{"id":14182,"date":"2012-06-07T13:51:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T17:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14182"},"modified":"2012-06-07T13:51:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T17:51:02","slug":"is-the-mainstream-media-planning-to-vet-both-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14182","title":{"rendered":"Is The Mainstream Media Planning To Vet Both Candidates ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stanley Kurtz posted a story at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/302031\/obamas-third-party-history-stanley-kurtz\">National Review Online<\/a>\u00a0today that included proof of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/barack-obama-12782369\" rel=\"biographycom\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama&#8217;s<\/a> membership in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"New Party (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Party_%28United_States%29\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\">New Party<\/a> during the late 1990&#8217;s. <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"The New Party (United Kingdom)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newparty.co.uk\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">The New Party<\/a> was <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"ACORN\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acorn.org\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">ACORN<\/a>\u2019s (<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now\" href=\"http:\/\/www.acorn.org\/\" rel=\"homepage\" target=\"_blank\">Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now<\/a>) political arm.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The documents reveal that the New Party\u2019s central aim was to move the United States steadily closer to European social democracy, a goal that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Willard Mitt Romney\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biography.com\/people\/mitt-romney-241055\" rel=\"biographycom\" target=\"_blank\">Mitt Romney<\/a> has also attributed to Obama. New Party leaders disdained mainstream Democrats, considering them tools of business, and promised instead to create a partnership between elected officials and local community organizations, with the goal of socializing the American economy to an unprecedented degree.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When Stanley Kurtz reported in 2008 that then-candidate Obama had been a member of the New Party, the charge was denied.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The Fight the Smears website quoted Carol Harwell, who managed Obama\u2019s 1996 campaign for the Illinois senate: \u201cBarack did not solicit or seek the New Party endorsement for state senator in 1995.\u201d Drawing on her testimony, Fight the Smears conceded that the New Party did support Obama in 1996 but denied that Obama had ever joined, adding that \u201che was the only candidate on the ballot in his race and never solicited the endorsement.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>We\u2019ve seen that this is false. Obama formally requested New Party endorsement, signed the candidate contract, and joined the party. Is it conceivable that Obama\u2019s own campaign manager could have been unaware of this? The notion is implausible. And the documents make Harwell\u2019s assertion more remarkable still.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if the press will do any better at reporting on President Obama&#8217;s ties to the New Party during this election than they were in 2008. Whether the press reports it or not, it is rather obvious by the decisions being made by President Obama that he sees America in a different light than the majority of Americans.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=b14b4029-b1ac-4bf3-b037-d93530cdeb4c\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanley Kurtz posted a story at National Review Online\u00a0today that included proof of President Obama&#8217;s membership in the New Party during the late 1990&#8217;s. The New Party was ACORN\u2019s (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) political arm. The article &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=14182\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[336,1932,97,352,911,562,3197],"class_list":["post-14182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-acorn","tag-association-of-community-organizations-for-reform-now","tag-barack-obama","tag-mitt-romney","tag-national-review","tag-obama","tag-stanley-kurtz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14184,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14182\/revisions\/14184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}