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Obama is an extremist Muslim or how Fox News is Stupid.

DRB

DRB

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16842036/site/newsweek/

The subtext of the story was that Obama was some kind of Muslim Manchurian Candidate (or the Russian spy played by Kevin Costner in “No Way Out”)—trained in an Indonesian religious school to be a jihadist who would do Al Qaeda’s work from within. Under the old media order, the whole thing would have made for a nice joke amid the somber mood surrounding President Bush’s State of the Union address. But this is a different time, when every campaign lives in fear of being Swift-Boated. Even after the story was debunked, the folks at Fox News Channel wouldn’t apologize, and in one case kept pushing a line on the air they knew was false.
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True or not, this bit of grade-school innuendo proved irresistible to Steve Doocy, know-it-all host of “Fox and Friends,” Roger Ailes’ idea for a right-wing morning chat show. Doocy garbled the story into a reference to Obama “spending the first decade of his life raised by a Muslim father.” After John Gibson of Fox repeated this yarn, which managed to slime two campaigns simultaneously, CNN dispatched a reporter to Obama’s old school in Jakarta, where he revealed it to be a normal public school with religion classes only once a week and no indication of Wahhabism, the Saudi-inspired extremist philosophy. (Indonesian schools were even more secular 40 years ago than they are today.) The whole underlying tale was untrue.
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But neither this solid reporting—later backed up by ABC News—nor a categorical statement from the Obama campaign that he “has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim and is a committed Christian who attends the United Church of Christ in Chicago,” killed the story. Fox was “unwilling to stop when they knew they were wrong or correct what they knew was a lie,” says Robert Gibbs, Obama’s communications director. Executives at the network claimed that their on-air “clarification” was enough, but Fox’s own people didn’t get the message. Gibson—once a respected correspondent and host—went on the radio to malign the CNN reporter, John Vause. He “probably went to the very [same] madrassa” as Obama, Gibson said.
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Yeah 2008 is going to be a real fun affair.
 
N8 v2.0

N8 v2.0

Not the sharpest tool in the shed
Oct 18, 2002
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Sounds like the Clinton SOP

Insight reported that “Hillary Rodham Clinton’s camp” had conducted a background check that found Obama attended a madrassa (religious seminary) when he moved with his mother and stepfather to Jakarta in the late 1960s.
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DRB

DRB

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N8 said:
Sounds like the Clinton SOP
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The pathetic little saga begins on the Web site of Insight Magazine, a scandal sheet connected to the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Washington Times. On Jan. 17, Insight reported that “Hillary Rodham Clinton’s camp” had conducted a background check that found Obama attended a madrassa (religious seminary) when he moved with his mother and stepfather to Jakarta in the late 1960s. The idea, according to Insight, was to show that Obama was deceptive about his “Muslim past.” Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson says flatly: “They made it up.”
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Come on...
 
Westy

Westy

the teste
Nov 22, 2002
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The Clintons rule the world through complex conspiracies. They are like the new Jews but without the gold.
 
BurlyShirley

BurlyShirley

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His middle name is "Hussein" and his last name sure sounds alot like "Osama" to me. If he wasnt a Bear fan, I'd say off to gitmo with him.
 
N8 v2.0

N8 v2.0

Not the sharpest tool in the shed
Oct 18, 2002
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Westy said:
Replace antisemitic with paranoid right wing crackpot. If she does make it into office you better watch out for the black helicoptors
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you have a vastly greater chance of being anal probed by gay space aliens than hillary becoming president of the US.
 
BurlyShirley

BurlyShirley

Rex Grossman Will Rise Again
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N8 said:
you have a vastly greater chance of being anal probed by gay space aliens than hillary becoming president of the US.
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Only 30% of anal probing space aliens are gay, and most of those are drug addicts who would never make it to earth anyway.
 
golgiaparatus

golgiaparatus

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N8 said:
you have a vastly greater chance of being anal probed by gay space aliens than hillary becoming president of the US.
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Gotta go with N8 (<----LOL!) on this one. The Dems are going to TOTALLY screw themselves this year. Last year they pick the candidate they think most resembles a donkey (personality and physical attributes), this year they probably think they are going to put the first Woman in office (not that there is anything wrong with that, but it automatically stacks the odds against them). All gender aside, the only reason I see to vote for her is because I know Bill will be getting to give some input... and when I say that I mean he will be giving her advise, and she will likely listen... I didn't mean... never mind.
 
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