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Justin Elliott | October 16, 2009, 9:11AM
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Last night, Rachel Maddow took on the "Muslim intern spy" story we've been covering. Unfortunately, she didn't touch on the real intern spy angle here -- that of the man who grew a beard and posed as a Muslim to infiltrate the Council on American-Islamic Relations as an intern.
But she does get in some good Manchurian Candidate references.
Watch the segment with the Washington Post's Eugene Robinson:
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October 16, 2009 11:48 AM
This is troubling to me. I'd always thought interns were kept around for the amusement of the paid staff.
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Mrs Panstreppon
October 16, 2009 11:59 AM
Rachel Maddow can laugh at World Net Daily all she wants but WND and its spawn managed to suck a lot of oxygen out of the media during the '90s by promoting Clinton conspiracies like the murder of Vince Foster.
One of WND's proteges is Christopher Ruddy, founder and owner of Newsmax.
Scott Wheeler, another so-called investigative reporter associated with WND, was responsible for some of the most reprehensive attacks on the Clintons. Wheeler is now the executive director of the National Republican Trust PAC which managed to raise millions within a few weeks of its founding in September 2008 and was responsible for the most offensive, blatantly racist anti-Obama ads of the entire campaign.
Wheeler raised most of the PAC's contributions through vicious ad campaigns on News Max and Drudge.
Paul Sperry, co-author of "The Muslim Mafia", is or was a former Washington bureau chief at WND which has published all three of his books. The other two are "Crude Politics: How Bush's Cronies Hijacked the War on Terror" published in 2003 and "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that's Conspiring to Islamize America" published in December 2008.
Sperry's bio in his first book noted that he was a WND burueau chief but that fact is omitted in his "The Muslim Mafia" bio.
WND was spun off from the Western Journalism Center in 1997. Both WND and the WJC was founded by WND editor, Joseph Farah. Some of the funding for the WJC in the '90s came from Richard Mellon Scaife and other wealthy right wingers.
Today, the WJC is headed by Floyd G. Brown who recently was the star of a TPM Muckraker post about the ImpeachObamaCampaign.com website.
Brown is also closely linked to birther lawyer, Gary Kreep of the US Justice Foundation.
These are some of the lowlife scum that formed the vast right wing conspiracy that made life so miserable for the Clintons and they will do it again to the Obamas if they can.
At one time, WND had a content-sharing agreement with the Rev. Moon's magazine, Insight. Whether WND is affiliated with Moon in any other way is not clear.
I'd be a little more cautious about writing off WND as a force in politics if I was Rachel Maddow.
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commie atheist
October 16, 2009 12:18 PM in reply to Mrs Panstreppon
I don't see her "writing off" these people. Just the fact that she exposes them for the whackjobs they are puts her miles ahead of the rest of the media, and makes any comparison to the Clinton Witch Hunt era ludicrous. There was no nationally-broadcast, leftward-slanted news show during that time to expose, mock and ridicule the bullshit artists, the MSM was totally in love with all the drama and pushed the narrative, and Democrats were too afraid of not appearing to be Republican Lite to fight back. These are different times.
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Mrs Panstreppon
October 16, 2009 3:23 PM in reply to Mrs Panstreppon
Further evidence that this is an orchestrated and well-financed campaign to destroy CAIR:
On the DaveGaubatz.org website, there are links to Saneworks.us and Steve Emerson's Investigative Project On Terrorism.
Emerson is promoting "The Muslim Mafia" in a big way. At one time, Emerson had pretenses of being a serious organization but more and more, it looks like it is just another wingnut fringe group.
The Saneworks website links to the website of David Yerushalmi. Yerushalmi is legal counsel for Frank Gaffney's Center for National Security.
Yerushalmi is also the attorney for the plaintiff in a lawsuit brought against CAIR for racketeering. Some of the evidence in the case was supplied by documents lifted by Chris Gaubatz during his undercover stint.
Chris Gaubatz actually served papers on CAIR according to an affadavit posted on the Saneworks website.
Take a look at the long list of anti-CAIR articles in WorldNetDaily.com here.
I think the big question here is who is financing this project.
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Beautiful Mind of Barbara Bush
October 16, 2009 12:11 PM
Aside from the obvious offensiveness of this whole thing, what I don't understand is: How do you "spy" on a Congressional office? Members of Congress are elected officials acting on behalf of the public and everything they do in that capacity is a public act. Their schedules, their committee meetings, their statements, their votes--it's all in the public domain; nothing they do is "private." Why would you need a ring of spies to find out what they're up to? If you really want to know what's going on in, say, Michelle Bachmann's world, just call up her office and ask, or Google it. Then run for the emesis basin.
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commie atheist
October 16, 2009 12:21 PM in reply to Beautiful Mind of Barbara Bush
It's because they're Muslims. They may be walking into congressional sessions with explosives attached to their bodies. Or stealing white American female babies to take back to their harems in Arabia.
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