I’ve just had about enough of the way news is covered in America, it is sooooooooooooo lame, and they get all high and mighty about theirs being so "fair" and " honest" and "in depth" "focused", but really they just cover the same thing over and over , but it is not really news, like, let us focus on the presidential candidates , instead of the "news" it is all about (still) his supposed Islam connections ( ? ) Like was he schooled as an Islam militant when he was a school boy ( where do they get this crap ) Or the Barack and Michelle Obama fist shake they did on stage, like it did the rounds that it some sort of Islam terrorist call sign ( purrrrlease ) luckily MSNBC debunked that one quickly unlike over at FOX, the producer ought to have come on air after that malicious comment and apologized , but it isn’t only the ridiculous content, but how they repeat and repeat and repeat it, a trick they learned from Rove no doubt, say it enough and as often as possible so the people will end up believing it. John Stewart took the piss out of these "News" channels by starting his own rumour that he found on " some guy I’ve never heard of on dot com has revealed that democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama , has lady parts" adding " obviously scurrilous and unfounded we will examine this further for our special tonight "
BARACK OBAMA’S
VAGINA
The October surprise in his pants
That made me laugh, but sadly, it is just how bad news has gotten over there, take Sean Hannity’s over at Fox news for example, trying to associate him with radicalism, Muslim, sexism and drug needle exchange programs, all unfounded ofcourse, but how can a broadcaster be allowed to broadcast these unfounded allegations on a news service , and get away with it, is there no control ? And then the voice overs, always this deep slow husky voice" Michelle Obama ..pause…Why is she so bitter …"like really trying to sensationalize it . Then this is what got my goat, again, over at FOX, they are blaming Obama of plagiarism, saying they sound similar to past speeches from former democrats ( even that were so , it’s still form a democrat, but anyway, read on) The best they could find to back up this claim was a speech done by Mario Cuomo from 1982 and the newscaster states, " the two speeches are practically verbatim" he continues " take a look at this" fox then shows the two separate clips, I can’t show you hear, but I’ll show you the transcript…
Obama
"…and he met the man who lost his job and can’t even afford the gas to drive around and look for a new one, he’d understand we can’t afford four more years of our addiction to oil from dictators."
Cuomo
"maybe if you went to Lackawanna where thousands of unemployed steelworkers wonder why we subsidize foreign steel."
The fox guy then comes back on and asks , what looks like a bewildered guest, " does that sound like plagiarism to your or what"
Back to Daily Show host John Stewart who is bewildered as I ,
he highlights all the words in common
Obama
"…and he met the man who lost his job and can’t even afford the gas
to drive around and look for a new one, he’d understand we can’t afford
four more years of our addiction to oil from dictators."
Cuomo
"maybe if you went to Lackawanna where thousands of unemployed steelworkers wonder why we subsidize foreign steel."
Astonishing, so according to Fox, that’s plagiarism
We all know ofcourse that not to be the case, but the damage is done, over at fox they did their bit, and you can add that to the Muslim sexist etc tags they created, and people in America believe this shit, although I doubt these Americans that watch fox might not exactly know what the word plagiarism or verbatim mean.
Anyway, then I stumble upon this article from Truthout
THE BIGGEST ELECTION STORY NOT ON YOUR TV
Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced
articles of impeachment to the House of Representatives on Monday, June
9, that contain articles alleging the president conspired to violate
the Voting Rights Act and tampered with free and fair elections.
(Photo: AP)
For over half the days during any period of years you choose to
select, the biggest story in U.S. news outlets is the impending most
important election in your lifetime. The story, of course, takes an
infinite variety of forms, ranging from candidates’ friends and
associates to their diets, wardrobes, religions, childhoods, and
hobbies. There are variations that take us through polls and
fundraising and commercials and donors and staffers and analysis of
commentary on reporting on sound bytes. We learn the ins and outs of
the process, the demographics of likely supporters, and the statistical
likelihood that a candidate of a given race, religion, gender, and shoe
size will get an RBI in the next inning. Occasionally we even get a
glancing glimpse at what a candidate might do if elected.
But what if there were a story about the entire process
that flipped the whole thing upside down, radically altering many of
the assumptions never mentioned but always assumed in all of the
endless "reporting"? And what if, on top of that, this story involved
strong evidence of the commission of major crimes and abuses by the
highest officials in the land? And what if, on top of that, you could
toss in the historic reversal of some of the major gains won by the
most dramatic populist movement of civil resistance during the course
of the last century? The question, of course, would be: Can we find a
way to connect this information to some kinky form of illicit sex so
that members of the media can feel responsible about using our airwaves
to discuss it?
That, my friends, is your assignment. The raw material you
have to work with is contained in the following two articles of
impeachment introduced in the House of Representatives last Monday
night by Congressman Dennis Kucinich. The model you should seek to
emulate is, of course, the classic report named for its author: Kenneth
Starr.
Article XXVIII
Tampering With Free and Fair Elections, Corruption of the Administration of Justice
In his conduct while President of the United States, George
W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute
the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his
ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United
States, and in violation of his constitutional duty under Article II,
Section 3 of the Constitution "to take care that the laws be faithfully
executed", has both personally and acting through his agents and
subordinates, conspired to undermine and tamper with the conduct of
free and fair elections, and to corrupt the administration of justice
by United States Attorneys and other employees of the Department of
Justice, through abuse of the appointment power.
Toward this end, the President and Vice President, both personally and through their agents, did:
Engage in a program of manufacturing false allegations of
voting fraud in targeted jurisdictions where the Democratic Party
enjoyed an advantage in electoral performance or otherwise was
problematic for the President’s Republican Party, in order that public
confidence in election results favorable to the Democratic Party be
undermined;
Direct United States Attorneys to launch and announce
investigations of certain leaders, candidates and elected officials
affiliated with the Democratic Party at times calculated to cause the
most political damage and confusion, most often in the weeks
immediately preceding an election, in order that public confidence in
the suitability for office of Democratic Party leaders, candidates and
elected officials be undermined;
Direct United States Attorneys to terminate or scale back
existing investigations of certain Republican Party leaders, candidates
and elected officials allied with the George W. Bush administration,
and to refuse to pursue new or proposed investigations of certain
Republican Party leaders, candidates and elected officials allied with
the George W. Bush administration, in order that public confidence in
the suitability of such Republican Party leaders, candidates and
elected officials be bolstered or restored;
Threaten to terminate the employment of the following
United States Attorneys who refused to comply with such directives and
purposes;
1.David C. Iglesias as U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico;
2.Kevin V. Ryan as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California;
3.John L. McKay as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington;
4.Paul K. Charlton as U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona;
5.Carol C. Lam as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California;
6.Daniel G. Bogden as U.S. Attorney for the District of Nevada;
7.Margaret M. Chiara as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan;
8.Todd Graves as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri;
9.Harry E. "Bud" Cummins, III as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas;
10.Thomas M. DiBiagio as U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland, and;
11.Kasey Warner as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia.
Further, George W. Bush has both personally and acting
through his agents and subordinates, together with the Vice President
conspired to obstruct the lawful Congressional investigation of these
dismissals of United States Attorneys and the related scheme to
undermine and tamper with the conduct of free and fair elections, and
to corrupt the administration of justice.
Contrary to his oath faithfully to execute the office of
President of the United States and, to the best of his ability,
preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States,
and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws
be faithfully executed, George W. Bush has without lawful cause or
excuse directed not to appear before the Committee on the Judiciary of
the House of Representatives certain witnesses summoned by duly
authorized subpoenas issued by that Committee on June 13, 2007.
In refusing to permit the testimony of these witnesses
George W. Bush, substituting his judgment as to what testimony was
necessary for the inquiry, interposed the powers of the Presidency
against the lawful subpoenas of the House of Representatives, thereby
assuming to himself functions and judgments necessary to the exercise
of the checking and balancing power of oversight vested in the House of
Representatives.
Further, the President has both personally and acting
through his agents and subordinates, together with the Vice President
directed the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia to
decline to prosecute for contempt of Congress the aforementioned
witnesses, Joshua B. Bolten and Harriet E. Miers, despite the
obligation to do so as established by statute (2 USC § 194) and
pursuant to the direction of the United States House of Representatives
as embodied in its resolution (H. Res. 982) of February 14, 2008.
In all of these actions and decisions, President George W.
Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President, and
subversive of constitutional government, to the prejudice of the cause
of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the
United States. Wherefore, President George W. Bush, by such conduct, is
guilty of an impeachable offense warranting removal from office.
Article XXIX
Conspiracy to Violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965
In his conduct while President of the United States, George
W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute
the office of President of the United States and, to the best of his
ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United
States, and in violation of his constitutional duty under Article II,
Section 3 of the Constitution "to take care that the laws be faithfully
executed", has both personally and acting through his agents and
subordinates, willfully corrupted and manipulated the electoral process
of the United States for his personal gain and the personal gain of his
co-conspirators and allies; violated the United States Constitution and
law by failing to protect the civil rights of African-American voters
and others in the 2004 Election, and impeded the right of the people to
vote and have their vote properly and accurately counted, in that:
A. On November 5, 2002, and prior thereto, James Tobin,
while serving as the regional director of the National Republican
Senatorial Campaign Committee and as the New England Chairman of
Bush-Cheney ’04 Inc., did, at the direction of the White House under
the administration of George W. Bush, along with other agents both
known and unknown, commit unlawful acts by aiding and abetting a scheme
to use computerized hang-up calls to jam phone lines set up by the New
Hampshire Democratic Party and the Manchester firefighters’ union on
Election Day;
B. An investigation by the Democratic staff of the House
Judiciary Committee into the voting procedures in Ohio during the 2004
election found "widespread instances of intimidation and misinformation
in violation of the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1968,
Equal Protection, Due Process and the Ohio right to vote;"
C. The 14th Amendment Equal Protection Clause guarantees
that no minority group will suffer disparate treatment in a federal,
state, or local election in stating that: "No State shall make or
enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of
citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person
of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to
any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
However, during and at various times of the year 2004, John Kenneth
Blackwell, then serving as the Secretary of State for the State of Ohio
and also serving simultaneously as Co-Chairman of the Committee to
Re-Elect George W. Bush in the State of Ohio, did, at the direction of
the White House under the administration of George W. Bush, along with
other agents both known and unknown, commit unlawful acts in violation
of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the United
States Constitution by failing to protect the voting rights of
African-American citizens in Ohio and further, John Kenneth Blackwell
did disenfranchise African-American voters under color of law, by
D. Willfully denying certain neighborhoods in the cities of
Cleveland, Ohio and Columbus, Ohio, along with other urban areas in the
State of Ohio, an adequate number of electronic voting machines and
provisional paper ballots, thereby unlawfully impeding duly registered
voters from the act of voting and thus violating the civil rights of an
unknown number of United States citizens.
E. In Franklin County, George W. Bush and his agent, Ohio
Secretary of State John Kenneth Blackwell, Co-Chair of the Bush-Cheney
Re-election Campaign, failed to protect the rights of African-American
voters by not properly investigating the withholding of 125 electronic
voting machines assigned to the city of Columbus.
F. Forty-two African-American precincts in Columbus were
each missing one voting machine that had been present in the 2004
primary.
G. African-American voters in the city of Columbus were
forced to wait three to seven hours to vote in the 2004 presidential
election.
H. Willfully issuing unclear and conflicting rules
regarding the methods and manner of becoming a legally registered voter
in the State of Ohio, and willfully issuing unclear and unnecessary
edicts regarding the weight of paper registration forms legally
acceptable to the State of Ohio, thereby creating confusion for both
voters and voting officials and thus impeding the right of an unknown
number of United States citizens to register and vote.
I. Ohio Secretary of State John Kenneth Blackwell directed
through Advisory 2004-31 that voter registration forms, which were
greatest in urban minority areas, should not be accepted and should be
returned unless submitted on 80 bond paper weight. Blackwell’s own
office was found to be using 60 bond paper weight.
J. Willfully permitted and encouraged election officials in
Cleveland, Cincinnati and Toledo to conduct a massive partisan purge of
registered voter rolls, eventually expunging more than 300,000 voters,
many of whom were duly registered voters, and who were thus deprived of
their constitutional right to vote;
K. Between the 2000 and 2004 Ohio presidential elections,
24.93% of the voters in the city of Cleveland, a city with a majority
of African American citizens, were purged from the voting rolls.
L. In that same period, the Ohio county of Miami, with
census data indicating a 98% Caucasian population, refused to purge any
voters from its rolls. Miami County "merged" voters from other
surrounding counties into its voting rolls and even allowed voters from
other states to vote.
M. In Toledo, Ohio, an urban city with a high
African-American concentration, 28,000 voters were purged from the
voting rolls in August of 2004, just prior to the presidential
election. This purge was conducted under the control and direction of
George W. Bush’s agent, Ohio Secretary of State John Kenneth Blackwell
outside of the regularly established cycle of purging voters in
odd-numbered years.
N. Willfully allowing Ohio Secretary of State John Kenneth
Blackwell, acting under color of law and as an agent of George W. Bush,
to issue a directive that no votes would be counted unless cast in the
right precinct, reversing Ohio’s long-standing practice of counting
votes for president if cast in the right county.
O. Willfully allowing his agent, Ohio Secretary of State
John Kenneth Blackwell, the Co-Chair of the Bush-Cheney Re-election
Campaign, to do nothing to assure the voting rights of 10,000 people in
the city of Cleveland when a computer error by the private vendor
Diebold Election Systems, Inc. incorrectly disenfranchised 10,000
voters
P. Willfully allowing his agent, Ohio Secretary of State
John Kenneth Blackwell, the Co-Chair of the Bush-Cheney Re-election
Campaign, to ensure that uncounted and provisional ballots in Ohio’s
2004 presidential election would be disproportionately concentrated in
urban African-American districts.
Q. In Ohio’s Lucas County, which includes Toledo, 3,122 or
41.13% of the provisional ballots went uncounted under the direction of
George W. Bush’s agent, the Secretary of State of Ohio, John Kenneth
Blackwell, Co-Chair of the Committee to Re-Elect Bush/Cheney in Ohio.
R. In Ohio’s Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland, 8,559 or 32.82% of the provisional ballots went uncounted.
S. In Ohio’s Hamilton County, which includes Cincinnati, 3,529 or 24.23% of the provisional ballots went uncounted.
T. Statewide, the provisional ballot rejection rate was 9% as compared to the greater figures in the urban areas.
U. The Department of Justice, charged with enforcing the
Voting Rights Act of 1965, the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection
Clause, and other voting rights laws in the United States of America,
under the direction and Administration of George W. Bush did willfully
and purposely obstruct and stonewall legitimate criminal investigations
into myriad cases of reported electoral fraud and suppression in the
state of Ohio. Such activities, carried out by the department on behalf
of George W. Bush in counties such as Franklin and Knox by persons such
as John K. Tanner and others, were meant to confound and whitewash
legitimate legal criminal investigations into the suppression of
massive numbers of legally registered voters and the removal of their
right to cast a ballot fairly and freely in the state of Ohio, which
was crucial to the certified electoral victory of George W. Bush in
2004.
V. On or about November 1, 2006, members of the United
States Department of Justice, under the control and direction of the
Administration of George W. Bush, brought indictments for voter
registration fraud within days of an election, in order to directly
effect the outcome of that election for partisan purposes, and in doing
so, thereby violated the Justice Department’s own rules against filing
election-related indictments close to an election;
X. Emails have been obtained showing that the Republican
National Committee and members of Bush-Cheney ’04 Inc., did, at the
direction of the White House under the administration of George W.
Bush, engage in voter suppression in five states by a method know as
"vote caging," an illegal voter suppression technique;
Y. Agents of George W. Bush, including Mark F. "Thor"
Hearne, the national general counsel of Bush/Cheney ’04, Inc., did, at
the behest of George W. Bush, as members of a criminal front group,
distribute known false information and propaganda in the hopes of
forwarding legislation and other actions that would result in the
disenfranchisement of Democratic voters for partisan purposes. The
scheme, run under the auspices of an organization known as "The
American Center for Voting Rights" (ACVR), was funded by agents of
George W. Bush in violation of laws governing tax exempt 501(c)3
organizations and in violation of federal laws forbidding the
distribution of such propaganda by the federal government and agents
working on its behalf.
Z. Members of the United States Department of Justice,
under the control and direction of the Administration of George W.
Bush, did, for partisan reasons, illegally and with malice aforethought
block career attorneys and other officials in the Department of Justice
from filing three lawsuits charging local and county governments with
violating the voting rights of African-Americans and other minorities,
according to seven former senior United States Justice Department
employees.
AA. Members of the United States Department of Justice,
under the control and direction of the Administration of George W.
Bush, did illegally and with malice aforethought derail at least two
investigations into possible voter discrimination, according to a
letter sent to the Senate Rules and Administration Committee and
written by former employees of the United States Department of Justice,
Voting Rights Section.
BB. Members of the United States Election Assistance
Commission (EAC), under the control and direction of the Administration
of George W. Bush, have purposefully and willfully misled the public,
in violation of several laws, by;
CC. Withholding from the public and then altering a legally
mandated report on the true measure and threat of Voter Fraud, as
commissioned by the EAC and completed in June 2006, prior to the 2006
mid-term election, but withheld from release prior to that election
when its information would have been useful in the administration of
elections across the country, because the results of the statutorily
required and tax-payer funded report did not conform with the illegal,
partisan propaganda efforts and politicized agenda of the Bush
Administration;
DD. Withholding from the public a legally mandated report
on the disenfranchising effect of Photo Identification laws at the
polling place, shown to disproportionately disenfranchise voters not of
George W. Bush’s political party. The report was commissioned by the
EAC and completed in June 2006, prior to the 2006 mid-term election,
but withheld from release prior to that election when its information
would have been useful in the administration of elections across the
country
EE. Withholding from the public a legally mandated report
on the effectiveness of Provisional Voting as commissioned by the EAC
and completed in June 2006, prior to the 2006 mid-term election, but
withheld from release prior to that election when its information would
have been useful in the administration of elections across the country,
and keeping that report unreleased for more than a year until it was
revealed by independent media outlets.
For directly harming the rights and manner of suffrage, for
suffering to make them secret and unknowable, for overseeing and
participating in the disenfranchisement of legal voters, for
instituting debates and doubts about the true nature of elections, all
against the will and consent of local voters affected, and forced
through threats of litigation by agents and agencies overseen by George
W. Bush, the actions of Mr. Bush to do the opposite of securing and
guaranteeing the right of the people to alter or abolish their
government via the electoral process, being a violation of an
inalienable right, and an immediate threat to Liberty.
In all of these actions and decisions, President George W.
Bush has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as President, and
subversive of constitutional government, to the prejudice of the cause
of law and justice and to the manifest injury of the people of the
United States. Wherefore, President George W. Bush, by such conduct, is
guilty of an impeachable offense warranting removal from office.
