Elizabeth Hasselbeck is shouting on the "view" --talking about Obama's speech...

Anti-Semite Andy Martin in NewsMax: "Free Obama's White Grandmother"

In a March 28 column for NewsMax.com titled "Free Obama's White Grandmother," "Internet journalist" Andy Martin wrote that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), whom he called "one of the most racist politicians in America today," has "locked the grandmother who actually raised him away in a closet," adding: "The 'segregation' of Madelyn Dunham, Obama's white grandmother, and only real grandmother, has to be one of the cruelest and most mendacious political kidnappings this nation has ever seen." Martin wrote that Dunham "is the 'Prisoner of Obama,' and of Obama's racist myth that he is 'Black' and not 'Black and White.' "

Martin offered no evidence for any of his allegations, other than quoting from a March 27 Chicago Tribune article, which reported that "the Obama campaign declined to make Madelyn Dunham, 84, available" for an interview and referring to a New York Times article in which, according to Martin, "Dunham told the New York Times she was not well enough to speak." That Times article, published on March 17, reported that "Obama still visits his maternal grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, who lives in the same high-rise apartment where Mr. Obama spent much of his childhood. 'I'm not well,' she said on the telephone, explaining her refusal to meet for an interview."

Apparently based on these two reports, Martin arrived at the conclusion that Obama, whom he called a "media witch doctor," has "locked his granny away and refused to allow her to be seen" in order to "pretend he has no white relatives." Martin concluded that "locking Madelyn away is going to hurt Obama more with African-Americans than with whites," because "hites delight in drinking Obama's Kool-Aid." He went on to explain that "blacks," however, "are a lot smarter than whites when it comes to slights, because they have experienced racial slights all their lives," and because "uring the decade when crack devastated the African-American community it was the 'Black Grannies' who were and are the backbone of the community."http://mediamatters.org/items/200703290011