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By David Ferguson
Friday, January 24, 2014 15:52 EST
Defenders of embattled conservative pundit Dinesh DSouza are alleging that a far-reaching conspiracy on the part of angry liberals is to blame for his recent indictment for campaign fraud. Media Matters has published a round-up of some of the right-wing players who have gone to bat for DSouza since it was announced that he was indicted on federal campaign finance charges.
Prosecutors allege that DSouza illegally donated tens of thousands of dollars to a U.S. Senate candidate by asking friends to write checks to the candidate with a promise by DSouza of reimbursement. The practice is expressly forbidden under U.S. law and the use of so-called straw donors to enrich the coffers of a particular candidate is considered a felony.
The New York Times speculated that the candidate in question is erstwhile New York Senate
hopeful Wendy Long, who attended Dartmouth College with DSouza in the late 1980s and served alongside him on the staff of the colleges conservative newspaper, the Dartmouth Review.
Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones announced on his show Thursday night that the Obama administration has begun its purge of critics.
America is going over the edge, Jones warned. I actually am scared.
The indictments against DSouza and corrupt former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) are evidence that Obama is launching a nationwide putsch aimed at silencing opposing voices.
His words fairly running together with excitement, Jones declared that, The issue is here, they can find a mistake in your checking account and claim that it was fraud or wire fraud. They can do it to anybody.
This is like Nazi Germany, he insisted and that once theyre done with these guys, theyre coming after you and I. [sic]
Right-wing talk radio doyenne and fellow Dartmouth graduate Laura Ingraham also leapt to DSouzas defense, calling the charges against him retribution justice.
The felony charges against DSouza, she alleged, are more about stifling political dissent and intimidating other people from speaking out than it is about any real serious allegation of wrongdoing.
DSouzas election-year, anti-Obama propaganda film 2016: Obamas America had made him into one of Obamas most effective critics and therefore, charges had to trumped up by the government to take him down.
Ingraham failed to mention whether DSouzas forced resignation as president of a Christian college in 2013 over an extramarital affair with a much younger woman is part of the Obama administrations plot to silence him.
Meanwhile, Matt Drudge of the website Drudge Report bemoaned via Twitter that the Obama administration is unleashing the dogs on its critics. Former Tea Party congressman and alleged deadbeat dad Joe Walsh tweeted, First Christie, second McDonnell, after that, DSouza, then they came for
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Fox News website called the charges against DSouza selective enforcement of campaign laws and Rush Limbaugh chimed in on Thursday to say that the Obama administration is trying to criminalize as many Republicans and conservatives as they can.
DSouza was arraigned in federal court in Manhattan on Thursday.
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/24/conservatives-blame-dinesh-dsouzas-indictment-on-nazi-germany-like-conspiracy/
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shenmue
(38,506 posts)He's going away for a little while.
sendero
(28,552 posts)Don't break the law. "Mistake in your checking account" my ass. Fucking liars and idiots.
Aristus
(66,386 posts)What a bunch of pearl-clutchers, man. It just doesn't square with their image of themselves as flinty John Wayne-style gunslingers, does it?