Palin guilty of 'abuse of power'
Tilly
trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief
investigator of an Alaska legislative panel concluded Friday. The
politically charged inquiry imperiled her reputation as a reformer on John
McCain's Republican ticket.
Investigator Stephen Branchflower, in a report by a bipartisan panel that
investigated the matter, found Palin in violation of a state ethics law that
prohibits public officials from using their office for personal
gain...................
Gib Bogle
It'll turn out to be Obama's fault, just wauit and see.
EMB
She must be related to our current government.
JekyLL & hYĐe
No, no, no, it was National who met with a potential Tranzrail buyer with
undeclared shares, not Labour.
J&H.
Tilly
news:gcp6mk$opo$1...@lust.ihug.co.nz...
You just know things are bad for McCain/Palin when William F Buckley's son
says he'll be vorting for Obama! lol
Sorry dad, I'm voting for Obama.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-10/the-conservative-case-for-obama
Gib Bogle
Yeah, I saw that.
The McCain team have now blamed Obama for the outcome of the Palin inquiry:
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE49A0Q320081011
Gib Bogle
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/
Fox are still ignoring the Palin inquiry report.
Rich80105
And John Key who traded in rail shares after asking questions about
rail in parliament.
Come to think of it, if Key was trading in those shares, what other
shares has he been trading in while Leader of the Opposition? As the
person holding that role he gets special briefings on a number of
issues, including security - has John Key been using that information
to line his own pockets through a bit of slippery share trading?
Tilly
> This is interesting reading:
> http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/
>
> Fox are still ignoring the Palin inquiry report.
I've read it.
Have you seen the latest Newsweek poll?
-
The global financial meltdown has caused a dramatic shift in the 2008
presidential race, according to the latest NEWSWEEK poll. With four weeks
left in the presidential campaign, Barack Obama now leads John McCain by
double digits, 52 percent to 41 percent among registered voters-a marked
shift from the last NEWSWEEK poll, conducted one month ago, when the two
candidates were tied at 46 percent.
Underlying Obama's surge in support: An historic boiling over of
dissatisfaction with the status quo. An astounding 86 percent of voters now
say they are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the United
States, while a mere 10 percent say they are satisfied. That's the highest
wrong track/right track ratio ever recorded in the NEWSWEEK poll.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/163339-
bof...@gmail.com
Gib Bogle
Yes, but I'm not ready to relax yet.
I've been skimming Greenwald's stuff on Salon. In case you didn't see
this (further down the page), I'm sure it'll interest you (especially if
you ever watch Fox News - Hannity is one of the worst people on TV, even
worse than O'Reilly):
Sean Hannity, Robert Gibbs and anti-Semitism: How to go on Fox News
For the third debate in a row, actual polling data last night (as well
as uncommitted focus groups) revealed that most Americans believe that
the Democratic candidate (Obama/Biden) won decisively. In stark
contrast, this is what the poll of Fox News viewers found: <snipped>
In the real world among Americans, Obama won the debate by 15-30 points,
but in Fox News World, McCain won the debate by 86-12%. That’s what Fox
News is and who their viewers are: a right-wing propaganda outlet with
an almost entirely unpersuadable viewership. For that reason, I don’t
understand why the Obama campaign helps legitimize them as a real news
network by appearing on Fox programs. But the Obama campaign obviously
disagrees and regularly does so.
Agree or disagree with that tactical choice, any Democrat preparing to
go on Fox News should study how Obama communications director Robert
Gibbs mauled Sean Hannity last night and copy and learn from it as
though it is Scripture (video below). First, a bit of background: in the
1980s and 1990s, Anthony Martin-Trigona was well-known to New York
litigators as a source of warped entertainment, wonderment and universal
disgust.
For years, Martin-Trigona ran around continuously suing so many random
people on a pro se basis — and when he would lose, he would then sue the
lawyers who represented the parties he sued and the judges who ruled
against him — that the Second Circuit Court of Appeals actually barred
him from commencing any further judicial process without prior
authorization, an unprecedented and truly extraordinary order. Some of
that history is set forth here. Martin-Trigona would file so many new,
rambling lawsuits and motions on a virtually daily basis that, as the
Second Circuit pointed out, it actually became impossible for courts
even to process: “Martin-Trigona’s voluminous filings have ‘inundated’
the District of Connecticut and his activities have burdened judicial
operations to the point of impairing the administration of justice.”
It wasn’t just the quantity but the content that made his litigious
behavior so notable. The documents he filed were routinely filled with
the most extreme anti-Semitic venom one could find anywhere this side of
Mein Kampf. The lawsuits were often based on the theory that a cabal of
Jewish judges, lawyers and government officials were conspiring against
him, and the Complaints he filed would be filled with
artfully-constructed allegations along these lines:
Paragraph 8: On July 12, 1988, the plaintiff-Jew met with
aforementioned Jew lawyer to prepare for hearing with the Jew judge.
That’s a paraphrase from memory, but it’s a quite accurate illustration
of what his documents routinely contained. In 1986, he ran for Congress
in Illinois under this campaign committee: “The Anthony R.
Martin-Trigona Congressional Campaign to Exterminate Jew Power in
America,” and he wrote sympathetically of the Holocaust. As The
Washington Times described this year:
In a New York bankruptcy case, he referred to a judge as a
“crooked, slimy Jew.” During the bankruptcy dispute, he filed a
civil-rights lawsuit claiming Jewish bankruptcy judges and lawyers were
conspiring to steal his property. He asked a court to bar “any Jew from
having anything to do with plaintiff’s property.”
In another motion in the case, he wrote: “I am able to understand
how the Holocaust took place, and with every passing day feel less and
less sorry that it did, when Jew survivors are operating as a wolf pack
to steal my property.”
After the mid-1990s, Martin-Trigona re-surfaced in Florida with a name
change (“Andy Martin”), ran for public office multiple times as a
Republican (even the local GOP repudiated him), then became a vocal
supporter of Rudy Giuliani’s presidential campaign, and finally an
obsessive “investigator” of Barack Obama, trafficking in the filthiest
and most deranged muck that for months stimulated the darkest crevices
of the right-wing slime machine. As The New York Times put it, Martin
“is credited as being among the first — if not the first — to assert in
a chain e-mail message that Mr. Obama was secretly a Muslim.”
Over the weekend, Sean Hannity hosted a show on Fox News entitled Obama
& Friends: The History of Radicalism. The star of Hannity’s smear fest
was none other than Andy Martin, who was featured as an honored,
credible investigator and source to expose “the real Barack Obama.”
There wasn’t a hostile or adversarial word uttered by Hannity about or
towards Martin. To the contrary, Martin’s claims were the basis for many
of the Fox News show’s allegations against Obama. This is how Fox
described him on-screen when he spoke: “Andy Martin, AUTHOR &
JOURNALIST”: < video snipped>
Hannity turned to Martin after asking what Obama means by “community
organizer,” and Martin explained that Obama “was in training for a
radical overthrow of the government” — and Fox then promoted Martin’s
book: <video snipped>
Martin then linked Obama to Louis Farrakhan, Hugo Chavez, and Fidel
Castro, telling Fox’s 2 million viewers: “So if you love the Cuban
revolution and Castro and if you love what’s happening in Venezuela with
Hugo Chavez, you’ll love Barry Obama — Barack Obama, as he calls himself
— in the White House.”
Hannity never once said a negative word about Martin; never challenged
him on anything he ever said or did; and never informed Fox viewers
about Martin’s despicable, truly demented history. Instead, Martin was
Sean Hannity’s respected source, presented as an “Author and Journalist”
to support Hannity’s “reporting.” As Fort Lauderdale’s Sun-Sentinel put
it: Fox’s “star witness was Andy Martin, whose incendiary,
unsubstantiated claims about Obama’s past were allowed to go unchallenged.”
All of that led to last night’s masterful appearance by Robert Gibbs on
Hannity & Colmes after the debate. Gibbs obviously knew that Hannity was
interested in asking him only about the most vital issue of the day in
the world of right-wing extremism — the exciting attempt to link Obama
to Bill Ayers through rank guilt-by-association — and this is the superb
exchange that ensued: <video snipped>
If Democrats are going to subject themselves to the low-life tactics of
Fox News, that’s the only way to do so — by taking their deceitful
standards and, in every instance, applying it to Fox and their
“journalists.” Fox News just produced a “documentary” about Obama in
reliance on someone like Andy Martin, whose history was concealed from
the poor, endlessly propagandized Fox viewers, and yet the myth that Fox
is a legitimate news network will continue to be widely maintained.
One other note: the Anti-Defamation League, needless to say, has not
uttered a peep about Fox News and Hannity’s promotion and legitimizing
of Andy “crooked, slimy Jew” Martin, because doing so would undermine
the ADL’s now patently transparent GOP-supporting agenda. As I’ve
documented on several occasions in the past, the ADL routinely ignores
instances of blatant Holocaust-trivializing and other acts of
game-playing and exploitation of anti-Semitism when coming from Fox
News, which generally supports the ADL’s political agenda having nothing
to do with its claimed mission.
And that’s to say nothing of the entire cottage industry of pundits and
activists that routinely finds and screams about “anti-semitism” at the
slightest imaginary provocation when doing so advances their right-wing
political agenda or can be used to smear political opponents or suppress
debate — from Joe Lieberman, Lanny Davis, Charles Krauthammer, and Bill
Kristol to the righteous anti-bigotry advocates at Commentary Magazine —
none of whom have uttered a peep about Fox News’ promotion of and
reliance upon Andy Martin, despite (for most of them) having gone on Fox
News since then — despite having, to use their parlance, associated with
Fox News since the Hannity/Martin show — without uttering a syllable of
condemnation. As usual, those who most flamboyantly and frequently
inject screams of “anti-semitism” into our political debates do so only
when the accusation serves as a tool for their partisan agenda (see here
and here for a particularly disgusting though typical recent example).
Nothing has “trivialized” the accusation of “anti-semitism” — or
anti-semitism itself — more than that manipulative behavior.
Tilly
> Tilly wrote:
>> "Gib Bogle" <bo...@ihug.too.much.spam.co.nz> wrote in message
>> news:gcpsi3$5mn$1...@lust.ihug.co.nz...
>>> This is interesting reading:
>>> http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/
>>>
>>> Fox are still ignoring the Palin inquiry report.
>>
>>
>>
>> I've read it.
>>
>> Have you seen the latest Newsweek poll?
>>
>> -
>> The global financial meltdown has caused a dramatic shift in the 2008
>> presidential race, according to the latest NEWSWEEK poll. With four weeks
>> left in the presidential campaign, Barack Obama now leads John McCain by
>> double digits, 52 percent to 41 percent among registered voters-a marked
>> shift from the last NEWSWEEK poll, conducted one month ago, when the two
>> candidates were tied at 46 percent.
>>
>> Underlying Obama's surge in support: An historic boiling over of
>> dissatisfaction with the status quo. An astounding 86 percent of voters
>> now say they are dissatisfied with the way things are going in the United
>> States, while a mere 10 percent say they are satisfied. That's the
>> highest wrong track/right track ratio ever recorded in the NEWSWEEK poll.
>>
>> http://www.newsweek.com/id/163339-
>> bof...@gmail.com
>
> Yes, but I'm not ready to relax yet.
I agree.
>
> I've been skimming Greenwald's stuff on Salon. In case you didn't see
> this (further down the page), I'm sure it'll interest you (especially if
> you ever watch Fox News - Hannity is one of the worst people on TV, even
> worse than O'Reilly):
>
> Sean Hannity, Robert Gibbs and anti-Semitism: How to go on Fox News
I've seen it.
I really,really dislike Sean Hannity, mind you I have nothing but disdain
for most of the people on Faux News-Chris Wallace is an exception.(son of
Mike Wallace).
>
> For the third debate in a row, actual polling data last night (as well as
> uncommitted focus groups) revealed that most Americans believe that the
> Democratic candidate (Obama/Biden) won decisively. In stark contrast, this
> is what the poll of Fox News viewers found: <snipped>
>
> In the real world among Americans, Obama won the debate by 15-30 points,
> but in Fox News World, McCain won the debate by 86-12%. That’s what Fox
> News is and who their viewers are: a right-wing propaganda outlet with an
> almost entirely unpersuadable viewership. For that reason, I don’t
> understand why the Obama campaign helps legitimize them as a real news
> network by appearing on Fox programs. But the Obama campaign obviously
> disagrees and regularly does so.
>
> Agree or disagree with that tactical choice, any Democrat preparing to go
> on Fox News should study how Obama communications director Robert Gibbs
> mauled Sean Hannity last night and copy and learn from it as though it is
> Scripture (video below). First, a bit of background: in the 1980s and
> 1990s, Anthony Martin-Trigona was well-known to New York litigators as a
> source of warped entertainment, wonderment and universal disgust.
Andy Martin (formerly Martin-Trigona) is a well known anti-semite and serial
litigent..
whoisthis
"Tilly" <fem...@gmail.com> wrote:
As soon as we are able to vote in the USA elections then post it here,
apart from that who gives a fat rats arse.
kda...@gmail.com
The report also found that Monegan's firing was lawful. So Palin was
motivated by a personal grudge. It's like a committee finding that
Winston Peters is corrupt then censuring Rodney Hide for instigating
the proceedings because his motive was he can't stand Peters.
kda...@gmail.com
> On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:50:25 +1300, "JekyLL & hYÐe"
>
>
>
>
>
> <jekyll&h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >"EMB" <emb...@gmail.com> wrote in messagenews:48f04fcb$1...@news01.wxnz.net...
If you think that Key is guilty of insider trading maybe you should
tell the police.
grumpyoldhori
> It'll turn out to be Obama's fault, just wauit and see.
Well, he can do the, now you see me, now you don't,
on a zebra crossing :-)
--
grumpy
grumpyoldhori
> The global financial meltdown has caused a dramatic shift in the 2008
> presidential race, according to the latest NEWSWEEK poll. With four weeks
> left in the presidential campaign, Barack Obama now leads John McCain by
> double digits, 52 percent to 41 percent among registered voters-a marked
> shift from the last NEWSWEEK poll, conducted one month ago, when the two
> candidates were tied at 46 percent.
>
But,but, he is a Muslim terrorist :-)
--
grumpy
grumpyoldhori
> As soon as we are able to vote in the USA elections then post it here,
> apart from that who gives a fat rats arse.
We do, and who made a fucking dwarf like you moderator ?
--
grumpy
John Cawston
The report doesn't actually find Palin guilty of anything but a
supposition that she was at least partially motivated by
"personal gain" because she might have wanted Trooper Wooten
sacked because he threatened to murder her father. In other
words, if she or her husband pushed too hard to get the man
sacked she was guilty of breaking the law to protect her father.
Under the same law, if she offered a tax break to parents of
children at school she would break the law because that would
give her a personal gain for the children she had at school.
Just a case of a law taken to silly extremities.
JC
John Cawston
In fact, is Rich an accomplice for not reporting him to the police?
JC
John Cawston
whoisthis
grumpyoldhori <grumpy...@gmail.com> wrote:
Then here is a thought..... go read/post into the US political news
groups or put this into the nz political news group. Even given you
abuse and foul language I am still going to presume you have enough
intelligence to find those all by your self.
grumpyoldhori
> Then here is a thought..... go read/post into the US political news
> groups or put this into the nz political news group. Even given you
> abuse and foul language I am still going to presume you have enough
> intelligence to find those all by your self.
Sorry dear boy, but this is NZ general, we will put up what we
want.
If you have a problem with that the solution is obvious.
--
grumpy
whoisthis
grumpyoldhori <grumpy...@gmail.com> wrote:
Accept you are stupid ?, Lazy ?, Arrogant ?
kda...@gmail.com
> In article <gcp10m$o7...@registered.motzarella.org>,
>
> "Tilly" <fem...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Sarah Palin unlawfully abused her power as governor by
> > trying to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, the chief
> > investigator of an Alaska legislative panel concluded Friday. The
> > politically charged inquiry imperiled her reputation as a reformer on John
> > McCain's Republican ticket.
>
> > Investigator Stephen Branchflower, in a report by a bipartisan panel that
> > investigated the matter, found Palin in violation of a state ethics law that
> > prohibits public officials from using their office for personal
> > gain...................
>
> >http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27105917/
>
>
> As soon as we are able to vote in the USA elections then post it here,
> apart from that who gives a fat rats arse.
The US elections are a helluva lot more interesting than our
elections. There the candidates couldn't be more different. Here it's
a choice between tweedledee and tweedledum.
Mutlley
No the labor trolls will say it's John Keys fault..
Brian Dooley
wrote:
You mean a woman and a man?
Goodness.
--
Brian Dooley
Wellington New Zealand