If things go the way the mainstream media is predicting and we elect Obama as President of the United States we will be witnessing one of the greatest frauds in American history, and the shameful media will be to blame.
Today Andrew McCarthy has a story at National Review On-line about how the Los Angeles Times is sitting on a tape which would show how close Obama is to his Marxist neighbor Bill Ayers and Rashid Khalidi (now a professor at Columbia University) an avowed enemy of Israel.
The party featured encomiums by many of Khalidi’s allies, colleagues, and friends, including Barack Obama, then an Illinois state senator, and Bill Ayers, the terrorist turned education professor. It was sponsored by the Arab American Action Network (AAAN), which had been founded by Khalidi and his wife, Mona, formerly a top English translator for Arafat’s press agency.
The party was thrown by AAAN:
Nor did the Times report the party was thrown by AAAN. Wallsten does tell us that the AAAN received grants from the Leftist Woods Fund when Obama was on its board — but, besides understating the amount (it was $75,000, not $40,000), the Times mentions neither that Ayers was also on the Woods board at the time nor that AAAN is rabidly anti-Israel. (Though the organization regards Israel as illegitimate and has sought to justify Palestinian terrorism, Wallsten describes the AAAN as “a social service group.”)
Go read McCarthy’s article and then come back.
One of the many aspects of this story, and one that really infuriates me, is that the Arab American Action Network (created by Khalidi) wraps itself in mushy do-gooder talk about helping immigrants and refugees, but is really just a cover for organizing against the government. And, get this! You pay for this! They get government grants!
You helped pay for the party!
Seven months ago tomorrow I wrote this in a post about Obama’s taxpayer money trail:
Maybe you are saying so what, it’s a private foundation. But, get this! The Arab American Action Network (AAAN) is getting direct government (taxpayer funded!) grants to work against you! In the most recent Form 990 I could get for them (2004), they received $122,327 in government grants as part of their $394,687 income for the year. That is about 31% of their budget to “organize” Chicago Arabs. Lest you think they are running bake sales or pig roast fundraisers, much of the other “direct public support” they receive comes from grants from the likes of the Woods Fund.
If regular people sitting around computers in their pajamas can find this information, shame on the mainstream media ‘professionals’ who I believe are complicit in perpetrating the greatest fraud in American history.