February 29, 2008

“There’s only one rule: stay in the light.” Richard Riddick in Pitch Black
by Bill Levinson

To which we add two rules for swimming with sharks:
(1) Don’t get bitten
(2) If you violate rule #1, don’t thrash around or bleed. It doesn’t help, and it only attracts more sharks.

Barbara Barnett’s A New Round of Anti-Obama Emails Spreads Virally Through the ‘Net shows us exactly what we have to do to keep this phony smile on top of an empty suit out of the White House. We must act on this information as aggressively as possible, and we have posted a couple of viral E-mails for circulation. As stated by Barnett,

Just as the first barrage of emails began to slow to a trickle, a brand new version has begun to circulate within the community. These new anti-Obama emails have been forwarded to me by friends, who received them from someone else. I was one of 10 to 20 addressees on each email. And I guarantee that several of those 10 or 20 people will forward it to 10 more. And thus will it spread virus-like until it dies out. Or doesn’t.

…Always read with skepticism, calm down, check the facts, and then, if you must, (after re-reading with even more skepticism) pass it along. Remember that every email you forward will likely reach halfway around the planet earth within hours. Like feathers cast upon the wind, they are virtually irretrievable; unlike feathers, malicious disinformation can fly unfettered with potentially tragic results.

While we will not condone, support, or circulate disinformation of any kind (we will leave this sort of thing to the National Jewish Democratic Council), Barnett tells us by implication the obvious corollary: the truth can fly unfettered with hopefully devastating results. So far, no one has been able to challenge the truth of the following statements, which we place in the public domain for circulation by E-mail and other media.

Subject: Barack Obama Enables Racism, Hatred and Contempt for Jews and Catholics

In fairness to Barack Obama, I must say up front that I have never heard or read of him personally speaking a word against Jews, Catholics, or white people in general. It is his failure to understand, or more likely failure to care, that his public appearances with and endorsements of professional bigots and hate organizations enables racism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Catholicism that makes him unfit for any office of public trust or responsibility.

(1) Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Ronald Reagan (R-CA) and Lou Barletta (D-PA) were all offered endorsements by hate organizations (Independence Party, Ku Klux Klan). None of them had to be asked to reject these endorsements without hesitation, qualification, or equivocation. Barack Obama, in contrast, refused to use the word “reject” in connection with support from Louis Farrakhan, the racist and anti-Semitic leader of the Nation of Islam, until Tim Russert and Hillary Clinton cornered him like a rat during the February 26, 2008 Democratic debate. Only when they asked him three times to “reject” Farrakhan’s support did Obama, with obvious reluctance, do so. Farrakhan is on record as calling the Pope the Antichrist while saying that white people are “potential humans” who “haven’t evolved yet.”

(2) Barack Obama has made public appearances with, promoted, and endorsed Al Sharpton and his National Action Network. Sharpton’s long record of inciting hatred of white people and especially Jews includes the Tawana Brawley scandal (1988), Crown Heights riots (1991), and Freddy’s Fashion Mart incident (1995) in which one of Sharpton’s deranged followers burned a Jewish-owned store with the loss of seven innocent lives. In the latter incident, the National Action Network, which Obama praised in the highest terms, shouted epithets like “bloodsucking Jew” and “see that the cracker suffers,” to which Sharpton personally added “white interloper.”

(3) Barack Obama has solicited and received the support of MoveOn.org, which published not only a vicious insult to General David Petraeus but also a derogatory photomanipulation of Pope Benedict waving a gavel in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. This “Catholics are taking over America” picture was entirely consistent with the anti-Catholic, as well as anti-Semitic and anti-Evangelical, hate speech that MoveOn.org welcomed on its now disgraced Action Forum. Contrary to MoveOn’s assertions that the Action Forum was an “open forum” for whose content MoveOn was not responsible, MoveOn’s moderators were exercising complete editorial control by deleting material they found disagreeable. The hate speech against Jews, Catholics, Evangelicals, and others was allowed to stand, along with conspiracy theories that blamed the U.S. Government, Jews, and others for 9/11.

(4) Barack Obama is a member of an arguably racist church whose pastor, Jeremiah Wright, said “white America” got a “wake up call” on 9/11. Wright also accompanied Louis Farrakhan on a visit to Moammar Khadafy, and the church recently honored Farrakhan with a Trumpet Award.