In this thread the gloaters in the other thread can eat sh*t. lol

Frances, Please attach the National Enquirer URL confirming your statment. Their website makes NO mention of your UPDATE. Thanks

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/

Tomorrow on Mediaite: Exclusive front-page coverage of The National Enquirer’s groundbreaking investigative report about the explosive ALIEN scandal about the rock the White House!

The Enquirer reports that Aliens have adbucted Michelle Obama and impregnated her with an Alien-Muslim fetus, which Michelle is planning to raise and groom to be the next President of the United States!!!!!

Check back tomorrow for Mediaite’s all-day and exclusive coverage. Brought to you by the dolts gullible enough to scrape the mold off the bottom of the Enquirer’s trash can and label it “news.”

Oh wait, Mediaite’s excuse is that they’re just reporting about what the media is reporting. That gives them roughly the credibility of the drug-crazed schizophrenic on my street corner barking at the moon.

It’s too bad Mediaite wasn’t around in 2004. They would have had an excellent opportunity to front-page the big John Kerry affair that never happened “story.”

You remember, the one that Drudge had the red siren blaring for several straight days on. The one that conservatives got all excited about and were crying about the mainstream media ignoring the big “story” with their typical librul bias.

The same “story” that was an absolute, complete and utter LIE.

That last little fact wouldn’t have mattered much to Mediaite in 2004 though, would it? They’re just reporting on the media, so if Drudge front-page’s a complete FABRICATION, it’s clearly the responsibility of Mediaite to report on his reporting, and spread that LIE as far as possible, so that it ricochets around as much as possible to enough people, because we all know that there are plenty of people that will get the forwarded email with a credible-looking link, take it as fact, and never bother following up on whether its actually true.

Mission Accomplished, eh fellas? Maybe since you weren’t around in 04′ and missed out on being led around by the nose by Drudge on that one, you can make up for it by giving coverage to some StormFront “news.” Gotta be some conspiracy theories bouncing around their forum that you can cover, right? No worries though mate, you’ll just be reporting on THEIR reporting of Obama’s evil scheme to put white people in concentration camps, so you’ve got your backside covered in case anyone questions your credibility.

Oh, OK. Mediaite is now editing posts from conservatives. Defend your post Martel. Stop pandering to your whining liberal base. Confirm your claim that NE retracted the video.

@MarkStr82Hell Huh? I can’t tell if you’re accusing me of being a conservative or a “whining liberal”, or what more evidence you want than the actual article. The link is in the first paragraph. The Enquirer added a discrete “UPDATE” label. The video claim is now gone.

“Confirm your claim.”

You guys sure don’t care about proof when Obama is accused of adultery, but demand citations when he gets off the hook. lmfao.

You leftists obviously forget the hours of BREAKING NEWS that MSNBC had about McCain’s “affair”. What a bunch of hypocrites. Im just in shock that no one cried racism!

Ms. Martel, this is what happens when you take your cues from Drudge and the National Enquirer and when you are so blinded by your extremist ideology that you believe anything said against President Obama so you rush to post anything written against him. BTW An apology would have been nice after causing all this havoc on a bogus story.

National Enquirer has not retracted the video claim as per their website.
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/
So, that said, what evidence/source confirms of the retraction if it’s not mentioned on the NE website?
I don’t know your political views. I don’t know why you asked that. For all I know you could be a Harvard graduate and Republican.

You leftists obviously forget the hours of BREAKING NEWS that MSNBC had about McCain’s “affair”.

Please, MSNBC did three hours on Morning Joe and then another three hours after attacking that story.

What is the definition of a retraction? Maybe they stopped mentioning the existence of a video but should that be called a retraction?

JamesA1102 says:
May 1, 2010 at 6:01 pm
You leftists obviously forget the hours of BREAKING NEWS that MSNBC had about McCain’s “affair”.

Please, MSNBC did three hours on Morning Joe and then another three hours after attacking that story.

Good ole Joe Scarborough. Ask Joe to give us an explanation for his murdering his aid and lover in 2001.
http://surftofind.com/scandal

Looks like Rahmbo worked quickly to clean up that mess.

Looks like Rahmbo worked quickly to clean up that mess.

Any prrof to your accusation or are you just pulling this out of your butt?

Found this online . Interesting…

October 29, 2008

The Lady Vanishes

I’ve learned from an intelligence and strategic communications source that on May 18, 2004, Obama came to Washington, DC on a fundraising trip. His trip also included an appearance at the May 2004 AIPAC Policy Conference.

Prior to Mr. Obama arriving in Washington, a McLean Clark National Operations Director met with Vera Baker of Baker-Wambu & Associates. I spoke with this director yesterday afternoon.

McLean Clark is a public relations and communications firm that worked for Barack Obama in connection with his 2004 Senate race. Baker-Wambu & Associates was a top fundraising firm for the Congressional Black Caucus, and Ms. Baker was also listed as the National Finance Chair for Obama’s Senate campaign. The McLean Clark director, also working for the campaign, functioned as a driver for Baker and Obama during the visit.

Ms. Baker called the driver before Mr. Obama arrived in town and asked him to pick her up from an undisclosed location and drive her to the Hotel George, where Mr. Obama would be staying. As part of his staff, Baker was apparently able to check Obama into his hotel. Ms. Baker then left the driver in the lobby and went upstairs to change. This is interesting because the driver did not see her take any bags with her as he remained downstairs. The driver was unsure where the clothes came from, or if perhaps Baker had previously been to the hotel.

After Ms. Baker changed, the driver and Ms. Baker then went to pick up Mr. Obama from Reagan National Airport.

The driver then took Baker and Obama to Georgetown, where they met with a big donor. I was unable to determine who that donor might be. The driver next took Baker and Obama to the DC Armory; he was told to drop Ms. Baker and Mr. Obama off at the AIPAC conference where President Bush gave a speech. After dropping them off, the driver’s services would no longer be required. Baker and Obama were to have secured rides home on their own.

After the conference, however, Ms. Baker called the driver and told him that they did not have transportation, and asked him to come pick them up. The driver returned to the conference and picked up Mr. Obama, Ms. Baker, and a third person, the woman with whom Ms. Baker was to be staying.

According to the driver, he drove to the woman’s home, but she alone departed. Ms. Baker remained in the car with Mr. Obama. The driver then brought Baker and Obama back to Hotel George, where he dropped the two of them off for the evening.

The story originally provided by the intelligence and strategic communications source was verified by speaking directly to the driver (who was granted anonymity) Monday afternoon. In and of itself, the fact that Ms. Baker went back to Mr. Obama’s hotel the night of May 18, 2004 is not proof of an extramarital affair. But the subsequent mysterious disappearance of Vera Baker is surprising, and perhaps suggestive.

Despite its successes, Baker-Wambu & Associates suddenly shut down in 2006. It is hard to find precise dates or a specific reason why the successful consultancy closed. Baker later claimed she worked at Alta Capital Group in Chicago, a municipal bond broker-dealer, but there doesn’t appear to be a residence for her in the Windy City, nor did she appear to have ever held a residence in New York, as others have claimed. Baker later appeared in Martinique. Again, we don’t know precisely when, but we do know that she was still there very recently. Her latest business venture, a consultancy named Cape Caribbean, LLC, has, again suddenly, pulled its web site offline.

On the “About Us” page captured from the site before it was shut down, Baker provided a brief professional bio:

Prior to launching Cape Caribbean, Ms. Baker worked for Alta Capital Group-a full-service municipal bond broker-dealer. She joined Alta Capital Group after serving as a Principal at Baker-Wambu & Associates, a strategic political and fundraising consulting firm based in Washington, DC. Previously, she served as the National Finance Director on Senator Barack Obama’s 2004 Senate Campaign. She also served as the Deputy Political Director at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
I was unable to ascertain what Cape Caribbean, LLC actually did as a consultancy. Nor was I able to determine what Ms. Baker—the political fundraiser—actually did at Alta CG.

What I have confirmed via both the intelligence and strategic communications source and the (now former) McLean Clark National Operations Director is that NewsMax, the National Enquirer, ABC News, and NBC News have all had the basic facts of the Baker-Obama liaison for some time now, and so far, none have come forward with any reporting.

Let me say that again—they spoke with the driver, and have not moved with the story. They had less evidence of an non-existent affair between John McCain and Vicki Iseman, so why are they not pressing this story, which actually has a person confirming that Baker and Obama were dropped off at his hotel late at night?

NewsMax, typically a fervent conservative monthly, has not pursued the story. source claim they were perhaps dissuaded by the current political climate and fear of possible difficulties if Obama is elected.

As a tabloid, the National Enquirer could have a profit motive in holding the story until after the election. If Obama loses the election as the result of a scandal, it would be a short-term sensation. But if a scandal were to explode around a new President-elect, it could be a lucrative story for the tabloid for far longer.

ABC News and NBC News have contacted the driver (he told me), who verified the first-hand account related to reporters for each of these news organizations. These news organizations may be “slow rolling” the story, purposefully slowing its release so that it breaks only after the November 4. This may be for both ideological reasons—many journalists support Obama’s political platform—and for the more pragmatic motive shared with the Enquirer of better ratings and higher profit if a dramatic scandal embroils a new presidency.

Meanwhile… Where is Vera Baker?

Why did she suddenly leave a lucrative consulting practice for an unknown position in an entirely different line of work, before skipping the country entirely? Did she have an affair with a man who may be our next President, and if so, should that change our minds about how we think about him?

With Vera Baker, we have many questions.

Oh please! Once again you idiots are lett looking stupid. Oh, and Scarborough is a Conservative scum bag which is why we Liberals and Progressives don’t watch Jethro. He’s more your crowd.

The story is back with more details…

UPDATED: Reports out of Washington, DC: PRESIDENT OBAMA in a shocking cheating scandal after being caught in a Washington, DC Hotel with a former campaign aide.

A confidential investigation has learned that Obama first became close to gorgeous 35 year-old VERA BAKER in 2004 when she worked tirelessly to get him elected to the US Senate, raising millions in campaign contributions

Now, the investigators are searching for a hotel surveillance videotape.

While Baker has insisted in the past that “nothing happened” between them, reports reveal that top anti-Obama operatives are offering more than $1 million to witnesses to reveal what they know about the alleged hush-hush affair.

Among those being offered money is a limo driver who says in 2004 that he took Vera to a secret hotel rendezvous in where Obama was staying.

An ENQUIRER reporter has confirmed the limo driver’s account of the secret 2004 rendezvous and has also learned that on-site hotel surveillance video camera footage could provide indisputable evidence to the investigation.

” Frances Martel says:
May 1, 2010 at 5:48 pm

@MarkStr82Hell Huh? I can’t tell if you’re accusing me of being a conservative or a “whining liberal”, or what more evidence you want than the actual article. The link is in the first paragraph. The Enquirer added a discrete “UPDATE” label. The video claim is now gone.”

I have absolutely no problem with you responding to Mark but am a bit mystified why you let this heinous smear stand with no comment:

“JamesA1102 says:
May 1, 2010 at 5:43 pm

This writer shouldn’t be allowed to post here any longer if this site wants to have any kind of credibility.

Frances Martel never had any credibilty. She’s a well known right wing extremist and anti-Semite.”

In different ways both those accusations are pure smears. First, Frances, you are not “right wing” anything much less a “right wing extremist”. I worry for anyone who would make such a patently ass backwards assertion about you.

Second, “anti-semite” is a particularly vicious smear and I have never seen a hint of it in your writings.

Just wondering.

Grammie, JamesA either knew Ms. Martel at Harvard or more likely simply googled her. There’s a boatload of information. Not always a good idea to use your actual name (birth name) when “journalists” are radicals.

You should check with the National Enquirer link …..It has not changed it’s claim of the existence of a video.
It’s still there. In fact, it reworded to suggest they are more confident of a video , not less.

My wife’s cousin’s ex-roomate’s girlfriend’s brother used to be a limo driver in DC, and he’s finally ready to talk about an incident in 2006 involving Laura Bush, Ellen Degeneres, and Rosie O’Donnell having a threesome in the back of his limousine after the Correspondents Dinner.

Apparently there’s a rumor of a possible video of them getting into the limo together, as well as a cell-phone picture of them inside the limo naked that may or may not exist.

There you go Mediaite….run with it. Your standards have already proven to be in the gutter so I expect front-page coverage within minutes.

JamesA1102 says:
May 1, 2010 at 7:59 pm
Looks like Rahmbo worked quickly to clean up that mess.

Any prrof to your accusation or are you just pulling this out of your butt?

Since when does the left require prpoof?

Shameful. Mediaite goes the way of the National Enquirer. Nice job. Howard Kurtz needs to cover this next weekend.

MediaWhore,

My my, that had to have hurt. First, send your wife’s cousin’s ex-roomate’s girlfriend’s brother over the the National Enquirer. Then wait for it. Mediaite reports stuff found in other media, and doesn’t originate very much.

Good luck trying.

I guarantee Rahm Emanuel pressured Dan Abrams, who pressured Colby Hall who pressured the week-end staff, Frances Martel to fabricate this “Updated Retraction”. Dan wanted to be bold and smutty by posting this NE story without running past the black messiah’s staff first.

MichelleF says:
May 1, 2010 at 10:31 pm
” or are you just pulling this out of your butt?”

That’s your forte. Wingnuts like yourself are experts at ‘proving’ specious claims without any evidence.

Ummm… they are on their 4th revision now…

UPDATED: Reports out of Washington, DC: PRESIDENT OBAMA in a shocking cheating scandal after being caught in a Washington, DC Hotel with a former campaign aide.

A confidential investigation has learned that Obama first became close to gorgeous 35 year-old VERA BAKER in 2004 when she worked tirelessly to get him elected to the US Senate, raising millions in campaign contributions

Now, the investigators are searching for a hotel surveillance videotape.

While Baker has insisted in the past that “nothing happened” between them, reports reveal that top anti-Obama operatives are offering more than $1 million to witnesses to reveal what they know about the alleged hush-hush affair.

Among those being offered money is a limo driver who says in 2004 that he took Vera to a secret hotel rendezvous in where Obama was staying.

An ENQUIRER reporter has confirmed the limo driver’s account of the secret 2004 rendezvous.

DEVELOPING STORY

Idiots.

Shut up you awful person!!!

In 20+ years you have yet to demand the whereabouts of “Bat Boy” but THIS is what you ppick up on????

DAN ABRAMS — You are embarassing. This is why the world thinks Americans are idiots — Assholes like you spend tens of thousands of dollars on quality education and then hire morons like this who quote the Enquirer. REALLY. You have jumped the shark. NO ONE ELSE IS PICKING UP ON THIS BUT YOUR PATHETIC POST-MSNBC WEBSITE!!! For God Sake’s!?!?! The worst ecological disaster in 20 years is destroying the coast of a city that faced the worst ecological disaster in American history as it’s neighboring states simultaneously shit on the Constitution/flip off American’s/women’s/AMERICANS rights (can you even name all 3 amendments that were violated this week? I bet BAT BOY CAN)

First, Frances, you are not “right wing” anything much less a “right wing extremist”. I worry for anyone who would make such a patently ass backwards assertion about you.

Second, “anti-semite” is a particularly vicious smear and I have never seen a hint of it in your writings.

Read some of her writings from when she was a student at Harvard.

The Lady Vanishes

Nice story but there’s no attribution or even a link. But even the worst thing in that story is the a candidate for Senate and one of his campaign staffers were dropped off at the same hotel after a fundraiser. What a shocker!

Since when does the left require proof?

What an infantile response. You can’t support what you said with any facts so you just throw a verbal bomb instead.

I guarantee Rahm Emanuel pressured Dan Abrams

You guarantee? Can you prove it? Do you have anything to link to that supports your accusation? Or are you just pulling out of your butt?

Good ole Joe Scarborough. Ask Joe to give us an explanation for his murdering his aid and lover in 2001.

Sorry but that is just another bogus story. There has never been any proof that he had anything to do with that woman’s death.

this just in: the national enquirer reports that george bush was probed by aliens. (i think they were his gardeners)

Hey James… reconcile these two comments for me:

JamesA1102 says:
May 2, 2010 at 1:31 am

Since when does the left require proof?

What an infantile response. You can’t support what you said with any facts so you just throw a verbal bomb instead.

VERUS

JamesA1102 says:
May 1, 2010 at 6:57 am

Interesting article written by someone [Steve Krakauer] who ‘ is well known around the industry as being entirely in Fox’s pocket’.

Looks like SOMEONE is throwing around some “verbal bombs” without any proof. I wonder why that is. I wonder why all of a sudden, you “need proof” when before, you were content with innuendo.

Of course, we could have looked at your characterization of Ms. Martel. On that point, you provide no evidence, no links, and no proof that the two people are actually the same.

In short… Michelle has a point.

National Enquirer has not retracted. After all of the news in the world, Drudge still hasn’t budged on this story and now has a “flashback”. He knows something.

We also discovered a site, ChrisHayes.org, which posted an article in 2005 titled “Check Bounce”. The post was about a “young state senator named Barack Obama” who was “declaring victory” and the benefits of McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform:

But last night, as the primary returns rolled in, Hynes and Hull were both giving concession speeches and a young state senator named Barack Obama was declaring victory. How did Obama manage to overcome Hynes’s reputation and Hull’s personal wealth? The answer, in a nutshell: McCain-Feingold. In fact, it is possible that Obama is the first politician to be able to attribute an election victory in such large part to campaign finance reform. It is almost certain that he will not be the last.

Also mentioned in the post, Obama’s Finance Director Claire Serdiuk:

“[The millionaire amendment] really did a great job in what it set out to do: leveling the playing field,” says Obama Finance Director Claire Serdiuk.

And this:

Indeed, of the $5.6 million Obama raised during the campaign, $3 million came from 480 individual donors who contributed more than the usual limit of $2,000. Without the millionaires’ amendment, those 480 donors only could have contributed $960,000–a difference of over $2 million, or more than a third of Obama’s campaign war chest.

In March of 2008, Baker “surfaced” on the web with the website “CapeCaribbean.com.. According to the cached pages of the website–the website was “scrubbed” from the internet–Baker listed her company, Cape Caribbean, LLC, as “a strategic mix of marketing based services”. The site, Starcasm.net, has a copy of the site’s front page. Starcasm also looked up the domain registration. Baker registered the domain, March 7, 2008. In 2008, Obama was in the midst of his presidential campaign, raising hundreds of millions in campaign funds which, it turns out, some of which came from foreign contributors which is illegal.

From Baker’s “Cape Caribbean, LLC” website:

Firm Principal VERA BAKER spends her time between the office in Fort de France, Martinique and the office Miama, Florida. She is an avid traveler, having VISITED 17 countries on 5 CONTINENTS, multi-lingual (English and French) and an occasional free lance writer.

Even though we were unable to find any type of advertising or links to an active Cape Caribbean, LLC website we were able to find Cape Caribbean, LLC’s “2009 Limited Liability Company Annual Report” filed with the state of Florida Division of Corporations. The report lists Vera Baker with a Washington, DC, address and Marc Merlini with an address in Fort De France, Martinique. Both Baker and Merlini are listed as “managers”. Cape Caribbean, LLC filed with the state of Florida on March 12, 2008.

By January of 2009, when hired as Senator Burris’ deputy chief of staff, Vera Baker had become Vera Baker-Merlini.