Missouri Sheriffs' and Prosecutors' Obama 'Truth Squad' Getting Old Media Silence

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What if I told you that sheriffs and prosecutors in, say, Indiana, had formed "truth squads" and "subtly" threatened prosecutions of critics of John McCain?

Does anyone think that the New York Times, Washington Post and Old Media in general wouldn't be putting the news on the front page, even with the bailout-apalooza going on in Washington?

Well, there is a "truth squad." It's in Missouri. It includes prosecutors and sheriffs. Oh, and they have formed their truth squad to threaten and intimidate the critics of ..... Barack Obama.

Here is a transcript of a report from station KMOW in St. Louis (first 1:45 of vid; HT Gateway Pundit) that may leave you wondering whatever happened to the country we once knew:

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News Anchor, first name Russell: Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign has asking Missouri law enforcement to target anyone who lies or runs a misleading television ad during the presidential campaign.

News 4's John Mills is live at the County Election Board in Maplewood. He's been learning more about which members of law enforcement are getting involved in this. John, tell us more about this.

John Mills, reporter: Russell, good evening. Prosecutors and sheriffs from across Missouri are joining something called the "Barack Obama Truth Squad." Two high-profile prosecutors are part of the team. We met them this afternoon in the Central West this afternoon. They are Jennifer Joyce of the city (and) Bob McCulloch, the St. Louis County prosecuting attorney. They will be reminding voters that Barack Obama is a Christian, who wants to cut taxes for anyone making less than $250,000 a year. They also say they plan to respond immediately to any ads and statements that might violate Missouri ethics laws.

Jennifer Joyce: We want to keep this campaign focused on issues. We don't want people to get distracted, and Missourians don't want to be distracted, by these divisive character attacks. So we're here to respond to any character attacks, to set the record straight.

Bob McCulloch: Whether it is directly attributable to the campaign, or to one of the soft-money operations, if they're not going to tell the truth, then somebody's got to step up and say "Wait a minute, that's not true. This is the truth."

Mills: Now the Obama campaign tells News 4 that others, prosecutors and sheriffs, are also part of the team, including some from the Kansas City area, and from rural parts of Missouri. We're also told the truth squad is expected to include Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyle. Live in Maplewood John Mills, News 4.

Old Media has now had plenty of time to catch up to this story and, as unfortunately expected, is clearly ignoring it. Specifics:

  • A New York Times search on "Obama Missouri" (not in quotes) has nothing relating to the truth squad.
  • The Washington Post, with the same search -- Nothing.
  • A Google News search between September 24-29, on [Obama "truth squad" Missouri] (typed as indicated between brackets) returned 24 results shortly after midnight (the first page indicates 59, but it is incorrect). None of the roughly 20 truly relevant results are from Old Media outlets.
  • The Associated Press? Of course not (search is on "Missouri Obama Truth Squad).

News 4 reporter Mills has more recently tried to back away from his original report:

“If they think a group has put out a misleading ad, they’re basically going to call a press conference and say the ad is misleading," reporter John Mills told the News-Leader on Sunday. "I’m sure the Republicans would do the same thing."

In his TV report, Mills said the prosecutors "also say that they plan to respond immediately to any ads and statements that might violate violate Missouri ethics laws."

..... In Mills' Sept. 23 report, there is no mention by St. Louis County Attorney Bob McCulloch and St. Louis City Attorney Jennifer Joyce that they would invoke their prosecutorial powers to stop any perceived mistruths from being spread about the Democratic presidential candidate.

Horse manure.

These people are prosecutors.

How do prosecutors "respond" to actions they feel violate the law? They prosecute. Most reasonable viewers would have concluded that they were planning to act against "offenders" in their official capacities.

This backoff by Mills is baloney. The original plan, from the Obama campaign, comes from people who simply didn't realize how ugly what they were saying, planning, and probably still doing, sounds -- and is.

Cross-posted at BizzyBlog.com.

—Tom Blumer is president of a training and development company in Mason, Ohio, and is a contributing editor to NewsBusters


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Just think what will happen

Just think what will happen if BO brings his brownshirt thugs to the White House..!

D1C

Yes, I've been thinking about that and how this type of revolution actually starts.  0bama keeps stretching the boundaries of the law and the Constitution and the 'Free Press' aids and abets - being totally complicit from the very beginning. I would charge them all.  At the very least, have a long, in-depth Congressional Hearing.  Shine a spotlight on these cockroaches.

(And what about 0bama's Spanish speaking ads in the southwest?)

Time for the 2nd Amendment to protect the 1st Amendment.  Keep your powder dry - and in abundance.

The Governor is all over it.

http://governor.mo.g...

 

 

"JEFFERSON CITY
- Gov. Matt Blunt today issued the following statement on news reports
that have exposed plans by U.S. Senator Barack Obama to use Missouri law enforcement to threaten and intimidate his critics.

“St.
Louis County Circuit Attorney Bob McCulloch, St. Louis City Circuit
Attorney Jennifer Joyce, Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer, and
Obama and the leader of his Missouri campaign Senator Claire McCaskill have attached the stench of police state tactics to the Obama-Biden campaign.

“What
Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the
party that claims to be the party of Thomas Jefferson is abusing the
justice system and offices of public trust to silence political
criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment."

 

It seems he may have a problem with state employees using their public resources to silence political opponents.

 

 

Victory in Iraq.

Liberals suck.

McCain for Preznint. 

super...

you posted the same thoughts I did...but faster...

Ster.

TOO LATE...THE GOV FOUND OUT....oooops

This was out Friday...right?!!?  Why didn't I see anything on Sun shows?

The ACLU would have gone NUTS!!!  AM I WRONG!?!? ...wow

Ster.   wow.

When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded.

 

Proof positive that the MSM

Proof positive that the MSM is in the tank for Fauxbama. Does anybody doubt what the reaction would be if McCain had done this? It would lead EVERY single newscast and be discussed endlessly up until election day.

Makes me ill...

This is voter intimidation.

This is voter intimidation, the kind we might expect to see in a place like South Africa, Russia, or El Salvador. It's not much different than using vicious dogs or firehoses to stop voters from heading to the polls. I blogged about it too at http://www.capitalresearch.org/blog/?p=743. 

Matthew Vadum is Editor of Organization Trends and Foundation Watch, two monthly newsletters published by Capital Research Center

Yeah I posted about this

Yeah I posted about this ealier too...Matt Blunt spoke great words also...

Someone needs to tell Barack Obama to grow up!

It was a link that RD Helm had on OT...this is going on in Pa. too...

Obama is going to get his clock cleaned...these idiots forget we have the internet now, and it grows each year with getting info out!

Thank goodness for MRC and NBs!

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

This is voter intimidation,

This is voter intimidation, the kind we might expect to see in a place like South Africa, Russia, or El Salvador.

And if this were a Republican effort, that's exactly what it would be called, and loudly.

To the Democrats, "voter intimidation" is  tactics like requiring ID or proof of citizenship from voters.  

Well....being born in Kenya

Well....being born in Kenya, it is no surprise. Maybe his brother has given him pointers. 

"reporter John Mills told the News-Leader on Sunday. "I’m sure the Republicans would do the same thing."

This is how reporters justify not reporting on Democrats corruption.

"Forget change, I want improvement!"

Right.  Every time there

Right.  Every time there is a Democrat scandal, the media seek to find a Republican similiarity to "balance" it.  You know, this is not just a Democrat problem, or both sides do it.

And if they can't come up with a Republican equivalence, they just speculate that the Republicans would do the same thing.

This is all of a piece with Republicans will use race...and Palin would ban books if she could.

What's Next?

Will truth violators be paid visits in the middle of the night by the goon squad? Will family members be harassed and suffer persecution for the smallest of civil offenses in goon squad counties? Will neighbors be forced to rat on neighbors for fear of suffering the wrath of the goon squads themselves? Will they be pulled over for "untruthful" bumper stickers? Will business establishments owned by conservative folks have an elephant painted on their entranceway? This all sounds like pre-WWII Nazi Germany.

It's bone chilling to think now that public servants and ideological law enforcement officials are being employed by a presidential campaign and have been tasked to come after you for thought crimes. Freedom of speech is being squelched at the most basic level and the MSM is complicit with the coverup.

instant replay!

 in both GWBush campaigns. there were incidents of  public officials caught rying to intimidate public employees for bumber stickers or signs in car windows.

the road to tyranny

If McCain's camp had a prosecution team out to stop ads with lies or misleading information against him, every MSM in the country would have it on the news for days. And the NYT would have it on the front page every day between now and election day.

But here is what is really dangerous about Obama and Obama supporters. This oppression of free speech is outright tyranny. It shows that the MSM could takes us down the path to communism or worse by ignoring such a story, because it shows us the dangerous thinking of Obama and his supporters.

You see, the courts have longed since ruled that candidates for office are subject to more scrutiny, some of it not always so accurate, and unless there is some outright slander and libel, such as a candidate actually did sleep with his daughter, verbatim, then candidates have to grin and bear it.

 

Obama should be locked up then.

So when are these prosecutors going to lock up Obama for his lies and misleading ads?

Will Obama denounce these tactics?

Will Obama denounce these tactics? If not, McCain should add this story to a Missouri campaign ad about how Obama would "bully" the country.

Are they going to prosecute local stations for carrying SNL?

After all, SNL mislead the public with the possibility Todd Palin had sex with his daugther and Trig Palin is really her son and the way he is as a result of the genes issues.

(NOTE: the timing makes this a physical impossibility, since the Palin's daughter is 5 months pregnant.)

Mentally ill?

This is a perfect example of the mental illness that exists in some Democrats.

Tom, thanks for covering the antics of Obama's Gestapo.

I have been wondering when someone around here was going to pick up on this.

As I said in the OT earlier, this man is dangerous must be defeated.

-Dave

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them - Rick Roberts

My troll fuse length today: 0.003mm

Agreed RD!!!

I just poured Liberal "PIXY DUST" on your "troll fuse"..

...you have "troll fuse today: 0.003mm" ...counting down to 0.000097...0.000096...0.000095...

Ster.

 

Ster, one more encounter with a certain troll who will....

...remain nameless for now, and my fuse length will be 0000000000000000.000000000000001mm.

LOL-Pop goes the house at that point. :-)

-Dave

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them - Rick Roberts

My troll fuse length today: 0.003mm

Around here, we tend to wait ....

.... until there's a media bias angle.

Had I watched the vid sooner, I would have posted on Mills's bias as a standalone post. But I didn't see that until I knew I had a valid topic based on clear evidence Old Media is ignoring.

LOL, Tom.

Heck, I have been around here long enough to know that.  Geez.

But, dayem, I bet waiting for that "angle" can be a mite frustrating at times.

LOL- I don't have anywhere near the patience required. Character flaw, I guess.

-Dave

Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them - Rick Roberts

My troll fuse length today: 0.003mm

And taxpayers are paying for this?

Except for voter fraud, law enforcement has no business involving itself in elections.

Ummm...

Hey wd...

Explain ACORN.

I'll be waiting for your reply.

Thanks!

Ster.

"That's why beer advertisers advertise to 16 and 17-year-olds -- they're trying to get them to make their choice for the rest of their life. I mean, you don't see beer advertisers advertising to 73-year-olds sitting around watching Hee Haw. They're set in their ways."

Rush.

Response

Excellent post, WD.

Your post reminds me of those people (who say they're from the State Board of Elections) constantly knocking at my door, asking me if I'm registered to vote.

<sarc>Because, after all, it's the S.B.E.'s responsibility to repeatedly go door-to-door and ask residents if they would like to register to vote. </sarc>

 

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"My morality is your morality."

"Divisive character attacks"

I wonder, what exactly is meant by the word "divisive?"

 

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"My morality is your morality."

Divisive...(def):  Any

Divisive...(def):  Any criticism of a Democrat. 

Oh, and BTW....your tagline would be considered "divisive."

MB

Haha. I'm sure it would.

But "divisive" has been popping up in numerous areas of public debate (particularly from Obama's campaign as well as many of his supporters), and I couldn't help but notice how highly functional of a word it is for them to use-

-"United we stand, divided we fall." If an act or comment from an Obama critic is considered divisive, then it's apparent that said critic is not interested in seeing the nation "stand," or prosper. It allows an impressionable voter to think, "You ought to vote for Obama because hey, it's not like you're doing the nation any favors by voting against him."

-But unity and division mean different things in different contexts. There are areas of life where it is good for people to be united, and there are also areas of life where unity is bad or unhealthy. The unity expressed on and immediately after 9/11 was positive, but unity between congress critters in support of a bailout bill (just for example) that will be costing taxpayers at least $700 billion may not be such a good thing.

-Applied more loosely, the word "divisive" does not have such a bad meaning. The division caused by disagreement between two or more parties is not a bad thing. So when Obama supporters say things like "That's such divisive campaigning," or, "We need a uniter, not a divider," I tend to disregard them. Or, to borrow a line from some guy on an old sit-com, I flush them "'round the bowl and down the hole."

 

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"My morality is your morality."

OBAMA MAKES BUSH LOOK LIKE A SAINT

WHAT AN AZZ..........

OBAMA CALLS UP HIS OBOTROOPS TO HARASS AND THREATEN AUTHORS OF BOOKS ABOUT HIM AND THE RADIO STATIONS THAT INTERVIEW THE AUTHORS AND ANYONE IN OR NEAR THE RADIO STATIONS.

HE THREATENS TV STATIONS AND THE NRA TO STOP RUNNING TRUTHFUL ADS ABOUT HIM.

HE PAYS TROLLS TO MONITOR WEBSITES AND BLOGS.

HE WANTS ANYONE WHO TELLS A LIE ABOUT HIM TO BE PROSECUTED AND GO TO JAIL. BUT HE AND HIS OBONUTS CAN LIE ALL DAY LONG WITHOUT PROSECUTION.

HE HAS HIS ACORN TROOPS REGISTERING DEAD PEOPLE AND MULTIPLE REGISTRATIONS FOR THE SAME NAME AND MORE.

HE SENT HIS THUGS INTO THE CAUCUSES TO STEAL DELEGATES USING THEFT, THREATS, FORCE, AND EVERY KIND OF FRAUD IMAGINABLE.

HE PUT HIS GORILLA WIFE ON TV TO SCARE US.

WHAT'S NEXT?

 

 

McCAIN-PALIN 2008 and HILLARY-ANYBODY 2012

WHAT'S ACORN...I'LL TELL YOU

 ACORN IS A FRONT FOR OBAMA'S ELECTION FRAUD AND MONEY LAUNDERING.

Laundering payments to ACORN through a front company, in a conspiracy to defraud the FEC is a crime.

Another glaring oddity is Stage, Lighting and Sound (SLS) %u2013 also a service never previously reported as a CSI offering. Obama made two payments for SLS to CSI within two days of each other. These payments were the largest checks made for "concerts" throughout the entire campaign calendar. CSI received $310,000 followed by $160,000 two days later. Two days after that, CSI got a $98,000 check for Travel/Lodging. Two weeks after that another $74,000 was paid to CSI for SLS. Two weeks later, $18,000 for Polling was reported, followed by another $18,000 for SLS the following day.

All of the above payments went to a company that admits they provide none of the above services.

There are numerous federal offenses that may have been committed by the Obama campaign.

A complaint to the FEC is being prepared and could be filed soon.

--------------------------------------------------------------------

OBAMA-ACORN IS STEALING ELECTION AGAIN

 

MORE OBAMA ELECTON FRAUD

Municipal clerks across the state are reporting fraudulent voter registration applications, most of them from a nationwide community activist group.

The majority of the problem applications are coming from the group ACORN, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which has a large voter registration program.

ACORN''s Michigan branch, based in Detroit, has enrolled 200,000 voters statewide in recent months, mostly with the use of paid, part-time employees.

"There appears to be a sizeable number of fraudulent applications," said Kelly Chesney, spokeswoman for the Michigan Secretary of State''s Office. "And it appears to be widespread."

Recently, ACORN''s voter registration programs have come under investigation with some employees convicted of voter fraud.

In Pontiac, where several thousand applications have been submitted by ACORN in the last few weeks for the November election, the clerk''s office is finding that numerous applications are sometimes filed under one name. "They''re steadily coming in, and we are finding a huge number of duplications.

In Oak Park, clerk Sandra Gadd said they have been seeing "lots of duplication" from ACORN in recent months.

ACORN is the nation''s largest community organization for low-income families.

Lagstein said ACORN''s Detroit office has hired dozens of employees for the voter registration program.

MORE OF OBAMA''S GOOD OLD "COMMUNITY ORGANIZING".

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McCAIN-PALIN 2008 and HILLARY-ANYBODY 2012

YES OR NO!!!

DID ACORN HAVE FUNDING IN THE ORIGIONAL BILL???

IT DID. 

WHO PUT IT IN AND WHO TRIED TO KEEP IT IN???

THE PROVISION WAS REMOVED, THEN PUT BACK IN...

WHO DID IT AND WHO FOUGHT TO KEEP IT IN???

Ster.

"Passionate love for country will trump hate for America in every election."

 

Ster (or.... "TheSter"?) :p

"Passionate love for country will trump hate for America in every election."

Love the new signature!

 

NOW PLAYING:
Governor Palin Get Your Gun

 

Shy...

Call me Ster....

...I work for a 'livin!!!  :)

Ster.

"Passionate love for country will trump hate for America in every election."

WWPRD?

I say...What Would Paul Revere Do?

Drill ANWAR

I want them...............

I want them to prosecute someone thats really telling the truth so we can have an scandal. OBAMA IS KNOWN FOR THIS, HE TRY TO SILENCE DAVID FREDDOSO BUT HE COULDN'T SINCE HE DIDN'T LIE. HE ALSO TRY TO SILENCE A LOCAL RADIO HOST, FOR HAVING DAVID FREDDOSO ON.

Hey, It's Saul Alinsky...

at his best. You really have to admire Barack Obama, he learned his lessons well from ol' Saul.

Minor correction

Tom, the calls of the St. Louis station are KMOV, not KMOW as you explained.

 

But back to the matter at hand, DA CHOSEN ONE is behaving more and more like a fascist socialist totalitarian dictator.

So this is what happens

When the tactics and philosophy of the Weather Underground are brought out into the mainstream by their handpicked candidate. Remember, speech is only OK if Barrack and his minions agree with it and it's by no means free. It will cost you plenty. Your honor, dignity and probably your soul too.

 

You want change? Give me a dollar.

Here are the pertinent

Here are the pertinent websites for those involved in this thuggery:

 

Sheriff Glen Boyle:

http://www.jcsd.org/

 

Attorney Jennifer Joyce:

http://stlcin.missouri.org/circuitattorney/

 

Attorney Bob McCulloch:

http://www.co.st-louis.mo.us/pa/

 

And perhaps someone that should be advised of all of this and intervene in this pathetic abuse of government power, the Missouri AG’s office:

http://ago.mo.gov/

Rochester, Minnesota: A Fem_Leftist City!

This is starting to spread

Hey thanks for posting this story! More people need to hear about this to expose Obama. People need to see that he's not like John, Bobby or Martin but more like Adolf, Joe and Benito. This story is finally catching wildfire. 

You guys rock!

"Fascism in America will not come in the form of high boots it will be in smiley faces" ---George Carlin

Mr.L

FOX talking about this now.

FOX talking about this now.

Fox says McCain doing this

Fox says McCain doing this also in SC????  Haven't heard of this.

»→ Missouri Compromise

Nice to know there are places like Missouri that will protect the Democrat candidate (only) from truthful attacks on their Citizen of the World.

Thank God for FOX. 

"I've got a bracelet too" - Barack Obama

Don't go lumping us all in

Don't go lumping us all in with the idiots up north.  Most of us in the southern half of the state are sick of being dragged along with the liberal sentiments of St. Louis and Kansas City.  There are a lot of people down here that have simply stopped voting because they were brought up to vote Democrat but can't stand what's happened to the party.

www.daybydaycartoon.... Proving that conservative comedy is very real.

"With your mind as high as Mt. Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things near to you." - Miyamoto Musashi

»→ Right cort

I wasn't demeaning all Missourians, just the twits who have decided to step on the First Amendment.

Here in Texas we've got the same class of losers trolling Austin. 

"I've got a bracelet too" - Barack Obama

HEY COOL!!!

I LIVE IN AUSTIN!!!!

DON'T BE KNOCKING THE ONLY NEWSBUSTER IN THIS LIB CITY!!!

I'M ONLY ONE MAN!!!  I'M DOING MY BEST!!!

Ster.

 

»→ I know Ster

But it's going to take a whole lot more than you and all your technology to drain that swamp.

Beautiful town, but totally run by liberals. 

"I've got a bracelet too" - Barack Obama

I CAN FIGHT...

Chect the top of this post...I'm starting a FIGHT with Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce !!!

GET YOUR POPCORN READY!!!

Ster.

Citizen "Truth Squads" As Effective?

Of course Joyce and McCulloch were going to use their position of authority to intimidate McCain supporters.

Does anyone here honestly think if John Q. StoreClerk was going to organize Obama "Truth Squads" to counter negative ads this would be news? No one would care if the cashier at a fast food drive through said, "We're here to respond to any character attacks that may violate the law."

But when high-profile Prosecutors say it, the threat is there. Obama and his brown shirts knew exactly what they were doing.

Eggzzzz...

... actly.

i wonder

if we will see a test case? i didn't believe the story when it first came out, but now that the governor has given his comments this 'should' get some legs.

i wonder

if we will see a test case? i didn't believe the story when it first came out, but now that the governor has given his comments this 'should' get some legs.

No local coverage

The liberal St. Louis Post-Dispatch, in spite of being inundated with posts to its website, still refuses to even acknowledge the story. What's next? Are these law enforcers going to ensure the rights of all those corpses that vote each election in the city are not infringed? The National media will be here for the debate this week, let's see if this gets any more coverage. 

Let them come for me

I will continue putting the truth out there and challenge them to come for me since I live in Missouri.  They will have a legal battle on their hands and I guarantee they will lose their jobs for it and I guarantee they will lose lots of money for their actions.  Obama and the Liberals are so scared of losing they are trying intimidation now to shut people up.

I'LL START A FIGHT!!!

HERE IS A COPY OF MY E-MAIL TO ATTY. JOYCE.  LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS!!!

Ster.

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Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce

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