Andy Martin for President: September 2015

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Donald Trump is right about Fox News bias - Fox also gratuitously smeared GOP presidential candidate Andy Martin

Republican Party presidential candidate and media expert Andy Martin offers his opinions on the continuing controversy over biased coverage of Donald Trump at Fox News. Because Andy has also been treated badly by Fox News he offers special insight into the way the news organization is directed to serve the whims of controlling shareholder Rupert Murdoch.

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Republican presidential candidate and media expert Andy Martin says Donald Trump is justified in complaining about some Fox news coverage as biased

Andy was smeared by Fox News and Rupert Murdoch during the 2008 presidential race, so Andy has personal experience about the way Fox News is managed and how biased news coverage emanates from the Fox executive suite

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(Andy writes today from Honolulu, where he is completing his major undercover investigation involving abysmal homeland security practices by Hawai’i officials.)

(Note: Donald Trump is scheduled to appear on the O’Reilly factor this evening, September 29th.)

(COC Honolulu)(September 29, 2015) Republican presidential candidate and Obama author/expert Andy Martin says GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump is right to complain about biased coverage at Fox News. Andy previously wrote about the Fox news “debate” in August, where Megyn Kelly smeared Trump with unfair attacks. “Megyn Kelly has continued her slanted coverage of Donald Trump,” Andy says. “I also know from personal experience that Fox News is not a ‘normal’ news organization. It is a weapon which Fox owner Rupert Murdoch wields to punish his opponents and to advance his corporate interests.

“On most topics, Fox staff and hosts are allowed to speak freely. But when Murdoch cracks the whip behind the scenes, the people in front of the camera cower, with the possible exception of Bill O’Reilly. (Even O’Reilly had to remove Trump from his show last week when the Trump/Fox dispute again broke into the open.)

So what happened to me in 2008? I was interviewed for a Sean Hannity program on Obama (see [1] below). After the program appeared, Obama’s campaign team went ballistic. The New York Times reported that Democrats were demanding my scalp. I ended up as one of the “most important stories in the world,” on the front page of the New York Times.

Because Grandpa John McCain had all but forfeited the presidential race to Obama by default I had become the leader of forces still fighting to defeat Obama. (Sara Palin had been muzzled by McCain’s incompetent staff.)

Rupert Murdoch was closely observing the 2008 campaign and could see McCain was a confused candidate who had no business running for national office. McCain’s campaign had become an embarrassment to the GOP. (McCain, however, does manage to get reelected locally in Arizona, by pretending to be a conservative at election time.)

Obama sent operative Robert Gibbs to the “Hannity and Colmes” program to smear me by attacking Hannity for having me as a guest. Hannity fell into the trap. Gibb was regurgitating the same old garbage that Obama agents such as New Hampshire GOP chairman Jennifer Horn use to attack me. Same old, same old.

But Gibb’s and Obama’s smear backfired. The more Obama & Co. attacked me, the broader my support grew. Except at Fox News. Fox News management issued a statement attacking me.

If I had surprised or ambushed Fox they might have had cause to complain. But my participation in Hannity’s program took months. There was never any surprise or confusion about who I was. What happened? Rupert Murdoch had already started groveling to his expected winner, Obama, and was currying favor by smearing me. Fox threw me under the bus to advance Murdoch’s corporate agenda. It was shameful.

You have to forgive me for thinking, in light of my own experience, that Sean Hannity is a highly-paid scumbag who lacks the integrity to apologize for a fraudulent attack on a guest that helped him deliver an extraordinary program exposing Obama (watch my portion of the show, see link [1] below).

Hannity has never apologized to me and neither has Fox. So Trump’s initial apology from Fox in August has already extracted more out of Murdoch & Co./Fox than I did back when. Now Fox and Trump are fighting a second round, or third or fourth.

Megyn Kelly has become the keeper of the hen house for Bush stooges and Trump enemies. Night after night Kelly’s “guests” attack Trump. Kelly’s favorite two Fox castrados are Rich Lowry and Marc Thiessen. Lowry, in typical castrado fashion, made a genital analogy in one of his attacks on Trump. Thiessen is a Bush family stooge who attacks Trump in every appearance on Fox.

Trump, of course, watches Fox News and sees how he is being excoriated by Kelly & Crew. Trump is also aware that he receives somewhat more “fair and balanced” coverage at CNN, the liberal hothouse, than he does on Kelly’s show.

Bill O’Reilly has treated Trump fairly when I have seen them together. Because I seldom watch Hannity due to the vacuousness of his show I can only say that he seems to be balanced in his Trump treatment. But Megyn Kelly? No way. Almost every night Kelly’s guests are trashing Trump. See [2] below for another view of why Fox is biased against Trump; some believe that Fox quietly supports the GOP establishment while pretending to be “conservative” to attract viewers.

Tonight Trump is supposed to appear again on O’Reilly, possibly by phone or possibly in person. And Trump and Fox News management have announced a new meeting to discuss the network’s biased treatment (see [3] below). What’s to discuss? O’Reilly and Hannity are even-handed; Kelly is blatantly biased.

Last month when I wrote about Kelly’s misbehavior at the first debate I provided insight on the enmity between Trump and Rupert Murdoch. In the end, what Murdoch wants, Murdoch gets. He doesn’t own the whole company but he owns enough, with rigged stock shares, to control the organization. In 2008, Murdoch wanted to curry favor with Obama, so he slashed me. Today, Murdoch dislikes Trump, so he is allowing Kelly to slash Trump. And because Kelly has a fat paycheck to protect, she is doing what she is told by Fox management. The more things change,…

FOOTNOTE: Andy means action. As soon as Andy announced his Honolulu news conference attacking state officials for lax security at the Port of Honolulu port officials moved the abandoned boat Judy K that Andy had used as an exemplar of Hawai’i incompetence and inefficiency.

NEXT: Dr. Carson and a Muslim president; still a work-in-progress.

Copies of Andy’s 2008 book on Barack Obama are available from the publisher (see below).

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LINKS TO THIS STORY (cut and paste the entire link below and not just the underlined portion):

[1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgjQhnDEGSk

[2]

http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/2015/09/26/trump-exposes-fox-news-bias/

[3]

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/09/28/donald-trump-will-appear-on-fox-again-after-all/

New citations after emailing:

WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT ANDY MARTIN:

One author has called Andy Martin the “big kahuna” of the anti-[Barack] Obama movement. Another said “Andy Martin is revolutionizing journalism… [Andy] brings to online journalism what Rush Limbaugh [brings] to radio or Michael Moore to film: sleek little stories that fit into larger political narratives…” Another says, “The only American journalists that are ‘standing UP’ [to Obama] are, Andy Martin…”

ANDY MARTIN - A BRIEF BIO:

Andy Martin is a legendary New Hampshire, New York and Chicago-based muckraker, author, Internet columnist, talk television pioneer, radio talk show host, broadcaster and media critic. With forty-seven years of background in radio and television and with five decades of investigative and analytical experience in Washington, the

USA

and around the world, Andy provides insight on politics, foreign policy, intelligence and military matters. For a full bio, go to: www.AndyMartin.com; also see www.BoycottABC.com/executive_director.htm

Andy has also been a leading corruption fighter in American politics and courts for over forty-five years and is executive director of the National Anti-Corruption Policy Institute. See also www.FirstRespondersOnline.us; www.AmericaisReadyforReform.com.

He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

He is the author of “Obama: The Man Behind The Mask” [www.OrangeStatePress.com] and produced the Internet film “Obama: The Hawaii’ Years” [www.BoycottHawaii.com]. Andy is the Executive Editor and publisher of the “Internet Powerhouse,” blogging at www.contrariancommentary.wordpress.com and www.ContrarianCommentary.com.

Andy’s family immigrated to Manchester, New Hampshire 100 years ago; today his home overlooks the Merrimack River and he lives around the corner from where he played as a small boy. He is New Hampshire’s leading corruption fighter and Republican Party reformer.

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Monday, September 28, 2015

Honolulu News conference Monday: GOP presidential candidate Andy Martin says Hawai’i is a “terrorist attack waiting to happen”

Republican Party presidential candidate and counter-terror expert Andy Martin will hold a Honolulu news conference today, Monday, September 28th, to announce he has asked for Department of Homeland security and congressional investigations into lax homeland security practices at the Port of Honolulu. Andy warned five (5) years ago that Hawai’i officials have a “lackadaisical air” about homeland security practices. Andy is using the scandal involving the abandoned boat “Judy K” as the trigger for his latest demand for emergency action in Washington. Andy will release his letter to homeland security officials in Washington at his Monday news conference. “What happened with the Judy K,” Andy charges. “reflects a terrorist attack waiting to happen. An abandoned boat sat unsupervised for eight years in the Port of Honolulu, within explosive range of passenger ships. If this scandal happened in the Port of New York, heads would roll. Why not in Hawai’i? Homeland security is not a partisan issue. But Hawai’i officials need to man up and recognize the state is a prime terrorist target because of their sloppy attitude towards security matters.”

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Attention, Honolulu, Washington, National daybook/assignment and Political editors

Announcement of Honolulu conference Monday, September 28

Republican presidential candidate Andy Martin will hold a Honolulu news conference today, Monday, September 28th to demand a congressional investigation of lax homeland security practices in Hawai’i

Andy will release the results of a six-month undercover investigation at the Port of Honolulu

Andy previously warned of the terrorist threat to Hawai’i in 2010

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(Honolulu) (September 28, 2015) Republican presidential candidate and Obama author/expert Andy Martin will hold a Honolulu conference today, Monday, September 28th to announce he has asked the U. S. Department of Homeland Security and congressional committees to open investigations into lax homeland security practices at the Port of Honolulu.

“The Port of Honolulu is one of the nation’s busiest ports,” Andy says. “Honolulu is also a major passenger terminal for cruise ships. And yet lax security practices that would get officials fired in New York or Los Angeles are routine in Honolulu. State officials refuse to take threat of terrorism seriously.

“The ship Judy K sat abandoned in the Port of Honolulu for eight (8) years. The owner of the boat was dead. The port received no rent payments. But no one in Hawai’i state government took notice. The abandoned boat was within blast range of the passenger terminal, where thousands of cruise passengers arrive and depart. Even after the abandoned boat sank state officials refused to remove the vessel because they didn’t want to pay the cost.

“Five years ago I warned of lax homeland security practices in Hawai’i, because the state is a prime terrorist threat. We continue to maintain liaison with concerned local employees who are aware of the dangers but feel powerless to blow the whistle. What will it take for state officials to start taking homeland security seriously?

“In my opinion, even President Obama’s security is endangered by the lackadaisical attitude of state and local officials.”

Andy first landed in Honolulu in 1967 and has been a regular visitor to the state since 2008.

Andy provides a summary of his findings below.

1. The results of our undercover investigation

A. Homeland security practices in Hawai’i are abysmal to incompetent. State officials do not take the threat of terrorism seriously.

B. The Port of Honolulu is a major security threat because of the thousands of cruise passengers who arrive and depart, and the port’s role in facilitating trade with Asia.

C. The boat Judy K should never have been allowed to sit abandoned in the port for eight years, within blast range of the passenger terminal.

2. How our investigation was conducted

The investigation was conducted intermittently from April through September, 2015 and followed up on earlier investigatory work in 2010.

A. Undercover observations

After receiving a tip in April we started circulating around the port looking like down-and-outers. (A photo may accompany emailed copies of this story.) The investigation is continuing.

We also interviewed local individuals who have first responder and security roles and who are uncomfortable with the lack of concern shown by senior state officials in Hawai’i about the terrorist threat to the port and the islands. PLEASE CONTACT US IF YOU RECEIVE A COPY OF THIS EMAIL AND HAVE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO REPORT.

3. What needs to be done?

A. Hawai’i state officials

Hawai’i state and local officials need to start taking homeland security and counter-terror responsibilities seriously, and not fobbing off on the federal government the need for vigilance at the Port of Honolulu and statewide generally. There has been a disgraceful abdication of responsibility by the rinky dink Hawai’i state government. Tourism is big business in Hawai’i. If there had been an explosion on the Judy J, and injury to passengers and ships at the cruise terminal, the local economy would have been devastated. There are still terror threats in the harbor. When are local and state officials going to assign someone to take a basic spreadsheet and start mapping and monitoring activity in the port?

B. DHS officials

DHS officials in Washington need to investigate, preferably trough the Inspector General’s office, why nothing was done with a phantom ship for eight years when that ship was within blast range of a busy passenger terminal. Instead of accepting the promises of Hawaii officials to do better in the future, DHS needs to develop a performance plan with performance objectives and meaningful performance supervision of state and local officials on a continuing basis.

C. FEMA officials

FEMA needs to coordinate and cooperate with DHS officials.

D. Congressional committees

We have asked congressional committees to open oversight investigations of lax practices in Honolulu and Hawai’i, and lax supervision by DHS and FEMA officials that have the ultimate responsibility for counter-terror operations. Why was nothing done for eight years when there was a threat situation adjacent to the passenger terminal in the Port of Hawai’i?

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September 28 Honolulu news conference details:

Who:

Presidential candidate and counter-terror expert Andy Martin

What:

Andy Martin demands that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and congressional committees investigate lax security practices at the Port of Honolulu and throughout Hawai’i.

Where:

Honolulu, Hawai’i; corner of Ala Moana Drive and Hobron Street (sidewalk in front of Discovery Bay Center)

When:

Monday, September 28, 2015; 1:00 P.M.

Honolulu contact:

Andy cell phone (917) 664-9329

LINKS TO THIS STORY (cut and paste the entire link below and not just the underlined portion):

[1]

http://www.staradvertiser.com/newspremium/20150924_army_raises_boat_from_harbors_bottom.html

[2]

https://contrariancommentary.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/honolulu-news-conference-tuesday-hawaii%E2%80%99-is-al-qaeda-target/

http://contrariancommentary.blogspot.com/2010_11_01_archive.html

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ANDY MARTIN - A BRIEF BIO:

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He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

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Thursday, September 24, 2015

Honolulu News conference today: “2015 Birther Bible” is offered by GOP presidential candidate Andy Martin

Republican Party presidential candidate and Obama author/expert Andy Martin will hold a Honolulu news conference today, Thursday, September 24th, to discuss his updated “2015 “Birther Bible.” Andy, whose original international research in 2005 gave rise to the so-called “Birther” movement, is in Honolulu to study Hawaii’s deficient homeland security preparation given the fact the state is now in range of North Korean missiles. “But the ‘Birther’ controversy follows me wherever I go; what better place to discuss ‘Birtherism’ than the state where Obama began? Hawai’i?” Andy asks. “Once again I will separate myth from reality concerning Obama. Although I am a political opponent of President Obama, I am not opponent of the truth about him and in no way do I endorse apparently ‘false’ claims about his origins and religion. My own scholarly research is continuing and, while my current trip was generated by a tip from homeland security officials, my ongoing findings about Obama remain of significant interest to many Americans.”

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Attention, Honolulu, New York, Washington, National daybook/assignment and Political editors

Announcement of Honolulu conference Thursday September 24

In the sixth of his “Letters From the 2016 Presidential Campaign” Andy offers his reactions to the latest revival of the “Birther’ movement

Republican presidential candidate Andy Martin will hold a Honolulu news conference today, Thursday, September 24th to discuss his “2015 Birther Bible”

Andy issues challenge to Donald Trump: release your evidence

Andy exposed President Barack Obama’s Muslim family heritage ten (10) years ago

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(Honolulu) (September 24, 2015) Republican presidential candidate and Obama author/expert Andy Martin will hold a Honolulu conference today, Thursday, September 24th to provide continuing analysis concerning the emergence and significance of “Birtherism” in the 2016 presidential campaign. He calls this “Letter” a “2015 Birther Bible.”

Dear American:

Greetings from Honolulu, the birthplace of President Barack Obama. Oh, I know, there are many “Birther” claims that he was born elsewhere. Because of those conflicting assertions I am today issuing this “Letter” as my “2015 Birther Bible.” You are free to disagree with my conclusions but I hope you will admit my views are based on the most extensive research by anyone, and are presented clearly and succinctly so you can know where I stand and why.

1. The 2015 revival of “Birtherism”

Earlier this month Donald Trump conducted a town hall meeting in New Hampshire and was asked about the “not American” and “Muslim” Barack Obama. The so-called Birther” movement, a term coined by the mainstream media to disguise their own lack of genuine research into Barack Obama’s origins, was suddenly revived. Recent polls show many Republicans believe Obama was not born in the United States and is a Muslim. By issuing this “2015 Birther Bible” I attempt to address as many of the issues and questions as I can in the limited format of a news column. More to come at my Honolulu news conference later today.

2. “Birtherism” defined

It is important to recognize that “Birtherism” actually has two separate and independent components: (1) a belief that President Barack Obama was not born in Hawai’i, and (2) a belief that Obama is a Muslim. It is critical to distinguish these two issues because the evidence concerning birthplace is far different than the evidence of Obama’s religion. Earlier this week I held a news conference in New York and separated the documentation concerning birthplace from the evidence concerning religion. Briefly, I documented that there was no credible evidence to challenge Obama’s birth in Hawai’i; but the evidence concerning his religion was so conflicting that reasonable people could differ on whether Obama was a Christian or a Muslim (go back to the earlier story for the details).

Again, in looking at issues involving Obama I urge any reader to look carefully at distinctions involving different aspects of his life and character. These distinctions are often glossed over by partisans but they should not be ignored by people trying to find the facts and search for the truth.

3. Ted Cruz is demonstrably wrong: Hillary Clinton did not start “Birtherism”

I am not against Tex Cruz. He is an interesting and intelligent candidate. But he is flat wrong when he claims to have seen an email linking Hillary Clinton to the origins of Birtherism. Cruz’ “email” seems to be of a kind with Carly Fiorina’s viewing of a nonexistent video of a child being butchered. If Cruz has an actual Clinton email linking to Clinton to Birtherism he should release it. Such a document is a major new development. “As far as I know,” in 2008 Clinton and her supporters may have suggested there were secrets about Obama. But she lacked the guts to take him on directly, which is why she lost. In any event, Cruz is only the latest in a long line of people who have tried to twist the truth about Obama into a partisan pretzel.

4. My 2008 Honolulu lawsuit seeking release of Obama’s birth certificate

I went to Hawai’i in October 2008 without the remotest thought of filing a lawsuit. But I was already a marked man in the eyes of Obamabots because my appearance on Sean Hannity’s America had touched off a firestorm (see link [1] below.) Ironically, Fox News stabbed me in the back and smeared me after I appeared on Hannity’s program, which shows you how two-faced that network can be when Rupert Murdoch’s attitudes diverge from reality.

In one of those quirks of creativity, while in Honolulu I was inspired to open a field office virtually overnight and to file the first lawsuit in what ultimately became the ongoing “Birther” movement. Because the Hawai’i judiciary is just as biased as that of any state on the mainland, I was unable to pry loose access to the original 1961 record of Obama’s birth.

Even today, seven years later, I am still not certain who has seen the original “vault” copy of that public record.

5. Why Barack Obama loves “Kenyan Birthers” and dislikes me

Obama is a liar. Maybe even a “congenital” liar. So he loves it when people lie about him. He uses opponents who lie about him as a foil to excite his base. There is not a shred of evidence that would be admissible in any U. S. court of law to sustain the “Kenyan birth” Birthers. But Obama loves to tweak them and agitate them, because they fulfill his own upside-down sense of reality and his contempt for the American people who voted for him not once, but twice. While Obama’s GOP opponents struggle to make sense of his nonsense, Obama himself has no difficulty whatsoever using their errant claims as a pile of political manure to fertilize his paranoid political precincts.

6. How Barack and Michelle Obama contribute to “Birtherism”

Barack Obama and Michele Obama have done a great deal to promote “Birtherism.” They always have a wink-and-a-nod available when questions of his origins arise. In his Kenyan trip earlier this year he met with “relatives,” substantially all of whom are Muslims, while simultaneously denying his own Muslim origins. While antagonism to Obama would certainly exist without any encouragement from him, he has helped his opponents along by stoking the fires concerning the controversy over his origins.

7. Donald Trump’s “investigators” have never surfaced – why?

Why not now? – Andy pulls a “Trump” on Trump

Donald Trump claimed in 2012 that he had sent “investigators” to Hawai’i and that “you would not believe what they are finding” (this is a paraphrase, not the exact language, but send me a link to the actual video if you can find one). Well, Donald, make me a believer. Release this secret evidence. If Trump found startling evidence in 2012 why isn’t that same evidence relevant in 2015? Why is Trump hiding it? In reality, Trump is a bit of a fibber and exaggerator and his looseness with language got the best of him. I seriously doubt Trump had any investigators in Hawai’i finding previously undisclosed evidence.

But because Trump likes to offer Obama incentives to produce, I will do a mini-Trump with Trump himself. If Trump has any evidence, credible evidence such as credit card records, hotel records, etc. to confirm the identity of any investigators he sent to Hawai’i, and he also has “unbelievable” evidence previously undisclosed and unknown to the American people, I will donate $1,000 (sorry, that's all I can afford) to any charity Trump designates if he produces his records and information in a form reasonably admissible in any court of law.

8. Is Frank Marshall Davis Obama’s biological father? – Is “Birtherism” obsolete?

While conducting research in Honolulu in October, 2008 I announced that Frank Marshall Davis was very probably Obama’s biological father (please see [3] below). Ironically, Obama’s adversaries were upset by my new theory. If Davis was/is the father, then Obama is indisputably “natural born” as the term has evolved into current usage. CNN (see link [4] below) went so far as to ask why I had not “apologized” to Obama for being confused by Obama’s body of lies. No apology is due, not now, not then.

My “Davis” theory was ridiculed in 2008. Today, the Davis-as-father theory has become generally accepted in conservative circles and others have followed in my footsteps with their own versions supporting my original research. But for die-hard Obama opponents, the possibility that both his father and mother could be American is a pill they are unlikely to ever swallow. Obama’s opponents are as invested in their lies about him as he is. I want to underscore, as I always do, that the Davis theory is a theory, not a documented fact. Until we have some independent evidence to corroborate the theory it remains just a theory (see Part 12 below).

9. “Knowns” and “unknowns” about Obama

I am confident of only one fact about President Obama. There are still many “unknowns” about the man. I am not going to present an exhaustive list at this time, but here are a couple of tidbits. How did Khalid Al-Mansour come to know of Obama? How was Obama, by his own admission a poor student and impecunious one, admitted to prestigious and very expensive Occidental College? Who paid for Columbia University? Admittedly, these questions go beyond what has been demanded of other presidents. But prior presidents were relatively transparent. That is not the case with the “Mysterious Mr. Obama.” There is much that is unknown and much to be discovered. Which is why I regularly return to Hawai’i to continue to independent scholarly research.

10. Why I walked away from the movement I inadvertently created – Birtherism

Clearly my work and my writing created the Birther movement. From the earliest days, I was the mother lode for Obama doubters, see the 2005 link [5] below. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump may have cut-and-pasted my research, but they did nothing to create that body of evidence.

Unfortunately, over time hucksters began to take my research and distort the results. The “Kenyan birth” claim became fertile fund raising ground for all sorts of operators. My own documentation and scholarly work was unavoidably linked to that of the hucksters, since they drew on my legitimacy as a touchstone for their own layers of exaggeration and misrepresentation. Ultimately, I had to walk away from the Birther movement that I am credited with founding, because I could not be associated with people who were willing to lie about Obama.

I am a political opponent of Obama. But I have no intention or desire to lie about the facts of his origins or life. And, a decade after I first stated writing about Obama, all of my factual assertions have been proven correct, and even my theories have received growing acceptance for their potential veracity. The same cannot be said for those who followed in my footsteps. I have maintained a strict and successful “Chinese Wall” (can we still say that?) between scholarly research and political advocacy. Others have not.

10. My 2009 Honolulu movie on Obama’s origins has proven remarkably accurate as well

In 2009 I produced a film in Honolulu based on what I knew then about Obama. See link [6] below. You must realize that when I began investigating Obama in 2005, virtually nothing was known about him except his own fantasies. Piercing together the facts was a long-term detective operation. I am convinced we are not finished. But my 2009 film on Obama (please see [6] below) presented a fairly accurate interpretation of what was known then; my claims have stood the test of time relatively well.

12. My predictions for the future, after Obama leaves the White House

Unlike some other people who challenge Obama’s origins, I do not have any hesitation separating fact from fiction. And based on what I know about Obama, here is what I predict will happen after Obama leaves the White House.

Obama obviously knows the truth, whether Frank Marshall Davis is or is not his biological father. If Davis is not his biological father, nothing will happen.

If, however, Obama’s biological father really is Frank Marshall Davis, Obama will make that “discovery” after he leaves the White House. Barack Obama-the-Kenyan-father is not an attractive parent. He apparently was a wife beater, he was most likely a bigamist if Obama is actually his son, and he was a drunk who died in an accident caused by a stupor. Who really wants to claim this guy as your father?

Davis, on the other hand, was a colorful and intellectual leftist-communist. Davis also had dark areas to his life, particularly given his apparent sexual proclivities in Hawai’i. But Davis was an artist, and Obama’s professed artistic leanings parallel Davis.’ If Davis is really Obama’s father, the “former” president will find a way to make that known after leaving the White House and when that reality can no longer expose him to political risk. We humans find it difficult to live a lie, and the internal urge to confess is a part of our DNA. I can’t prove Davis is the father, but I have a visceral belief in my theory that he is. Time will tell whether I was right about Obama, once again.

13. Why I am a presidential candidate and what I hope to accomplish as a candidate

Unlike close-to-a-dozen GOP “presidential” candidates who go around telling us what they will do “when they are president,” I do not expect to win the nomination. It would be nice, but the likelihood is about 1 in 10 million. So why am I running?

I first went to Washington fifty years ago to do research for a paper on esoteric U. S. Senate rules. I went back the following year as a political operative. In a public career spanning a half century, I have never been found to have lied or distorted the truth. On the contrary, I have often exposed liars in politics, government and business. As I like to say with a sense of humor, I am the “only living American who has been on three presidential enemies’ lists, Nixon’s, George W. Bush’s and Obama’s.” I must be doing something right.

And so, perhaps I can make a small contribution as a truth-teller and honest man in the maelstrom of 2016 presidential politics. We can debate that fact.

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Copies of Andy’s original 2008 book on Obama are available from the publisher (see below).

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September 24 Honolulu news conference details:

Who:

Presidential candidate and Obama author/expert Andy Martin

What:

Andy Martin presents a “2015 Birther Bible” and discusses the ongoing and seemingly endless controversy about President Obama’s origins and religion

Where:

Honolulu, Hawai’i; corner of Ala Moana Drive and Atkisson

When:

Thursday, September 24, 2015; 4:00 P.M.

Honolulu contact:

Andy cell phone (917) 664-9329

LINKS TO THIS STORY (cut and paste the entire link below and not just the underlined portion):

[1] Hannity video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgjQhnDEGSk

[2]

https://contrariancommentary.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/obama-hawaii-investigation-moves-into-high-gear-with-lawsuit-seeking-release-of-birth-records/

[3]

https://contrariancommentary.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/barack-obama-is-not-barack-obama/

[4] CNN video: http://www.youtube.com/v/mxrDlugBj4o

[5] http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1189687/posts

[6] Hawai’i movie: http://www.boycotthawaii.com/hawaii_movie.htm

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Tuesday, September 22, 2015

NEW YORK NEWS CONFERENCE: Obama expert Andy Martin on the media frenzy over Donald Trump’s Muslim issues

Republican Party presidential candidate and Obama author/expert Andy Martin will hold a New York City news conference today, Tuesday, September 22nd, to discuss the media reaction to the New Hampshire town hall meeting where Donald Trump was confronted by a man claiming “Obama-is-a-Muslim.” Andy is the man whose original research in 2005 created the anti-Obama “birther” movement (see note [1] below). Andy leaves for Hawai’i on Wednesday (23rd) to research the North Korean missile risk to the Aloha State and also to continue his scholarly research into President Barack Obama’s origins. “I have taken a new look at the ‘Obama is a Muslim’ question,” Andy says, “and Tuesday I will offer some surprising conclusions. I have also been surprised by some of the media reaction to the Muslim controversy. I am also planning a follow-up to Ben Carson’s remarks and the reaction to his arguments against an Islamic president (that will be in the form of a campaign letter, not a news conference).”

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Attention, New York, Washington, National daybook/assignment and Political editors

Announcement of New York news conference Tuesday September 22

Republican presidential candidate Andy Martin will hold a New York news conference today, Tuesday, September 22nd to provide further insight into the “Obama-is-a-Muslim” incident at a Donald Trump Town hall meeting in New Hampshire last Thursday evening

Andy exposed President Barack Obama’s Muslim family heritage ten (10) years ago

In a surprising new conclusion, Andy says Americans should be free to reject the media’s demand that Americans accept that President Barack Obama is a Christian

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(New York) (September 22, 2015) Republican presidential candidate and Obama author/expert Andy Martin will hold a New York news conference today, Tuesday, September 22nd to provide continuing analysis and surprising new conclusions as Andy continues to study President Barack Obama and the 2016 presidential campaign.

Andy will be in Honolulu Wednesday September 23rd to research the North Korean missile threat to the Aloha State and also to continue his research into the personal history, religion and life of President Obama. Andy first wrote about Obama’s Muslim origins ten years ago in 2005, and inadvertently created the “birther movement,” which he subsequently abandoned when attacks on Obama ceased to be fact-based and failed to meet my standards for scholarly accuracy.

“I don’t mind being critical of Obama,” Andy says. “But my independent scholarly research is as free of political content as I can keep it; I try to find the facts and search for the truth about Obama. Over the past decade it has been a fascinating experience. Separately, I also write political criticism and analysis and that is opinion-based in nature.

“After my extensive analysis of the Trump/Muslim/New Hampshire incident I was planning to do a brief wrap-up. But as the story developed, and has continued to develop, I reexamined my own views and came to the conclusion a more extensive follow-up was necessary. I was also surprised by some of the media’s reaction. And so I have four areas of discussion to present on Tuesday.

“First, there is some of the surprising media’s response to the Obama/Trump/Muslim matter. Initially, I was surprised by the unusually balanced analysis review by my old antagonist David Weigel [see [2] below). Years ago Weigel tried to pump up his own credentials by falsely attacking me and trying to link my research on Obama with decades-old litigation having absolutely no relevance in the present. But there was Weigel saying Donald Trump may not have handled the New Hampshire inquisitor that badly after all. I was further surprised when my old colleague from the Daily Illini, Roger Simon, came up with a negative view of Obama’s religiosity (see [2] below).

“Monday night I was monitoring MSNBC when John MacArthur (note [3]) essentially called Obama a fake Christian, providing some insight into how some ordinary citizens have soured on Obama’s ultimately vacuous claims of religiosity.

“Here is the surprising aspect of the Muslim question: Obama is not on the ballot in 2016. So why are people still questioning his religion? Why are media reporting these questions? This makes no sense. What gives? In my opinion, particularly in 2008 and then again in 2012, voters were deprived by Republican presidential candidates of any meaningful inquiry into Obama-the-man. John McCain and Mitt Romney are both reviled today for running flaccid campaigns against Obama. The default by Republican campaigners to challenge Obama in 2008 and 2012 has left a pent-up frustration in much of the electorate, particularly among Republicans and conservatives. So although Obama is not going to be on the ballot, people still want to ‘vent’ about the way his specious religious claims have affected his governance.

“Bottom line: Obama may not be a candidate in 2016, but ‘Obama’ is very much going to be an issue in 2016, even as to the manner in which the media covered-up and suppressed any inquiry into Obama’s questionable religious claims. Just read Roger Simon [2] and you will understand what I mean. So, far from dying out, the issue of Obama’s religion is going to continue to be an active subterranean issue in the 2016 campaign. Occasionally it may burst into public view, as it did at the Trump event.

“Second I separated out the issues raised in New Hampshire into (1) ‘birth’ and (2) ‘religion.’ (see Part Three below). As to Obama’s birth, I have researched that matter for ten years, and will be back in Hawai’i on Wednesday checking and rechecking my research. I will also be looking for the heirs of Frank Marshall Davis to expand on my theory (not fact) that Davis may have been Obama’s biological parent. But whether you believe in the Obama or Davis theory of parentage for the president, I have never seen any evidence to question the place of Obama’s birth, which I firmly believe is Hawai’i.

“You can’t force people to accept the Hawaiian birth, but there is simply no evidence that would be admissible in a court of law to support any alternative theory. I have never wavered in my belief that Obama was born in Hawai’i (which is why Obama’s posse particularly despises me; Obama’s supporters love Kenyan ‘birthers’). My belief in the Hawaiian birth is why I abandoned the ‘birther’ movement which I engendered, when agitators sought to promote the Kenyan birth theory without any genuine evidence to support that claim.

“Third, I was somewhat surprised when I found myself having second thoughts about whether it is ‘wrong’ for American citizens to reject the media’s claims that Obama is a Christian and to believe instead that Obama is a Muslim. The place of birth in my opinion is a solid fact. It is difficult to have a conflicting view based on the evidence.

“But the question of religion, as I took a fresh look at the issue this week, is entirely different question. While I think there is no evidence to contradict the Hawaiian birth, there is abundant and conflicting evidence to support a belief that Obama is in reality a Muslim despite his professions to the contrary.

“There is no conflicting ‘evidence’ to weigh on the place of birth. Hawai’i is ‘it.’ But on the question of Obama’s religion, there is a mass of conflicting evidence. So, despite the media’s efforts to ridicule and demean the roughly 50% of Americans and Republicans or ‘whomevers’ believe that Obama is a Muslim, I have come to the new and somewhat surprising conclusion that based on the large body of conflicting evidence, people do have a basis to express differing opinions on Obama’s religion.

“You or I or Joe Six-pack can review Obama’s ‘Cairo speech,’ the Muslim apology tour, the kissing of the hand of the Saudi king, the refusal to use the term ‘radical Islam’ and the mountain of conflicting claims about Obama’s religious sympathies, and reach differing conclusions as to his religious beliefs.

“I have previously stated that under my view of Christianity, anyone who calls themselves a Christian can be considered a Christian. On that basis I accept Obama’s claim he is a ‘Christian.’ But like John MacArthur on MSNBC Monday night ([3] below) it is not unreasonable to view Obama’s claims of Christianity as ‘fake’ or contrived. Roger Simon ([2] below) came to approximately the same conclusion.

“And so today I propound a new paradigm for the media: there is simply no basis to argue about where Obama was born. But based on the huge quantity of conflicting evidence about Obama’s religious beliefs, reasonable people can weigh the evidence and individually come to differing or conflicting conclusions that Obama is either a Christian or a Muslim. I am a little surprised to be reaching this conclusion in 2015, but I now view the question of Obama’s religion as an ‘opinion’ issue as opposed to the question of Obama’s place of birth which I continue to believe it a matter of ‘fact.’

“Therefore, I believe the media are wrong to ridicule the (and I am not trying to be numerically exact) the roughly half of the Republican population that has doubts about Obama’s religious beliefs and affiliation. There is abundant evidence in conflict from which people can reach contrary and differing opinions.

“Fourth and finally, I examined the ‘media conspiracy theory’ and then Trump’s reaction. It is nearly a week since the Trump event. Rochester is a small town in New Hampshire. How is it possible that with all of the media present no one has identified the questioner who asked Trump the ‘Muslim’ question? I am suspicious that media are not looking for the questioner because his anonymity feeds the media’s anti-Trump agenda. How is it possible that grainy convenience store surveillance tapes are routinely used to find neighborhood burglars and the clear pictures of the man in Rochester have not led to identification and an interview?

“As for Trump, the Obama-is-a-Muslim question has been pure ‘profit.’ There is no evidence that Trump is linked to the man. The questioner has awakened anti-Obama activists (see [4] below). The media have relentlessly reminded Republicans and conservatives of Trump’s own ‘birther’ history. And as manifested by the questioner and the reaction, Birtherism remains a potent force in national politics. Anger at Obama and the Republicans’ ‘betrayals’ of the ‘base’ are increasing, not subsiding.

“For Trump, the controversy has been pure political profit. Right now, Trump is trying to win a party nomination, not a partisan election. The renewed birther controversy reminds voters that whatever the merits of Trump’s arguments, his insistence that Obama release his birth certificate led Obama to do just that. Once again, Trump got results where others had not.

“Wednesday I will be in Hawai’i continuing my scholarly research on Obama. Calling all Frank Marshall Davis heirs! What was originally planned as a trip primarily focused on the North Korean missile threat to Hawai’i has morphed into more of an Obama inquiry due to an anonymous man in Rochester, New Hampshire,” Andy will state Tuesday.

NEXT: Dr. Carson and a Muslim president.

Copies of Andy’s book on Obama are available from the publisher (see below).

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September 22 New York news conference details:

Who:

Presidential candidate and Obama author/expert Andy Martin

What:

Andy Martin discusses Obama’s religion and media response to the trump incident

Where:

909 Third Avenue, public sidewalk in front of FDR Station post office entrance, New York (under the “909” canopy in case of rain)

When:

Tuesday, September 22, 2015; 2:00 P.M.

LINKS TO THIS STORY (cut and paste the entire link below and not just the underlined portion):

[1] http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1189687/posts

[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/09/18/why-nobody-can-agree-on-what-donald-trump-said-about-muslims/

http://pjmedia.com/diaryofamadvoter/2015/09/20/is-obama-a-muslim-what-trump-should-have-said/?singlepage=true

[3] http://billmoyers.com/guest/john-r-rick-macarthur/

[4]

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/print/is-obama-a-muslim

New citations after emailing:

WHAT OTHERS SAY ABOUT ANDY MARTIN:

ANDY MARTIN - A BRIEF BIO:

USA

He holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law and is a former adjunct professor of law at the City University of New York (LaGuardia CC, Bronx CC).

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