The Obama Infomercial
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The Associated Press did a fact check on it, and they also have a poll out that shows Obama leads in four states won by President Bush in 2004 and is tied with John McCain in two other red states.
Even still, ObamaÂÂ pulled out all political and technological stops Wednesday while McCain was working Florida and calling him unqualified.
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How’s this for an Obama infomercial?
Reuters is reporting that a new video from Al Qaeda is calling on Allah to ensure that the Republicans are “humiliated” on Election Day.
Essentially, that’s a ringing endorsement of Obama and the Dems.
no one cares about a video from al queda..since when
do we allow terrorists to control who we elect
Since this time.
Since this time? Ditto.
Disregard the Consultant. He so despises Sarah Palin he would try to excuse anything—even Al Qaeda wanting the Democrats to win.
Jiminy ..it has nothing to do with who I despise…read
the new york times poll this morning 59% of voters
have no confidence in her ability to be vice president
and over 1/3 say that the choice will influence their
vote for president. Mccain could have done far better
and the race would have been down to the wire…
Palin sealed the deal for Obama..no getting around it
you can argue all you want…but the public simply
does not accept that she can do the job….and that
will be the story of this years election
You still have danced around Al Qaeda’s wanting the Republicans to be “humiliated” in the election. You don’t even condemn that, which I personally find remarkable, to put it politely. You are absolutely fixated on Sarah Palin, as you proved again with your post at 6:31.
you are allowing a foreign terroist organization to somehow
get leverage in an all American election..the way to deal
with al queda’s choices is TO IGNORE THEM…..since we
have no idea what is on their minds ..nor does it make
any difference frankly..the issue is whether we go to
afganistan as Obama wants to do and catch Bin Laden..
you keep saying I am fixated on Palin..she is the number
one reason McCain has no chance to win..as a 72 year
old cancer survivor he should have thought long and
hard before he swallowed the rush limbough garbage
approach…you seem not to recognize that she made
it impossible for mccain to win the election….
all responsible republicans should be fixated on that
fact..because she single handedly submarined the candidate
for president…and if you don’t believe me you can
either read the polling internals or all of the
conservative columnists that have essentially said
the same thing particularly peggy noonan…
Consultant…What I do believe is that Al Qaeda does NOT want McCain or any Republicans to win. I also believe that Palin has revved up the base in a way the other “possibles” couldn’t have. I liked Romney, but many others didn’t. I also would have been OK with Ridge. But I’m not going to constantly dump on Palin. It serves no purpose.
But, Happy Halloween! The rumor is you are wearing a Sarah Palin mask to go trick or treating. :)
BTW, the NY Post today did a small story about your “friend” Zherka’s latest suit vs. Belfiore and the NYPD—the one the JN wrote about last week. The Post article said he owns a second strip club in Manhattan. I won’t name it but it’s named in the Post article.
the rumor is correct..happy halloween…thanks for the information..
the title of the story written by former gannett reporter
Bruce Golding is BOOB-JOINT GUY’S MOB LIE LAWSUIT
the funny thing is that if sam zherka is so interested
in proving that he has no relationship with “albanian
organized crime” it seems to me he could do it in
a lot of other ways other than starting these lawsuits
and making allegations and assertions that have no
basis in fact..for example he could walk into NYPD
and say “ask me anything you want….or he could take
a lie detector test” which I would pay for by the way
because I in fact have no knowledge of any oc involvement
and sympathize with anyone wrongly accused…so I can
understand why he might be upset.but I don’t think any of
us knew about the grand jury investigation until sam
himself put it in his own lawsuit…I certainly didn’t
have any idea about any albanian oc connections because
when someone on the blog wrote it I immediately challenged
that person to prove it…which obviously demontrates
skepticism at the very least…so there is something
else going on here ..maybe sam is being sold a bill of
goods by blassberg…as to how to handle this in the
american justice system..but his attorney should know
better…and sam could easily disprove the rumor and
get his name removed from the data base
One thing that must be going on is that Mr. Zherka’s brother Ali has a prior criminal record, and he is currently under indictment for crimes with Albanian mob connections. That is according to the Federal indictment of Ali Zherka, which dates to the summer of 2007. Among those arrested with Ali Zherka was a New York City police officer named Moonan. Considering those facts, it is not at all surprising that the NYPD and the Manhattan District Attorney are looking at Ali’s brother, Sam Zherka.
well all of that may be quite true but the sins of
brother should not be vested upon the other brother
without reason to believe he also is involved..having
said that zherka is a liar and a son of a bitch
Ha. A comment reminiscent of the unbridled wit of Churchill mixed with a little Harry Truman!
apparently sam zherka was arrested in mt vernon either
yesterday or the day before and charged with disorderly
conduct..he was carrying a licensed gun and a knife.
apparently he browbeat a police officer when he
was refused entry into an auction where he had
been on the list to attend….forgeting about the
charge..does anyone think its appropriate for the
publisher of the guardian to berate a police officer
doing his job? does this reveal that zherka is in
fact a bully…do his frivolous lawsuits reveal that
he is using his money to intimidate…and is he
getting nervous with the bad press he is getting
(see the new york post article).and the pending
grand jury investigation?
http://www.lohud.com/article/20081101/NEWS02/811010355/1018/NEWS02
FOR MORE ON SAM ZHERKA GO TO:
http://www.lohud.com/article/20081101/NEWS02
/811010355/1018/NEWS02
and to smartporpoise I certainly am not in Churchill’s
category but Zherka is still a bully ..when he sued me
he chose the wrong person..unlike the mayor and the da
and the commisioner of police and the NYPD..and the members of the board of legislators and the staff of the county
executive they are all public officials and are constrained by their offices not to comment..I have no such constraints
and I intend to reveal zherka for what he really is..
once he put false accusations in a lawsuit against me
he opened the flood gates..he made a political choice
not a legal one…he was pissed off I exposed his participation in the Robertson campaign…and used
his strip club ownership to cast doubt on robertsons
motives..and his sidekick blassberg who to this day still
mentions me in his garbage newspaper as “writing divisive
pieces of mail against tony castro” is hoping to
intimidate me into not doing the di fiore campaign again
because after losing twice they know that they cannot
win with castro if I am the consultant on the other side
I have already obtained pictures of Zherka and blassberg
introducing Castro to certain members of the community
castro is making a huge error if he thinks he can win
a primary from the nominee of the democratic party…
blassberg has talked him into it..this time he will
be embarassed
Consultant…I don’t understand the end of your comment at 6:02 yesterday—about Zherka “disproving the rumor.” What rumor? You, yourself have said on this blog that the Manhattan D.A. would not convene a grand jury vs. Zherka for no reason.
I agree. And so does Susan Tolchin, who referred to that grand jury in her response to Zherka’s latest suit and called him a “target” of that Manhattan grand jury.
As for Zherka’s arrest, of course he was wrong to berate a cop. I think Zherka may be unraveling. I also believe these dumb suits of his are an attempt to portray himself as a “victim” in the event he is indicted in Manhattan.
I was attempting to look at it from zherka;s point of view
if in fact he is of the belief that what the NYPD and the
westchester police commissioner have done to him is the
product of rumor ie that it is false..why not submit to
a lie detector under oath to prove he is not what he
claims they say he is…
now he is under arrest for bullying a policeman…and
this from the Publisher of the Guardian who holds himself
out as the honorable seeker of truth and justice..
but not as far as he is concerned…the bullying is
just an extension of what he tried to do in his first
lawsuit..rather than going after the person who originally
posted the “albanian kingpin comment on the Tribune”
he chose to go after his political agenda in suing
the consultant difiore and amicone..while he knew
very well that the consultant was not the original
poster and in fact challenged the veracity of the post
and while he also knew there was no contact between
the consultant and the manhattan da…he simply wanted
to bring a lawsuit to harass and annoy those politicians
who beat him and blassbergs candidate tony castro
not once but twice…..castro better beware of being
sucked into another loosing race.becuae I intend to
go public on what I know about tony castro’s relationship
with blassberg and zherka..and that should put an end
to his claim on the da’s office
Folks: if our country were perfect, the next president would be. . . General H. Norman Schwarzkopf. My most favorite God-like hero of the last thirty years.
Get used to “Chauncey Gardener” being elected next week: the Dems will win with approximately 350 electoral votes, and maybe 51% of popular vote.
The horrible, angry, unthinking white liberals, who are also stupid, will romanticize Obama. And they’ll turn on him before the end of 2009. The way friends of mine in Manhattan in the late 1980s turned on Dinkins—especially the Upper West Side lib cauc women. (“Watch out for the ‘MBAs’!”) That was delusional liberal white-speak for “male black adults.” I hate the unthinking white liberals. They’re trash.
Don’t let the stupid white liberals, even Nick Kristof in The Times, suggest to you that not supporting a Black candidate makes you racist. They are deluded. There is nothing wrong with anybody for voting against Obama. It’s not a “black thing.”
No: it’s supporting the WRONG Black candidate that leads our country into foolishness.
I have THREE friends, each of whom happens to be a “Black” Republican—each a Harvard lawyer—who would make SUPERIOR Presidents of our country.
In four years, Republicans will win the presidential election.
It’s the cycles of American history. Get used to it.
Gotta love our system, Tim, with all its flaws. Nationally, one group gets (inevitably) too arrogant, or too passive in doing the right thing, they’re tossed. Next! Then, it happens again. And again. Unfortunately, this seems not to be the case with our State Legislature. That is the conundrum. There are still plenty of places left on earth where you can get easily arrested for criticizing the powers that be. At least we still have that freedom going for us, maybe our most important one.
I will say it again, Consultant. I believe Zherka knows he is on the radar of the NYPD and the Manhattan D.A. and is petrified he’s going down. Grand juries are not a laughing matter, and he knows that. His defense is to bully and try to intimidate. It’s a losing strategy.
He would never take an official poly test, nor do I believe they would they offer him one. At least not at this point. I think they are carefully building a “paper case” against him and may have some informants, too. That’s just my opinion. I don’t know that. And whether it will end with an indictment, I certainly don’t know.
I will offer to pay for the lie detector test…if sam
will take..it..because if he has done nothing wrong he
should be more than willing to submit to a test…
instead of bringing all these lawsuits which change
the theory of who is responsible for the investigation..
first he blamed the bloggers on the trib..then me
on Lo Hud, then difiore and amicone…then the westchester
police commissioner…and now the NYPD he keeps moving the goal posts further away and changing the names of the
people he thinks responsible for his problems….
Still beating the drums about Mr. Zherka, and his newspaper?
It seems to me, to my humble lifelong Republican conservative self. . .that the greatest irony about these boards is: Sam Zherka has the best business going.
He is exposing people right and left, and is having a kick because he’s getting his purported victims-in-print to reveal themselves here on these boards. And he couldn’t care less about any indictments extant in Manhattan.
I am rolling on the floor, laughing out loud!
How did you guys let yourselves get played so easily?
All you had to do was ignore The Guardian, and it would have gone away.
But you didn’t. Because you were defensive.
Now, it comes back to haunt you.
Oh, Jesus, now I have 10 fewer friends. But maybe they weren’t worth my while.
So sad.
But, I’ve spent 35 years in the newspaper and publishing business. And I’ve seen people less intelligent than you all fight newspapers and tv folks when all you had to do was play Disraeli. (“Never complain, never explain.”)
you are missing the point Tim…it was zherka who initiated
a lawsuit..who is he exposing..you are making an assumption
that cannot be made…that is that his premise is correct
so far he has accused me, di fiore, and amicone of conspiring to provide information to the manhattan da
about his “albanian organized crime connections”..do you
believe a word of it…next he sued the police commissioner
in westhchester alleging that he was the cause of zherka’s
name appearing in the data base of the NYPD…then he
sued the city of new york…apparently on the theory that
they were responsible for “ethnic profiling’ had sam
zherka not mentioned in his own legal papers that he
was under investigation by a manhattan grand jury…I certainly would not have known…I can’t speak for the
others…I can see ignoring the guardian.,.but how do
you ignore a lawsuit that makes baseless allegations
against you which portray you as a “racist”..unless
of course you want to contribute to the cost of
paying for the lawyers necessary to defend the lawsuit
which is exactly the point of why sam is bringing these
suits.so far he has brought some 17 lawsuits against
municipalities costing the taxpayers 1.9 million to defend
does that sound like a legitimate publisher to you Tim..
have you known any other publishers who sue just for the
sake of suing …and would you lay down and allow sam
to take a default judgment against you..when you have
had absolutely no contact with the manhattan da ..
so exactly what would you do tim…wouldn’t you defend
yourself..your conservative law abiding self :)
consultant, bro: I wouldn’t have taken The Guardian on to begin with—I would have left others to do that.
You should, as defendant, win your suit, if our world is righteous. But then again, I was Steve Pagones’ literary agent, and Bill Stanton pounded Sharpton, Maddox, and Mason at trial, and, while affecting only a pyrrhic victory for Steve, he nevertheless won a significant verdict in American libel history.
But the main reason I use my real name in posting anything: so I don’t get carried away, and make any comments I cannot live with or have to one day defend in court.
Tim what makes you think I took the guardian on…what are
you missing here…this all started when zherka announced
that he personally was going to beat amicone…and then
he spent tens of thousands of dollars to do it..he made
the announcement at a news 12 press conference…it had
nothing to do with the guardian ..and still doesn’t…
the guardian is not suing…zherka is suing personally
I never said anything about zherka’s alleged “connections”
that was said by someone else on another blog…the tribune
all I did was insist that it be verified in order to be
used in the campaign…otherwise it was rank speculation
zherka took that post and omitted all the language which
asked the author of the post ( not me) to prove what
he was alleging..8 months later zherka alleged in his
lawsuit that a grand jury in new york was investigating
him personally for “prostitution” “money laundering”
and “drug dealing”....how did he get from supporting dennis
robertson to being investigated in manhattan which as
you know is another jurisdiction..and how could he possibly
make the assertion that I was responsible for the
grand jury investigation when I have never met with or
spoken to the ada in new york..so this was never about
the guardian ..this was about zherka wanting to be
a poltical player..it was and still is about castro
primarying janet….its not about his news paper its
about defeating candidates he disagrees with which makes
it political….the only gripe he has is with the original
poster on the tribune who made the albanian kingpin
allegations in the first place.but interestingly enough
he never sought the name of the poster so we still don’t
know who it was..and neither does zherka…but having
injected himself into the poltical arena it turns out
that the law is crystal clear and he becomes a limted
public person..so essentially even the original poster
can’t be held liable unless there is a showing of
malice..but since zherka didn’t bother to find out
who it was he can’t even establish that element of his
case..but doesn’t it seem strange that of all the people
he could have sued..he chose di fiore who castro wants
to run against again and who is supported by blassberg
and Amicone who zherka wanted to beat and me…the
consultant for both of them…talk about a chilling effect
his lawsuit is merely an attempt to get me to bow out
of running her campaign for next year…he doesn’t
know me very well does he
SLAPP suits work because people cannot afford expensive lawyers and, via this methodology, are intimidated by those who can; and because the public doesn’t want to pay additional taxes to defend ten thousand lawsuits often meant primarily to intimidate and squash personal opinion. Someone in a position of authority must look into this stuff and put a stop to it. If not, the wealthy, who can retain expensive attorneys and spend money profligately, will always have a loud, controlling voice, and the middle class and poor will remain speechless.
so what you are saying is that the publisher of the guardian
who claims to be the protector of free and unfettered speech
is using his newspaper and his personal wealth to cut off
political criticsm so he can have the field to himself
and co opt the ability of others to speak..well unfortunately for sam..he is not going to get his way
you see had he not sued me..i would have quietly left
westchester for points south…but having now to defend
myself I feel it my personal responsiblity to make
sure that tony castro is never the da…and considering
who is supporting castro that would be in the public
interest..big time
Evidently, Tim Hays has no idea of what he is talking about. Anyone who reads the newspapers or follows the blogs knows it is Zherka who sues abouot half of metro NY whenever he feels like it. His lawyer now threatens to sue Mt. Vernon over Zherka’s disorderly conduct arrest.
A question…What kind of moron would show up at Mt. Vernon City Hall carrying a gun and a knife, even if the gun was registered? I’d suggest only an obnoxious, arrogant moron, that’s who.
And in the instances of suing the Consultant and law enforcement, etc., I am convinced he’s doing it to create a defense—to claim he is being “persecuted,” if he is indicted. It’s a dumb maneuver.
Also….To use your word, Tim, who has Zherka “exposed? I mean, other than the strippers in his clubs?
And if you think he doesn’t care that he is under a grand jury investigation in Manhattan —well, you are probably the only one who would think that way.
Here’s an e-mail I just received—
“What’s this about a gun and a knife? Someone should tell that idiot Zherka guy that Mt. Vernon City Hall isn’t Wolverton Mountain, and he sure ain’t no Clifton Clowers.
Yours,
Claude King
yup he carries a gun and a knife…to go to a real estate
auction…makes sense when you think about it..he might
have to defend himself against the big bad banks!!
Jiminy of course its a dumb maneuver..but think about where
he is getting his “legal advice from”...how about richard
blassberg all around political strategist who believes the
last election was stolen by janet difiore and the yonkers
police department..also believes that tony castro can win
a democratic primary….I wouldn’t be surprised if all
of this conspiracy stuff was manufactured by blassberg and
fed to zherka…after all the editorials are written by
blassberg not zherka..although zherka is ultimately responsible for the content and I can’t wait to show
a jury every single front page since the guardian
started…but I digress…blassberg either writes or
edits all of it…but little by little the public
is getting an accurate look at zherka..the new york
post called him a “boob-joint guy”..very nice don’t you
think…and remember the manhattan county da can only
investigate crimes within its jurisdiction and that
would be manhattan..they cannot come up to westchester
unless there is some nexus with the city….so one would
have to conclude that whatever they are investigating
and according to zherka it includds “money laundering”
“prostitution” and “drug dealing”..all of it specious
of course…and provoked by me…little old me…I have
the ability to “force” the manhattan da to convene
a grand jury..guess I am pretty impressive don’t you
think!!!!
Jiminy—to use your nom de plume—
I truly doubt that you are “better read” than I am. But: that may be simply owing to my being older than you. Forgive me.
You are well-versed, nevertheless. And I do not challenge your intelligence. I enjoy the way you write.
You are simply defensive. In behalf of somebody who tried to burn the newspapers, by taking up the newsstands,
Can’t ever do that! I remember porn newsstands in my hometown of LA. Circa 1978. Defensive folks tried to take those stands up, destroy them.
Result: best-sellers.
I believe you work for the City of Yonkers. Just a guess.
And Jiminy, we may have interacted over the past six years.
But: if you’d ignored Zherka’s Guardian two years ago, nobody would have noticed, as Mayor Amicone cruised to re-election victory.
Now: The Guardian is a major publication! Thanks to Yonkers’ attempt to thwart it.
When I was growing up, I came to appreciate a certain saying:
“There is nothing more frightful. . .than ignorance in action.”
All best,
Tim
Tim you are correct mayor amicone’s staff did a dumb
thing,,that does not give zherka license to abuse
the justice system by suing people who he has political
issues with.you are mixing apples and oranges…
the original taking of the boxes was in fact roundly
condemned by me in public ..so zherka should have
no problem with me per se..but what you don’t understand
is that these suits have nothing to do with the
taking of the boxes…he withdrew that lawsuit..
he would not let his records be examined to determine
the extent of any damages…zherka brings a lawsuit
for one reason alone.to stiffle opposition to his point
of view..the guardian will never be a major publication
the copies are given away and are so outrageous that
he simply has lost all credibility..making him a chemist!!
what you say…he turns a good thing into sh.t
Is it untoward to suggest that bad elements often have a hand in strip clubs? That’s not a reflection on Zherka, of course, who I am confident runs above-board strip joints.
But then…there is also that brother of his. There is big trouble with that one. Certainly for the brother, but I’m sure Sam himself is as pure as the driven snow. Although where that snow was driven to might be another story. :)
But, it’s up to the authorities to make their case, if they can. Clearly, they are working on it. We’ll see what happens as time goes on. Sam Zherka will either be indicted or he won’t be.
As for Richard Blassberg, anyone who has seen that rag they put out knows where he is coming from. They can’t give it away, even though they try to.
Personally, I just think Zherka is starting to unravel, whether it’s due to his own problems, as Susan Tolchin said, or a combination of those problems and then listening to Blassberg —who really seems to be about six cards short of a full deck. But it’s evident his short deck does have all the jokers in it.
Tim…for the record I do not work for the City of Yonkers. I have nothing at all to do with Yonkers government. Many who follow politics and the media are well aware of Zherka.
And what’s going on with Zherka, the Consultant, the Manhattan D.A., the Westchester police, Janet DiFiore and NYPD has ZERO to do with newspaper boxes in Yonkers.
It’s all about Zherka trying to lay the groundwork for a defense if he’s indicted in Manhattan, in my opinion.
ah Jiminy I knew I could count on you to seperate the wheat
from the chaff.
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Virginia Mason-Dixon Obama 47, McCain 44 Obama +3
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Pennsylvania Mornin Obama 52, McCain 45 Obama +7
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DOESN’T SEEM TO BE TIGHTENING AT ALL…