October 8, 2008, - 11:23 am
Hezbollah/Arafat Senator Has Prominent McCain Role; Detroit Reporter Lies About McCain Dumpee/Hezbo Fan
By Debbie Schlussel
It’s been well-known to me for several months that former U.S. Senator and Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham–a big Hezbollah supporter, who sent $86 million of our money to the terrorist group for use in South Lebanon, and one of two Senators who refused to condemn Yasser Arafat and his homicide bombings in 1999 and 2000–is heavily involved in the McCain Presidential campaign. I know this because another person closely tied to him has a scary and prominent role in the McCain campaign–a separate column about that person is coming very soon.
But, today, in a fraudulent, whining piece of propaganda on behalf of Muslim Arabs in the Detroit Free Press, “reporter”/fabricator Kathy Gray–in the one truthful part of the article–confirms Abraham’s role in the McCain campaign. That should concern all Americans concerned with America’s policy toward terrorists, since it seems that John McCain is only concerned with Islamic terrorists in Iraq, but everywhere else (like Lebanon and Israel), not so much.
When McCain still was competing in Michigan, he enlisted former U.S. Sen. Spencer Abraham and Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard, both from Lebanese-Christian families, to connect with community leaders.
That much I believe, since I know it for a fact. (Read the complete details on Abraham, the McCain surrogate.)
The McCain campaign isn’t really bothered by Hezbollah. As I noted back in April, when I first contacted the McCain campaign about Ali Jawad, McCain’s top Michigan fundraiser, Ron Weiser (who is Jewish), told me “We don’t care about the Hezbollah stuff.” That’s disturbing, especially since Weiser has twice been an Ambassador appointed by Bush, and McCain would similarly reward him.
Now you can see why I’ll be holding my nose very tightly when I vote for McCain in November. It’s only a matter of “worse” versus “worser.”
But also disturbing is the fraud in the rest of the article. Kathleen Gray–who has falsely reported and lied about facts in other stories she’s covered that involve me (she’s had personal issues with me since she covered my first race for the Michigan House in 1990: she’s a leftist and can’t bear telling the truth regarding people with whom she disagrees)–claims in her article that John McCain dumped Ali Jawad from his campaign because he’s an Arab and based on false allegations:
An Arab American fund-raiser from Dearborn was removed from his volunteer role on McCain’s finance committee after a conservative blogger claimed he had ties to terrorists, despite his denial and his history of support for Republican candidates.
As the “conservative blogger” to whom she’s referring, here are the facts, as she well knows, because she was forced to include them back in May when another Free Press reporter co-wrote a story about this with her:
Ali Jawad pleaded guilty to insurance fraud in federal court and was ordered to pay more than $250,000 in fines. He also openly praised Hezbollah in a 2002 Detroit News article and again in a May interview on Detroit radio station WJR-AM. He’s never denied it. He’s proud of it.
Ali Jawad has never been a Republican Party fundraiser, has never raised a dime for the party. The only thing he’s a fundraiser for is Hezbollah, since he was selling Hezbollah cigarettes in his gas stations and Lebanese intelligence sources say he gave several hundred thousand dollars money to a Hezbollah-allied member of the Lebanese Parliament.
Jawad hasn’t donated to Republicans, either, since 2004, and at that point he didn’t give much. He’s also a huge donor to pan-Islamist Democrats.
Read the complete details on Hezbollah agent and federally convicted insurance frauder Ali Jawad.
Oh, and you should also note that Ali Dagher, who is quoted in this article, makes no bones about his support for Hezbollah, hatred of Israel and Jews, and has sent me threatening e-mails. None of that is noted in this whining article. Why would any candidate want the support of someone like that? If they do, that’s a problem. Not the other way around.
So much for “reporting” by Kathy Gray. She just writes what she wants, facts be damned. And this isn’t the first time. There’s a reason I call her “Jayson Blair in a Skirt“.
Saying John McCain dumped him because he’s a Muslim and Arab is like saying Barack Obama dumped Tony Rezko because he’s an innocent Arab-American businessman.
And you wonder why the Free Press continues to lose money and lay off staffers. Here’s hoping Kathy Gray is one of the next to go. She’s not a reporter. She’s a propagandist.
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I called Kathy Gray to ask her why she lied about Ali Jawad, when she was forced to tell the whole story back in May, when another Free Press reporter co-wrote the piece with her. She refused and hung up on me, because she knows she lied and fabricated and there’s no justification. Real professional, Kathy.
She doesn’t do her homework. She does propaganda.
A great candidate for the Janet Cooke/Jayson Blair Award for “Excellence” in (Faux) “Journalism”.
None of the candidates are perfect. You’re not going to convince me not to vote for McCain-Palin. Still going to vote for them (the GOP) even though being in NY I am effectively disenfranchised.
Ripper on October 8, 2008 at 1:10 pm