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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

New Hampshire conservative leader Andy Martin: CPAC and ACU should stop discriminating against Log Cabin Republicans


Independent New Hampshire Republican leader Andy Martin “comes out” in favor of allowing CPAC to allow full participation by Log Cabin Republicans and says the time has come for both conservative organizations and the Republican Party to remove any remaining barriers to welcoming gays in the party. “In New Hampshire we have an inclusive party, and no one doubts New Hampshire’s conservative credentials,” Andy says. “When CPAC refuses to allow a legitimate Republican Party organization to be a full participant they are not acting in a ‘conservative’ manner, they are engaging in liberal-style identity politics that we abhor and condemn. I urge CPAC to reconsider and to welcome the Log Cabin Republicans this week.”

  
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Andy Martin says it is time for ACU to admit Log Cabin Republicans to full participation in CPAC

Andy says that the Republican Party must be open to all; the Republican Party and the conservative movement have their origins in human rights and the universal striving for human liberty and dignity

(New York, NY) (February 25, 2015) The American Conservative Union (“ACU”) sponsors an annual Conservative Political Action Conference (“CPAC”). Once again the ACU has refused to allow a Republican pro-gay organization, the Log Cabin Republicans (“LCR”) to participate in CPAC. I recognize that ACU has a right to decide whom to allow to participate in CPAC. But I urge the ACU to open CPAC to the LCR. The time to do so has arrived. LCR’s are good Republicans and brave human beings and they deserve encouragement.

I call on ACU and CPAC to end their discrimination against gays and specifically against LCR. Let me be explicit as to my views. Homosexuality is not a “lifestyle choice,” although gays have traditionally gathered together out of fear of discrimination and recrimination.

Homosexuality is ordained by God and determined at creation. I accept fully the testimonies of individuals who have stated they were aware of their sexual orientation as children. We engage in hypocrisy when we seek to exclude human beings based on their sexual orientation. As homosexuality has become more openly discussed, I have been surprised to see that so many of my friends have family members who have been hidden from sight because of their sexual orientation. Everyone has right to come out into the sunlight and be recognized and valued for who they are as human beings.

Like most people over the age of 50, I grew up in an environment where homosexual issues were treated very differently than they are today. But the very essence of political leadership is flexibility in response to changed conditions and changing social attitudes. The New Hampshire Republican Party is an inclusive Party. Gays are welcome to participate. The Republican Party has its origins in the struggle for human rights and national redemption in the 1850's, and so should be particularly open to classes of persons who are the victims of discrimination. Republicans led the civil rights progress of the 1960’s.

While race and sexual identity are not exactly comparable, I believe that conservatives should welcome gays who are open about both their sexual orientation and conservative principles. As someone whom many people would identify as an Alpha male, I am cognizant I did not “earn” my sexuality. I inherited my genes and orientation. (I take a contrary position with regard to “closeted” gays such as Illinois U. S. Senator Mark Kirk, because I believe the act of closeting and denial is both politically and psychologically unhealthy. Kirk is a prime example of that confusion and conflict.)

The conservative movement should be focused on issues, not sexual orientation.

Show how about it CPAC? LCR’s are brave people. They have been open about their sexual identity, a status that in the past has not always received a welcoming embrace. The time for a change in attitudes is now. Change is not always easy; I know from personal experience. But change is essential if Republicans are to strive for majority status. Every American must join in the “war” to undo the damage inflicted on America by the very “inclusive” Barack Hussein Obama. (Obama has not only been inclusive as to sexual orientation; he has been especially “inclusive” in seeking to “include” our pocketbooks in his insatiable demand for higher taxes.)

LCR’s. Welcome.

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Andy is a legendary New Hampshire, New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, talk television pioneer, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. Andy’s family immigrated to Manchester 100 years ago; today his home overlooks the Merrimack River and he lives around the corner from where he played as a small boy. He has forty-five years of background in radio and television. He is the author of “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” [www.OrangeStatePress.com] and he produced the Internet film “Obama: The Hawaii’ Years” [www.BoycottHawaii.com]. Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on New Hampshire, national and international events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience both in the USA and around the world. For more, go to: www.AndyMartin.com

Andy has also been a leading corruption fighter in American politics and courts for over forty-five years and he is executive director of the National Anti-Corruption Policy Institute. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us; www.EnglishforAmerica.org

He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

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Monday, February 23, 2015

Media and combat expert Andy Martin says Bill O’Reilly clearly exaggerated and inflated his “combat” and “war” experience


Media critic and war/military/intelligence expert Andy Martin says that Bill O’Reilly clearly inflated his “combat” or “war” credentials by claiming a civil disturbance in Buenos Aires was a combat or war situation. Andy wades into the O’Reilly/Mother Jones/CBS News/New York Times and Washington Post “conflation” over what Bill O’Reilly did in Argentina over thirty years ago. “Bill O’Reilly has shot himself in the foot,” Andy says. “Instead of ignoring Mother Jones, O’Reilly has opened up floodgates concerning how he has misrepresented his experiences during and after the Falklands Islands War.

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Andy Martin says Bill O’Reilly clearly inflated and distorted and misrepresented O’Reilly’s “war” and “combat” credentials

Andy says that O’Reilly has opened up a mess that is of his own making, and O’Reilly is certain to be a loser when the exchange is over

(New York, NY) (February 23, 2015) Let me start with a disclaimer or series of disclaimers. I do not like Fox News. Fox News has treated me abysmally. I have every reason to dislike the place. I do like Bill O’Reilly’s show, watch it regularly and I think he does an excellent job of focusing on threats to our national security. So I bear Bill no personal animus or hostility.

But O’Reilly is clearly wrong in claiming he “covered a war” and saw “combat” in Argentina over thirty years ago.

If O’Reilly had come to me for advice on how to handle Mother Jones, I would have proffered an aphorism from my late Uncle Bill Vasiliou, who schooled me on how to deal with such nonsense. But O’Reilly, pugilist that he is, has now waded into a battle with CBS News, the New York Times, the Washington Post and only incidentally Mother Jones.

One more disclaimer: Bill O’Reilly’s misconduct is not even remotely related to or on a par with Brian Williams’ misconduct at NBC News.

When attacked, O’Reilly doubled down on his ridiculous claim that he was in combat, and is now dealing with a conflagration of his own making. O’Reilly is trying to bluster his way over the voices of his critics but he is doomed to failure. The match is no longer between Fox News and Mother Jones. CBS, the Times and Post level the playing field in this street fight.

First, in a generic sense O’Reilly was sent to Argentina to “cover a war.” The only problem was that you could not get to the war one from Argentina. Urban demonstrations such as O’Reilly claims to have covered are neither “combat” nor “war” as revived research concerning the aftermath of Argentina’s defeat is now confirming (see below).

O’Reilly’s ridiculous claim that he obtained the “greatest war film ever” is insulting to anyone’s intelligence who has any knowledge of real combat coverage and footage. I was in Viet-Nam, Cambodia, Laos, Iraq and other war zones. And I was actually out in the field in actual combat zones (pictures at AndyMartin.com). But I would never have considered a street demonstration in DaNang or Saigon a “combat” situation (at least not until the Tet Offensive or the final days when Saigon collapsed and fell to the North).

Is what O’Reilly is guilty of the same level of lying as Brian Williams? Absolutely not. Brian Williams lied to his audience this month. O’Reilly has inflated something which took place decades ago at CBS, long before he was hired by Fox News. So O’Reilly’s claim that the attack on him is a tit-for-tat for Williams is, if true, complete nonsense. O’Reilly was and is clear on that front.

But, as often happens, O’Reilly’s latest exaggerations and misrepresentations in defending himself against Mother Jones may have reopened the statute of limitations over a dispute concerning what happened 33 years ago. On that basis he may suffer some ignominy similar to Williams’. If O’Reilly had kept his mouth shut, that would have been the end of the flare up. By reclaiming and reviving his goofy exaggerations and self-inflated views of combat and war in Argentina over thirty years ago, O’Reilly may now be doing unnecessary, but now unavoidable, damage to his brand.

Next time, Bill, call me before you want to inflate your resume. My own Uncle Bill has the answer.

LINKS TO THIS STORY (cut and paste the entire link below and not just the underlined portion):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/02/23/bill-oreillys-implosion-at-cbs-following-his-falklands-war-combat-reporting/?hpid=z5

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/02/23/former-new-york-times-correspondent-cited-favorably-by-bill-oreilly-rips-bill-oreilly/?hpid=z3

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/23/business/media/bill-oreilly-fox-news-host-fights-back-at-claims-of-exaggerated-stories.html

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/24/business/media/bill-oreilly-and-fox-news-redouble-defense-of-his-falklands-reporting.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

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ABOUT ANDY:
Andy is a legendary New Hampshire, New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, talk television pioneer, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. Andy’s family immigrated to Manchester 100 years ago; today his home overlooks the Merrimack River and he lives around the corner from where he played as a small boy. He has forty-five years of background in radio and television. He is the author of “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” [www.OrangeStatePress.com] and he produced the Internet film “Obama: The Hawaii’ Years” [www.BoycottHawaii.com]. Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on New Hampshire, national and international events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience both in the USA and around the world. For more, go to: www.AndyMartin.com

Andy has also been a leading corruption fighter in American politics and courts for over forty-five years and he is executive director of the National Anti-Corruption Policy Institute. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us; www.EnglishforAmerica.org

He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

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Does Barack Obama Love America? Rudy Giuliani has focused new attention on Andy Martin’s Hawai’i research


Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani touched off a firestorm when he claimed President Barack Obama does not love America. Giuliani is now in full retreat, shifting from clear prose to mumbled nonsense. Leftist media have excoriated Giuliani for impugning Obama. But Obama author, expert and investigator Andy Martin says Giuliani was right with his first set of remarks, and explains why. Even worse, Andy suggests that by their refusal to defend Giuliani, national Republicans are repeating their past mistakes from 2008 and 2012, and strongly suggesting Republicans could now proceed to fumble away the 2016 presidential election.

  
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Andy Martin says Rudy Giuliani was right to question President Barack Obama’s love for America

Andy says Giuliani has now impeached Giuliani’s own remarks by trying to recharacterize what he said

New disclosures about David Axelrod’s family ties to the Communist Party USA add fuel to the Obama-is-a-socialist meme

(New York, NY) (February 23, 2015) Last week former mayor Rudy Giuliani created a firestorm by claiming Barack Obama does not love America and that Obama was raised differently from ordinary Americans (see link [1]). Giuliani’s remarks triggered a massive counterattack from the media left. Giuliani, after standing his ground on Fox News (see link [2] below) is now in full retreat (see link [3] below).

Over ten years ago I exposed Obama as a complete fraud (see [4] below). I have never had to take back a single word I have written about Obama’s family history.

Adding new concern about Obama’s loyalties, last weekend we learned his campaign manager David Axelrod came from a Communist Party USA household (see [5] below). Out of all the political consultants in the United States, Obama managed to find probably the only one with a communist pedigree.

Unfortunately, with his latest contradictory remarks, Giuliani has now made a mess of his own original commentary.

So what are the facts and what is the truth about Obama?

1. Over ten years ago I exposed that Obama was a political fraud. (see [4] below). I was heartened when Giuliani mentioned Frank Marshall Davis, whom I brought to national attention in October, 2008.

2. In February, 2007 I published a Psychological Profile of Barack Obama that clearly stated Obama has a weak personality and could not function under the stress of being president.

3. During the 2008 campaign John McCain’s “campaign” collapsed and refused to challenge Obama’s qualifications for national office. McCain did a great disservice to the American people by running an incompetent campaign. McCain also muzzled Sarah Palin, who wanted to attack Obama. McCain was seemingly intent on losing.

After McCain’s collapse I was basically thrust into the gap left by McCain’s surrender; Obama then turned his guns on me and started a relentless smear campaign trying to undermine my evidence pointing to his own lack of qualifications for national office. But I continued to nail Obama as a fraud and to predict he wanted to stage a nonviolent Castro-style and Chavez-style “revolution.” See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgjQhnDEGSk

4. In 2012 Mitt Romney also failed to attack Obama’s character. After “winning” the first debate between the candidates, Romney became passive and essentially fumbled away the presidency. Romney’s staff also refused to authorize intense attacks on Obama. Like McCain before him, by running an incompetent campaign Romney did a great disservice to the American people.

5. After Giuliani attacked Obama this month, national Republicans and presidential candidates refused to back Giuliani. Why is Obama still important? Because Obama’s record will be on the line in 2016. The Clinton Smear Machine, moreover, is the most corrupt enterprise in American political history. If Republicans fail to attack Hillary Clinton, the same way they were reluctant to take on Obama, the Republican Party will forfeit a third presidential election in a row. So, yes, Obama matters and the unwillingness of Republicans to attack Obama’s character is a serious defect in their approach to both Obama and Hillary Clinton.

The Clintons and the Obamas have basically changed American politics: today national elections are brutal confrontations. At least they are from the Democratic Party side. In 2012 Democrats went so far as to call Mitt Romney a murderer. Republicans have proven over and over again they are too effete to successfully defend against or wage war against unscrupulous Democratic tactics.

6. In his original remarks, Giuliani drew attention to Frank Marshall Davis. Undeniably, Davis was a communist. NY Daily News columnist Mike Lupica was so eager to defend Obama and attack Giuliani that Lupica got his facts crossed. Davis was not a “communist in Indonesia” (see [6] below) as Lupica mistakenly claimed. On the contrary, the factual record is clear that Davis was the driving force behind Obama’s character from the time Obama returned to Hawai’i at the age of ten until he left for college at age eighteen. And, yes, Davis was a communist.

7. While the list of political campaign consultants with family ties to the Communist Party USA is probably a short one, Obama managed to find what may be the only communist-linked consultant, David Axelrod, to manage his smear campaigns against U. S. Senate and presidential opponents. What a coincidence that we did not learn until 2015 about the Axelrod family’s history of links to the Communist Party USA.

8. Obama is systematically destroying America’s national security. A man who loves his country would not destroy his nation. Giuliani’s original remarks, that Obama does not love America, and was raised differently, were completely correct.

9. Giuliani’s honest and accurate effort to connect Obama’s current campaign of national destruction with Obama’s patrimony of communist associations was absolutely and totally based on fact. While Obama’s policies have also failed, Obama’s presidency is an utter disaster because of his defective character. Obama's egomania and arrogance have doomed his leadership. In the corridors of power Obama is a worldwide laughingstock. Just ask Vlad Putin.

In February, 2007, I provided the nation with a psychological profile of Obama (which became the first chapter of my book [see below] on Obama) outlining why Obama could not and would not be able to function in the Oval office. I wrote that Obama could not handle a crisis. Well, what do you think of my 2007 prediction now? I made perhaps the most accurate prediction in American political history.

Obama is going to leave behind a legacy of disaster and destruction that could doom this nation. Obama could also doom his own political party for a generation – but not if the cowardly lions of the Republican Party keep surrendering to the bluster and “bs” of Democrats such as the Obamas and Clintons.

10. The truth about the Obamas was/is always out there, the way the truth about the Clintons was/is out there. But Republicans refused and refuse to attack the character of these corrupt political hucksters and refuse to wage war on behalf of the American people in defense of our way of life.

I laid out the truth about Obama for the American people starting in 2004. Republicans chose to ignore the truth and to forfeit two national elections in a row. The Republican response to Giuliani’s latest remarks, and Giuliani’s own backtracking about his remarks in the wake of liberal counterattacks, does not bode well for the Republican Party presidential campaign in 2016. Sorry, Rudy. First you told the truth, then you punked yourself.

But thanks anyway, Rudy, for reminding the American people about Frank Marshall Davis, a man I exposed in 2008 as probably being the president’s biological father and the man to the fulfillment of whose communist-inspired principles “Obama” has devoted his life.

There are none so blind as those who will not see, none so deaf as those who will not hear. Are you listening America?

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[1] http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-giuliani-obama-patriotism-perspec-0223-20150220-story.html






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ABOUT ANDY:
Andy is a legendary New Hampshire, New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, talk television pioneer, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. Andy’s family immigrated to Manchester 100 years ago; today his home overlooks the Merrimack River and he lives around the corner from where he played as a small boy. He has forty-five years of background in radio and television. He is the author of “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” [www.OrangeStatePress.com] and he produced the Internet film “Obama: The Hawaii’ Years” [www.BoycottHawaii.com]. Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on New Hampshire, national and international events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience both in the USA and around the world. For more, go to: www.AndyMartin.com

Andy has also been a leading corruption fighter in American politics and courts for over forty-five years and he is executive director of the National Anti-Corruption Policy Institute. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us; www.EnglishforAmerica.org

He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

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Saturday, February 07, 2015

NEW YORK NEWS CONFERENCE: Brian Williams, NBC News, NBC and Comcast capitulate to Andy Martin’s demand for FCC investigation


Media expert, law professor and conservative New Hampshire Republican Party leader Andy Martin will hold a New York news conference Sunday February 8th to respond to Brian Williams removing himself from the NBC Nightly News. Moments after Andy conducted a news conference Saturday afternoon announcing Andy was going to the FCC with the Williams scandal, NBC News’ responded to Andy by issuing its surprise announcement that Williams was temporarily stepping down. Andy will explain Sunday why the NBC/News/Comcast/Williams scandal is talking on explosive Wall Street proportions. Andy has been a brawler on the national media stage for forty-six years. Because of his unique combination of both legal, broadcasting and media experience he has been a part of exposing numerous major scandals (www.AndyMartin.com). NBC News once paid Andy the equivalent of $25,000 for mistakenly airing one his of his TV spots. Because Andy is independent of the legacy media, he is able to probe deeper and analyze better what is now happening in the Williams scandal. “Williams may come back,” Andy says. “But I am a little doubtful. I suspect NBC is scrambling for a replacement right now.”

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Attention New York, National, Media and Daybook/Assignment editors

Announcement of New York news conference Sunday, February 8th

FCC expert/law professor Andy Martin draws “blood” from NBC and Comcast with Andy’s Saturday news conference

Andy’s Sunday news conference will explain why Brian Williams is doomed

Andy, who has been a national media bulldog for forty-six years, continues to battle for public integrity and media responsibility

(New York, NY) (February 8, 2015) Moments after media expert and law professor Andy Martin conducted a New York news conference on Saturday, February 7th to announce he is asking the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) to open an investigation of Brian Williams, NBC News, NBC and Comcast, NBC News responded by removing Williams from the NBC Nightly News.

Andy has been a media brawler on the national stage for forty-six years, since Andy’s name landed on one of President Nixon’s enemies’ lists. Andy honed his skills as a litigator against political, judicial and media corruption during decades of fighting organized crime and media fraud in Chicago. Today he resides in New Hampshire, where his mother was born and where he grew up playing in a creek around the corner from where he now lives near downtown Manchester. In New Hampshire, Andy is perhaps the state’s only corruption fighter and truth warrior. Last year Andy’ advertising exposed Scott Brown for “stolen valor” and as a military fraud, disrupted Brown’s announced Pentagon retirement ceremony, and likely caused Brown to lose what was a close-but-winnable senate election.

“The Brian Williams scandal is much bigger and much more lethal than ‘talking heads’ realize,” Andy says. “Well, I realize it. NBC News now realizes it. Comcast now realizes it. It was no coincidence that moments after I announced my call for an FCC investigation Saturday that Brian Williams left the stage, perhaps never to return.

“Comcast has fifty billion dollars at stake, with hundreds of millions of dollars in fees and other expenses, all tied up in the takeover of Time Warner Cable’s assets.

“Here is Comcast’s regulatory problem, as implicitly reported by the New York Post’s Page Six Saturday (see link below):

But network sources said Williams’ antics shouldn’t come as a surprise to NBC News higher-ups. Execs knew he was overstating his Baghdad travails and even warned him to stop, but he wouldn’t listen, the sources said.

“The top NBC executives knew the story was false and told him to stop telling it,” an insider said. “They spent nearly a decade trying to protect Brian from himself. It was a constant battle.”

“What does this mean in plain English? The ‘suits’ at NBC are terrified of efforts to bring the FCC into the Williams scandal. The FCC does not monitor or regulate the news. Plain enough. But the FCC does take very seriously and regulate and investigate failure by licensees and broadcast management to properly supervise their employees. Broadcasting false news, and allowing an employee to lie, as Williams did, year after year without any restrictions being placed on that person, is a very serious regulatory matter.

“The New York Post story makes clear that NBC management has been aware of Williams’ lies for years, and did nothing to discipline him. It took America’s veterans, outraged at the media’s tolerance of Williams’ lies, to bring down Williams when NBC brass would not. Williams apparently went on making his crazy claims even after being warned to stop. Until veterans stood up and said ‘enough.’

“Furthermore, Williams may have a lifetime history of ‘fibbing’ and exaggerating (second link blow). Telling lies over a lifetime is very definitely a personality disorder and potentially even a psychiatric condition. When you connect all of the dots, and the ‘floating bodies’ in New Orleans and grounded chopper in Iraq and all of Williams’ other mishegas in context, NBC has a major problem on its hands. NBC management has allowed lies to go uncorrected for years, not days or weeks. This is a complete failure of licensee supervision. Corollary: Comcast could be headed to designation for a hearing on the Time Warren matter, which would be devastating to the deal.

“Because of my own intermixed background in media and law (I filed the first antitrust lawsuit against NBC, CBS and NBC decades ago), I saw the pattern and recognized Comcast’s vulnerability before anyone else did, which is why I announced my ‘FCC option’ Saturday afternoon. Once I exposed the FCC option, Comcast knew they were now in the fight of their lives and had to take immediate action to save their deal.

“The New York Post story (first link below) could also be interpreted as an initial attempt by Comcast brass to rescue the merger and throw Williams under the bus. How can NBC’s so-called ‘search for facts’ not probe prior admonitions to Williams by NBC ‘suits’ now that these warnings are out in the open? Is the Williams investigation going to be ‘wrapped’ in  matter of days?

“In other words, Williams is doomed.

“NBC’s attempt to jettison Williams to save Time Warner could boomerang. If NBC/Comcast allowed a cover-up to go on for years -- after all, the crew with Williams in Iraq knew he was lying right out of the starting gate -- the FCC will be embarrassed into talking regulatory action,” Andy concludes.

February 8 New York news conference details:

WHO:

Media expert/law professor and New Hampshire conservative Republican Party leader Andy Martin

WHAT:

Andy Martin will explain why the Brian Williams media battle is much more serious than either NBC or Williams are letting on

WHERE:

Corner of Wall Street and Broadway (by the bollards), New York

WHEN:

Sunday, February 8, 2015 - 1:00 P.M.

LINKS TO THIS STORY (cut and paste the entire link below and not just the underlined portion):

http://pagesix.com/2015/02/06/nbc-sets-up-brian-williams-truth-squad/

http://pagesix.com/2015/02/06/brian-williams-also-told-iffy-tales-of-rescuing-puppies-from-fires/

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Andy is a legendary New Hampshire, New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, talk television pioneer, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. Andy’s family immigrated to Manchester 100 years ago; today his home overlooks the Merrimack River and he lives around the corner from where he played as a small boy. He has forty-five years of background in radio and television. He is the author of “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” [www.OrangeStatePress.com] and he produced the Internet film “Obama: The Hawaii’ Years” [www.BoycottHawaii.com]. Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on New Hampshire, national and international events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience both in the USA and around the world. For more, go to: www.AndyMartin.com

Andy has also been a leading corruption fighter in American politics and courts for over forty-five years and he is executive director of the National Anti-Corruption Policy Institute. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us; www.EnglishforAmerica.org

He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

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Friday, February 06, 2015

NEW YORK NEWS CONFERENCE: Brian Williams, NBC News, NBC and Comcast face call for FCC investigation


Media expert and conservative New Hampshire Republican Party leader Andy Martin will hold a New York news conference Saturday, February 7th to announce he is asking the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) to open an investigation of Brian Williams, NBC News, NBC and Comcast. “NBC has announced it will investigate itself,” Andy charges. “What a joke. This is the same broadcast organization that has allowed Williams to repeatedly lie over nearly a decade. Suddenly they have become ‘investigators?’ The FCC has a duty to investigate when a licensee has willfully and repeatedly abdicated its duty to the public interest by repeatedly allowing an employee to broadcast what is now admitted to be false news. NBC News’ claim that it is ‘gathering the facts’ is a joke. NBC News cannot be allowed to investigate itself.” Andy is an FCC expert, having litigated cases there since 1969. He has also had his own problems with false reporting by NBC News.

  
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Announcement of New York news conference Saturday, February 7th

FCC expert Andy Martin will formally ask the Federal Communications Commission to investigate Brian Williams, NBC News, NBC and Comcast

(New York, NY) (February 6, 2015) Media expert and independent Republican leader Andy Martin will hold a New York news conference Saturday, February 7th to announce he is asking the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) to open an investigation of Brian Williams, NBC News, NBC and Comcast. Andy is the youngest person ever authorized by the FCC to own and operate a TV station license and, along with 47 years of broadcasting experience, he also has an extensive history of FCC activism and conflicts with NBC News.

“NBC News has announced it is now investigating itself,” Andy charges. “What took them so long? The fact that Brian Williams was exaggerating his experiences in Iraq, and probably New Orleans, has been known for years. I have civilian (not military) combat experience in Viet-Nam, Cambodia, Laos, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. The idea that you can ‘conflate’ being hit by an RPG and making an emergency landing is an insult to the intelligence. I can vividly recount some of my own worst emergency situations. You never forget.

“Does Brian Williams have cognitive problems? There seems to be an evolving series of delusions and deceptions, suggesting perhaps Mr. Williams is suffering from a touch of dementia. A medical investigation may also be called for.

“Belatedly, after Williams has been lying for years, and after NBC management allowed him to broadcast a bogus ‘apology’ earlier this week, NBC has decided to ‘investigate’ itself. NBC News’ ‘investigation’ has all of the credibility of ‘Round up the usual suspects’ in the movie ‘Casablanca.’

“Bottom line: NBC cannot be allowed investigate itself. The Brian Williams scandal is a failure of licensee management all the way from the newsroom to the executive floor at Comcast. For the FCC to allow this travesty to proceed, particularly at a time when Comcast is asking the FCC for permission to take on more management complexity with the Time Warner Cable merger, would be an abdication of regulatory responsibility.

“My own squabbles with NBC News and Comcast are totally peripheral to Williams’ scandal, but I mention them so they don’t pop up in am NBC retort. I was already gearing up to challenge the Comcast/TW merger. My own experience with Comcast management has been abysmal and they unlawfully damaged my credit report,” Martin says. In 1979 Andy rescued an NBC News employee (Hillary Brown) from almost certain death or serious injury in Iran. (No this is not a “Brian Williams-style” exaggeration.) “In fact, I hold NBC News in high regard since one of their bureau chiefs once hired me to go to work for them. I am no ‘enemy’ of NBC News. I bear the NBC News organization no animus but the idea that NBC can investigate itself is an insult to the professionalism of broadcasting and journalism.”

February 7 New York news conference details:

WHO:

Media expert and New Hampshire conservative Republican Party leader Andy Martin

WHAT:

Andy Martin will ask FCC to investigate Brian Williams, NBC, NBC News and Comcast

WHERE:

909 Third Avenue, public sidewalk in front of FDR Station post office entrance, New York (under the “909” canopy in case of rain)

WHEN:

Saturday, February 7, 2015 - 2:00 P.M.

LINKS TO THIS STORY (cut and paste the entire link below and not just the underlined portion):

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/07/business/media/brian-williams-helicopter-incident.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/06/business/brian-williamss-apology-over-iraq-account-is-challenged.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/06/arts/television/brian-williamss-war-story.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

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Andy has also been a leading corruption fighter in American politics and courts for over forty-five years and he is executive director of the National Anti-Corruption Policy Institute. He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us; www.EnglishforAmerica.org

He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

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Andy Martin accepts Jeb Bush’s offer to resolve Bush family failures with fisticuffs


Independent New Hampshire Republican Party leader Andy Martin has written presidential wannabe Jeb Bush accepting Jeb Bush’s offer to “go outside” with anyone who questions the Bush family’s “greatness,” presumably to resolve the dispute over the Bush family’s failures with fisticuffs. Andy is leading the opposition to Bush’s presidential campaign and has vowed to prevent Bush from either being the Republican candidate or being elected president. Andy charges that behind his veneer of establishment respectability, Jeb Bush is just a front man for political, governmental and Wall Street corruption. “The Bush family is not great,” Andy says. “The Bushes are the greatest disaster to happen to the United States in the last fifty years.”


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New Hampshire Republican leader Andy Martin accepts Jeb Bush’s challenge to “go outside” with anyone that questions the bush family’s “greatness”

Andy says two failed Bush presidencies and two failed Bush wars are enough

(MANCHESTER, NH) (February 6, 2015) Independent New Hampshire Republican Party leader Andy Martin has written presidential wannabe Jeb Bush accepting Jeb Bush’s offer to “go outside” with anyone who questions the Bush family’s “greatness,” presumably to resolve the dispute over the Bush family’s failures with fisticuffs. Andy is leading the opposition to Bush’s presidential campaign and has vowed to prevent Bush from either being the Republican candidate or being elected president. Andy charges that behind his veneer of establishment respectability, Jeb Bush is just a front man for political, governmental and Wall Street corruption. “The Bush family is not great,” Andy says. “The Bushes are the greatest disaster to happen to the United States in the last fifty years.”

Andy’s letter to Bush follows (links to claims in the letter are also posted below):

(letterhead removed)

February 6, 2015

Jeb Bush
RighttoRisePAC.org
P.O. Box 14349
Tallahassee, FL 32317
and email:
info@RighttoRisePAC.org

Dear Jeb:

We met in Orlando a little over 25 years ago. I became one of your earliest opponents way back in 1993 when I criticized you for seeking to profit from family connections by peddling water pumps in Africa (remember my headline “Andy is ‘pumped up’ about Jeb Bush’s pump business?). (As a footnote, I actually visited your grandfather’s U. S. Senate office; I go back a long way with your family.) Later, you were to abuse the powers of your office to attack me and to seek to rig elections in Florida.

We also tangled about the disconnect and hypocrisy involving your public views on drug abuse and the drug addiction of a family member. A little research on the Internet will produce links to confirm our past history. While I think you are an agreeable person and would not have a problem sitting down with you for a chat, I do not believe you are remotely qualified to be president. I have been startled by what some of my recent preliminary research has developed about your personal life. I will be disclosing that research in the days ahead.

At a speech in Detroit earlier this week, you said:

"I love my dad. In fact, my dad is the greatest man alive. If anybody disagrees, we'll go outside, unless you're like 6-foot-5, 250 pounds and much younger than me. Then we'll negotiate," he said to laughter from the audience.

"And I love my brother. I think he has been a great president.

In a nutshell, you have explained why you are totally unfit to be the Republican Party’s candidate for president in 2016. You have visibly linked yourself to two failed presidencies and two failed wars. Now back to the issue of fisticuffs.

You say that if anybody disagrees your father “is the greatest man alive” you want to “go outside” and presumably resolve the dispute with fisticuffs. I accept your offer. And, since we are both roughly the same age and the same size, I am an ideal opponent for you.

1. The failures of George H. W. Bush (“GHWB”)

I have no doubt you love your dad. Most children, especially sons, idolize their parents. But by your own admission you are totally unable to divorce your filial love from an objective understanding of your father’s abject failure as a president and as a leader.

Your father obtained party support on the promise of “no new taxes.” He made that promise, and then broke it. “Poppy” Bush was often “out of it.” He didn’t even know the price of milk while people were suffering through a recession. GHWB was totally the creature of and lived in the Washington, DC “bubble.”

More devastatingly to his place in history, through his bungling your father created an unnecessary war that cost tens of thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars. Your loyalty as a son obviously blinds you to the reality that GHWB’s State Department implicitly gave Saddam Hussein a green light to attack Kuwait. Even when it was obvious Saddam had misread GHWB’s signals, your father did nothing to stop Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait (which cost Kuwaiti lives as well as American ones).

Yes, GHWB did organize a collation to undo the mess he had created. He was lucky in that regard. But the First Gulf War was totally unnecessary and only became unavoidable because April Glaspie, the U. S. Ambassador, fed Saddam false evidence that was never refuted by your father’s administration.

The “greatest man in the world?” Your father is far from it. In retirement, people have forgotten his leadership failures and focused on his lovable eccentricities.

The Democrats would like nothing better than to run against your family’s failures in public office and your irrational, inflated and totally false claims to “greatness.” GHWB’s failures as a leader in no way qualify your father for any rational claim of “greatness.”

2. George W. Bush (“GWB”) is the next-to-worst president

You call your brother George W. Bush “a great president.” Until Barack Obama came along to rescue your brother from being the worst president of the modern era, your brother was a total and complete failure. GWB damaged America with trillions of dollars of unnecessary war costs (over the decades), enhanced the power of Iran by destabilizing the Middle East and created the conditions for the chaos which is still festering today.

When the history of this era is written it will be the utter incompetence of your brother’s two terms as president that destabilized the world. The fact that you claim your brother is a “great president” simply disqualifies you as a credible presidential candidate. Obama is now obviously the worst president in modern history (as I clearly predicted he would be, way back in 2007). Your brother is securely second in line for that dubious honor.

GWB was totally unqualified for the presidency and he was totally unqualified to lead the nation. He blundered into a horrible war based on false claims and a total lack of a plan or policy for the “day after.” Many believe GWB started a false war to avenge a slight to your father by Saddam Hussein. Was/is your brother a ”good guy” in a colloquial sense? I think he is. I think we could probably sit down and have a cookout and tell jokes and yuck it up. But not about his presidency (we’d be joking about his successor, off the record, of course). Sadly, you seem incapable of separating family loyalty from political reality and the national interest. But then I knew you were a lightweight way back in 1993.

It is not only Democrats who know you are out of touch with reality. Republicans are also aware you are nothing but the latest in a long line of Bush family blowhards that use Wall Street corporate money to purchase public office to enrich your cronies and impoverish the nation. That you now claim to be a “born again” populist is a joke. Show me the money! Show me where in your track record as Florida governor you went out of your way to help ordinary citizens.

I am leading the effort to deny you any semblance of credibility for the presidential nomination. If the Republican Party engages in yet another suicide mission by nominating you, I am prepared to work hard to see you are not elected president. Two failed Bush presidencies, and two unnecessary wars, are enough!

By this letter I have now accepted your challenge to “step outside” because, frankly, your claims that your dad and brother are “great men” is delusional and poses a severe risk to every honorable and honest Republican that wants to recapture the White House in 2016.

In the past you have used your political power and public office to retaliate by harassing and abusing me for exposing your corruption and conflicts of interest. So I welcome the opportunity to “step outside” or step inside the ring or do whatever is necessary to deflate your bloated, insincere and irrational claims about the “greatness” of your relatives and maybe to beat some common sense into your pampered head.

Collectively, the Bush family has done more than any other family to undermine and endanger our national security and to devastate our economic security. Your family obviously has no shame, because despite all the incontrovertible evidence to the contrary, you continue to claim a false mantle of “greatness” when precisely the opposite is the reality.

Let’s put on the gloves so you can have at me, and vice versa. I am happy to sell tickets to our match, and I am happy to donate the proceeds of the fight to charity. Those proceeds will be the first time the Bush family has ever done anything to financially benefit ordinary citizens.

Cordially,

Andy

AM:sp

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LINKS TO THIS STORY (cut and paste the entire link below and not just the underlined portion):

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2015/02/04/jeb-bush-detroit/22854797/%20

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/florida-radio-talk-show-host-andy-martin-and-the-new-york-based-drug-policy-alliance-will-sponsor-an-internetradio-teach-in-broadcast-concerning-political-hypocrisy-drug-laws-and-governor-jeb-bush-of-florida-75940582.html

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1993-12-25/news/9312230484_1_martin-jeb-bush-paper-mache

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ABOUT ANDY:

Andy is a legendary New Hampshire, New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, talk television pioneer, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. Andy’s family immigrated to New Hampshire 100 years ago; today his home overlooks the Merrimack River and he lives around the corner from where he played as a small boy. He has forty-five years of background in radio and television. He is the author of “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” [www.OrangeStatePress.com] and he produced the Internet film "Obama: The Hawaii’ Years” [www.BoycottHawaii.com]. Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” www.ContrarianCommentary.com. He comments on New Hampshire, national and international events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience both in the USA and around the world.

Andy has been a leading corruption fighter in American politics and courts for over forty-five years. [www.AndyMartin.com] He is currently sponsoring www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us; www.EnglishforAmerica.org

He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

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