From World Net Daily(not the tabloid site World News Daily), with h/t to Green Hell Blog, something that if proven is quite disturbing. Yet given the kind of treatment I’ve recently received at the hands of an eco-zealot who can’t tolerate my views on climate, I’m not surprised.
Some people have no scruples and no shame. – Anthony
Democrats attack Republican candidate’s children
By Art Robinson
In an effort to do my part in rescuing our country from the out-of-control Obama administration, last year I ran for Congress in Oregon’s 4th District against 12-term incumbent, far-left Democrat Peter DeFazio, co-founder of the House Progressive Caucus.
Although I won the nominations of the Republican, Independent and Constitution Parties and the endorsement of the Libertarian Party, a massive media smear campaign by DeFazio, paid for with money raised by MoveOn.org and from special interests favored by DeFazio in Washington, resulted in a 54.5 percent to 43.6 percent victory for DeFazio in a race that was expected to be much closer.
Although I had never run for public office before, I immediately announced my candidacy for Congress again in 2012.
However, when you take a stand for what’s right, sometimes there is retribution.On Nov. 4, 2010, as soon as the election results were in and they were sure their candidate had won, faculty administrators at Oregon State University gave new meaning to the term “political payback.”
They initiated an attack on my three children – Joshua, Bethany and Matthew – for the purpose of throwing them all out of the OSU graduate school, despite their outstanding academic and research accomplishments. OSU is a liberal socialist Democrat stronghold in Oregon that received a reported $27 million in earmark funding from my opponent, Peter DeFazio, and his Democrat colleagues during the last legislative session.
Read full story here: Democrats attack Republican candidate’s children
UPDATE: I decided to pull the direct link to the website that hurled unspeakable insults to me by an eco-zealot, they don’t deserve the traffic WUWT will generate for them. Such things are best handled by other means. So, I used WebCite to permanently log the website, and you can view it here, scroll all the way to the bottom and note “corrections”: http://www.webcitation.org/5x0pgZdgl
UPDATE2: OSU has posted a statement which you can read here
I had never heard of ‘the beast’ before reading this post. Clearly it is a site for those with
idiopathic amentia. Sadly there is no cure.
With time and support ‘beasters’ may learn to live independently and perhaps, under supervision, will eventually be able to undertake some kind of useful but very simple employment.
Even the Mafia had a code of honor that protected wives and children from becoming victims of revenge or retribution. At least we now know the OSU mafia has no such honor.
Gneiss says:
March 7, 2011 at 8:51 am
Art Robinson’s declaration, headlined now by you, that Oregon State University administrators are throwing his three children out of graduate school in retribution for his political campaign, does not ring true.
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Really? So, what rings true? 3 individuals, with separately successful academic careers, suddenly have their positions in peril from the same university?…..Random acts? Or maybe the younger Robinsons collectively, yet individually failed at the same time? Yeh, that rings true…….damn man.
To the rest, an oft disputed quote, but true nonetheless……“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”—(usually attributed to Edmund Burke.)
Here’s a quote from him that isn’t disputed……“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
Do something. I, for one, will call my federal congressional representative. She happens to be a republican…..you know, the ones with the purse strings.
Gneiss says:
March 7, 2011 at 8:27 am
Art Robinson writes,
“They initiated an attack on my three children – Joshua, Bethany and Matthew – for the purpose of throwing them all out of the OSU graduate school, despite their outstanding academic and research accomplishments. OSU is a liberal socialist Democrat stronghold in Oregon that received a reported $27 million in earmark funding from my opponent, Peter DeFazio, and his Democrat colleagues during the last legislative session.”
Think there might be more to this story?
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If there is more, then let’s hear from OSU what is actually going on. So three children from the same family suddenly lose their standing? Seems unlikely to me. I think OSU has a little ‘splain’n to do.
If you are surprised by the possibility that this might be a real attack on Art Robinson’s children you need to wake up from your deep slumber.
you-all need to do some re-think on on democratic political exploitation. Nothing new here really. Get the system working as it was designed to do. Maybe not, he who has the powerrrrr. Goldfinger?.
I wrote my email to President Ray making it clear that such injustice will cost OSU far more than it will gain it. I hope others take 5 minutes to do the same.
They are nasty people. But who are they going to convince of anything, other than that they are nasty?
We know by the democrats own words there is a plan to redistribute wealth. Now it looks like there is a plan to redistribute credit for scientific research. In other words decide who works and gets opportunity not by ability but by connections.
As for DeFazio, he is a prime example as to why we should not have career politicians.
According to whois, buffalobeast.com is indeed based in Buffalo, New York, owned by Paul Fallon. Oh, I thought the name was familiar. See http://www.buffalobeast.com/05/fallon.congress.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beast_(newspaper) says Fallon is the publisher, Ian Murphy is the editor, and warrants his own Wiki page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Murphy_(writer) Neither are people I’d like to share anything with.
I’m amazed that someone can be as bitter as Murphy appears to be. I wonder what his first thought is when he wakes up each morning.
To those critical of World Net Daily. This was a first person piece written by Dr Robinson directly, so we must afford it the same credence as a personal piece on his own web site.
I have to say that I am always suspicious of these kind of conspiracy allegations. However, the chances of all three of his children committing expellation-level offenses in a single year is unlikely (do you know the kind of action that it takes to expel a PHD student? We are talking outright academic fraud, selling grades, or worse), the timing of this is extremely suspicious, and the accusations of nepotism and favor-granting seem relatively well-documented simply by stating the relations of people within the department. As far as conspiracies againt a person go, this is a pretty strong case.
Legal action against schools is almost never successful, especially on qualitative judgments like this. However, the school may very well back down to avoid further public embarrassment.
Why even post a link to the Beast? They don’t deserve the bandwidth.
olderwiser,
I read the article’s title and no farther. I guess I’m more jaded than I thought.☹ Apologies.
Gneiss says:
March 7, 2011 at 8:27 am
Yes, an obvious double-standard at work.
During the 2008 primaries and general elections, some candidates began attacking the spouses. Both Dem & GOP mainstream told the offenders to lay off, as such attacks were out-of-bounds AND below-the-belt.
Now, tell me, how do certain elected officials, now in power, defend such acts?
I know it is serious but I have to say, if you can get THAT far up their noses, I’d like to shake your hand.
The Daily Beast is children behaving badly. Why are directing traffic to their site by publishing a link?
Since swiftboating means to tell the truth about a liberal candidate, why does this incident remind anyone of swiftboating?
This is an absolute outrage but is fairly typical of the tactics employed by people on the political left these days. They are becoming desperate and don’t seem to “get” that actions such as these actually advance the cause of the political right and drain support away from the left.
It is really sad. Everything is political to these people. Everything.
Disgusting and scary, so blinded by hate. How much different emotioanally are these vile do-gooders from the communist or nazi do-gooders of past generatios? I don’t think as far away as we may have hoped — and I think the gap is narrowing all too rapidly. Imagine a liberal social-democrat state controlled by these thugs. Their righteous anger is of the same poison just not in the same dosage amounts — yet.
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MM those Guys may find out why we have “Libel” Tourism in the UK not to mention involving a British Corporation and Tony Hayward 🙂
Gates has significant interests over in the UK and if he maintains a home here he could just decide to have some sport.
Appalling what was said about you Anthony (as was the rest on the others). Satire has limits imho.
What this shows is that these guys are running scared, otherwise there would be no need to resort to this kind of garbage!!
I became a fan when of Robinson when he went on Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC. She tried to discredit him, and he did a great job (maybe a bit smug) trashing her and their network. Not to many repubs would go on that show just because it is going to be so not fair or balanced.
So even though I am from AZ, i followed his campaign and was deeply disappointed when he lost. I feel for him and his family over this incident. You may want to look up the you tube video of the debate from Maddow show.
Robinson is certainly one of us…HOBO
Anthony, sue the Beast and the writer for $1,000,000 and their domain name. It think it’s an open case of defamation.
You will get good press, even from the MSM who cannot side with psychopathic eco-fascists. At some point the radical left/green have to reach a tipping point where the MSM has to notice the problem.
Re. the “Beast” … well, I suppose their choice of name partly explains their fascination with that sort of activity … not saying any more …
I guess now WUWT is officially THE BEST SCIENCE BLOG you’re going to draw fire from all sorts of jealous little pseudoscience believers. Think of it as their warped, twisted way of paying you a compliment. (Then sue!)
This is not the kinda of article I want to read from WUWT.
Those in the US, please contact Oregon newspapers and your Representatives & Senators.
Please contact the Office of Congressional Ethics
http://oce.house.gov/public-input.html
Especially if you have supporting details.
oce@mail.house.gov
This may come under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
See RICO in a nutshell