It wasn't just the quantity but the content that made [Anthony Martin-Trigona's] litigious behavior so notable. The documents he filed were routinely filled with the most extreme anti-Semitic venom one could find anywhere this side of Mein Kampf. The lawsuits were often based on the theory that a cabal of Jewish judges, lawyers and government officials were conspiring against him...
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After the mid-1990s, Martin-Trigona re-surfaced in Florida with a name change ("Andy Martin"), ran for public office multiple times as a Republican (even the local GOP repudiated him), then became a vocal supporter of Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign, and finally an obsessive "investigator" of Barack Obama, trafficking in the filthiest and most deranged muck that for months stimulated the darkest crevices of the right-wing slime machine. As The New York Times put it, Martin "is credited as being among the first -- if not the first -- to assert in a chain e-mail message that Mr. Obama was secretly a Muslim."
Over the weekend, Sean Hannity hosted a show on Fox News entitled Obama & Friends: The History of Radicalism. The star of Hannity's smear fest was none other than Andy Martin, who was featured as an honored, credible investigator and source to expose "the real Barack Obama." There wasn't a hostile or adversarial word uttered by Hannity about or towards Martin. To the contrary, Martin's claims were the basis for many of the Fox News show's allegations against Obama. This is how Fox described him on-screen when he spoke: "Andy Martin, AUTHOR & JOURNALIST."
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Hannity never once said a negative word about Martin; never challenged him on anything he ever said or did; and never informed Fox viewers about Martin's despicable, truly demented history. Instead, Martin was Sean Hannity's respected source, presented as an "Author and Journalist" to support Hannity's "reporting." As Fort Lauderdale's Sun-Sentinel put it: Fox's "star witness was Andy Martin, whose incendiary, unsubstantiated claims about Obama's past were allowed to go unchallenged."
Here's a clip of Martin's appearance on Hannity's show:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBvmnDk947U)
And here's Obama surrogate Robert Gibbs throwing these facts in Hannity's face:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2AaqcaMkU8)
If I believed in such things, I'd be absolutely convinced that Hannity is the reincarnation of Joseph Goebbels. Seriously, if I were setting up a fascist regime, Hannity would be my first choice for Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. And it seems I'm not alone in that sentiment.
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No wonder half of red state America thinks he's a Muslin. When they watch shit like this I'm sure they'll believe whatever comes on the tube.
there's also some email going around saying that one of Obama's advisers is an ADMITTED TERRORIST. Jesus. The things people will buy into and reciprocate is just appalling.
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