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Always To The Right on Monday, October 20, 2008 10:43:49 AM
Stanley Kurtz continues his efforts to be proclaimed an Enemy of the State in a prospective Barack Obama presidency with his essay today on Chicago’s New Party. While the Tanning Bed Media continues to report on Joe the Plumber’s driving record,
only a handful of journalists appear interested in the record of an
actual politician. Kurtz discovers that Obama’s affiliation with the
New Party brought him into alliance with hard-Left progressives,
Socialists, and into a partnership with ACORN
Stanley, Stanley, Stanley … stop being such a racist. Don’t
you know that the media has more important tasks than to inform the
electorate about the candidates for the Presidency? I hear Joe
Wurzelbacher may have belonged to something called the Natural Law
Party over twenty years ago. That’s obviously much more important than
Obama’s political record!
Come on, Stanley. Try to keep up. Joe the Plumber isn’t licensed in
Ohio! Do you know what that means? Unless the government officially
declares you a plumber, you can’t be one. Why aren’t you joining the masses of your colleagues in exposing Joe as a fraud?
Psst, Stanley. Did you know that Joe’s real first name is Samuel? He’s not even a real Joe. Well, except for his middle name, which he’s used consistently, but that’s not the point.
Obviously, Stanley Kurtz is not satisfied with membership in the
Tanning Bed Media — and thank goodness. Kurtz takes a measured
approach in this essay, refraining from labeling the New Party as
Socialist. As Kurtz points out, it included socialists, but
also many more people from the Left. It gave socialists and
redistributionists their best opportunity to enter mainstream politics
by influencing the direction of the Democrats in Chicago, and one of
their stars in this effort was Barack Obama.
Tellingly, Kurtz’ best source for the New Party and its ties to
ACORN is Micah Sifry. The progressive writer first committed the
history of the New Party in his book Spoiling for a Fight,
written in 2002 detailing the history of independent parties in the
US. Using this history, Kurtz can easily draw the lines of alliance
between Obama, ACORN, and the radicals and redistributionists who
sought to pull the Democrats harder to the Left in Chicago — and who
succeeded with Obama.
Why haven’t the national media done the same research? They’re too
busy reporting on tanning beds and Joe the Plumber’s divorce records to
spend any time vetting an actual presidential candidate.