Extremist Josh Gottheimer

Frank Pallotta has exposed Congressman Josh Gottheimer for embracing international terrorist organizations such as CAIR and convicted cop-killers like Joanne Chesimard – as well as their domestic enablers like Action Together, Linda Sarsour, and the Women’s March. Gottheimer refuses to disavow their support.

This also means EVERYONE associated with Gottheimer falls into the same category -- including his hired flacks, Mikie “I’ll swallow anything” Schnagglepuss, Jacky the Conduit, James Santonastaso, the county Democrat Committee, Sussex Progressives, and assorted critters.

CAIR has been designated an international terrorist organization by one of America’s closest Islamic allies. Democrat Linda Sarsour has called for “Jihad” against the United States. Joanne Chesimard is a convicted cop-killer. They are among the worst the World has to offer.  And Gottheimer and his mob want a seat in the House, next to the Squad and some of the other psycho cases there.  No thanks.

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Congressman Josh Gottheimer has exposed Frank (the Fraud) Pallotta for embracing domestic terrorist organizations such as the Oath Keepers--and Pallotta refuses to disavow their support.

This also means EVERYONE associated with Pallotta falls into the same category--including his hired flacks, Blue Falcon Joe Labarbera and Kelly Hart.

The Oath Keepers, among other things, are white supremacists, NRA sycophants, and are among the worst America has to offer. And Pallotta and his mob want a seat in the House, next to some of the other psycho cases already there. No thanks.

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Is Politico extremist? Wikipedia seems to think so.

By Rubashov

Corporate extremism. Violent corporate extremism.

Each year, every day, corporations across the globe commit acts of violence against individuals and communities. War is an act of violence. Those corporations engaged in the furtherance of endless wars, endless occupations, profit from violence. Incarcerating human beings for profit is an act of corporate violence. The opioid epidemic that has cost the lives of so many and damaged the lives of so many more, their families, and communities, is an act of corporate violence. So is the burning of forests. Human trafficking and its corporate use as a source of labor is an act of violence. So is the destruction of American jobs through the use of slave or near-slave labor. As is the violence used against workers who attempt to organize.

These are all acts of violence, often illegal, always unethical, for the purposes of greed. The media, dependent on advertising revenue from violent corporate extremists, are left with hard choices to make. Increasingly, violent corporate extremists have come to own media outlets directly.

We were thinking on this when we came across a salutary column by one Matt Freidman, formerly of David Wildstein’s PoliticsNJ. Friedman argues that it is “time for New Jersey politicians — even some considered moderate — to take stock of the extremism they have allowed to fester.” Indeed.

Friedman is very quick to use terms like “extremist” to label the exercise of free assembly and free speech of anyone with whom he disagrees. He seems very worried that, in the past, some politically “extremist” groups “tied” to the Capitol riot were permitted to speak on public ground at events attended by “mainstream politicians”.

We wonder. Does Friedman consider Bridgegate to be an act of political “extremism”?

Is shutting down a bridge and damning the people on it – including all those “children of Buono voters” riding those school buses – an act of violent extremism? If a group of knuckleheads with Trump flags had shut down that bridge and damned those “children of Buono voters” – would that have been an act of violent extremism?

Isn’t Friedman “tied” to the “mastermind” of that enterprise?

Friedman then details some of the other instances when he feels the First Amendment should not have applied:

“In 2012, Republicans in Morris County invited birther conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi to speak. Corsi later helped perpetuate the voter fraud lie. Fast forward to late 2020, when Morris County surrogate Heather Darling organized a rally in support of small business where a man flying a confederate flag looked perfectly welcome. In 2018, Republicans in South Jersey not only tolerated but in some cases helped the congressional candidacy of Seth Grossman — who’s quoted as an Oath Keepers apologist in the Inquirer piece — despite years of racist and anti-Muslim social media posts. And even Republican U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, in office 40 years and never known as a firebrand, aired demonstrably false conspiracy theories that Antifa was behind the Capitol riot, and has since deleted his Twitter account…”

But is Friedman really in a position to exercise such moral judgment? According to Wikipedia, the publication he writes for has its own failings…

“Politico Magazine published an article in April 2017 purporting to show long-term links among U.S. President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Jewish outreach organization Chabad-Lubavitch. The article was widely condemned, with the head of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt, saying that it ‘evokes age-old myths about Jews’.”

“In March 2019 Politico was accused again of anti-Semitism when an article depicting imagery of presidential candidate Bernie Sanders next to money trees was published. Sanders, one of two Jewish candidates for the 2020 US presidential election, was targeted for the amount of wealth he accumulated over his lifetime. Politico staff writer Michael Kruse wrote the article detailing the senator's wealth, writing that Sanders ‘might still be cheap’, according to one of the senator's friends, ‘but he's sure not poor’, which was criticized as combining two anti-Semitic tropes (Jews are cheap; Jews are rich). Politico's official Twitter account used the quote to share the story; the tweet was later deleted.”

Would it be fair to label Politico a neo-Nazi publication… or just “moderately” anti-Semitic?

Like Jerome Corsi, Politico has been accused of spreading conspiracy theories and of lying. Friedman appears perfectly comfortable writing for a publication that pushes anti-Semitic “tropes”. While accusing Seth Grossman of being an anti-Muslim apologist for the “Oath Keepers”, Friedman seems to forget that he writes for an anti-Semitic group who are apologists for “age-old myths about Jews”. And finally, like Congressman Smith, Politico deletes its Twitter account.

Is it time to ban Politico from polite society?

How about anybody that had anything to do with Bridgegate? Why would any righteous politician ever send them a press release… ever! And hey, Matt Friedman, that’s who taught you. That makes you “tied” to it. That means you need to go too. Right?

Friedman continues:

“Occasionally, Democrats go down the path of conspiracy theories and extremism, and yes, there exist left-wing radicals who commit violence. But let’s resist the temptation to ‘both sides’ this issue, because there are few if any mainstream Democrats coddling it.”

Really? Did someone take a dump in Matt’s brain and forget to flush it? Or was he on sabbatical in some monastery when all that violence and arson and carnage happened last summer? We seem to remember a certain Democrat Governor marching in support of it and the Democrats in Trenton passing a resolution in support of it. Why lie to your readers like that?

Well… follow the money. Matt’s boss at Politico has a long history of donating large sums to Democrat candidates and causes and served under former President Bill Clinton. He’s an investment banker named Patrick Steel. Yep, an investment banker. Wonder what violent corporate extremism he’s got up to?

Before spending 16 years at the investment firm FBR Capital Markets & Co. (more on this later), Steel served eight years in the Clinton administration, including a stint as the special assistant to former President Bill Clinton. He’s probably arsehole buddies with Josh Gottheimer.

According to the Media Research Center, when Steel joined Politico as CEO in 2017, he had donated $64,850 to Democrats, and nothing to Republicans. Among those he gave to were Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Chuck Schumer.

So now you know the rest of the story.

Matt Friedman is clearly compromised – but not just in the way you might think. Matt writes the way he does because he is so certain of his own personal goodness. Because of this, he can look down at others, see bad, and seek to cast them out of society – question their very humanity. What Matt doesn’t seem to understand is that he is not good. He is bad, just as bad, we all are.

Here are some wise words for Matt, and for all of us, to consider. Maybe, when we are less censorious, we will find a way to be better – not good, and certainly not perfect – human beings. Maybe, probably not, but maybe…

“We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves”

— Eric Hoffer

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Is Gottheimer a racist and terrorist? The media has lowered the bar.

By Rubashov

Is the America of “Innocent until PROVEN Guilty” dead? 
 
Despite the best efforts of groups like the Innocence Project, the American media at large is quite happy to pronounce guilt of major crimes, such as terrorism, without even so much as making a case or presenting evidence.  And they will do this even if the person they are condemning is little more than a private citizen – and with scant regard to what the label “terrorist” means or the horrors it confers on the family and children of such a citizen.  Pure evil.
 
Last evening, the New Jersey Globe website moderated a live debate between incumbent Congressman Josh Gottheimer, a Democrat, and his opponent, Republican Frank Pallotta.  In the course of that debate, Gottheimer employed a tactic he used in 2016 – to link the Republican to what Gottheimer alleged was a “domestic terrorist” group. 
 
This isn’t anything new with Gottheimer, who learned how to use such histrionics from his time as the Number Two man at the global lobbyist and public relations firm Burson-Marsteller.  Who is Burson-Marsteller?  Well, here’s MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow to give her view on the firm…

Yep, Josh Gottheimer learned his skills while at what MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow called “the PR firm from Hell.”  Cute.
 
Nevertheless, we can expect such exaggeration from a politician in the heat of a live debate.  It’s what politicians do.  When they can’t defend – or explain – their record, they deflect.  They lie.  Heck, lying and politicians go together like peanut butter and jelly.   

But the media isn’t supposed to reinforce the politicians’ lies.  The media is there to catch the lies that politicians tell, examine them, and then place them into perspective – and report the truth.  That’s not what happened when Nikita Biryukov, of the New Jersey Globe, reported on the debate.  Biryukov wrote:

Pallotta was unabashedly pro-Trump, siding with an administration suit that seeks to strike the affordable care act, pushing aside calls to condemn a domestic terror group while condemning Antifa and downplaying the threat posed by COVID-19.
 
“1992 called and they want their definition of racism group,” Pallotta said when asked whether he would condemn the Oath Keepers. “My supporters are my supporters. They’re not racist, they’re not xenophobes. They’re not homegrown terrorists. They’re good people. They’re your people. They’re in your district.”

The New Jersey Department of Homeland Security named the Oath Keepers and another far-right militia organization as domestic terror groups. The Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League both list the Oath Keepers as an extremist group.
 
The Oath Keepers were in issue in the incumbent’s 2016 race against Rep. Scott Garret (R-Wantage), who held a fundraiser organized by the regional director of the extremist group’s New Jersey Chapter. Garrett also declined to denounce the organization.
 
Skylands Tea Party President Bill Hayden, a member of the Oath Keepers, is involved with Pallotta’s campaign.
 
“They are anti-government, anti-law enforcement, anti-Semitic, blatant racists,” Gottheimer said. “I’m just saying this group that he’s arm-in-arm with one of the guys who runs it, will he please denounce the group?”

Now, let’s remember that terrorism is a crime.  As Congressman Gottheimer well knows, Section 802 of the USA PATRIOT Act (Pub. L. No. 107-52) expanded the definition of terrorism to cover domestic, as opposed to international, terrorism. A person engages in domestic terrorism if they do an act “dangerous to human life that is a violation of the criminal laws of a state or the United States, if the act appears to be intended to:  (i) intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping.” 

Now a responsible journalist would have asked Congressman Gottheimer to back up his allegation.  He made the allegation about a private citizen who is a constituent in his district.  Gottheimer called Bill Hayden a domestic terrorist, a criminal.  Now back it up.  Using the legal definition, make your case.

Look, we all have opinions.  It is often said that opinions are ubiquitous as arseholes.  But when you label someone a criminal, you need to back it up with a little more than, “it’s my opinion.”  And that goes for the New Jersey Department of Homeland Security, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Anti-Defamation League.  If it is going to be worth something more than your arsehole – take those you accuse to court, make a case, present your evidence… and convict!  Or just keep your labels tucked up where the sun don’t shine.  Because they are worthless.  Mere name-calling.

Otherwise, it would be just as fine to label every Democrat who supports indoctrinating eighth graders in the joys of anal sex a pedophile… and it’s called grooming.  Wouldn’t that be a treat?  In the future, the parties won’t be donkeys and elephants or blue and red… but pedophiles and racists.  Nice.  A real step forward for democracy.  That’s where we’re heading. 
 
The New Jersey Globe should understand this.  It just so happens that the owner of the website, the guy Nikita Biryukov takes his marching orders from, is an actual convicted criminal.  Knowing the rules of evidence, as he must, he should have called a time-out on Josh Gottheimer and asked the Congressman to reconsider his rash and inevitably false accusation of criminality against one of his own constituents.  But he did not. 

Yes, the hypocrisy in this Nikita Biryukov piece was ladled out so thick – and yet is so deliciously Trenton – that if you think about it too long you’d never stop throwing up.  That in midst of a debate, wherein a Member of Congress is making false accusations about criminal behavior, for him to purposefully overlook the fact that the debate moderator is, in fact, a self-confessed and convicted criminal is rich indeed.  In agreeing to such a moderator, was Gottheimer endorsing his crimes – or just making light of them?  Well… we all have our opinions.   

And now for some real terrorism that the Trenton media studiously overlooks.  We call it real because an actual national government has ruled it so – and that government is an ally of the United States.  Our troops are deployed there.  And if you go there, and are a member of this group, there will be legal consequences.  Not opinions.  Legal consequences.
 
We’re talking here about CAIR – and the far-Left group aligned with it and Linda Sarsour, called Action Together.  Congressman Josh Gottheimer is a supporter of Action Together.  Even made a video pushing their agenda.  And District 25 Assembly candidate Darcy Draeger was happy to accept the endorsement of Action Together.
 
On February 10, 2018, Action Together New Jersey accepted an award from Linda Sarsour.  Accepting the award was Action Together New Jersey’s Executive Director, Uyen “Winn” Khuong; Action Together New Jersey’s Sussex County Co-Chair, Johannah Hinksmon; and Action Together New Jersey’s Director of Operations, Kim Baron.
 
Linda Sarsour is the controversial Democrat activist who has praised the notoriously anti-Semitic Louis Farrakhan, cop-killer Joanne Chesimard, and the anti-Semitic BDS movement.  In 2017, Sarsour famously called for “Jihad” against the elected government of the United States of America.
 
The award was in recognition of voter registration drives and other political campaigning done by Action Together New Jersey in coordination with a group called CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations.  Presenting the award was CAIR National Chairwoman, Roula Allouch, and CAIR-NJ Founder, Ahmed Al Shehab. 
 
Due to its apparent ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, one of America’s most important Islamic allies – the United Arab Emirates – has designated CAIR a terrorist organization.  Yes, CAIR is officially outlawed.  By law.  Legal.  Not someone’s “opinion”.  That said, the same Anti-Defamation League in Nikita Biryukov’s story doesn’t have a very high opinion of CAIR.  In the manner of Josh Gottheimer, they have repeatedly called on CAIR to "denounce anti-Semitism” at their rallies and events. 
 
To add further to the confusion of “opinions” is the fact that Congressman Josh Gottheimer opposes the pro-Palestinian BDS movement.  That makes Gottheimer a “racist” in the opinion of some.  Some of U.S. Senator Cory Booker’s biggest supporters think so.
 
Going by “opinions” instead of legal definitions… does that make Josh Gottheimer a terrorist and a racist?   

““Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.”

E.B. White”