http://www.judicialwatch.org/news/2008/nov/obama-advisor-valerie-jarrett-linked-real-estate-scandals
The Tony Rezko Connection to the Chicago Thug White house
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents linking Valerie Jarrett, an advisor to Barack Obama and the co-chairman of the President-Elect's transition team, to a series of real estate scandals, including several housing projects operated by convicted felon and Obama fundraiser/friend Antoin "Tony" Rezko.

According to the documents obtained by Judicial Watch from the Illinois Secretary of State, Valerie Jarrett served as a board member for several organizations that provided funding and support for Chicago housing projects operated by real estate developers and Obama financial backers Rezko and Allison Davis. (Davis is also Obama's former boss.) Jarrett was a member of the Board of Directors for the Woodlawn Preservation and Investment Corporation along with several Davis and Rezko associates, as well as the Fund for Community Redevelopment and Revitalization, an organization that worked with Rezko and Davis.

(According to press reports, housing projects operated by Davis and Rezko have been substandard and beset with code violations. The Chicago Sun Times reported that one Rezko-managed housing project was "riddled with problems -- including squalid living conditions...lack of heat, squatters and drug dealers.")

As Chief Executive Officer of the Habitat Company Jarrett also managed a controversial housing project located in Obama's former state senate district called Grove Parc Plaza. According to the Boston Globe the housing complex was considered "uninhabitable by unfixed problems, such as collapsed roofs and fire damage...In 2006, federal inspectors graded the condition of the complex an 11 on a 100-point scale -- a score so bad the buildings now face demolition." Ms. Jarrett refused to comment to the Globe on the conditions of the complex.

"Like Barack Obama, Valerie Jarrett is a product of the corrupt Chicago political machine. And it is no stretch to say that she was a slumlord," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "We have real concerns about Jarrett's ethics. Washington already has plenty of corruption. We don't need to import more of it from Chicago."

Now is the time for all to come to the aid of their country and vote Republican.

Glenn Googled Jones.

I'm a refugee from the Democratic Party.

Megan Kelly interviewed Julian Epstein - another "Democratic Consultant", I've never heard of, outside of his interviews as a "Democratic Consultant". The theme of the interview was why the MSM didn't cover the story until Jones resigned - why they interviewed a Democratic Consultant about the media covering up the story, I do not know - maybe no one else wearing a coat and tie was available on a Labor Day morning. Anyway, he hauled out the usual excuses and diversionary tactics - "John McCain's associations with a controversial minister - that Fox doesn't cover Republican scandals as muuch as Democratic ones - but it was all for naught. Despite Mr. Epstein's bland blah-blahings, he never could answer the basic question or justify it. In the mean time, he managed to look like exactly what he is, a spin master who had nothing serious to say. Megan Kelly, instead of thanking him at the end, should have finished by saying. "Okay, Julius. We've heard all we've needed to hear...".

The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.

....is Politico badly missing the point?

No, I think Politico nailed this one:

 "....the relative obscurity of.....CNN Headline News."

What's the blogging shortcut sign for partial sarcasm?

Friday is M&M day on Beck. Do you know what M&M day is?

Remember 2006?  The Demorats and their leftist media puppets, stinging from their defeat in 04 when they thought it was a wrap, engaged in a wilful campaign to smear the Republical party as 'the culture of corruption', and they sent out thier sleaze merchants to dig up every example of Republican misbehavior that they could.  They used it as a cudgel to paint the entire party with the mis-deeds of every individual they saw doing anything shady, from page emails to airport bathroom footsie.  And they snidely hinted that if the party of values was so corrupt, well then they, the Demorats, must be better.

And it sort of worked.  Republican  officials certainly didn't help, with some of them indeed doing stuff that was embarrassing.  And Bush didn't help either, with his steadfast refusal to speak out in defense of his own party, coupled with his bizarre refusal to use the bully pulpit to extol the good things they'd accomplished.

But if the left is going to try and hide behind the 'corrupt people shouldn't be in office' mantra, then they're totally being skewered by Alinsky's own rules for radicals.  I understand one of those 'rules' is to hold your enemies up to their own hype.

And so far, the left's hype has proved nothing but verbal diarrhea. Culture of corruption?  I defy the media to take a good long look at their party (the Demorats) and NOT see corruption in each and every blasted one of them.  Tax cheats running the IRS. A corrupt takeover of the auto industry and banks.  Corrupt 'czars' being appointed left and right.  Sexual and racial bigots being appointed to the Supreme Court.  Obama supporters attacking protesters, stealing their property, biting off the fingers of senior citizens, vandalizing their own HQs and accusing their enemies of doing it.  Instance after instance of nearly every one of Obama's friends, and Obama himself, being caught red-handed in doings that are worse than anything the Republicans have ever done. Liars, swindlers, crooks, cheats, theives, perverts, racists - any number of horrible and perfectly true names can be applied to Obama and his friends.

If the RNC has any guts at all, they have a treasure trove of audio, video and documentary evidence to prove, from now until Obama is cast out, which party is the REAL 'culture of corruption'.

...simplistic, but I make absolutely no distinction between an actual "communist," and a "communist supporter." I see them as two sides of the same coin.

As far as I am concerned, Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, and all of the rest of the members of the SCM who defended, lied for, or covered up for Van Jones are all communists themselves.

Every last stinking one of them.

And I am beginning to believe that last November, 65 million of my fellow citizens may very well have put one in the Oval Office.

Sue me.

No, these people will NEVER admit what form of government they actually support, but their duplicity in attempting to give this stinking low-life commie a pass was to me nothing short of contemptible in the extreme.

Communism is the most opressive, tyrannical, and murderous form of government yet created by man. In the last century, it was either directly or indirectly responsible for the deaths of between 100 and 200 million people, depending on whose numbers you believe.

I consider anyone who supports this hideous form of government in any way to be mentally ill, and a mortal enemy of freedom and liberty, two concepts that are wholly incompatible with communism.

Chairman Obama's most potent foe is not Glenn Beck. It is the millions upon millions of REAL Americans who still cherish their freedoms, liberties, and their unique way of life, and who are not about to sit idly by and allow this administration, or this government, to take them away.

I hope Van Jones is the first of many in this farce of an administration that will be exposed for what they truly are, as the near-term future of our now fragile republic may very well depend on it.

-Dave

Even when the government tries to kiss you, it is just a prelude to a good screwing. -Neal Boortz 

"The Jungle" an expose' on the Chicago meatpacking industry, was commissioned by a socialist group.  The end result of its publishing was the formation of the FDA.

Point is, there's always been somebody shining a light on corruption.  What the Liberals can't stand is that their corruption is so olfactorily unpleasant that normally complacent Americans turn away in disgust.

Rangel needs to be next.  Only a card-carrying fool would agree Rangel carries himself with any modicum of dignity.

This has gone beyond President Bush's famous quote.  What we're seeing now is the blatant "bigotry of low expectations".

That is a disgustingly racist belief among liberals that needs to change.

We will Barry you! - Russian prophecy

The story appears to have put HuffPo back on their heels.

 Up until this morning the forum was mostly open, very little censorship, and wow, many right-thinking folks jumped in yesterday and challenged the average Huffer w/serious logic. Comments were up to nearly 17,000, but unfortunately, as of this morning the censors have stepped in, cutting out past comments (dropped over 600 in the last hour) and making sure that few new anti-Jones comments get through. Attacks on Beck & FOX are now up and mostly unchallenged.

Guess that a call came in from the WH sometime late last evening :)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/06/glenn-beck-gets-first-sca_n_278281.html

Great article Noel, as usual. I would like to see you follow the MSM coverage of Obieones speech today in Ohio.(I would do it myself but I would barf) He said,"  his goal is to establish a new foundation for prosperity in America". Now, I interpret that to mean  socialism rather than capitalist system but then thats just me. (right wing nutjob)  But I am curious as to how the idiots will spin it. Then maybe we can see the connections with Jones, Lloyd, Sunstein, etc in a very transparent way, in the msm's own words. Please Noel? You are my sheppard.

I want to get a "Question Authority" bumper sticker and change it to "don't Question ^ the democrats Authority".