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Dan Gifford

Dan Gifford

Dan Gifford has won the prestigious top Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Reporting, the International Documentary Association's top award, and has been nominated for an Oscar, among other honors. He also acts and writes.

In a prior career, he was an investigative reporter who exposed organized crime, official corruption, and financial fraud for such news organizations as “The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour,” ABC News, and CNN. “MacNeil/Lehrer” credited him with being the first to reveal the looting and lying by criminals and government officials that destroyed so many banks and savings and loans during the 80s. The Houston Chronicle had this to say:
Gifford is one of the few reporters who understands how banks get plundered, how takeover predators destroy companies and how Wall Street crooks manipulate the markets. He can draw blood with a financial statement and the powers that be don't like it.

Dan began his broadcast career while a high school student in 1965 Baltimore as a newspaper newsman, radio reporter, and disc jockey.

As an actor, Dan has appeared in well-known feature films like “Contact,” “Mad City,” and “Malcolm X.” His TV credits include Tom Clancey’s “Net Force,” “The X Files,” “The Practice,” and “Mr. Show.”

In his producer capacity, he has helmed “Waco: The Rules of Engagement” (government mass murder), “The Hungry Bachelors Club” starring “CSI's” Jorja Fox (miscegenation), and “The Jaundiced Eye” (homophobic false child abuse hysteria) to critical acclaim.

New York Press on “Waco: The Rules of Engagement”: “It is easily the most important American documentary of the past decade.”

Variety on “The Jaundiced Eye”: “Gifford should be congratulated for taking on unpopular subjects for which the mainstream press has no stomach or honesty.”

A native of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Dan attended school at Lynchburg’s Virginia Episcopal School, Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, The Peabody Conservatory of Music and The Johns Hopkins University.

Dan served on the board of directors of the ACLU of Southern California for five years.

Maybe I’m deaf and blind, but two weeks after a voting records examination report showed Minnesota Senator Al Franken was probably elected by felons who were illegally voting in that state’s 2008 general election, I’ve yet to come across even one mention of that story in the agenda-setting media.

An actual Minnesota ballot that counted for FrankenAn actual Minnesota ballot that counted for Franken

Yesterday, I kept an eye on CNN’s Rick Sanchez, Wolf Blitzer, HN’s headline hammerers, and MSNBC’s Obama cheer leading squads. It’s too early for the “prestige” glamour anchor news shows on NBC, CBS, and ABC as I write this so maybe the story will be on later… Psyche! — as “New” Black Panther chairman Malik Zulu Shabazz likes to say.

Denial of the vote to convicted felons is a big deal to the Panthers as well as many other black groups that want nothing to do with the Shabazz crew because most now affected are black and vote Democrat- the very reason conservatives like Alabama Republican Party Chairman Marty Connors say, “We’re opposed to [restoring voting rights to them] because felons don’t tend to vote Republican.” Yep, around 90% of the time they don’t. (more…)

Poet Ogden Nash knew the score:

…if called by a panther, don’t anther.

And that’s exactly what America’s liberal agenda-setting media has done. It has not answered the “New” Black Panther’s call daring it to report on voter intimidation by two paramilitary dressed Panthers, one of whom was brandishing a club, outside a Philadelphia polling place in 2008.

PANTHERS.VOTER INTIMIDATION

Bartle Bull, a former civil rights lawyer and publisher of the leftist The Village Voice, a paper in which I have been published, said it’s “the most blatant form of voter intimidation I’ve ever seen.” Worse, our media agenda setters cower in silence behind their constitutional protection at the prospect of digging into the corroborated sworn testimony of Department of Justice whistle-blower Christian Adams that the Obama DOJ won’t prosecute those Panthers because it has embraced a politically correct policy of not charging blacks for civil rights violations. (more…)