To: Honey_Bee who wrote (76688 ) 8/7/2012 2:37:28 PM From: lorne 3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 103300 Loco...The maybe.president of the USA going after a little Sheriff...just how vindictive and small is this fool? Reporter, Obama law firm unite against Sheriff Joe 'Free speech' group ridicules attempt to hold president accountable by Jerome R. Corsi Tuesday, August 07, 2012 wnd.com What happens when a TV journalist who fiercely defends Barack Obama on the Internet and an attorney from the law firm defending Obama in eligibility lawsuits nationwide team up to form a supposedly public-interest, non-profit organization dedicated to “free speech” and open government? Though it claims to value transparency, this particular non-profit has done everything possible to ridicule legitimate attempts to see original 1961 Obama birth records. WND has learned that Morgan Loew of KPHO-TV in Phoenix, a persistent and outspoken critic of WND and Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Maricopa County, Ariz., has joined forces with Dan Barr, the Phoenix representative of Perkins Coie, the Seattle-based law firm that continues to represent Obama on eligibility law suits. They’ve formed The First Amendment Coalition of Arizona, a free speech organization that claims it’s dedicated to obtaining transparency in government. Watch the live stream of Sheriff Arpaio’s most recent press conference on Obama’s eligibility. When you sign up for access, you’ll receive a copy of the official press release distributed at the conference. Loew is currently listed as the group’s president, with Barr as the registered agent legal contact for the group. Examining the public record, Loew and Barr have established themselves not as unbiased advocates for good government, but as Democratic Party partisans willing to use Saul Alinsky-like tactics to demonize opponents. Their foes include WND, Arpaio and Republican Party presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who they view as threats to the re-election of Obama. In the bag for Obama Loew is the reporter who waited through Arpaio’s July 17 press conference in Phoenix, not to ask questions about evidence presented that Obama’s long-form birth certificate is a forgery, but to attack WND and the Arpaio investigation as “conspiracy theory peddlers.” Yet, Loew seems to detect no hypocrisy when he levels accusations in articles on his TV station’s website. In a July 11 story, Loew charged the “real driving force” behind the Arpaio investigation was Joseph Farah, the founder of WND. Loew charges this reporter and author Tom Ballantyne – associated with the Western Center for Journalism, another website Loew attributes to Farah – gave speeches to the Tea Party in Surprise, Ariz., that sparked the investigation. The speeches, he says, led both to the original petition that prompted the investigation and to a subsequent petition that prompted Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett to ask the Hawaii Department of Health for verification of Obama’s published birth certificate. Farah responded with an editorial July 18 in which noted the Western Journalism Center was always a tax-exempt, nonprofit charity that no one “owned” as such. Farah further pointed out that Loew’s published comments “could easily serve as a press release for the Arizona Democratic Party or an editorial column in the ‘progressive’ weekly in Phoenix, which actually picked up on it.” Barr has display his partisan bias in a series of anti-Arpaio and anti-Romney comments he continues to post on Twitter. Two Twitter comments Barr posted in June attacked Romney over his experience as an equity manager, equating him with a professional gambler.