Orson Welles Citizen Kane oscar sold, William Randolph Hearst portrayed, Yellow journalism, You can crush a man with journalism, Protect a man with
journalism
“The (American) press, which is mostly controlled by vested
interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.”… Albert Einstein
“Not every item of news should be published: rather must
those who control news policies endeavor to make every item
of news serve a certain purpose.”… Joseph Goebbels
“Why has the American Press protected Barack Obama?”…Citizen Wells
Orson Welles’ oscar for Citizen Kane has just been sold.
From The LA Times December 22, 2011.
“The Academy Award statuette that Orson Welles won for the original screenplay of “Citizen Kane” was auctioned for more than $861,000 in Los Angeles.
The 1942 Oscar was thought to be lost for decades. It surfaced in 1994 when cinematographer Gary Graver tried to sell it. The sale was stopped by Beatrice Welles, Orson’s youngest daughter and sole heir.
Welles, who wrote the screenplay for “Citizen Kane” with Herman Mankiewicz, also directed and starred in the film, considered by most critics to be one of the best of all time.
Nate D. Sanders Auctions declined to release the name of the winning bidder.”
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-quick-20111222,0,7267631.story
But that is not the big story.
Hearst was quoted as saying “you can crush a man with journalism.”
We now know that you can protect a man with journalism.
From PBS.
“It was a clash of the titans. William Randolph Hearst, the lord and ruler of San Simeon. And Orson Welles, the ambitious young man with a golden touch, who
set out to dethrone him. It was a fight from which neither man ever fully recovered.
Long before Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane was released in 1941, there was a buzz about the movie and the “boy genius” who made it. At a preview screening,
nearly everyone present realized that they had seen a work of brilliance–except Hedda Hopper, the leading gossip columnist of the day. She hated the movie,
calling it “a vicious and irresponsible attack on a great man.”
Citizen Kane was a brutal portrait of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. When Hearst learned through Hopper of Welles’ film, he set out to protect his reputation by shutting the film down. Hollywood executives, led by Louis B. Mayer, rallied around Hearst, attempting to buy Citizen Kane in order to burn the negative. At the same time, Hearst’s defenders moved to intimidate exhibitors into refusing to show the movie. Threats of blackmail, smears in the
newspapers, and FBI investigations were used in the effort.
Hearst’s campaign was largely successful. It would be nearly a quarter-century before Citizen Kane was revived–before Welles would gain popular recognition
for having created one of cinema’s great masterpieces.
“Hearst and Welles were proud, gifted, and destructive–geniuses each in his way,” says producer Thomas Lennon. “The fight that ruined them both was
thoroughly in character with how they’d lived their lives.”
Orson Welles was just twenty-four when he took aim at William Randolph Hearst. The brash upstart was well on his way to claiming Hollywood as his own. A few years earlier, his infamous radio broadcast, War of the Worlds, had terrified listeners and won him the sweetest contract Hollywood had ever seen. With a reputation as a gifted radio and theater director, Welles’ arrogance was founded on a track record of success and a lifetime of encouragement.
“Everybody told me from the moment I could hear that I was absolutely marvelous,” Welles once told an interviewer.
Hearst was a 76-year-old newspaper magnate whose daring and single-mindedness had made him a publishing legend. The son of a wealthy mine owner, he too had been raised to believe he could have everything. He built his empire selling newspapers filled with entertaining stories that were often scandalous and, occasionally, pure fiction.
“We had a crime story that was going to be featured in a 96-point headline on page one,” remembers Vern Whaley, an editor for Hearst’s Herald-Examiner. “When I found the address that was in the story, that address was a vacant lot. So I hollered over at the rewrite desk, I said, ‘You got the wrong address in this
story. This is a vacant lot.’ The copy chief that night was a guy named Vic Barnes. And he says, ‘Sit down, Vern.’ He says, ‘The whole story’s a fake.'”
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., remembers his father asking Hearst why he preferred concentrating on newspapers, with their limited, regional appeal, rather than
spending more energy on motion pictures and their worldwide audience. Fairbanks recalls Hearst’s reply: “I thought of it, but I decided against it. Because you can crush a man with journalism, and you can’t with motion pictures.”
Hearst began his empire with one small newspaper in San Francisco, then expanded to New York where, with flair and daring, he created the top selling of the city’s fourteen newspapers. But he always wanted more, and eventually he controlled the first nationwide chain–with papers in Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, and Atlanta. Soon, an estimated one in five Americans was reading a Hearst paper every week.
Hearst’s urge to acquire extended to art objects, mansions, and women. He owned eight homes, each stocked with priceless antiques and works of art, but spent most of his time in his California castle. Called San Simeon, the estate was on a piece of property nearly half the size of Rhode Island. George Bernard Shaw
commented, “San Simeon was the place God would have built–if he had the money.” Hearst’s companion was Marion Davies, a showgirl whom he loved and propelled into Hollywood movies. Together they entertained Hollywood’s biggest, best, and brightest; San Simeon became a social mecca for the stars.
Marion Davies was widely liked in Hollywood: straightforward, full of humor and charm. The battle over Citizen Kane was in large part a fight over her honor:
It was said that Welles’s treatment of Davies riled Hearst more than any other aspect of the film. Even Welles agreed that Susan Alexander, the Davies
character, was unfair:
“We had somebody very different in the place of Marion Davies. And it seemed to me to be something of a dirty trick, and does still strike me as being
something of a dirty trick, what we did to her. And I anticipated the trouble from Hearst for that reason.”
Never one to shy away from trouble, Welles built his career on a streak of controversial productions–the more upset and swirl he could create, the better.
His production of Macbeth was set in Haiti and employed an all-black cast…his Julius Caesar was reimagined as a contemporary drama about facism…and
finally, his radio staging of War of the Worlds, about Martians invading Earth, caused so much terror and uproar it might have ended his career. But his
talent and ferocious energy seemed to lift him above the fray, delivering him unscathed to his next challenge. When he graced the cover of Time magazine, he
was only twenty-three years old.
Welles was the talk of Hollywood when he arrived. His contract demanded two films, but Welles demanded they be revolutionary. He cast about for months for a project, presenting two ideas to the studio, neither of which went into production. With the pressure mounting, Welles was desperate. “He did a lot of
drinking,” says Bill Alland, Welles’ longtime associate. “He did a lot of chasing around. But he also did a lot of work.” When Herman Mankiewicz, a Hollywood
writer and friend of Welles who had been a guest at San Simeon, proposed the story of Hearst, Welles seized on the idea as his last best chance.
Producer John Houseman, who worked with Mankiewicz on the Citizen Kane script, recalls the creation and evolution of Charles Foster Kane, the character
modeled on Hearst, which Welles himself would play. “We were creating a vehicle suited to a man who, at twenty-four, was only slightly less fabulous than the hero he would be portraying. And the deeper we penetrated into the heart of Charles Foster Kane, the closer we seemed to come to the identity of Orson
Welles.”
But in the course of making Citizen Kane, Welles’ huge ego and his youth would blind him to the extent of Hearst’s power and reach; he tragically
underestimated Hearst’s ability to counterattack.
Indeed, Welles proved no match for the old man. Hearst threatened to expose long-buried Hollywood scandals his newspapers had suppressed at the request of the studios. His papers used Welles’ private life against him, making blunt references to communism and questioning Welles’ willingness to fight for his
country. Major theater chains refused to carry Citizen Kane. Hearst’s campaign to discredit Welles was ruthless, skillful, and much aided by Welles himself,
who had never bothered to hide his contempt for Hollywood. When Welles’ name and his film were mentioned at the 1942 Academy Awards, they were booed.
Nominated for nine awards, Citizen Kane lost in every category except one. (Welles shared the award for best screenplay with Herman Mankiewicz.) After the Academy’s repudiation of Citizen Kane, RKO quietly retired the film to its vault.
Citizen Kane was an American saga about a giant who brings ruin to all, including himself. As fate would have it, it is through this film that both men are
remembered today. In telling the tale of these two flawed and fascinating men, The Battle over Citizen Kane also sheds light on the masterpiece over which
they fought, the fiction that fuses them both: the enduring film character of Charles Foster Kane.”
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/kane2/
From a Film Site review.
“The fresh, sophisticated, and classic masterpiece, Citizen Kane (1941), is probably the world’s most famous and highly-rated film, with its many remarkable scenes and performances, cinematic and narrative techniques and experimental innovations (in photography, editing, and sound). Its director, star, and producer were all the same genius individual – Orson Welles (in his film debut at age 25!), who collaborated with Herman J. Mankiewicz on the script (and also with an uncredited John Houseman), and with Gregg Toland as his talented cinematographer. [The amount of each person’s contributions to the screenplay has been the subject of great debate over many decades.] Toland’s camera work on Karl Freund’s expressionistic horror film Mad Love (1935) exerted a profound influence on this film.
The film, budgeted at $800,000, received unanimous critical praise even at the time of its release, although it was not a commercial success (partly due to
its limited distribution and delayed release by RKO due to pressure exerted by famous publisher W.R. Hearst) – until it was re-released after World War II,
found well-deserved (but delayed) recognition in Europe, and then played on television.
The film engendered controversy (and efforts at suppression in early 1941 and efforts at suppression in early 1941 through intimidation, blackmail, newspaper
smears, discrediting and FBI investigations) before it premiered in New York City on May 1, 1941, because it appeared to fictionalize and caricaturize
certain events and individuals in the life of William Randolph Hearst – a powerful newspaper magnate and publisher. The film was accused of drawing
remarkable, unflattering, and uncomplimentary parallels (especially in regards to the Susan Alexander Kane character) to real-life. The notorious battle was
detailed in Thomas Lennon’s and Michael Epstein’s Oscar-nominated documentary The Battle Over Citizen Kane (1996), and it was retold in HBO’s cable-TV film RKO 281 (1999) (the film’s title refers to the project numbering for the film by the studio, before the film was formally titled):”
“In a memorable scene, Kane responds in a manner counter to Thatcher’s wishes, interested in taking charge of only one small part of his holdings:
Sorry but I’m not interested in gold mines, oil wells, shipping or real estate…One item on your list intrigues me, the New York Inquirer, a little newspaper I understand we acquired in a foreclosure proceeding. Please don’t sell it. I’m coming back to America to take charge. I think it would be fun to run a newspaper. I think it would be fun to run a newspaper. Grrr.
Soon, Kane uses the paper to attack trusts, Thatcher and others among America’s financial elite. Headlines of the Inquirer blare out the expose in a montage of early Inquirer newspaper headlines: “TRACTION TRUST EXPOSED,” “TRACTION TRUST BLEEDS PUBLIC WHITE,” and “TRACTION TRUST SMASHED BY INQUIRER.” Other social causes are heralded by the paper: “LANDLORDS REFUSE TO CLEAR SLUMS!!,” and “INQUIRER WINS SLUM FIGHT.” The paper also attacks capitalistic Wall Street itself: “WALL STREET BACKS COPPER SWINDLE!!” and “COPPER ROBBERS INDICTED!”
Thatcher is enraged and indignantly confronts the young publisher in the Inquirer office about his newspaper’s criticism of banks, privilege and corruption.
Kane is seated at his desk facing the camera and sipping coffee as Thatcher stands over him with his back to the camera asking: “Is that really your idea of
how to run a newspaper?” Arrogantly but with a soft-spoken voice, Kane replies:
I don’t know how to run a newspaper, Mr. Thatcher. I just try everything I can think of.
Thatcher explodes at him, accusing him of following a radical policy at the paper of concocting stories: “You know perfectly well there’s not the slightest
proof that this Armada is off the Jersey coast.” Kane is informed by his assistant Bernstein (Everett Sloane) that a correspondent named Wheeler in Cuba has
sent a communique: “Girls delightful in Cuba stop. Could send you prose poems about scenery but don’t feel right spending your money stop. There is no war in
Cuba. Signed, Wheeler.” Kane calmly tells his assistant to answer the war correspondent [a dictation that echoes one of William Randolph Heart’s most famous quotes in the yellow press to artist Frederic Remington regarding the 1896 Spanish-American War]: “…you provide the prose poems, I’ll provide the war.”
Soon, Thatcher sits down and Kane explains how he is really “two people” – he is both a major stockholder in the Public Transit (he owns “eighty-two thousand, three hundred and sixty-four shares of Public Transit Preferred”), a trust he is attacking, and also the dutiful publisher of a newspaper representing the interests of the public against the trust. Kane stands up by the end of the scene, towering over Thatcher, explaining:
The trouble is, you don’t realize you’re talking to two people. As Charles Foster Kane, who has 82,634 shares of Public Transit Preferred. You see, I do have
a general idea of my holdings. I sympathize with you. Charles Foster Kane is a scoundrel. His paper should be run out of town. A committee should be formed
to boycott him. You may, if you can form such a committee, put me down for a contribution of $1,000 dollars. On the other hand, I am the publisher of the
Inquirer! As such, it’s my duty – and I’ll let you in on a little secret, it’s also my pleasure – to see to it that decent, hard-working people in this community aren’t robbed blind by a pack of money-mad pirates just because – they haven’t anybody to look after their interests.”
Citizen WElls 
Good Morning All..No one play’s the media like the Rahm “the leaker” Emanuel, he had a list of main stream media “so called” journalist he phoned every morning when he was Obama’s Chief of Staff…He was the guy who leaked the JJJ affair to Lynn Sweet of the Sun Times, she is deffinately one of his minions..Now it would appear that he has taken over the entire paper.
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20111222/BLOGS02/111229926/rahm-has-deep-financial-ties-to-new-sun-times-owners
Good Morning, wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. Keep fighting the good fight, we have a Republic to restore. stay safe, God Bless America.
Obama Claims He Only Lies About Little Things
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/12/obama_claims_he_only_lies_about_little_things.html#ixzz1hN2sEMEH
Subpoena for Birth Certificate of Virginia Sunahara served
Of course HI doesn’t want to release the BC of Virginia Sunahara, because if they do, it’s CHECK MATE Mr. Obama ! and all involved are going to prison.
http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/?p=29500
Elder Bush gives nod to Romney. I really don’t care. I don’t know why anyone would care. Bush 1 was anti-israel and pro-tax.
If this doesn’t make you mad, you must hate America.
Could Kim Jong Il Have Been President of the United States?
ACCORDING TO AUTHOR OF CRS MEMOS, “YES”
The Obama regime is striking back against Sheriff Joe.
http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/
according to giveusliberty website:
the 9th circuit court has stated that any challenge to obama’s eligibility must come from eric holder and the dept of justice.
can it get any more farsicle?
obama and his crew can do anything they want, the courts can give any excuse they can think up to do nothing about it, and there is nothing to stop them.
we don’t live in a nation of laws anymore.
no wonder gun sales are through the roof. it is a quite logical response to what law abiding people see coming.
bob strauss | December 23, 2011 at 10:34 am |
Could Kim Jong Il Have Been President of the United States?
ACCORDING TO AUTHOR OF CRS MEMOS, “YES”
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bob – I didn’t know CRS stood for Congressional Research Services. I thought it stood for CHEAT, ROB & STEAL
“THERE IS NO CREDIBLE EVIDENCE THAT OBAMA WAS ACTUALLY BORN ANYWHERE”
by Lawrence Sellin, ©2011
“Why, for example, has no hospital in Hawaii provided verification that Obama was born there?
Our elected representatives, the courts and federal law enforcement agencies all know the truth.
Yet they have violated their oaths of office to support and defend the Constitution and renounced their responsibility to uphold the rule of law. Some have committed Misprision of Felony by actively engaging in a cover-up of Obama’s crimes.
Congress, the courts and federal law enforcement officials are intentionally preventing an investigation into Obama’s crimes because it would reveal that our government is complicit in this outrageous fraud against the American people, is riddled with corruption and operates solely for the benefit of a selfish and powerful few.”
bari shabazz is his real name media is crickets
Could Trump be in the bag for Obama
Trump Gave Rahm Emanuel $50K
The Illinois Review, a coservative blog, reports that Trump gave Rahm Emanuel $50,000 in December 2010. Those numbers came out in January, 2011, but are being pointed out now because of Trump’s possible presidential bid.
Source: http://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/Trump-Gave-Rahm-50K-120568104.html#ixzz1hOfxv1LJ
check out the comments on this
Bob Strum (Democrat Strategist) just said on MSNBC’s Hardball that Speaker Boehner just did something more stupid than General Custer, getting surrounded by all the Indians at the Battle of the Big Horn!!
Time for Cong. Ryan to take over the Speaker-ship.
MSNBC is the rectal thermometer for Potomac Fever
Mr Clean | December 23, 2011 at 4:52 pm |
Could Trump be in the bag for Obama
Trump Gave Rahm Emanuel $50K
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Famous quote by The Donald – ” If you owe the bank $10,000 you have a debt hanging around your neck, but if you owe the bank $100,000.00 YOU HAVE A BANK FOR A PARTNER!!”
Congressman trumps Holder’s race card, asks if Mexican gun-walking deaths were ‘racially motivated’
Arizona Republican Rep. Paul Gosar told The Daily Caller that Attorney General Eric Holder’s race-card play to attack his critics is “absolutely horrendous.” But Gosar said he thinks race may have played a role in the Department of Justice’s execution of Operation Fast and Furious — but in a different way from how Holder is framing it.
“He [Holder] brought up the race card, and while I think it’s absolutely horrendous that he would bring up the race card, in Fast and Furious, we were in fact impugning the Mexican people,” Gosar said in a phone interview. “About 300 people have lost their lives.”
“When the attorney general brings up the race card, he’d better be very, very careful — particularly for the Hispanics and what’s happened to them,” Gosar adds. “He’s been very insensitive, not only to the [U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian] Terry family in making an apology and making it very public, but where’s the apology to the Mexican government and the families of the victims in Mexico?”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/23/congressman-trumps-holders-race-card-asks-if-mexican-gun-walking-deaths-were-racially-motivated/#ixzz1hOrkQDhM
Merry Christmas. Happy Hanukkah. Happy New Year everyone.
Citizen Wells, thank you for all you do.
Our Country
OPEN LETTER TO AMERICA’S VOTERS
by Dean Faulhaber
Trump is greasing the palm of Rahm Emanuel to get favorite treatment when the gambling industry grows in Illinois.
bob strauss | December 23, 2011 at 8:48 pm |
Our Country
OPEN LETTER TO AMERICA’S VOTERS
by Dean Faulhaber
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Bob, WOW!! He has hit the nail on the head. “Follow the money” is the slogan to sum it all up. It has been and IS a siphoning off of our money to ultimately line the pockets of Obama and his minions – supporters and fellow travelers. The purpose is to keep them in power.
Pundits Call Obama ‘Ghetto Crackhead’ and Newt ‘Car Bomber’ (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/23/president-obama-crackhead-fox-news_n_1167457.html
Michelle Obama Wants To Be Bo The Dog In Her Next Life
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/23/michelle-obama-bo-the-dog-next-life_n_1167327.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl4%7Csec3_lnk3%26pLid%3D122821
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Alan Zweibel: Livingston
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-zweibel/livingston_b_1164086.html?ref=fifty&icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl13%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D122713
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The Penis Mom
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karen-mangiacotti/the-penis-mom_b_1163693.html?ref=mostpopular
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Merry Christmas!
Cabby – AZ | December 23, 2011 at 11:20 pm |
bob strauss | December 23, 2011 at 8:48 pm |
Our Country
OPEN LETTER TO AMERICA’S VOTERS
by Dean Faulhaber
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Bob, WOW!! He has hit the nail on the head. “Follow the money” is the slogan to sum it all up. It has been and IS a siphoning off of our money to ultimately line the pockets of Obama and his minions – supporters and fellow travelers. The purpose is to keep them in power.
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And they want to re-elect this guy?
Gordo…………………
Maybe somebody was doing JERKIN LOTION,and some dropped on a warm rock and voila………Soetoro was hatched.
OUTSTANDING MUST READ ARTICLE!!
“WHY OBAMA SHOULD BE THROWN OUT IN 2012”
“OBAMA IS AWOL TO THE U.S. CITIZEN”
By Dr. Roth, Ph.D
Excerpt:
“(Dr. Roth, Ph.D) – Let’s cut to the bottom line shall we? We have a man in the White House who revealed who he was and what he would do long before he was elected President. He had already demonstrated that he was a radical, leftist and what his change for America would be if we gave him power. The U.S. gave him power, now we are reaping the consequences and must have a bold and clear plan to get him out of office before he completely destroys our country.
Let’s look at what has inspired Obama and his socialist/communist behavior. Read his own books and that will tell you plenty about his own racism and belief in Colonial imperialism. In his book, Dreams from My Father, which most believe was penned by William Ayers and not Obama, he talks of his alleged Father an ‘anti-colonial’ activist, also named Barack Hussein Obama. He believed in classic redistribution of wealth. His idea was that any wealthy country could have only obtained their wealth by stealing from poor people so that justified taking their wealth by any means necessary and redistributing it. That is the clear philosophy of Father and son.
Mr. ‘pull people together’ Obama, also had a few things to say about race in his book. While he and the progressive Democrats have been calling us all racists for daring to confront his unconstitutional and anti American behavior, the real racist and flame thrower has been Obama himself. Just a few juicy quotes from Dreams from my Father:
“I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.” Obama continues his openness: “I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mothers race.” “There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.” A final taste of race enlightenment: “I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, Dubois and Mandela.”
As Obama embraced his adult life, he surrounded himself with radicals from Rev. Right who preached hatred and anger against America, to William Ayers former terrorist with the Weather Underground. There were a sea of other radical, anti American and anti Semitic people Obama surrounded himself with then and continues today with his Czars. Never before have we seen a President who has appointed 41 czars who completely bypass congress and answer directly to Obama. This gives our President too much power and makes them an extension of a dictatorship. Our longest serving senator ever, Democrat Robert Byrd was boldly on record before he passed away, criticizing President Obama for these appointments of Czars because it wipes out our system of checks and balances. I couldn’t agree more.
The House continues to battle the Czar distortion. They passed an amendment (No. 204) eliminating funding for President Obama’s czars.
By now you have heard that Obama taught ACORN workers from Saul Alinsky’s book Rules for Radicals, a book by the way which was dedicated to Lucifer inside the front cover. Shall we sing a hymn now? Alinsky was a piece of work and was considered the ‘father of modern American radicalism.’ He said things like ‘keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer.’ He talked all about playing dirty, spying, anti-corporate activism, brutal tactics and severely damaging people’s reputation. These are just a few of the concepts that Obama taught to ACORN workers which represented his real beliefs.”
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“There is so much more I could cover in his real legacy that would curl our hair but for now, I hope and pray that all this is enough to boot him out with impeachment or in 2012. Pray for our country and pray God will bring the right person to stand against him. http://www.thepeoplespresident.me and http://www.therothshow.com ”
Please Continue Reading This Outstanding Article Here:
http://www.teaparty.org/article.php?id=542
“pRESIDENT OBAMA DEFIES CONGRESS ON CZARS, GITMO”
Michael McAuliff
December 23, 2011
“WASHINGTON — President Obama left town Friday for vacation not only pocketing a victory on the payroll tax, but leaving behind a message of defiance for Congress.
In signing the bill to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year, the commander in chief also issued a “signing statement” in which he rejected several provisions of the bill, including attempts to take away his czars.
Buried deep in the $1 trillion measure are four provisions in section 627 that say the White House may not use any of the money to fund salaries or expenses for the head of Obama’s health reform office, his energy and climate adviser, his car czar, or
the head of his urban affairs office.
But Friday, Obama essentially said ‘too bad’ in issuing a dense, legalistic statement that explains what he won’t accept in the bill.
“Several provisions in this bill, including section 627 of Division C and section 512 of Division D, could prevent me from fulfilling my constitutional responsibilities, by denying me the assistance of senior advisers and by obstructing my supervision of executive branch officials in the execution of their statutory responsibilities,” Obama wrote. “I have informed the Congress that I will interpret these provisions consistent with my constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”
This is not the first time Obama has issued a signing statement — a practice he criticized as a candidate — or even the first time he has protected his czars. He did the same last summer, also sending the statement out on a sleepy Friday evening.
The statement also rejects a number of provisions aimed at restricting how the White House deals with the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, prison for terrorism suspects.”
“My Administration has repeatedly communicated my objections to these provisions, including my view that they could, under certain circumstances, violate constitutional separation of powers principles,” Obama wrote. “In approving this bill, I reiterate the objections my Administration has raised.”
The bill additionally tries to restrict several other White House initiatives, including spending money on certain military actions and in other foreign policy areas. Obama put Congress on notice that he will interpret those sections as he sees fit under the Constitution.
Read Obama’s statement letter here.”
Read More Here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/23/president-obama-czars-gitmo_n_1168276.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl3%7Csec3_lnk3%26pLid%3D122800
“SOUTH CAROLINA VOTER ID LAW: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT BLOCKS CONTROVERSIAL LEGISLATION”
Meg Kinnard
December 23, 2011
Excerpt:
“COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Justice Department on Friday rejected South Carolina’s law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls, saying it makes it harder for minorities to cast ballots. It was the first voter ID law to be refused by the federal agency in nearly 20 years.
The Obama administration said South Carolina’s law didn’t meet the burden under the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which outlawed discriminatory practices preventing blacks from voting. Tens of thousands of minorities in South Carolina might not be able to cast ballots under South Carolina’s law because they don’t have the right photo ID, Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez said.
South Carolina’s law was passed by a Republican-controlled Legislature and signed by GOP Gov. Nikki Haley. The state’s attorney general vowed to fight the federal agency in court.
“Nothing in this act stops people from voting,” said Attorney General Alan Wilson, who is also a Republican.
South Carolina’s new voter ID law requires voters to show poll workers a state-issued driver’s license or several other alternative forms of photo identification.
“The U.S. Department of Justice today blocked implementation of a new law that would require South Carolina voters to present a photo ID in order to vote,” the state Election Commission said in a statement late Friday. “Therefore, ID requirements for voting will not change at this time.’
South Carolina is among five states that passed laws this year requiring some form of ID at the polls, while such laws were already on the books in Indiana and Georgia, whose law received approval from President George W. Bush’s Justice Department. Indiana’s law, passed in 2005, was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2008.
Those new laws also allow voters without the required photo ID to cast provisional ballots, but the voters must return to a specific location with that ID within a certain time limit for their ballots to count.
Most of the laws have been promoted and approved by Republicans, who argue they are needed to avert voter fraud. Democrats say the measures are actually aimed at reducing minority votes for their candidates.
The Justice Department must approve changes to South Carolina’s election laws under the federal Voting Rights Act because of the state’s past failure to protect the voting rights of blacks. It is one of nine states that require the agency’s approval.
The last time the Justice Department rejected a voter ID law was in 1994 when Louisiana passed a measure requiring a picture ID. After changes were made, it was approved by the agency.
[…]
Haley said the decision was more proof President Barack Obama is fighting conservative ideas like voter ID laws or immigration reform.
“The president and his bullish administration are fighting us every step of the way. It is outrageous, and we plan to look at every possible option to get this terrible, clearly political decision overturned so we can protect the integrity of our electoral process and our 10th amendment rights,” Haley said in a statement.
South Carolina ACLU executive director Victoria Middleton applauded the Justice Department’s decision, saying the “misguided” law represented “a dramatic setback to voting rights in our state and we are pleased to see it stopped in its tracks.”
The decision also was welcomed by civil rights activist Jesse Jackson, who planned to talk about how voter ID laws are an effort by conservatives to keep blacks from voting in his hometown of Greenville, S.C., next week. He said the laws are like modern day poll taxes, targeting elderly people that can’t afford to get IDs and students.”
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OUTSTANDING MUST READ ARTICLE!!
“DR. LAURIE ROTH FOR PRESIDENT? OUTSIDER, FRINGE AND IMPOSSIBLE…. OR REAL IDEAS, REAL GUTS, AND COMPLETLY POSSIBLE” !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By Admin, on December 17th, 2011
Excerpt:
“The national crisis and American challenge we face.”
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“Obama is wrong for America, Judeo Christian values and our constitution. He has apologized numerous times for our country, while telling Turkish parliament and others we aren’t even a Christian nation. In fact, in between bowing low to Saudi Kings he has said we were one of the largest Muslim nations on earth.
The real Obama and his motives are revealed in his own books, background and who he continues to surround himself with. From his ‘mysterious not to be known’ college days on we see him surrounding himself with Communists, on boards and making friends with William Ayers, former member of the Weather Underground terrorist group, intent on attacking, killing, controlling and transforming America into a Communist regime.
We have seen Obama surround himself with a multitude of czars who are radical leftists, some believing and writing about the wonders of abortion even after birth for toddlers, animals being able to sue people and writing of putting forced birth control in
America’s water system so women can’t become pregnant.
We also have a President who has many members of the Islamic terrorist group, Muslim brotherhood working in high level positions under him and with Hillary Clinton. He has backed and supported Muslim Brotherhood instead of our long term Alley Hosni Mubarak of Egypt during the Arab Spring uprising. Mubarak was certainly not perfect but a faithful alley, friend and moderate Muslim with a long standing treaty with Israel. Now he is on trial, Muslim Brotherhood is winning the first round of elections, Coptic Christians are being murdered and Cathedrals are burning to the ground. Oh yeah….and Israel is being threatened, treaties and years of peace are in the process of being crushed.
There has been nothing ‘Arab Spring’ about the uprising throughout the Middle East. Instead it would be more accurate to call what is going on there ‘radical regime change.’ Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, are all leaning more radical, more Sharia, more dangerous to Israel and America. Obama must be thrilled. The Islamic Caliphate moves forward.
Obama has managed to extend with his czars his dictatorial reach and completely bypass congress. With czars now managing, manipulating and ruining vast amounts of America, Obama bypasses congress. With his illegal war in Libya he completely bypassed congress and got his direction from the UN. With his forced Health care bill he has created with the progressive left an entirely unconstitutional health care plan with threat of fines if we don’t obey. 26 states and 2 Federal judges have already ruled against this and now we wait upon the Supreme Court. Will they judge rightly and for the people or not? We shall see.
We are a nation under an aggressive attack from within. Our Senate recently voted to allow our military the right to pick up US citizens without charges on vague terrorist suspicions. They can detain us without trial indefinitely. At least 72 FEMA camps are being activated all across the country. Why? Obama is positioning for total control.”
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OUTSTANDING MUST READ ARTICLE!!
“DR. LAURIE ROTH FOR PRESIDENT? OUTSIDER, FRINGE AND IMPOSSIBLE…. OR REAL IDEAS, REAL GUTS, AND COMPLETLY POSSIBLE” !!!!!!!!!
By Admin, on December 17th, 2011
Excerpt:
“Other attacks against America
Obama is not the only danger fighting against America. Global elitism, environmentalism our moral collapse and distance from the Holy Bible is delivering all the other crushing blows that threaten to destroy us.
Sustainability, Agenda 21, Greens, obsessions with ‘carbon emissions’ and warming, are all fronts for Marxism and Communistic take overs. At their core, these groups don’t believe in land ownership, growing what we want and achieving. They want to reign us in, allow us only so much food, water and freedom. Some only want us to drive so far in our cars then find a way to make the car stop. ‘Smart Grid’ now is digitally tracking our use of power in our house. The Feds could turn off your power if you went over an amount they saw as ‘too much.’ Do you like the idea of the Feds telling you in the privacy of your own home, what your rate will be, how much heat, air conditioning and electricity you can use before you are turned off?
Who am I and what will I do if elected President
Undo and Correct the damage of Obama
I will work within my power as President to undo the following:
I will stand against and work to destroy the unconstitutional Health care bill.
I will come against any Federal support and push of environmentalism, Sustainability, Agenda 21, Cap and trade, land and
environmental controls that threatens our freedom and business.
I will stop all Federal funding anywhere that supports and/or funds abortion and Planned Parenthood.
I will work within my power to undo the Start treaty that Obama signed with Russia, threatening the lead of our Nuclear program and ability to respond in kind if attacked.
I will restore and repair our relationship with Israel and stand against Hamas, Hesbola, Muslim Brotherhood and other radical Islamic sects with a history of attacks, threats and murder.
I will fire all Czars that Obama has appointed.
I will audit every department in the Federal Government and demand fiscal responsibility and accountability.
I will push for an outside audit of the Federal Reserve.
I will fight to reverse the Senate ruling that gave our Military the right to arrest and apprehend US citizens on vague terrorist charges, then hold them without charges and indefinitely. I will stop the activation of all FEMA camps.
I will stop the shutting down of Cole plants and overbearing regulations on Power plants.
What will I do while cleaning up the above nightmare and mess Obama has left us.
I will immediately craft a bill and get supporters to pass a 2% point of purchase tax and eradication of all Federal tax including income tax.
I will draw all leaders in all kinds of energy and develop bold plans to build infrastructure in all 50 states for oil, nuclear, natural gas, solar and alternative fuels. Once the 2% consumption tax is voted into law I will talk to the American people about our national wallet available to pay our bills. I will offer grants for energy infrastructure projects that will make us energy independent within 4 years and create millions of jobs.
I will put 20-50,000 National Guard troops on our borders to help secure them. I will also use satellite technology, fly overs, virtual and real fences to stop the illegal alien flow and drug trade.
I will bring our troops home from Libya which in my view is an illegal war and violation of the 1973 War powers act.
I will review critically Iraq and Afghanistan and work with our Generals and leaders to incrementally bring our troops home in a safe and systematic manner. We cannot turn victories into defeats.
I will get our country completely out of debt within 4 years.
There is much to fix and undo and much to do to make America a light on a hill again. We can do this together. With God all things are possible.
Join me and help me make this dream and miracle happen. Sign up as a volunteer. Offer a donation and spread the word. http://www.laurieroth2012.com http://www.youtube.com/teamlaureiroth2012 http://www.therothshow.com http://www.rothrevolution.ning.com ”
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American Citizen’s Please 100% Stand Up For & 100% Financially Support & 100% Work For Getting A Champion USA American Citizen’s Ron Paul & Laurie Roth Ticket For 2012!!
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Pundits Call Obama ‘Ghetto Crackhead’ and Newt ‘Car Bomber’ (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/23/president-obama-crackhead-fox-news_n_1167457.html
MUST READ ARTICLE!
“PAYROLL TAX CUT BILL: HOUSE, SENATE PASS TWO-MONTH EXTENSION (UPDATE)”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/23/payroll-tax-cut-bill-house-congress_n_1167203.html
OUTSTANDING URGENT WARNING CALL TO CONSTANT DAILY VIRTUOUS LOVING WORKS & ACTIONS, CONSTANT DAILY HUMILITY & REPENTANCE TO GOD WITH CONSTANT DAILY PERPETUAL PRAYERS & CONSTANT OBEDIENCE TO OUR FOREVER LIVING CREATOR, INFINITE, ALMIGHTY GOD, THE INFINITELY POWERFUL, AND ETERNAL FOREVER LIVING GOD, THE MOST HOLY TRINITY, IN THE HOLY NAME OF CHRIST JESUS EMMANUEL, THE LORD – YESHUA – FOR ALL AMERICAN CITIZEN’S!!
“IS THIS THE DREADED ‘CIVILIAN NATIONAL SECURITY FORCE’?”
Joseph Farah
Between The Lines
WorldNetDaily Exclusive Commentary
December 22, 2011
© 2011
Excerpt:
“I think I figured it out.
In fact, I think Obama may have pushed his “civilian national security force” through the Congress and signed it into law.
What am I talking about?
I’m talking about the defense reauthorization bill that sailed through both houses of Congress and was signed into law recently. I called it, “The day habeas corpus died.”
I mean, who needs a “civilian national security force” if Obama can simply rewrite the rules of engagement for the U.S. military and employ those forces to arrest and indefinitely detain American citizens without charge or trial?
Obviously Obama has broken the bank at the U.S. Treasury several times over and run up the deficit to $15 trillion. He’s not going to find the money necessary to build a new domestic military force, so he did the next best thing – with bipartisan help from Congress.
The “civilian national security force” is now in place. The U.S. military has been authorized by Congress and Obama to arrest and detain indefinitely without charge or trial any U.S. citizen on suspicion of being a terrorist. The only one who can override the order is Obama himself.”
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“TIME TO RETURN AMERICA TO THE GOD STANDARD”
Joseph Farah
Between The Lines
WorldNetDaily Exclusive Commentary
December 21, 2011
© 2011
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