FOX News corruptly broadcast the paranoid ramblings of the grandiose Andy Martin

It would be difficult to follow the 2008 Presidential election and not quickly become aware of the undercurrent of emails that spread the false claim that Barack Obama is a Muslim who has concealed his true religion. At last, three weeks before the election, the New York Time has gone back to track down the individual, Andy Martin, who is source of the strange lies that are being spread, and the source is even more amazing than the strange stories he dreams up. Here is what the New york Times has to say about Martin.

Until this month, the man who is widely credited with starting the cyberwhisper campaign that still dogs Mr. Obama was a secondary character in news reports, with deep explorations of his background largely confined to liberal blogs.

But an appearance in a documentary-style program on the Fox News Channel watched by three million people last week thrust the man, Andy Martin, and his past into the foreground. The program allowed Mr. Martin to assert falsely and without challenge that Mr. Obama had once trained to overthrow the government.

An examination of legal documents and election filings, along with interviews with his acquaintances, revealed Mr. Martin, 62, to be a man with a history of scintillating if not always factual claims. He has left a trail of animosity — some of it provoked by anti-Jewish comments — among political leaders, lawyers and judges in three states over more than 30 years.

He is a law school graduate, but his admission to the Illinois bar was blocked in the 1970s after a psychiatric finding of “moderately severe character defect manifested by well-documented ideation with a paranoid flavor and a grandiose character.”

Though he is not a lawyer, Mr. Martin went on to become a prodigious filer of lawsuits, and he made unsuccessful attempts to win public office for both parties in three states, as well as for president at least twice, in 1988 and 2000. Based in Chicago, he now identifies himself as a writer who focuses on his anti-Obama Web site and press releases. [Snip]

He prepared to run as a Democrat for Congress in Connecticut, where paperwork for one of his campaign committees listed as one purpose “to exterminate Jew power.” He ran as a Republican for the Florida State Senate and the United States Senate in Illinois. When running for president in 1999, he aired a television advertisement in New Hampshire that accused George W. Bush of using cocaine.

Andy Martin can be written off as an energetic paranoid delusional nut job, but those who use him to attack Barack Obama, like the corrupt FOX news, have their own agendas.

FOX used Andy Martin as the source of a so-called documentary on Barack Obama without mentioning anything about his history as a failed lawyer, perennial candidate for election, the fact that a federal judge found that he had so abused the federal courts that he has been declared "a vexatious litigant" who can no longer file legal actions without prior approval of the courts. Mr. Martin's violation of that court order led to the dismissal - with prejudice - of his law suit against Media Matters for allegedly slandering him by writing that Mr. Martin is an anti-Semite. In addition, Andy Martin was declared in contempt of court for filing the law suit in violation of the previous court order declaring him a vexatious litigant.

Andy's so-called research has no support outside his fevered brain, but FOX News could not find other negative material to us to attack the Democratic candidate for President. So FOX went with the rantings of an individual previously determined to possess a “moderately severe character defect manifested by well-documented ideation with a paranoid flavor and a grandiose character.”

It's not like FOX was unaware of this history of Andy Martin (originally named Anthony Robert Martin-Trigona.) Wikipedia has an extensive entry on Andy Martin, one easily available to anyone with a computer and the ability to Google. FOX pretends to be a news organization. They knew or should have known Andy Martin's history before using him as the source of their broadcast.

It is well-known now that there are lies, damned lies, and then below that can be found the the fevered propaganda swill of FOX TV. Their use of the baseless ramblings of Andy Martin to attack Barack Obama are a clear example of the garbage that is the stock in trade of FOX.