Mystery Shrouds Defense of Accused Letterman Blackmailer: ‘Screenplay’ Defense?

How did a veteran “48 Hours” producer end up being accused of a $2 million blackmail attempt on David Letterman?

“There is another side of this story,” Gerald Shargel, attorney for Robert J. Halderman, said. “This story is far more complicated.”

What could the plot to the other side of the story be?

Halderman has already entered a “not guilty” plea to first-degree attempted grand larceny.

According to Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau, Halderman wrote to Letterman stating that he needed to “make a large chunk of money.” Attached to his letter was a one-page screenplay treatment, which described how Letterman would have a “ruined reputation” after details of the CBS “Late Show” host’s sexual relationships with young female employees were revealed.

The 51-year-old producer used a novel method to deliver the “screenplay.” Early in the morning on Sept. 9 the letter and other materials were left in the back seat of Letterman’s car, which was parked outside his Manhattan home.

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Patriot Act Spares New York Terror Attack

Unbelievable.

While serving up caf and decaf, the java guy was secretly working to commit mass murder.

Cream and sugar with your terrorist attack, madam? Glazed or jelly donut with your bomb blast, sir?

The recent arrest of suspected terrorist Najibullah Zazi reminds us all of the important role surveillance plays in safeguarding our people and our nation.

Zazi is in custody on charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction. He was accused last week of conspiring to launch a bombing attack in America with the help of some common beauty supplies and insidious training from al-Qaida in Pakistan.

The terrorism suspect maintains that he was not part of a terrorist cell, according to his attorney, Arthur Folsom.

The 24-year-old Afghan immigrant worked as a vendor-cart operator in Lower Manhattan. He sold coffee and donuts. EXCERPT: FOR MORE CLICK HERE

Michael Moore Calls Capitalism ‘Evil’

Michael Moore solidified his position as one of the biggest phonies of our times while at a recent Venice Film Festival outing.

He debuted his latest sham documentary called “Capitalism: A Love Story.”

Thanks to the free enterprise system, Moore has become super wealthy, which makes the two-hour flick a case study in hypocrisy.

“Capitalism is an evil,” Moore proclaims, “and you cannot regulate evil.”

According to Moore, regulating capitalism doesn’t work, so his prescription is, “You have to eliminate it and replace it with something that is good for all people and that something is democracy.”

Guess it all depends on what the meaning of “democracy” is.

Fidel, Hugo, Van, Nancy, and Harry might have a similar definition. Someday someone might ask the president what his is.

In any event, the flimflam filmmaker even stoops so low as to bring in some liberation theology clergy to endorse the idea that capitalism is actually anti-Christian…

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FCC Transition Head May Be ‘Fairness Doctrine’ Fan

Barack Obama’s purported pick to guide the transition of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) may not bode well for free expression in the Land of Liberty.

The president-elect is expected to appoint D.C. lawyer Henry Rivera as transition leader for the FCC, according to Multichannel News.

Rivera is a Democrat former commissioner who served on the FCC panel from 1981 to 1985.

Following Rivera’s resignation in 1985, President Ronald Reagan appointed Patricia Diaz Dennis, who opposed the Fairness Doctrine. The law was subsequently repealed in 1987.

The law mandates that equal time be given on broadcast airwaves to opposing political viewpoints.

As the FCC in the past was forced to admit, the Orwellian Fairness Doctrine “had the net effect of reducing rather than enhancing the discussion of controversial issues of public importance.”

After the law was repealed, talk radio became a bona fide industry.

Obama’s reported choice is no “reach across the aisle” pick. Rivera has been heralded for linking civil rights interests to communications policies.

According to the Web site of the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council, Rivera is Chairman of the Board. The group is “committed to promoting and preserving equal opportunity and civil rights in the mass media and telecommunications industries.”

He’s also a board member and General Counsel for the Benton Foundation, an organization that “works to ensure that media and telecommunications serve the public interest and enhance our democracy. We pursue this mission by seeking policy solutions that support the values of access, diversity and equity…,” according to its Web site.

It all sounds an awful lot like the language used by Democrats to justify the rebirth of the Fairness Doctrine, including Democrats Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Chuck Schumer, Dennis Kucinich, Jeff Bingham and Louise Slaughter-all of whom are on record as being in support of the lopsided law. Slaughter actually already tried to bring it back.

As Feinstein complained to Fox News’ Chris Wallace, “In my view, talk radio tends to be one-sided. It also tends to be dwelling in hyperbole. It’s explosive. It pushes people to, I think, extreme views without a lot of information.”

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James Hirsen, J.D., M.A. in Media Psychology, is a media analyst, teacher of mass media and entertainment law at Biola University and professor at Trinity Law School.

The End of the Race Card

America has proved to the world that its citizens are color blind.

The Bradley effect was nowhere to be found….

San Fran Radio Host Calls for Joe the Plumber’s Death

Supposedly, Charles Karel Bouley, a liberal weekend talk show host on KGO-AM and a contributing writer for the Huffington Post, inadvertently broadcast a death wish for Joe the Plumber.

During a recent Saturday broadcast of ABC national news, the talk show host jabbered into what he apparently thought was a dead microphone. He was heard speaking over the national news broadcast at the same time GOP candidate John McCain mentioned Joe the Plumber.

“F Joe the [string of expletives] Plumber,” Bouley said, further cursing that he wanted him “dead.”

After Bouley was informed that his mike was live, he apologized, claiming that his remarks were not targeting any Joe in particular.

It’s difficult to believe that the radio host is contrite. In a March 2007 article in the Huffington Post, Bouley wrote that the late Tony Snow’s cancer had been caused by his “lying to the American people.”

New Hampshire: Romney and Clinton in the Lead

Bloomberg at 12% Draws Equally From Dems and G.O.P.

Draws about equal support from Republicans and Democrats

The latest USA Today/Gallup poll finds 12% of registered voters say they would vote for Bloomberg in a three-candidate race that includes Hillary Clinton as the Democratic candidate, and Rudy Giuliani as the Republican.

Hillary Clinton – 45%
Rudy Giuliani – 39%
Michael Bloomberg – 12%
Other/None/Etc – 3%

USA Today/Gallup Poll Shows New Low for Iraq War

The survey found that1 in 5 Americans say the increase in U.S. forces in Iraq since January has made the situation there better.

Half say the surge has made no difference.

Greater than 7 in 10 want to remove most U.S. troops from Iraq by April 2008.

Bush Delegates Troop Decisions to ‘Our Commanders’

President George W. Bush, battling a growing congressional rebellion against his unpopular Iraq policy, rejected lawmakers’ calls for withdrawing US forces from the war-torn country.

‘Troop levels will be decided by our commanders on the ground, not by political figures in Washington,” the president said ahead of remarks here in defense of his beleaguered strategy.

‘I fully understand that this is a difficult war, and it’s hard on the American people. But I will once again explain the consequences of failure to the American people, and I’ll explain the consequences of success,’ he said.