Posted on 08/27/2008 4:10:16 PM PDT by hecht
Blogger Breaks the Mainstream Media's Wall of Silence My friend Larry is in Time magazine. heh. Finally, the lamestream media, in its libtarded fog, did a piece on my source in Indonesia. I picked up Lary's intel on Obama in Indonesia back in 2007 and have been running his original reportage for 18 months. And Jerome Corsi used all of Larry's work in his blockbuster bestseller, Obamanation.
"The Blogger Behind the Obama Hit Job" American Expat in Southeast Asia
It is one thing to be called "The Blogger Behind the Obama Hit Job" and quite another to be referred to as a "less-than-authoritative source". Needless to say, it naturally begs the question - Who would be an authoritative source? For much of America's mainstream media, the answer is of course themselves. But alas the times they are a changing.
On to the rebuttal.
"The first mention of Martin's blog comes on Page 52 of Obama Nation, when it is cited as the source for Corsi's assertion that when Obama's Muslim stepfather registered him at a Catholic school in Indonesia, Obama's religion was recorded as "Islam." No one disputes that."
Actually, the Obama camp and America's mainstream media has been disputing this from the very first day it was reported on this blog.
"In fact, Martin is not the only one who reported the information; on Jan. 25, 2007, the same day that Martin posted it on his blog, the Associated Press reported the same information, from the Fransiskus Assisi Catholic school, and ran a photograph of the document."
Actually, the post Time magazine is referring to was posted here on the 24th of January 2007 and not the 25th. And not to split hairs or anything, but don't forget that over here in Southeast Asia we are a day ahead of you guys back in America. (International Date Line). That would make my posting actually 2 days prior to the Associated Press report.
"Although Lolo Soetero, Obama's stepfather, was nominally a Muslim, Obama (then known as Barry Soetoro), studied Catholic catechism at the school."
Nope false. Obama never studied "Catholic catechism" at school, he studied Islam.
"What was Martin's source for his repeated insistence that Obama's former school requires students to dress in traditional Muslim attire on Fridays? "I've lived [in Southeast Asia] for 20 years; I go to schools all the time," he says. However, he admits that he never visited Obama's former school on a Friday."
Martin's source is... Martin himself. Did you think I was going to use CNN as a source?
Having spent almost my entire adult life in Southeast Asia, I think I might have an idea of what goes on in the schools here and believe it or not, but after 20 years I don't need a weatherman to tell me which way the wind blows.
Obama and the Audacity of CNN
"In a 2007 post, Martin also claims that the Indonesian title of Obama's book The Audacity of Hope — Menerjang Harapan — means "Jihad." This, says Martin, is what Indonesians see when they encounter Obama's book. However, his translation is a distortion of the Indonesian phrase, which in English is literally "To Challenge Hope."'
"Menerjang Harapan" is not an Indonesian phrase nor is it a distortion. It is two Indonesian words that are never used together. Google it (the two words together) and the only references you will find will be Barack Obama's own self-serving book.
In the context the words are used it leaves the actual meaning open to ambiguous interpretation, kind of like poetry if you will. As I stated and as many of the comments have conceded, the translation is incorrect and done in such a way as to excite the Indonesians. How exactly it excites the Indonesians is the only area of contention.
It is the truth that always prevails.
Read it all.
bill o’reilly read corsi’s book and concluded it was “partisan” so he will not deal with the book or author on his show.
Having spent almost my entire adult life in Southeast Asia, I think I might have an idea of what goes on in the schools here and believe it or not, but after 20 years I don't need a weatherman to tell me which way the wind blows.
Lost what minimal respect I had for O’Reilly over the first Swift Boat ordeal.
Haven’t listened to him even once, since then.
yep.
that p*ssed me off!
and i too stopped listening to him regularly.
but i do hear him occasionally when i get into my car after rush; it’s the same radio station.
This is where Larry needs to be careful. Most, if not all, Catholic schools at the time only offered Catholicism. Only in the 1990s that the Indonesian Government made a law that schools should offer religion lessons according to pupils' faith. Many middle class Indonesians in the 1970s, however, sent their kids to two schools: ordinary (either public or private) school in the morning, and Islamic school (or at least Islamic lessons) in the afternoon or evening.
In public elementary school, where Barry Soetoro later on enrolled in, in general they teach Islamic lessons only. The non-Muslim students were allowed to wander around outside the class or just sit in the class but doing something else.
I think the article mentioned you, so I’m giving you a courtesy ping. I haven’t read the article yet.
Now wait a minute there. Barry needs a Weatherman - Ayers - to tell him which way the wind blows...
Thanks for the ping
Thanks - not sure if Time Magazine will respond though.
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