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Todd Gitlin - October 5, 2008, 10:08PM Calling the Anti-Defamation League, Bill Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, David Brooks, and other defenders of Jewish people against slime artists of all political persuasions: Sean Hannity's Fox News Sunday night kitchen-sink sewer job on Barack Obama, complete with a sound-track cribbed from C- porn flicks, features prominently, as witness of Obama's iniquity, one Andy Martin, "author and journalist," and, though not identified as such on Fox News, perennial political candidate in four states. Among Martin's contributions to fairness and balance, this nifty aphorism: "I think a community organizer is someone who was in training to overthrow the government of the United States of America."
he claimed, contrary to fact, that Obama, whom he called a "media witch doctor," has "locked his granny away and refused to allow her to be seen" in order to "pretend he has no white relatives." Martin has been crawling beneath the rocks for quite some time. According to no less a source than the Unification Church's impeccably right-wing Washington Times of December 22, 1999: In 1986, when Mr Martin ran as a Democrat for Connecticut's 3rd Congressional District seat under the name "Anthony R Martin-Trigona," his campaign committee filed papers saying its purpose was to "exterminate Jew power in America and impeach US District Court of Appeals judges in New York City." The Washington Times' reporter, Ralph Z Hallow, went on to say: "a Connecticut federal judge finally barred him from filing any more federal lawsuits without permission. During the bankruptcy dispute, he filed a civil-rights lawsuit claiming Jewish bankruptcy judges and lawyers were conspiring to steal his property. He asked a court to bar "any Jew from having anything to do with plaintiff's property." In another motion in the case, he wrote: "I am able to understand how the Holocaust took place, and with every passing day feel less and less sorry that it did, when Jew survivors are operating as a wolf pack to steal my property." According to Hallow, he "ran for the Republican nomination for governor of Florida against the incumbent, Bob Martinez, in 1990. The Florida Republican Party disavowed him because he previously ran for office as a Democrat and because of his anti-Semitic statements."
Unless Martin bashes Israel, he's still cool with the neocons. Remember, it doesn't matter what anyone says about Jews so long as he doesn't criticize the occupation.
Martin previously crawled out from under a rock according to Matthew Mosk in the WP, to "take credit for posting the first article to assert that the Illinois senator was a Muslim."
Permalink avatar There is a nasty local history of antisemitism in several of Connecticut's wealthier towns. While I would assume that an open antisemite would not win state-wide, I would expect that old-school "Not Our Kind Dear" sentiments haven't died.
Hmm, Sean Hannity using the rabid fantasies of a Neo-Nazi as journalistic sources? What is Hannity but a devoted rabble rousing hate monger, a Morlock with a human mask, a shill for the forces of darknes. Sean Hannity has always done the job of a judas goat--lead the weak minded lambs into the abatoire for slaughter. He is a man whose hands are permanently stained red with blood. After 8 years of Hannity's Hero, Bush, what are the sheep left with?
After 8 years of Hannity's Hero, Bush, what are the sheep left with? In a world where it is better to be "right" than smart, Sean Hannity provides for them the rationales to avoid admitting they were wrong.
Permalink avatar You guys should google "Anthony Martin-Trigona" He is a hilariously off-his-rocker nutcase. He once sued for custody of a judge's children because the judge was not favorable to him in another frivolous lawsuit he was bringing.
Sean Hannity's Fox News Sunday night kitchen-sink sewer job The thing was called : Obama's Friends (fades out) History of Radicalism (fades in) Over and over Right there in the lower right-hand corner where the stock ticker usually is. It's a blue print for October, and it'll be coming from all directions.
hannity, a student of Bob Grant learned early and intentionally how to gain the support of white listeners by tapping into , their racism. he is known to have used self described white supremacists for that purpose. No one should be shocked that racism stills is what attracts him to his audience. I have yet to see any member of the media attack him for it(outside of Olbermann) and I don't expect anyone to confront him on this .
Permalink avatar Well, I hope that Hannity gives this nutcase a lot of publicity and maybe even succeeds in getting him national press in the more legitimate media outlets beyond Faux News. That should do wonders for McCain's poll numbers, being associated with bigots like Andy Martin.
Permalink avatar I knew Anthony R Martin-Trigona when he was a student at the University of llinois at Urbana-Champaign. I was a faculty member holding office on the Urbana City Council. Tony (now Andy) was a student who ran for County Clerk as a Democrat (he barely made the minimum age and luckily for the County, he lost (luckily for the good of the County, he lost). While an undergrad, he took a month's trip to Viet Nam at government expense and when he returned, he was no longer anti the war, but very much pro war. Everyone was amazed, but figured he had been fed quite a line. Later, he got a law degree from Illinois, but did not pass the character qualifications of the bar exam and was denied admission to the Illinois Bar. As time went on, he got more and more far out, running for various offices in various states, adopting the name Andy Martin. When I knew him, he never seemed anti-Semitic (I am Jewish) but as he become weirder he started to make anti-Semitic remarks. From time to time, he gets mentioned in our local paper, The News-Gazette. If this is the way Hannity operates, even the conservatives in our will find him without credibility.
People of greater ambition than intelligence or skills tend to sink down to gutter arguments and hate politics, because that is the only place where they can find any followers.
Permalink avatar I knew Anthony R Martin-Trigona when he was a student at the University of llinois at Urbana-Champaign. I was a faculty member holding office on the Urbana City Council. Tony (now Andy) was a student who ran for County Clerk as a Democrat (he barely made the minimum age and luckily for the County, he lost). While an undergrad, he took a month's trip to Viet Nam at government expense and when he returned, he was no longer anti the war, but very much pro war. Everyone was amazed, but figured he had been fed quite a line. Later, he got a law degree from Illinois, but did not pass the character qualifications of the bar exam and was denied admission to the Illinois Bar. As time went on, he got more and more far out, running for various offices in various states, adopting the name Andy Martin. When I knew him, he never seemed anti-Semitic (I am Jewish) but as he become weirder he started to make anti-Semitic remarks. From time to time, he gets mentioned in our local paper, The News-Gazette. If this is the way Hannity operates, even the conservatives in our community will find him without credibility.
In addition to Fox News I have seen articles in the NY Post that also are racially tinged and commenters making racist comments to those articles. I think it would be great for people nationally, not just Florida, to be aware that Fox news values the opinions of this anti-Semite Andy Martin who resides on the fringe of society.
Murdoch might have ingrained racist leanings (being old enough to have lived through jim crowe) but I do believe he wants Obama to win the GE, but of course as the owner of Faux he could never make public such a statement. He's a businessman first and Obama would sell more papers. His wife and son are both Obama supporters and fundraisers.
We can all agree that John McCain is a fine United States Senator. I think we can also all agree that in the Senate Chamber he should stay. With that being said, though, I am a bit unnerve...
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