The Senate race is already heating up in Illinois after GOP primary candidate Andy Martin (left) ran a negative ad accusing Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) of being gay.
Martin has achieved a degree of infamy for anti-Semitic remarks and his fostering of the rumor that Barack Obama is a Muslim.
In the ad, Martin states “I am fighting for the facts about Mark Kirk . . . Illinois Republican leader Jack Roeser says there is a ‘solid rumor that Kirk is a homosexual.’ Roeser suggests that Kirk is part of a Republican Party homosexual club. Lake County Illinois Republican leader Ray True says Kirk has surrounded himself with homosexuals. Mark Kirk should tell Republican voters the truth.”
In 1996, Martin (a former journalist) ran for a Florida State Senate seat with a campaign committee named “The Anthony R. Martin-Trigona Congressional Campaign to Exterminate Jew Power in America.” In a 1983 bankruptcy case, Martin reportedly called the judge “a crooked, slimy Jew who has a history of lying and thieving common to members of his race.”
It will be interesting to see what steps the RNC and Republican leaders take in the face of such homophobia and intolerance.
Just giving an update on a previous post:
China Executes British Man, Akmal Shaikh
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/28/akmal-shaikh-china-executes-british-man_n_405666.html
The sad fact is that without a strong and sweeping recognition, from the top down, of sexual preference as a civil right this kind of bigotry is going to continue. This slimy guy wouldn’t dare ‘accuse’ his opponent of being black, or female but having gay as an attribute for derision is entirely legal. If I were his opponant I’d invest some money in a good private investigator, a guy this slimy has some skeletons that need to be dug up, I’d bet money on that
LK, that is certainly true. Homophobia remains one of the last socially acceptable forms of discrimination and hatred.
Lynching by Innuendos. Hmm, this has been going on for a long, long time. The fact if true or not has done more damage in the minds of folks. Can you spell Defamation?
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I’ll take Catch-22 for $800 Alex. Wouldn’t bringing a suit which claims defamation for being called gay reinforce the notion that to be or to even be called gay is a defaming comment and something to be ashamed of?
“It will be interesting to see what steps the RNC and Republican leaders take in the face of such homophobia and intolerance.”
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Likely, elevation of the priggish Martin to a position of higher authority where he can use his “bully-**it pulpit” to rally the great unwashed mass that comprises “the base.”
Mespo:
To their credit:
“Illinois Republican Party Chairman Patrick Brady blasted Martin and the ad, saying, “The Illinois Republican Party disavows the statements made today by Mr. Andrew Martin in his statewide radio advertisements. His statements today are consistent with his history of bizarre behavior and often times hate-filled speech which has no place in the Illinois Republican Party. Mr. Martin will no longer be recognized as a legitimate Republican candidate by the Illinois Republican Party.”
Martin can still put an R by his name.
R is for Radioactive.
Today Mr. Martin accused Mr. Kirk of being a human being. OMG!
Badman,
Who cares if Obama was a communist or a Muslim? I don’t. I am very concerned with his present actions, as you know. Being a communist or a Muslim would have absolutely no bearing on his present actions. You are acting like the Indiana governor who wants a short cut to determine if someone is bad or good. Leave the shortcuts to Santa and fundamentalists. The rest of us should look at actions, actions, actions. Not speeches, not hopiness–actions.
Who cares if Obama was a communist or a Muslim?
It may explain some of his decisions and actions.
Just pointing out who Andy Martin really is. His comment about Kirk is no surprise, Martin has made alot of claims.
Professor Turley, no post on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision on use of tasers?
Despite the comments of the Illinois Republican Party, Mr. Martin ably represents the emergence of the new Republican prototype, a know-nothing tea bagger who had already established a reputation as a birther, a racist and an anti-Semite. He has simply added homophobia to his list of qualifications for office. He also promotes himself as a public interest lawyer, but was denied admission to the Illinois bar many years ago due to concerns about his ethics and psychological health. He is the ideal candidate for the growing number of Republicans who despise Muslims, Jews and gays.
Jill your right, I’m trying to figure them out too
Like the Obama Vacation Timeline yesterday
Obama at 10:10am press conference
I Shall Not Rest Until These Terrorists Are Captured;
Obama at 10:40am:
T-OFF time
Obama at 3:20
Rushes back to the $4500 dollar a day vacation home at blazing speed. One of the Golf partners son, had a cut. Looses press pool, security is put on high alert and an ambulance is seeing leaving the neighborhood.
Obama at 4:00
Back to golf course to play the back nine.
Bdaman
Obama a communist. What a ridiculous statement for anyone to make. He’s only barely a Liberal.
A Communist, a Socialist, even a Progressive-Liberal would have proposed universal health care (Medicare for all) and run the health insurance industry out of business as many of us would have preferred. President Obama did not.
A true Liberal would have stood up loud and clear and put an immediate end to Not Ask-Don’t Tell. He has not. At the very least, a Liberal would endorse any and every movement toward same-sex marriage. Again, he does not.
A Progressive would have supported the DC gun control law. He did not. A truly Progressive Liberal does not agree with the Supreme Court’s ruling declaring gun ownership an individual Constitutional right. Mr Obama does.
A real left winger, like me, would have Bush and Cheney in irons. Rumsfeld, Woilfowitz, Perle, Yoo, Addington and a few others would already be serving life sentences in Gitmo with no possibility of parole.
Anyone suggesting Mr Obama is a communist or a socialist either knows nothing about communism or socialism or is–as is most often the case—simply being a parrot for such intellectual midgets as Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. Conservatives think anyone left of the Reagan–the root cause of our economic downfall–is a communist.
After these past 30 years of conservative indoctrination (GREED GREED GREED) dominating the political landscape and ruining our once great country, the unfounded, misguided, shrill name calling by screechers on the right is of little value or interest.
BTW, the US Constitution clearly states one’s religion is neither a qualifier nor disqualifier for federal office. That’s the only reason Christians are permitted to hold office.
You mean Like this,
Justice Department officials confirmed Monday that Christopher Coates, who signed off on the complaint’s filing in federal court in Philadelphia in January accusing the party and three of its members of civil rights violations, would begin his new assignment next month.
The complaint, which accused party members of intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place while wearing black berets, black combat boots, black dress shirts and black jackets with military-style markings, and wielding a nightstick, was later dismissed by Obama administration political appointees at the Justice Department.
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/dec/29/justice-transfers-panthers-pursuer-out-of-dc-offic/
RC I didn’t say it, Jill brought it up and I was just responding.
What ever ones up bringing in life is, certainly can and will shape your values and decision making later in life, however there are no guarantees.
This is how Martin spins, Palin is doing no such thing. She did however make a comment on the issue that was a topic on one of the other threads here.
Friday, December 04, 2009
Sarah Palin joins Andy Martin in Obama birth certificate quest
U.S. Senate candidate Andy Martin prepares to host the Second Annual Conference on Barack Obama’s missing birth certificate, in New York December 18-19. Mainstream media continue to lie to the American people about Barack Obama’s “original” birth certificate.
Second National Conference on Barack Obama’s Missing Birth Certificate and College Records,
December 18-19, New York City
Bdaman:
I think you missed one:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/12/24/anthropogenic_global_warming_is_a_farce.html
Bdaman:
and also this one:
http://insciences.org/article.php?article_id=8012
Byron wrong thread and thanks, I’ll send them over and look for my question.
Hmm, this is certainly a legitimate campaign topic for Republicans… Rep. Mark Kirk might be gay. And, as most gays are liberal, he might be a liberal as well. And as statistics show that liberals are predominantly jewish, Rep. Kirk is certainly a Jew. And as Karl Marx and Leon Trotsky were jewish, Rep. Kirk is therefore a communist… And as Rep. Kirk is a communist, and Obama is rumored to be a communist, chances are that Kirk is in cahoots with Obama. As Obama was born a Muslim communist, Rep. Kirk is hence a Muslim communist Jew out there to subvert America from the inside. And how do we prevent such nefarious development to occur? We need to “exterminate” all Jewish Muslim communists and all the activist judges bent on implementing their agenda–starting with Rep.Kirk. Wait a minute! As “this country was built on judeo-christian values,” the “judeo” foundational part has to be deracinated…
rcampbell,
Thank you for laying out the obvious and I loved that last line! LOL!!!
Can any of the lawyers here give an opinion to this.
Like why the need to change it and why now. Some are saying it opens the door to arrest war criminals ie. Bush/Cheney
Last Thursday, December 17, 2009, The White House released an Executive Order “Amending Executive Order 12425.” It grants INTERPOL (International Criminal Police Organization) a new level of full diplomatic immunity afforded to foreign embassies and select other “International Organizations” as set forth in the United States International Organizations Immunities Act of 1945.
By removing language from President Reagan’s 1983 Executive Order 12425, this international law enforcement body now operates – now operates – on American soil beyond the reach of our own top law enforcement arm, the FBI, and is immune from Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
http://threatswatch.org/analysis/2009/12/print/wither_sovereignty/
I should’ve said, “fake statistics in the sick mind of Andy Martin…”
rc,
Well done. I do so like precision in definition.
You know many have pointed to the Bush/Saudi connection. With the recent passing of Percy Sutton maybe it’s time we revisit Obama’s Saudi connection.
Percy Sutton in his own words.
There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
rcampbell:
I applaud this all-to-rare outpouring of ethics and civility from the Repubs. Now if they could do something about Ann Coulter.
JT:
“Homophobia remains one of the last socially acceptable forms of discrimination and hatred.”
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I would add to that list the obese, atheists, and fans of Etch-a-Sketch.
Damn Etch-a-Skekchers.
With their X-Y axial controls and fiddling about in search of the perfect diagonal! So seductively destructive with their shaking about that leaves them a helpless lay about with all the composure of a tabula rasa! Fiends I tell you! Fiends!!! They just want our women! Why I outghta . . .
Oh, I’m sorry! Was I thinking out loud again?
Mr. Martin, a professional carpetbagger, was trawling for the “conservative Christian” vote.
I think Kirk would take the conservative christian vote if he could get it. He sought Palin’s endorsement but she refused. Conservative christians are not a huge factor in Illinois elections but they do play a role in the republican primaries.
This is a great idea from Glenn Greenwald:
“I’ve long thought that the solution to the cheap, cost-free moralizing that leads very upstanding people like Karl Rove to want to ban same-sex marriages (which they don’t want to enter into themselves, and thus cost them nothing) is to have those same “principles” apply consistently to all marriage laws. If Karl Rove, Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh and their friends and followers actually were required by law to stay married to their wives — the way that “traditional marriage” was generally supposed to work — the movement to have our secular laws conform to “traditional marriage” principles would almost certainly die a quick, quiet and well-deserved death.
UPDATE: Actually, this is Rove’s second divorce. His first wife was “Valerie Wainright, a wealthy Houston woman from the Bush social circle, but the marriage could not withstand his consuming preoccupation with politics.” They divorced after three years of marriage. So the one that was just terminated was Rove’s second “traditional marriage” to end without death doing them part. His next traditional marriage will be to his third wife.
Did I mention that Rove believes it’s vital that our secular laws enforce precepts of “traditional marriages” and bar everything else?” (his column today, one of them!)
as long as he is not a “Kstreetsexual”.
Kstreetsexual – one who blows K Street lobbyists for financial gratification.
Byron,
I’m pretty sure Karl has that base covered too.
Buddha:
Karl is still blowing K Street Lobbyists? Isnt he tired yet?
In order to get to the ‘bottom’ of this issue, let he or she who has not engaged in anal titillation please stand up.
We humans are curious and sexually innovative creatures and most of us would not like all our little ‘secrets’ put under public scrutiny. Would we?
kstreetsexual is a good one Byron! Keeps those bathroom stalls really busy in the Senate, The WH and the House. A lot of wide stances going on at those places!!!
Part of me takes a great deal of glee in watching the “core” of the Republican party chew itself to shreds from the inside out (akin to the emergence of the little beastie in Alien). But then, part of me thinks back to the history of Germany in the 1930s, and shudders as to what happens if these folks “emerge”.
speaking of politics:
Jill:
very funny. They all are trolling for cash, I wonder what they would do for it?
TomD.Arch:
as a conservative, I think it depends on which part of the republican party takes power. If it is the conservative (as opposed to Neo-Cons) element, I don’t think there is much to worry about by way of social values. Most are fairly “liberal” (although abortion will be an issue) however if you don’t like free markets, you will probably be hating life.
If the other side of the republican party takes power (neo-cons and evangelical Christians), you and I will both be hating life. Although you will probably not disagree too much with their economic policies.
FlashBlock is a great plugin for Firefox. If you want to see a particular piece of Flash bullshit you can click on its blocked rectangle, but I scrolled past these stupid bdaman posts and didn’t even have to know what he’s posting. It also blocks most ads.
You can get it here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/433
Jill,
you are on fire on this one. Kirk was a big supporter of that felon, George W. Bush when it came to the Iraq War and torture. It wouldn’t be a surprise if another family value Republican is outed here, but this Andy Martin is a real creep.
Mark Kirk is the same guy who says that “super pot” aka “kush” is “as strong and dangerous as crack cocaine, and turns kids into zombies!”
who cares if he’s gay!
who cares about politicians’ sexual affairs when they lie to us all the time!
who cares about their sexual preference… when politicians lie to us no one cares… when they lie to their wives… IMPEACH!