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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on April 27, 2012, 08:47:08 AM

Title: Obama has here, in his hand, a list
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on April 27, 2012, 08:47:08 AM

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Richard Nixon's "enemies list" appalled the country for the simple reason that presidents hold a unique trust. Unlike senators or congressmen, presidents alone represent all Americans. Their powers—to jail, to fine, to bankrupt—are also so vast as to require restraint. Any president who targets a private citizen for his politics is de facto engaged in government intimidation and threats. This is why presidents since Nixon have carefully avoided the practice.

Save Mr. Obama, who acknowledges no rules. This past week, one of his campaign websites posted an item entitled "Behind the curtain: A brief history of Romney's donors." In the post, the Obama campaign named and shamed eight private citizens who had donated to his opponent. Describing the givers as all having "less-than-reputable records," the post went on to make the extraordinary accusations that "quite a few" have also been "on the wrong side of the law" and profiting at "the expense of so many Americans."

These are people like Paul Schorr and Sam and Jeffrey Fox, investors who the site outed for the crime of having "outsourced" jobs. T. Martin Fiorentino is scored for his work for a firm that forecloses on homes. Louis Bacon (a hedge-fund manager), Kent Burton (a "lobbyist") and Thomas O'Malley (an energy CEO) stand accused of profiting from oil. Frank VanderSloot, the CEO of a home-products firm, is slimed as a "bitter foe of the gay rights movement."

The good news: this is an admission of just how weak and vulnerable they know they are within their own camp.

The bad news: the weak and vulnerable are always tempted towards tyranny

Title: Re: Obama has here, in his hand, a list
Post by: JohnnyReb on April 27, 2012, 08:59:53 AM

Stainless steel pot calling the stainless steel kettle "shiny".

Hey, if you say black, you're racist.

Title: Re: Obama has here, in his hand, a list
Post by: RightCoast on April 27, 2012, 09:00:17 AM

link to the story Sgt? Looks like a good read.

Title: Re: Obama has here, in his hand, a list
Post by: Eupher on April 27, 2012, 09:51:27 AM

Here is, presumably, Obama's Enemies List, as assembled by Media Matters:

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An internal Media Matters For America memo obtained by The Daily Caller reveals that the left-wing media watchdog group employs an “opposition research team” to target its political enemies. Included in the list of targets are right-leaning websites, conservative think tanks, prominent financiers and donors, and more than a dozen specific Fox News Channel and News Corporation employees.

“We will conduct extensive public records searches and compile opposition books on individuals,” declares the memo, likely written in late 2009. Investigations, it says, “will focus on the backgrounds, connections, operations and political and financial activities of the individuals.” (RELATED: Media Matters sources, memos reveal erratic behavior, close coordination with White House and news organizations)

One of those singled out for scrutiny in the memo is PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, a self-described libertarian. Thiel “directly funded, through a small government group, prior racist attack videos by James O’Keefe, the right-wing operative who staged the recent ACORN video sting,” states the memo. “Thiel’s role in funding such attacks has gone completely unremarked and largely uninvestigated.”

“An opposition research team will serve to hold Thiel and others like him accountable.”

In addition to Thiel, the memo contains this list of “preliminary targets”:

News Corp
 Fox News Channel
 Fox Business Network
 Fox News’ websites
Conservative news sites
 WorldNetDaily
 BigHollywood.com
 NewsMax
 BigGovernment.com
Conservative think thanks
 The Heritage Foundation
 American Enterprise Institute
 Cato Institute
News Corp executives
 Rupert Murdoch
 Chase Carey
 David DeVoe
 Lawrence Jacobs
 James Murdoch
Conservative donors
 Peter Thiel
 Richard Mellon Scaife
 Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
 John M. Olin Foundation
 Koch Family Foundations
Fox News executives
 CEO Roger Ailes
 Senior vice president Michael Clemente
 Vice president of news Sean Smith
 Vice president of new editorial product Jay Wallace
 Fox Business Network executive vice president Kevin Magee
Fox personalities
 Glenn Beck
 Sean Hannity
 Bill O’Reilly
Fox senior production and corporation staff
 Hannity executive producer John Finley
 On the Record executive producer Meade Cooper
 O’Reilly Factor senior executive producer David Tabacoff
 Fox & Friends executive producer Lauren Petterson
Political figures
 Carly Fiorina
 David Vitter
 Eric Cantor
 John Boehner
 Mitch McConnell
 Michele Bachmann
 Steve King
“In all likelihood,” the memo concludes, “we will produce volumes of useful data week after week.”



Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/13/inside-media-matters-david-brocks-enemies-list/#ixzz1tFjCVFVF

Title: Re: Obama has here, in his hand, a list
Post by: CG6468 on April 27, 2012, 09:55:58 AM

I also have a list.

Title: Re: Obama has here, in his hand, a list
Post by: Kyle Ricky on April 27, 2012, 10:00:21 AM

My understanding is that Rupert Murdoch is a liberal?

Title: Re: Obama has here, in his hand, a list
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on April 27, 2012, 10:57:38 AM

Quote from: RightCoast on April 27, 2012, 09:00:17 AM

link to the story Sgt? Looks like a good read.

my bad

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304723304577368280604524916.html

Title: Re: Obama has here, in his hand, a list
Post by: JohnnyReb on April 27, 2012, 11:25:34 AM

Damn!  :bawl:  I am a failure....I'm not on Obama's shit-list.