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- loungecreature, on 10/13/2008, -5/+267And Sean Hannity just built a show around this idiot because he's fair and balanced.
- JenniferInMO, on 10/13/2008, -11/+266FTA:
"The most persistent falsehood about Senator Barack Obama’s background first hit in 2004 just two weeks after the Democratic convention speech that helped set him on the path to his presidential candidacy: “Obama is a Muslim who has concealed his religion.”
That statement, contained in a press release, spun a complex tale about the ancestry of Mr. Obama, who is Christian.
The press release was picked up by a conservative Web site, FreeRepublic.com, and spread steadily as others elaborated on its claims over the years in e-mail messages, Web sites and books. It continues to drive other false rumors about Mr. Obama’s background.
An examination of legal documents and election filings, along with interviews with his acquaintances, revealed Mr. Martin, 62, to be a man with a history of scintillating if not always factual claims. He has left a trail of animosity — some of it provoked by anti-Jewish comments — among political leaders, lawyers and judges in three states over more than 30 years.
He is a law school graduate, but his admission to the Illinois bar was blocked in the 1970s after a psychiatric finding of “moderately severe character defect manifested by well-documented ideation with a paranoid flavor and a grandiose character.” [end FTA]
i.e. the guy who started all this stuff is crazy as a freaking loon. While not everyone who believes these rumors is not crazy they are clearly encouraged by the McCain campaign and rightwing media like Fox and hate radio. It also clearly feeds into people's need for an excuse to dislike Obama for any reason other than his being black. For some crazy reason people think it's perfectly fine to be bigoted against Muslims, but even the most hate-filled racists refuse to admit to racism against African-Americans.
So the gig is up people. Will you finally release yourself from these fears or will you keep clinging to the rantings of a certifiable nut? - johnnr2, on 10/13/2008, -3/+161A psychiatric finding of “moderately severe character defect manifested by well-documented ideation with a paranoid flavor and a grandiose character.” should qualify him to manage McCain's campaign right now.
- inactive, on 12/08/2008, -4/+121The best "expert" Fox could come up with is someone who's PSYCHOTIC? OMFG, that's hysterical!
- SSFF, on 10/13/2008, -2/+114Among a great many of the ignorant, bigoted people who seem to be flocking to the McCain campaign, the words "Muslim" and "Arab" seem to have become the new code words for "Black" and "*****"! Andy Martin has done a "heckuva job" teaching old biased dogs new racist tricks!
- ISurfTooMuch, on 10/13/2008, -1/+82My guess is they'll keep clinging to the rantings of a certifiable nut. People believe what they want to believe, often in spite of the facts. Remember when some people were questioning whether Obama was born in the United States? His campaign produced the birth certificate, and it was even examined and its authenticity confirmed by Newsweek, I believe. Still, there were people on here saying it was fake, even though they had never actually seen it. Now, I'm not saying that it absolutely could not have been faked, but I have no basis to think that it was. And these people didn't have any more evidence than I did, yet they stubbornly clung to the belief that it must have been fake. Why? Because that's what they wanted to think.
So, while a rational person might read this article and be open to the possibility they were wrong, I doubt that many of those people bought into these rumors in the first place. The ones who did likely did so because they were looking for a reason to dislike Obama. Discredit the man who started those rumors, and they'll either find another reason to hate him or simply dismiss this article as the work of the liberal media.
In summary, you can't use logic against bigots. They don't hate people based on logical reasons; they concoct reasons to rationalize the hate that's already there. - booksnmore4you, on 10/13/2008, -3/+84FTA
...his admission to the Illinois bar was blocked in the 1970s after a psychiatric finding of “moderately severe character defect manifested by well-documented ideation with a paranoid flavor and a grandiose character.”
/FTA
As I've said, this character is from the paranoid psychotic wing of the American Right, among whom Hannity is a card carrying member-in-denial.
Literally. No hyperbole here. - duckley, on 10/13/2008, -5/+81THIS is the face of Republicanism.
Rotten dog ***** scumbag. - rjccjr, on 10/13/2008, -1/+54This smear tactic is right out of the 'Karl Rove" playbook for scaring voters (aka: Whisper Campaign that Ann Richards is a lesbian, which helped pave the way for our current dork of a President.) Shame on "Fix" News for spreading (even more) lies. Shame on Americans for falling for (even more) lies.
Mel Brooks had the right idea in “Blazing Saddles”:
Jim to Sheriff Bart: "You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons." - DangerCollie, on 10/13/2008, -5/+56This is what the Republicans have become. Anti-semitic wingnuts posting on FreeRepublic. But I noticed in the article they're not afraid to play the risk to Israel card when it benefits them. So they're pro-Israel, it's just those Jewish people messing it up.
It's such a shame to watch our society decay intellectually. The crashing economy we could manage. Crashing IQ's mean we're doomed. - booksnmore4you, on 10/13/2008, -4/+53FTA
He said he was not anti-Semitic. “I was trying to show that everybody in the bankruptcy court was Jewish and I was not Jewish,” he said, “and I was being victimized by religious bias.”
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In discussing the denial of his admission to the Illinois bar, Mr. Martin said the psychiatric exam listing him as having a “moderately severe personality defect” was spitefully written by an evaluator he had clashed with.
/FTA
People are out to get you, huh Mr. Martin?
Well, that's part of your psychiatric disorder! - FredFredrickson, on 10/13/2008, -4/+48The man behind all these ridiculous rumors about Obama is crazy? Not a huge surprise. What's really crazy here is how many imbeciles there are in this country who believe these rumors. Because critical thinking apparently isn't part of the curriculum in places like Pennsylvania.
- bbtweb, on 10/13/2008, -0/+42Sean Hannity is a biased, racist, egotistical jackass. And unfortunately there must be a great number of people that watch his ***** they call a show on Fox...Otherwise I can't believe they still let the bastard on TV.
- cowboytrumpet, on 10/13/2008, -1/+41Here's to hoping that Fox News will destroy itself with it's own venom.
- duckstrap, on 10/13/2008, -3/+41He's a model whack-job.
- magus_melchior, on 10/13/2008, -0/+38Interesting how they decided to collect every shred of falsehood and out-of-context quote in order to play amateur psychiatrist with Fox News viewers, getting them to believe that their irrational fears of Obama are justified.
There ought to be a law against that, or maybe FCC regulations. Again, Hannity crosses way too many lines and he signs a multimillion-dollar contract renewal with Fox Noise because he gets them great ratings on lies, damn lies, and propaganda. - satanatnmtedu, on 10/13/2008, -2/+39They aren't ISSUES. They are lies.
- magus_melchior, on 10/13/2008, -2/+34You know what that means:
They'll still have Jack Thompson appear as a "games expert". - RevLoki, on 10/13/2008, -1/+32Apparently you haven't seen the rally pictures from Jacksonville, FL.
http://www.pensitoreview.com/2008/09/21/photos-fro ...
OH MY GOD LOOK AT THAT JIM-BOB! THAR BE COLORED PEOPLE BEHIND HIM!
Also look at the crowds. STFU and GTFO. - EhBlueDuck, on 10/13/2008, -1/+28Sarah Palin is bringing her hometown campaign strategy to the national stage!
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/09/23/palin ...
"Before Sarah Palin decided to run for the Wasilla mayor’s office in 1996 against incumbent John Stein, the Palins and Steins were friends. John Stein had helped launch Palin’s political career, mentoring the hockey mom during her 1994 run for City Council, along with veteran council member Nick Carney. Stein’s wife, Karen Marie, went to aerobics classes with Palin.
The Wasilla mayor’s seat is nonpartisan, and Mayor Stein, a former city planner who had held the post for nine years, ran a businesslike campaign that stressed his experience and competency. But Palin ignited the traditionally low-key race with scorching social issues, injecting “God, guns and abortion into the race — things that had nothing to do with being mayor of a small town,” according to Tigner.
There was a knife-sharp, personal edge to Palin’s campaign that many locals found disturbing, particularly because of the warm relationship between Palin and Stein before the race.
Even though Palin knew that Stein is a Protestant Christian, from a Pennsylvania Dutch background, her campaign began circulating the word that she would be “Wasilla’s first Christian mayor.” Some of Stein’s supporters interpreted this as an attempt to portray Stein as Jewish in the heavily evangelical community. Stein himself, an eminently reasonable and reflective man, thinks “they were redefining Christianity to mean born-agains.”
The Palin campaign also started another vicious whisper campaign, spreading the word that Stein and his wife — who had chosen to keep her own last name when they were married — were not legally wed. Again, Palin knew the truth, Stein said, but chose to muddy the waters. “We actually had to produce our marriage certificate,” recalled Stein, whose wife died of breast cancer in 2005 without ever reconciling with Palin." - inactive, on 10/13/2008, -0/+25Slander and fraud is not covered by provisions for free speech. Freedom of speech does not include freedom to lie and defame.
Also, oldhick, just a tip: your mask of objectivity is seriously slipping. You sound almost as deranged as the other Right Wing Shills on digg, and your spelling is following their precedent, too. - Moodswung, on 10/13/2008, -3/+27Idiot.
- JoeMondo, on 10/13/2008, -0/+24How many Obama rallies have you attended?
- CrazedLeper, on 10/13/2008, -1/+25Excellent and thorough reasoning ability. Your conclusion is sound.
- johnboycanada, on 10/13/2008, -0/+23Upon reading this article I figured this was just another Ann Coulter packaged in a man's body and on steroids... after finishing it I realized this man is seriously mentally unstable and could be dangerous to the community and the people around him.
- inactive, on 10/13/2008, -2/+25I heard this guy is a pedophile.
- gopnot4me, on 10/13/2008, -1/+23Well, this guy should be the poster child for many social reforms.
Give the mentally disabled a place to live away from the general population where they can insite riotious behavior.
Increase government spending on education, help a moron today!
Support Wisconsin, smear butter not Obama!
Support Freedom of Speech, MUZZLE FOX NEWS! - PGPirate, on 10/13/2008, -0/+22Talk about someone who hasn't done one productive thing in his life. He is a lifesuck to America
- inactive, on 10/13/2008, -0/+21Um, for the record, freedom of speech doesn't cover blatant deception.
- BradOFarrell, on 10/13/2008, -1/+21Back in my day we trolled for lulz, not political causes.
- flashback99, on 10/13/2008, -0/+20First, based on poor evidence, you make the conclusion that there are no black people at obama's rallies, but then you go on to INVENT the idea that his campaign has been "CAREFULLY CRAFTED" to keep him away from black people!
A stupendous feat of sillyness mr tonto69! - inactive, on 10/13/2008, -1/+20Hey, I don't like it any more than you, but it's not like we're ever going to see an atheist candidate in our lifetime.
- SaulBey, on 10/13/2008, -0/+19write him and tell him how much you like him:
andymart20@aol.com - sprNmgcHlmt, on 10/13/2008, -2/+20hate filled lies. that's the republican way. because they don't have any policies. all they do is hate.
republicans, it's not by accident that your party's dead.
next time try electing people with thoughts and ideas. people who went to school to actually learn.
fear and hate only gets you so far and i do believe this is where you get off. - joe7845, on 10/13/2008, -1/+19Are you nuts? It took me 2 minutes to find these in YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRwCCxH4CE0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM-yjHIhMAw
Keep in mind that only 13% of Americans are black. - Wryly, on 10/13/2008, -1/+19Cowards make a lifetime out of whispering.
- EuroMarkus, on 10/13/2008, -0/+17
Andy Martin is just a LOSER that never made anything of himself in life, so he has to bring down the success of others.
It's like a little kid who can't win playing a game on the playground, so he kicks the ball over the fence, so no one can play.
Hannity doesn't care if his information is based in fact -- remember he just barely graduated highschool. - nirav72, on 10/13/2008, -1/+18"Last time I checked Muslim wasn't a race, but a religion, and Digg users have no problem discriminating against people based on religion."
Muslims might not be a race. But it might as well be in a post-9/11 America. To them a Muslim is either an Arab or brown person with a funny sounding name. Just look at the crap flowing out from the crowd wherever McCain has been giving speeches.
And No..I doubt Digg users have a problem with religion itself. However, they do have a problem with hypocrisy that flows from most major religions. - ISurfTooMuch, on 10/13/2008, -1/+18I think that's part of it. Another part is that these people are merely looking for someone--anyone--to hate. I think many of them see the world as whites vs. everyone else. It's a siege mentality. As other nations become more prominent and the United States becomes more of a truly multi-racial society, these people feel backed farther and farther into a corner.
- ThsGuyRightHere, on 10/13/2008, -0/+16One of the fundamental truths I've learned about this world is that assclowns travel in packs, and they watch out for their own.
- chuckdubdubdub, on 10/13/2008, -2/+18What a dick!
- GTKashi, on 10/13/2008, -1/+17You have apparently never seen video of his campaign rallies.
- flashback99, on 10/13/2008, -0/+16he's not muslim for ***** sake, even if he was, it doesnt mean *****. you're just being an ass.
- TJMcWhiskers, on 10/13/2008, -1/+17Mass voter fraud?
- johnboycanada, on 10/13/2008, -1/+17Obama people?
- ThsGuyRightHere, on 10/13/2008, -1/+16Kinda like wanting to go to war with Iraq, then concocting reasons (WMD's, links to al Quaida) to justify such an action.
- Reynardine, on 10/13/2008, -0/+15Oh Jesus, Fox News built an ENTIRE DOCUMENTARY around "Obama is a Muslim"?
That's the political equivalent of the "America faked its moon landing" documentary. Incidentally, also from Fox. - JoeMondo, on 10/13/2008, -1/+16Please substantiate your accusation, thanks.
- chadsterrr, on 10/13/2008, -0/+14Ann Coulter's NOT a man on steroids?
*head explodes* - inactive, on 10/13/2008, -3/+16God, I can only hope this all can mean an end to the Republican party as we know it. I don't mean I want them to go away, but I want them to go back to being conservative - ditch the zealots, ditch the slander, go back to conservative politics.
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