Threepeat: LA Times/Chicago Trib again help Obama make the close

by Jill Stanek

The Los Angeles Times' refusal to cough up a damaging video of Barack Obama kabbitzing with PLO friend Rashid Khalidi should come as no surprise. The LAT/Chicago Tribune sisterhood has been aiding and abetting Obama for years.

Jack Ryan: In 2004 Republican Jack Ryan ran against Barack Obama for US Senate. Ryan was divorced from actress Jeri Ryan of Star Trek: Voyager and Boston Public fame. Their divorce records were sealed, as requested by both. They shared a young autistic son who they were trying to protect.

Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod, interned for the Chicago Tribune in college and then worked there in "a high-profile job as the lead political reporter," according to the New York Times, from 1977-84.

Does the following have anything to do with Axelrod's ties to the Trib? It sure smells.

The Chicago Tribune decided to go after Ryan's child custody papers. Its sister newspaper, the Los Angeles Times, went to court in CA, where the custody was finalized.

The LAT fought and won, violating the expressed wishes of the Ryans, making the LAT's current protest against showing the Khalidi video out of supposed respect for the informant's wishes laughable.

Obama's part in the Ryan drama? From Wiki:

People alleged to be backers of Barack Obama emailed reporters about the divorce controversy, but refrained from on-the-record commentary about the divorce files.....

On June 22, 2004, the Ryans' divorce papers were released. In them Jeri accused Jack of taking her to sex clubs and wanting her to engage in public sex. Ryan denied the allegations, telling me and the world he took Jeri to an "avante garde" club in Paris but left when she expressed discomfort.

I believed Ryan and was the only woman in a group of loyalists to express support of him at a press conference that night. Along with others, I chalked Jeri's allegations up as just that, never proven and made during a messy divorce. The fact that she didn't want them revealed to the world said something.

I knew Ryan before he ran for the Senate, spending a day with him where he taught at Hales Franciscan High School, for instance, to write a story for the online news org I worked for at the time, The Illinois Leader. Ryan was a multi-millionaire who left his cush job at Goldman Sachs to teach at this all boys Catholic school in Chicago's inner city. Ryan came from a large philanthropic family.

Ryan went down on June 25, was replaced by Alan Keyes, who alienated everyone, and Obama won in a landslide.

Before that?

Blair Hull

Obama's main primary contender for US Senate was Blair Hull, who was beating Obama in the polls. According to Wiki:

In early media polls leading up to the March 16, 2004, primary election Hull enjoyed a substantial lead and widespread name recognition resulting from a well-financed advertisement effort. He spent over $28 million of his personal wealth on the campaign...

A month before the primary elections a news story broke regarding his divorce from his ex-wife. The controversy ended up destroying the Hull campaign. Hull tried to keep the divorce records sealed, but pressure from journalists and his opposing candidates forced him to release them.

The papers claimed that his ex-wife alleged that during a physical fight between them he had threatened to kill her. This led to his arrest for battery, however no charges were ever filed.

From what newspaper did the news story break? The Chicago Tribune. Reported the New York Times:

About a month before the vote, the Chicago Tribune revealed, near the bottom of a long profile of Hull, that during a divorce proceeding, Hull's second wife filed for an order of protection. In the following few days, the matter erupted into a full-fledged scandal that ended up destroying the Hull campaign and handing Obama an easy primary victory.

The Tribune reporter who wrote the original piece later acknowledged in print that the Obama camp had "worked aggressively behind the scenes" to push the story. But there are those in Chicago who believe that Axelrod had an even more significant role - that he leaked the initial story.

Now the Tribune newspaper group is going for the trifecta, trying to help Obama - who wouldn't be where he is today if not for them - win the final victory.

[Ryan photos courtesy of CBS News; Axelrod photo courtesy of the New York Times; origin of Hull photo unknown]

Comments

[Fran]

Terrific piece, Jill. Thanks for connecting the dots and reminding us how this Obama thing has been sleazy from the start.

[Donna]

So often I hear voters express dissatisfaction with the candidates from which they have to choose. My question is, who in their right mind would want to run for office when media view elections as witch hunts? Look what they've done to Palin and her family. Maybe if we all want better candidates, we ought to be giving a clear message to the media to back off with the personal crucifixions and focus on the issues.

Let's not forget who's daddy was on the board of the Chicago Tribune (McKenna...a primary election rival), or the "leaders" of the Illinois Republican party (Topinka, Dillard, LaHood and others) who delivered a public backstabbing to Jack Ryan, rather than support his candidacy through the allegations. All of them are culpable for the rise of Obama.

[paaran]

Obama Makes "Selfish" America.

Obama Selfish means.

Obama said "Selfish". How did he dare to say it "Selfish" through his mouth in so selfish mood?

Here is Korea. If America was like Obama's in 1950 when Korean war started, present freely rich south Korea never be born. In this country over 40 million peoples live in freedom and thanks to America, even though some(about 10-30%) pro-leftism never do that.

Obama may wish to live all "Axis of Evil" contained with his unselfishiness, then, peoples under Evil Power of "Axis of Evil" like KimJongil and past-South Korea invaded by Evil north Korea might be melted down forever. And over the world, there shall be grown much bigger cruel regimes if no-body and no-county resist against it.

Obama makes his America to really "Fucking America" if he does not anymore want to dispatch American force to other country.
Jeremiah Wright, mento of Obama, has shouted "Fucking America" over 20 years, and now Obama is going to catch the "Fucking America"'s handle and to turn nomore "Fucking America", which means to all peoples lived on the globe that time of "Noble America" is down and time of "Fucking America" with Obamessiah shall be started.

Obama said "Selfish". Selfish means his own caring characted.

Last a half century, what many countries in the globe develops her wealth and freedom system is really depending on generous positive freedom expansion policy of America.

But now Obama the man most Americans wants for their one Distributor of wealth, does not wish to participate other countries peoples pains. How much "Selfish" Obama's America ?

If America become like Russia, China, or further Soviet by "Redistribution" System or "Unselfish" structure well controlled under armed "civilian national security force" under the one "Distributor" Obama, then, what will you do, dear American ?

Selfish America means Disaster to other countries of globe!

If America was originally Selfish country like one of Obama, eastern Europe, Russia and south Korea never were come out to Freedom as well as wealth.

Wealth means not "Redistributed" and never be possible under "Redistributed".

The most well "Redistributed" country is North Korea. How well !
But, by that reason, most peoples except Kim Jongil are living at the edge of starvation everyday.

I will explain why "Redistribution" makes your country not to well but to bad.

If Obamessiah redistribute wealth to poorer people, he first hire agencies for only working to collect, calculate and "redistribute" wealth upto far far away in America. Do you have idea how many agencies should be necessary for Obama's "Redistribution" job and how much foods and salary be required to feed the mouth of all agencies and his/her families ?

When you make free-market society let wealth being freely flown to poorer, there are not needed "Redistribution" agencies. Only voluteers will be active.

"Redistribution" means that from all collected & redistributed amounts not only poorer but also agencies and servants of Obama must be put their even one leg, every legs and if they tast it they wish to put their legs not one finally all two and much deepth.

If you make freely redistributed by free-market rule and charity, there are not needed amount to feed redisributing agencies. This means Obama's "Redistribution" system made country wealth to feed agaencies should not be useful for production process anymore. Very important.
Every year, everyday, much moneys shall never be "Reproductive" but only for "Feeding" Obama's "redistribution" agencies. This surely makes all country being fallen much poor circumstance. This is why north Korea so well-redistribution system must only be starvation.

What is most "Selfish" between free-market and "Redistribution" of Obamessiah ?
Absolutely Obamessiah !

Redistribution policy means in Amercia there shall be lazy class and agencies not productive but only distributive (and more collective). So the country(America) with selfish peoples shall be poorer day by day until they finish "Redistribution".

God said, if you want to be blessed, to seize and dash the little one feeded by Babylon against rock.[Psalm 137:8.9]

Dear Americans, don't you want to be blessed? Then, seize and dash the man against rock as Psalm's order.

Pardon my poor english.

Paaran
http://cafe.daum.net/paaranhome
http://blog.chosun.com/hansu0001