Paula Abeles = Congenital Liar

I was somewhat complimentary of Neil Cavuto a few days ago, but since then he’s been running the PUMA of the Day club on his show. Yesterday he had on Paula Abeles, who brayed that Obama supporters were calling her a racist (!!!) and ol’ Neil forgot to point out that, well, maybe it’s because she is a racist:

And that stammering she engaged in while discussing the alleged threatening phone calls is what we in the blogging business call “lying.” Professionals in the fashion industry call what she was wearing “eyeball pain.”

MORE: Since a) this post is now near the top of Google for “Paula Abeles” searches (which I’m getting a lot of today) and b) some booger-eating morons don’t know how to click on links embedded in this post, let me reprint some of the WaPo article about Abeles from May of 2003:

It was August when Cassandra Mays-Lewis first contacted family members of Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings and asked if she could join their private Internet chat group.

Lewis, who claimed to be a descendant of a Hemings nephew, was invited in, and while she didn’t participate in the group’s e-mail conversations, she did enjoy access to other members’ online musings and strategizing. All they knew about her was what she posted on her Yahoo! profile: that she was a 67-year-old black woman and an avid gardener and quilter who counted African American genealogy among her hobbies.

Over time, members began to suspect that she was something else entirely: an infiltrator in their electronic midst.

This week they went public with their suspicions, alleging that Mays-Lewis is actually Nat Abeles, president of the Monticello Association, the family tree of Jefferson’s white descendants and a group that last year voted overwhelmingly to deny Hemings’s offspring a place in their exclusive ranks.

Leading the charge was David Works, a lineal descendant of Jefferson and a Hemings family ally, who said he examined the coding in Mays-Lewis’s e-mail and discovered Abeles’ handiwork.

A smoking gigabyte, if you will.

Abeles denied it, saying in an interview Wednesday that such subterfuge wasn’t necessary since the chat group’s e-mails were already being leaked to him by a disgruntled chatter who felt the group was engaged in “inappropriate behavior.” “I don’t recognize a Cassandra Lewis or whatever,” he said.

But late yesterday, after Works threatened to have Abeles removed as president when the association meets in Charlottesville this weekend, Abeles said it was his wife who posed as the emphysema-suffering Cassandra to spy on the opposing camp. She did so without his knowledge, he said, admitting it only when he “confronted” her. [...]

The Hemings descendants have been guests at the retreat since 1999, after DNA tests linked a Jefferson male to one or more of Sally Hemings’s children. But to say that the families have not mixed well is an understatement: Last year’s affair devolved into a rancorous, racially charged shouting match that left many in tears and others vowing never to return.

This year’s get-together was shaping up to be no less hostile even before Mays-Lewis was unfrocked.

Weeks ago, Abeles instituted limits on who could attend the group’s Saturday night cocktail party, warning that extra security might be needed to keep out guests who arrived without a member to escort them. Abeles also said no guests could attend Sunday’s graveside service.

Jefferson family member Lucian K. Truscott IV, who initiated the inclusion of the Hemings relatives and has been their most outspoken supporter, denounced the new rules as a thinly veiled attempt to keep them out. Truscott said he won’t be intimidated from bringing his Hemings guests to the cemetery where his family is buried. As for the cocktail party, he said his group will stick together if turned away, and “have drinks on the front lawn while the white folks in blue blazers will be out back.”

MORE: This morning Abeles was on Fox again (no surprise) and once again she played the victim while Not Steve Doocy conveniently didn’t call her out on the “Cassandra Mays-Lewis” story…

FINAL UPDATE: Paula Abeles has responded below in the comments and we’ve posted about it here.

Posted by Kevin K. on 06/20/08 at 07:30 AM • Permalink

Not everyone who does not support Barak Obama is a racist. Some people just don’t think he is qualified to be president. Perhaps if you guys would come up with a better argument about why people should support Barak, perhaps you would not have all this conflict in the party.

My Town, did you follow the link Kevin provided? There’s very good reason to believe Abeles is a racist jackass. Not all Clinton dead-enders are racists, of course. Some merely have the emotional maturity of toddlers and are therefore willing to consign the country to another 4 years of disasterous GOP rule because their fee-fees are hurt.

Not everyone who does not support Barak Obama is a racist.

Okay, I’ll just run with the assumption that most of them can’t read, you booger-eating moron.

this really isn’t about hillary or obama or god forbid any thought given to any kind of policies either of them might endorse (because on policy, as we know, they are very similar).  no. it’s about small minded shitheads like abeles and MyTownFarts who are acting completely out of self interest to protect their poor little bruised egos and their fucked up “ideals”.  in fact, people like this obviously hate themselves and even more so, ready - hate this country.  because if they really loved this country (or even liked it a little), and if they were really true democrats, or just had at least a functioning brain, or part of a brain, or wanted to do something constructive, then why would they shift camps?  oh yeah, because they are petty stupid assholes who may or may not have been right wing racists from the getgo, nevertheless still petty and stupid.  i mean, what is the goal here?? obviously for these people - yes you MyTownVomits, the goal is merely to be a self serving fuckoff.  BRAVO! really, what are you trying to achieve?
oh yeah, and if you were hillary supporters, then why when your candidate endorses obama, and has just announced that she will be campaigning with/for him, why do you not follow suit?  oh yeah, because you were lying from the beginning. come clean for chrissakes!!
ps - kevin, why are you giving so much exposure to these dirty, disingenuous pustules?

kevin, why are you giving so much exposure to these dirty, disingenuous pustules?

Because I really need a hobby?

Dobbs, though, thanks for making me feel better about calling MTT a “booger-eating moron.” I thought I crossed the line, but then you dragged the line about five miles down the road.

This is Paula Abeles and let’s get this straight. I understand fair people might be confused about this issue because of the media’s sensationalized reporting of the Jefferson? Hemings issue--but these facts are irrefutable.
1. It was NOT a racial issue. The only Hemings descendent that had a DNA match and applied to the group was WHITE.
2. When the “Hemings descendents"--many of whom are not even descendents of Sally-- couldn’t prove their case in court or to the membership--they resorted to threats to do everything possible to disrupt and sandbag the meetings.
3. Bloggers of both sides assumed identities to gain information from the other side. Everyone whose been on-line knows what this is like. The wife of the President of the Hemings family group posed as a young white reporter.

You may disagree with the decision--honorable people can disagree-- but both sides had facts on their side--and the decision was made on available data (see tjheritage.org for info on DNA and Scholar’s Commission that reviewed all the historical evidence).