartland are dying because of Obama’s mistakes. Tin pot dictators like Hamid Karzai are looting billions of American dollars for their own secret bank accounts. The Chinese junta is preparing to put the boot in Mr. Obama. As they said in “All About Eve,” “fasten your seat belts.”

My friend Uri Avnery in Tel Aviv suggested in his column this weekend that there is a whiff of fascism in Israel. Uri, if we don’t get our house in order there will be more than a whiff of fascism in America.

Fifty-five years ago I became a leader, quite by accident. I have been involved in leadership all of my life. I started with sports leadership and went on to military leadership, clandestine leadership, business leadership and political leadership. Obama was never a leader. In 2008 I said Obama was not a leader; he was an entertainer. And he was entertaining. But does anybody today doubt my 2008 analysis? (By the way, my leadership started a young boy on the path to becoming an All-State pitcher.)

In ten days the curtain is coming down on “Obama! The Musical” Barack Obama is going to have to face the music for the first time in his life. The lights will be going dark for Barack Obama on Broadway. Comedy, musical, drama, whatever, the show’s over.

Can you hear me Barry?

REMINDER: November 9, 2010 Andy Martin will open Obamacon 2012 in Honolulu, a searching investigation into Barack Obama’s hidden past and uncertain future. Martin is by far Obama’s greatest critic and the wellspring for countless books and analyses of the World’s Greatest Entertainer. Go to: http://www.NationalConferenceonObama.blogspot.com/ for full details. Join us. Yes, you can!

Can’t attend? Please make an online contribution or send us a check to help cover the costs of the convention.

The 2012 election begins in Honolulu on November 9, 2010 with Obamacon 2012. As usual, Ali’i Nui Andy will orchestrate a blockbuster anti-Obama performance. Aloha. Check out Andy’s movie on “Obama: The Hawai’i Years:”

http://www.boycotthawaii.com/hawaii_movie.htm

NEXT: Allen West, a true American patriot (Florida candidate)

NEXT NEXT: Mark Kirk, the greatest fraud in U. S. Navy history (can you point to bigger one than Kirk? Suggestions invited) (Illinois candidate)

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ABOUT ANDY: Chicago Public Radio calls Andy Martin a “boisterous Internet activist.” Andy is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with decades of investigative and analytical experience. He has over forty years of familiarity with Asia and the Middle East; he is regarded overseas as one of America’s most respected independent foreign policy, military and intelligence analysts.

He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

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2010-10-22T00:41:00.000-07:00

ANDY MARTIN: The 2010 election is 1966 all over again

Political analyst Andy Martin explains why 2010 is not the 1994 election year. Rather, Martin suggests that 2010 is going to prove more analogous to 1966. And 2011? Fasten your seat belts: 1979 is coming back for another go-around. Like Jimmy Carter in 1979, Barack Obama is about to be tested. And tested hard. By America’s enemies. And especially by our “frenemies.”

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin says “Wait till next year; Obama’s problems are just beginning”

Martin says the old Viet-Nam era refrain “The whole world is watching” may come back to bite Obama

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MARTIN LOOKS AHEAD TO WHAT AMERICANS CAN EXPECT IN 2011; THE PICTURE IS NOT PRETTY

ANDY MARTIN, AMERICAN’S MOST INFLUENTIAL OPINION WRITER AND BARACK OBAMA’S FORMIDABLE INTERNET OPPONENT FOR THE PAST SIX YEARS, SAYS OBAMA HAS A LOT OF CHICKENS COMING HOME TO ROOST (NOW WHERE DID WE HEAR THAT BEFORE?)

ANDY PREDICTS WE ARE HEADING FOR 1966, AND THEN STRAIGHT ON TO 1979

(Note: during the days leading up to the election look for us to be everywhere. But don’t be confused. First, we are still committed to defeating Mark Kirk in Illinois; we have been working on an “undercover” story on Kirk for release next week. Second, we are following the overall national political situation. Finally, we will be doing what we do best: predicting the future by making informed assessments and assumptions about where our politics and foreign policy are headed in 2011.)

(NEW YORK)(October 22, 2010) Barack Obama’s former spiritual director, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, became notorious for predicting that “America’s chickens were coming home to roost.” Well, the chickens may be heading for the Obama White House in 2011. And that’s not chicken feed.

At a time when ordinary media are completely focused on Election Day, we would like to introduce a long-term analysis of where the 2010 election will be leading us in 2011.

Cable TV bobbleheads probably feel that Washington will be returning to “business as usual” on November 3rd.

The Capitol will have to absorb many new conservative legislators. Gridlock will be in season. And Bumbling Barry Obama will, well, bumble through. e may think that iHe may think that if he’s lucky he can “triangulate” against Republican opposition and get reelected as president in 2012. It ain’t happening.

As my readers know, I am both a political analyst and political activist. So I look at matters from both sides of the lens. And while I accidentally became best known as the writer who first exposed Barack Obama as a poseur, my original specialty was and continues to be military, intelligence and foreign policy analysis.

I worked in Washington in 1966, on Capitol Hill, and in close proximity to the White House. I saw the 89th Congress dissolve into the chaos of the late 1960’s.

Most writers have tried to say that 2010 is “another 1994.” Not really. Although power changed hands in 1994 the direction of the country changed only minimally. President Bill Clinton managed to rope-a-dope the Republicans into reelection, and the tension between the White House and Capitol Hill created a hydraulic balance. 2010 is not going to be 1994.

Rather, 2010 is gong to be 1966, all over again. Only bigger and more dangerous. In January, 1966, no one in Washington had any inkling that the Democratic Party and the Great Society were about to be dismembered. The 89th Congress continued to legislate.

Amazingly, The American public felt the tremors of Viet-Nam before the Washingtonians did. Perhaps that is because casualties began to mount rapidly, and the draft began to suck more and more Americans into the growing Indochina war.

My senator, Senator Paul Douglas, knew as early as August 1966 that things were not going well for him. Because I was the low man in the office (below now-billionaire businessman Ron Gidwitz) I got to drive the senator around Washington. The senator and I spent a lot of time alone talking politics, talking the future, talking about the ups and downs of life. Douglas had seen World War I, survived the Depression, and been grievously wounded and crippled in World War II. He was one of the first “Cold warriors.” Douglas sensed the coming tsunami before the media did.

The 1966 election changed the fundamental direction of the United States for a generation. The Republican Party, which had been declared “dead” only two years earlier in 1964 (sound familiar?), roared back and erased the Democratic gains of 1964 in 1966. 1966 led to 1968, and 1968 led to the upheavals that are only now being felt with full force in American government.

Unlike Bill Clinton, Barack Obama was not a Viet-Nam era candidate, despite Obama’s Zelig-like claims to have been everywhere and involved in everything. But today, this nation is still run predominantly by Viet-Nam era individuals.

And so, my first prediction: this election is a “1966” turning point, a far stronger change in direction than 1994. (So far as I am aware, only George Will has recognized the 1966 parallel.)

1966 led to 1968, and 1968 led to? Watergate. What did Watergate lead to? Foreign policy disasters that are still bedeviling Americans. Watergate led to President Jimmy Carter. And Jimmy Carter led to? Chaos. While some may unwittingly connect Carter’s haplessness to Obama’s, they have not yet seen the real connection between the two men and the gathering storm abroad.

Ironically, Jimmy Carter was a lot like George Bush. Both men are decent and honorable. But both men were naïve in the ways of the world, and both men led American into foreign policy disasters. In the case of Carter, the nation was saved by the emergence of President Ronald Reagan. Who will save us in 2012? No one has appeared on the horizon that manifests the manifest destiny of Reagan.

So why is 2011 going to be a replay of 1979? The 1978 election saw Republican gains. Jimmy Carter was exposed as a weak leader. Then 1979 exploded. The supposedly-invincible “Pahlavi Dynasty” was toppled in Iran, after Carter abandoned the Shah. We began what has morphed into four decades of Islamic fundamentalism. Seeing Carter helpless and befuddled, the Russians then moved into Afghanistan and started the First Afghan War. I first went to Iran in 1979, and to Afghanistan in 1980. I saw the gathering storm up close.

Carter’s inability to deal with international chaos elected Reagan. That is why if Obama thinks that he can pull a 1996 Clinton-style reelection he is mistaken. Now you know why I believe 2010 is 1966, and why 2011 is inexorably going to become a replay of 1979.

The evidence that America is endangered is out there in the open. But no one is paying attention. At least most Americans are not paying attention. Attention must be paid. Activists are focused on reelecting Democrats and electing Republicans. But Republican legislators will be as helpless to deal with international chaos as the Usurper-in-Chief.

The desperation of 2011 may create conditions for another radical change: Democrats will likely panic and dump Obama. Barry O may think he has a fair chance at being reelected. I think he should do what he does best: leave office and resume being the greatest entertainer in the world. His term as a “leader” is coming to an early end. I won’t predict Hillary Clinton will be the 2012 presidential candidate; but her reemergence would not surprise me. Democrats will not make the same mistake in 2012 they made in 1980.

So why am I so pessimistic? What do I see out there? What will you be seeing next year?

1. Iraq. Obama took credit for the “peace” in Iraq. But there is no peace. The United States pulled out, but left behind 50,000 American hostages to Iraq’s very possible collapse into chaos. With the American leadership gone, Sunnis are once again gravitating away from Baghdad into the resistance.

Prime Minister Al-Maliki’s recent trip to the holy city of Qum (a city that I became familiar with during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis) is a sign that he is pandering to the most anti-American elements in the region. Al-Maliki may not have yet emerged as an anti-American leader. But the possibility that he could become hostile to the 50,000 Americans left in Iraq is not impossible or even unlikely.

Almost eight months after the March election in Iraq, there is still no government. It looks increasingly as though the regime that will emerge will not be a friendly one.

What will Obama do when American forces In Iraq come under attack? If he stays to fight, a new war begins. If he cuts and runs, he tumbles into the dustbin of history even sooner than anyone expects. Iraq is a time bomb waiting to explode.

2. Iran. Iran is a genuine threat. But I disagree with our Iranian policies. In reality, the Iranian regime’s best friends are Republican Party politicians like Mark Kirk who are constantly beating the drums for “sanctions” against Iran. Sanctions are a dream-come-true for the Persian regime.

Mr. Ahmadinejad is becoming increasingly bold, and increasingly welcome throughout the Middle East. Ahmadinejad’s recent reception in Lebanon was a wake-up call to the snoozing White House.

So what about Iran? On the one hand, Iran is not going to launch a war. Because of the anti-Iranian vitriol in our politics we ignore the fact that although the United States reacted to the hostage crisis by invading Iran, using our then-proxy in Baghdad Saddam Hussein, Iran is seeking regional hegemony, not territorial expansion. If Iran starts a war, which I doubt, it will be a failure for their regime, not a success.

3. Israel. Israel presents two possible risks. First, the failed “peace process” may embolden the Israelis to crack down on Palestinians. On the other hand, Palestinians and the world community are clearly inching closer to the Andy Martin Peace Plan which I put forward in 2000: Recognition first, negotiation second. Netanyahu may think that he can make a power grab while Obama is politically weak. Ironically, I think this may be the one area where Obama can strike back. And will.

More dangerously, Israeli generals may think that they can launch an attack on Iran while Obama is distracted. Israel cannot win a war against Iran. But a lot of Israelis think they can. Israeli overconfidence could trigger a suicide mission. Unfortunately, if Israel commits national suicide, we get dragged in.

4. Afghanistan-Pakistan. Afghanistan is a mess. The Karzai regime is a joke. Here at home, patience is wearing thin with the endless, even though endless war on a reduced level may be preferable to endless chaos and unending risk to our global interests. Pakistan is a failed state with nuclear weapons. The area is a disaster zone. Need I say more?

5. China? China would seem to be our greatest foreign policy worry. But in light of the crazies in the Middle East, the threats posed by China will pale by comparison. At least the Chinese are rational, if only barely so.

Still China is preparing to confront Obama in 2011. He is not up to that challenge. I expect we will see the same ruinous Chinese export policies, trying to drive the American people into peonage. But Americans are waking up. They are sick of kowtowing to Chinese imperialists. But while public opinion may support a confrontation with China, Obama is not the man to do the job. It will have to wait for the next president. In the meantime, the Chinese will be seeking to undermine us at every opportunity. China is a disaster waiting to happen. A military threat is inevitable.

You know things are going to be bad in 2011 when I list the Chinese as one of our lesser problems; China is a mega-problem for the United States. The time for playing “pretend” with China is over.

The foregoing problems are just “for starters.” We have a scary list without adding anything new or currently invisible.

Will the Republicans be any better at dealing with the chaos of 2011 than the Democrats? Strangely no. Foreign policy is uniquely one area where only a president can lead, and must lead decisively. Obama is not the man for the job.

My mom and dad were products of World War II. As I was growing up, while other parents exposed their kids to baseball I was exposed to the Holocaust, to World War II, to Korea, and to the Middle East.

During my adult life, whether I was in Viet-Nam or Hong Kong, Baghdad or Tehran, Cairo or Riyadh, I worked to develop an independent network of international sources. Anyone who followed my reporting from “My Year in Baghdad” knows I can point an antenna in the right direction. Based on a lifetime of foreign experience, 2011 scares me.

Baseball fans like to say, “Wait until next year.” And we began these observations with the old Vietnam refrain, “The Whole World is Watching.” I do not think Barack Obama and his “crew” of Chicago cronies are up to the job. Barack Obama, not our enemies, is the greatest threat to our national security. Who will emerge as the strong leader to replace him in 2012? Right now, I don’t have a clue.

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If you would like to see some of my foreign policy views and match them up with subsequent developments, take a look at:

http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/
insidestory/2009/09/200992713548502678.html

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ABOUT ANDY: Chicago Public Radio calls Andy Martin a “boisterous Internet activist.” Andy is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” http://www.contrariancommentary.com/. He comments on regional, national and world events with decades of investigative and analytical experience. He has over forty years of familiarity with Asia and the Middle East; he is regarded overseas as one of America’s most respected independent foreign policy, military and intelligence analysts.

He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
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2010-10-06T01:02:00.000-07:00

ANDY MARTIN: Alexi Giannoulias is running a poor campaign for the U. S. Senate

Illinois political expert Andy Martin explains why Alexi Giannoulias is running a weak campaign for the U. S. Senate. Martin says Giannoulias has failed to capitalize on Mark Kirk’s character flaws and is probably allowing Kirk to ambush G in October. “To paraphrase Casey Stengel who said ‘Can anyone here play this game?’ can anyone in Giannoulias’ campaign run an aggressive campaign against Mark Kirk?” Andy asks. Andy has been producing TV and radio ads for over forty years.

Illinois political expert Andy Martin questions the flaccid performance of Alexi Giannoulias’ advertising

Martin says Giannoulias must talk directly to the people/audience if he expects to win

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(CHICAGO)(October 6, 2010) I’m in New York to see a Broadway play, review senate races in New York and New England and provide some national perspective on the upcoming election.

Of course I’m watching a lot of television. Today we often see political ads in small computer “windows” on web sites. Seeing an advertisement as it actually pops up on a TV screen is obviously a different experience.

Republican Linda McMahon is running a very effective series of ads for the U. S. Senate in Connecticut. The Connecticut race is particularly interesting because it features an issue in common with Illinois—a lying candidate who exaggerated his military career and sought to steal the valor of brave heroes for his own political aggrandizement. Mark Kirk, meet Richard Blumenthal.

Watching Giannoulias’ ads on Chicago TV and comparing them to Kirk’s efforts leaves me with the distinct impression Kirk’s ads are much better than G’s.

Here I must make the “full disclosure” that I am actively opposing Kirk’s election to the senate. I am no friend of Mark Kirk, have no intention of voting for him although I will be voting a straight Republican ticket (with the exception of Kirk), and believe Kirk is unfit for any public office because of his military misrepresentations.

I am also conscious of the fact that Illinois voters don’t like either candidate. Kirk has schmutzed-up Giannoulias with attacks on G’s former family bank. Giannoulias has run some mildly effective ads against Kirk.

Visiting my mother in Florida I have also watched ads for Marco Rubio, the Republican running for the U. S. Senate. Marco Rubio makes very effective use of his immigrant roots and connects his family history to the American Dream. Giannoulias’ spots are nowhere near the quality and effectiveness of Rubio’s ads.

In my opinion, Giannoulias’ ads are the weakest of the four. Here are my reasons.

First, it is a truism that when voters don’t trust a candidate, he or she must speak directly to the voters. Look’em in the eye. Voters don't really want Kirk or Giannoulias. But Kirk's most recent disclaimer says he will “spend less, tax less…” He delivers it well. Frankly, it’s an effective disclaimer. Giannoulias’ disclaimer is a wide shot of Giannoulias and Obama. Very weak.

Giannoulias has a great story to tell. He’s not telling it. His ads look as though they are being mass produced on an assembly line.

I have been producing TV and radio ads, and especially negative ads, for over forty years. So I know of what I speak.

First, let’s look at the “Mob banker” issue. What has Giannoulias done to counter this smear? Nothing. How’s this for an ad:

I’m Alexi Giannoulias and I approved this ad
because Illinois voters deserve the truth
about Mark Kirk’s lies.

My family immigrated to America and lived
the American Dream. We worked hard, saved,
and in time mom and dad founded (purchased?) a small bank.
My family grew the bank by making loans in the
local community. Together they prospered.
Then Mark Kirk’s greedy Wall Street campaign
contributors threw our economy into a
tailspin. Like any bank, some loans went sour. Kirk’s New
York moneymen could care less about Illinois;
Mark Kirk’s moneymen simply broke the bank when it could have worked its way out of the recession.

Mark Kirk’s money men: bad for Illinois, bad for your local neighborhood bank.

This ad has two benefits. First it rebuts Kirks attacks on Giannoulias’ bank and places the bank’s failure in perspective. Wall Street engineered a financial collapse to seize money that had been saved up on Main Street. Wall Street is as fat and sassy as ever (I see it in New York; Broadway is sold out, the expensive restaurants are packed). Main Street, Illinois is suffering. Badly.

Second, the ad allows Giannoulias to address the voters face-to-face. (You can see I like face-to-face ads.) Bottom line: If Giannoulias does not start making ads that speak directly to voters, he’s a sure loser.

Gubernatorial candidate Rick Scott was smeared by the Republican establishment in Florida. Scott’s former company had been caught in a $1 billion plus Medicare scandal. Scott faced the voters in his ads—and won the primary. Giannoulias has to face reality, and adopt an aggressive strategy to counter Kirk. Scott knocked off a well-established party favorite. Kirk, on the other hand, is disliked by Illinois voters.

Let’s try a second ad.

I’m Alexi Giannoulias and I approved this ad
because Illinois voters deserve the truth
about Mark Kirk.

Over the past ten years Mark Kirk lied
repeatedly about his military service. Kirk
claimed to have fought in wars where he
never served, and won medals that don’t exist.
Kirk dishonored his military uniform. What
kind of a man would do that?

As your Illinois State Treasurer you trust
me with your state revenues every day. I have a
record of honesty and integrity you count on,
every day. Mark Kirk’s lies, or my proven record
of performance? The choice is yours. I ask you
to choose me based on the fact I have already
proven you can trust me.

Once again, Giannoulias puts a spin on Kirk and drives a nail through Kirk’s lies. Because Giannoulias delivers the ad himself, the presentation gains force and credibility. Then, when G segues into his own performances (“trusted me with your state revenues”) voters are ready to choose G’s proven performance. After all, G is a state official who handles the cash. What better kind of trust can you show? Do you find this anywhere in Giannoulias’ ads? Nope.

Giannoulias is blowing the opportunity to prepare the voters for Kirk’s likely smear campaign in October.

The two short ads that I knocked out in maybe a minute each present Giannoulias in a positive light. They show you how Giannoulias could improve his performance by answering Kirk’s lies, and why G is falling so far short of Kirk in the advertising competition.

Take a look at Linda McMahon’s new ad:
http://blogs.courant.com/capitol_watch/2010/10/
new-mcmahon-tv-ad-hits-blument.html
The “If I get to it” department:
I predicted Christine O’Donnell would win the Delaware U. S. Senate seat. Hmmm. She is an exceptionally attractive woman with a great story to tell. Her first ad, “I’m not a witch,” is a big disappointment. What idiot is producing her commercials? If I get the time, and I’m not too busy on Broadway (but please don’t call me “Broadway Andy,”) I’ll provide some remarks. O’Donnell’s ad is a disaster. She needs Andy to produce local “Delaware friendly” advertising for her campaign. O’Donnell has the money; she’s blowing her great opportunity.
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ABOUT ANDY: Andy Martin, who Chicago Public Radio calls a "boisterous Internet activist," is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, "Obama: The Man Behind The Mask" and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the "Internet Powerhouse," www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and overseas experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
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2010-10-01T15:46:00.000-07:00

ANDY MARTIN: Barack Obama is a Muslim, Part Two

Obama author and movie producer Andy Martin analyzes why Barack Obama is a Muslim, and why Obama’s inner conflicts have created the chaos we face in America today. Andy, who wrote perhaps the most influential piece of opinion journalism in the last decade, his column on “Barack Obama is a Muslim” in 2004, explains why Obama has been unable to erase the public perception that he is not an American. Martin’s Third National Conference on Barack Obama’s Missing Birth Certificate, College Records and Muslim Religion begins November 9th in Honolulu.

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin analyzes the complex belief structure that makes Barack Obama a Muslim

In Part Two of “Why Obama is a Muslim,” Andy explains that Obama is a Muslim even though Obama denies the fact

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MARTIN SAYS THE PRESIDENT SHOULD BE A SPIRITUAL LEADER, BUT OBAMA IS NOT

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(NEW YORK)(October 1, 2010) Before I explain why Barack Obama is a Muslim let me get the “Muslim issue” out of the way. There is nothing wrong or evil about Islam. There are over a billion peaceful adherents of Islam throughout the world. There are aspects of Islam’s sacred texts that are deeply anti-democratic and its extremist supporters use Islamic pronouncements as a pretext to conceal their own political goals. But if you applied a similar standard to Christianity, and took every word Jesus says in the Bible literally, Christians would look a little fruity too.

But Islam, like Christianity, has its place. In the mosque, not the halls of government. It is precisely when religious leaders try to influence and control politics and enforce their religious dogma as government policy that religion becomes controversial and contemptible. That is the challenge most Muslims face today: to take back their religion from the hustlers and terrorists who have violated the peaceful tenets of their religion. In hindsight, even liberals now reluctantly admit that President George Bush was right on religion. Islam is not our enemy.

And so, no, this column is not an anti-Islam rant and I have no plans to burn any Muslim texts although I believe that constitutionally we should be as free to burn Islamic books as we are to incinerate the Bible or other holy writs.

Six years ago I wrote what in retrospect has become possibly become the most influential piece of opinion journalism in recent history. I collected my ideas and research and explained at a New York news conference why Barack Obama was a Muslim. In the following six years I have been brutally assaulted by the mainstream media. My writing touched a nerve during the 2008 campaign. The New York Times responded by trying to demonize me by putting me on page one and making me one of their “most important stories of the day,” all with a bunch of lies and distortions.

My writing also started a wildfire that has yet to be extinguished by either Barack Obama’s spin doctors and his own lies.

So what is all this “Muslim business” about? It is time to go back to first principles and reacquaint readers with what I have written in the past, what I have researched and what I believe about Obama’s religious beliefs.

During the 2008 presidential campaign I called Barack Obama the “World’s Greatest Entertainer.” I viewed Obama’s campaign trope as nothing more than skillfully presented entertainment. Americans were frustrated and disappointed with George Bush and the Republicans, as they had every right to be; voters were looking for some diversion from the mess the Bush years had created in Washington. Obama was the perfect entertainer. He diverted and channeled our disappointments into his own political pocket.

Obama’s nightclub act was pure painlessness. He told us “we” were the solution. “Hope,” “change” and reform without any cost, without any sacrifice, without any consequences.

People were offended when I called Obama an “entertainer” but his bag of political tricks was nothing more than entertainment. Lots of actors play doctors on TV; I wouldn’t count on them to perform surgery in a real hospital. People were desperate to believe in “Dr. Hope and Change.” They confused “acting” with “leading.”

By elevating “hope” and “change” over reality, they elected Obama, someone who portrayed a doctor, to actually “practice” medicine to cure what ailed America. The result is the disaster we face today.

Obama’s six years of denials that he is a Muslim have only made people believe even more ardently that Obama is a Muslim. That says something about his lost entertainment skills. (I predicted that change of heart would take place as well.) Almost a hundred million Americans now question who Obama is, and what he believes.

Why is Obama an “entertainer?” Entertainers suspend our belief. As noted, they portray doctors, and warriors, persons with caring and concern, people who can save us and serve us. That's why people pay ten or twelve dollars to be amused at the movies, or more for a nightclub act or Broadway play.

But most entertainers, and especially the great ones, are conflicted people. They are alienated individuals. They entertain because they project outwardly the turmoil in their inner spirits. Thus is it so with Obama. His bizarre life spectacle and his upside down upbringing are what make him a great entertainer. His soul is tormented. By his own admission he grew up frustrated, alienated, confused. Ironically, but inescapably, the very factors that make Obama a great entertainer also make him a lousy leader.

This week Obama was at it again, profusely professing his Christianity. But in the midst of peddling his “Christianity” Obama inadvertently dropped in another one of his favorite memes, that his mother was one of the most “spiritual people” he has encountered. Effortlessly, almost guilelessly, Obama segued--the way entertainers do--from religion to “spirituality.”

But spirituality, like religion, is a coat of many colors. Just what spirituality did Anne Dunham possess? What spirituality did she hand down to her son Barack Obama?

In the not too distant past, I had a girl friend who thought she was spiritual. And, unlike Obama, she even attended church. But in addition to her spirituality she had an unfortunate aspect to her personality, which is why she is a former girl friend. In practice there was little spirituality to her shtick. Sometimes she and a bunch of other women would get together to talk about spirituality and light candles, incense and who knows what else. My point: “spiritual” people are not always dealing with the Holy Spirit or religious denominations as we commonly think of them. People often lie to themselves.

Obama’s mother appears to have fallen into the “spiritual but not religious” category. One of my friendly competitors as an author, Jerry Corsi, has examined some aspects of Obama’s mother’s confused and conflicted spirit in more detail than I believe most of us want to read. It is sufficient to say Anne Dunham’s “spirituality” was something out of the wacky, drug-crazed 60’s and 70’s. It was self-referential spirituality, not genuine religious spirituality.

Moving one step further, we often hear the term “spiritual leader” used to describe a religious leader. The two are not the same. And no one has ever confused the “spirituality” of people like Obama’s mother with being the spiritual leader of a religious denomination.

Then there is the White House. The presidency of the United States is a secular, not spiritual, position. When politicians start talking about spirituality, count your change. They are usually trying to use “spirituality” to disguise their secular policy failures.

But having said the White House is not a spiritual see, I want to reverse myself in record time and say that the American president is a spiritual leader. Our president guards and exemplifies “the American Spirit.” The White House is the repository of our value system as Americans. The “American spirit” is what makes us a great people and a great nation. We put our trust in trust leaders who we believe will exemplify the American Spirit and protect our spiritual values as a nation.

Alas, the World's Greatest Entertainer is no guardian of the Americans Spirit. Obama does not even believe in one of the prime tenets of our secular spirituality: American exceptionalism. He has gone so far as to denigrate American exceptionalism. How long would the Pope last if he stood up in Rome and said Catholics were a bunch of phonies? About as long as the Obama Dynasty has lasted in Washington. Not long. That is why people now reject Obama’s “spirituality” and question his Muslim/Christian/whatever religious roots.

So what is a religion? What distinguishes a Christian from a Muslim or a Jew; a Buddhist from a Hindu? All of these belief systems embody both a structure of religious beliefs and believers who practice their beliefs on a daily or weekly basis. There are exceptions, of course. Jews see some congregants only on High Holy Days; some “Christians” magically manage to appear in church for Christmas and Easter. But we accept them. And they profess openly and outwardly their adherence to our beliefs. Jesus is Lord. Yahweh is coming. The Prophet is the true messenger. And so on.

Obama was raised in the Muslim, not Christian, religion. The Jesuits say, “Give us a boy until the age of 7 and we have him for life.” The Muslims had Obama until the age of 10, when he began to live full-time with his grandparents.

Try as he might, Obama cannot disguise or discard his Muslim roots. But despite the facts Obama went so far as to deny his father was a Muslim, even though Obama the father was buried as a Muslim and his father was also a Muslim. A point that is often forgotten is that Obama’s “Kenyan grandfather” was himself a convert to Islam.

Why is conversion such a critical issue? Because converts are often the most attentive individuals in pursuing their newly adopted religious beliefs. Converts don’t inherit a religion from their parents; they consciously choose one as adults. Choice is what distinguishes converts from people who obtain religion (as we say in the Episcopal Church in the “cradle”) through birth. Obama claims he is a convert to Christianity, but in the next breath he tells us paid no attention to the sermons or doctrine of his spiritual leader, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, for the twenty years after his conversion. He even denies that his "spiritual leader" Reverend Jeremiah Wright was his spiritual leader. Huh?

In Obama’s heart he hears the call of the Muezzin, not the Cantor’s call or church choir’s chorus:

No one consciously set out to make Obama a “Muslim.” He absorbed that belief structure through the osmosis of daily living, as he admitted to Nick Kristof of the New York Times:
http://select.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/opinion/06kristof.html?_r=1

Religious beliefs are deeply embedded in children. My father was Anglican (Episcopalian). My mother was Greek Orthodox. I was raised in the Greek Orthodox faith until I went to college. I would never deny that I am Greek Orthodox any more than I would pretend to practice that faith today. I chose the Anglican-Episcopalian side of the family but I recognize both.

Obama’s constant efforts to focus on a vague “choice” he claims to have made in his 20’s to become a Christian are misleading. Throughout his childhood Obama was psychologically and emotionally saturated with Islam and Islamic culture. For him to deny these roots is to deny his very character, his psyches, his “spiritual” home.

But having convinced you why you can believe that Obama is Muslim, I will now proceed to punch holes in my own argument and explain to you why Obama may be a Muslim who is not a Muslim. Unlike Judaism, where religion is transmitted matriarchally by the mother, under Islam religion is transmitted partriarchally through the father.

But I am not sure at all that Obama is Obama’s son. My research expeditions to Hawai’i (see below for the next one beginning November 9th) have convinced me that Anne Dunham concocted the “Barack Obama is your father” fairy tale to conceal the fact that Frank Marshall Davis, an exponentially more appealing and interesting character but, alas, a married man with a family, was really the biological parent of our president.

Indeed, my theory is that it is precisely because those closest to him lied about his parentage that Obama is such a tortured human being. Young Obama knew “Frank,” but he never knew him as “dad.” And Frank died before the lie could be revealed. The secret had been kept during Frank Marshall Davis’ lifetime. And so, while Obama is undeniably a Muslim in spirit, he may not be one by blood. Nevertheless, the religious beliefs of his childhood trump the reality of his genes. He is a Muslim.

Only Obama and maybe one or two others (maybe no one) know the truth. And Obama hasn’t been willing to take the American people into his confidence. He does not trust the American Spirit of tolerance, acceptance and forgiveness, because he was not raised as an American. And for that we have Anne Dunham to thank or condemn.

[Saturday, October 2nd we will expose another fallacy in Obama’s religious conversion to Christianity. Stay tuned for what will nominally, but not officially, be Part Three.]

In the meantime, Obama’s Muslim roots are what make him what he is today: confused, conflicted and contradictory. He can no more escape who he is than we can escape what he is: a failed leader who has disgraced and devalued the American spirit.

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THE “REAL” HAWAI’I FIVE-O RETURNING TO HONOLULU:

If the “reborn” Hawaii Five-0 doesn’t remind you of the original, there’s a reason. But take heart. The Third National Conference on Barack Obama’s Missing Birth Certificate, College Records and Muslim Religion begins November 9th in Honolulu. Join us there. Registration details will be posted October 2nd. In the past, Hawaiians have looked to Andy Martin’s investigative missions in Hawai’i as the “spiritual” successor to Steve McGarrett and Hawai’i Five-O. As in the original Five-O, there are no explosions, no acrobatics, no over-the-top gunfights, just solid detective work to uncover the truth about Barack Obama’s “roots.” ContrarianCommentary.com plans to post registration details for the new Honolulu conference after his Manhattan news conference Saturday. To receive email updates on the Conference please send a request to: contact@StopObamaCoalition.com

Andy Martin, on Obama’s Muslim Roots, and Sean Hannity:

http://www.mndaily.com/2010/09/30/study-news-fuels-rumors-about-obama-being-muslim

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT41uM1-dPs&NR=1&feature=fvwp

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ABOUT ANDY: Andy Martin, who Chicago Public Radio calls a “boisterous Internet activist,” is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and overseas experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
contrariancommentary.typepad.com[NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]

MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2010

2010-09-30T01:06:00.000-07:00

ANDY MARTIN: Honolulu conference to study Obama’s Muslim “roots”

(HONOLULU, HI) Obama author and honorary Hawaiian “Ali’i nui” Andy Martin will convene his Third National Conference On Barack Obama’s Missing Birth Certificate, College Records and Muslim religion in Honolulu beginning November 9th. Martin will hold a New York City news conference September 30th to announce the Honolulu convention. Martin says the American people increasingly disbelieve Obama’s profession of Christianity. Martin has been credited by some in the alternative media with swaying public opinion to take a more critical look at Obama’s religious roots as well as triggering growing concerns about Islam in America. Almost one hundred million Americans now believe and follow Andy Martin’s questions about Barack Obama’s family origins. Martin is known as the “King of the Birthers” because of his relentless efforts to seek release of Obama’s original, typewritten birth certificate.

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin will announce a Honolulu conference on Obama’s missing birth certificate, college records and Muslim religion

Martin was the first person to offer a coherent timeline during the 2008 presidential campaign for Obama’s religious and radical associations, on Sean Hannity’s America

ContrarianCommentary.com
“The Internet Powerhouse”
Andy Martin
Executive Editor

“Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW YORK NEWS CONFERENCE THURSDAY

ANDY MARTIN SAYS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE RIGHT TO BELIEVE BARACK OBAMA IS A MUSLIM

MARTIN SAYS OBAMA’S LATEST PROFESSION OF CHRISTIANITY IS A HOLLOW ONE

ANDY MARTIN, AMERICAN’S MOST INFLUENTIAL OPINION WRITER AND BARACK OBAMA’S INTERNET OPPONENT FOR THE PAST SIX YEARS, PLANS A BLOCKBUSTER CONFERENCE IN HONOLULU

(NEW YORK)(September 29, 2010) ContrarianCommentary.com’s Executive Editor, Andy Martin, will hold a New York City news conference Thursday, September 30th to announce his Third National Conference on Barack Obama’s Missing Birth Certificate, College Records and Muslim religion. Martin’s new national conference will be held in Honolulu.

“Yesterday (September 28th) Barack was at it again, claiming to be ‘Christian,’” Martin says:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/28/AR2010092803203_pf.html

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sc-dc-0929-obama-campaign-20100928,0,571396.story

“Well, the American people don’t believe him. They believe me.

“My original 2004 column on Obama’s Muslim religion may have become the single most influential piece of opinion journalism in print, broadcast or internet media. One writer credits me with being one of America’s most influential political analysts and the man who became the harbinger of America’s changing attitudes towards Islam:

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/297321

“Why have I been so right over the past six years, and why has Obama been so wrong? [This release is Part One of a Two Part analysis (Part Two will come Friday, October 1st after our September 30th news conference)] I have been scrupulously honest in searching for the truth and seeking to find the facts about Obama’s family history. It has not been an easy journey.

“Obama refuses to release his original 1961 typewritten Hawai’i birth certificate. Why? Why are Hawai’i officials hiding this historic document? Why is there no plaque commemorating the ‘birthplace’ of Barack Obama in Hawai’i? Where was he born? Who was the doctor? All missing.

“Last year I predicted Obama would suffer because of his machinations, and he is.

“My columns and my book and movie have led almost 100 million Americans to question Obama’s origins. Two years into his presidency doubts are growing, not slowing, as I predicted in 2009.

“Yesterday Obama was at it again, saying he is a Christian. Well, to paraphrase the immortal phrase of the late Senator Lloyd Bentsen, ‘President Obama, I know Christians, and you’re no Christian.

“Let’s analyze what Obama said on Tuesday.

“First, Obama obviously felt the need to have the phony question about his religion planted at a political meeting. His claim that the question was spontaneous is nonsense. Obama poll tests everything in advance. There is no spontaneity to anything he does. Everyone who was in the New Mexico back yard was vetted by the secret Service and they were screened in advance. The American people are no longer being fooled by Obama’s bogus photo ops.

“Second, Obama claimed he came to Christianity ‘later in life.’ When will he provide a specific date when he was baptized?

“In my own denomination, the Episcopal Church, you can only become a Christian through Holy Baptism:

www.stthomaswhitemarsh.org

[Look under “To become an Episcopalian”]

“So when Obama was baptized? Is there a baptismal book with his name in it? Is there a certificate? To date he has produced nothing to verify his conversion to Christianity.

“I also have a great deal of experience with conversions to Christianity. In the Episcopal Church we get converts from other Christian denominations as well as occasional converts from other religions such as Judaism. So I know ‘converts.’ Obama exhibits none of the usual attitudes of a convert.

“People who convert to a religion pay special attention to theology and preaching. Obama claims he ‘converted,’ and then ignored the sermons at Trinity United for the next twenty years. Convert? No.

“Obama gave his daughters Muslim first names after ‘converting’ to Christianity. Convert? No.

“Christians universally celebrate Christmas; I suspect Michelle Robinson Obama’s family celebrated Christmas. The Obamas do not celebrate Christmas. Ironically, even the most loosely attached Christians flood churches at Christmas and Easter; Obama does not. Convert? No.

“For me, my faith is my life. I seriously doubt that anyone would make that statement about Mr. Obama.

“The bottom line: Barack Obama is not a Christian. He is still a Muslim as we will discuss further on Friday.

“Obama’s ‘religion’ became a major public issue three years ago. Since then, the more Obama has ‘explained’ who he is and what he believes, the less the American people believe him. That is an extraordinary record of retrogression by the Great Speechifyer.

“My writing in 2004 inadvertently created a political movement that now approaches one hundred million Americans who doubt who and what Barack Obama is. It is not an exaggeration to say my 2004 remarks became the most powerful and influential opinion column in American history. People believe me because they know that despite my political differences with Obama I am completely honest and impartial when dealing with Obama’s personal life. I just search for the truth and am constantly trying to find the facts.

“That is why our latest and largest national conference on Barack Obama will take place in Honolulu beginning on November 9th. To continue to find the facts and to search for the truth about Obama.

“We'll have new sponsors and offer new opportunities to examine Obama’s Hawai’i ‘roots.’ Obama’s staffers will be paying close attention to our meeting. His thugs are always on our tail. Be there,” Martin says.

Martin plans to post registration details for his Honolulu conference after his Manhattan news conference Thursday. To receive email updates on the Conference please send a request to: contact@StopObamaCoalition.com

Andy Martin on Sean Hannity:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT41uM1-dPs&NR=1&feature=fvwp

COMING FRIDAY:

PART TWO OF WHY OBAMA IS A MUSLIM

SEPTEMBER 30TH NEWS CONFERENCE DETAILS:

WHO:

ContrarianCommentary.com Executive Editor Andy Martin

WHAT:

Internet powerhouse Andy Martin will announce his Third National Conference on Barack Obama’s Missing Birth Certificate, College Records and Muslim religion

WHERE:

909 Third Avenue, public sidewalk in front of FDR Station, New York (under the “909” canopy in case of rain)

WHEN:

Thursday, September 30, 3:00 P. M.

MEDIA CONTACT:

GENERAL: (866) 706-2639 CELL (917) 664-9329;

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ABOUT ANDY: Andy Martin, who Chicago Public Radio calls a “boisterous Internet activist,” is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and overseas experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
contrariancommentary.typepad.com[NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]

MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2010

2010-09-23T00:22:00.000-07:00

ANDY MARTIN on John McCain’s hypocrisy about homosexuality

Andy Martin asks: How can John McCain block a vote on the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t tell,” and then come to Illinois to campaign for “Closeted Congressman” Mark Kirk? Kirk is a homosexual who is also serving in the Navy Reserve and has disgraced the service with the biggest pack of lies in Navy history. Why is McCain supporting a charlatan like Kirk? At long last, has McCain no shame about his hypocrisy?

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin on the hypocrisy of Senator John McCain

Andy Martin asks why Senator John McCain blocks a repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and then comes to Illinois to campaign for homosexual congressman Mark Kirk

ContrarianCommentary.com
“The Internet Powerhouse”
Andy Martin
Executive Editor

“Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct”

AMERICA’S #1 POLITICAL
BLOG FOR THE 2010 CAMPAIGN

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ANDY MARTIN ASKS “DOES JOHN MCCAIN PRACTICE “DON’T’ ASK, DON’T TELL” WHEN HE GETS QUESTIONS ABOUT MARK KIRK’S HOMOSEXUALITY?

MARTIN SAYS THAT IF MCCAIN REALLY BELIEVES WHAT HE SAYS, HE SHOULD “CUT KIRK LOOSE;” MCCAIN SHOULD STOP BEING A HYPOCRITICAL, TWO-FACED POLITICIAN ON HOMOSEXUAL ISSUES

ANDY LINKS TO THE EXPLOSIVE MARK KIRK “HOMOSEXUAL RUMOR” TAPE

(NEW YORK)(September 22, 2010) I haven’t expressed an opinion on the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t tell,” and today is not the day I am going to do so. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe. Maybe.

Rather, today I am focused on the hypocrisy of Senator John McCain. McCain seeks to exclude gays from the military and then comes to Illinois to campaign for homosexual Congressman Mark Kirk. Whether you oppose or support the gay agenda, anyone and everyone can be sickened by hypocritical politicians such as Senator John McCain.

Last December 28th I started something of a national firestorm when I disclosed to the public that there were “rumors” that Congressman Mark Kirk was gay:

http://www.andyforussenator.com/andys_ads.htm

Lake County Republican Ray True suggested that Kirk was surrounded by a Praetorian Guard-like posse of homosexuals. You can still listen to the tape of the extraordinary program that formed the basis for my campaign advertising [Radio Archive, November 1 2009, Segment Two]:

http://www.championnews.net/article.php?sid=2165

In June, respected homosexual activist Mike Rogers confirmed my allegations and stated unequivocally that Kirk was a homosexual:

http://blog.blogactive.com/2010/06/truth-or-consequences.html

Later, Kirk’s former wife made ambiguous remarks about her former husband’s sexuality. So Jack Roeser was right, and my campaign commercials were based on solid research. Kirk was a proven liar.

Personally, I don’t care what people do in the privacy of their own home. But I passionately believe that public officials should be prepared to make their private lives public when public votes could be influenced by private lives. It is two-faced for public officials to seek publicity from privacy when it serves their political interests, and then seek “privacy please” when a politician is trying to cover his or her tracks.

But Kirk’s lies about his sexuality were only a minor precursor to the disclosure of Kirk’s myriad lies about his military service. Now we know that in addition to being the “Closeted Congressman,” Mark Kirk is the biggest liar in U.S. Navy history. Kirk has lied about every aspect of his military career.

Kirk claimed to have won medals that don’t exist. Kirk lied when he said he had “fought” in wars where he never served. Kirk lied when he said he came under fire in Afghanistan. Kirk lied when he said he came under fire in Iraq. Kirk lied about commanding the War Room in the Pentagon.

How can John McCain proclaim his love of the military service and then back someone such as Kirk who has disgraced the Navy uniform by relentless lying about his imaginary accomplishments?

McCain claims he is coming back to Illinois to support Kirk. Do reports about Kirk’s Navy lies have no effect on McCain? Is McCain senile or just suspending his common sense for political profit when it comes to Mark Kirk?

Politicians wonder why we hate them. John McCain’s Mark Kirk hypocrisy is a classic example of why Congress is held in contempt by the American people.

Tea, anyone?

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ABOUT ANDY: Andy Martin, who Chicago Public Radio calls a “boisterous Internet activist,” is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and overseas experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
contrariancommentary.typepad.com[NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]

MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2010

2010-09-19T23:23:00.000-07:00

ANDY MARTIN: I’m overjoyed by the large protests that greeted Glenn Beck in Illinois

Illinois political reformer Andy Martin launched protests against Glenn Beck’s coming to Illinois as part of an event sponsored by corrupt Illinois Republicans. Martin protested in front of the News Corporation headquarters building in midtown Manhattan where Fox News is located. Saturday night hundreds of demonstrators greeted Beck when he appeared to promote the Illinois Republican Party. Martin is overjoyed by the turnout, which he views as a mandate to continue fighting Illinois’ rigged election laws. Martin is opposing Mark Kirk for the U. S. Senate.

Corruption fighter Andy Martin is overjoyed by the protests which greeted Pat Brady and Glenn Beck Saturday night

Martin says Glenn Beck, Andrew Breitbart and other "outsiders" have no idea they are endorsing corruption when they do business with Illinois Republicans such as Pat Brady

NEWS FROM:
ANDY MARTIN /2010
"The Name You Can Trust"
Illinois Reform Party
for U. S. Senator
30 E. Huron Street, Suite 4406
Chicago, IL60611-4723
(866) 706-2639
www.AndyforUSSenator.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.blogspot.com
www.AndyforUSSenator.wordpress.com
www.IllinoisHighSpeedTrains.com

Andy Martin's anti-Kirk blogs:

www.DefeatMarkKirk.blogspot.com;
www.MarkKirk.us

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

ANNOUNCEMENT OF SUNDAY NEWS CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO

Andy Martin is "overjoyed and overwhelmed" by the large opposition to the corrupt Illinois Republican Party's charade at Right Nation 2010 Saturday night

Martin triggered protests by his warning to Glenn Beck to "stay away" and avoid links to Pat Brady and the other crooks that control Mark Kirk's Illinois Republican Party

Martin says Illinois Republicans and conservatives are frustrated and angry at the fraudulent election choice they have been given in the "Closeted Mr. Kirk"

(CHICAGO)(September 19, 2010, 2010) Illinois Reform Party U. S. senate candidate Andy Martin, who is fighting to stay on the ballot and is planning to run as a write-in candidate against Mark Kirk, will hold a Sunday news conference to express his jubilation at the vociferous opposition which greeted Glenn Beck Saturday night. Beck's appearance was delayed because of the protests. Martin is normally a Republican, and he is supporting the Republican Party slate with the exception of the "closeted" Mark Kirk.

"When I started the ball rolling to organize a protest against Illinois Republican crooks trying to raise money by using Glenn Beck, I had no idea hundreds of people would respond," Martin will state. "Many of the protesters were liberals, but that's all right. As an Episcopalian myself I was delighted to see an Episcopal priest on the front lines. Liberals and conservatives are angry and fed up with our rigged Illinois election system.

"2010 Candidates were required to file for office a year ago. The world has changed greatly in the last year, but Illinois voters are still locked in with and stuck with candidates who were determined a year ago. This is not democracy. Both Democrats and Republicans need to raise their voices in protest.

"We need an electoral process in Illinois where voters get to vote in warm weather, not in the dead of winter. We need to have candidates who are chosen closer to the general election, not candidates who are required to file for office a year in advance of the general election.

"Chicago media lied during the primary election and ignored overwhelming evidence of military fraud by Mark Kirk. Voters were fooled and rigged again.

"We need to launch a bipartisan crusade. I am not afraid to sit down and talk with liberals any more than I am afraid to sit down with my conservative brethren. If we are going to solve the problems of this nation, we need to come together. For example, we need to rebuild our manufacturing capacity; German manufacturing has shown the way to prosperity and economic stability in this regard. Manufacturing creates good jobs at good wages. Instead of trying to divide a shrinking pie, we need to rebuild an expanding economy where everyone has a fair opportunity to share in the fruits of our financial success.

"I may be a conservative, but I am a conservative who cares about the poor, and not just about the affluent. There but for the Grace of God go I. You can't be a real Christian without manifesting love for those in need.

"Pat Brady is paying lawyers to keep me off the ballot. Why? He knows Republicans want to vote for me, not the slimy pipsqueak Mark Kirk. Kirk lied about his teaching career, he lied about his role in the cabal that sabotaged the Republican agenda, he lied about his military service, he lies about everything. The man's entire life is a lie. He is a disgrace to every and any Republican who votes for him.

"There were many honest conservatives who turned out Saturday night at Right Nation 2010, and I respect and admire them. But they are being used and abused by Illinois' political shysters such as Pat Brady and Mark Kirk.

"Andrew Breitbart was way off base when he taunted the sidewalk protesters. Breitbart had no idea he was being used as a stooge by Illinois Republicans to legitimize their corrupt 'Combine' operations.

"I stand with the people of Illinois, and Friday I stood before the 'Tower of Power' in Manhattan at News Corporation headquarters and warned Glenn Beck he would be met with protests if he came to Illinois to act as a cover for corruption. He's better than that. And he was met with opposition. Saturday night, the People of Illinois stood with me," Martin will state.

Martin has a Monday morning hearing in Circuit Court seeking to reverse the decision of the Machine-dominatedState Elections Board. Martin has filed to run as a write-in if he is kept off the ballot. He joins U. S. Senator Lisa Murkowski in that regard.

September 19th news conference details:

WHO:

Internet Powerhouse and Illinois anti-corruption crusader Andy Martin

WHERE:

Sidewalk news conference, SE corner of Huron and Wabash,
Chicago (weather permitting)(otherwise indoors)

WHEN: Sunday, September 19th 3:00 P.M.

WHAT:

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin is overjoyed and overwhelmed by the protests at Right Nation 2010

MEDIA CONTACT:(866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329

WEBSITE: http://www.AndyforUSSenator.com

E-MAIL: AndyforUSSenator@aol.com

-----------------------------ABOUT ANDY: Andy Martin, who Chicago Public Radio calls a "boisterous Internet activist," is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, "Obama: The Man Behind The Mask" and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the "Internet Powerhouse," www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and overseas experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
contrariancommentary.typepad.com[NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]

MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2010

2010-09-19T23:21:00.000-07:00

ANDY MARTIN: Barack Obama “caves” on Consumer Protection Agency

Illinois consumer protection activist Andy Martin says Obama is surrendering to Congress before Republicans even win. Obama has betrayed Elizabeth Warren because he is afraid to formally nominate her to head the new consumer protection agency within the Federal Reserve Board. Martin supports the agency and says that ordinary Americans need someone to stand up for them and against Wall Street bloodsuckers. It ain’t gonna be ‘Bama.

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin says “Obama the Coward” strikes again

Martin says that Obama’s refusal to nominating Elizabeth Warren to head the new consumer protection agency shows Obama is a scardy-cat

ContrarianCommentary.com
“The Internet Powerhouse”
Andy Martin
Executive Editor

“Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct”

AMERICA’S #1 POLITICAL
BLOG FOR THE 2010 CAMPAIGN

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ANDY MARTIN RIDICULES BARRY OBAMA’S SURRENDER TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY BEFORE REPUBLICANS EVEN WIN CONGRESS

MARTIN SAYS DEMOCRATS SHOULD BE TERRIFIED OF “TWO MORE YEARS” WITH BARRY-O

ANDY SAYS MARK KIRK IS A VALET AND STOOGE FOR WALL STREET BLOODSUCKERS

(NEW YORK)(September 17, 2010) Almost four (4) years ago I assembled a team of experts to prepare a psychological profile of then-Senator Barack Obama. I published my psychological profile of Obama during our “Obama Week” in February, 2007. The profile became a part of my bestselling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask.” Buy the book and read it. You’ll be scared. This man is now “commander” in-chief. Or something like that.

We predicted Obama had a brittle personality and that if he was placed under pressure he would collapse. He sure is.

He’s even afraid to formally nominate Elizabeth Warren to head the new consumer protection agency.

I happen to differ with Wall Street bloodsuckers and Republican Party bloodsuckers who take cash to oppose basic consumer protections. I think the new consumer protection agency located within the Federal Reserve Board is a great idea.

If this new agency had been in existence before 2008, our economy would not have crashed. Consumers deserve more protection from government. Wall Street leeches and bankers have lawyers and lobbyists to protect them. Ordinary people have no one. Any time you order a credit card, buy a car or own a home you get endless paperwork that no one (except a good lawyer) can understand.

I was Illinois’ first consumer advocate, way back in 1970 (see www.AndyMartin.com) and I have always stood for protecting the ordinary citizen from the Gordon Gekkos of this world. I tried the first consumer protection lawsuit at the Federal Reserve Board. In 1973.

Mark Kirk is a valet, a servant really, of Wall Street and the moneyed bosses that have orchestrated and controlled and manipulated and promoted Kirk’s career. Kirk is no Gekko; Kirk is merely a Gekko doolie. Kirk took a cool million in campaign cash from his Wall Street bosses. Whose side do you think the Kirkster is on?

But back to Obama. Instead of fighting for what he believes is right, and formally nominating Professor Warren for senate confirmation to head her new agency, Obama punted and merely named her an "adviser.” He was afraid of a confirmation fight. The Republicans have not even won the election yet and already Obama is surrendering! Now you know why foreign leaders have contempt for Obama.

How long before Obama bows down to Speaker John Boehner the way Barry bowed to the Saudi king and the Japanese emperor? Senator Mitch McConnell is also a bow-down-to-me leader-in-waiting.

If I was a Democrat I would be incontinent (to put it politely) right now. My pants would feel very heavy. Luckily I’m conservative Republican.

Democrats are being led by a coward. Now you know why ContrarianCommentary.com’s analysis is better than the mainstream media’s, and why we project that a lot of Republicans are going to make it to Washington that Washington is not too happy to see. We call ‘em as we see ‘em. I may be a Republican but I’m a truth-telling Republican, not a stooge for special interests the way Kirk is.

I just hope these new legislators don’t betray the people who sent them. Republicans have a history of doing that. Look at how they frittered away the fruits of 1994.

At the end of the day, we need balance in government. We do not need little Wall Street stooges such as Mark Kirk in the senate, ready to vacuum up campaign cash and sell out the working families of Illinois. We need someone that stands for prosperity, economic opportunity and sensible consumer protections as I do. Someone who stands up for the little folks and is not always taking campaign cash from the Pritzkers.

Maybe Obama should nominate me to lead the new consumer protection agency. I’m always ready to fight for the ordinary citizen. Obama is not.

But then, Barry Obama is the president from Goldman Sachs. He took a cool million in campaign cash from the Goldman Sachs pirates who profit while Americans suffer. Bend over, America.

You can’t really trust either party. You can only trust men and women of integrity who offer themselves for public service. And they are in short supply.

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ABOUT ANDY: Andy Martin, who Chicago Public Radio calls a “boisterous Internet activist,” is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and overseas experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
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MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2010

2010-09-19T23:19:00.001-07:00

ANDY MARTIN: Is Muslim life “cheap?”

ContrarianCommentary.com’s Executive Editor, Andy Martin, responds to the controversy between Martin Peretz and Harvard over Peretz’ remarks earlier this month that “Muslim life is cheap.”

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin on “Muslim life is cheap”

Martin says that “life is never cheap” for anyone who retains their humanity and love of God

ContrarianCommentary.com
“The Internet Powerhouse”
Andy Martin
Executive Editor

“Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct”

AMERICA’S #1 POLITICAL
BLOG FOR THE 2010 CAMPAIGN

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ANDY MARTIN DRAWS ON HIS WAR EXPERIENCES WAR TO DEBUNK THE BELIEF THAT ANY HUMAN LIFE IS “CHEAP”

MARTIN SAYS THAT SUPPORTERS OF ISRAEL, AND ISRAELIS THEMSELVES, SADLY ACT AS THOUGH PALESTINIAN LIFE IS CHEAP; ISRAELIS ARE BECOMING VICTIMS OF THEIR OWN ATROCITIES

(NEW YORK)(September 17, 2010) I grew up in the 1950’s. In those years Americans did not respect Asia. We spoke about “hordes” of Chinese, depersonalizing people for political reasons. Why would we compare Chinese to a “horde” of locusts? It’s easier to train people to kill locusts than to convince them to kill fellow human beings.

Perhaps the most damning libel of that era was that to “Chinese” or to Asians in general, “life is cheap.”

I thought we had grown out of such racist pretensions. No one today would seriously believe or publicly state that “To Chinese [or Asians] life is cheap.” The remarks would be unthinkable. So how could the publisher of the New Republic, Martin Peretz, make the claim that “But frankly, Muslim life is cheap…”

http://www.tnr.com/blog/77475/the-new-york-times-
laments-sadly-wary-misunderstanding-muslim-
americans-really-it-sadly-w

and wait almost ten days to apologize:

http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-spine/77607/martin-peretz-apology

Peretz’s remarks have created a controversy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/17/us/17harvard.html?ref=us

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/12/opinion/12kristof.html

I am in the process of writing some very critical remarks about the Islamic world, about the Ground Zero mosque, and about the aftermath of what happened recently in Gainesville, Florida and the Muslim reaction around the world.

I believe we are entitled to make critical comments about religion, especially when those remarks bear some relationship to political or legal matters encompassed in religious activity. Religious beliefs or actions should no more be immune to criticism and controversy than any other beliefs. On this I clearly disagree with Mohammedans, who seek to ascribe talismanic significance to documents and pieces of paper as “sacred.”

But “Muslim life is cheap?” To make such a remark, or even to contemplate such thoughts, is hideous. Today we are engaged in a growing nostalgia about President George Bush and his actions after 9/11. Bush clearly delineated “Islam is not the enemy.” Bush, of course, did the right thing. [One of my upcoming columns will be titled “Maybe Islam is the enemy” so stay tuned for that one. But I challenge beliefs, not the sanctity of human life in the Muslim world.]

Two moments in my young life changed me forever. I went to Viet-Nam without having thought much about the “life is cheap” ideology of the 1950’s. No one in my home had ever suggested that any life was cheap and I was raised to believe the opposite. At the age of ten I was studying the Holocaust, not baseball’s box scores. In Viet-Nam, life changed for me. The images are seared in my memory.

I was on the flight line at Dong Ha late one afternoon. It was a dreary day, overcast, and I was waiting for a hop to somewhere. There was a Vietnamese widow sitting on the casket of her dead ARVN (Vietnamese) soldier. Her wailing penetrated my soul.

I realized that life was not cheap for the grieving lady. Politics and wars apart, life is never cheap for any human being. I was so deeply touched that I was paralyzed and unable to even take a photo of the scene. But the image has remained with me and in me since that day. The casket, the widow and I flew together, where I do not remember.

My epiphany was repeated a few days later. I jumped out of a helicopter into a rice paddy in the U Minh Forest, into a Viet Cong stronghold where we were welcomed by machine gun fire. Again, such incidents are hard to forget. But what left the deepest impression that day was raiding a VC village where we genuinely surprised the “VC.” The coffee was still warm and I saw how the “VC” were living. There were baby carriages, and personal items strewn about as people fled in the moment.

For many decades I carried a wallet I retrieved that day, to remind me of what came to me in the Forest and what I have remembered every day of my life since then: “The enemy is always human.”

I don’t want to rile up by Jewish friends or readers, but here are some thoughts that may rile. Mr. Peretz is a strong supporter of Israel. I happen to love Israelis and I certainly respect their grieving for the Holocaust.

I went to a Jewish funeral in Boynton Beach, Florida earlier this month for the wonderful mother of a close friend in West Palm Beach. I was early for the funeral and wandered through the cemetery. I was reminded again by the inscriptions in the Jewish cemetery of the horrors that have been inflicted on innocent people based on anti-Semitism.

But I have also seen Israelis and pro-Israel supporters in the United States dehumanize Palestinians. A particularly outrageous lie was Golda Meir’s: she denied that Palestinians even existed. All the easier to kill them and occupy their land. Through the decades Israelis have treated Palestinians as sub-humans. I have always known that eventually the true victims of Israel’s Holocaust against the Palestinians, beginning in 1948 and continuing to this date, would be the Israelis themselves and their supporters. That is why I pray the current peace negotiations will succeed, although I am very skeptical they will.

Mr. Peretz’s attempts to delegitimize the entire Muslim world should cause him, and every supporter of Israel, to ponder the question of why peace never comes while Palestinian lands are expropriated and Palestinian wells are reserved for Israeli use. While he has apologized, and we should accept his apology, his original remarks were an insight into Peretz' soul. Perhaps Peretz’ support for Israelis has led him to dehumanize and demonize not only their Palestinian adversaries but all Muslims in general.

When babies are left to die at Israeli checkpoints, when women are clubbed, when children are bombed with white phosphorous, when prisoners are tortured, every Israeli dies a little death as such practices are tolerated and passed on to the next generation through compulsory military service. Ask not for whom the bell tolls, O Israel, it tolls for thee.

Ultimately, whatever our political beliefs, “our enemies are always human.” Life is never cheap as I learned on the flight line at Dong Ha and with an unexpected revelation in the U Minh Forest. I am delighted Mr. Peretz has apologized, and I hope he will ponder my broader thoughts on the issue.

As for my Muslim friends, they can expect my criticism in the next few days. I love them equally with my Israeli friends. But I will be as unsparing of my criticism for Muslims and Muslim-majority nations as I am with Israelis. I will never believe, however, that “life is cheap” for either side or any side in the Middle East or anywhere else in this life. “The enemy is always human.”

I am a Christian of the twenty-first century, for whom life is never cheap.

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ABOUT ANDY: Andy Martin, who Chicago Public Radio calls a “boisterous Internet activist,” is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and overseas experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
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MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2010

2010-09-19T23:19:00.000-07:00

2010-09-16T13:59:00.000-07:00

ANDY MARTIN: Chicago court hearing set in Illinois U. S. Senate campaign election appeal

Illinois corruption-fighter Andy Martin says Illinois state election laws violate the U. S. Constitution. A Cook County circuit judge has set a hearing Monday, September 20th at 10:00 A.M. to hear Martin’s appeal of a decision by the Illinois State Board of Elections.

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Andy Martin’s anti-Kirk blogs:

www.DefeatMarkKirk.blogspot.com
www.MarkKirk.us

September 16, 2010

Hon. Robert Bertucci,
Circuit Judge
County Division
Daley Center
Chicago, IL 60602
via Clerk’s fax (312) 603-3335

Re: In the Matter of: Heffernan, et al. 2010-COEL-0009

Dear Judge Bertucci:

I received today by fax (emailed fax) an appearance and page-numbered record from Assistant Attorney General Thomas Ioppolo. Mr. Ioppolo’s certificate of service appears to confirm he is delivering a hard copy to me. I am unable to print out a 75-page fax.

If the Court wishes, I can prepare a motion for summary judgment to present on September 20th, since time is of the essence. I do not see that we have any disputed facts in the matter pending before Your Honor, although we obviously dispute the applicable U. S. Constitutional issues as well as the inferences to be drawn from the undisputed facts.

My appeal is narrowly based on the admitted lack of statutory service by the State Board of Elections though I am obviously conversant with peripheral defenses which have been asserted by the respondents.

Unless otherwise ordered by the Court I will be ready to proceed on Monday the 20th at 10:00 A.M.

With all best wishes,

ANDY MARTIN

AM:sp

W/encl.

cc: Hon. Thomas A Ioppolo, AAG via fax (312) 814-3806

2010-09-16T13:57:00.000-07:00

ANDY MARTIN: Glenn Beck faces Manhattan protest for raising funds to support liberal Republicans

Illinois corruption-fighter Andy Martin says Glenn Beck is selling his credibility and betraying his audience by appearing at Right Nation 2010, which is supposedly a “conservative unity” event but which in reality is a cover for liberal Illinois Republicans to support the senate campaign of extreme liberal Mark Kirk. “Follow the money,” Andy Martin says. “Money placed in the pocket of the Illinois Republican Party will go to support Mark Kirk’s corrupt campaign, and to campaign against, not for conservative voters and conservative values. Why is Glenn Beck supporting such activity? It’s disgraceful.

Glenn Beck faces “warning” from Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin

Martin says Beck is selling himself for “thirty pieces of silver” to Right Nation 2010 in suburban Illinois on Saturday night

ContrarianCommentary.com
“The Internet Powerhouse”
Andy Martin
Executive Editor

“Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct”

AMERICA’S #1 POLITICAL
BLOG FOR THE 2010 CAMPAIGN

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW YORK NEWS CONFERENCE FRIDAY

ANDY MARTIN SAYS GLENN BECK SHOULD BOYCOTT RIGHT NATION 2010

MARTIN SAYS THAT BECK IS EFFECTIVELY RAISING MONEY FOR THE MOST LIBERAL AND CORRUPT STATE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN THE NATION

MARTIN SAYS ILLINOIS REPUBLICANS WILL USE BECK’S CASH TO SUPPORT CLOSETED SENATE CANDIDATE MARK KIRK, WHO FAVORS INFANTICIDE AND OTHER EXTREME LIBERAL POSITIONS

(NEW YORK)(September 16, 2010) ContrarianCommentary.com’s Executive Editor, Andy Martin, will hold a New York City news conference Friday, September 17th to condemn Glenn Beck for acting as a front for liberals in the Illinois Republican Party.

“Let me start by saying that there are a number of fine conservatives who are participating in Right Nation 2010,” Martin says. “But they are being used as dupes by the Illinois Republican Party. Where is senate candidate Mark Kirk? Hiding from conservatives. While liberal Republicans claim they are for ‘unity’ and raise cash to support Kirk nefarious candidacy, Kirk is running TV ads claiming he is an ‘independent.’

“Illinois Republican leaders, led by corrupt attorney and influence-peddler Pat Brady, nominated the most liberal candidate for the U. S. Senate in either party anywhere in the United States, Mark Kirk. Kirk voted for infanticide. He is not ‘pro-choice;’ he is for killing children who are born alive.

“Illinois Republican leaders such as Pat Brady are part of a corrupt bipartisan ‘Combine’ that loots Illinois taxpayers to feed both Republican and Democratic greed. Te State of Illinois is bankrupt, but government was not bankrupted solely by Democrats. Republicans are equally guilty, and are equal recipients of the endless public graft.

“Why is Glenn Beck supporting these crooks and raising money to broadcast their message? Has he no concern for his own credibility? He should stay the hell away from Illinois’ despicable Republican Party leadership and bogus conservatives.

“Kirk is a military pretender who lied about his medals, lied about his military service and lied about every aspect of his adult life. He effectively raped and abandoned his former wife, Kimberly Bertoli, and left her an emotional basket case.

“In Congress, Kirk played ‘footsie’ with Republican Pedophile Mark Foley, and helped sabotage President George Bush’s conservative agenda, in concert and conspiracy with homosexual employees on the payroll of former Speaker Dennis Hastert.

“As a college student Kirk followed gay lovers to Mexico, and sought to be around children to satisfy his pedophilic urges. Gay media and gay leaders regularly report on Kirk’s homosexual activity and hypocrisy.

“Are we supposed to forget Kirk’s past? Or present? Do we ignore his lies and vote for him as the ‘lesser of two evils?’ I think not. I have no problem with gays in the Republican Party. But I do have a serious problem with closeted Republican gay men that are subject to blackmail by liberal Democrats that know the truth about their depredations in Chicago’s ‘Boy’s Town.’

“I have a problem with a man who votes against repeal of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell,’ and then sends his emotional basket case former wife out to claim that he will vote for repeal if he is elected.

“Kirk is a scandal waiting to happen, after all of the scandals he has already generated in 2010. There are more to come.

“Beck is being paid to raise money where the principal beneficiary will be Illinois Republican leaders. If a liberal media personality such as Keith Olbermann were doing the same for corrupt Democrats, Beck would be howling in protest. He would compare Olbermann to Judas Iscariot and accuse him of selling his soul for thirty pieces of silver.

“Well, what about it Glen? Are you so hard up for cash you have to raise money that is going right into the pockets of the most extremely liberal Republican Party organization in America?”

Martin says that while Right Nation 2010 is billed as a "unity" event, in reality it is exactly the opposite. The meeting is nothing but a closeted fund raising vehicle to gain support for the Illinois Republican Party’s liberal agenda while seeking to neuter and neutralize genuine Illinois and Midwestern state conservatives through a bogus veneer of “unity.”

“Mark Kirk has made a joke of the Illinois Republican Party. Why would Beck want to make a joke of his conservative credentials? Does he need the money that bad?” Martin will state outside Beck’s midtown office building.

Martin says he would not be surprised to see pickets at Right Nation on Saturday, and “spontaneous” demonstrations which erupt inside the convention center as protests against Beck’s presence and support for Republican liberals becomes more generally known. Martin does not condone any form of violent demonstrations, however.

SEPTEMBER 17TH NEWS CONFERENCE DETAILS:

WHO:

ContrarianCommentary.com Executive Editor Andy Martin

WHAT:

Internet powerhouse Andy Martin says that Glenn Beck should cancel his appearance at Right Nation 2010 because Beck is promoting some of the most unsavory elements in American politics

WHERE:

1211 Avenue of the Americas, public sidewalk in front of News Corporation headquarters main entrance, New York

WHEN:

Friday, September 17th, 3:00 P. M.

MEDIA CONTACT:

GENERAL: (866) 706-2639 CELL (917) 664-9329;

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ABOUT ANDY: Andy Martin, who Chicago Public Radio calls a “boisterous Internet activist,” is the legendary New York and Chicago-based corruption-fighter, muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter both in Illinois and nationally for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and overseas experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
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MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2010

2010-09-16T00:55:00.000-07:00

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin says Barack Obama’s “brown shirts” are smearing Andy in light of a new Newsweek pool showing “faith” in Obama collapsing

Martin was the first person to offer a coherent timeline during the 2008 presidential campaign for Obama’s radical associations, on Sean Hannity’s America
ContrarianCommentary.com
“The Internet Powerhouse”
Andy Martin
Executive Editor

“Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ANDY MARTIN SAYS HE CAN ALWAYS TELL WHEN THE LEFT IS SCARED; THEY START ATTACKING ANDY AGAIN

MARTIN SAYS THAT THE LEFT’S DESPERATION CAN BE SEEN FROM THE CONSTANT EFFORTS TO SMEAR ANDY BY DISTORTING HIS ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS THIRTY AND FORTY YEARS AGO

MARTIN SAYS THAT AS BETWEEN THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE, MARTIN IS SLOWLY BUT SURELY BESTING OBAMA

MARTIN IS EN ROUTE TO FLORIDA FOR A “WAR COUNCIL” OVER THE LABOR DAY WEEKEND TO PLAN THE DEFEAT OF BARACK OBAMA IN 2012

(NEW YORK)(September 1, 2010) ContrarianCommentary.com’s Executive Editor, Andy Martin, is coming under new attacks by Barack Obama’s leftist stooges as Obama continues to lose media approval and public support. Martin is en route to Florida for a “war council” to orchestrate the delegitimization and defeat of Obama in 2012.

“I think it was Adlai Stevenson,” Martin says, “who said ‘I’ll stop telling the truth about them when they stop telling lies about me.’ Well, they’re lying again.

“The latest smear is a rehash of a rehash of a smear job by the New York Times during the 2008 presidential campaign. Last spring I was attacked by the Washington Post’s resident slimeball, David Weigel, who misrepresented my views. We are gearing up to sue Mr. Weigel. Now another leftist stooge, Stephen Webster of RawStory.com, is attacking me as a retort to Obama’s collapsing poll numbers.

“Webster accuses me of spreading ‘rumors’ about Barack Obama. That’s simply a Big Fat Stalinist Lie. Everything I have written about Obama is true; no one can point to a single word of mine that Obama has impeached. In fact, other authors have used my writing as a starting point, retraced my steps and confirmed my original views.

“Obama uses his media thugs to attack me as a way to shore up his poll numbers. He is terrified I’m winning and he’s losing.

“We will have our column Thursday or Friday on why Obama is a Muslim. We keep reaffirming our research and analysis and we stick by what we wrote in 2004.

“Webster goes on to suggest that ‘Fox News gave me a shot at fame.’ I was famous before I appeared on Fox News; they asked me to be a guest because everyone’s research was based on my original scholarly work. To paraphrase ‘Sunset Boulevard,’ ‘I made Fox News, they didn’t make me.’

“Webster attacks me for my theory that Frank Marshall Davis is really Obama’s biological daddy. Obama has never denied that fact. And, since I do not have a blood test to prove my theory, I have carefully labeled my theory as a theory.

‘What is interesting is that Webster has probably not done any original, independent research into the facts and truth about Obama. I have actually been to Hawai’i and done original research there over three years. We produced the only film on Obama's Hawai’i years. It's on the Internet to be viewed.

“My movement is growing based on the facts and the truth about BHO. Obama is in decline because he is a liar and fraud. We are hoping to raise money to go back to Hawai'i in November. No other writer has done the extensive on-the-scene research I have in Chicago, Honolulu and New York. That is where my theory about Davis comes from.

“Webster, instead, uses the New York Times’ propaganda barrages against me as his journalistic snot rag. He can't do research so he merely regurgitates old lies.

“I am indeed controversial in our judicial system. I am exposing corruption constantly. Just last month I exposed a creepy judge in Springfield, Illinois who bought himself a judgeship, and kept making political contributions while sitting on a case involving his donees.

“I plead guilty to being unpopular in Illinois politics. But this is the same Illinois politics that once voted to condemn the late Senator Paul Simon as a traitor. I am in good company. I am not controversial because I am a bad guy in Illinois. I am one of the few good guys who has spent a career exposing petty and great corruption in our legal system.

“As a young law student at the University of Illinois College of Law, I incurred the wrath of the Illinois Supreme Court when I worked with reporters to expose two corrupt justices who were forced to resign from the Court.

“Then I exposed liberal icon John Paul Stevens as someone who had done shady business with the corrupt Illinois Democratic Party.

“I exposed Jose (‘call me Joe’) Cabranes, the ‘cocaine cowboy’ of the federal courts, who appeared to be so high in court he was flying off the bench. Cocaine Cabranes is no friend of mine. But President Bill Clinton looked at my evidence and rejected Cabranes for the Supreme Court.

“Can anyone else point to such a successful record of fighting corruption? I don’t think so.

“It is amazing how the left uses McCarthyism to attack me because I am Obama’s strongest and longest critic. They dredge up thirty and forty year-old news stories and then distort the facts to smear me, not because of what I did then, but because of what I am doing now.

“In the final analysis, being smeared by Barack Obama and his sleazy supporters is the ultimate compliment. He created a dirty tricks squad to attack me in 2008, and they continue to harass me. I must be a threat for 2012 or they would not be trying to minimize my impact. I exposed Obama as a Muslim six years ago. Stephen Webster, Newsweek and the mainstream media are forced to admit the American people believe me, not Obama.

“If I have to choose between the confidence of the American people and the confidence of the Weigels and Websters of this world, I am proud to say every day more and more Americans believe my research,” Martin says. “Obama can go and be the president of Kenya. He’s eligible there.”

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ABOUT ANDY: Andy Martin, who Chicago Public Radio calls a “boisterous Internet activist,” is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and overseas experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
contrariancommentary.typepad.com[NOTE: We try to correct any typographical errors in this story on our blogs; find our latest edition there.]

MEDIA CONTACT: (866) 706-2639 or CELL (917) 664-9329E-MAIL: AndyMart20@aol.com © Copyright by Andy Martin 2010

2010-09-16T00:54:00.000-07:00

PALM BEACH [CHICAGO] NEWS CONFERENCE: Sunday, September 5th

Andy Martin says Mark Kirk’s efforts to demonize Alexi Giannoulias by connecting Giannoulias to financial problems in Greece are ethnic scapegoating

Martin says the slimy politics of Pat Brady and Mark Kirk is going to backfire in the Greek-American community

ContrarianCommentary.com
“The Internet Powerhouse”
Andy Martin
Executive Editor

“Factually Correct, Not Politically Correct”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ATTENTION DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS

ANNOUNCEMENT OF SUNDAY NEWS CONFERENCE IN PALM BEACH

Andy Martin says Greek-Americans should send Mark Kirk a message: They will boycott the Republican Party as long as it is led by racist drunks and punks such as Pat Brady and Mark Kirk

Martin says Kirk’s attempts to demonize Alexi Giannoulias by connecting Giannoulias to economic problems in Greece is nothing more than ethnic McCarthyism.

Martin says he is taking the lead in “taking down” Kirk because Illinois’ Greek-American leaders are afraid to stand up and condemn the bigotry of the Republican Party

(CHICAGO)(September 5, 2010) Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin will hold a Palm Beach news conference Sunday, September 5th to accuse Mark Kirk of being “racist, repulsive and repugnant” for attacking Alexi Giannoulias based on the financial crisis in Greece.

“Mr. Kirk and his slimy patron, the drunken brawler Pat Brady, have been attacking Alexi Giannoulias as a Mafioso. They have now begun to demonize Giannoulias for problems in Greece having nothing to do with Giannoulias:

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“I do not support Alexi Giannoulias, have never spoken to him, and have no connection with his campaign. But my mother’s parents immigrated from Greece, and they came to the Chicago area about a hundred years ago to work on building the railroads. My family was involved in founding some of the earliest associations of the Greek-American community. If my late Uncle Bill Vasiliou was still alive he would be outraged by Kirk’s demagoguery.

“Where are Illinois’ ‘usual’ Greek-American leaders? Are they afraid to stand up for Greece? Are they political hypocrites? If so they are cowards, and they are no better than Mark Kirk.

“I am not an ‘ethnic’ politician and I usually run away from appeals based on parentage. But I was baptized in the Greek Orthodox Church. I will not allow Kirk to conduct his slimy politics and to denigrate Greek-Americans with his malignant campaign tactics. [I later joined the Episcopal Church where my father worshipped.]

“If anyone should be considered an agent of a foreign government, it is Mark Kirk. Kirk takes campaign cash to be a mouthpiece for the Israeli military junta in Tel Aviv. It is Kirk who sabotaged America’s foreign policy interests for campaign cash, not Alexi Giannoulias. Kirk is the one who lied about ‘weapons of mass destruction’ in Iraq the same way he lied about his own military career. Some ‘intelligence officer’ Kirk is. Kirk dragged us into a war that virtually bankrupted ordinary Americans, damaged our economy and cost us thousands of dead troops and tens of thousands of disabled veterans.

“Kirk has a lot of nerve bragging about his Navy service, where he has spent two decades doing little more than enjoying buggery. Kirk’s attempt to link Giannoulias to the financial problems of the European Union are laughable. Kirk’s comparison of his disgraceful behavior in the Navy to Giannoulias’ basketball playing is a complete non sequitur. Kirk is a disgrace to every American, to the U. S. Navy uniform, and to the Republican Party.

“Kirk’s anti-Greek smears are desperate acts by a desperate man whom I previously exposed as America’s greatest liar and the biggest embarrassment to the U. S. Navy in years.

“Spain has financial problems similar to those in Greece. I don’t see Kirk insulting Hispanics. Ireland is a financial mess. Should we blame Pat Brady and hold him accountable for Ireland’s economy? Not at all. Even I won’t blame Brady for Ireland’s problems. Brady has enough problems of his own. He’s in bed with Mark Kirk.

“The bottom line: both Kirk and Giannoulias have failed to ‘close the deal’ with Illinois voters. Both men are flawed in different ways. But in the days ahead they should make their cases to the voters without engaging in ethnic slurs. Kirk’s anti-Greek behavior is an embarrassment to the Republican Party, locally and nationally.

“If Mr. Kirk expects to continue to represent the Republican Party through November, and he could always decide to step down after we dump more embarrassing disclosures on him in a few days, he should not be insulting Greek-Americans and should stop trying to link Giannoulias to the nation of Greece. If Kirk keeps up the anti-Greek attacks, he is going to be very unhappy when I expose his unsavory links to Israel and Mark Foley.

“Greece has been a loyal friend to America, through World War II, Korea and in the Cold War. To see Kirk smearing Greece to gain a few Neanderthal votes tells you what kind of a senator Kirk would be: divisive, corrupt and totally without any moral scruples.

“Kirk is a despicable human being who devastated and destroyed his wife, and left her an emotional basket case. Our investigation of the Kimberly Vertoli tragedy is continuing; we will also have forthcoming exposes on Kirk’s unfitness to hold any public office.

“I was the person who exposed Kirk’s military lies in January. I exposed him as a Navy imposter long before the national media did so. We have more negative facts on Kirk and we aim to see that the Illinois public knows who Kirk really is before they vote on November 2nd. He is a sick, sick man,” Martin will charge.

Martin is on vacation visiting relatives in Florida and also meeting with supporters to plan the 2012 defeat of Barack Obama.

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September 5 news conference details:

WHO:

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin

WHERE:

Sidewalk news conference, in front of 95 N. County Road, Palm Beach, FL (Palm Beach Post Office)

WHEN: Sunday, September 5th 12:00 P.M.

WHAT:

Andy Martin says Mark Kirk is defaming Greek-Americans with his constant criticism of Greece. Martin calls Kirk “racist, repulsive and repugnant”

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-----------------------------ABOUT ANDY: Andy Martin, who Chicago Public Radio calls a “boisterous Internet activist,” is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and overseas experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

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2010-09-16T00:52:00.000-07:00

ANDY MARTIN: Christine O’Donnell is the next U S Senator from Delaware

Andy Martin explains why Christine O’Donnell is going to be swept into the U. S. Senate on November 2nd. Martin, whose forty-five years of political expertise are unparalleled in American media, predicts a “wave” is going to sweep away the established order in Washington. Martin is the author of the best seller “Obama: the Man Behind the Mask,” and producer of the film “Obama: The Hawai’i Years.” He is the Executive Editor of ContrarianCommentary.com.

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin says Christine O’Donnell is going to the U. S. Senate

Martin says the 2010 election “wave” is going to sweep O’Donnell into the Senate

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ANDY MARTIN PREDICTS CHRISTINE O’DONNELL WINS DELAWARE IN NOVEMBER

MARTIN SAYS A “WAVE” IS BUILDING THAT IS GOING TO SWEEP AWAY MUCH OF THE OLD POLITICAL ORDER

(NEW YORK)(September 16, 2010) No sooner had Christine O’Donnell won the Delaware primary for U. S. Senator than Carl Rove was on Fox News trashing her as a sure loser. I beg to differ with Mr. Rove. O’Donnell is a sure winner. Christine O’Donnell is going to the U. S. Senate.

Rove is a bright guy. And a lot of bright people in the Republican Party agree with him. But they’re wrong. It’s a cultural thing. Rove is a millionaire and making a fortune. People in both parties in Washington are prospering. Most of us are not.

Every so often a tsunami wave comes along and sweeps people into office that would normally lose. 2010 is such a year.

In fact, Rove on the right, and the liberal media on the left, have already become unwitting agents of O’Donnell’s November election.

I don’t know what O’Donnell’s financial problems are. And I am not going to study them carefully. But I do know most Americans are struggling right now. Those that are not struggling are afraid they “might be next.” The more Rove-on-the-right and the media-on-the-left attack O’Donnell for her financial problems, and for struggling with her life, and for her occasional loopy statement, the more they are going to make her acceptable to ordinary voters, even ordinary Democrats.

And look who she’s running against: a tax-addicted spend-and-spend Democrat. O’Donnell has the perfect foil.

I first went to Washington in 1966. That was a “wave” year. Illinois Republicans nominated Chuck Percy for U. S. Senator because they wanted him to lose (!). Senator Paul Douglas first spoke to me about the coming wave. He was a sure winner who became a loser when the wave hit. I have been studying political waves since then.

I saw what Barack Obama was doing to America last year. That is when I first began to expect a wave to hit him in 2010. And, on schedule, the wave is on the way. Obama can’t stop it.

In my book “Obama: the Man Behind the Mask,” I prepared a psychological profile of Obama [in 2007]. I predicted in 2007 how Obama would see the wave coming and freeze. He’s pretty cold right now.

I don’t feel I am going out on a limb predicting O’Donnell’s victory in November. Because this election is not about Christine O’Donnell, or Sharron Angle or any of the other “Tea Party” candidates that have turned up as surprise winners in primary elections. The “wave” is behind them. They are going to sweep away what is in front of them.

“Wave” elections are totally different from ordinary campaigns. When a political wave hits it washes away everything in it way. In the days ahead I’ll give more detailed reasons for my belief that this is a wave election. But trust me. Republicans are going to be elected who could never be elected in any other year.

Pollster Dick Morris is also predicting a transformative campaign. He’s right. Lionel, my friend who originally hails from Tampa Bay and who is now a WPIX-TV commentator in New York, also feels the early oscillations of the wave. He’s right too.

Look what happened in O’Donnell’s primary. She began as a joke, a sure loser. A month ago O’Donnell was still a joke. Two weeks ago she was a dead duck. A week ago she became a remote threat. And this week the wave hit and a she defeated a sure winner. Congressman Castle was washed away.

What happened? The more the media and her own party establishment ganged up on O’Donnell, and the more they beat up on her, the stronger she became. Her opponents validated her independence.

Everyone agrees people are angry. [In addition to being a “wave” election, this is a “sleeping giant” election; more of the “giant” later.] Ordinary voters are suffering in a way that the media still can’t portray or comprehend. There is a climate of fear. Growing. People have gone from the luxury of confidence and affluence in 2008 to an attitude of financial fear in 2010.

If Ms. O’Donnell has suffered, and is still suffering, economic problems she has a lot of company. If everyone who lost a job, or feels insecure about the future of their job, votes for her, and if the media energize the process by constantly ridiculing O’Donnell, she is a sure winner.

No one has produced a plan on how to revive our economy. Anything goes. And every candidate who is for “anything goes,” will be swept along by the wave.

O’Donnell’s views on the issues don’t matter. I don’t anticipate campaign debates over the virtues or vices of masturbation, which seems to be an O’Donnell topic of special interest. I have no idea where she stands on abortion. But I do know that O’Donnell will be a disruptive, and therefore a transformative force in the U. S. senate.

Which is why O’Donnell is the next U. S. Senator from Delaware.

“Wave” to her.

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ABOUT ANDY: Andy Martin, who Chicago Public Radio calls a “boisterous Internet activist,” is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and overseas experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
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2010-09-16T00:50:00.000-07:00

ANDY MARTIN is back from vacation with blockbuster political predictions

America’s #1 political blog for the 2010 election resumes. Andy Martin is the author of the best seller “Obama: the Man Behind the Mask,” and producer of the film “Obama: The Hawai’i Years.” He is the Executive Editor of ContrarianCommentary.com. Watch for Andy’s confrontation with Glenn Beck over political morality.

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin is back with blockbuster analysis of Barack Obama, the Ground Zero Mosque and the 2010 elections

Martin gets ready to picket Glenn Beck—stay tuned for details on Thursday afternoon
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ANDY MARTIN IS BACK WITH BLOCKBUSTER ANALYSIS AND COMMENTARY

(NEW YORK)(September 16, 2010) I took a couple of weeks off to visit family in Florida and to take a more relaxed view of the current controversies, before all hell broke loose in mid-September. And, much to my surprise, all hell broke loose. Early.

There was the madcap Koran-burning pastor, who turned the world upside down before September 11th. And the demonstrations at the Ground Zero Mosque. And the minute I was out of town Barry Obama started acting up again. On and on it goes.

Well, we’re back. So get ready.

Starting today we will be providing our unique insight on the upcoming election and Pretender Barack Obama's role. Later in the week I hope to announce the results of a “War Council” that was held in Palm Beach during my time off. A major new initiative is on the way in the endless war for the truth and the facts about Barack Obama’s “religion” and place of birth. Aloha Obama!

But let me start with one conclusion, observation, call it what you want, that will serve as the overriding arc for what is to come in the days ahead. Barack Obama has made the 2010 election into a transformative moment in American politics. Most media have not yet grasped this fact. Even though Republicans will be the major beneficiaries of this transformation, most Republicans do not yet appreciate the enormity of what is coming. For better and for worse.

I was channel surfing last night and stumbled across my old friend Lionel from the Tampa Bay area. Twenty years ago Lionel and I used to josh on radio station WFLA. Lionel is one of the few broadcasters that understands what is about to hit the United States. A transformative wave that is going to sweep away much of the existing political order.

I saw such a wave hit in 1964. In the aftermath, President Johnson enacted a massive legislative program in 1965. But Johnson’s reach exceeded his grasp in Viet-Nam. Two years later in 1966 there was a reverse wave that erased the 89th Congress. 1966 led to the chaos of 1968 and the election of President Richard Nixon.

The Watergate wave hit in 1974. Six years later President Ronald Reagan erased the effects of 1974, and then some. Then came 1994 (the most popular frame of reference for 2010 for most cable TV bobbleheads). 2008 erased 1994, and then some.

The 2010 wave is going to be something very big, very unexpected and very upsetting to the established political order.

This column is accompanied by a second column analyzing the primary victory of Christine O’Donnell for U. S. Senator in Delaware.

As usual, readers will agree with some of my views, and disagree with others. But we have a unique insight into what is coming. Just stay with ContrarianCommentary.com and surf the wave. The Republicans can’t see it coming. The Democrats can hear it coming. And just as we were the first news organization to analyze and predict what was happening in 2008, we will be the first in 2010.

Note and full disclosure: To avoid confusion in the days ahead, let me start with a brief explanation. We will be operating on a two-track approach. Primarily, we will be analyzing national trends. Personally I am also involved in the campaign to defeat Mark Kirk for U. S. Senator in Illinois. So some days will be “national” days; and some days will be “Illinois” days. Hopefully, they will complement each other.

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ABOUT ANDY: Andy Martin, who Chicago Public Radio calls a “boisterous Internet activist,” is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and overseas experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
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2010-09-16T00:48:00.000-07:00

Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin says Barack Obama’s “brown shirts” are smearing Andy in light of a new Newsweek pool showing “faith” in Obama collapsing

Martin was the first person to offer a coherent timeline during the 2008 presidential campaign for Obama’s radical associations, on Sean Hannity’s America

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ANDY MARTIN SAYS HE CAN ALWAYS TELL WHEN THE LEFT IS SCARED; THEY START ATTACKING ANDY AGAIN

MARTIN SAYS THAT THE LEFT’S DESPERATION CAN BE SEEN FROM THE CONSTANT EFFORTS TO SMEAR ANDY BY DISTORTING HIS ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS THIRTY AND FORTY YEARS AGO

MARTIN SAYS THAT AS BETWEEN THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE, MARTIN IS SLOWLY BUT SURELY BESTING OBAMA

MARTIN IS EN ROUTE TO FLORIDA FOR A “WAR COUNCIL” OVER THE LABOR DAY WEEKEND TO PLAN THE DEFEAT OF BARACK OBAMA IN 2012

(NEW YORK)(September 1, 2010) ContrarianCommentary.com’s Executive Editor, Andy Martin, is coming under new attacks by Barack Obama’s leftist stooges as Obama continues to lose media approval and public support. Martin is en route to Florida for a “war council” to orchestrate the delegitimization and defeat of Obama in 2012.

“I think it was Adlai Stevenson,” Martin says, “who said ‘I’ll stop telling the truth about them when they stop telling lies about me.’ Well, they’re lying again.

“The latest smear is a rehash of a rehash of a smear job by the New York Times during the 2008 presidential campaign. Last spring I was attacked by the Washington Post’s resident slimeball, David Weigel, who misrepresented my views. We are gearing up to sue Mr. Weigel. Now another leftist stooge, Stephen Webster of RawStory.com, is attacking me as a retort to Obama’s collapsing poll numbers.

“Webster accuses me of spreading ‘rumors’ about Barack Obama. That’s simply a Big Fat Stalinist Lie. Everything I have written about Obama is true; no one can point to a single word of mine that Obama has impeached. In fact, other authors have used my writing as a starting point, retraced my steps and confirmed my original views.

“Obama uses his media thugs to attack me as a way to shore up his poll numbers. He is terrified I’m winning and he’s losing.

“We will have our column Thursday or Friday on why Obama is a Muslim. We keep reaffirming our research and analysis and we stick by what we wrote in 2004.

“Webster goes on to suggest that ‘Fox News gave me a shot at fame.’ I was famous before I appeared on Fox News; they asked me to be a guest because everyone’s research was based on my original scholarly work. To paraphrase ‘Sunset Boulevard,’ ‘I made Fox News, they didn’t make me.’

“Webster attacks me for my theory that Frank Marshall Davis is really Obama’s biological daddy. Obama has never denied that fact. And, since I do not have a blood test to prove my theory, I have carefully labeled my theory as a theory.

‘What is interesting is that Webster has probably not done any original, independent research into the facts and truth about Obama. I have actually been to Hawai’i and done original research there over three years. We produced the only film on Obama's Hawai’i years. It's on the Internet to be viewed.

“My movement is growing based on the facts and the truth about BHO. Obama is in decline because he is a liar and fraud. We are hoping to raise money to go back to Hawai'i in November. No other writer has done the extensive on-the-scene research I have in Chicago, Honolulu and New York. That is where my theory about Davis comes from.

“Webster, instead, uses the New York Times’ propaganda barrages against me as his journalistic snot rag. He can't do research so he merely regurgitates old lies.

“I am indeed controversial in our judicial system. I am exposing corruption constantly. Just last month I exposed a creepy judge in Springfield, Illinois who bought himself a judgeship, and kept making political contributions while sitting on a case involving his donees.

“I plead guilty to being unpopular in Illinois politics. But this is the same Illinois politics that once voted to condemn the late Senator Paul Simon as a traitor. I am in good company. I am not controversial because I am a bad guy in Illinois. I am one of the few good guys who has spent a career exposing petty and great corruption in our legal system.

“As a young law student at the University of Illinois College of Law, I incurred the wrath of the Illinois Supreme Court when I worked with reporters to expose two corrupt justices who were forced to resign from the Court.

“Then I exposed liberal icon John Paul Stevens as someone who had done shady business with the corrupt Illinois Democratic Party.

“I exposed Jose (‘call me Joe’) Cabranes, the ‘cocaine cowboy’ of the federal courts, who appeared to be so high in court he was flying off the bench. Cocaine Cabranes is no friend of mine. But President Bill Clinton looked at my evidence and rejected Cabranes for the Supreme Court.

“Can anyone else point to such a successful record of fighting corruption? I don’t think so.

“It is amazing how the left uses McCarthyism to attack me because I am Obama’s strongest and longest critic. They dredge up thirty and forty year-old news stories and then distort the facts to smear me, not because of what I did then, but because of what I am doing now.

“In the final analysis, being smeared by Barack Obama and his sleazy supporters is the ultimate compliment. He created a dirty tricks squad to attack me in 2008, and they continue to harass me. I must be a threat for 2012 or they would not be trying to minimize my impact. I exposed Obama as a Muslim six years ago. Stephen Webster, Newsweek and the mainstream media are forced to admit the American people believe me, not Obama.

“If I have to choose between the confidence of the American people and the confidence of the Weigels and Websters of this world, I am proud to say every day more and more Americans believe my research,” Martin says. “Obama can go and be the president of Kenya. He’s eligible there.”

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ABOUT ANDY: Andy Martin, who Chicago Public Radio calls a “boisterous Internet activist,” is the legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. He has over forty years of background in radio and television and is the dean of Illinois media and communications. He promotes his best-selling book, “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” and his Internet movie "Obama: The Hawai'i years." Martin has been a leading corruption fighter in Illinois for over forty years. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com
Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and overseas experience. He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

UPDATES: www.twitter.com/AndyMartinUSAwww.facebook.com/AndyMartin Andy's columns are also posted at ContrarianCommentary.blogspot.com; contrariancommentary.wordpress.com.
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