Passport-gate Is Another Rove Dirty Trick Against Obama

McCamy Taylor

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Sat Mar-22-08 05:03 PM
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Passport-gate Is Another Rove Dirty Trick Against Obama

Until proven otherwise, Passport-gate is another Rove Dirty Trick Against Obama. . Look at the evidence. First the timing stinks. There had already been two passport security breeches against the Senator, but he was not notified of either. However, after the first passport security breech against his likely Republican rival this fall the administration leaps into action, notifying the world....

That there have been three attempts to look at Obama�s passport. Given the history of the previous Bush administration this will be enough to grab a ton of news media attention and get every Democrat focused upon the story. That includes KO. However, the real reason the truth was finally uncovered will only be revealed on day two. This is because McCain, a Republican was spied upon. Had the original story been McCain passport accessed Democrats would have yawned and gone back to their primary battling.

Ok, so Rove has the Democrats� attention. Now, look at the timing again. Just one week ago, Republican propaganda organ, Fox News aired some inflammatory bits from sermons of the much respected Rev. Wright. If anyone needs proof that he is respected, the fact that he is going to be honored for his lifetime achievement here in Fort Worth by the Brite school of religion, associated with Texas Christian University should tell you a lot. His ministry helps people who have endured oppression deal with the sense of hurt and loss. Loss is just like the grief of dying and one of the emotions you experience is anger. When Rev. Wright encourages his flock to feel their anger it is not with the intention that they will remain angry forever. His goal is that they become healed within----but they will only be able to love themselves and others fully if they finally acknowledge that a terrible wrong was done to them.

Fox News attempted to create the impression that Barack Obama was an angry scary divisive Black man, a myth that the right wing has been working on for a years (see my journal �The Right Wing Media v. Obama�). Obama did a good job of countering their attack with a speech. However, while the Democrats were still waiting to see if this right wing media fueled controversy would die, another right wing propaganda organ The Washington Times broke Passport-gate. The nature of the Moonie owned Times should have been a warning that this story was not what it seemed.

Now that the story has firmly implanted itself in the Democratic Primary, the Washington Times comes in with the real hit piece.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080322/NATION/243762495/1001

The State Department investigation of improper computer access to passport records of three presidential candidates is focusing on one remaining employee � a contract worker with a company headed by an adviser to the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama.

In other words, the Washington Times has flipped the story from "Obama was spied upon" to "Obama spied" in the space of 24 hours. Is this what they called Orwellian ? As I have said at least 20 times now since this primary began, the press is a big fat liar. Hmmm. Somehow that does not seem strong enough. How about The Washington Times is a lying sack of shit ?

As usual, the so called �neutral� mainstream media immediately rushes in to support the right wing in its smear.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/03/22/passport.files/index.html

The CEO of a company whose employee is accused of improperly looking at the passport files of presidential candidates is a consultant to the Barack Obama campaign, a source said Saturday.
John Brennan, president of the Analysis Corp., advises the Illinois Democrat on foreign policy and intelligence issues, the source said.
Brennan briefed the media on behalf of the campaign this month.
The executive is a former senior CIA official and former interim director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
He contributed $2,300 to the Obama campaign in January.

CNN is such a class act. That must be what the C stands for. Classy News Network. Look at where the Time-Warner (parent company of CNN) gave their money before the 2004 election.

http://mpetrelis.blogspot.com/2004/10/chief-executive-officer-of-time-warner.html

The chief executive officer of the Time Warner media empire, Mr. Richard D. Parsons, in 2003 donated the maximum allowed by law for a primary election, $2,000, to the Bush/Cheney reelection campaign, according to records from the Federal Election Commission.

Parsons is not the only Time Warner executive who gave to Bush and Cheney's primary race last year. At least nine other high-level people from the conglomerate contributed $2,000 to Bush/Cheney last year.

I wonder if they mentioned these donations when they refused to release their Ohio 2004 exit polls. Maybe we should change that to the BNN, Bush News Network.

Back to Passport-gate. To make matters worse, the initial stories stressed that the third worker was not fired, only reprimanded. KO, who had no idea where this was all leading, made a big deal asking questions about why that third worker was not sacked. It is likely that the feds have asked the company not to fire the employee. However, the public is going to think that Brennan is afraid to fire him, because he sent him there to snoop on John McCain---and maybe to see if there is anything incriminating in Obama�s file while he is at it.

Ask yourself why security breaches of Obama�s passport file lead to no action, but a look at McCain�s file prompted a full court press reaction of this magnitude? And why did the Washington Times get involved? A whistle blower who was protesting administration or State Department reluctance to act on dirty tricks against Obama would not go to the right wing press, they would go to the left wing press or maybe the New York Times. A conservative worried about McCain�s privacy might go to the Washington Times, but why did not the original article mention McCain�s name, the candidate that conservatives are interested in? Why only Obama�s? And why not the Washington Post? That is a more respectable conservative paper, and they would have loved the story. Except there is one problem with the Post. They would have definitely mentioned John McCain in the first article. And mentioned Hillary, too. And then there would have been no �Bush spies on Obama� to get the story to spread like wildfire through a flour silo.

Consider this possibility. Someone hired or blackmailed or induced a mole at a company that Brennan heads to look at McCain and Obama�s file. The security world is full of Republicans--- and also people who need jobs or people would like to start their own security companies if only they could be sure that someone would give them a contract The Washington Times was enlisted to write the story as if only Obama was a target. This provoked the intended reaction. Once the Democrats were enthralled with the conspiracy, then the Washington Times let the other shoe drop.

Now the why. As I have written before, Rove�s strategy this year is Brokered Democratic Convention. He has plans for Denver. I suspect that phony agitators will be sent in to start fights, maybe even riots. Some heads will be busted open. The last thing that he wants is for either candidate to tie up this nomination now, months before Denver. He wants Hillary and Barack to bloody each other so that McCain can pick off whichever is left standing----I don�t think Rove cares which it is at this point. When Hillary was ahead, the MSM attacked her. Now that Obama is ahead, he is the target.

Unless Hillary catches up, every dirty trick that comes out of the RNC and the right wing media will be aimed at setting Obama back. This was just one more of those tricks. For a couple of days, the press will speculate that an Obama adviser�-ex-CIA no less--- tried to get info on John McCain. The story will die for lack of evidence. But by then the right wing will have one more dirty trick ready to play.

DUers, please do not use this story in your Obama vs.Hillary Democratic infighting . When you snipe at each other, another one of Karl Rove's operatives gets his devil horns.

Please refrain from posting variations of 1) Hillary/Obama is divisive 2) Hillary/Obama should drop out for the good of the party. I realize that this may limit the comments to zero, but that is ok. I would like to give people who want to discuss the topic----Republican and MSM interference in OUR Democratic Primary---a chance to be heard (or rather read).