An Attack That Came Out of the Ether

The Washington Post ^ | June 28, 2008 | Matthew Mosk

[plangent]

The e-mail landed in Danielle Allen's queue one winter morning as she was studying in her office at the Institute for Advanced Study, the renowned haven for some of the nation's most brilliant minds. The missive began: "THIS DEFINITELY WARRANTS LOOKING INTO."

[Hexenhammer]

Whether he is a Muslim or a Baptist is irrelevant to me. What's more important is that he is a Marxist and an idiot.

pretty much sums it up for me

[sono]

Don't worry, Ms. Allen. Barry's Big Tent lies under the bus.

[xkaydet65]

You completely misread me. I thought my position obvios when I asked can any not see the difference between the two. Actually in response to you, I have had the thoughts of McCain seeking to silence us if elected POTUS thrown at me by Freepers responding to my posts. Perhaps in my haste I was not as clear as i should have been.

[xkaydet65]

See post 243 for response.

[StAnDeliver]

Look, "genius", why are you seven months late after the Washington Post (heard of them?) revealed that Hillary's campaign were first front & center behind the forwarding of the phony e-mail last December:

Clinton Campaign Volunteer Out Over False Obama Rumors

"Hillary Clinton's campaign asked one of its volunteer county coordinators in Iowa to step down after the person forwarded an e-mail falsely stating that Barack Obama is a Muslim. Obama is a Christian and attends Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, but chain e-mails have been circulating throughout his campaign that falsely describe him as a Muslim."

I'd laugh, but I think you're sad, and also an incredibly small person. It's obviously the end result of the realization that you and your candidate simply aren't good enough to win.

[Stentor]

He seems to have a fascination with FR

All he needs is a shipping hook and full rain gear.

[tgslTakoma]

Some newer Freepers may not remember the name Matthew Mosk in regards to Free Republic. He is the reporter who wrote about Free Republic's "involvement" with a "smear campaign" against Maryland's notorious governor, Martin O'Malley. Mosk got himself caught up in the story, so much so that he is rumored to have had an FR screen name at one point.

What is known for sure is that somebody at the Washington Post was participating in the O'Malley threads; and then, lo and behold, the Washington Post's Matthew Mosk writes an "expose" on Free Republic!

So, about this new attempt by the Washington Post's Matthew Mosk and this think tank broad I have to wonder...

How did Danielle Allen find Matthew Mosk to write this piece? Or did Matthew Mosk feed the FR threads to Allen, and then "discover" her investigation?

My family's dog wouldn't even take a crap on the pages of The Washington Post. The newspaper is garbage unfit for even landfills. And its "reporters" are nitwits with delusions of grandeur.

[mkjessup]

He wasn’t ‘zotted’, we just wanted to review his posts after several warnings about posting the same thing on every single thread.

If I were ETL's defense attorney I would say "consider those posts just an extra large tagline!", lol

Oh I didn't think our new FRiend ETL was zotted, not at all.

You mods do a great job! (with the sole exception of suspending me for three days for posting a legitimate article about a place in Toledo Ohio called 'Mary Jo's Kitchen' while Teddy the K was in Boston General getting an extra hole in his head, lol).

[A_perfect_lady]

“So, I have a deep faith. I’m rooted in the Christian tradition

That's actually a pretty ambiguous statement.

[My Favorite Headache]

That which everyone is seeking has been secured.>>>

Either birth certificate or tape. Either way I eagerly await and have faith you are not hyping for the sake of hype.

[SmithL]

Three things Obama has learned from the Clintons: Deny, deny, deny!

[expatguy]

read my site - I’ve never hyped.

[mkjessup]

Please. Read up. He can be the False Prophet but he can’t be the Anti-Christ.
Unless of course his birth certificate really is totally false and he was actually born somewhere East of Istanbul, West of Iran and Northish of Iraq.

How 'bout Arab, Alabama? ;)

[Smokin' Joe]

If you believe in secret concentration camps and trains to pick up dissenters, you are at the wrong place.

While I do not believe we are in immediate danger of such, historical precedents do exist.

While it may be annoying, we ignore the sheepherder who cries "wolf" often at our peril.

They just might be on to something.

[HAL9000]

How did the Com-Post get her identity, HOW.

With tools like log files for "web bug" images, Google searches, ARIN network searches, etc., the identities of many people can be determined. A simple way to get someone to take the bait would be to ping them to a low-traffic thread with an embedded image.

This has happened before. Dan Moldea compiled a whole dossier of names.

And then there was the time that a Freeper attached a cookie to one of his embedded images on a thread. It was apparently harmless, but it freaked out some paranoid types who thought that FR was responsible, when it was actually just a regular user.

[mkjessup]

Sssssssssh everyone, don't mention this. Danielle Allen will provide your name and home town if you do. It's called intimidation. It's what the left does best.

No my FRiend, that isn't what the left does best, what the left does best is lie their collective asses off, whine and whimper like the babies they are when confronted with the truth, which leads to them getting their clock cleaned either rhetorically or literally if they find the stones to get up in some real American's FACE!

There is already plenty of information out here to suggest that 'Doctor' Danielle Allen has violated federal law by using taxpayer funds and/or services and facilities underwritten by federal funds to engage in partisan political activity in behalf of Senator Obama-lama-ding-dong, whether or not the junior Senator from Illinois encouraged her or not, or had knowledge of her actions or not.

If the Obama Campaign had any sense, they would immediately disavow and disassociate themselves from Danielle Allen, return any and all donations they may have received from her in order to eliminate the appearance of any impropriety, and the administration of Princeton should be called to task to explain how Danielle Allen's actions fall under her cushy job responsibilities, and to establish policies and procedures to assure that neither Allen or any other member of the Princeton faculty engages in such unethical behavior in the future.

[Eva]

Yep, right out of the ether! This excerpt is from the International Herald Tribune and also appeared in the New York times, but I guess that since it was on the internet, you could say that it was right out of the ether.

"My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim," said Maya Soetoro-Ng, Mr. Obama's younger half sister. But Mr. Obama attended a Catholic school and then a Muslim public school where the religious education was cursory. When he was 10, he returned to his birthplace of Hawaii to live with his grandparents and attended a preparatory school with a Christian affiliation but little religious instruction.

The fact is that the Muslim education took place at both the Catholic school and the Muslim school, and was far from cursory.

[Earthdweller]

Well said.

[Earthdweller]

I'm sorry that these goons are putting you at risk. I have read your posts and you have been more than fair. If you need any support do not hesitate to ask. It seems to me that you may have a legal case as a private citizen.

[mkjessup]

Good Evening Eva,

If you have already addressed this question, my apologies for not seeing it, but did you authorize the Washington Post or any media entity to use your real name and give details of your life for this article in the Post, or any other publication?