Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – D’Souzaphone edition
Tommy T
Morning, folks!
Today’s Obsession is courtesy of my Facebook friend and fellow bassist Stave Simels, who alerted me to this so that I was able to watch it unfold in real time last Thursday.
Without further adone, I’d like to present: Souza? I hardly know ya!
Posted on 1/23/2014 5:57:47 PM by CincyRichieRich
(Reuters) – Dinesh D’Souza, a conservative commentator and best-selling author, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for arranging excessive campaign contributions to a candidate for the U.S. Senate.
According to an indictment made public on Thursday in federal court in Manhattan, D’Souza around August 2012 reimbursed people who he had directed to contribute $20,000 to the candidate’s campaign. The candidate was not named in the indictment.
Attempts to reach D’Souza and a lawyer representing him were unsuccessful.
D’Souza was charged in the indictment with one count of making illegal contributions in the names of others, and one count of causing false statements to be made.
Federal law in 2012 limited primary and general election campaign contributions to $2,500 each, for a total of $5,000, from any individual to any one candidate.
“As we have long said, this Office and the FBI take a zero tolerance approach to corruption of the electoral process,” the U.S. Attorney for Manhattan, Preet Bharara, said in a statement released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Bharara is an Obama appointee.
Born in Mumbai, India, D’Souza, 52, is a former policy adviser to President Ronald Reagan, and has been affiliated with conservative organizations such as the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
He also directed a 2012 film critical of President Barack Obama, “2016: Obama’s America,” and has written books including “The End of Racism,” “Life After Death: The Evidence” and “Obama’s America: Unmaking the American Dream.”
D’Souza campaigned in 2012 on behalf of Wendy Long, a lawyer and Republican who sought to unseat Democratic incumbent Kirsten Gillibrand as New York’s junior senator. Long graduated from Dartmouth College in 1982, a year before D’Souza.
Long could not be reached for comment on Thursday.
This man is a patriot. He was sought after because he spoke the truth; his movie was dead on. Does he have a good legal defense? Does it matter since 0bvummer controls all three branches of gov’t? Let’s pray and petition God for his freedom…he is one of us.
You’ll get no argument from me. He’s definitely one of you.
To: CincyRichieRich
Political arrest. Federal crime.
FIFY
Bad state of affairs we’ve come to.
2 posted on 1/23/2014 5:59:19 PM by ifinnegan
I’ll say.
Who’s responsible for this horrid partisan witch hunt, anyway?
Those Democrats will stop at nothing to see that money launderingfree speech legal contributions are against the law!
The McCain-Feingold Bill is a bill that was introduced to the United States Senate in 2002 in an attempt to reform campaign financing in the United States. The bill passed after some modifications and was signed into law by then-President George Bush.
Oh. Never mind. Dinesh, don’t tell.
To: ifinnegan
That’s exactly where we’re at in this country . A man can be arrested and indicted for alleged abuses.
Duh. That’s what happens when you break a Federal law. A man can also be arrested and indicted for running Ponzi schemes. And robbing banks. And RICO. And tax evasion. And counterfeiting.
If anyone believes we are anymore a free people, I have some swampland I’d like to sell them.
4 posted on 1/23/2014 6:00:47 PM by rarestia (It’s time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
I had no idea the Tree of Liberty grew in swampland. You learn something every day.
To: rarestia
Time to consider: Underground Railroad II
7 posted on 1/23/2014 6:03:07 PM by Covenantor (“Men are ruled…by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern.” Chesterton)
Oh, that’s rich. So the Freeperati are going to set up a clandestine conduit whereby rich wingnut welfare recipients can be housed in participants’ homes and smuggled up North down South?
Underground Railroad II – electric boogaloo!
What could possibly be the motivation for this slaverypersecution prosecution of this True Patriot??
To: CincyRichieRich
Probably won’t be making any more movies about B0 Soebarkah.
9 posted on 1/23/2014 6:03:38 PM by Zuse
How dare they go all Joseph Stalin on this upstanding moral paragon of Conservative Values??
To: CincyRichieRich
“As we have long said, this Office and the FBI take a zero tolerance approach to corruption of the electoral process,” …
Oh, puh-leeeze. They mean, “a zero tolerance approach to Republicans.”
I haven’t heard anything about D’Souza since he tried to persuade Nondenominational Christians (his constituency) that hooking up with a nubile young groupie while he was still married should be perfectly acceptable.
10 posted on 1/23/2014 6:03:47 PM by Tax-chick (Well, that went badly.)
To: Tax-chick
“I haven’t heard anything about D’Souza since he tried to persuade Nondenominational Christians (his constituency) that hooking up with a nubile young groupie while he was still married should be perfectly acceptable.”
What???
45 posted on 1/23/2014 6:23:53 PM by 88keys (“work and purpose”…election 2014!)
To: 88keys; Tax-chick
That’s how/why D’Souza left his job as President of King’s College.
The ‘young groupie’ was Denise Odie Joseph, who was also married at the time.
50 posted on 1/23/2014 6:28:28 PM by Scoutmaster (I’d rather be at Philmont)
Never mind that! This is serious stuff!
To: ifinnegan
Hitler’s Germany all over again!
46 posted on 1/23/2014 6:25:44 PM by abclily
Or maybe not.
I remember when Hitler had his political opponents shotgassedgiven a handgun with one bullet indicted in Federal Court!
McDonnell, Christie, Walker, and other Republicans/conservatives are being targeted for elimination.
Maybe this is why Beck has toned it down, even apologizing on Fox News.
17 posted on 1/23/2014 6:06:23 PM by Extremely Extreme Extremist (15 years of FReeping! Congratulations EEE!!)
Ah yes.
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
“McDonnell, Christie, Walker, and other Republicans/conservatives are being targeted for elimination.”
Besides Scott Walker, you didn’t name another Conservative.
23 posted on 1/23/2014 6:08:40 PM by Howie66 (Molon Labe, Traitors!)
Oh well, back to the Soviet purge.
To: virgil
A lot of Hillary Clinton contributors got in the same kind of trouble a few years back, as did a major Biden donor. The practice and prosecutions for it seem to be pretty common. Usually it’s some corporate executive who takes a risk illegally reimbursing his employees. D’Souza, a pretty small fish who acted out of idealism, should have steered clear of the practice.
74 posted on 1/23/2014 6:46:19 PM by x
To: ifinnegan
“Political arrest.”
Yup.
The Communists now control all aspects of the US government.
76 posted on 1/23/2014 6:49:07 PM by blam
That’s more like it!
So – let’s hear no more about this alleged groupie-diddling and stay on track.
To: Tax-chick; Scoutmaster
Thanks for the up-dates, FRiends!
I haven’t seen D’Souza on the talk show circuit lately…this explains a lot!
I would just say, IMHO, that meeting one’s spouse’s needs is important, but it works both ways, doesn’t it? and characterizing the younger woman in question as a “nubile young groupie” is perhaps a biased description?
IF this change of relationships was done above-board, as it seems to have been, then it’s none of my business, I will not criticize, and I will keep my opinion to myself, not having personal acquaintance with any of these people, and not making judgement without knowing all the facts.
Nevertheless, I’m sure it’s been difficult for all involved, and I’m sorry for them…I hope their lives go forward, better!
81 posted on 1/23/2014 6:51:30 PM by 88keys (“work and purpose”…election 2014!)
To: 88keys; Scoutmaster
characterizing the younger woman in question as a “nubile young groupie” is perhaps a biased description
Sure it is. I’m a 47-year-old faithful wife. If my husband finds his soulmate in a 20-something married employee, “nubile young groupie” is the least of the verbiage my highly compensated attorney will offer.
84 posted on 1/23/2014 6:56:13 PM by Tax-chick (Well, that went badly.)
Ouchie.
To: Starboard
I see more and more of the seeds of a future revolt being planted down the road.
25 posted on 1/23/2014 6:09:39 PM by Biggirl (”Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
To: Howie66
Dictatorship.
27 posted on 1/23/2014 6:11:31 PM by Biggirl (”Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
To: ifinnegan
A sure sign that this nation is closer to a second American revolution, mark my words.
31 posted on 1/23/2014 6:12:55 PM by Biggirl (”Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
To: Starboard
Revolt is coming.
26 posted on 1/23/2014 6:10:50 PM by Biggirl (”Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
To: INVAR
Revolt is coming.
65 posted on 1/23/2014 6:42:18 PM by Biggirl (”Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
Wait for it…
To: Biggirl
Revolt is coming.
I’m here. Sorry I’m late.
73 posted on 1/23/2014 6:45:36 PM by Revolting cat!(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious! We reserve the right to serve refuse to anyone!)
To: CincyRichieRich
D’Souza, O’Keefe, Hollywood conservative group Abe, and Steyn’s circus trial in DC. Not only did harassment from the IRS not stop, it has grown. This is a purge. These fascists are embarking on destroying opponents like a third world dictatorship. First they will go for all those who have stuck their heads up, those who are ‘famous’, but they will work their way down to the tea party rank and file. Destroying a portion at a time. Lord Jesus you tarry too long.
Posted on 11/21/2013 11:52:06 AM by SoFloFreeper
A bitterly divided Senate voted Thursday to ease the confirmation process for most presidential nominees, a momentous and potentially risky step that limits the ability of Republicans to block President Barack Obama’s choices for executive-branch and most judicial posts.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.) engineered the rules change, over Republican objections, with a complicated parliamentary maneuver that ended up placing new curbs on the use of the filibuster—a move so controversial that it is often called the “nuclear option.”
“The American people believe Congress is broken. The American people believe the Senate is broken…It’s time to change the Senate before this institution becomes obsolete,” Mr. Reid said.
The key vote was 52-48, with all but three Democrats voting for the change and all Republicans opposed. Democratic Sens. Carl Levin of Michigan, Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Joe Manchin of West Virginia broke from their party and voted against changing the rules.
Fascism on the march
1 posted on 11/21/2013 11:52:06 AM by SoFloFreeper
I said: “Something different.”.
To: SoFloFreeper
Fellow Alinskyites of Obama will now be FLOODED into the courts and bureaucracies…
Your freedom took a giant step backward today, thanks to Obamugabe’s brownshirts.
5 posted on 11/21/2013 11:55:01 AM by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper
Maybe now Republicans won’t be so content with their minority status. The Hitlerites are rolling right over them.
9 posted on 11/21/2013 11:57:10 AM by pallis
And, just as the Freeperati are getting their persecution on…
To: SoFloFreeper
Say that in January 2017 Ted Cruz is in the Oval office and the Democrats are filibustering every judicial appointment he makes. Assuming the Republicans hold the majority in the Senate are you suggesting they would be fascists if they voted this same thing?
12 posted on 11/21/2013 11:58:59 AM by DoodleDawg
To: SoFloFreeper
Revolt is coming.
33 posted on 11/21/2013 12:07:45 PM by Biggirl (”Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
(looks around for RevoltingCat)
To: tet68
Yes. Criminalization of Christianity is on the agenda. Oh, there will still be churches, but only ones approved by the state.
And watch out if you dare to have a Bible study in your home.
254 posted on 11/21/2013 5:35:55 PM by SoFloFreeper
To: SoFloFreeper
My powder is dry and my lead is hard…
Sometimes the jokes just write themselves.
Bring it you brown shirt Obama voters. This country boy got something for you…
269 posted on 11/21/2013 8:41:24 PM by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it)
Fuck off, country boy. You’d piss yourself and get your powder wet if a Stryker ever pulled up to your front door.
To: apillar
Huh? Did I miss something, Rush Limbaugh just said at the beginning of his show that the “Nuclear” threat wasn’t worth discussing because it was just a distraction to take the media focus off Obamacare and that the democrats had no intention of following through, and even if they did it was a long convoluted process.
It appears that not only did they go “Nuclear” they changed the rules in about 15 minutes…
That’s because Rush Limbaugh is a rodeo clown who’s made a fortune telling conservatives what they want to hear, regardless of the truth. He’s no more reliable than Dick Morris or any of those other well-paid “conservative thinkers”.
Rush is entertaining and all, but when you start taking him seriously you become the mark.
273 posted on 11/21/2013 11:04:59 PM by highball (“I never should have switched from scotch to martinis.” — the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
To: eartick
Bring it you brown shirt Obama voters. This country boy got something for you…
Lots of bravado there keyboard ranger.
Those brownshirts have SMG’s, fully armored vehicles and attack helicopters. As a fellow “country boy” I’ve got quite the civilian weaponry, but it won’t do much good against an Abrams.
281 posted on 11/22/2013 7:55:27 AM by TexasGunLover (“Either you’re with us or you’re with the terrorists.”– President George W. Bush)
