During the October 6 broadcast of The War Room with Quinn & Rose, co-host Rose Tennent twice stated that "I don't think you can be a Christian and vote for [Sen.] Barack Obama." Tennent later said: "I don't care what kind of Christian he is -- I'm talking about Christians, voters. If you can't take a look his record, his track record, and listen to the words he's saying, and, and you can still vote for him. -- I'm curious, I'm just very curious. I don't understand it."

During the program, Tennent and co-host Jim Quinn also referenced comments Obama made on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos to again falsely suggest that Obama is not a Christian. Tennent stated, "[W]hen he's not being reminded that he's a Christian, he's saying he's a Muslim, but that's OK." Quinn responded: "Yeah, oh yeah, 'my Muslim faith.' "

On the September 7 edition of This Week, Obama discussed, in host George Stephanopoulos' words, Republicans who have "suggested" he had "Muslim connections "and claimed that such suggestions are "promulgated on Fox News, let's say, and Republican commentators, who are closely allied" with Sen. John McCain's campaign. After Stephanopoulos asserted that McCain "said that's wrong" to question Obama's faith, Obama replied: "[Y]ou're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith." Stephanopoulos interjected, "Your Christian faith," to which Obama replied: "My Christian faith. Well, what I'm saying is he hasn't suggested that I'm a Muslim. And I think that his campaign, upper echelons have not either. What I think is fair to say is that coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith, something which I find deeply offensive. And that has been going on for a pretty long time."

As Media Matters for America has documented, both Quinn and Tennent, along with numerous other conservative radio hosts, seized on Obama's comment in order to suggest that the comments prove Obama is really a Muslim, not a Christian.

From the October 6 edition of Clear Channel's The War Room with Quinn & Rose:

TENNENT: You know, the other thing I don't understand is, like when we were talking earlier about where these contributions are coming from, why isn't the federal government looking into this? Why is this guy getting a free pass on everything? I can't even look at him anymore. I mean, it's on my screen right now. I gotta -- I can't take it. Now, I'm gonna tell you something else, too. A couple of times now, I've run into people who are voting -- who are Christians, and they're voting for Barack Obama. I'm going to say this. I don't think you can be a Christian and vote for Barack Obama. OK?

QUINN: Well, Barack Obama --

TENNENT: I'm just saying. Now, I'm going to get emails from people --

QUINN: You know -- oh, I don't know --

TENNENT: I don't give a rip what you said to me in the email. OK? I'm not even going to answer your email. I don't think you can be a Christian and vote for Barack Obama.

QUINN: Yeah, I'm sorry if the truth is politically incorrect. But Obama claims he's a Christian. Muammar Qaddafi --

TENNENT: But you know what? He's being remind -- when he's not being reminded that he's a Christian, he's saying he's a Muslim, but that's OK --

QUINN: Yeah, oh yeah, "my Muslim faith." Uh --

TENNENT: You mean "your Christian" --

QUINN: Right, right, yeah. I mean, here's a guy who was in Quranic studies class in a -- in a -- in an Islamic school. Here's a guy whose -- who Muammar Qaddafi says is a Muslim. The mullahs in Iran think he's a Muslim. So he must be part of the vast right-wing conspiracy, I suppose.

TENNENT: And abortion alone. And, you know, and that child protection act. All of that -- I mean, that is dirty, that is evil. I'm sorry, it is evil.

QUINN: Well, and the other thing, too, is that Christianity that he --

TENNENT: Well, I'm not even here to --

QUINN: -- adheres to --

TENNENT: -- judge his religion.

QUINN: -- is black -- well, I am. It's Black Liberation Theology that's a conveyor belt for Marxism. It's not Christianity, it's Christianity turned into politics.

TENNENT: Right.

QUINN: So don't give me this thing about how much of a Christian you are.

TENNENT: I don't care what kind of Christian he is -- I'm talking about Christians, voters. If you can't take a look his record, his track record, and listen to the words he's saying, and, and you can still vote for him. -- I'm curious, I'm just very curious. I don't understand it.

QUINN: Well, I do. It's, it's the culture of narcissism. These people want reality to be what pleases them. And they will convert anything around them, including their own morality and the morality of their church to suit what it is they want. Because what they want is everything. I want, I want, I want.

On the October 6 edition of MSNBC's Race for the White House, host David Gregory showed video from the previous weekend of Gov. Sarah Palin saying, "Our opponent is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country," which Gregory noted was a reference to 1960s radical Bill Ayers. Gregory then reported that Palin "changed that language a little on the campaign trail today, but it was the same message." However, Gregory did not note that in her original comments, Palin referred to an October 4 New York Times article which, as Media Matters for America has repeatedly documented, reported that "the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called 'somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8.' "

Gregory also aired a clip of Obama calling the McCain campaign's attacks "usual political shenanigans and smear tactics," but did not note that the Obama campaign issued a statement specifically rebutting Palin's claim. The statement reportedly said: "In fact, the very newspaper story Governor Palin cited in hurling her shameless attack made clear that Senator Obama is not close to Bill Ayers, much less 'pals,' and that he has strongly condemned the despicable acts Ayers committed 40 years ago, when Obama was eight."

From the October 6 edition of MSNBC's Race for the White House:

GREGORY: We're below 30 now -- 29 days to go in the race for the White House. Welcome to the program. I'm David Gregory.

My headline tonight: Panic attack from Wall Street to the campaign trail. The stock market plummets once again. Here are the boards. The Dow Jones industrial average diving as much as 800 points at one point today before closing at just below 10,000. You see the numbers.

Meanwhile, Obama's stock is on rise. The latest NBC News electoral map shows Obama opening up a nearly 100-point electoral vote lead and double-digit leads in key battleground states such as Virginia and New Hampshire. But instead of addressing the financial crisis with plans of attack, character attacks ruled the day. Senator McCain blasted Senator Obama at a rally in New Mexico, while Governor Palin attacked Obama for his relationship with '60s radical Bill Ayers.

McCAIN [video clip]: Whatever the question, whatever the issue, there's always a back story with Senator Obama. [break] What does he plan for America? In short, who is the -- who is the real Barack Obama?

PALIN [video clip]: Our opponent is someone who sees America as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country.

GREGORY: That was Governor Palin over the weekend. She changed that language a little bit on the campaign trail today, but it was the same message. Obama fired back at what he called Swift boat-style attacks.

OBAMA [video clip]: I cannot imagine anything more important to talk about than the economic crisis, and the notion that we would want to brush that aside and engage in the usual political shenanigans and smear tactics that have come to characterize too many political campaigns, I think, is not what the American people are looking for.

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On the October 6 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, co-host Sean Hannity repeatedly cited Sen. Barack Obama's August 13, 2007, remark that "[w]e've got to get the job done there [in Afghanistan] and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there," at one point calling Obama's statement a "lie." However, as Media Matters for America has documented, Defense Secretary Robert Gates recently apologized for deaths resulting from coalition airstrikes, saying in a September 17 statement: "I offer all Afghans my sincere condolences and personal regrets for the recent loss of innocent life as a result of coalition airstrikes. While no military has ever done more to prevent civilian casualties, it is clear that we have to work even harder. I have asked for a detailed briefing this afternoon about our close air support as well as our intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance operations."

Further, U.S. airstrikes in Afghanistan and accounts of resulting civilian casualties have been widely reported in the media and have reportedly provoked criticism from Afghan President Hamid Karzai and a British commander stationed there. Additionally, the Associated Press reported in a "Fact Check" the day after Obama's remark: "Western forces have been killing [Afghan] civilians at a faster rate than the insurgents."

During the show, Hannity asked Fox News contributor Dick Morris: "When you want to be president of the United States and you say that our troops that are in harm's way are air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is a lie ... [w]hy is this even a race?" Later in the show, Hannity said to former Rep. Jack Kemp (R-NY): "And I'm just wondering at what point the American people are going to say that his radical associations are air-raiding villages, killing civilians. Why isn't he being held responsible for these radical views?" Kemp responded: "Well, I think he has to be, and I think it's an issue." In a later segment, Hannity said to pollster Scott Rasmussen: "You know, how is it that John McCain puts everything on the line for the surge when it's the least politically popular, because he believes it's right, and he leads, and he's successful. And Barack Obama is nowhere to be found except accusing our troops of air-raiding villages and killing civilians."

As Media Matters has documented, Hannity has previously falsely suggested that Obama "attack[ed] our troops as murderers," claimed that Obama's comments were "not true," praised Gov. Sarah Palin for referring to Obama's remark during the vice presidential debate, and otherwise repeatedly mischaracterized Obama's remark (here, here, here, and here) without noting the widely reported U.S. airstrikes in Afghanistan.

From the October 6 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes:

HANNITY: But let me ask you this: When you want to be president of the United States and you say that our troops that are in harm's way are air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is a lie; when you vote to cut off their funding even though your vice presidential choice says lives will be lost; when you hang out with Jeremiah Wright; when you hang out with Bill Ayers; when you hang out with Father Pfleger; you hang out with Tony Rezko -- why does a part of me -- you know he is the most radical and unqualified candidate, Dick, to even be within reach of the White House. Why is this even a race?

MORRIS: He certainly is the most liberal candidate for president in a long time, but what you're describing, Sean, I think, is only half of the offensive.

[...]

HANNITY: All right, let me ask you this, because I brought this up with Dick Morris. He's friends with an unrepentant terrorist. He sits in Reverend Wright's pews for 20 years, Jack -- 20 years, a guy who hates this country. And I'm just wondering at what point the American people are going to say that his radical associations are air-raiding villages, killing civilians. Why isn't he being held responsible for these radical views?

KEMP: Well, I think he has to be, and I think it's an issue. But the first three issues facing John McCain and the American people tomorrow night, and I think next Wednesday night in New York, are the economy, number one, the economy, number two, and having John McCain as commander in chief in this still dangerous world.

[...]

HANNITY: Explain something to me. You know, how is it that John McCain puts everything on the line for the surge when it's the least politically popular, because he believes it's right, and he leads, and he's successful. And Barack Obama is nowhere to be found except accusing our troops of air-raiding villages and killing civilians.

In the case of the economy, again, McCain following, true to form, puts everything on the line. Obama says, "If you need me, call me. I'll be there in a hurry." How come this benefits him, you know, this mess on Wall Street, and not Senator McCain. McCain warned about Fannie and Freddie three years ago. Why don't people seem to understand this?

RASMUSSEN: Well, let's go back to your first point. Both Obama and McCain thought that, by now, they'd be talking about Iraq, and both thought they'd have a winning issue. Instead, right now, Iraq has been so successful politically in the last few months that it's dropped out as a political issue, and it's -- you know, people are more optimistic about it. And so, that's harmed John McCain, because the minute --

HANNITY: All right, let me ask you.

RASMUSSEN: -- you shift away from national security -- but on the economy, you know, you're trying to connect the dots. You're following this very closely. The American people are uncomfortable with what's happened, and they're uncomfortable with the administration in power, and that's helping Obama.

During the October 5 edition of Fox News' Hannity's America, Sean Hannity hosted Andy Martin -- identified by Hannity as an "Internet journalist" -- to make "the explosive claim that [Sen. Barack] Obama's role as a community organizer was a political staging ground perpetuated by the unrepentant terrorist William Ayers." At no point during the segment did Hannity note Martin's history of smears against Obama or Martin's history of anti-Semitic and racially charged comments. In 2007, in a document Martin submitted in a lawsuit he filed against Media Matters for America, Martin claimed that "African-American judges ... circle the wagons and try to protect Barry [Obama]." He also said that the actions of an African-American judge who presided over the case "show that African-Americans are willing to corrupt and abuse their-public offices to defend their own sleazy candidate for office." Further, as the Chicago Tribune and several federal courts have noted, Martin -- who also goes by the name of Anthony Martin-Trigona -- has called a judge a "crooked, slimy Jew, who has a history of lying and thieving common to members of his race."

During the segment, Martin baselessly claimed that Obama's work as a community organizer was "training for a radical overthrow of the government." Martin also baselessly claimed that Obama "probably had met William Ayers in New York, and was coming here [to Chicago] to lay the foundations for what he thought would be some sort of political movement that he thought he would be a part of." Martin further claimed that if Obama is elected president, "[w]e're basically going to be ... in the throes of a socialist revolution, which attempts to essentially freeze out anybody who's not part of this radical ideology."

In an October 6 article, The New York Times reported on Martin's Hannity's America appearance, noting that Martin offered "unsubstantiated accusations that Mr. Obama's work as a community organizer in Chicago was 'training for a radical overthrow of the government.'" The Times also reported that Martin "is credited as being among the first -- if not the first -- to assert in a chain e-mail message that Mr. Obama was secretly a Muslim."

Martin also claimed that Obama "had virtually no impact in his so-called community organizing career except to lay the foundation for his future radical associations." As purported evidence of those "radical associations," Martin continued:

MARTIN: It was then, also, I believe, that he was exposed perhaps by Louis Farrakhan to Khalid al-Mansour. Because it's while he's a community organizer that Khalid al-Mansour starts raising money to promote Obama to Harvard Law School.

So, obviously, in Ayers' mind and al-Mansour's mind, Obama had proven his reliability. He was somebody that could be trusted to do what he was told. And all of a sudden, they now are going to take him to the next level.

As Media Matters has noted, the Obama campaign has stated that "Obama did not know and does not know Khalid al-Mansour." Additionally, Obama has repeatedly denounced Farrakhan and his statements.

Contrary to Martin's theory that Obama "probably had met William Ayers in New York," The New York Times reported on October 3 that, in 1995, "at a lunchtime meeting about school reform in a Chicago skyscraper, Barack Obama met Mr. Ayers, by then an education professor. ... [Campaign spokesman Ben] LaBolt said the men first met in 1995 through the education project, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and have encountered each other occasionally in public life or in the neighborhood." The Times also wrote that "the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called 'somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8.' "

Columbia University professor Todd Gitlin first noted Martin's appearance on Hannity's America in an October 5 post on TPMCafe.

As Media Matters has also documented, Martin has advanced smears against Obama. For example:

• "Free Obama's White Grandmother": As Media Matters documented, in a March 28, 2007, column for NewsMax.com titled "Free Obama's White Grandmother," Martin wrote that Obama, whom he called "one of the most racist politicians in America today," has "locked the grandmother who actually raised him away in a closet," adding: "[T]he 'segregation' of Madelyn Dunham, Obama's white grandmother, and only real grandmother, has to be one of the cruelest and most mendacious political kidnappings this nation has ever seen." Martin wrote that Dunham "is the 'Prisoner of Obama,' and of Obama's racist myth that he is 'Black' and not 'Black and White.' "

• Birth certificate: Martin falsely claimed in a September 22 column that "[w]e have not seen a valid Obama birth certificate." In fact, as Media Matters has repeatedly documented, in addition to posting a copy of Obama's birth certificate on the campaign website, the Obama campaign reportedly provided the original to FactCheck.org, whose staff reported that they "have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate," and that it "meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship."

• Obama lying about his upbringing: As Media Matters has noted, discussing Martin's purported research on Obama, author Catherine Moy said in March 2007: "He started doing the research on this. I interviewed him yesterday. He said it was not a madrassa, but that they did teach the Quran, and they did teach that Jews are pigs. So that it -- you know, those kind of things that the Quran teaches, all of those things in the Quran that offend so many, he was taught." The claim that Obama attended a madrassa as a child -- originating in InsightMag.com -- has been thoroughly debunked.

Washington Post staff writer Matthew Mosk wrote in a June 28 article that Institute for Advanced Study political theorist Danielle Allen "discovered that theories about Obama's religious background had circulated for many years on the Internet. And that the man who takes credit for posting the first article to assert that the Illinois senator was a Muslim is Andy Martin." From the article:

Martin, a former political opponent of Obama's, is the publisher of an Internet newspaper who sends e-mails to his mailing list almost daily. He said in an interview that he first began questioning Obama's religious background after hearing his famous keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. In an Aug. 10, 2004, article, which he posted on Web sites and e-mailed to bloggers, he said that Obama had concealed his Muslim heritage. "I feel sad having to expose Barack Obama," Martin wrote in an accompanying press release, "but the man is a complete fraud. The truth is going to surprise, and disappoint, and outrage many people who were drawn to him. He has lied to the American people, and he has sought to misrepresent his own heritage." Martin's article did not suggest an association between Obama and radical Islam.

Martin was trying to launch a Senate bid against Obama when he says he first ran the Democrat's name by a contact in London. "They said he must be a Muslim. That was interesting to me because it was an angle that nobody had covered. We started looking. As a candidate you learn how to harness the Internet. You end up really learning how to work the street. I sort of picked this story up as a sideline." Martin said the primary basis for his belief was simple -- Obama's father was a Muslim. In a defamation lawsuit he filed against the New York Times and others several months ago, Martin says that Obama "eventually became a Christian" but that "as a matter of Islamic law began life as a Muslim" due to his father's religion.

[...]

Martin said he posted his 2004 article on Web sites, and distributed it by e-mail to authors of other popular blogs. But he said he had nothing to do with the chain e-mail that got Allen's attention. "I'm not trying to smear anybody," Martin said. "I just felt that was an underreported story."

But Martin said he understands how his initial article has taken on a life of its own. "There's nothing sinister here. I was thinking of running for Senate and was looking for a story to put some sizzle on the plate."

Nation Washington editor Christopher Hayes wrote in an October 25, 2007, article that "even if the identity of the [Obama-madrassa] e-mail's author was unrecoverable, it was still possible to trace back the roots of its content" and cited Martin:

On August 10, 2004, just two weeks after Obama had given his much-heralded keynote speech at the DNC in Boston, a perennial Republican Senate candidate and self-described "independent contrarian columnist" named Andy Martin issued a press release. In it, he announced a press conference in which he would expose Obama for having "lied to the American people" and "misrepresent[ed] his own heritage."

Martin raised all kinds of strange allegations about Obama but focused on him attempting to hide his Muslim past. "It may well be that his concealment is meant to endanger Israel," read Martin's statement. "His Muslim religion would obviously raise serious questions in many Jewish circles where Obama now enjoys support."

Hayes then quoted Martin saying of the false Madrassa emails:

"Everybody started calling me" when the e-mail first made the rounds, Andy Martin told me. "They said, 'Hey, did you write this?' My answer was 'they are all my children.' "

Martin has a history of other controversial assertions as well. For instance:

• "[V]iciously anti-Semitic assertions": In the United States v. Anthony Martin-Trigona (1985), the United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit wrote that Martin had previously made "viciously anti-Semitic assertions":

Martin-Trigona filed a lawsuit against [Bankruptcy] Judge Lavien (among others); the complaint is rife with viciously anti-Semitic assertions such as that "Defendant Lavien has flatly asserted it is permissible for him to meet in secret with Jewish lawyers to determine how to loot plaintiff's property."

[...]

In his action filed in the Southern District of New York against a bankruptcy judge, Martin-Trigona v. Lavien, Civ. No. 83-2944 (S.D.N.Y.), Martin-Trigona referred to the judge as a "crooked, slimy Jew, who has a history of lying and thieving common to members of his race." In his complaint in Martin-Trigona v. Lavien, Civ. No. H-83-305 (D.Conn.), he stated, among other comments:

"Jews, historically and in daily living, act through clans and in wolf pack syndrome....

"Non-Jewish lawyers in Connecticut refer to the Jewish cabal, uphemistically [sic], as 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves'....

"No sociological evidence exists that Jews have superior intelligence or any other special characteristics, other than the herd instinct...." In re Martin-Trigona, 573 F.Supp. 1245, 1263 (D.Conn.1983) (Appendix C.).

The U.S. District Court for District of Connecticut wrote in an order on June 23, 1983, granting a permanent injunction (retrieved from the Lexis database) against Martin that his "recent suits have taken on the ugly taint of anti-Jewish bigotry and suggest a substantial deterioration of an already problematical personality." From the order:

Anthony R. Martin-Trigona's recent suits have taken on the ugly taint of anti-Jewish bigotry and suggest a substantial deterioration of an already problematical personality. In one such action, of which this court takes judicial notice, he referred to a United States Bankruptcy Judge as a "crooked, slimy Jew, who has a history of lying and thieving common to members of his race." Martin-Trigona v. Lavien, Civ. No. 83-2944 (S.D.N.Y.), Unsworn Declaration in Support of Motion to Recuse, para. 2 The complaint in the above-captioned case of Martin-Trigona v. Lavien, Civ. No. H 83-305 (D.Conn.), is replete with such accusations and charges, of which the following excerpts are cited as examples:

This is a civil rights law suit against a group of Jews [who have] conspired ... to steal plaintiff's property.

This property was seized by the defendant Jews.

The "bankruptcy judges" ... have been Jews.

The trustees ... have been Jews.

The counsel for said trustees have been Jews.

The Jews speak and intrigue among themselves.

[They] meet in secret ... to determine how to loot plaintiff's property.

... Jewish bankruptcy judges appoint Jewish bankruptcy trustees who choose Jewish lawyers to represent them.

... Jews, historically and in daily living, act through clans and in wolf pack syndrome.

... Jews hate Christians, and have paranoid delusions.

Jews work through a national network.

Non-Jewish lawyers in Connecticut refer to the Jewish cabal, euphemistically, as "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves."

No sociological evidence exists that Jews have superior intelligence or any other special characteristics, other than the herd instinct [sic].

The plaintiff ... is beset by a horde of bankruptcy Jews who are trying to steal his property. [citations to page numbers in complaint omitted]

In a 1993 decision involving Martin, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit stated:

Anthony Martin-Trigona has sued literally hundreds, if not thousands, of attorneys, judges, their spouses, court officials, and other human beings. In summarizing the district court's findings, which it was careful to point out considerably understated his activities as a litigant, the Second Circuit said that:

Martin-Trigona is known to have filed over 250 civil actions, appeals, and other matters throughout the United States, which have been pursued with "persistence, viciousness, and general disregard for decency and logic." He has used legal pleadings to ventilate his contempt and hatred of persons of Jewish heritage and to level accusations which "have often been personal, have often emphasized racial or religious affiliations, and have often involved the members of ... judges' and counsel's families." The purpose, nature and effect of his resort to multiple litigation has been to involve as many persons in as many confounding legal processes as possible.

737 F.2d at 1259 (footnote omitted). That was eight years ago. Even a cursory search with Westlaw and Lexis reveals that his litigiousness has continued unabated since that time. Volumes could be written about Anthony Martin-Trigona's vexatious lawsuits, but any such treatise would have to contain annual pocket parts to provide any hope of keeping current.

As Media Matters noted, in a February 10, 2006, article, the Chicago Tribune reported that Martin "has expressed anti-Semitic attitudes in the past." The Tribune also reported:

Martin also has expressed anti-Semitic attitudes in the past. When he ran for Congress in Connecticut in 1986, the name of his congressional campaign committee included the phrase "to exterminate Jew power in America," Federal Election Commission records show.

In a 1983 personal bankruptcy case, he referred to a federal bankruptcy judge as a "crooked, slimy Jew, who has a history of lying and thieving common to members of his race."

In a related court filing in the case, he also expressed sympathy to the perpetrators of the Holocaust.

"I am able to understand how the Holocaust took place, and with every passing day feel less and less sorry that it did, when Jew survivors are operating as a wolf pack to steal my property," Martin wrote in an April 21, 1983, personal bankruptcy proceeding.

The October 6 Times article on Martin's Hannity's America appearance reported:

Mr. Martin came under strong attack from liberals on Monday. Many noted that the Republican Party of Florida decided against backing his bid for the State Senate in 1996 after receiving documents from his Congressional race 10 years earlier in Connecticut listing the purpose of one of his political committees as "to exterminate Jew power in America and to impeach the judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York City."

Mr. Martin had previously said the documents were forged, and again denied their authenticity on Monday. He also denied harboring anti-Semitic sentiment, saying "it's peripheral, it draws you away from the issue."

In Martin v. Brock (2007), Martin claimed that he has never engaged in "litigation activity or opinion commentary [which] even remotely rises to the level of anti-Semitism." However, federal District Court Judge Blanche M. Manning wrote "that three courts have found to the contrary." From the opinion:

Mr. Martin's complaint alleges that he has never engaged in "litigation activity or opinion commentary [which] even remotely rises to the level of anti-Semitism." Complaint at 7. However, the court takes judicial notice of the fact that three courts have found to the contrary. See Martin-Trigona v. Shaw, 986 F.2d 1384, 1387 (11th Cir. 1993) (noting that the plaintiff "has used legal pleadings to ventilate his contempt and hatred of persons of Jewish heritage"); U.S. v. Martin-Trigona, 759 F.2d 1017, 1019 n.3 (2d Cir. 1985) (noting that one of the plaintiff's complaints was "rife with viciously anti-Semitic assertions"); In re Martin-Trigona, 737 F.2d 1254, 1256 (D. Conn. 1984) (stating that the plaintiff has used "pleadings and other legal papers, the contents of which are set out in their appalling detail in the district court's opinion, as a vehicle to launch vicious attacks upon persons of Jewish heritage").

• "African-American judges": In a June 2007 motion, Martin unsuccessfully sought to recuse Manning from presiding over Martin v. Brock because, in part, "her impartiality in this case can obviously be questioned." Martin claimed that "African-American judges ... circle the wagons and try to protect Barry [Obama]." Martin later claimed that judges such as Manning "show that African-Americans are willing to corrupt and abuse their-public offices to defend their own sleazy candidates for office. It's wrong." From Martin's motion:

I have noted that when Obama is criticized, African-American judges such as political hack and corrupt alderman/Judge Timothy Evans circle the wagons and try to protect Barry from the reality of his financial shenanigans while serving as a state senator and U.S. Senator in Illinois.

[...]

7. I have been fighting Obama's and Manning's and Evans' style of judicial corruption at the Daley Center and 219 S. Dearborn for thirty-five (35) years, since I graduated from the University of Illinois College of Law. I hold African-American judges to the same high standards as I expect of any judge: be fair and appear fair. Obey the law, not your emotions. Don't be a crook and don't corrupt the administration of justice.

7. I ask that Judge Manning recuse herself and take her reprehensible behavior elsewhere. I know what African-Americans riding the CTA would call the type of justice I received. I will not dignify their behavior by using the same terminology. I believe I received racist justice from Judge Manning.

8. Ironically, Judge Manning has not helped Obama, any more than crooked County Chief Circuit Judge Timothy Evans is helping Obama by his dirty tactics; they show that African-Americans are willing to corrupt and abuse their-public offices to defend their own sleazy candidates for office. It's wrong.

Additionally, as Media Matters documented, the February 2006 Tribune article reported that Martin's Selective Service record "showed he had a 'moderately-severe character defect manifested by well documented ideation with a paranoid flavor and a grandiose character.' " From the article:

In 1973, the Illinois Supreme Court refused to allow Martin admission to the bar. The court's decision noted that Martin, a University of Illinois law school graduate who was previously known by the name Anthony R. Martin-Trigona, had a Selective Service record that showed he had a "moderately-severe character defect manifested by well documented ideation with a paranoid flavor and a grandiose character."

Still, the court noted that "issues raised as to [Martin's] mental stability" did not need to be considered in light of other matters it cited in deciding that Martin lacked the qualities of "responsibility, candor, fairness, self-restraint, objectivity and respect for the judicial system" required for the administration of justice.

Among issues the high court cited in denying his law license were Martin's criticism of members of a bar review panel as "emotionally ill" and "scum," his filing of a petition asking that a parking violation be lifted because it was "entered by an insane judge" and his description of an attorney as "shaking and tottering and drooling like an idiot," according to court records.

Leading up to Obama's February 10, 2007, announcement that he would run in the Democratic presidential primary, Martin wrote that "[d]uring Obama Week leading up to February 10th, we will release our CIA-style psychological profile on him; that analysis will cast more light on Barack's supple psyche and his ability to seamlessly deny objective reality."

From the October 5 edition of Fox News' Hannity's America:

HANNITY: And coming up next, Barack Obama, the community organizer. Now, was this the beginning of a grand scheme perpetuated by radicals? You'll be hearing from a man who says it is.

[...]

HANNITY: Not much has been made of Senator Obama's community organizing days. Now, he says it was a life-altering experience that prepared him to lead America. But our next guest reveals the background story of how community organizing is part of a grand scheme perpetuated by none other than William Ayers.

[begin video clip]

OBAMA: A lot of people don't know what a community organizer is, and, in fact, I didn't know what a community organizer was entirely when I became one. I had been inspired by the civil rights movement and the idea of people working at a grassroots level to bring about change, to get people involved in shaping their own destiny.

HANNITY: Well, community organizing definitely has shaped Senator Obama's destiny. In 1985, fresh from Columbia University, Obama returned to Chicago to become just that: a community organizer, a job he says qualifies him in part to hold the nation's highest office. But what exactly is a community organizer? After all, he didn't even know what it was when he started as one.

MARTIN: I think a community organizer, in Barack Obama's case, was somebody that was in training for a radical overthrow of the government. You have to really stretch to believe his story that he was living in New York City, he was earning 50 or 60 thousand dollars a year, and he left this to come to Chicago to a city where he knew no one to suddenly start, quote, "organizing," unquote, people.

In my opinion, Barack Obama had already been influenced by his radical ideology and philosophy, probably had met William Ayers in New York, and was coming here to lay the foundations for what he thought would be some sort of political movement that he would be a part of.

HANNITY: Andy Martin is a Chicago-based Internet journalist and author of the book, Obama: The Man Behind the Mask. Now, he makes the explosive claim that Obama's role as a community organizer was a political staging ground perpetuated by the unrepentant terrorist William Ayers.

MARTIN: My view is that the community organizing was actually kind of a sham event, that really Bill Ayers was testing him. Because the way these radicals work, they don't give you a big project until you've passed muster with a small project. And so they sent him out to Chicago to see what he would do. He passed the test.

OBAMA: I decided to become a community organizer. I'll organize black folks, at the grassroots.

It was in these neighborhoods that I received the best education that I ever had.

HANNITY: Between June of 1985 to May of 1988, Barack Obama served as a director of the Developing Communities Project, that's a church-based community organization on the city's far South Side -- and his first true test as a community organizer. Obama has said his success there included helping to set up a job-training program at a local steel plant and a tenants' rights organization at a local housing project.

MARTIN: He had virtually no impact in his so-called community organizing career except to lay the foundation for his future radical associations. It was then, also, I believe, that he was exposed perhaps by Louis Farrakhan to Khalid al-Mansour. Because it's while he's a community organizer that Khalid al-Mansour starts raising money to promote Obama to Harvard Law School.

So, obviously, in Ayers' mind and al-Mansour's mind, Obama had proven his reliability. He was somebody that could be trusted to do what he was told. And all of a sudden, they now are going to take him to the next level. All that comes of the years in Chicago. Obama wasn't organizing a community; he was organizing his career and organizing his life step to the next level. That's all he did in Chicago.

HANNITY: The Chicago years proved formative. From his early days as a community organizer to the present, Senator Obama surrounded himself with the city's most radical elements. One need look no further than his current neighborhood, and we sent our own Ainsley Earhardt to check it out.

EARHARDT: This is the elite Kenwood community here in Chicago, and I'm actually walking down Barack Obama's street. You can see behind me Secret Service and police officers are blocking it off so we can't get too close. Back in 2005, Barack Obama purchased the house for $1.65 million. It was a controversial deal. Coincidentally, he bought it the same day that the Rezko(...)

On the October 6 broadcast of his Minneapolis radio show, Chris Baker said that Sen. Barack Obama has "got his panties in a wad" because of Gov. Sarah Palin's recent assertion that Obama was "palling around" with former Weather Underground member William Ayers. Baker said: "[T]his little bitch needs to stand up for himself. Sorry, I can't stand this. You want to be the president of the United States, and you won't even stand up to a smoking-hot chick from Alaska? How is he gonna stand up to the world's terrorists?" Baker continued: "I mean, this -- this guy -- this guy is -- he's a -- he's a wimp is what he is."

Baker went on to read from an Associated Press analysis of Palin's comments, saying: "The Associated Press says, quote, 'There's another subtext for creating the false image of a black presidential nominee palling around with terrorists while assuming a predominantly white audience that he doesn't see their America' because, according to the AP, 'many terrorists are dark-skinned Muslims.' " Baker added: "So, obviously, by her mentioning he hangs with terrorists, it's obviously racist. I mean that -- this is getting crazy. This wuss-bag needs to stand up for himself and answer the questions about his relationship with Bill Ayers and other terrorists and terrorist sympathizers."

Baker did not note that Palin was distorting the New York Times article she cited for her claim about Obama's association with Ayers. The Times reported that "the two men do not appear to have been close. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. Ayers, whom he has called 'somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8.' " The AP analysis Baker cited stated: "Her [Palin's] reference to Obama's relationship with William Ayers, a member of the Vietnam-era Weather Underground, was exaggerated at best if not outright false. No evidence shows they were 'pals' or even close when they worked on community boards years ago and Ayers hosted a political event for Obama early in his career."

Further, Baker did not note that the Obama campaign had indeed responded to Palin. On October 4, Obama campaign spokesman Hari Sevugan stated: "[T]he very newspaper story Governor Palin cited in hurling her shameless attack made clear that Senator Obama is not close to Bill Ayers, much less 'pals,' and that he has strongly condemned the despicable acts Ayers committed 40 years ago, when Obama was eight."

During the segment, Baker referred to Obama as "Obammy," as he has done in the past.

From the October 6 broadcast of KTLK-FM's The Chris Baker Show:

BAKER: So he's got his panties in a wad because Sarah Palin -- who, by the way, is speaking as we speak, and I would really like to chip this but, well, we won't -- called him out on it. And it's a great quote by the way, let me -- let me see If I can lay that on you -- anyway --

LANGDON PERRY [KTLK radio show host]: Palling around? You talking about that?

BAKER: Yeah, she said -- well, we have it right? Do we have that? Yes, we do, somewhere here. 651-989-5855, by the way, is our phone number. But Sarah Palin was talking about Barack Obama and said this:

PALIN [audio clip]: Barack Obama says that Ayers was just someone in his neighborhood, but that's less than truthful. His own top adviser said that they were, quote, "certainly friendly." In fact, Obama held one of his first meetings of his political career in Bill Ayers' home. And they've worked together on various projects in Chicago.

BAKER: Yeah, these guys know each other quite well. She was criticizing Obammy, basically saying that, "Well, he hangs out with people who see America as imperfect and imperfect enough that he's palling around with terrorists who target their own country, which Bill Ayers did."

And, of course, what happens? Well, obviously, it's racist. I love that -- that it's -- this little bitch needs to stand up for himself. Sorry, I can't stand this. You want to be the president of the United States, and you won't even stand up to a smoking-hot chick from Alaska? How is he gonna stand up to the world's terrorists?

I mean, this -- this guy -- this guy is -- he's a -- he's a wimp is what he is. But the -- so the AP comes to defense of their man and says it's racist, because, apparently -- let me read you the quote. The Associated Press says, quote, "There's another subtext for creating the false image of a black presidential nominee palling around with terrorists while assuming a predominantly white audience that he doesn't see their America" because, according to the AP, "many terrorists are dark-skinned Muslims." So, obviously, by her mentioning --

PERRY: Oh, boy. That's -- oh, God.

BAKER: -- he hangs with terrorists, it's obviously racist. I mean that -- this is getting crazy. This wuss-bag needs to stand up for himself and answer the questions about his relationship with Bill Ayers and other terrorists and terrorist sympathizers.

On the October 6 edition of NBC's Today, host Meredith Vieira twice suggested that an ad released by Sen. Barack Obama's campaign describing Sen. John McCain as "erratic in crisis" is a reference to McCain's age. She did not note that the "erratic" characterization, in fact, comes from a USA Today editorial cited in the ad, which referred to McCain's response to the economic crisis on Wall Street as "erratic." Further, at least two of Vieira's colleagues at MSNBC, Joe Scarborough and Chris Matthews, also said McCain's actions could be perceived as erratic.

Vieira reported that "the Obama campaign has launched a new ad calling McCain erratic" and aired a brief clip of the ad's announcer saying McCain is "erratic in crisis" along with text reading: "From McCain, an erratic response to crisis." She continued: "And by doing so, is he making age an election issue?" Later, she asked NBC News political analyst Mike Murphy whether the word "erratic" is "a code word for 'old,' and do you think that tactic will work?"

However, the ad cited a September 19 USA Today editorial titled "From McCain, an erratic response to crisis," which said: "As Wall Street's roller-coaster week unfolded, John McCain's views on the economy went through about as many gyrations as the Dow Jones industrial average." After chronicling McCain's actions, it continued: "The Republican candidate's erratic performance this week was far from reassuring."

Further, in segments dedicated to the Wall Street crisis and the presidential candidates' responses, both Scarborough and Matthews used the word "erratic" to describe McCain's actions. On the September 30 broadcast of MSNBC's Race for the White House, Scarborough asked MSNBC political analyst Michelle Bernard, "[I]f Barack Obama has been measured over the past several weeks, John McCain has looked erratic, hasn't he?" Bernard replied that "He has. This is a very difficult time period for the McCain campaign. He has looked erratic, he's looked irascible." And Matthews said on the September 26 edition of Hardball: "Everybody seems to agree, the conventional wisdom is John McCain is too hot, maybe erratic this week -- I'm not going to come, I'm going to come, I'm going to fire this guy, I'm going to fire that guy, I'm going to fire the debates."

From the October 6 edition of NBC's Today:

VIEIRA: Then, the race for the White House getting down and dirty. Sarah Palin is slamming Barack Obama for his ties to a former '60s radical, but is she making them appear a lot closer than they really were? And meanwhile, the Obama campaign has launched a new ad calling John McCain erratic, and by doing so, is he making age an election issue?

[...]

VIEIRA: You know, Mike, meanwhile, Obama has this new ad that's come out where he refers to McCain as "erratic." Is that a code word for "old," and do you think that tactic will work?

MIKE MURPHY (Republican strategist and NBC News contributor): I think they have to be careful. I think the same rules apply to Obama. In this kind of election with a lot of mad voters and a lot of economic fear, going too far in a character attack is going to turn people off. McCain's problem, though, is, you know, sleazy, negative ads about the economy are going to trump sleazy negative ads about whatever hippie bomber pal Obama had way back when in Chicago. So, since the economy is the center of the election, I don't think McCain can allow Obama to own that, even with, you know, bad, negative ads.

Hanging out at sites like Giz may have instilled in you an insatiable, pocket-emptying gadget habit. But now we're entering a new eramdash;the old guys on the TV are saying that soon we may not even...

pa href="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/MargaretBourkeWhite.jpg"img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/depression.jpg" width="494" height="371" style="display:block;float:none;" //aHanging out at sites like Giz may have instilled in you an insatiable, pocket-emptying gadget habit. But now we're entering a new eramdash;the old guys on the TV are saying that soon we may not even emhave/em pockets, let alone money for them. Don't panic though: You've probably got a wealth of gadgetry sitting underutilized in your living rooms, closets and basements, just waiting to be given powerful new (not exactly authorized) features. For free./p pI've collected the best firmware replacements, software mods and homebrew hacks from the DMCA-flouting, EULA-hating frontiers of gadgetland that'll breathe new life into your stable of hardware and maybemdash;just emmaybe/emmdash;let you feel that lusty new-gadget rush again./p pstrongTurn Your Xbox, Old PC or Apple TV into a Genuine Media Center/strongbr img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/xbmc.jpg" width="200" height="113" class="right"Xbox Media Center is about as refined as an unauthorized hack can get, playing back virtually any audio and video format, running a bevy of console emulators and still playing your Xbox games. To be honest, this should almost be viewed as a natural update for every Xbox, which at its core is a slow but functional PC with an easy TV connection. (Any emactual/em PCs you have lying around can run a PC-ported version of XBMC.)/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/boxee.jpg" width="200" height="125" class="right"Boxee is a very slick fork of the XBMC project for Mac, and it's available for Apple TV. As shipped, the Apple TV works fine within the closed iTunes ecosystem, but Boxee's support for virtually every video codec and free TV services like Hulu will suit your new, more destitute lifestyle a bit better./p pstrongDifficulty: Easy to Moderate/strong. Installation is pretty straightforward in most cases, with simple Boxee and XBMC setup programs available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Before you load XBMC, though, you have to mod your Xbox with one of a href="http://www.xbox-scene.com/software/software.php?page=exploits"these methods/a, many of which require a specific game. After that it's all install wizards and lollipops./p pInstalling anything on the locked-down Apple TV used to take some serious finagling, but there are a href="http://blog.boxee.tv/2008/10/01/xbmcboxee-on-apple-tv/"now tools/a that will create an automated Boxee installer on a flash drive. Just plug the drive in, restart and you're good to go.br a href="http://www.xbmc.org/wiki/?title=XBMC_Online_Manual"XBMC Online Manual/abr a href="http://www.boxee.tv/"Boxee/a/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/rockbox.jpg" width="200" height="183" class="right"strongMake Over Your iPod, Archos, iRiver or Sandisk with Rockbox/strongbr It's hard to look at the current generation of media players and not admire their diverse capabilities and extensible software platforms. That's not to say that your 5th-gen iPod doesn't play back music perfectly well, or that your iRiver H10 still isn't a kickass media player, but they do feel a bit dated. Rockbox replaces your MP3 player's operating system with something more substantial, effectively making it a completely new device. You get endless codec support, advanced audio options, dozens of games, useful apps like a calculator and a text editor, plus you can choose from tons of different interface skins for a unique look and feel. Rockbox's tweaking possibilities mean you will earn admiring "what is that?" questions from friends, and it won't cost you a thing. If your player isn't supported yet just hold onmdash;everything from the Zen Vision:M to the Toshiba Gigabeat S has a fairly active dev team./p pstrongDifficulty: Easy/strong. Rockbox has an automated tool called the Rockbox Utility available for Windows, Mac and Linux. It does the work for you. Even better, it often automatically configures your player to dual boot with its original OS.br a href="http://www.rockbox.org/"Rockbox Official Site/a/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/hackin.jpg" width="200" height="200" class="right"strongConvert Your PC or Notebook Into A Much More Expensive Mac/strongbr It's undeniable that Macs are too expensive. For many, they are considered a luxury item whose added cost doesn't justify the benefit. Luckily Apple's switch to an Intel platform opened up a world of unauthorized OS X installations which can a href="http://gizmodo.com/5049756/review-efix-dongle-perfectly-transforms-pc-to-mac"turn your existing PC/a into a powerhouse Mac Pro workstation, or morph your MSI Wind or Asus EeePC into the Mac netbook that should be in their goddamn product line anyway. Check the a href="http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL"hardware compatibility list/a to see if your PC is eligible for the upgrade./p pstrongDifficulty: Moderate to Hard/strong. If you're not morally opposed to downloading iATKOS and Kalyway, which are pre-patched Leopard install DVDs (this is bit torrent territory), then the process is much like installing any other OS. If you insist on building your own patched install from a DVD you own, then, well, good luck. Always check hardware lists first, though, because driver support is everything.br a href="http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page"OSX86 Project Page/a/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/ddwrt.jpg" width="200" height="183" class="right"strongFlash Your Crappy Router Into a Top-Line Piece of Hardware/strongbr The DD-WRT project exists for a simple reason: Most routers are physically very similar, but are priced differently because of functionality derived from software. The DD-WRT firmware unlocks the potential of the most basic routers out theremdash;too many to name but damn if yours isn't on the a href="http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices"list/a. As it turns out, your budget model is kind of impressive: Program-specific traffic throttling, professional level wireless security and radical signal boosting are just a few of a href="http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/What_is_DD-WRT%3F#Features"the dozens of new features/a that can be enabled./p pstrongDifficulty: Easy./strong If you can't manage this one, then you don't deserve a routermdash;installation just takes a few clicks on the device's default configuration pages. A word of caution, though: Make sure your router configuration page is totally compatible with your browser before the operation, as some choke on Firefox and can botch firmware upgrades. Stick to IE if you have the choice.br a href="http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/"DD-WRT Project Page/a/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/gps.jpg" width="200" height="160" class="right"strongDownload Updated Maps For Your Old GPS/strongbr I'm referring of course to capital 'D' downloading here, mainly because at the moment GPS map updates are a racket. You could spend hundreds of dollars on map data that is freely available on Google Maps, Microsoft Live and MapQuest, among others, or you can just, you know, emnot/em. Map packs for Garmin, TomTom and Magellan units are floating around a href="http://scrapetorrent.com/"torrent sites/a and usually don't require much more than a simple CD image mount and run routine to set up. (Guilty conscience sold separately.)/p pstrongDifficulty: Easy to Moderate/strong. If you're just running a copy of a CD, then you'll be able to use the installation wizards. Some more involved methods for Windows CE-based devices require some SSH file transfers, but these are relatively rare./p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/jailbreak.jpg" width="200" height="147" class="right"strongJailbreak Your iPhone for Wi-Fi Internet Tethering/strongbr Two internet plans are enough, but to sign on to a mobile internet contract when you've already got unlimited iPhone data feels kind of stupid. Jailbreaking your iPhone is now about as easy as performing a firmware upgrade, and there are actually multiple tethering apps. PDANet and iPhoneModem both work a treat, but keep in mind that excessive usage could draw ATT's attention and ire: Tethering is not allowed on the data plan, even though it works fine. Both apps are available in Cydia, where you can also find a limited assortment of other apps that don't have a place in a href="http://gizmodo.com/5027790/why-we-still-need-the-iphone-app-black-market"the app store/a./p pstrongDifficulty: Moderate/strong. Jailbreaking can be managed through the Dev Team's fantastic Quickpwn tool, but it does take a few minutes and can go wrong if instructions aren't followed closely. After jailbreak, Cydia and Installer fill the role of the gray-market app store, functioning as simple package managers that are arguably as polished as their more legitimate younger brother./p pPDANet and iPhoneModem take different approaches to tethering, but neither requires more networking expertise than it would take to, say, set up a router.br a href="http://blog.iphone-dev.org/"iPhone Jailbreak/abr a href="http://www.junefabrics.com/iphone/index.php"PDANet/abr a href="http://www.iphonemodem.de/en/index.html"iPhoneModem/a/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/wii.jpg" width="200" height="151" class="right"strongTurn Your Wii Into a Free Emulation Machine/strongbr It's more than a little infuriating to have to repurchase your childhood library of console games from the Virtual Console, especially when free PC emulators and accompanying ROMs abound on the old intertubes. All you need is a copy of emLegend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess/em, an SD card and an SD reader and you're ready to install emA Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia/em, which is pretty much all anyone has ever really needed since this whole "Video Gaming Television Machine" thing got under way in the first place. Throw in extended media playback and some helpful widgets for an extra value-add./p pstrongDifficulty: Moderate/strong. This is one of the only hacks here that needs additional hardware to work, even if it's basic. The good news is that once you find a copy of emZelda/em and load up your SD card, the process pretty much takes care of itself. Further app installs are taken care of through a intuitive dedicated channel.br a href="http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Main_Page"WiiBrew WIki/a/p pemA great resource for similar projects is our industrious sister site a href="http://www.lifehacker.com"Lifehacker/a, where you can find a veritable treasure trove of tutorials and tricks. 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pa href="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/MargaretBourkeWhite.jpg"img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/depression.jpg" width="494" height="371" style="display:block;float:none;" //a/p div style='float:right; margin-left:-9px;'script type="text/javascript" digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_bgcolor = '#f1f8fa'; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/mods/Gadget_Survival_in_the_Next_Great_Depression'; /scriptscript src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript" /script/div pHanging out at sites like Giz may have instilled in you an insatiable, pocket-emptying gadget habit. But now we're entering a new eramdash;the old guys on the TV are saying that soon we may not even emhave/em pockets, let alone money for them. Don't panic though: You've probably got a wealth of gadgetry sitting underutilized in your living rooms, closets and basements, just waiting to be given powerful new (not exactly authorized) features. For free./p pI've collected the best firmware replacements, software mods and homebrew hacks from the DMCA-flouting, EULA-hating frontiers of gadgetland that'll breathe new life into your stable of hardware and maybemdash;just emmaybe/emmdash;let you feel that lusty new-gadget rush again./p pstrongTurn Your Xbox, Old PC or Apple TV into a Genuine Media Center/strongbr img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/xbmc.jpg" width="200" height="113" class="right"Xbox Media Center is about as refined as an unauthorized hack can get, playing back virtually any audio and video format, running a bevy of console emulators and still playing your Xbox games. To be honest, this should almost be viewed as a natural update for every Xbox, which at its core is a slow but functional PC with an easy TV connection. (Any emactual/em PCs you have lying around can run a PC-ported version of XBMC.)/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/boxee.jpg" width="200" height="125" class="right"Boxee is a very slick fork of the XBMC project for Mac, and it's available for Apple TV. As shipped, the Apple TV works fine within the closed iTunes ecosystem, but Boxee's support for virtually every video codec and free online video like YouTube, CNN, BBC, and Revision3 will suit your new, more destitute lifestyle a bit better./p pstrongDifficulty: Easy to Moderate/strong. Installation is pretty straightforward in most cases, with simple Boxee and XBMC setup programs available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Before you load XBMC, though, you have to mod your Xbox with one of a href="http://www.xbox-scene.com/software/software.php?page=exploits"these methods/a, many of which require a specific game. 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