Governor Palin tweeted a link to the following fascinating article by Jeffrey Lord over at The American Spectator titled, “The Plot to Get Rush” with the words, “My, my, my”…

It was a set up.

From start to finish.

A quite specific, quite detailed plot to get Rush Limbaugh, ruin his career, and drive him off the air.

Next targets? Sean Hannity and former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.

Lots to cover here.

Let’s start with Mr. Angelo Carusone.

Who is Angelo Carusone? Today he is now the “Director of Online Strategy for Media Matters for America.”

But a few years back? He was just your basic left-wing law student with a standard left-wing passion. That passion? Totalitarian-style censorship.

Let’s stop here for a moment for a brief bit of historical background — not a detour but a very necessary context.

It is a big mistake — a really big mistake — to dismiss what’s being done to Rush Limbaugh as just some crazy guys at Media Matters.

When we work our way through what Angelo Carusone and his Media Matters comrades and others are doing when they target Rush, or went after Glenn Beck, or plan to do in targeting Sean Hannity and Sarah Palin and who knows who after that (Levin? Laura?) remember: this is the way the Left — the global left throughout history, not simply the American Left today — has always behaved. A fanatical intolerance is part of the leftist DNA.

The late Austrian free-market economist Ludwig von Mises described the leftist method of operation as “fanatical and intolerant.” It works, he said, this way:

Socialism… works on the emotions…to stifle the voice of reason by awakening primitive instincts.

Primitive instincts.

And that most primitive of human instincts? You got it.

Fear.

The skillful, clever use of fear (not to mention hate) is the defining trait of leftists throughout history. Fear is the primitive emotion the left feeds on like a junkie needs drugs. It is a trait repeatedly manifested in history by the use of intimidation or bully-boy tactics to assert raw power. It is the vividly identifiable scarlet thread of intolerance that has shown itself in one leftist movement after another on down through the centuries, regardless of nationality…

So.

You thought the business of getting Rush Limbaugh off the air was because of a bad word choice about Sandra Fluke?

Think again.

The starting date for this latest in a long line of fear-inducing leftists –was, according to Angelo Carusone himself, “late 2009 and early 2010.”

Got that?

In other words, a full two-plus years before Sandra Fluke ever appeared on the anti-religious liberty scene, Commissar Carusone (what other title is more fitting for a self-styled free speech monitor?) was hatching the plot to “Stop Rush.” In the world of Internet domains, Carusone even had it registered as “Stop Rush.org.”

Modeled after Carusone’s earlier successful campaign to… yes, indeed… Stop Beck…

Remember. Angelo Carusone was going after Glenn Beck several years ago as a free-lancing leftist law student. His activities caught the attention of Media Matters, where Commissar Carusone is now officially ensconced as the group’s “Director of Online Strategy.”

Let’s carefully comb through the record of Mr. Carusone in these various stories — plus this Carusone interview here at a site called Raw Story. In which, on June 2, 2010, distinctly unknown in the national media at the time, the then-law student describes in detail what he is up to.

And let’s add something else into this mix. Commissar Carusone, as noted, is now officially a direct employee of Media Matters. Recently the Daily Caller did a highly illuminating series on Media Matters. A series that revealed an out-of-control leftist machine filled with gazillions of leftist Big Money, headed by a man described as exhibiting “volatile and erratic” behavior who “struggles with mental illness” while parading around with the security entourage worthy “of a Third World dictator.”

So let’s add 2 plus 2 and see what 4 equals, shall we?

We will carefully list the tactics admitted to by Commissar Carusone himself. And add what the Daily Caller has reported about Media Matters. Remembering that the Commissar now works for Media Matters.

Here we go.

• Disrupt relationships with sponsors: Not unlike “Chinese Roulette,” the object is to put a bullet of fear in the minds of the target’s advertisers. Or, as a Chinese official was quoted in the Economist only last January in a story with a section titled “Chinese Roulette,” give people (advertisers in the case of Rush) the sense they are “playing pass the parcel with a time bomb.”

This was what Commissar Carusone did with Glenn Beck’s advertisers. Now the target is Rush Limbaugh, with Carusone openly admitting he has talk radio host and Fox star Hannity and Fox commentator Palin in his sights.

So how, according to Commissar Carusone himself, does he go about his self-assigned task of putting that bullet of fear in the minds of advertisers? How precisely did he terrorize Rush Limbaugh’s advertisers into believing they were “playing pass the parcel with a time bomb” — and they, the advertisers in question, were about to lose?

First, the Commissar listens to a “supersized” batch of his target’s broadcasts.

Then he selects something that offends him in broadcast X.

Next the Commissar ”dispatches a letter or e-mail to corporate executives asking them if they are aware that their ads are running in an hour” when Beck or (fill in the blank…Rush, Hannity, Palin) said Y. “Y” standing for “insert newest offensive sound bite”…which is to say, words offensive to left-winger Carusone…

• Methodically Catalogue Results of Smear and Fear Campaign: Next step? After having sprayed an AK-47′s worth of bullets of fear at Rush’s advertisers?

Commissar Carusone, Raw Story reports, then “catalogues his activities… which includes one running list of sponsors that have dropped the show and another of those that have not.”

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• Propagandize the media: Says Commissar Carusone’s simpatico “interviewer” in the Village Voice:

“Let me ask you about this: Sandra Fluke was a white, middle class woman. She was a law student….”

Sandra Fluke was much more than that. She was, in point of fact, a “white, middle class woman…law student” — who was also a considerable leftist activist. Here is her record, as recorded over here and as listed at her respective undergraduate and graduate universities, Cornell and Georgetown Law respectively:

At Cornell, where she graduated with a B.S. in Policy Analysis & Management; Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Sandra Fluke is listed as a participant in:

– Students Acting for Gender Equality
– Take Back the Night
– Sexual Assault and Violence Indicators
– The Vagina Monologues/V-Day College Campaign
– Cornell Women’s Resource Center Volunteer
– Cornell University Student Assembly Committee on Women’s Issues
– Women in Public Policy

At Georgetown, Sandra Fluke is listed as a participant in:

– Women’s Legal Alliance
– Law Students for Reproductive Justice
– GULC Anti-Human Trafficking Joint Committee
– Georgetown Human Rights Action
– Amnesty International
– Innocence Project
– Phi Alpha Delta
– Georgetown Democrats
– National Lawyers Guild

This is the record of an innocent college student?

Of course not. This is the record of a more-than-budding left-wing activist, a feminized version of Angelo Carusone. A Commissarette in training.

So the obvious question. How many news stories were pitched by Fluke’s left-wing handlers that both resulted in this public portrait of a demure, guileless school girl? Who pitched them? And who swallowed them?

• Use the Social Media: Who needs a firing squad to play Chinese Roulette when you have Twitter?

In that 2010 interview, Carusone was said to have “more than 7,000 followers on Twitter.”

So when the national media obligingly spins the yarn of Rush versus Innocent College Girl… Commissar Carusone, now amplified by the millions of dollars in leftist Media Matters money and machinery, had but to tweet and… BANG!

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• The White House and its tie to Media Matters and Sandra Fluke: What’s the difference between the Angelo Carusone the lone leftist law student of yesteryear — and the Commissar Angelo Carusone of today?

Right. The Commissar works for Media Matters. The very same Media Matters identified in detail by the Daily Caller as having “close coordination with White House and news organizations.”

Say again, close coordination with the White House.

And what was one of the notable aspects of the Rush-Sandra Fluke episode? Yes, indeed.

The President of the United States himself picked up the phone and made a highly publicized call to… Sandra Fluke.

• Media Matters and the $100,000 Secret Donor Campaign to Attack Free Speech: Doubtless you’ve seen this gem. Secret donors putting up $100,000 for Media Matters to run ads in eight cities, asking for Rush to be removed from the airwaves. In other words, a bounty of $100,000 grand to end Rush’s career. Here’s the story as it first appeared in the Washington Times. Fox’s Bill O’Reilly has correctly slammed the campaign as being “very fascist.” Mr. O’Reilly is right, and he would know, being a longtime target of Media Matters himself.

But did you notice the source for the Media Matters story that appeared in the Washington Times? Here’s two key paragraphs:

Ad time was purchased in Boston; Chicago; Detroit; Seattle; Milwaukee; St. Louis; Macon, Ga.; and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The cities were selected to support active local campaigns against Limbaugh or because of perceptions Limbaugh may be vulnerable in that market, said Angelo Carusone of Media Matters.

“What we’re really looking for is a way to demonstrate the persistence of the effort and the fact that it is on a wide scale,” Carusone said.

And there he is. Commissar Carusone speaks…

What is it Angelo Carusone is quoted as doing in that 2010 Raw Story interview? A story that was in fact focused on Glenn Beck?

Here’s the verbatim.

…Carusone is mounting similar campaigns targeting Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and CNN.

Beck is now off Fox’s air.

The Rush campaign is now in progress — but in spite of all this, in fact precisely because of all this, his audience is sticking — not to mention getting pretty damn mad.

CNN? What did these poor struggling media mushies do? No idea. But they have somehow offended the sensibilities of Commissar Carusone.

But Sarah Palin and Sean Hannity? They have received their warning.

The Political Police are out there. Commissar Carusone is keeping his lists. The Media Matters secret donors, carefully operating in the shadows, have the bucks to enforce the Commissar.

Is this still America?

Only if we fight back.

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