On Fox News, Hannity hosted Andy Martin -- who has called judge a "crooked, slimy Jew," accused African-Americans in public office of corruption -- in Obama smear-fest

Summary: On Fox News' Hannity's America, Sean Hannity hosted Andy Martin -- identified by Hannity as an "Internet journalist" -- who made what Hannity called "the explosive claim that [Sen. Barack] Obama's role as a community organizer was a political staging ground perpetuated by the unrepentant terrorist William Ayers." At no point during the segment did Hannity note Martin's history of smears against Obama or Martin's history of anti-Semitic and racially charged comments.

During the October 5 edition of Fox News' Hannity's America, Sean Hannity hosted Andy Martin -- identified by Hannity as an "Internet journalist" -- to make "the explosive claim that [Sen. Barack] Obama's role as a community organizer was a political staging ground perpetuated by the unrepentant terrorist William Ayers." At no point during the segment did Hannity note Martin's history of smears against Obama or Martin's history of anti-Semitic and racially charged comments. In 2007, in a document Martin submitted in a lawsuit he filed against Media Matters for America, Martin claimed that "African-American judges ... circle the wagons and try to protect Barry [Obama]." He also said that the actions of an African-American judge who presided over the case "show that African-Americans are willing to corrupt and abuse their-public offices to defend their own sleazy candidate for office." Further, as the Chicago Tribune and several federal courts have noted, Martin -- who also goes by the name of Anthony Martin-Trigona -- has called a judge a "crooked, slimy Jew, who has a history of lying and thieving common to members of his race."

During the segment, Martin baselessly claimed that Obama's work as a community organizer was "training for a radical overthrow of the government." Martin also baselessly claimed that Obama "probably had met William Ayers in New York, and was coming here [to Chicago] to lay the foundations for what he thought would be some sort of political movement that he thought he would be a part of." Martin further claimed that if Obama is elected president, "[w]e're basically going to be ... in the throes of a socialist revolution, which attempts to essentially freeze out anybody who's not part of this radical ideology."

In an October 6 article, The New York Times reported on Martin's Hannity's America appearance, noting that Martin offered "unsubstantiated accusations that Mr. Obama's work as a community organizer in Chicago was 'training for a radical overthrow of the government.'" The Times also reported that Martin "is credited as being among the first -- if not the first -- to assert in a chain e-mail message that Mr. Obama was secretly a Muslim."

Martin also claimed that Obama "had virtually no impact in his so-called community organizing career except to lay the foundation for his future radical associations." As purported evidence of those "radical associations," Martin continued:

      MARTIN: It was then, also, I believe, that he was exposed perhaps by Louis Farrakhan to Khalid al-Mansour. Because it's while he's a community organizer that Khalid al-Mansour starts raising money to promote Obama to Harvard Law School.

So, obviously, in Ayers' mind and al-Mansour's mind, Obama had proven his reliability. He was somebody that could be trusted to do what he was told. And all of a sudden, they now are going to take him to the next level.

As Media Matters has noted, the Obama campaign has stated that "Obama did not know and does not know Khalid al-Mansour." Additionally, Obama has repeatedly denounced Farrakhan and his statements.

Contrary to Martin's theory that Obama "probably had met William Ayers in New York," The New York Times reported on October 3 that, in 1995, "at a lunchtime meeting about school reform in a Chicago skyscraper, Barack Obama met Mr. Ayers, by then an education professor. ... [Campaign spokesman Ben] LaBolt said the men first met in 1995 through the education project, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and have encountered each other occasionally in public life or in the neighborhood." The Times also wrote that "the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called 'somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8.' "

Columbia University professor Todd Gitlin first noted Martin's appearance on Hannity's America in an October 5 post on TPMCafe. FULL STORY HERE...

Source: http://mediamatters.org/

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