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Fun Times with Anti-Semites and Larouchies
Blogger Kevin K. reports from that Clinton dead-ender "PUMA" conference that was derided at length yesterday.
There was scant chatter in the PUMAsphere about the convention following the closing of registration, which was pretty odd considering what a big deal they all made about the announcement of the convention in the first place. It wasn’t until I heard the August 6th broadcast of the “No We Won’t” BlogTalkRadio show that it became clear to me that there was a good reason for the self-imposed silence regarding the convention. Like so many other PUMA initiatives (the poorly-attended RBC “Count Every Vote” rally, retiring Hillary’s debt, etc.), the conference was an epic failure. Listen to this short MP3 clip as alleged “Friends of Hillary” staffer “Paul Johnson” asks the show’s hosts, Sheri Tag and PUMA co-founder Will Bower, how many people will be in DC for the conference. Stammer ... stammer ... time for the next caller! [You can listen to the full show here—Paul’s call starts at the 55 minute mark]
More importantly, Kevin has photos, and they're... disturbing. Among the guests at this confab were Andy Martin and Webster Tarpley. First, a little about Martin, who wrote some of the first chain e-mails about Barack Obama's "Muslim past."
During a 1983 bankruptcy case he referred to a federal judge as a "crooked, slimy Jew, who has a history of lying and thieving common to members of his race." Martin, who in the past was known as Anthony Martin-Trigona, is one of the most notorious litigants in the history of the United States. He's filed hundreds, possibly thousands, of lawsuits, often directed at judges who have ruled against him, or media outlets that cover him unfavorably. A 1993 opinion by the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, in Atlanta, described these lawsuits as "a cruel and effective weapon against his enemies," and called Martin a "notoriously vexatious and vindictive litigator who has long abused the American legal system." He once even attempted to intervene in the divorce proceedings of a judge who'd ruled against him, petitioning the state court to be appointed as the guardian of the judge's children.
And Webster Tarpley:
In 1986 Tarpley attempted to run on the platform of Lyndon LaRouche in the New York State Democratic Party primary for the U.S. Senate, but was ruled off the ballot because of a defect in his nominating petitions.[2]. He was a frequent host of "The LaRouche Connection", which its producer, LaRouche's Executive Intelligence Review News Service,[3][4] describes as "a news and information cable television program".[5]
Tarpley first gained attention for co-authoring, with Anton Chaitkin, ("history editor of Executive Intelligence Review") a 1992 book on George H.W. Bush, George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography, which was published by Executive Intelligence Review, run by Lyndon LaRouche.[6] He has expounded the "Versailles Thesis" laying the blame for the great wars of the 20th century on intrigues by Britain to retain her dominance.[7] He gained experience as a political operative during his years with the LaRouche movement but broke away in the mid-1990s.
Yep. That's the intellectual artillery of the PUMA movement. I notice this as I see Markos Moulitsas has been contacted by World Net Daily's Jerusalem bureau chief (must... resist... temptation to use scare quotes) who demands to know whether the sneaky blogger forged Obama's birth certificate.
One thing that's often forgotten about the 1992 presidential race is that the character case against Bill Clinton—which had some real factual pegs, like the Gennifer Flowers affair—was distorted and waylayed by deeply silly conspiracy theories. I don't think John McCain's hurting from the wackiness of this subterranean campaign against Obama, but it's protecting the Democrat from the kind of reality-based attacks that could actually wound him.
Update: Andy Martin writes in.
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 3:02 PM
Subject: Demand for retraction and libel notice
I must respectfully request that you run an apology and retraction of your claim that I am an anti-Semite. Quoting court papers 25 years out of context is not responsible journalism or protected activity. I will have to file a lawsuit if the apology and retraction are not forthcoming. I was indeed at the meeting you mentioned, and your report is a gross distortion of what took place. Trying to smear me with out of context associations in my professional capacity as a blogger is libel per se.
Andy Martin
|8.14.08 @ 5:00PM|#
but was ruled off the ballot because of a defect in his
nominating petitions.
They were signed by idiots?
|8.14.08 @ 5:05PM|#
The guy who wrote that new anti-Obama book, Jermoe Corsi, used
Andy Martin as a source.
He's also voting for Chuck Baldwin.
Episiarch|8.14.08 @ 5:13PM|#
He once even attempted to intervene in the divorce
proceedings of a judge who'd ruled against him, petitioning the
state court to be appointed as the guardian of the judge's
children.
Damn.
zionismisevil|8.14.08 @ 5:15PM|#
Ashkenazi Jews aren't Semites. They are Khazars, who are Caucasians.
Jorgen|8.14.08 @ 5:19PM|#
zionismisevil | August 14, 2008, 5:15pm | #
Ashkenazi Jews aren't Semites. They are Khazars, who are
Caucasians.
Great work. Now if you can just disclose how they carried off the
plot of making their y chromosomes very closely related to those of
the Sephardim and unrelated to surviving Khazars, we'll finally
regain control of the banks, the government and the media.
GILMORE|8.14.08 @ 5:24PM|#
You are all wrong.
As usual, Black Israelites drop the science =
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpIK3lsLBno
|8.14.08 @ 5:29PM|#
PUMAs? Aren't they older women who go after younger
men?
I heard they were called Urban Cougars.
|8.14.08 @ 5:32PM|#
Ashkenazi is code for jew
Side note: I have no idea what i just read...
can someone translate Weigaleze into English? or 1337?
Mr Anonymous|8.14.08 @ 5:57PM|#
I notice this as I see Markos Moulitsas has been contacted
by World Net Daily's Jerusalem bureau chief
I think Weigel spends a lot of time reading Markos Moulitsas.
Dave Weigel|8.14.08 @ 6:01PM|#
I think Weigel spends a lot of time reading Markos
Moulitsas.
Guilty: I read the most popular political blog in the country,
written by a liberal who wants to borrow libertarian branding.
|8.14.08 @ 6:02PM|#
Wow. Those two are nasty pieces of work. You'd expect them to be Republicans, no?
|8.14.08 @ 6:17PM|#
"I think Weigel spends a lot of time reading Markos
Moulitsas."
Mr Anonymous - explains a lot, doesn't it?
Episiarch|8.14.08 @ 6:28PM|#
Guilty: I read the most popular political blog in the
country, written by a liberal who wants to borrow libertarian
branding.
You're not allowed to read any site but reason, Dave. Didn't you
get the memo?
Rick H.|8.14.08 @ 6:29PM|#
I wouldn't have a problem if the Ultimate Anonymity
douchebag were banned.
Aye, aye. (That's two more votes for banning this spammer from
H&R.)
Let's roll, indeed.
|8.14.08 @ 6:41PM|#
It's widely known that guys who read political blogs that don't comport with their stated political leanings have enormous physical endowments.
PUMA Watch|8.14.08 @ 6:46PM|#
Breaking news, Clinton campaign sabotages Obama's leased MD81
just prior to the convention. Pilot makes emergency landing in St
Louis, Obama terribly shaken.
In subsequent news, Clinton's name will be placed into nomination
at the convention
zionismisevil|8.14.08 @ 7:01PM|#
The converted Slavs and Turks intermarried with a small population of Palestinian Jews from the Diaspora and by chance the Y chromosome lineage that survived was one of the ones from Palestine.
|8.14.08 @ 7:23PM|#
It's widely known that guys who read political blogs that
don't comport with their stated political leanings have enormous
physical endowments.
I've been known to read Democratic Underground.
Warty|8.14.08 @ 7:34PM|#
It's widely known that guys who read political blogs that
don't comport with their stated political leanings have enormous
physical endowments.
It's true, joe has great tits.
|8.14.08 @ 7:46PM|#
Truthers, gold bugs and various tin foil types should give
Libertarins pause before mocking others about others' fringe
nut-job hanger ons.
Just sayin'.
Stinky|8.14.08 @ 8:20PM|#
Guilty: I read the most popular political blog in the
country, written by a liberal who wants to borrow libertarian
branding.
Sure! Lots of people read Hit and Run!
Elemenope|8.14.08 @ 8:26PM|#
(That's two more votes for banning this spammer from
H&R.)
"The distinction between trolls and spammers, hard as it is to
explicate to the untrained eye, cleaves along a distinction readily
apparent to the experienced.
The troll is properly a communicative creature, certainly of infirm
pedigree but no mere babbling fool. The statements of a troll are
coherent, and as such they form the residue of a signal that
transports information from their own diseased brain to the
theretofore unsuspecting masses.
The signal of a troll is so designed as to be a blunt instrument of
ideological carnage. Yet, it is still a signal. As such it can be
isolated from the background, countered by opposed signals,
inverted, transformed, for serious or comedic effect. The troll can
be made the victim of its own aggression; he comes helpfully
packaged with the seeds of his own undoing. The troll can be made
into an object of practice, a berserker who tests the defenses of
any able mind and aids its linguistic health with its sport.
This is a species worthy of preservation.
The spammer, on the other hand, is a nihilist par excellence. Spam,
it should be noted, is all noise; there is no signal to speak of.
In fact, the very notion of "speech" implies content being
transmitted. And while the spammer hides behind the empty formalism
of "freedom of speech", when one peels back the face of such
indignation, one finds nothing else.
A Spammer does not give sport, and the only practice it provides is
the entirely unhelpful addition its ramblings make to the glut of
background noise an earnest web-surfer must pick through to find
anything worthy of their time. Lacking coherence, they do not have
vulnerability, and do not yield before argument.
These are the cockroaches of the Internet, and their extermination
is quite in order."
- A Taxonomy of Internet Imbeciles
Oh, and that's three votes for shit-canning the fucker, if this was
a democracy (which it ain't.)
|8.14.08 @ 10:08PM|#
As one of the less eloquent members of this community...I cast 3/5ths of a vote to ban the spammers.
Charles|8.14.08 @ 11:49PM|#
Frequent reader, rare commenter, I also favor banning the ultimate anonymity guy.
|8.15.08 @ 1:33AM|#
a liberal who wants to borrow libertarian
branding.
I'm not sure we'll want it back after Kos is through with it.
Kind of like what happened to "liberal", in fact. Leftists are like
the neighbor that borrows your lawnmower, breaks it, and then wants
to borrow the replacement too.
ed|8.15.08 @ 9:03AM|#
it's protecting the Democrat from the kind of reality-based
attacks that could actually wound him
No it isn't. It's just a sideshow for freaks and their enablers,
and filler material for blogs.
robc|8.15.08 @ 9:40AM|#
joe,
walked into that one.
Youre just lucky warty got there first. My response wasnt going to
be as nice as his. His was probably funnier though.
|8.15.08 @ 10:44AM|#
With this post, there is 7.6 votes fot banning the spammer in
the last 15 hours on this thread alone.
We can do better than that.
|8.15.08 @ 12:58PM|#
David, what kind of 'protection' do you see Obama getting from
this? As far as I can tell the press is still in McCain's camp.
Obama could be attacked on civil libertarian concerns such as FISA
and his support for enlarging the defense budget, but Obama is far
superior on those issues when compared with McCain.
Or do you mean in the sense that this is distracting the press from
further interviews of Wright and the Trinity church and that sort
of thing? That doesn't make much sense either. The intended
character attack on Obama is that he's a black militant Muslim
who's going to overthrow the US government and enslave white women,
which is itself deeply silly. The intended character attack on
Clinton sex stuff was that he's a womanizer, which was
plausible.
So what do you mean?
|8.15.08 @ 2:07PM|#
Gawd! I knew Anthony Martin-Trigona (Andy Martin) when he bought the AM property of the radio station where I worked, in the late 70's. He was a nettle and a laughing stock even then, although the anti-semitism wasn't yet apparent. He never did pay for the purchase. His court abuse was well-known even then. There is a court decision from that period (I don't remember whether it was from an appeals court in Illinois or from a federal court) in which he was forbidden from filing future lawsuits, for any purpose, in any court of the jurisdiction. The rules and laws against frivilous lawsuits in at least some jurisdictions are partly due to his a**holery. I can't believe that he's not living under a bridge in a cardboard box somewhere. I wonder what his source of income is. I would reflexively oppose anything which he favors.
Andy Martin|8.15.08 @ 2:52PM|#
This article is complete rubbish. Dredging up 25 year-old legal
documents and using them out of context to smear someone's work in
the present is the worst form of left-wing McCarthysim, and the
type of sick mentality that pervades Obama and his fellow
travellers at Media Matters.
Andy Martin
|8.15.08 @ 4:22PM|#
You've gotta admire someone who would accuse his detractors of
"McCarthyism" and use the phrase "fellow travellers" in a
non-ironic manner in the same sentence.
And by "admire," I mean "point and laugh at the delusion of."
|8.15.08 @ 8:47PM|#
So, Mr. Frivolous Lawsuit is going to file
another..er...frivolous lawsuit? What a surprise.
The man is obviously not cursed with self-awareness (or a sense of
irony).
|8.19.08 @ 12:42PM|#
I must respectfully request that you run an apology and
retraction of your claim that I am an anti-Semite.
Where did Weigel call Martin an anti-Semite?
JohnG|8.20.08 @ 3:01PM|#
Mr. Martin is correct that it was wrong of you to imply
anti-Semitism based simply on a court filing from 1983.
Had you been more thorough journalists, you would have also cited
to the January 20, 2000 decision by the Supreme Court of Florida
which barred Mr. Martin from further in forma pauperis lawsuits in
the Sunshine State. In its decision, the court quotes from Mr.
Martin's brief, in which he states that his most recent cases on
appeal before the court were denied because of a new justice who
was "'apparently Jewish, thereby validating the public perception
that Jewish judges are using their official positions to pervert
the law against petitioner...'" (Anthony R. Martin v. State of
Florida, case no. SC94012 at page 5, quoting petitioner's
brief.)
This decision was available off his Wikipedia page, and therefore
you really should have found it. Shame on you.
|8.25.08 @ 3:01PM|#
THE PUMAS ARE TOTALLY JUSTIFIED ...
1. Contrary to what Obamabots say ...
Obama and Hillary were in a dead heat,
when the DNC pressured Hillary into not
only conceding, but campaigning for Obama.
2. Obama is once again in a dead heat, but now
with McCain, even though Obamabots act like
Obama has already won (like they did in the
primaries against Hillary). So, this means that
half of the Democrats, and all the Republicans
(3/4 of America) dIdn't want Obama. Plus, he
didn't even win the popular vote, and refused a
revote in Michigan and Florida.
3. Obama has the thinnest resume in politics, and
he won state legislature and Senator by
disqualifications of his opponents, not by earned
experience, or votes.
4. Obama's one claim to fame is being a community
organizer, where he boasts of registering voters.
Then he took their votes away from them, by
disqualifying his opponents on technicalities, prior
to the election.
5. Obama's mentor of 20 years, was an anti-American
racist ... not to mention other unsavory associations.
6. Obama is simply buying the election, since he's
good at fund raising ... hardly a qualification to be
President of the United States.
7. The media never vetted Obama, and they are
giving him a free ride, plus more than twice the
print and air time as McCain, as they did against
Hillary.
8. 90% of blacks are voting for Obama, because he is
black, while the campaign gained ground by
accusing most opponents of racism.
9. Obamabots were, and are extremely nasty and sarcastic
towards Hillary supporters, as well as McCain supporters.
10. Pumas should be applauded for putting country before party
...
especially a party that did not represent them, and a party
which highjacked the nomination for Obama.
11. Obama added insult to injury, when he didn't even
consider
Hillary for V.P. ... nor did he even call her ... even though
she
got 18 million votes in the primary.
12. Obama and the DNC are now holding a gun to the heads of
Hillary and Bill Clinton, giving them an ultimatum ... either
support
Obama, or kiss your future in the DNC and politics goodbye.
P.S. Michelle Obama subjected her two young children to
anti-American racists ... Jeremiah Wright, Farrakahn, Pfleiger, and
others
at the black liberation Trinity church in Chicago, for several
years. Is this who you want for first lady ... I don't think so
!!!
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