‘Dark Money’! ‘Corporate Interests’! The Left’s Wisconsin Conspiracy Theory

Posted on | November 25, 2013 | 76 Comments

Lisa Graves is a Democrat Party hack who apparently believes it should be illegal to be a conservative, and who thinks that cooperation between conservatives is therefore a criminal conspiracy. Graves used to work for Democrat Sen. Patrick Leahy and the ACLU, but since 2009 has worked for the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), a left-wing Wisconsin outfit whose funders include George Soros:

The website www.Banksterusa.org, for example, claims it wants “to be your go-to site for updates on the financial services re-regulation fight in Congress and for progressive net-roots campaigning against the big boys on Wall Street.” . . .
BanksterUSA.org is “part of the Center for Media and Democracy,” funded to the tune of $200,000 by the Open Society Institute, the charity arm of lefty investor George Soros.

While taking money from Soros — a billionaire international financier — Graves and the CMD claim that money is a corrupting influence in politics if that money goes to conservatives: The Wisconsin Club for Growth is “at the center of a tangled web of dark money“!

This bizarre paranoid nonsense is all part of a dishonest smear against supporters of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who defeated a well-funded recall attempt by Democrats and their Big Labor allies in 2012.

A special prosecutor, evidently connected to the Democrat district attorney of Milwaukee County, has begun issuing subpoenas to conservative groups in an investigative fishing expedition that “suggest the government may be pursuing a theory of illegal campaign coordination by independent groups during the recall elections,” according to a Wall Street Journal report last week.

Walker’s name has been mentioned as a 2016 GOP presidential candidate. He is up for re-election as governor next year. How convenient, then, that Lisa Graves and her Soros-funded CMD are promoting this smear against Walker. M.D. Kittle reports:

If Madison’s Center for Media and Democracy has its way, government investigators armed with subpoenas may soon raid the homes and offices of conservatives across the country in a national campaign that began right here, in the Democrat-controlled Milwaukee County District Attorney’s office.
Beginning with a press conference last week and promising a yearlong coordinated effort, CMD has spent several days speculating on the links between free-market political organizations. Any kind of cooperation among those groups to elect a conservative – for example, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker – is evidence of wrongdoing, CMD suggests in a rambling post on its website. . . .
Multiple sources tell Wisconsin Reporter that CMD’s claim is the basis of the Milwaukee DA’s investigation into about 100 people representing some 29 conservative and libertarian groups.
Despite CMD’s assertions, there’s no law barring cooperation among political groups. That fact may derail the Milwaukee DA’s probe, now headed by special prosecutor Francis Schmitz.
It was left to a reporter to make that point during last week’s CMD conference call.
“Why should we be surprised conservative-funded groups are funding conservative causes?” the reporter asked. Doesn’t the same thing occur on the left?
The answer, according to CMD executive director Lisa Graves: Yes, but the left is morally superior in its motives.
“The question of conservative funders versus liberal funders, I think, is a matter of false equivalency,” Graves responded. “Quite frankly a number of these (corporate donors) like Koch Industries … they’re advancing not just an ideological agenda but an agenda that helps advance the bottom line of their corporate interests. That’s quite a distinct difference from some of the funders in the progressive universe.”
At the heart of CMD’s campaign is the suggestion that conservative political groups cannot legally work together. Liberal groups? That seems to be okay.

Read the whole thing at Watchdog.org. Where do people get the idea that “corporate interests” are evil in a way that liberal interests (including the interests of George Soros) are not?

Idiots like Lisa Graves need to use a better quality of tinfoil in their hats. You can’t stop CIA brain-control waves with cheap tinfoil.

Category: Conspiracy Theories, Wisconsin

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.25.13

Posted on | November 25, 2013 | 8 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

TOP NEWS
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Big Texas Storm Threatens Thanksgiving Travel
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POLITICS
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The President looks at Mount Rainier with adviser Valerie Jarrett

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THE ECONOMY, STUPID
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Category: Live at Five

Documents Prove Kaitlyn Hunt Lied; Knew Sex With 14-Year-Old Was Illegal

Posted on | November 24, 2013 | 141 Comments

BOOM:

Florida sex offender Kaitlyn Hunt, whose case became a cause for many gay rights activists this year, was aware that her affair with a 14-year-old was illegal, documents obtained from the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office show.
“Yes, I know I’m 18 and can get in trouble,” Hunt said in an online conversation more than a month before her February arrest, “but I understand the consequences and I know what I got myself into when I entered the relationship with [the underage girl].”
Hunt, who last month pleaded no contest to multiple felony charges in the case, has claimed in media interviews that she did not realize her involvement with the minor was a crime in Florida, where the legal age of consent is 16. “I wouldn’t have continued, if I really knew what the laws were and if I knew what I was getting myself into,” Hunt told ABC’s Matt Gutman in an interview broadcast on the network’s 20/20 program. . . .

Read the whole thing at Viral Read. The documents in the case were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by Jeanette Runyon and were published by Matt Ross at Conservative Hideout. There are more documents, so stay tuned in coming days.

Category: Crime, Kaitlyn Hunt, Sex

Rule 5 Sunday

Posted on | November 24, 2013 | 16 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Laughing Conservative leads off this week with Jenna Dewan, followed by Randy’s Roundtable with Pamela Davis and Fishersville Mike with Danielle Bradbery. Goodstuff offers Danielle Cushman (from American Pickers), while 90 Miles From Tyranny has Girls With Guns, Morning Mistress, and Hot Pick of the Late Night. Postaldog checks in with Kendall Jenner, Ella, and Scarlett Johansson; Blackmailers Don’t Shoot has Pretty Girls On A Thursday – Aubrey Plaza Edition as well as Monday Rule 5 with Kaley Cuoco.

EBL brings a huge herd of heifers this week, including Marta Kirsten, Maria Bartiromo, True Feminist Courtney Stodden, Catching Fire, “Who’s Those Girls”, Talisa Soto, borscht, Johnny Walker, Nymphomaniac, Spatchcock w/vintage Thanksgiving rule 5, and Retro NYC Rule 5.

Wine Women and Politics has Saturday Sweet Things, TGIF Extra Hotness, Damn It Is Hot Friday, Bonus Babes, Almost Friday Smokin’ Hot Babes, and Hot To Trot On Hump Day.

A View From The Beach offers Jessica Biel, Sometimes A Sandwich Is Just A Sandwich, Scientists Resent Mars Restrictions, Elves And Dwarves And Demonesses Oh My!, My Goodness What Fingers!, I Feel Drained…, “I Live Alone With Someone”, and Shockingly, Brazilian Model Admits to Horrible Taste in Men, Music.

At Soylent Siberia, it’s your Sunday Coffee Creamer, Hyperverse Hyperbole Approaching, Tyger Tyger Burning Bright, Monday Motivationer Paola, Tuesday Titillation Lilo, Evening Awesome V For Victory, Humpday Hawtness Titania, Fursday Feral Forrest Fauna, Warming Up Those Giblets For Next Week, Corset Friday Fantasy, T-GIF Friday Classic, Overnighty Friday Night Fur, and Carny Carly At Circus Spassfabrik.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Ana Serradilla, his vintage babe is Jean Trent, Sex In Advertising is courtesy of Versace, and of course, the obligatory Niners cheerleaders. At Dustbury, it’s Ming-Na Wen and Melissa Joan Hart.

The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes this week included Audia Tulloch, Shelby Chesnes, Mao Kotono, Jana Kramer, Gabriela Barros, Stephanie Fantauzzi, Mercy Saidi, Vanessa Hudgens, Shizuka Miyazawa, Nozomi Aso, and Evelyn Lozada. Also, Friday Beauty!

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit items to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for next week’s Rule 5 roundup is Saturday, November 30.

Category: Rule 5

‘It Is Not Journalism. It’s Crime.’

Posted on | November 24, 2013 | 40 Comments

Barrett Brown promotes atheism on Fox News, January 2009

Until this afternoon, I had never heard of Catherine Fitzpatrick, but in September she put up an excellent and lengthy article debunking the Barrett Brown victim myth. Fitzpatrick first encountered Barrett circa 2005 in the online virtual world Second Life, where he was part of a pack of so-called “griefers” who engaged in destructive activity:

In Second Life, by his own admission, Brown participated in raids which crashed the servers of people holding live music events or discussions or just hanging out. I have no idea if he personally crashed my servers, but I believe that he did, because he stopped by my blog here several times to heckle and the group was small in SL and tended to do everything together. The PNs as they were called were notorious and everyone knew about them in this relatively small community. I was singled out for attack because I began blogging about their vigilantism and harassment tactics starting in 2005. When they attacked the John Edwards Campaign in Second Life in 2006 and committed other coercive acts of hacking against speech they didn’t like, I quickly saw that far from fighting for freedom from cults like the Scientologists, they were in fact engaged in a turf war for power over the Internet, and wanted to impose a regime where no one could live unless they accepted their arbitrary rule.

Fitzpatrick’s insight about “vigilantism and harassment tactics” is crucial to understanding all such anarchist activity. This is not about politics, but about the use of illegal “coercive acts of hacking” to attack one’s enemies. To accept political claims as justification of these crimes — Barrett Brown and others, including Jeremy Hammond, have characterized their crimes as “civil disobedience” — is to invite a sort of Hobbesian war of “all against all” where the sole determination of authority is simply who is more skillfully ruthless.

Few conservative writers have paid any attention to Barrett Brown, with the result that nearly all journalism about him is by liberals who sympathetically repeat the self-serving claims made on Brown’s behalf by his hacker buddies, a reverential attitude which ignores the fact that many members of Anonymous resented Barrett’s arrogant glory-hogging and never really trusted him. Catherine Fitzpatrick also points out that the paranoid conspiracy theories Barrett and his supporters created about HB Gary are fundamentally wrong:

The tech press is filled with so many gloating accounts of the hack of HBGary . . . that it is hard to clear away the cloud of hacker obfuscation and social-hacking to realize: Aaron Barr and his colleagues did nothing wrong by planning to respond to the challenge of hacking through various measures which are legal — and if unethical, no different than any that Anonymous itself first used, with far greater damage. Aaron Barr and Greg Hoglund were never indicted for any crimes, nor did any of the people they identified wind up being falsely arrested. Instead, real hackers who committed real crimes were arrested and sentenced, or turned informants, or are awaiting trial, like Brown.
A key reason is because Jennifer Emick . . . an Anonymous “hacktivist” who had joined the movement in 2008 to fight Scientology for personal reasons of seeing a relative caught up in the cult, and had been inspired by the fight for Internet freedom in Tunisia and elsewhere, became repulsed and concerned when she saw the hackers turn against others including HBGary. She enlisted the FBI’s cooperation, and eventually one of the chief LulzSec hackers discovered — Sabu — was turned into an informant, and his information led to the arrest of others. Naturally, those hackers who remain at large continue to attack her viciously in all the infamous ways that Anonymous has become known for — exposing her private information, a form of harassment known as “doxing,” stalking her and her family, making harassment phone calls, pizza deliveries and even prank calls to police or child welfare authorities. I’ve had a lot of this done to me over the years merely for blogging about the criminality of these people, so I have a sense of what it is like.
It is not journalism. It’s crime. . . .

You really should read the whole thing and notice that Catherine Fitzpatrick feels obligated to say she doesn’t like me because my “violent statements and extreme views are really a turn-off,” even while she references my own analysis of Barrett Brown’s illegal activities.

This is an important point: You don’t have to like me to agree with me when I’m right. (Although, of course, I’m always right.)

Category: Barrett Brown, Crime

FMJRA 2.0: Cathedral Oceans

Posted on | November 24, 2013 | 13 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Monday: Palate Cleanser

English Professor to GOP Congressman: ‘Motherf**ker … Evil … F**k You’

Obama Is the Subject of the Sentence

Alleged Pederast Harry Reid Disregards Senate Rules, and Also Craves Boy Flesh

Hey – Maybe It’s Just A Sandwich

Michelle Malkin Rips Up Arne Duncan

Remember Those Official Unemployment Numbers? They Just Made ‘Em Up!

Sarcasm Therapy: A Hope for Cure?

What? Those ‘Toxic Little Queens’ at MSNBC Don’t Want Alec Baldwin Back?

‘Community Liaison,’ IYKWIMAITYD

Also, Troll, You Misspelled ‘Syphilis’

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.22.13

Confirmed: Crazy People Are Dangerous

Shorter Jeremy Hammond: ‘Blame Bush!’

Bill Schmalfeldt: Obsessed Much?

In Which @ABFalecbaldwin Finally Gets the Kind of Attention He Deserves

Remember the Pro-Pedophile Movement That Liberals Pretend Doesn’t Exist?

FMJRA 2.0: Day Late & A Dollar Short

Princess Pelosi Gets Her MS14H On

The Parable of Banging the Babysitter

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.18.13

The Exceptional Jeremy Lott

The Douchebag Manifesto

Never Doubt @AmandaMarcotte’s Commitment to Baby-Killing

Al-Jazeera America: Worst Deal Ever

Also, This Is Covered by ObamaCare

The #TexasWomenForever Baby-Killer Democrat Online Fund-Raising Flop

LIVE AT ~~FIVE~~SEVEN: 11.19.13

UPDATE: Virginia State Sen. Creigh Deeds Was ‘Stabbed Numerous Times’ by His Son, Who Died of Self-Inflicted Gunshot UPDATE: Son Had ‘Emergency’ Psychiatric Evaluation Monday

Gus Deeds: What Went Wrong?

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.20.13

Kook Update: Roger Shuler

LIVE AT ~~FIVE~~SEVEN: 11.21.13

Our Moral Superiors: @Peter_Turchin’s Career of Selfish Academic Decadence

Conor Friedersdorf’s Grassy Knoll

The Hate-Troll Sockpuppet

Report: Muslim Warlords Out of Control in African Country, ‘Genocide’ Feared

Destructive Totalitarian ‘Equality’

Posted on | November 24, 2013 | 69 Comments

The various “-isms” of left-wing ideology are really just variations of a destructive anti-social nihilism, whose purpose was forever defined more than 150 years ago when, in their Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels declared: “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.” Once you understand this profound hostility to social order — the misfit’s appetite for anarchy — then you realize that whatever grievance they complain of is really just a pretext. They do not actually wish to reform society. Rather, they seek revenge against society, and don’t care that others are harmed by their acts of destruction, except insofar as they actively desire such harm.

The Left hates America not for its failures, but for its successes. Our peace, prosperity and liberty are a rebuke to the hateful fanaticism of our nation’s enemies, both foreign and domestic. If the Left told the truth about its intentions, they could never succeed. Their dishonesty is therefore integral to their destructive purposes:

The calls for equality and tolerance are simply convenient excuses and lies that serve only to destroy social norms so that they may be replaced by the Left’s own visions. They themselves will refuse to show the tolerance that they demand of others. This is because they define the views they disagree with as “intolerance,” “H8,” et al. and the opposition to those views as necessarily being for “tolerance” and against “H8? regardless of the actual lack of tolerance or hatred that they show. . . .
In order to support this manichean worldview, intolerance, oppression, and hate must be defined as the Cultural Maxist “superstructure” of straight White “cis-gendered” “X-tian” males who created social norms for the sole purpose of securing their unjust privileges by oppressing everyone else. The Left then sets up history as a progression of this “oppression” to one of “equality” and “democracy.” This “progress” is defined as being in manichean opposition to the founding principles of this country, and our Anglo-Saxon heritage upon which it was built.

Read the whole thing at The Political Hat.

Category: Culture, Intellectuals

‘Peace for Our Time’

Posted on | November 24, 2013 | 68 Comments

“Obama: Anatomy of a World Leader,” by Alex Gray (detail)

The Washington Post:

GENEVA — Iran and six major powers agreed early Sunday on an historic deal that freezes key parts of Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for temporary relief on some economic sanctions, diplomats confirmed.

We need not know anything about the details of this “historic deal” to know that it is absolutely worthless. The Islamic Republic of Iran has no respect for law, and cannot be expected to honor any promise it makes, except for its long-avowed purpose to annihilate Israel, to destroy “the Great Satan” and otherwise to carry out its violent worldwide revolutionary jihad against the West.

All the Iranian dictatorship seeks to accomplish by negotiation with the West is to anesthetize its enemies, to render opposition impotent by means of treaties that will postpone the inevitable confrontation until Iran has become stronger and we have become weaker.

Any “deal” with Iran is necessarily a bad deal, and the double guarantee of a bad deal is that it was approved by the Obama administration, which is “historic” only as a monument to incompetence with few parallels in human experience.

“The practical way of looking at things . . . may serve well enough in ordinary, normal times. But our times are not ‘normal’ in the good old Victorian sense, and never will be again. . . . These men, even Halifax, were essentially middle-class, not aristocrats. They did not have the hereditary sense of the security of the state, unlike Churchill, Eden, the Cecils. Nor did they have the toughness of the 18th-century aristocracy. They came at the end of the ascendancy of the Victorian middle-class, deeply affected as that was by high-mindedness and humbug. They all talked, in one form or another, the language of disingenuousness and cant: it was second nature to them — so different from Churchill. . . . It meant that they failed to see what was true, until too late, when it was simply a question of survival.”
— A.L. Rowse, Appeasement: A Study in Political Decline, 1933-39

Memeorandum has reaction from around the blogosphere, including Weasel Zippers, Blazing Cat Fur, Daniel Pipes at National Review, American Spectator and Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch.

UPDATE: All that is necessary to understand what is wrong with this agreement is to quote what Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif told Iran’s government-controlled media: “All plots hatched by the Zionist regime to stop the nuclear agreement have failed.”

Ah, “the Zionist regime”!

Category: Iran

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‘Dark Money’! ‘Corporate Interests’! The Left’s Wisconsin Conspiracy Theory

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.25.13

Documents Prove Kaitlyn Hunt Lied; Knew Sex With 14-Year-Old Was Illegal

Rule 5 Sunday

‘It Is Not Journalism. It’s Crime.’

FMJRA 2.0: Cathedral Oceans

Destructive Totalitarian ‘Equality’

‘Peace for Our Time’

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