They THREATENED to attack the tax-exempt status of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations? [UPDATED]


THREATENED?

When I heard that line about how they had to disinvite everybody political from the anti-Ahmadinejad rally because of the IRS, I figured that it was nonsense, for pretty much the same reasons as Allahpundit. GOP/Dem disparity has never stopped anybody before and it’s a convenient face-save for a group that has to deal with a Democratic Presidential candidate in the middle of what is, frankly, an epic hissy fit. I mean, what are they going to do, really? It’s not the CoPoMJO’s fault that they’re in this mess. So, you disinvite everybody and grit your teeth.

But apparently there’s just a little bit more to it than that.

Sources: Intense Pressure Led To Palin UN Snub

CBS 2 HD Has Learned Democrats Threatened To Attack Jewish Groups’ Tax Exempt Status Over VP Nominee Invite

Hillary Clinton won’t be speaking at Monday’s anti-Iran rally at the United Nations — and neither will Republican Sarah Palin or any other politicians for that matter.

[snip]

The groups sponsoring the rally against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaking at the UN were reportedly told, “it could jeopardize their tax exempt status” if they had Palin and not Clinton or Democratic VP candidate Joe Biden on hand.

So all politicians were disinvited, most prominently, Palin.

“It’s an absolute shame that this has happened,” Hikind said. “To threaten organizations … to threaten the Conference of Presidents that if you don’t withdraw the invitation to Gov. Palin we’re going to look into your tax exempt status … that’s McCarthyism.”

[UPDATE]: see also here, here, here, here, and here, via here.

It need hardly be said…

Right, Democrats sometimes read this site.

It needs to be said that there is a definite difference between using the IRS as an excuse, and having IRS used on you as a weapon. Again, for our lurkers: the second is wrong - and in this case, it’s also a blunder. This ham-fisted little exercise in applied political extortion has ticked off just a few too many people; and I look forward to watching it unfold. I know, I know, normally it wouldn’t. Then again, normally this sort of story doesn’t have quite so many people ready to speak on the record to a media that’s actually ready to let them, so let’s see where it goes, shall we?

Moe Lane

PS: Senator Barack Obama, just in case nobody has ever told you: you are a schlemiel. Next time, let Hillary handle the problem herself. She’s better at this sort of thing than you are; for starters, she’d have picked somebody besides Wexler.

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Welcome to our world

clintonformccain Saturday, September 20th at 12:10PM EDT (link)

Why do you think so many Clinton supporters are voting for McCain?

Most of us started out this cycle in late 2006 thinking that Obama was too inexperienced to be President, but a good Democratic standard bearer eight years down the road.

That was before we watched him and his goons in action for the last 18 months. Remember, these are people who thought nothing of calling Bill and Hillary Clinton racists. Now, you may have many reasons to disagree with Bill or Hillary Clinton, but racist? Good lord, Hillary started her political career working for the Children’s Defense Fund under Marian Wright Edelman.

The stories of pressure brought to bear on black elected officials like John Lewis and Charlie Rangel are well-known in Dem circles.

That’s what makes all the “unifier” nonsense so absurd. The guy specializes in breaking coalitions APART. I mean… how crazy is it for a Democratic nominee to threaten Jewish groups?

 

Just another example

thefruitcakedave Saturday, September 20th at 12:15PM EDT (link)

Free and fair my a**. loyal opposision my ass. Country first or Obama first.Obama is uaing all of the tactics he learnt years ago:

And suppressing dissent. Rebuffed by the Justice Department in their efforts to prosecute conservatives for running ads critical of Obama’s ties to Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers, the campaign is using an army of supporters to mob radio and television stations daring to air investigations of the relationship. The foot soldiers receive their marching orders through “Obama Action Wires” and bombard critics with disruptive phone calls.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=OWI1ZTdjNzVhYTc2ODgzYTZlYjExYjY2MGI3N2U3MTk=

 

When Obama loses, as he certainly will, what will

janis Saturday, September 20th at 12:29PM EDT (link)

happen to the Democrat Party? How will it be reconstituted if it has to reunite all these different factions again? While Obama may then be outed as the flop of a candidate that he is, all those in leadership positions who ran to embrace him instead of the Clinton wing of the party will be out in the cold again, won’t they?

Perhaps this is the opportunity that the Dems need to do some much-needed housecleaning–or just burn the monster down and rebuild from scratch.

 

cut them off at the knees

dinogroup Saturday, September 20th at 12:40PM EDT (link)

I wonder how the news agencies would react to the posted tactics if the republicans did the same!!!

 

Who?

MCPO_Airdale Saturday, September 20th at 1:03PM EDT (link)

The question is, “Who is the ‘they’ that threatened them?”

 

The Republican Party

Wintergreen Saturday, September 20th at 1:06PM EDT (link)

would be silly not to make an ad about this.

The DNC suppresses free speech–with threats if necessary–for anyone who disagrees with their extremist liberalism.

We CANNOT allow Obama to take over the justice department.

Let me reiterate my question

clintonformccain Saturday, September 20th at 1:13PM EDT (link)

Perhaps this is the opportunity that the Dems need to do some much-needed housecleaning–or just burn the monster down and rebuild from scratch.

Why do you think so many Clinton Democrats are voting for McCain? To be honest, many of us see no future for the Democratic Party unless it is blown up. The primaries were rigged like an election in a third-world bannana republic. Imagine if the scorecard going into SuperTuesday had been:

*Obama: *IA, SC

Clinton: NH, NV, FL, MI

Instead, we got the DNC engineering an Orwellian dismissal of massive Clinton wins in two major swing states and tarring the only Democratic President in 30 years as a racist while Obama quoted Malcolm X to fire up his base in SC. Despicable.

We look forward to the answer. <NT>

Moe Lane Saturday, September 20th at 1:18PM EDT (link)
 
 

Is CBS 2 HD in NYC some rogue outfit?

smagar Saturday, September 20th at 2:06PM EDT (link)

I mean…aren’t you surprised they did this?

IIRC, NYC local television stations are places where on-air talent like to work, to gain experience and visibility. Then, they step up to the major networks.

My guess is—the Obama and Clinton camps figured that the friendly NYC media would starve this story of oxygen, and it would wither away.

Doesn’t look that way, does it?

“Who will stand/On either hand/And guard this bridge with me?” (Macaulay)

 

Dem Nut-jobs

SilveradoGuy Saturday, September 20th at 2:09PM EDT (link)

Anyone else seen this site? It’s got some funny stuff about Obama:

http://smouch.net/lol/

 

Interesting

Steven Willis Saturday, September 20th at 4:36PM EDT (link)

Indeed, if a 501(c)(3) organization invites one candidate and not another - well, that is suspicious. If it is politically motivated - or if the invited candidate participates as a candidate, then that is not allowed.

But, Clinton is not a candidate, so her involvement would be irrelevant. Biden should be invited if Palin is invited.

The potential consequences are several:

  1. Loss of exempt status (extremely unlikely as I can only identify one such litigated instance in decades).

  2. A cautionary letter from the IRS not to do it again (realistic possibility).

  3. A small tax under 527 for political expenditures by a non-political organization. (Very unlikely, but possible).

Of course, if I represented the organizations, I would have advised they invite Biden.

For someone else to threaten them with an accusation is extortion - likely a felony where it occurred.

So, who did the threatening is indeed the important question.

“Let it be said, I fought the good fight, I finished the race, I kept the faith.”
Paul, Second Timothy 4:7, The New Covenant.

Steve Willis
Professor of Law
University of Florida College of Law

 

Puts a whole new spin on the whole thing.

Steph C Saturday, September 20th at 6:59PM EDT (link)

Remember Clinton withdrew from the rally because she learned Palin would be there. Now it’s not allowed for any pols to show?

Interesting.One wonders what she knows and when she knew it.

“[I]f the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them.” –Candidus in the Boston Gazette, 1772
Hillbilly Politics

 

Is it me or is it the 30's again

thefruitcakedave Saturday, September 20th at 9:23PM EDT (link)

having read thought most of these links and the corresponding comments, not an easy task for a dislexic carpenter, I found this one to be better than most:

Damiano Says:
September 20th, 2008 at 11:55 am
Okay folks… this is war.

The MSM lack of coverage, investigations and outright bias has gone on long enough. We’ve joked about it and blogged about it for months and years on end. Most of us have sent off some emails to the networks, offending individuals and relevant advertisers.. all to no effect.

Here’s the problem. We’ve been playing by the rules while the other side has been doing everything possible to get around the rules and play their own, unencumbered game. This is the Red Coats vs. Guerrilla Warfare and we’ve been the Red Coats. While we march in a disciplined, orderly fashion according to the standard rules of civilized warfare, the other side is hiding in bushes ambushing us.

It’s time to change the battle plan.

Make no mistake- Obama is inciting riots on his side. He’s been using every dirty Chitown trick in the book and he’s just getting warmed up.

Here’s the first step, use his own tactics against him- if there is an Obama rally in your vicinity, GO AND GET IN HIS FACE. This group did it to great effect and The One lost control and began to melt down.

Folks, we were taught by Gandhi, MLK and the Dali Lama what the power of organized and insistent peaceful resistance and peaceful civil disobedience can be. We’ve got to take these proven methods PEACEFULLY, FORCEFULLY and CONSISTENTLY into every hall Obama shows up at, every live broadcast we can find and to every organization that is propping up this naked emperor.

Honor the our Country, our Forefathers and the Founders of this Land. Honor John McCain and the others like him who fought, were tortured and often died to protect our inalienable rights.

America is under assault again, but this time it’s from someone who we’ve up until now treated as one of our own. Well, he has show consistently that he has no desire to honor and protect the greatness of this country- he wants a new world order that will honor his own narcissistic greatness.

I leave you with the words of and request of on of the greatest men to every serve our country:

I’m going to fight for my cause every day as your President. I’m going to fight to make sure every American has every reason to thank God, as I thank Him: that I’m an American, a proud citizen of the greatest country on earth, and with hard work, strong faith and a little courage, great things are always within our reach. Fight with me. Fight with me.

Fight for what’s right for our country.

Fight for the ideals and character of a free people.

Fight for our children’s future.

Fight for justice and opportunity for all.

Stand up to defend our country from its enemies.

Stand up for each other; for beautiful, blessed, bountiful America.

Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight. Nothing is inevitable here. We’re Americans, and we never give up. We never quit. We never hide from history. We make history.

Seeing as how most Repubs have jobs and other responsibilies

aesthete Sunday, September 21st at 12:54AM EDT (link)

we wouldn’t really be able to do that on a large scale anyways. Notice how all of these rallies and protests are mostly filled with either young bucks or really, really, really old people — in other words, people who don’t necessarily have the commitments that those who belong in middle class families would (to kids, workweek, etc.).

“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.”
-G. K. Chesterton

“To be ‘cured’ against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
-C.S. Lewis

 
 

This was a stupid move

Adjoran Sunday, September 21st at 3:05AM EDT (link)

But it fits in with the Obama theme of silencing criticism “by any means necessary.”

They shut down the audience participation to a liberal Chicago radio talk show when it dared host first Stanley Kurtz (who was looking into the Obama-Ayers connection through the suddenly-secret papers of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge), and later David Freddoso, who wrote a detailed and factual book about Obama’s record of failure, lies, cronyism, and blind ambition. Obama supporters crashed the website with emails and tied up the phone lines reading campaign talking points (although, when questioned, none of the callers was able to explain or elaborate on their vigorous assertions) to prevent “normal” discourse from taking place.

The threat to use the IRS fits in nicely.

If you like the way Obama’s brownshirts deal with political opposition now, just wait until they control the Justice Department and the IRS.

 

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