Woah! This is an interesting one.
A group called Americans for Limited Government on Thursday accused a producer for NBC’s "Dateline" of sending them an anti-Semitic e-mail message in response to the organization’s request for Congress to defund the controversial group ACORN.
The mass e-mail in question, sent by ALG’s Alex Rosenwald to many members of the media including NBC’s Jane Stone, said:
“The only way Congress can unravel all of the various funding measures in the ‘stimulus,’ in the ‘Foreclosure Prevention Act,’ and other measures is to pass the ‘Defund ACORN Act’ immediately. They should do it now. Before ACORN spends it all.” — ALG President Bill Wilson
According to ALG, Stone responded:
Bite me Jew boy!
The Capital Research Center’s Matthew Vadum, who is also a contributor to NewsBusters, posted a screen-cap of the e-mail message at Andrew Breitbart’s website Big Government.
Politico’s Michael Calderone reported on this matter Friday:
NBC News president Steve Capus fired back at Americans for Limited Government Friday, after the conservative group published an email allegedly from NBC producer Jane Stone to its director of media outreach Alex Rosenwald, with one line: “Bite me Jew Boy.”
“I’m still in shock, and outraged that this reckless organization would go out with such a defamatory, irresponsible statement,” Capus told POLITICO. “We have done a complete email analysis, all of our IT, all of our records.”
Here’s what both sides agree on: Stone responded yesterday to a mass email from ALG.
But Stone’s response email—provided to POLITICO—did not have any anti-Semitic comment. In fact, it had just one line: “Take me off this list!” (There are also subtle differences, including number of dashes, between the two emails).
“Somebody, on the other end, I’m assuming, took the return stamp from the email and then put in this hateful message,” Capus said. “I don’t know who did it. It’s outrageous to suspect that somebody from NBC News would do it.”
For its part, ALG responded:
We at Americans for Limited Government are saddened that instead of helping us to get to the bottom of the hateful email that was indeed sent from NBC’s server, and this can be verified, and was not tampered with, which can also be verified, that NBC President Steve Capus has instead chosen to circle the wagons and protect what is indefensible with hysterical, frantic accusations.
This email has left a digital footprint that is undeniable. We did our due diligence. We have confirmed that it indeed came from NBC’s server and Jane Stone’s email address.
As before, we renew our offer that we made to both Ms. Stone and NBC President Capus over the phone today to get to the bottom of who sent this email from Ms. Stone’s Blackberry email address. That offer remains open, and we would like it very much if both Ms. Stone and NBC would issue an apology to both Americans for Limited Government, and Mr. Alex Rosenwald, who was the target of this hateful email.
Where does this go from here?
NBC ‘Dateline’ Producer to Anti-ACORN Group: ‘Bite Me Jew Boy’ | NewsBusters.org
Oh noes! Obama isn’t able to keep his promises. Not that I am sad about this one, but has his administration gotten ANYTHING right yet?
WASHINGTON — The White House acknowledged for the first time Friday that it might not be able to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay by January as President Barack Obama has promised.
Senior administration officials told The Associated Press that difficulties in completing the lengthy review of detainee files and resolving thorny legal and logistical questions mean the president’s self-imposed January deadline may slip. Obama remains as committed to closing the facility as he was when, as one of his first acts in office, he pledged to shut it down, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to more freely discuss the sensitive issue.
AP: Guantanamo Might Not Close by January – Political News – FOXNews.com
What we need is tort reform and allowing interstate sale of health insurance. Instead, these idiots come up with this.
Buy Obamacare or face jail… One year in jail.
The Politico reported:
Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) received a handwritten note Thursday from Joint Committee on Taxation Chief of Staff Tom Barthold confirming the penalty for failing to pay the up to $1,900 fee for not buying health insurance.
Violators could be charged with a misdemeanor and could face up to a year in jail or a $25,000 penalty, Barthold wrote on JCT letterhead. He signed it "Sincerely, Thomas A. Barthold."
Gateway Pundit: Unreal– Obamacare Violators Will Face Up to One Year in Jail
Bwahahaha. President Pantywaist. That is too funny. Could you imagine the US press calling him that.
Way to go, UK. Gateway Pundit has more.
Well, the Russian leader was impressed anyway.
Gerald Warner describes the president’s decision to turn his back on our staunch allies in Eastern Europe.
The Telegraph Blog reported:
Barack Obama’s chances of re-election in three and a half years’ time may be evaporating at unprecedented speed, but his presidential ambitions could still be realised in another direction. He would be a shoo-in to win the next Russian presidential election, so high is his popularity now running in the land of the bear and the knout. Obama has done more to restore Russia’s hegemonial potential in Eastern and Central Europe than even Vladimir Putin.
His latest achievement has been to restore the former satellite states to dependency on Moscow, by wimping out of the missile defence shield plan. This follows on his surrender last July when he voluntarily sacrificed around a third of America’s nuclear capability for no perceptible benefit beyond a grim smile from Putin. If there is one thing that fans the fires of aggression it is appeasement.
Despite propaganda to the contrary, 58 per cent of Poles were in favour of the missile shield. But small nations must assess the political will of larger powers. Thanks to President Pantywaist’s supine policies, the former satellite states can see that they are fast returning to their former status.
Gateway Pundit: Gerald Warner: President Pantywaist Restores the Satellite States to Their Former Owner
I really wish I had the popularity and influence that Fox News has. I would be so proud to have Chavez name me as an enemy and call me poison. It would be an honor. Having him praise me? I would be sick to my stomach.
"The Smell of Sulphur Has Been Replaced By Smell of Hope"
Hugo Chavez became the latest dictator to praise Barack Obama at the United Nations.
Chavez wouldn’t answer a question from FOX News analyst about his lying "brother" Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Instead, he attacked the "stupid people" from FOX News and called them "poison."
Gateway Pundit: Marxist Leader Hugo Chavez Praises Obama & Slams FOX News During UN Interview
Does anyone else see anything wrong with this? Pakistan has handed our money to terrorists again and again:
The FBI said Zazi admitted last week that Osama Bin Laden‘s goons trained him in "weapons and explosives" last year at an Al Qaeda camp in Pakistan’s war-torn Pashtun tribal areas, prosecutors say. – link
Then, lets follow that with:
Senate votes to triple foreign aid to Pakistan USA Today (hat tip Choi)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate voted Thursday to triple foreign aid to Pakistan, with lawmakers saying the legislation could change the crisis-driven nature of U.S.-Pakistan relations and create ties based more on long-term interests.
Please, someone explain this to me.
Ummm. What?
Someone explain how this one works. Dems are looking to introduce a bill that would cripple or destroy private health insurance. Then they want to tax those same private health insurance plans to pay for it. Does this seem like burning down a tree to get to the apples?
Of course, its not new. Dems raise taxes, then have no idea why tax revenue drops. Cause and effect is not a concept they have figured out yet.
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats are considering an insurance tax to help pay for their health care overhaul plan, even though such a funding scheme is bitterly opposed by labor unions that are among the party’s most loyal constituencies.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Friday a tax on high-cost health insurance plans is "under consideration" as Democrats search for consensus within their ranks before taking a bill to the House floor later this fall.
The Obama administration shows again and again that it is completely unable to handle… well, anything correctly.
How can these people be trusted with a huge portion of the US economy when a few billion flummox them?
The Obama administration has yet to fully unsnarl the reimbursements from the Cash for Clunkers program, and have claimed that the overwhelming demand caught them by surprise. In contrast, the latest GI Bill for veteran education, the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008, has been in effect for more than a year, with fairly predictable demand curves. So why did the administration botch tuition payments for tens of thousands of veterans at the beginning of this semester?
The U.S. government failed to send promised college tuition checks to tens of thousands of veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars before they returned to school this fall, even after being warned that it was inadequately staffed for the job.
The Veterans Affairs Department blamed a backlog of claims filed for GI Bill education benefits that has left veterans who counted on the money for tuition and books scrambling to make ends meet. …
Out of more than 277,000 veterans who have filed for the college tuition benefits this semester, more than 200,000 claims have been processed and approved, but fewer than 11 percent of the veterans have received the funding, according to the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA).
The group says it has been contacted by thousands of veterans who have not received their benefits and that they are forced to take out loans or pay the money out of their pockets.
Just imagine what these same people can do when they take over your health benefits!
How long will it take before the media notices the pattern here? This program has been in place for months, and now it has a whopping 89% failure rate in a program that shouldn’t have a 5% failure rate. It doesn’t take a claims genius to process and approve tuition reimbursement requests. They are a lot less complicated than, say, health care claims.
Hot Air » Blog Archive » Obama administration blows School for Soldiers program, too
Hmmm. Beginning of the end as people start to realize exactly what a criminal organization this is. And every little bit of it is tied to the Dems and Obama, specifically.
Obama’s house of cards is getting ready to fall. This is the work that the MSM should have done before the election. This is the job they should be doing now. Instead, it has to be done with 2 young adults with a video camera.
Robin Hood stole from the rich and gave to the poor. According to the Washington Post, ACORN took millions of dollars intended to go to the poor, and gave them to politicians — and themselves. Newly-revealed records show that ACORN may have a lot more problems than giving advice to purported child-prostitution traffickers:
Documents released by a Senate Republican on Thursday show that leaders of the ACORN community organizing network transferred several million dollars in charitable and government money meant for the poor to arms of the group that have political and sometimes profit-making missions.
ACORN’s tax-exempt groups and allied organizations, long a target of conservative ire, used more than half their charitable and public money in 2006 to pay other ACORN affiliates, according to an analysis by the tax staff of Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa).
On Thursday, Grassley called the transactions a “big shell game” and said ACORN donors may be surprised by how the liberal group known for helping the poor obtain housing and health care was spending their money. He urged the Internal Revenue Service to take a closer look.
According to the Grassley report, charities “are being used to raise monies which are then funneled to other charities or to other organizations for purposes other than what the donor may have intended. . . . Dollars raised for charitable [purposes] appear to be used for impermissible lobbing and political activity.”
Hot Air » Blog Archive » WaPo: ACORN a reverse Robin Hood
Hilarious, Obama even sucks in a warped poll. They polled 40% more Dems than Republicans. He is losing with Dems a bit, but where he is really losing with is the Independents.
The latest New York Times/CBS poll has some bad news for Barack Obama, although the two media outlets did their best to avoid it in their sampling. He has lost ground on Afghanistan, almost certainly from his liberal base, and his media blitz has done nothing to change minds on health care. His approval ratings remain relatively high, but that has more to do with the sample, which has become an absolute embarrassment in political polling (via Tom Maguire)
Hot Air » Blog Archive » NYT/CBS poll shows Obama losing ground on health care, Afghanistan
