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Smear Madness

The Internet has played an
important role in politics for
many years now.  Primarily
as a means to put out infor-
mation 'outside' the Main
Stream Media.  The first
major example of this was
when Matt Drudge revealed
the Monica Lewinsky story
to the world at large.

Since then, the MSM now
relies heavily on Internet
sources, as we have seen
in the last two weeks. The
Left-Wing blog site: The
Daily Kos, unleashed a
horrible lie about Alaskan
Governor Sarah Palin's
youngest son, Trig Paxson,
not being her own child, but
that of her eldest daughter,
Bristol.  Within hours, many
MSM organs, from cable news
networks to newspapers, be-
gan reporting on the story as
if it were factual.  "US Maga-
zine" even went to press with
a selacious cover, while the
story inside the pages was
lacking any hard facts to sup-
port the title of the cover.  It
should be noted, that "US
Magazine" is owned by the
same corporation that owns
"Rolling Stone", which is bla-
tantly left-of-center in their
politics.

Viral emails have become all
the rage of late for spreading
falsehoods and downright lies.
There have been many exam-
ples of these, one of which I
wrote about earlier.  That one
was allegedly from a Captain
in the U.S. Army stationed
in Afghanistan, commenting
on Obama's visit.  That email
was proven to be a hoax.

Two new ones have emerged
that are not hoaxes.  One
from a CPA In Maryland,
Bruce Riddle, who claims that
Senator Joe Biden "stiffed" him
on some $15,000 in fees for
preparing a financial statement
needed when Biden ran for
President in 1988.  Riddle
goes on further stating that
Biden refuses to pay some
$150,000 in private jet rental
fees to a company which
Riddle sits on the board of.
This tab was run-up during
Biden's latest attempt to
become President.

On the other side of the coin,
we have an alleged, "ordinary
housewife" from Wasilla, AK,
who claims to know Governor
Palin very well and is very
critical of her tenure as both
mayor and governor.  Anne
Kilkenny has quickly become
a 'rock star' in the MSM due
to the email she 'intended'
to only be circulated to her
friends and family.  

This is always the case in
these viral emails.  They are
always 'intended' to just be
read by people the writer
actually knows.  Or, at least,
that is always the author's
claim!

Needless to say, Anne
Kilkenny is a Democratic
activist in Alaska, who has
waged fights against a wide
range of issues, including
preventing a Walmart from
being built in Wasilla.  She
was one of a hundred locals
who protested against Mayor
Palin when she requested
the resignation of the town's
librarian.  Kilkenny charges
that this was over Palin's
objections to controversial
books available in the library.
The truth is more functional,
the librarian was only one of
seven city officials appointed
by Palin's predecessor whom
Palin wanted to replace with
her own people.  After a 45
minute conversation with the
librarian, Palin decided to
keep her on the payroll. A
sign of someone who makes
EXECUTIVE DECISIONS!

The MSM has made a big
deal out of the story which
Palin tells about putting the
corporate jet bought by the
previous governor on eBay.
The story is essentially
true.  The jet was placed on
eBay three times, with the
highest bid around $1.6
Million dollars.  But the jet's
'reserve price' was $2.5
Million.  After which, an
aircraft broker sold the jet
for $2.1 Million to a busi-
nessman in Alaska.

While the MSM is making
hay out of Palin and her
"Trooper-gate" and other
non-issues, they are com-
pletely ignoring those of
Obama and Biden.  Very
little vetting or investigating
was done on Obama prior
to the beginning of the pri-
mary season.  Biden is
getting a complete free
ride on his family issues.

Today, on "Meet The Press",
for example, Tom Brokaw
had the opportunity to ask
Senator Biden about the
fraud lawsuit filed against his
son, Hunter and his brother,
James.  Both men were in-
volved in a take-over at-
tempt of Paradigm
Companies LLC,  a hedge
fund investment firm.

Hunter was named president
of LLB Holdings, with a salary
of $1.2 Million dollars annually,
despite having ZERO experi-
ence in hedge funds or invest-
ing!  The job was arranged
to get Hunter out of his previous
position as a lawyer who was a
lobbyist for a major bank in
Delaware, at the same time that
bank was pushing for new laws
on credit card bankruptcies.
Biden, who co-sponsored the
new law, could be seen as in
their pockets, if one wanted
to look!

Hunter and James are being
sued by their former partner,
Anthony Lotito Jr.  Lotito claims
that James called him in Jan.,
2006 to arrange a job for Hunter.
He claims that James voiced
concern that his brother, Joe,
was worried about how it may
look to have a son as a lobby-
ist when he runs for President
in 2008.  The deal was to create
a new company, LLB Holdings
USA, and buy 54% of Paradigm
for some $21.3 Million dollars.

Lotito charges in his lawsuit
that the Bidens crafted a
secret deal to create another
company to buy him out of
his Paradigm shares.  In a
second lawsuit, Stephane
Farouze, an executive with
Deutsche Bank, claims that
LLB promised to buy his
shares of Paradigm for $10
Million dollars and then
reneged.

Another interesting twist on
this tale is the involvement
of SimmonsCooper LLC,
a law and lobbying firm based
in Illinois.  They agreed to put
up some of the the cash for
the Paradigm purchase, about
$2 Million dollars.  What is so
interesting about Simmons-
Cooper is that they are one
of the leading law firms doing
cases related to asbestos.
They were major contributors
to the Obama campaign as
well.  As you may recall, one
of Obama's 'claim-to-fame' is
fighting Chicago landlords as
a 'community organizer' on
the removal of asbestos from
housing projects.  Surely,
more investigation is needed
here on this connection.  We
certainly won't get any from
Tom Brokaw or the rest of the
MSM!

So, in short, the smearing of
Palin is permitted by the MSM.
They were very quick to jump
on her religious background,
making her appear to be some
sort of nut.  Yet, the MSM did
nothing for over a year about
Obama's church affiliation!
Is it any wonder why major
newspapers, news magazines
and TV networks are losing
viewers and readers.  How many
of the recent job losses this
past August were from the
MSM?  Clearly, not nearly
enough!  LOL!!!!
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