The Man Behind the Whispers about Obama

[complain jane]

So the guy behind the false rumors about Obama being a muslim is a bona fide nutcase, and Faux News gave him free reign to spread even worse lies about Obama?

The man behind the whispers about Obama

Andy Martin helped spread false rumors about Dem that spread across Web

updated 3:17 a.m. CT, Mon., Oct. 13, 2008

The most persistent falsehood about Senator Barack Obama’s background first hit in 2004 just two weeks after the Democratic convention speech that helped set him on the path to his presidential candidacy: “Obama is a Muslim who has concealed his religion.”

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False claims
But an appearance in a documentary-style program on the Fox News Channel watched by three million people last week thrust the man, Andy Martin, and his past into the foreground. The program allowed Mr. Martin to assert falsely and without challenge that Mr. Obama had once trained to overthrow the government.

He is a law school graduate, but his admission to the Illinois bar was blocked in the 1970s after a psychiatric finding of “moderately severe character defect manifested by well-documented ideation with a paranoid flavor and a grandiose character.”

Though he is not a lawyer, Mr. Martin went on to become a prodigious filer of lawsuits, and he made unsuccessful attempts to win public office for both parties in three states, as well as for president at least twice, in 1988 and 2000. Based in Chicago, he now identifies himself as a writer who focuses on his anti-Obama Web site and press releases.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27157703

[NJmaverick]

1. Great article, they managed to sum up every freeper with this line

“moderately severe character defect manifested by well-documented ideation with a paranoid flavor and a grandiose character.”

[complain jane]

2. Yes, corresponds with the lunatics in their angry mob audience

I had no idea mental illness was so rampant in the US, and that the Republicans' survival depends on it.

[riverwalker]

3. so that makes Miss Clairol (he's-a-AyRab lady) a Freeper

Clearly, the source for her information and the flyers she mails out came from FP.

"But independent analysts seeking the origins of the cyberspace attacks wind up at Mr. Martin’s first press release, posted on the Free Republic Web site in August 2004."

[spanone]

4. i wonder if he's proud to be known as a LIAR

[JPZenger]

5. Mr. Martin is a psychotic anti-semitic nutcase

Here's more excerpts from today's New York Times article about Martin:

"A motion he filed in a 1983 bankruptcy case called the judge “a crooked, slimy Jew who has a history of lying and thieving common to members of his race.”

In another motion, filed in 1983, Mr. Martin wrote, “I am able to understand how the Holocaust took place, and with every passing day feel less and less sorry that it did.”

When asked Friday about an assertion in his court papers that “Jews, historically and in daily living, act through clans and in wolf pack syndrome,” he said, “That one sort of rings a bell.” "

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So this was the guy that Sean Hannity gave his airtime to? If Hannity associates with an anti-Semitic, then according to his own logic, Hannity must be an anti-Semite.