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Bill219 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 10:19 AM
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Guess what was delivered with my morning paper today?
I live in Cornelius NC and that propaganda DVD "Obsession Radical Islam's War Against the West" was included with the ads

According to the crap listed on the front this piece of garbage has been around since 2005 because that was when it won
"Best Feature Film" at the Liberty Film Festival

I want to know who is sponsoring putting this garbage in my paper
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Muttocracy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 10:21 AM
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1. Someone's paying a lot to distribute that - wonder where their $$ comes from. nt
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 10:23 AM
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3. What is the Clarion Fund?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3486541
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Starry Messenger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 10:52 AM
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21. Scroll down to the very bottom of this page:
http://radicalislam.org

you will see.
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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 10:22 AM
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2. Betcha a dollar to a dog turd it came from some nondenominationl megachurch.
And WTF is the Liberty Film Festival?
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 10:23 AM
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4. Wanna see something scary?
Looky here!

http://www.libertyfilmfestival.com/
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Hokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 10:24 AM
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5. Wikipedia entry for the Libery Film Festival
Edited on Sat Sep-13-08 10:25 AM by Hokie
Looks like it is a conservative sham founded by wingnuts PO'ed at Michael Moore's success:

The Liberty Film Festival was a film festival held in California. It was founded in 2004

It screened self described Conservative films. Past films screened include Larry Elder's Michael and Me.

The festival has been promoted on many right leaning political blogs. The festival was also promoted before a speech given in California by Fred Thompson in May 2007 <1> This event was broadcast on C-Span.

Notable guests of the 2007 festival included David Zucker and David Bossie <2>

The organizers of the festival have appeared on CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC talk shows




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Film_Festival
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FreakinDJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 10:24 AM
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6. "Liberty Film Festival ? - All propaganda All the Time
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Starry Messenger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 10:25 AM
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7. Interesting: Here's their website, I'm guessing.
http://www.obsessionthemovie.com/index.php

Looks like right-wing catnip. I'm poking around a bit more.

MPK
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Starry Messenger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 10:26 AM
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9. wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsession:_Radical_Islam%27s_War_Against_the_West
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 10:25 AM
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8. Call the paper and ask
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Bill219 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 10:29 AM
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10. actually, I just got off the phone with them
I asked them and they said that they could not tell me, just that it was a paid advertisement

I canceled my subscription and told them that I did not appreciate fear and hate propaganda delivered in my morning NEWS paper
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roseBudd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 10:30 AM
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11. Good for you!
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 10:44 AM
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18. Good for you! How did they take that?
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Starry Messenger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 10:32 AM
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12. Endorsed by the disgusing David Horowitz
http://www.terrorismawareness.org/obsession/

Something smells. A strongly worded phone call/email to your paper is in order. I'd like to know who paid for that too.

MPK
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Starry Messenger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 10:39 AM
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15. Link from LBN thread cited below.
http://clarionfund.org/

and a news item from HuffPo

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erik-ose/pro-mccain-group-dumping_b_125969.html

MPK
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SteppingStone Donating Member (69 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 10:34 AM
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13. Another thread in LBN on this ->

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3486541

I got one too and didn't quite no what to make of it. Seems the Neocons are getting desperate.
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mnhtnbb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 10:37 AM
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14. Here's the answer: the film was produced by Raphael Shore
a Canadian who lives in Israel. The spokesman for The Clarion Fund (a NY non-profit group) that is paying for the distribution will not disclose its donors or its Board of Directors.

From the article:

New York state documents list Eli David Greenberg, a 49-year-old lawyer with the firm of Freeman and Hertz, as the registered agent for the Clarion Fund.

Greenberg is a registered Democrat and has donated money to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. He did not return phone calls.


My take on this is that it's being promoted by the rabid Zionists.

It was distributed with our Raleigh News & Observer, and had this front page article:

http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/1217021.html
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Quakerfriend Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 10:40 AM
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16. I got it on DVD in my mailbox last week.
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progressivebydesign Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 10:43 AM
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17. Did anyone get that vis UPS? I had a mysterious package from "Color Graphics"
that is being forwarded to me. I didn't order it --- BUT "color graphics" is the company that Matthew Towery of Insider Advantage, who does the interntal polling for the Repubs (and has donated thousands of $$$ to the republikans), apparently owns.

Did the DVDs come from that company? (btw, InsiderAdvantage polls are worthless pieces of shit, don't ever believe them when they're posted here. It's a firm the gOP hires)
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Starry Messenger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 10:46 AM
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19. Reported also in PA Patriot-News:
" Ross said Clarion, formed in 2007, is nonpartisan and focused on educating the public about the importance of national security. On Wednesday, though, there was an article on the group's new Web site, www.radicalislam.org, that backed Republican presidential candidate John McCain."

http://www.radicalislam.org/

Heavily funded hate groups, looks like.

MPK
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Demi_Babe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 10:48 AM
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20. Bill219...what paper was it...I live in Huntersvile
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Bill219 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 10:54 AM
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22. Charlotte Observer
Did you get one yet?
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Starry Messenger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 10:54 AM
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23. More at this HUffPo link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/denise-dennis/new-york-times-includes-i_b_125317.html

God this stuff pisses me off.

MPK
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Bill219 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 11:11 AM
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24. Thanks for the links
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Starry Messenger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-13-08 11:16 AM
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25. No prob.
Sorry I got a little spastic there. I cross posted this thread over to the LBN thread about this too. This is appalling! I live in California so I never see or hear crap like this. Thanks for posting your experience. Color me enlightened!

MPK
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