Pamela Geller, AMERICAN THINKER….. MEDIA AVERSION

Gotta love this, Atlas-eans! Yours truly over at the venerable American Thinker and Lucianne!

UPDATE: National Review too ……..

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August 14, 2008
                        

Obama’s Foreign Donors: The media averts its eyes

By Pamela Geller

I have been researching, documenting and studying thousands upon thousands
of Obama’s campaign donations for the past month. Egregious abuse was
immediately evident and I published the results of my ongoing
investigation. Each subsequent post built a more damning case against
Obama’s illegal contribution activity.


The media took little
notice of what I was substantiating. I went so far as to upload the
documents so that anyone could do their own research.  I asked readers
to download the documents and a number of folks pitched in.

Despite
dropping the groundbreaking bombshell  story of "Palestinian" brothers
from the Rafah refugee camp in Gaza who donated $33,000 to Obama’s
campaign, no big media picked up the story. Jihadis donating to Obama
from Gaza? Could there be a bigger story?  Foreign donations are
illegal, but this story was all  that and so much more. The
"Palestinian" brothers were proud and vocal of their "love" for Obama.
Their vocal support on behalf of "Palestinians"  spoke volumes to
Obama’s campaign.

And yet still no media.

But
Obama pricked up his ears. He smelled trouble and while no media asked,
he answered anyway. Sen. Obama’s campaign immediately scrambled and
contended they had returned the  $33,500 in illegal contributions from
Palestinians in Hamas-controlled Gaza, despite the fact that records do
not show that it was returned and the brothers said they have not
received any money. Having gone through all of Obama’s refunds
redesignations etc, no refund was made to Osama, Hossam, or Edwan Monir
in the Rafah refugee camp. And still no media. 

One of the Gazan brothers, Monir Edwan (identified here),  claimed he bought "Obama for President" T-shirts off Obama’s website  and then sold the T-shirts in Gaza for a profit. All purchases on the Barack Obama website are considered contributions.

The
Palestinians allegedly claimed "they were American citizens", so said
Obama’s people. They listed their address — zip code 972 (ironically
the area code for Israel) and they input "GA"the state abbreviation for
Georgia (
screen shot here)
They actually lived in a Hamas controlled refugee camp.  So if Obama’s
people thought it was "Georgia" why did they ship the tee shirts to the
correct address in Gaza?  Shipping overseas to a Gaza refugee camp is
vastly different than the state next door.

Still no media. 

"Some young men even bought the T-shirts for 60 shekel ($17.29), which is a lot to spend in Gaza on a T-shirt, but that is how much Gazans like Obama," Edwan claimed in a follow up article in the conservative websiet WorldNetDaily.  And Hamas has publicly endorsed Obama.

And still no media.

Obama’s campaign said the  Palestinian brothers in the Middle East made $33,000 in illegal donations to the campaign via the internet.

The
donations came in between Sept. 20 and Dec. 6 and virtually all of the
money, about $33,500, was returned by December 6. But the refunds
weren’t reported to the Federal Election Commission due to a technical
error, campaign officials said.

If
McCain had been involved with something so dark and nefarious, taking
money from Islamic jihad, his candidacy would never withstand the media
blowback.

But it was the son of hope, the agent of change, the one we have been waiting for , so the media yawned.

The
jihad donations were hardly the only bloody red flags.  The first in my
series of posts ran July 19th. The documents were so unwieldy, readers
like John, Doc, and Cathy (who discovered Rafah) were working furiously
to cross check our findings at the FEC site and then mine the data.

Obama’s
overseas (foreign) contributors are making multiple small donations,
ostensibly in their own names, over a period of a few days, some under
maximum donation allowances, but others are aggregating in excess of
the maximums when all added up.   The countries and major cities from
which contributions have been received France, Virgin Islands, Planegg,
Vienna, Hague, Madrid, London, AE, IR, Geneva,Tokyo, Bangkok, Turin,
Paris, Munich, Madrid, Roma, Zurich, Netherlands, Moscow, Ireland,
Milan, Singapore, Bejing, Switzerland, Toronto, Vancouver, La Creche,
Pak Chong, Dublin, Panama, Krabi, Berlin, Geneva, Buenos Aires, Prague,
Nagoya, Budapest, Barcelona, Sweden, Taipei, Hong Kong, Rio de Janeiro,
Sydney, Zurich, Ragusa, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Uganda, Mumbia, Nagoya,
Tunis, Zacatecas, St, Croix, Mississauga, Laval, Nadi, Behchoko,
Ragusa, DUBIA, Lima, Copenhagen, Quaama, Jeddah, Kabul, Cairo,
Nassau(not the county on Long Island,lol), Luxembourg (Auchi’s stomping
grounds), etc,etc,etc,

Half a million dollars had been donated from overseas  by unidentified people  "not employed".

Digging
deeper, all sorts of very bizarre activity jumped at us. Dr and JJ
continued to break it down and pull data from various sources. We
found  Rebecca Kurth contributed $3,137.38 to the Obama Campaign in 112 donations, including 34 separate donations recorded in one day

How about this gibberish donor on the 30th of April in 2008.

A donor named  Hbkjb, jkbkj

City: Jkbjnj Works for:  Kuman Bank (doesn’t exist)

Occupation:  Balanon Jalalan Amount:  $1,077.23

or the donor Doodad, The # of transactions = 1,044

The $ contributed = $10,780.00

This Doodad character works for FDGFDGF and occupation is DFGFDG

The more questions we answered the more questions we discovered.

Thousands of  Obama’s foreign donations ended in cents. The  "cents" did not make sense. And we compared McCain donation documentss  to Obama’s. McCain’s records are nothing like Obama’s. McCain’s are so clean. No
cents, all even dollar amounts.  But Obama’s contained thousands of
strange, odd amounts — evidence of foreign contributors, since
Americans living overseas would almost uniformly be able to contribute
dollars. Still no media.

Julia
Gorin told me a funny story two months ago. Her husband’s
co-worker wanted to see what would happen if he tried giving a
contribution to the Obama campaign via a credit card. He used his
Macy’s card. The system accepted it. He tried the same with McCain’s
campaign, and the transaction wouldn’t go through.  Now, obviously,
down the line, the Obama transaction would fail as well, but it goes to
the point that there is no safety system in place — it’ll just accept
any and all money, which helps explain how his campaign raised so much
more money than everyone else’s.

Despite
the evidence of dirty campaign donations, crickets chirped in newsrooms
across the country. The moment my Gaza story started to get some
chatter on talk radio, the left and their supplicant handmaidens in the
media sprang into action and created a McCain illegal campaign
contribution "scandal".   The Washington Post published an inaccurate
allegation  and then retracted not a day later, at the risk of looking stupid. They are jeopardizing the little credibility that they have left.

….a Washington Post story detailing some suspicious looking contributions to the McCain campaign bundled by Harry Sargeant III. Shortly after posting, a correction appeared in the original report, as follows:
An
earlier version of this story about campaign donations that Florida
businessman Harry Sargeant III raised for Sen. John McCain, former New
York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton incorrectly identified three individuals as
being among the donors Sargeant solicited on behalf of McCain. Those
donors — Rite Aid manager Ibrahim Marabeh, and lounge owners Nadia and
Shawn Abdalla — wrote checks to Giuliani and Clinton, not McCain. Also, the first name of Faisal Abdullah, a McCain donor, was misspelled in some versions of the story (
noted by Amanda Carpenter).

So
here an intrepid blogger finds a keg of dynamite of dirty dollar
donations to Obama and what does the media do? They ignore it. And when
forced to confront it by the sheer newsworthiness of the story, what
happens? They go after McCain. They punish McCain.

And that is
meant to be a lesson to all of us,  Whatever you find, whatever you
discover about the Candidate of Mystery, they will blow it back in your
face. And they did. Almost immediately.

The irony and the upshot of all this. John McCain is reviewing contributions. Ain’t that a kick in the head. I can tell him he needn’t bother. Been there, done that. Nothing to see, keep moving.

Obama’s out there raising millions, some in illegal donations and the Washington Post jumps on McCain for a  $50k, which hasn’t been shown to be illegal, but merely "inappropriate." The
left and their handmaidens, the mani stream media, were so quick to
deflect this hit, it seems we have hit a raw nerve. I intend to keep
digging. Stay tuned.,

Pamela Geller is Editor and Publisher of the blog Atlas Shrugs.

UPDATE: Told you so:

Monitors say McCain did not violate finance laws
Guardian hat tip Van

WASHINGTON (AP) – Republican presidential hopeful John McCain won a round against Democrats on Thursday when the Federal Election Commission rejected their contention that he violated campaign finance laws during the GOP primary.

The FEC’s draft opinion affirms McCain’s right to bypass the public financing system and the strict spending limits that come with it. That was a rejection of the Democratic National Committee’s complaint asserting that McCain’s campaign had wrongly received loans based on his participation in public financing before later withdrawing from that system.
CONTD…

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