When a McCain campaign representative told David Shuster today that the source of much of Barack Obama's fund-raising is unknown, the MSNBC host scoffed, claiming only "right-wing" blogs could believe that and challenging the spokesman to cite a credible source.
Instead of fulminating about the conservative blogosphere, David might want to pick up a copy of Newsweek, which last time I looked had a news-sharing arrangement with . . . MSNBC. None other than Newsweek's Michael Isikoff reported those very facts about Obama's fund-raising last week.
McCain spokesman Ben Porritt was Shuster's guest during MSNBC's 4 PM EDT hour today.
View video here.
BEN PORRITT: There is an issue that we don't know where one-third of Barack Obama's fund-raising totals have come from.
DAVID SHUSTER: Come on, Ben. One-third? What credible news organization said we don't know where one third of Obama's money is coming from?
PORRITT: Well over $200 million.
SHUSTER: Says who? Other than you. Name one. Nobody reported $220 million unaccounted for. No one. Except for some very right-wing blogs that don't have a lot of credibility. Name one credible news-reporting agency that backs up your assertion.
PORRIT: I will send you an e-mail and you can read it on air.
Here was Isikoff in Newsweek, in an article dated October 13, 2008 [emphasis added]:
The Obama campaign has shattered all fund-raising records, raking in $458 million so far, with about half the bounty coming from donors who contribute $200 or less. Aides say that's an illustration of a truly democratic campaign. To critics, though, it can be an invitation for fraud and illegal foreign cash because donors giving individual sums of $200 or less don't have to be publicly reported.
Being the good sport he is, surely Shuster will read the Isikoff article on the air. Unless, of course, David's of the view that Newsweek doesn't qualify as a "credible news-reporting agency."
—Mark Finkelstein is a NewsBusters contributing editor and host of Right Angle. Contact him at mark@gunhill.net.





BEN PORRITT: There is an issue that we don't know where one-third of Barack Obama's fund-raising totals have come from. 














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" the MSNBC host scoffed,
October 22, 2008 - 17:15 ET by Chris Norman" the MSNBC host scoffed, claiming only "right-wing" blogs could believe that and challenging the spokesman to cite a credible source"
This must be the new standard response from liberals regarding any criticisms of Obama. I've noticed (and seethed) that any time I bring up something against Obama, my liberal family members (MSNBC watchers all) respond that they've never heard it and it must be something from right wing blogs or Fox News - implying that it's made up. Suppressing the urge to massacre them, I respond that I can't be responsible for their ignorance of current events.
McNotObama '08
Unprepared
October 22, 2008 - 17:15 ET by LegionOfDorknessHuge frustration of mine. Why didn't Ben Porritt KNOW that Newsweek had that info? I'm tired of the GOP sending unprepared people into the lion's den.
"I'm tired of the GOP
October 22, 2008 - 17:27 ET by Chris Norman"I'm tired of the GOP sending unprepared people into the lion's den"
Amen. And it happens a lot on CNN and MSNBC, where the GOP sends their second string defense. Not that many of the first string are any better equipped to do battle...
McNotObama '08
»→ No kidding Chris
October 22, 2008 - 17:29 ET by Cool ArrowChris Matthews just trashed Nancy Pfotenhauer because she didn't know the specific Constitutional roles of the Vice President.
She was busy saying "help the President" when he gave her his purest Democrat disgust.
LYDSEXICS UNTIE!
Nancy Pfotenhauer? Now,
October 22, 2008 - 17:36 ET by Chris NormanBen Porrit? Nancy Pfotenhauer? These names sound like characters from TS Eliot. Now, I'm not a political wonk, but I'm not totally ignorant. From which GOP cublicle does MSNBC and CNN get these people that no one would ever hear of otherwise?
McNotObama '08
»→ Chris
October 22, 2008 - 17:36 ET by Cool ArrowBut she's John McCain's Senior Campaign advisor.
She should know this sh*t.
LYDSEXICS UNTIE!
I guess I am ignorant. I've
October 22, 2008 - 17:42 ET by Chris NormanI guess I am ignorant. I've never seen her on television. You're right - these people shouldn't go these kangaroo court shows unprepared. That's why I say they should just stay the hell away from them - they just aid and abet the deliberate illusion that these shows are "balanced". Like anyone in the MSNBC audience is going to ever vote for McCain. Either these clowns are criminally naive or criminally egotistical and just want their fifteen minutes of shame - fame - shame.
McNotObama '08
I agree
October 22, 2008 - 19:33 ET by zachlindMusic to my ears. I sent a scathing letter to the RNC a week or so ago about Heather Wilson (R – NM) getting stomped into the ground by Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D - FL). I don’t remember which show it was now or what the subject was about but as usual Wasserman was just running off at the mouth, making points, regardless of how accurate they were with very little response from Ms Wilson. And when she did respond it was with a RNC talking point. Forget about talking points; go after what the other person is saying. Call them on it. Force them to back it up. If you know they’re lying or not telling the truth tell them to their face. Say something ugly to them. They sure as heck don’t hold back from saying ugly things to us. Republicans are a bunch of wimps when they get on television and way too nice when confronting the opposition. Wasserman is doing no more than spewing talking points and nobody is challenging her. If the RNC is going to put our side on television or radio programs (trust me, they could control it) then they need some Lee Atwood trained people available. Otherwise it’s a waste of time for everyone.
Okay Mark... This video
October 22, 2008 - 17:25 ET by bigtimerOkay Mark...
This video link doesn't go to the story you are talking about on my end...is it just me?
Btw...as to the story about Obama and his illegal $$$ here is a recent one...people need to read this, it's titled Obama's Secret Campaign Cash...plus we all know the msm knows about this, they have to, yet they say nothing...I have been furious about this for months now.
No hypocrisy at all..no bias, no being in bed obviously with the filth called the leftist party.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
bt,
October 22, 2008 - 17:34 ET by Mark FinkelsteinI just went back and replayed it. It really is there, toward the end of the clip. Double-click on the image of Porritt.
Hey thanks Mark, that was
October 22, 2008 - 18:07 ET by bigtimerHey thanks Mark, that was my fault, in my haste when Obama came on the screen right off both times I tried earlier, I assumed it was the wrong video...that's what I get for assumptions...
As far as the interview goes...I am just seething...I absolutely cannot stand Shuster, msnbc or anything related anymore, they are getting so evil to the max, they are attempting to shut everybody up, do not use the word socialism, tellingMcCain how to run his ad with the terrorists ad he has with the plane almost flying into a building...let alone denying the BS about the outrageous amount of money Obama has received...without one single question from the msm about this, let alone the bundled money...I wished the gentleman would of had a couple of examples to use, but then again, Shyster has the audicity to say "other than right wing blogs" when he was referring to wanting proof for all the illegal foreign $$$ Obama received that the gentleman was talking about...
More than anything, I have wished for years now that the republican party had the brains, let alone guts to boycott msnbc news, along with CNN and others until the smears stop...and the guests they have on are treated with some respect and credibility.
I am sick of it...
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Great link BT
October 22, 2008 - 21:42 ET by JPR1This part makes me wonder if this is what Obama means about "spreading the wealth"...
Lisa Handley, a stay-at-home mom from Portland, Ore., recalled giving $4,600 to the Obama campaign by credit card, contributions she made because “I love Obama,” she said.
According to FEC records, however, she gave an additional $2,300 to the campaign, putting her over the limit.
The Obama campaign reported that it had “redesignated” the excess money, which could mean that it had contributed it to a separate party committee or a joint fundraising committee, which have higher limits.
Stay at home mom huh? Does dad peruse the credit card statments? Do they hit the $250k per ceiling?
JPR...thanks... Plus
October 22, 2008 - 21:56 ET by bigtimerJPR...thanks...
Plus there was a teacher who just happened to have tons to contribute too if memory serves me right...let alone, I want to get into the answers about the foreign money in the worst way...I am so frustrated with all of this non-investigative work.
(I have a couple of different links about all of this so I hope I am remembering the right now with the example of how impossible this is.)
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Ignoring the forgien money issue
October 22, 2008 - 22:46 ET by JPR1is preposterous. If anyone at the New York Times thought McCain got so much as a Gulider of campaign money they'd be on it like stink on....gorgonzolla.
It's their purpose after all, right? Exposing wrongdoing.They'll soft-peddal issues like this until Febuary, hoping like hell they just go away. Lord, give us a new Attorney General, one with brass knuckles.
Bart Simpson, Family Guy, Daffy Duck, King Kong...
October 22, 2008 - 17:35 ET by JDWdonated illegally to Obama's campaign
Who are they?
JDW
DAILY WAVE
'Hey Chuck, Stand Up!'
Is the Community Reinvestment Act part of free enterprise?
A bigger question is... Why
October 22, 2008 - 17:49 ET by JerryA bigger question is... Why is a McCain campaign representative appearing with a left-wing hack like David Shuster on A-Mess-NBC (or is it Hamas-NBC), instead of with a CREDIBLE news program?
When asked if he went to war with Iraq to derail the impeachment vote: “I don’t think any serious person would believe that any President would do such a thing." - President Clinton (Dec 1998).
The justice department is
October 22, 2008 - 18:01 ET by obxrayThe justice department is the problem.It is a joke.Look at all the damn proof folks have.All they do is go after anyone with (R) behind their name.Something is very wrong with bush when it comes to the justice de..
MSNBC and NBC are losing so
October 22, 2008 - 18:23 ET by TN MomMSNBC and NBC are losing so much money maybe they can't afford internet access for Shuster?
NBC announced last week they were cutting 700 jobs!
"NBC announced last week
October 22, 2008 - 18:34 ET by Chris Norman"NBC announced last week they were cutting 700 jobs!"
Cutting them, or outsourcing them to the Daily Kos, MoveOn.org, and the Obama press office? Unlike when customer service jobs go to India, no consumer would notice the difference...
McNotObama '08
Another Shuster "ready,
October 22, 2008 - 18:51 ET by d1carterAnother Shuster "ready, fire, aim report...
Oh David ...
October 22, 2008 - 18:51 ET by Crash... why don't you make Edward R. Murrow proud of the news business again and look into it?
One can't vet by earpiece or teleprompter.
Ya know, because of the
October 22, 2008 - 20:20 ET by Scuba DudeYa know, because of the people Obama has associated with, it makes me wonder if all this money coming into his campaign is hiding some kind of money laundering operation.
Ok, I think I have had my conspiracy thought for the week.
SD...read this. "America
October 22, 2008 - 20:31 ET by bigtimerSD...read this.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Thanks BT, I have read
October 22, 2008 - 20:37 ET by Scuba DudeThanks BT, I have read something similiar to that article. That is why I am running through scenarios on how someone could be running a money laundering scheme. Bad money flows into the campaign but eventually is returned possibly all nice and clean. After all the money is coming from a "reputable and vetted" place (nudge nudge wink wink).
ScubaDude
October 22, 2008 - 21:18 ET by TN MomMore DIRTY Money Laundry at Obama Headquarters:
Obama campaign pays over $800,000 to PROJECT VOTE aka ACORN during dem primary and claims the $$ was for Special Lighting and such...
i don't know how to do the LINK, maybe BT can do it for everyone to read?
Hi TN Mom, Like this
October 22, 2008 - 21:24 ET by Scuba DudeHi TN Mom,
Like this article?
...or this... "America
October 22, 2008 - 21:32 ET by bigtimer...or this...
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Scuba & BT
October 22, 2008 - 22:27 ET by TN MomYep, those are the links,
and BT...I love the michelle link. I visit every day :)
Evenin' TMom... Yeah...I
October 22, 2008 - 22:34 ET by bigtimerEvenin' TMom...
Yeah...I try to make sure and go there to if I have more time in the day than normal..which is rare...but then in between things I mange to say basically on here....too funny!
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
The reality of Obama's counterfeit funds from the Middle East
October 23, 2008 - 00:21 ET by Lame Cherryhttp://lamecherry.bl...
While child Obama plays
I would like Americans to ponder a question in, "If someone from the
Middle East has broken vast laws in exposing currency fraud to funnel
to you, $250 million, knowing the people you just took money from deal
in human traffic, terrorism, money laundering of opium, diamonds and
weapons,
do you think they did that all for free or are they going to want something from you in return?"
That
is the saga of Barack Obama in the company he keeps as Americans who
adore him have not quite figured out yet that the international mafia
of Eurasia is funneling counterfeit cash to gain favors from America
later when Mr. Obama has stolen the election.
President Clinton took
the same cash bribes from Chicoms who were given all sorts of things
like American nuclear codes, American missile technology, American spy
satellite technology, all of which has nuclear missiles now targeting
everything from Chicago to Los Angeles.
What do you think these
Eurasians are going to want from America this time now that Obama has
sold the American soul for his messiahship?
Do not make the
mistake people of thinking this is some Obama problem that will not
touch you. Everyone of you who voted for Bill Clinton and Ross Perot
has dead US Soldiers on your hands to the dead on 9 11, because this
maze all connects and when a blackmailed Bill Clinton over Saddam's
bribes won't prosecute Saudi terrorists and lets them into the United
States.......it is all about voting and paying in American blood.
I
want to remind voters in this election that China is currently smacking
around the Tibet intelligence faction for that little uprising before
the Olympics. The pretty Peking girl is back with a whore's attitude in
beating to death her john.
While you haven't been paying
attention, Iran, who so many people in the Obama left claim because
they hate George Bush has a ship sitting off of Africa. Big deal you
say as this doesn't affect you in your Obama hamlet........
Well
think again, as the pirates who were on that ship blew up a container
on this Iranian ship to open it. Soon they had burns on their bodies,
their hair fell out and they were dead.
That is called a
chemical weapon. The ship, the Iran Deyanat, was registered to
carry almost 40,000 tons of cargo to the Netherlands. The Netherlands
was a bogus address as the Islamocommunists are busy shipping weapons
of mass destruction around the world.
Some think this cargo was for
Africa. Some think it was destined for Hamas. The point is Iran is just
like before in helping to ship chemical weapons from Saddam at the time
to murder Christians in Darfur is shipping poisons which murder humans
again.
To give you a real American Obama voter view of this, sugar
is sold in 5 pound bags in your grocery. Take a look at the display
sometime as you might see 100 bags stacked there in bulk.
What
Iran just got caught shipping, that the United States is attempting to
bribe in a $7 million offering to Somalia to get a look at that cargo,
is 160,000 of those stacks of sugar which would fill an entire grocery
store.
Human pesticide as that is what chemical weapons is IS just
like Raid that you spray on bugs. A little goes a long way and Obama's
negotiating friends just deployed 1 load of that. If you figure just 1
teaspoon to kill one person, that cargo would kill 3.84 billion people.
Still feeling secure as Obama plays with these fellow Marxist thugs?
Well,
how about those Islamocommunists now pushing for a first strike on the
Israeli state as they are destined to strike Iran over nuclear material.
Dr. Seyed G. Safavi, head of the Research Institute of Strategic Studies in Tehran is an adviser to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei reaffirmed the Persians have a very vocal group advocating the strike.
These
thugs of course want the talkative Obama installed as sanctions have no
power and Democrats in Congress just killed a vote to blockade the
Iranians.
The Islamocommunists have a ship off of Somalia with a
terror cargo that could murder 4 billion people, has already killed
pirates who blew open a container and these are the Isalmocommunists
who according to Ghadaffi of Libya who are funding one of their own
native Muslim sons for the White House.
It is my hope in God's
Grace that He saves Americans from themselves and this Obama theft of
the election process, but in noting the above America is now in debt to
the central Europeans who are laundering this entire financial terror
network's cash and is in debt to the Islamocommunists.
If Barack
Obama attains the White House, they will require payment. The first
people on the list are the American settler Jews in the Israeli state
currently under attack by the secular Jews in that Olmert faction with
George Soros representing the Europeans for the plunder of the
resources under the West Bank.
If Obama crosses these thugs, they
will just like in the stock market meltdown going on currently come for
America not for cash but in a massive 9 11 attack for America blood
again.
No matter the President, I might have a way out of this
as solutions are not acceptable in either Israeli or American nukes
lobbed at the Persians polluting the oil supply as the communists
intend to which Iran will by cargo ship vaporize New York City.
Letterman's
cocktail crowd might hide in Connecticut, but the radioactive dust is
going to get them and it is a fact that rural states are going to close
their borders and not allow millions of eastern seaboard refugees to
invade their states as I have pointed out in policy papers the rural
states do not have the infrastructure of water, food supply and housing
to deal with numbers of fleeing people.
Houston almost melted down with New Orleans refugees and that was only 40,000.
I
have advocated the use of pulse weapons in defensive postures for the
Israeli Defense Forces. Fry Russian missile circuitry on the gound and
one stops the attack in full.
This is not some high tech weapon
which I speak that could fuse the 30 or so Iranian nuclear warheads
they have built or acquired according to Dr. Khan's plans out of
Pakistan. The device I speak of is Sam Cohen simple. For those who need
refreshing on Mr. Cohen is a personal hero of mine, he is the father of
the neutron bomb and is the scientific basis for President Reagan's
Star Wars which proved the liberals all wrong as Star Wars does indeed
exist on platforms of various fields.
What I advocate is using a
M 1 Abrams tank barrel. The same bunker buster which the Americans
invented out of necessity which is simply hardened steel, packed with
explosives and dropped at speed so it drives into the ground and shoots
through concrete.
Use this elementary system, if need be add an
explosive charge to drive it into caverns and as the explosion moves
forward have it unwind a magnetic coil which is charged. The breaking
down of the field just like in an automobile will create a massive
electronic lightning strike. In a car it is termed a spark plug spark,
in these terms you know it as electro magnetic pulse.
As this
little darling requires a name, let her be called Siren as she sings a
sweet song. What the purpose of Siren is, is not to fry circuits, but
to trip the matrix fuses of the Dr. Kahn cone shaped warheads and
detonate said warhead in it's own bunker.
If the Islamocommunists want these warheads, then the policy should be to detonate them on their own soil in an effective means.
The benefits of this are that the United States will not have opened up the nuclear gennie tempting others to follow.
Barack
Obama has indicated he desires to use nuclear weapons which will call
for a nuclear retaliation by Islamocommunists. This solves the
ignorance of Barack Obama at least on this issue.
Tinkering with
Siren's electronic pulse would also make it an antipersonel device as
interfering with an Islamocommunists central nervous system frequency
would have the same effect as a phaser.
Barack Obama has brought
this to America's door. I do not see Harry Smith, Keith Olbermann,
David Letterman or anyone else who has insulted Gov. Palin's
intelligence in coming up with a solution for their messiah's mess as
usual in what they created.
A $250 million bill means Obama's
funders are coming now. This is the best solution to attempt in dealing
with this providing the Persian warheads can be located in acceptable
numbers.
I really do not want to see my Statue of Liberty melted
into a puddle of radioactive copper. I find these liberals disgusting
for putting this nation into this position while mocking President Bush
and Vice President Cheney. Americans have not 1/10th of a clue what
these people have done to keep this from America's door. It can never
be told what our friends in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and the Israeli
state have accomplished either.
This is the best option to
attempt as Mr. Obama is going to send in troops and when they get
slaughtered in mass numbers he will go nuclear which will bring nuclear
to America.
The Israeli state can not sit idle and will have to
react as was the progession plan all along which will bring nuclear to
America.
Tune up Siren, drop it from a B 1 platform and let
these Marxist friends of Obama eat their own nuclear weapons. In
theory, the concussion of this pulse might not even need detonators to
trip but be so smashing to compress the uranium to create a reaction.
This
sounds like something Admiral Thomas Moore would advocate in ending an
American problem on foreign soil and dealing with an election thief in
Obama if he is installed.
The policy is to keep America safe,
American Soldiers from being fodder and American prestige from world
condemnation as liberals are prone to do from Daschle to those French
types who are not Normans.
agtG
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I, foreigner, donated $5 to Obama from UK
October 23, 2008 - 01:36 ET by Jack BauerYou wondered how easy it is for a foreigner to ILLEGALLY give money to Obama from a foreign country?
I know it's really hard with such limited resources for Shuster to "investigate" .. God forbid that Shuster might get off his ass to find out himself... so let me get his started
I went all DEEP VOTE on the Obama website donation page...
Entered my credit card number and a friend’s old New York address as my "residence," which obviously did not match my REAL UK MasterCard address. A bogus NY phone number fulfilled all the info the Obama campaign needed.
That was it... I was instantly told that my $5 had been successfully processed. I could have donated $3000 had I been, oh some Imam in a Pakistani madrassa!
So…I tried the same with McCain, to at least cancel out helping the Obama ... NOT SO EASY ...
On the McCain site, my credit card address has to match my postal address, and mine is in England. So that was out.
I also have to enter a US passport number as validation of citizenship if donating from abroad. Which I left blank, as I do not possess a US passport.
So although the McCain site instantly thanked me for my support, it did not indicate that my $5 has been successfully processed. No mention of that at all.
I suspect it will be declined when my details come to light.
If Obama wins by $5.00, it's
October 23, 2008 - 07:40 ET by KarmaIf Obama wins by $5.00, it's all your fault.
I'll never be able to live
October 23, 2008 - 10:19 ET by Jack BauerI'll never be able to live with myself. Or anyone else. Probably.