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Wednesday, October 05, 2016

Huffington Post: Obama expert Andy Martin played a “pivotal role” in the 2008 presidential campaign

As Barack Obama slowly slips into history, Andy Martin’s “pivotal role” in American presidential history is slowly being acknowledged by leftists and, ultimately, by historians. In a new analysis of the “Birther” movement by the Huffington Post Andy is credited with creating the “rumor” that Barack Obama’s religious loyalty was questionable. Sam Stein writes that Andy’s TV appearance on Fox News “play(ed) a pivotal role in the campaign.” “What ‘leftists’ do not realize, however, is that their ‘rumors’ are in reality just troubling facts that Barack Obama has never clarified or refused to address. As Stein quotes Obama, Obama always has ‘better stuff to do. I’ve got better stuff to do,’ because in his convoluted mind Obama has always been too high-minded and simply too good for the American people. We have always been beneath him. Respectfully, both I and the American people beg to disagree with President Obama,” says Andy. “I also predict that history will also find that Obama was a failed president. I predicted that outcome way back in 2007.”
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Andy Martin responds to an article in the Huffington Post calling Andy the de facto successor to Republican operative Lee Atwater

Andy says the “Birther” movement came into being because, as Barack Obama himself confirmed, Obama was a “different kind of candidate”

“I have no quarrel with Sam Stein’s recapitulation,” Andy says, “But Sam understates the extent to which Obama himself was the ‘First Birther’ and created the Birther movement”


(NEW YORK) (September 23, 2016) “Last week I conducted my ‘last Birther News Conference’ (please see link #1 below) and, absent extraordinary circumstances do not expect to hold another one,” says Andy Martin. “But Sam Stein’s story today in the Huffington Post (please see link #2 below) starts creating the actual leftist ‘history’ of what happened during the 2008 presidential campaign. So a gentle response is called for.

“The fundamental flaw in Stein’s article, as with all leftist writing, is that he does not recognize or admit that what the left calls ‘rumors’ are actually ‘facts’ or opinions that the left wants to pretend do not exist. Stein does mention the phony Kenyan ‘grandmother’ that Barack Obama created to confuse the media and to present a false family narrative, a false narrative that later boomeranged when Donald Trump exploited Obama’s own lie.

“Stein also places me in something of an aeropagus, as someone whose original research and honest reporting ‘would later play a pivotal role in the [2008 presidential] campaign.’ (please see link #2). Barack Obama was forced to launch a full, frontal attack on me personally, while trying to ignore the historical evidence I had unearthed. Obama’s effort failed. My ‘history’ will endure alongside his own.

“And Stein, of course, claims that I live in a ‘fever swamp.’ (I actually live in New Hampshire today.) Where are these ‘fever swamps?’ We need to know because according to the Huffington Post all Republicans and certainly all conservatives’ live in ‘fever swamps,’ en route to some day being placed in FEMA camps by an Obamaite president. I am tagged as the Left’s answer to question, ‘Who is Lee Atwater’s successor,’ as ‘Andy Martin, a dark arts Republican from Illinois who helped spread many of the rumors (facts?) about Obama’s origins.’

“Ironically, the reason I have endured as a symbol of the public’s continuing questions about Obama is that I never told a lie. I always maintained that Obama was born in Hawai’i, and I called out those who disagreed because they lacked probative evidence to sustain their own claims. My writing and my analysis have survived the scrutiny of history. Thus, untimely, Birtherism, despite its many branches (e.g., natural born citizen, place of birth, release of birth certificate) was not built on ‘rumors’ but on rock solid truth.

“I told the truth about Obama. The firestorm I created played ‘a pivotal role in the [2008 presidential] campaign.’ Unfortunately for them, and for him, Obama and his operatives are stuck with me as we ride off together into the historical sunset. I told the truth about Obama and the truth created doubts that spawned a movement that in Stein’s own admission ‘will likely never fully die.’

“While you can call what I do ‘dark arts,’ spinning the truth in a way that creates problems for the opposition has always been a legitimate part of American politics. I am proud of the role I played and continue to play as I analyze Hillary Clinton for a story next week.  I will no doubt be accused of playing a ‘pivotal role in the 2016 presidential] campaign.’

“It cannot be emphasized enough that I never said Obama was born anywhere but Hawai’i, which was why I particularly irritated the president. He loved to agitate his base with the more outrageous claims of less scrupulous Birthers. And while Sam says I live in a ‘fever swamp,’ at least its an honest fever swamp in contradistinction to the ‘Sanders swamps’ where Hillary Clintons’ own adherents reside today. (I am working in Illinois over the next few weeks, on a blockbuster analysis of Madame Hillary.)

Finally, if you read my Psychological Profile of Barack Obama, prepared in 2007, who today can disagree with my preliminary analysis and conclusions way back in 2007? (please see link #3) The CIA could not have done better job,” says Andy.

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

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https://contrariancommentary.wordpress.com/2016/09/21/new-york-news-conference-sunday-the-last-birther-news-conference/

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/barack-obama-birtherism_us_57e55a91e4b0e80b1ba1b470?section=&

#3

https://contrariancommentary.wordpress.com/2007/02/10/the-mask-of-barack-obama-a-psychological-profile/

New citations after emailing:


ANDY MARTIN - A BRIEF BIO:

Andy Martin 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. With forty-eight years of background in radio and television and with five decades of investigative and analytical experience in Washington, the USA and around the world, Andy provides insight on politics, foreign policy, intelligence and military matters. For a full bio, go to: www.AndyMartin.com; also see www.BoycottABC.com/executive_director.htm

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

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).

He is the author of “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” [www.OrangeStatePress.com] and produced the Internet film “Obama: The Hawaii’ Years” [www.BoycottHawaii.com]. Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” blogging at www.contrariancommentary.wordpress.com and www.ContrarianCommentary.com.

Andy’s family immigrated to Manchester, 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 is New Hampshire’s leading corruption fighter and Republican Party reformer.

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Friday, September 16, 2016

Obama expert Andy Martin: “Birther” issue will almost certainly boomerang on Hillary Clinton

Andy Martin, the independent Internet columnist and blogger who created the “Birther” movement and became Barack Obama’s first antagonist, says that toady’s attacks on Donald Trump are almost certain to backfire and benefit Trump. “Clinton and the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) will see their racial politics boomerang and benefit Trump,” Andy predicts. “The CBC and Clinton are engaged in shameless race-baiting and it is going to turn off undedcideds and Millennials. Trump closed the book today. Efforts by Clinton and her media sycophants to revive and reopen the issue are going to backfire.” Andy will hold a Saturday news conference in New York to further address the issue. After losing a congressional primary in New Hampshire earlier this week Andy has rejoined the national political conversation. Watch for his investigative reports on Clinton and Trump.

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Andy Martin says “Birther” issue may boomerang on Hillary Clinton and Congressional Black Caucus

Andy Martin created the “Birther” movement and then walked away when the issue was taken over by crazies claiming Barack Obama was born in Kenya

“I have always stated unequivocally that Barack Obama was born in Hawai’i,” Andy says “The origin of the ‘Birther movement’ was not a so-called ‘Kenyan birth’ but rather my efforts to force the release of Obama’s Hawai’i birth certificate”

Andy says that efforts by the Congressional Black Caucus and Hillary Clinton to exploit the Birther issue are almost certainly going to boomerang on Clinton and benefit Trump

Andy plans to hold a news conference in Forest Hills, NY on Saturday morning (the 17th) to provide greater depth and detail

(NEW YORK) (September 16, 2016) Andy Martin, the corruption-fighting Internet columnist and blogger who first challenged Barack Obama’s family story in 2004 and later created the so-called “Birther” movement says that today’s efforts by Hillary Clinton and the Congressional Black Caucus to harass and harangue Donald Trump are almost certainly going to backfire and end up benefiting Trump. “You heard it here first,” Andy says.

“What Clinton is doing and what the liberal media is doing is going to boomerang on her and benefit Trump. She is trying to attract ‘swing’ voters. Will they really be impressed by a lecture from Charlie Rangel and other members of the CBC on the dead issue of Obama’s birth certificate? Very doubtful.”

Andy created the “Birther” movement in 2004 when he published his first expose on the misrepresentations Barack Obama had made about his family history. (Please see link #1 below). Andy knew of Barack Obama from Obama’s days in the Illinois State Senate and thus was in a unique position to research and investigate the man who eventually became president, please see link #2 below.

“The original Birther movement which I created was based on Obama‘s refusal to release his long-form birth certificate in 2008,” Andy says. “Obama had issued a computerized record, a certificate of live birth, but not the original document. I sued in Hawai’i to release the original document and the Birther movement was born out of my litigation and Internet columns.

“I always maintained Obama was born in Hawai’i. Later crazies took over the movement and proposed increasingly irrational and unfounded claims Obama was born in Kenya. I never supported those claims in any way.

“Nevertheless the Kenya theorists eventually took control of Birtherism and I walked away and disassociated myself. Donald Trump was a late arrival. He never sent anyone to Hawai’i and no doubt just took my own original research and used it himself. I have asked Trump to release his records and he never has.

“Nevertheless until this week the Birther issue was dead-as-a-door-nail until Clinton operatives decided they could use the issue to agitate their ‘base.’ But using Obama's birth certificate is a desperate and counterproductive maneuver. Voters know Obama is not on the ballot. People are going to be turned off by the Clinton/CBC actions.

“Trump dealt with the matter as best he can, and today he finally closed the book. End of story.

“The ‘base’ Clinton is trying to agitate is not the base they are losing. So instead of benefiting Clinton, the latest effort to exploit Birtherism is almost certainly going to boomerang on Clinton and the CBC with independent voters and millennials.

“I will hold a news conference in Forest Hills, NY York Saturday morning to further detail my beliefs and conclusions.

“Ironically, the man who ultimately created the Birther movement was Obama himself. He and Michele would constantly drop hints that Kenya was ‘home.’ They never disavowed claims by Kenyan politicians that he had been born there. They falsely claimed that a ‘granny’ was his grand mother, even though she was senile and claims to have been present at Obama’s birth, which was obviously delusional. Obama fed the Birther movement because he has shamelessly use Birther catnip to irritate and frustrate the right. He is the real ‘founder’ of doubts about his origins.

“For myself, he never fooled me. I always believed Obama was 100% American born, even though his emotional and psychological loyalties may lie elsewhere.”

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New citations after emailing:

ANDY MARTIN - A BRIEF BIO:

Andy Martin 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. With forty-eight years of background in radio and television and with five decades of investigative and analytical experience in Washington, the USA and around the world, Andy provides insight on politics, foreign policy, intelligence and military matters. For a full bio, go to: www.AndyMartin.com; also see www.BoycottABC.com/executive_director.htm

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

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).

He is the author of “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” [www.OrangeStatePress.com] and produced the Internet film “Obama: The Hawaii’ Years” [www.BoycottHawaii.com]. Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” blogging at www.contrariancommentary.wordpress.com and www.ContrarianCommentary.com.

Andy’s family immigrated to Manchester, 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 is New Hampshire’s leading corruption fighter and Republican Party reformer.

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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Conservative powerhouse Andy Martin returns to Hawai’i: Obama investigations continue

America’s leading independent conservative investigator and columnist announces his return to Honolulu to continue his precedent-setting investigation into the family history of President Barack Obama. Andy Martin’s pioneering research in Hawai’i launched many subsequent investigations by other authors and producers. Andy continues with his Hawai’i investigations and says “We have a briefing book which is already packed with new leads about Obama’s past. September 25th we’ll be on the ground in Honolulu pursuing all of them.”

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:



Conservative blogger and Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin returns to Honolulu on September 25th to continue his research and investigation into President Barack Obama’s “Hawai’i years”



Andy continues to lead his nationwide “Anti-Obama underground” on the Internet and to work clandestinely to defeat Obama for reelection



Andy invites interested researchers to join his research team in Hawai’i



Andy says he has a “briefing book” full of new investigative leads to pursue as he returns to Obama’s birthplace



(HONOLULU) (September 12, 2012)



Dear Reader:



Aloha!



Eight years ago, in August, 2004, I exposed that Barack Obama was a political fraud. I exposed that Obama’s “autobiography” was mostly a work of fiction, and that in critical respects it involved nonexistent characters. I asked Obama’s publisher to move the book from biography to fiction. No one wanted to hear the truth about Obama. Obama has continued to profit personally from publishing his lies, and he has collected millions of dollars in royalties for a work of fiction.



Four years ago, in October, 2008, I became the first independent investigator to land in Honolulu to look into Obama’s family history. My precedent-setting lawsuit in the Hawai’i courts exposed how local officials were hiding Obama’s birth certificate. The case created a nationwide firestorm that gave “birth” to the “Birther” movement. Today over 100 million Americans continue to have doubts about Obama’s origins.



MSNBC host Chris Matthews reported on September 11th that 1/3 of Ohio Republicans still have doubts about Obama’s origins. (The mainstream media never report the percentage of Democrats who have doubts about Obama’s background.) The movement I created to question Obama’s family history is alive and well. (Watch for another column analyzing the Birther movement.)



Because of my research into Obama’s background I was attacked by the Washington Post, the New York Times and broadcast media. CNN ridiculed my research in Honolulu even though the network had hired a camera crew to follow much of my activity in Hawai’i (video link below). CNN actually taped the lawsuit-in-progress.



The movement I created was “born” on the Interest and continues to spread on the Internet. That’s why ContrarianCommentary.com became the “Internet Powerhouse.”



My research in Honolulu yielded a surprise theory (and I want to emphasize and underline it is still a theory): Barack Obama was actually the biological son of Frank Marshall Davis, not Barack Obama of Kenya. When I announced my “Davis” theory in Honolulu in 2008 I was attacked by News Corporation’s geriatric Rupert Murdoch, who retroactively revoked an invitation his network had given me for what became the most explosive cable network program of the 2008 presidential campaign (video link blow to Hannity’s America). Obama’s media henchman Robert Gibbs went on Fox News to attack me with extraneous accusations based on a lawsuit over a quarter of a century old, where I was the victim of a crime.



My research in Honolulu has stood the test of time. In eight years of writing and research, neither Obama nor anyone else has ever undermined any of the facts I brought forward. It took the Washington Post’s David Maraniss eight (8!) years to catch up with my research (which he failed to credit). Maraniss was still too afraid of repercussions from Obamabots to even mention the “Davis” theory.



Yesterday’s New York Post has a full-page ad for a DVD that advertises “Barack Obama’s real father — Frank Marshall Davis.” I have never met auteur Joel Gilbert and cannot vouch for the movie itself. A new book on Davis also points in the direction of Obama’s biological father being Davis. As I have worked with the puzzle of Obama’s past over the past four years, most of the episodes in Obama’s early life make no sense without the presence of Davis. With Davis in place all of the pieces of Obama’s Hawai’i years fit snugly. More and more analysts are agreeing with my “Davis” theory.



I also produced the first Hawai’i movie in 2009 providing “pictures” of some of the Honolulu way stations in Obama’s life (video link below). You can view the movie in segments.



Why has my research been increasingly accepted, and stood the test of time, while other Obama writers turned out to be flash-in-the-pans? There are two reasons.



First, although I am a political opponent of Obama, and will be announcing a new anti-Obama effort in Manchester, New Hampshire next week, I have scrupulously separated my political views from my scholarly research. If I can’t prove a fact, I won’t allege it. If I have a theory, I label my views a theory, not a fact. I keep my political views and my scholarly research completely separate.



Second, I have not gone where the facts do not take me. Many people have written about Obama’s Kenya “birth.” Very honestly, I have never seen any evidence that would support such a claim. As a respected public interest litigator for forty-four years, I have a simple test: could I stand up in court and present Obama “evidence” to a federal judge? If not, the material is not “evidence” but merely argument or speculation.



Orly Taitz, who is a favorite of the liberal media because she is so over-the-top — the liberals love to feature her as a leader of the anti-Obama movement because Taitz is a caricature of Obama’s opposition with her heavy foreign accent and Soviet-era conspiracy theories – constantly files fictitious claims in courts (this is not to say I disagree with all of Taitz’ claims and theories, only that her dross drives out her legitimate issues). She has been sanctioned for some of her claims.



No judge has ever sanctioned any part of my Obama litigation. We often disagree on legal principles, but I have been extremely “conservative” with my pleadings and presentations in court.



I have also avoided the temptation to engage in conservative-style “Obama Derangement Syndrome,” the way liberals once attacked President George W. Bush with “Bush Derangement Syndrome.” In the words of Dragnet’s TV Sergeant Joe Friday, whose test I adopted as my own, “Just the facts, ma’am.”



So where do we go from here, and where do you fit in? Here are three principles to consider:



First, I no longer consider myself a leader of “Birthers” per se. Rather the movement I launched in 2004 and expanded in 2008 has become the “Anti-Obama Underground.” We operate on the Internet beyond mainstream media manipulation and control. Even Obama continues to recognize the potency of doubts about his family history. He jokes about his “birth certificate” fairly regularly. That’s Obama’s version of gallows humor. Obama knows that my seminal efforts have grown into an enormous but amorphous movement that he can’t stamp out and that now numbers over 100 million Americans with varying doubts about Obama’s character, religion and family history.



Second, if you would like to join our research team in Honolulu, and see some of our activity in action, please get in touch. We land in Honolulu two weeks from today, September 25th, with a fresh briefcase of material including explosive new leads to verify and investigate. We don’t charge a penny to “join the team.” It’s free. Just make your own way to Honolulu and your own arrangements for a place to stay there. Let us know if you are coming.



Third, in the remaining days of the campaign I will be launching various operations which are all directed at defeating Barack Obama for reelection. One of the popular memes of the left is that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell launched the “defeat Obama” effort on inauguration day in 2009. The truth is somewhat different. I launched the “defeat Obama” movement in 2008. The sad truth is that Republicans from Senator John McCain on down to his campaign staff were totally incompetent and unable to understand how to deal with Obama’s opaque personal history. Republican Party incompetence helped elect Obama president in 2008.



I pray Mitt Romney doesn’t make the same mistake. Character counts in the Oval Office. The American people ignore that reality at their own peril. Romney has to raise doubts about Obama’s character and integrity (e.g., would a writer lie about his “autobiography? Obama did).



Despite my eight years of efforts to expose Obama, and four years of efforts to defeat him, I will continue to base my reporting on the facts and only the facts. My opinions are opinions based on my analysis of the incomplete evidence and my synthesis of the missing threads in the Obama tapestry.



Ironically, Obama enjoys and exploits the most outrageous “Birthers” because he uses extreme Birthers to excite his base. Obama dislikes me because I have the “Chicago experience” to know where Obama's dirty tricks come from, and to expose how Obama has exported the “Chicago Way” to the Oval Office.



If you know someone who would like to read my reporting and commentary, by all means invite them to join our list. Because ContrarianCommentary.com operates on a shoestring, we can’t accommodate everyone. But we always try to “make room for one more.”



For those of you who have been readers over the past decade, much of the foregoing is common knowledge. For our new readers, welcome. For America, a prayer that President Obama will become former president Obama on November 7th.



Andy



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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 and he recently returned to make his home in the Granite State. He has forty-four 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, regional, national and international events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience both in the USA and around the world.



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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Tuesday, August 07, 2012

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN: Andy Martin continues to lead, grow anti-Obama “underground”

Conservative blogger and Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin continues to lead the anti-Obama “underground” from Andy’s new headquarters in New Hampshire. In 2008, Andy became the first independent investigator to land in Honolulu. He led the team that disclosed links between Obama and Frank Marshall Davis. Andy’s original research has now come into the mainstream of the conservative opposition to the president’s reelection with a new anti-Obama movie. Andy is orchestrating independent anti-Obama activity in Nevada and New Hampshire. Andy’s book “Obama: The Man Behind the Mask,” with his original Illinois reporting on Obama, has become the “bible” of the anti-Obama movement.


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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:


New Hampshire, Nevada “Super PACS” are coming from Andy Martin, President Barack Obama’s original media adversary!


Conservative blogger and Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin continues to lead the anti-Obama “underground” and is ramping up his efforts in New Hampshire and Nevada to ensure these battleground states end up in Mitt Romney’s column


Andy says both independent and Republican voters in Nevada and New Hampshire welcome his activity


Andy has led opposition to Barack Obama since 2004 when he initially exposed the fantasy and fiction in Obama’s “autobiography” “Dreams From My Father”


What distinguishes Andy from run-of-the-mill Obama opponents is Andy’s strictly fact-based and research-based opposition to the president


Andy may have cost Obama as many as 5 million votes in 2008; that would be enough to swing the 2012 race to Romney


Andy’s book “Obama: The Man Behind the Mask” was the first critical rebuttal to Obama’s own fantasy writing


Obama critic plans return to Hawai’i


(MANCHESTER, NH) (August 7, 2012) Conservative blogger and Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin continues to command the anti-Obama “underground.”


Andy was the first independent analyst and investigator to lead an Obama research team in Honolulu in 2008. Andy’s theory that Frank Marshall Davis was probably President Barack Obama’s biological father was initially ridiculed by CNN and other leftist media (link below). Today the ‘Davis-as-father’ theory has become a mainstream conservative meme.


Andy’s ‘Davis’ theory has now prompted a new movie on the Davis/Obama connection. There is widespread acknowledgement that Andy’s Internet activity continues to be a prime factor in efforts to deny Obama a second term.


“We have a lot more to come,” Andy says. “And work that we did years ago continues to bear new fruit. I recently received an email from someone who stated:


Dear Andy,


I just watched the new DVD Dreams of My Real Father. It is about Obama's real father being Frank Marshall Davis and just like you brought this to light in 2008 is very convincing. If you have not gotten a copy yet, you will be very interested in the amount of new material that comes out in the open with this movie. I.E., Obama's grandfather was employed by the CIA and once he discovered that Davis was the father of his grandchild he knew that he could lose his job and security clearance for having a son in law the most outspoken Communist in HA, etc. That Gramps Stanley knew Obama Sr. as he arranged his trip to HA with the CIA and was photographed with him upon his arrival. That Gramps talked Obama Sr. into being a substitute father on paper, so he wouldn't lose his livelihood with the Gov't. Great movie as was 2016 that I just saw. Your journalism is commended from breaking this story years ago that finally makes some sense of this red diaper baby Barry.


Best Wishes,

[_____________]


Hendersonville, TN

_______________@comcast.net


“To be sure, I do not agree with or accept all of the claims made by Obama’s political enemies. In fact, some of Obama’s opponents don’t like my truth-based analysis of Obama’s personal history. I have consistently stated Obama was born in Hawai’i.


“But I put my research out there in public for others to review and use as a basis for further inquiries of their own. I am planning to return to Hawai’i in the near future.


“In fact, the reason my efforts continue to have credibility is because I have always adhered to my strictly fact-based and research-based opposition to the president. I do express opinions; that’s what an analyst and scholar does. But I clearly separate fact from fiction, and theory from evidence. That’s the secret of my longevity as the leader of the anti-Obama ‘underground.’ I want the facts, and only the facts about the mysterious Mr. Obama. That’s why I exposed his ‘Dreams’ book as primarily a work of fiction way back in 2004 (link below). It took David Maraniss and the Washington Post eight (8!) years to catch up with my analysis and conclusions.


“I also consistently expose bunkum artists who engage in exaggerated attacks on the president.


“When I announced last month I was targeting Nevada and New Hampshire for my effort after Labor Day, there was some doubt. Now that ‘Crazy Harry’ Reid is out of control and making wild attacks on Mitt Romney, my choice of Nevada as a focal point for underground activity was prescient.”


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


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FshRJ4yxafk&feature=related


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/

2008/06/27/AR2008062703781.html?hpid=topnews


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgjQhnDEGSk


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZwON6dKHks


http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/

columnist-says-barack-obama-lied-to-the-

american-people-asks-publisher-to-

withdraw-obamas-book-71586122.html


New York Times attacks on Andy (with liberal doses of falsity, misrepresentations and distortions):


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/us/politics/07fox.html


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/us/politics/13martin.html?pagewanted=all


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WHAT OTHERS SAY:


“Andy Martin is revolutionizing journalism… [Andy] brings to online journalism what Rush Limbaugh [brings] to radio or Michael Moore to film: sleek little stories that fit into larger political narratives…”


“The only American journalists that are “standing UP” [to Obama] are, Andy Martin…”


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. Chicago Public Radio calls Andy a “boisterous Internet activist.” The Chicago Tribune calls him “Chicago’s own…political activist.” He has forty-four 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 regional, 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 Illinois and 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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Wednesday, May 09, 2012

Barack Obama Sarong Song, Part One


Independent Republican Presidential Candidate and conservative blogger Andy Martin, the man who single-handedly created the anti-Obama “Birther” movement, says that the new “Obama” book by David Maraniss is likely to have unintended consequences. “Maraniss may have been trying to present ‘just the facts,’” Andy says. “But the ‘facts’ about Obama’s post-college years are chilling. Obama was living in some kind of Asian ‘bubble’ where he waltzed around his girlfriend wearing a sarong (a male Asian dress-style garment). The public has always had doubts about Obama’s ‘inner’ life. Maraniss’ book is going to confirm and exacerbate those suspicions. Maraniss may not have intended that result, but increased suspicion and enhanced concern for Obama’s attachment to American values are the likely result of Maraniss’ work.”

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Republican Presidential candidate and conservative blogger Andy Martin has posted his “Barack Obama Sarong Song, Part One” on one of Andy’s blogs



Andy predicts the “Sarong issue” is going to be to the 2012 presidential race what the “birth certificate” was to the 2008 campaign



Andy suggests David Maraniss’ new book may have the unintended consequence of increasing and expanding public doubts about Barack Obama’s “inner self”



Andy says Obama’s wearing of a sarong in Brooklyn and Manhattan in Obama’s early 20’s is strange behavior for a normal American to accept



Andy will be posting the “Barack Obama Sarong Song, Part One” on other media as he figures out how to do that, as well adding additional versions of the “Sarong Song”



With “Sarong Song” Andy takes up the cudgels of Andrew Breitbart by posting controversial political videos



(HONOLULU) (May 9, 2012) Independent Republican Presidential candidate and conservative blogger Andy Martin, the man who single-handedly created the anti-Obama “Birther” movement and then distanced himself from his creation, has posted the “Barack Obama Sarong Song, Part One” on one of his blogs. Additional versions will be forthcoming. Andy is about to reprise his 2008 success in undermining public confidence in who Barack Obama really is, and what Obama really stands for. Andy’s “sarong issue” is about to enter American politics.



“David Maraniss’ new book has opened an ‘eye’ into Barack Obama’s ‘weirdness factor’ as a young college graduate,” Andy says. “By his early 20’s Obama was no longer a child playing in a sandbox. Obama was a young Columbia University graduate, apparently living in Manhattan and Brooklyn. And he was living what by any standards was a bizarre lifestyle. Genevieve Cook, Obama’s ‘composite’ but real life girlfriend, is quoted in David Maraniss new book as seeing Obama wearing a sarong at home.



“Most Americans don’t even know what a sarong is.



“Is Obama wearing a sarong in the White House? The question is a reasonable one.



“The ‘foreigner’ doubts which tens of millions of Americans have had about Obama have now been confirmed. Obama was wearing a sarong, a form of male house dress-like garment popular in Asia, in Brooklyn and Manhattan in his 20’s. ‘Saronging’ represented Obama’s self-image, his statement to the world of ‘who he was.’ Obama’s self-image is probably creepy for most Americans. You can’t get any more ‘foreign’ than wearing a sarong at home, in Brooklyn and Manhattan.



“I am no technical expert and working from a hotel suite it’s not easy to do ‘technical’ work. But I have managed to post ‘Barack Obama’s Sarong Song, Part One’ on the Internet.



“It may seem unlikely now, in May, but I predict the ‘Sarong issue’ is going to be to the 2012 election cycle what the ‘birth certificate’ was to the 2008 campaign: an eye into the mind of a very peculiar individual with a confused identity,” Andy says. “Obama’s wearing of a sarong will be a metaphor for his bizarre identity and Obama’s lack of attachment to ordinary, Main Street American values.”



“Barack Obama Sarong Song, Part One,” is only available on one of Andy’s blogs today (see link below). But the video will eventually be posted across the board on Andy’s blogs and hopefully on his YouTube channel as Andy struggles to overcome his limitations as a non-techie.



Enjoy “Barack Obama Sarong Song, Part One,” (suggestion, play it in “full-screen” mode):

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ABOUT ANDY:



Andy is a legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, talk television pioneer, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. Chicago Public Radio calls Andy a “boisterous Internet activist.” The Chicago Tribune calls him “Chicago’s own…political activist.” He has forty-four 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 regional, 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 Illinois and 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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Tuesday, May 08, 2012

HONOLULU NEWS CONFERENCE Conservative blogger Andy Martin says Barack Obama blocks access to Obama’s original Hawai’i birth certificate

Independent Republican Presidential Candidate and conservative blogger Andy Martin, the man who single-handedly created the anti-Obama “Birther” movement, will hold a Honolulu news conference Tuesday, May 8th to charge that President Barack Obama is blocking access to Obama’s original Hawai’i birth certificate. “Obama wants us to rely on his ‘copy’ of the original,” Andy charges. “But he does not want us to see the actual original piece of paper. Scholarly research is based on access to original texts, not Internet facsimiles. Obama is ‘de-legitimizing’ himself. He tries to manipulate his ‘image’ by providing access to sympathetic liberal journalists such as David Maraniss of the Washington Post; anyone who might be skeptical is ignored. Obama is stonewalling. Is it any wonder the American people don’t trust either Obama or his web-based birth certificate?”

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ATTENTION NATIONAL AND HAWAII DAYBOOK/ASSIGNMENT EDITORS



Republican Presidential candidate and conservative blogger Andy Martin says President Obama is blocking access to Obama’s original Hawai’i birth certificate



Andy says Obama tries to manipulate the truth by granting access to sympathetic liberal writers such as David Maraniss, and censoring conservatives and independents



Andy says Obama’s tactics are backfiring and explain the new anti-Obama firestorm (see North Carolina article below) which results from Obama’s continuing claims of secrecy for Obama’s original, official document



Andy says Obama’s “shucking and jiving” over access to the original is fueling national suspicion as to the authenticity of the White House facsimile birth certificate posted on the Internet



(HONOLULU) (May 8, 2012) Independent Republican Presidential candidate and conservative blogger Andy Martin, the man who single-handedly created the anti-Obama “Birther” movement and then distanced himself from his creation, will hold a Honolulu news conference today, Tuesday, May 8, 2012 to charge that President Barack Obama is denying scholarly and research access to the original copy of his Hawai’i birth certificate.



Andy wrote to Obama seeking permission for access, and Obama has failed to respond.



“Once again we see Barack Obama shooting himself in the foot,” Andy says. “Obama gives favored access to sympathetic liberals such as David Maraniss, and ‘stonewalls’ everyone else. Why, if Obama has released a ‘copy’ of the original copy of his Hawai’i birth certificate, would Obama refuse to allow public access to the typewritten original document? Whether you dislike Obama or love him, he is a fact of American history. His ‘birth certificate’ is a historical document.



“Most states would proudly display the original document in the state archives. Only the smugglers in Hawai’i seek to keep Obama’s original document under lock-and-key.



“Having issued what he said was a copy of the original, why is Obama refusing to allow scholar access to the actual original? Obama is de-legitimizing himself.



My letter to Obama—which has gone unanswered—is self-explanatory:



ANDY MARTIN /2012

Republican candidate for

President of the United States



Andy Martin, J.D.

Adjunct Professor of Law (ret.)

City University of New York



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www.AndyMartin.com

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E-mail: Andy@AndyMartinforPresident.com

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March 30, 2012



President Barack Obama

The White House

Washington, DC 20500

via fax (202) 456-2461



Request for authorization to view and copy

original 1961 Hawai’i birth certificate



Dear President Obama:



I am writing to request written authorization from you directed to the State of Hawai’i authorizing me to view and copy your original 1961 birth certificate.



In 2011 you released a copy of your 1961 birth document. Some people, not including me, questioned the authenticity of that document. (I expressed no opinion.) Sheriff Joe Arpaio recently suggested your document may be a forgery. I don’t know.



I am an independent researcher and scholar who is only interested in finding the facts and searching for the truth.



I am leaving for Hawai’i in May to continue my research into your family history and I would like to view and copy the original document at that time. I would like to hold the original and give it a close look.



Scholarly research is always based on access to and examination of original texts, not copies. I was taught how to conduct scholarly research in the Bodleian Library at Oxford over fifty years ago.



In 2008 I filed the original lawsuit seeking access to your birth records.



There are two aspects to my request today.



First, your release of what you said in 2011 was a copy of the original may have waived any privacy or secrecy concerns on the part of state officials. If necessary, I could therefore file a “waiver” lawsuit under state law seeking access to the original. I would prefer not to sue if I can avoid it.



Second, if you authorize me to view the original document, and I attest to its authenticity, my review of the document may provide greater credibility for the document than your own release of a copy. The public record is clear that I have never subscribed to the “Kenyan birth” theory, and I have always maintained you were born in Hawai’i, which is why I sued in Hawaii in 2008 to see the original document.



If you send me a simple written authorization/direction to Hawai’i officials to review and copy the original 1961 document that will eliminate any need for a lawsuit and will expedite my access once I arrive in Honolulu.



On the issue of policy and political differences, I am very clearly one of your strongest and best informed opponents. Nevertheless, during my presidential campaign I have supported your policies in Libya and Iran.



On the other hand, when I conduct scholarly research I only dig for the truth and the facts. You may or may not be aware of my own theory (not fact) in which I claim your biological father may be Frank Marshall Davis.



Despite Frank’s left-leanings I find Frank an infinitely more interesting character (and potential father) that Barack Obama senior. You share a lot of Frank’s qualities and characteristics. Still, my thoughts are only a theory at this time.



I hope you will provide written authorization for me to view the original Hawai’i document.



I think a letter directed at the Hawai’i Department of Health authorizing me to view and copy your original birth certificate would be sufficient under Hawai’i law.



If, on the other hand, you still claim any privacy or secrecy rights under Hawai’i law I would appreciate being advised of that fact as well. I will bring your response to the attention of the court.



Respectfully submitted,



ANDY MARTIN



AM:sp



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WHO:



Republican Party Presidential Candidate Andy Martin



WHAT:



Conservative blogger Andy Martin says President Obama is denying scholarly access to the original copy of Obama’s Hawai’i birth certificate



WHERE:



Hawai’i Convention Center, main entrance, intersection of Atkinson and Kapi’olani Streets (by the large outdoor sculpture), Honolulu



WHEN:



Tuesday, May 8, 2012, 2:00 P.M.



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



http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/04/27/

president-obamas-long-form-birth-certificate



http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/05/04/2044415/

more-nc-gop-candidates-doubt-obamas.html



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WHAT OTHERS SAY:



“Andy Martin is revolutionizing journalism… [Andy] brings to online journalism what Rush Limbaugh [brings] to radio or Michael Moore to film: sleek little stories that fit into larger political narratives…”



“The only American journalists that are “standing UP” [to Obama] are, Andy Martin…”



ABOUT ANDY:



Andy is a legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, talk television pioneer, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. Chicago Public Radio calls Andy a “boisterous Internet activist.” The Chicago Tribune calls him “Chicago’s own…political activist.” He has forty-four 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 regional, 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 Illinois and 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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Sunday, May 06, 2012

Conservative blogger Andy Martin says Hawaii officials are still denying access to president Barack Obama’s original birth certificate

Independent Republican Presidential Candidate and conservative blogger Andy Martin, the man who single-handedly created the anti-Obama “Birther” movement, will hold a Honolulu news conference Sunday, May 6th to announce that Hawai’i state officials are still denying access to President Obama’s original birth certificate. Andy’s presence in Hawai’i comes as a new Birther “explosion” is sweeping across the political landscape in the 2012 election season. “Why are Hawai’i officials illegally denying access to the original, when Obama claims he has released a ‘copy’ of the original,” Andy demands. Andy is in Honolulu continuing his research and investigation into President Obama’s “Hawai’i years. His earlier research into Obama’s past has recently been validated by the British government and other sources.

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Republican Presidential candidate and conservative blogger Andy Martin says Hawai’i officials are still denying access to President Obama’s original birth certificate



Andy says Hawai’i officials cannot lawfully maintain secrecy of Obama’s original birth certificate when Obama claims to have released a “copy” and posted a “copy” on the official White House web site



Andy says that Hawai’i officials are creating a new anti-Obama firestorm (see North Carolina article below) by continuing to claim secrecy for Obama’s official records



(HONOLULU) (May 6, 2012) Independent Republican Presidential candidate and conservative blogger Andy Martin, the man who single-handedly created the anti-Obama “Birther” movement and then distanced himself from his creation, will hold a Honolulu news conference today, Sunday, May 6, 2012 to charge that Hawai’i officials are still illegally denying access to President Barack Obama’s original birth certificate.



Andy says, “President Obama claims to have made a ‘copy’ of his original birth certificate available. He even posted a copy of the copy on the official White House web site (link below). If the birth certificate is public, how can Hawaii officials seek to keep it private? Obama has waived any privacy or secrecy rights by publicly releasing what he says is a copy of an authentic document.



“One of the basic principles of scholarly research and writing is that scholars always want to examine the original. Researchers deal with reviewing original texts, not accepting web site reproductions of official records as alternatives. Even an original copy of the Declaration of Independence is available at the National Archives. What's wrong with Hawai’i?



“Hawai’i officials are embarrassing president Obama and lighting a match to a new firestorm of Birther controversy (see North Carolina link below). While I disassociate myself from extreme elements of the Birther movement, I believe it is absolutely necessary and appropriate for Hawaii officials to allow access and viewing of the original record now that the president has authorized release of that document. How can you say the document is ‘secret’ when the president has posted what he says is a copy of the document on the White House web site?”



Andy’s letter to Hawai’i officials follows (the response of Hawai’i officials is an attachment to emailed copies of this news release):



ANDY MARTIN /2012

Republican candidate for

President of the United States



Andy Martin, J.D.

Adjunct Professor of Law (ret.)

City University of New York



www.AndyMartinforPresident.com

www.AndyMartin.com

www.FirstRespondersOnline.us



E-mail: Andy@AndyMartinforPresident.com

P. O. Box 1851

New York, NY 10150-1851

Tel. (866) 706-2639; Cell (917) 664-9329

Fax (866) 707-2639



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April 24, 2012



Hon. Loretta J. Fuddy

Director

Hawaii’ Department of Health

1250 Punchbowl Street

Honolulu, HI 96813

via fax (808) 586-4444



Re: President Barack Obama’s original birth certificate



Dear Director Fuddy:



Way back in 2008 I sued the HDOH when it refused to provide access to President Barack Obama’s original birth certificate. The mumbo jumbo at the time was that record was “secret.” Hawaii’s notoriously corrupt judicial system rubber-stamped the decision.



Since then President Obama has sent someone to Hawai’i, received a certified copy of the original document, and posted it on the White House web site. So the information contained on the original is no longer secret. Secrecy has been waived.



Nevertheless, as a scholar and historian I would like to examine the original document. Scholars and researchers always examine original texts and not electronic copies. The document is a historical archive.



I am coming to Honolulu next week and I would like to make arrangements to view the original copy of the Obama birth certificate. I assume you are no longer making arguments based on secrecy since the document is no longer secret.



Please let me know what arrangements can be made to view the original Obama birth certificate.



I would appreciate a response by fax or email as I am on the road a great deal and these come right to my computer.



Respectfully submitted,



ANDY MARTIN



AM:sp



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May 6 HAWAII NEWS CONFERENCE DETAILS:



WHO:



Republican Party Presidential Candidate Andy Martin



WHAT:



Conservative blogger Andy Martin says Hawai’i officials are illegally denying access to President Obama’s original birth certificate



WHERE:



Hawai’i State Capitol, S. Beretania Street side,



WHEN:



Sunday, May 6, 2012, 12:30 P.M.



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http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/04/27/

president-obamas-long-form-birth-certificate



http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/05/04/2044415/

more-nc-gop-candidates-doubt-obamas.html



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WHAT OTHERS SAY:



“Andy Martin is revolutionizing journalism… [Andy] brings to online journalism what Rush Limbaugh [brings] to radio or Michael Moore to film: sleek little stories that fit into larger political narratives…”



“The only American journalists that are “standing UP” [to Obama] are, Andy Martin…”



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Andy is a legendary New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, talk television pioneer, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. Chicago Public Radio calls Andy a “boisterous Internet activist.” The Chicago Tribune calls him “Chicago’s own…political activist.” He has forty-four 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 regional, national and international events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience both in the USA and around the world.



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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

I save a woman’s life, on the worst night of my life

Republican Party Presidential Candidate and conservative columnist Andy Martin says reports of the attack on Lara Logan reopened memories of a similar incident in Iran 32 years ago. Martin took time off from preparing for his upcoming trip to New Hampshire to reflect on an event that reshaped his life. Here is his flashback.

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Republican Presidential Candidate Andy Martin offers a highly personal reaction to the attack on CBS News’ Lara Logan

The Logan incident reopens painful memories for Andy

(NEW YORK)(February 17, 2011) Once in a blue moon a news report hits me in the heart. I have been exposed to so many experiences that sometimes experience just bounces back and smacks me in the face. Memory is a difficult quality to discard. I had an eerie remembrance reading reports of the attack on CBS News’ Lara Logan in Cairo. Logan thought she was in a celebratory environment and thus was probably surprised when she was attacked.

I saved a woman’s life on the worst night of my life.

In 1979 I was in Iran during the hostage crisis. I was tipped off that something had happened in Tabriz, a remote city in Azerbaijan Province. Together with a reporter from Associated Press, Alex Efty, and a Miami Herald scribe, Guy Gugliotta, we decided to travel as a group to Tabriz.

Flying to Tabriz I sat in the cockpit jump seat with the Iran Air crew. It was a scary insight. The co-pilot said that Iran was training suicide bombers. If Iran was threatened they would strike back at America. I didn’t know what to say. Because I had trained briefly as a military pilot, we spoke as pilots and not as people discussing politics. But it was still uncomfortable being in that cockpit. Finally we landed in Tabriz. Alex, Guy and I headed for a hotel.

Just beyond the hotel, a mini-revolt was in progress about half a mile away. Anti-Ayatollah Khomeini forces had taken over the local TV station which sat on a hilltop. While we cased the station thousands of pro-Khomeini demonstrators stormed the facility and retook it. We were engulfed with people who wanted to know why we were there.

That night I received a tip that something was brewing at the Government House. I think the term “Government House” is best described as a local municipal building, perhaps a county courthouse or office building.

Little did I know that the worst night of my life was about to unfold.

When we got to the facility a source led Alex and me into the building. I still remember the screaming and the cries coming from the second floor to the angry crowd in the front yard. Perhaps five hundred people were outside in front of the building, armed with rifles, pistols and automatic weapons. They were chanting. They were whipping themselves into a frenzy to counterattack the TV station. Over a dozen men were to die that night in firefights on the hill.

Finally my guy came back and said the building was about to explode, and we had to get out. The crowd was being herded up to the TV station. Alex and I moved out on to the front steps of the building to watch. The steps were about six feet high and gave us an overview of the ground where the crowd was still yelling and screaming. We hesitated and looked out at the mob. The men were getting increasingly agitated as they prepared to launch their counterattack.

Out of the corner of my right eye I saw a woman. I recognized her visually but didn’t know her name. I had seen her earlier in the day at the hotel. She had a camera crew. As I remember she had three men with her, rather smallish types. She had a pale complexion, reddish hair and was wearing a white coat. The white coat sticks out in my memory. She walked on the periphery of the mob trying to find an opening into the crowd for an angle shot.

Suddenly the men in the mob discovered her. They grabbed her and she started screaming. The screaming was piercing.

In a moment, Alex’s eyes and mine met. His look said, “I’m too small to rescue her. It' you.” Somehow I made a flying leap off the steps into the crowd. I don’t remember that second.

I remember swimming in a sea of humanity, using my arms push forward towards the screaming woman. If you are familiar with the Lara Logan episode last week you can see why her incident triggered these memories.

Finally I pushed my way through the crowd and grabbed the woman in a bear hug, face-to face. I said something, probably “Don’t worry, I’m here.” She kept screaming.

I was scared she might think I was one of her attackers. Seconds became years. I drifted a few feet away, as though floating in violent river rapids. She kept screaming. Each second was like a lifetime. My mind snapped to. I realized she had lost control and was in a breakdown state. The more she screamed the more agitated the crowd became. I swam back to her and grabbed her a second time.

She kept screaming. Slowly I maneuvered her to the side of the mob. Her crew was on the side, outside the crowd, as though on a bank trying to reel her in from the raging river. We got her out. I was alone with the woman and her crew, in the middle of a smaller mob that was still following us.

We started to walk through what appeared to be a garden, towards a car NBC News had rented. Somewhere along the line someone told me she was with NBC News. The woman was Hillary Brown.

Alex and I were separated.

As we approached her car, her men got in and I helped her in. She had stopped screaming as we walked through the garden.

But the car was now surrounded by a potentially hostile mob. Again I looked inside myself. What to do?

In an instant, I started screaming at the top of my voice: “Death to the Shah! Death to Carter.” The crowd was flummoxed. Then they joined in. “Death to the Shah! Death to Carter!” In the confusion the driver saw an opening and drove off to the hotel where all of us were staying.

I think my guy drove me back to the hotel; I don’t remember how I got there or when I reunited with Alex. The night had become totally insane.

But the terror was only beginning.

There was relentless small arms fire. From the hotel windows you could see tracers going towards the TV hill, and tracers coming back from the station.

The street outside the hotel was filled with trucks, packed with people driving to the TV hill. They had more rifles, more pistols, more automatic weapons. I looked at myself and said truly this is madness.

Alex wandered towards the gunfire at the entrance to the TV hill. After hesitating, I went after him to be sure he could get out.

By the time we got back to the hotel the gates were locked and we had to climb the fence to get in.

I tried to get on the telex machine but Pranay Gupte of the New York Times was monopolizing the telex. I waited.

And then disaster struck.

Two men approached me. One said I was under arrest as a spy. The other one had an M-16. With his rifle he pointed for me to go outside. I hesitated, but politely. The men spoke no English and I spoke no Farsi. I asked the hotel clerk to tell them we should stay inside where he could interpret. Amazingly, they agreed. The senior of the two said he was a komiteh, a sort of neighborhood vigilante. He said he had witnessed me orchestrating the battle. Utter nonsense. Very politely I told him he was incorrect. But there was no way to reason with him.

He wanted to take me somewhere, outside the hotel compound. I resisted. Again very politely. I knew if I left the hotel I was dead. I realized that with all the gun fire and automatic weapons relentlessly punctuating the darkness people were dying. This man was trying to blame me. I was in dire danger.

Because Gupte was monopolizing the telex I kept stalling the men and asking the desk clerk to tell them to wait because I had to send a telex to let people know I was under arrest. I don’t know how long the komiteh waited. Every second took forever to pass.

Finally, the men got irritated, then tired of waiting. They grabbed my identification and said I had a forged ID. They promised to return in the morning.

I spent the entire night terrified of what would happen the next day. Should I run? Of course not I said to myself. There was no way to escape Tabriz. The city was isolated. I was trapped.

Pranay and his lady friend eventually helped calm me down.

Next morning the komiteh returned and tried to take me away again. Alex, who was not under arrest, started yelling at the man. The komiteh opened his coat and showed a pistol. He told the desk clerk to tell us that unless Alex shut up, the komiteh would shoot both of us. I thanked Alex and said “Please let me handle this.”

The episode then took on an Alec Guinness air. I told the komiteh, “I’m happy to go with you, but if you are a policeman, you need to have a police car. So I can leave with you in the police car.” He looked puzzled for a moment; he made a call. Shortly a police car arrived and took us to the local police station.

The police profusely thanked the komiteh and said they would take it from there. The komiteh left.

After calling Tehran, the police handed back my identification and said I could leave. They drove me back to the hotel. Alex told me he wanted to do a story on the daring rescue he had witnessed but Hillary Brown killed the idea because it would damage her career. I found out they were friends and both lived in Cyprus.

Hillary had no idea she had cracked in the crowd. She had no idea of the risks she had created for herself or her crew. She had no idea how close she had come to being killed by the mob. And she was angry at me for rescuing her and saving her life.

I learned over a dozen men had died the night before.

Word of the massacre spread to Tehran. People started streaming in to witness the aftermath. My life-threatening night of terror slowly became something of a lighthearted matter. Friends joked, “We don’t care if you are a spy; we still like you.” Gee, thanks.

A Japanese cameraman, Mr. Nagasaki, came up and said “You Jamesu Bondu.” “Thank you,” I said, not knowing what to say to that encomium.

The hotel staff told me I was booked on a flight to Tehran. I headed for the airport. Faster, faster I said silently.

I had no idea yet that the night had changed my life in ways I could not yet anticipate. I would be coming back to Iran. My escape from Tabriz would lead to new dangers in the days ahead.

A few weeks later I returned to Iran, alone, still during the hostage crisis, and linked up with the mujahideen in Afghanistan who were fighting the Soviet army. Maybe I was in as much danger in Afghanistan, or even more danger, but I was never in as much fear as that night in Tabriz. That night has stayed with me.

I have had horrible experiences since them. But never in my life have I felt so vulnerable, so afraid of being close, too close, to death. And yet, if I hadn’t been in that place, the woman might have died. Thankfully, she didn’t.

That night has made a difference in my life. More about the incident later, someday. Maybe.

Postscript. Years after the Tabriz rescue, I was at a dinner in New York with a date. We were seated next to CBS' Mike Wallace and his wife. My date thought of me as being kind of quiet, maybe too cautious. As the dinner was ending a woman came up to me and threw a glass of wine in my face. It was Hillary Brown. She was still angry that her rescue had precipitated an incident. I suppose Hillary will go to her grave angry at me, because she has no idea what happened on a fateful night when she could have died.

Thankfully, I was there to save her.

It was the worst night of my life.

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Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” http://www.contrariancommentary.com/. He comments on regional, national and world events with more than four decades of investigative and analytical experience. 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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