Sharpton’s Aides Subpoenaed

Not too much time has elapsed, and Al Sharpton is in the news (and under investigation) again. This time, a large number of his close advisors have been served subpoenas in lieu of tax fraud and the mishandling of funds during his 2004 bid for Presidency:

Here is a segment from this NY Daily News article:

Teams of federal agents swooped down on up to 10 close associates of the Rev. Al Sharpton Wednesday, demanding the flamboyant clergyman’s financial records since 2001.

Sharpton’s former chief of staff said he was roused at his Harlem home about 6:30 a.m. by two FBI agents who handed him a subpoena to bring the records to a federal grand jury the day after Christmas.

Several employees of Sharpton’s National Action Network also got wakeup subpoenas to testify before the Brooklyn panel, the rabble-rousing reverend’s lawyer said.

The FBI and IRS are investigating whether Sharpton improperly misstated the amount of money he raised during his 2004 White House run to illegally obtain federal matching funds, a source familiar with the probe said.

Sharpton, although forced to return $100,000 in matching taxpayer funds after an investigation two years ago, denied any wrongdoing at the time.

The feds are also looking into allegations of tax fraud, including whether Sharpton commingled funds from his nonprofit National Action Network with several of his for-profit ventures, the source said.

Sharpton, who has made quite a lucrative career out of reinforcing racial stereotypes is now reinfocing another steretype. This time, it is that of a crooked Democratic politician. It is just a matter of time before any of these allegations stray from criminal actions and become racially motivated actions by a conservative administration.

(update) …and as expected, Sharpton offers his much anticipated response to the charges:

Sharpton said he thought the timing of the investigation was suspicious, coming just weeks after he led a march on the Justice Department to demand federal intervention in the Jena Six case in Louisiana and better enforcement of hate crimes.

Thanks for not letting us down, Al!

Dubai’s HIV Rapist

According to this CNN report:

A court in Dubai sentenced two men Wednesday to 15 years in prison for the rape and kidnapping of a 15-year-old French boy.

The boy’s mother, Veronique Robert, was visibly upset after the sentence was read and promised to appeal.

Robert, a French journalist, brought the case to the media’s attention in recent months in an effort to shed light on what she deemed to be injustices in the pro-Western emirate of Dubai.

Robert said Wednesday’s sentence was too lenient for a crime that she believes is tantamount to attempted murder because one of her son’s attackers was knowingly HIV-positive at the time of the rape.

She refrained from asking the death penalty for her son’s attackers, but said she hoped the sentence would be much longer.

Henry Waxman: Distinguished Liar

From this ABC News Article:

The former director of the National Hurricane Center says political pressure did not cause him to change his congressional testimony to downplay the link between global warming and hurricanes contradicting the findings of a Democratic led investigation released Monday.

“I can truthfully say that no one told me at any time what to say in regard to possible impacts of climate change on tropical cyclones,” said Max Mayfield in an e-mail to ABC News.

Mayfield was responding to questions about a section in a new report titled “Political Interference With Climate Change Science Under the Bush Administration” the end result of a 16-month investigation by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The committee is chaired by Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif.

The report notes that in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Mayfield was due to testify at a Sept. 2005 hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee on disaster prevention. The connection between global warming and stronger hurricanes had been getting renewed attention after new scientific studies released over the previous summer.

The Waxman report details an e-mail from Tom Jones, a staffer for Alaska’s Republican Sen. Ted Stevens, that he wrote to Noel Turner, an employee in the Office of Legislative Affairs at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, in the days leading up to the hearings. Jones apparently wanted Mayfield to say that global warming was not making hurricanes stronger.

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Mayfield, however, denies that anyone told him to alter his testimony as the Waxman report suggests.

“I want the record to show that no one forced me to say anything on the subject of climate change and tropical cyclones that I didn’t believe at the time,” Mayfield told ABC News.

Henry Waxman is a douchebag, and should be forced to resign for his outright deception.

Approval Ratings Update

Now this isn’t cause for much celebration, but it appears as if Bush’s overall approval rating has actually increased in the past month, while the paltry approval rating of Congres has remained the same:

A new Gallup Poll, conducted Dec. 6-9, finds 37% of Americans approving of the job George W. Bush is doing as president, an improvement from his recent scores in the low 30s. Meanwhile, 22% of Americans approve of Congress, essentially unchanged from last month. Both Bush’s and Congress’ ratings remain low by historical standards.

In early November, 31% of Americans approved of Bush as president — just two points off his term-low rating of 29%. Since then, his rating has improved on each Gallup Poll, and although none of these individual changes have been statistically significant, the long-term increase from 31% in early November to 37% in the new poll is.

This latest Gallup poll does not get into the reasons that Bush’s approval rating has increased, but does offer some speculation:

The poll does not provide specific insights into what might be behind improved perceptions of Bush. One possibility is that Bush’s role in jump-starting Middle East peace talks late last month cast him in a more positive light. Another is the recent series of encouraging reports on the situation in Iraq.

…and perhaps this was enough to set House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over the edge, exclaiming that all Republicans “like” the war in Iraq. What?

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lashed out at Republicans on Thursday, saying they want the Iraq war to drag on and are ignoring the public’s priorities.

“They like this war. They want this war to continue,” Pelosi, D- Calif., told reporters. She expressed frustration over Republicans’ ability to force majority Democrats to yield ground on taxes, spending, energy, war spending and other matters.

“We thought that they shared the view of so many people in our country that we needed a new direction in Iraq,” Pelosi said at her weekly news conference in the Capitol. “But the Republicans have made it very clear that this is not just George Bush’s war. This is the war of the Republicans in Congress.”

Asked to clarify her remarks, Pelosi backed off a bit.

“I shouldn’t say they like the war,” she said. “They support the war, the course of action that the president is on.”

“And that was a revelation to me,” she said, “because I thought the American people’s voices were so-and still are-so strong in this regard.”

No Nancy, the Republicans don’t like YOU. And the voters of this country don’t like a do-nothing Congress that attempted to capitalize on the war itself, but has done little more than prove an entire year of incompetence and inefficiency. Now the numbers are starting to reflect that point.

Source - Gallup - Update on Ratings of Bush, Congress

Source - Breitbart - Pelosi: Republicans ‘like’ Iraq War

False Veteran

From this Seattle Times article:

A 71-year-old Port Angeles man who falsely posed as a decorated Korean War veteran has been sentenced to four months of electronically monitored home confinement.

In a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Roy J. Scott admitted he posed as a Marine major and used a bogus military discharge certificate to receive $21,960 worth of veteran’s benefits.

Before his sentencing on Friday, Scott broke down in tears before Magistrate Judge Mary Alice Theiler and asked that she allow him to continue his job on an oil platform off the coast of Africa. The judge, however, stuck to the recommendations of prosecutors by ordering the home confinement and two years’ probation.

Several real veterans attended the sentencing in U.S. District Court in Seattle. One of them, Harry Findley — who said his father was a Marine officer who died at Guadalcanal during World War II — called the sentence a “travesty of justice” and said Scott should have had to do time behind bars.

Mahmoud A Blogger? ROTFLMAO

According to The New York Times:

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of Iran, is not the first name that comes to mind when thinking of net surfers and instant messages. Yet, it turns out, the man is a blogger.

Equally surprising for a leader known for a kind of thundering public presence, his blog is not especially tough. He condemns Washington’s policies, but writes infrequently and more ponderously than in his confrontational speeches. Yet the reader comments posted alongside his own seem far less censored and harsher than one might expect.

You can check out the website here: www.ahmadinehad.ir

Here’s an excerpt from the blog:

Mood: Content

Currently listening to: The deafening cries of oppressed women

Here for: Friends

CAIR Releases Media (censorship) Guide

Here is an excerpt from this Robert Spencer article on Human Events.com:

In its continuing effort to impede freedom of the press in the United States, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has issued a new media guide — available only to “media professionals” — that purports to “educate the media and disabuse journalists of misinformation” about Islam. The notorious Islamic advocacy group, which has seen several of its officials convicted on various terrorism-related charges, and which was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror funding case, asserts that “common misperceptions in the media include the notion that Islam is not compatible with democracy or modern culture, that the Quran teaches violence, that Muslims around the world hate the US, that Islam does not respect women’s rights, and that all Muslims are Arab.”

Talk Show Host Indicted For Child Porn

The internet outs yet another pedophile:

San Francisco radio talk show host Bernie Ward has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of using the Internet to send and receive child pornography, his lawyer said today.

The indictment is under seal, but the charges were confirmed by Ward’s lawyer, Doron Weinberg, and by his employer, KGO radio.

Weinberg said Ward, 56, pleaded not guilty to the indictment before a federal magistrate in San Francisco today.

He said Ward is due to reappear in court in late January before U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker for a status conference and scheduling of a trial date.

Weinberg said the case stems from an “error of judgment” Ward made when he spent a few days in 2004 looking at pornography images and exchanging images with other adults when doing research for a book on hypocrisy.

Speaking of hypocrisy… Bernie Ward is the man who has dedicated countless hours of his KGO radio talkshow to discredit the Catholic Church and chastise all catholic priests as pedophiles. On the subject of book research, where exactly is this book Mr. Ward? Note also that Bernie Ward is indeed a Liberal Democrat. Are you surprised that this Washington Examiner article made no mention of polictical affiliation? If this guy was a Republican, his political affiliation would be mentioned in the first sentence.

Source: Examiner.com - Talk show host indicted for child porn

Sandbox Showdown

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any more asinine in the Senate (insert circus music here):

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 - As if there was any doubt that Congress was on the verge of devolving into a carnival atmosphere, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic majority leader, on Thursday proposed doing cartwheels down the center aisle of the Senate chamber to draw attention to Republican efforts to block legislation.

Here, in the Cirque du Senate, there is trash-talking, whining and finger-pointing, bickering and, occasionally, brief flashes of serious disagreement on policy.

But with the clock ticking swiftly toward the end of the year and a stack of stalled legislation piling up, little is getting done in the Senate these days. And tempers are starting to boil over.

Mr. Reid, who turned 68 on Sunday and power-walks four miles a day, ultimately did not perform any gymnastics. But his fury over the inability to move the Democrats’ legislative agenda seemed to have deepened since Tuesday, when he accused President Bush of “pulling the strings on the 49 puppets he has here in the Senate.”

That reference to the Republicans, in a speech on the Senate floor, prompted Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, to accuse Mr. Reid of violating a rule prohibiting senators from imputing “any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming a senator.”

“It is my view that being called a puppet is in direct violation of that rule,” Mr. Specter said. He added: “I wonder if he is up to the job when he resorts to that kind of a statement, which only furthers the level of rancor.”

Source: NY Times - All the Makings of a Carnival, Except the Fun

The Plagiarist Post

As it reads in our header, the mission of The Douchebag Report is to empower the fight against insanity. In our fight, we repeatedly expose how shameless and unscrupulous the mainstream media can be. Largely, we report on the hypocrisy of individuals, including reporters that maintain the Liberal tenet “do as I say, not as I do.”

What happens when these reporters go beyond hypocrisy and elect to endanger American society and weaken the government we’ve built to protect us? So far, the answer is: NOTHING. Accuracy In Media (AIM) has released an article that exposes the treasonous and plagairistic actions of The Washington Post with respect to Dana Priest’s exposure of CIA secret prisons. This lengthy article falls under the “must read” category. Here is an excerpt:

Winning a Pulitzer Prize for a story about CIA “secret prisons” has been quite lucrative for Dana Priest of the Washington Post. She now commands $15,000 - $20,000 a lecture (”only” $7,500 for a speech in the Washington, D.C. area, where she is based) and an official “fan site” has been established in her honor to promote her work. But the article for which she won the prize not only damaged the security of the United States and endangered the safety of American citizens but appears to have been largely based on the work of London-based journalist Stephen Grey.

The Washington Post must be called to task for such actions. Why is Dana Priest awarded a pulizter prize, when she should be branded with a scarlet “P” for plagiarism and tried for treason? The sad reality is that such actions are indeed celebrated. This should be a call to arms to the intelligent populace that wishes not to be insulted by such organizations.

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