Yes, of course the problem is that thare ARE no responsible journalists doing investigative work these days. There are a few honest commentators, but they don’t go out and dig up facts. So on issues like the birth certificate or this one, all we can do is dig around and read as much as we can.
The Supermarket Tabloids did actually release some important true stories in the clinton years. Which is not to say that they are usually reliable. And they did nab Edwards and expose his little affair last year. But Obama is a lot slipperier and more powerfully situated than Edwards, of course. The powers that be were happy to eliminate Edwards, but that doesn’t currently apply to Obama.
“Which is not to say that they are usually reliable.”
And when you add in the fact that the source is a crackhead, doesn’t it make it even less reliable?
When the Rumsfeld story broke in GQ, I said on that thread that if the story was true, I thought it was imprudent of Rumsfeld to put Bible quotes on pictures of war.
There was somewhat of a kerfuffle and a couple of folks wanted to know why I was just going to BELIEVE the story.
I responded that I had said, “if it was true”...but that GQ wasn’t the National Enquirer.
The Globe, from what I understand, would have to ASPIRE to be the Enquirer.
So, on the one hand, it was wrong of me to judge Rummy based on a story in GQ, but everyone’s kind of piling on Obama for a story in The Globe.
The Globe kind of panders to the worst in society.