Washington Post Recycles False Obama Muslim Rumors On Front Page

Talking Points Memo:

Digby and BarbinMD have already dealt heavy blows to today's reprehensible Washington Post piece that recycles the rumors that Obama is a Muslim on the paper's front page.

But I wanted to add a couple more points about the story, because it really is a top contender for the title of Worst Hit Piece of Campaign 2008.

Read the whole story: Talking Points Memo

Comments

[WARisEVIL]

07:06 AM on 11/30/2007

Dancing Israelis?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRfhUezbKLw&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Finfowars%2Enet%2Farticles

[ConcernAmerican]

01:27 AM on 11/30/2007

"I feel sad having to expose Barack Obama," says Martin, "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.


"Obama's life story is vastly different from the one he portrays. My point: if he will lie about his mother and father, what else is he lying about? Can we expect 'bimbo eruptions?'



"Fiction: Obama stated in his Convention speech: 'My father ... grew up herding goats.' The 'goat herder' claim has been repeated endlessly. It is a lie. Fact: Obama's grandfather, Hussein Onyango Obama was a prominent and wealthy farmer. His son, Obama's father, was a child of privilege, not privation. He was an outstanding student, not a herdsman.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1189687/posts

[ConcernAmerican]

01:24 AM on 11/30/2007

I knew this man Obama is a shady character.....

here ........read it.....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1189687/posts

[ConcernAmerican]

01:17 AM on 11/30/2007

Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (black muslim) of Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District, Kenya, and Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kansas. (white atheist ).

When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced and his father returned to Kenya. His mother married Lolo Soetoro -- a Muslim -- moving to Jakarta with Obama when he was six years old. Within six months he had learned to speak the Indonesian language. Obama spent "two years in a Muslim school, then two more in a Catholic school" in Jakarta. Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim while admitting that he was once a Muslim, mitigating that damning information by saying that, for two years, he also attended a Catholic school.

Obama's father, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. was a radical Muslim who migrated from Kenya to Jakarta, Indonesia. He met Obama's mother, Ann Dunham-a white atheist from Wichita, Kansas-at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Obama, Sr. and Dunham divorced when Barack, Jr. was two.

Obama's spinmeisters are now attempting to make it appear that Obama's introduction to Islam came from his father and that influence was temporary at best.

In reality, the senior Obama returned to Kenya immediately following the divorce and never again had any direct influence over his son's education.

Dunham married another Muslim, Lolo Soetoro who educated his stepson as a good Muslim by enrolling him in one of Jakarta's Wahabbi schools. Wahabbism is the radical teaching that created the Muslim terrorists who are now waging Jihad on the industrialized world.

Since it is politically expedient to be a Christian when you are seeking political office in the United States, Obama joined the United Church of Christ to help purge any notion that he is still a Muslim.

Handsome . . . Charming . . . Winsome . . . Dangerous . . . Deceptive . . . Determined

[FJR]

12:01 AM on 11/30/2007

The Post is either extremely careless, inept and irresponsible or out to spread propaganda under the cover of news. I simply read the title of the article to my wife and she said "what? I didn't know Barack Obama was a muslim" which of course is not true. You know how many people just skim through the headings, this was a hit piece of the lowest kind. You would have to be way too dumb to screw up this bad if you are the Washington Post.

[watchingthings]

11:25 PM on 11/29/2007

Another "Shitty" story from the horse's Ass [washington post]. Slandering innocent people is not the way to go...Ass-men. People won't even want to touch your paper with so much stench comming out of it. For all the stench...your paper is not even fit for the outhouse.

[longislandlol]

09:35 PM on 11/29/2007

If they keep this up--they'll see 8 more republican years....

[themodernleader]

08:37 PM on 11/29/2007

Rumors of all description swirl around emerging leaders of great content and potential.

[Zhonni]

08:19 PM on 11/29/2007

I was shocked when foul smells started emanating from my computer after logging in.

It was later clear to me as to why this was so.

The republicans and lots of Hillary supporters are here to play.

When they play, they don't throw snow balls; they throw mud. Not this evening though, this evening, they are throwing feces!

[MRb1000]

08:03 PM on 11/29/2007

When is America is going get beyond being label as Bigots!!!!!!!!!!!

[Not Blind]

07:50 PM on 11/29/2007

The Washington Post has succumbed to corporate pressure, stock options and bonuses, like so many other "journalists" in the American main-stream media. They are no longer "journalists" or reporters. They are spin-doctors and outright liars. That a national newspaper would deliberately publish something they know is false shows how corrupt and incopetent they've become. The Post is not alone. Too many so-called news channels and papers nation-wide do not report facts, seek evidence or abide by the standards of investigative journalism. They've all become opinionated bull horns to support or destroy a candidate of their chosing.

[jade7243]

07:32 PM on 11/29/2007

Just to add an interesting twist to all of this, please note that the Washington Post employs someone (Michael Dobbs) who writes under the moniker "the FACT CHECKER." You might be aware of him. At the end of his articles is a request box for readers to email him with items to "fact check." So I did. Here is our exchange:
Jade7243 sent the following message:
Please read the Perry Bacon Jr article published on the front page of today's Post about Barack Obama's supposed Muslim ties.
Have the balls to fact-check your own damn paper. Award a few Pinocchios for lack of truth, and an extra three or 4 for just for grins.
I double dare you...
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Mr. Dobbs the "FACT CHECKER" replied:
What is untrue about it?
Michael Dobbs
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And I replied:
Okay, you have got to be fucking kidding me!
Read your own paper. Read the more than 500 comments regarding it. Tell us what is "true" about this story.
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Talk about disingenuous! Heckuva job you're doing there, FACT CHECKER!

[ceasenake]

06:30 PM on 11/29/2007

Oh, I thought they were circulating the rumor that he was black.

[Tankan]

06:27 PM on 11/29/2007

Anyone who comes to be seen as a threat to the status quo can expect bare faced lies to rain down upon his or her head from predictable sources! This is the terrorism of lies, sowing the seeds of distrust in the minds of the voting public. One thing is certain, no one can trust a liar, far easier to trust a thief, for you know where you stand with a thief!

[Hawkeye17]

06:05 PM on 11/29/2007

Ben Bradlee is rolling over in his grave.