The Obamassiah is a marxist son of a muslim.Sift thru that.
Posted on 06/28/2008 7:01:21 AM PDT by SE Mom
The Washington Post has published an unintentionally amusing article this morning about one Danielle Allen, a "razor-sharp, 36-year-old political theorist" at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies. Allen, with doctorates from Cambridge and Harvard, won a $500,000 MacArthur Foundation genius grant a few years ago and now conducts studies at the Institute, where, according to the Post, "she works alongside groundbreaking physicists, mathematicians and social scientists. They don't have to teach, and they face no quotas on what they publish. Their only mandate is to work in the tradition of Einstein, wrestling with the most vexing problems in the universe."
And one of the most vexing problems in the universe, which Allen has decided to pursue in the tradition of Einstein, is the origin of a number of e-mails claiming that Barack Obama is a Muslim. Using the advanced research tools at her disposal, the razor-sharp Allen found…a couple of posters on the Free Republic website, plus a former political rival of Obama's who sends out zillions of e-mails to reporters every day.
The former political rival appears to have been completely open about the stuff he sent out, some of which was based on arguments similar to an op-ed that appeared in the pages of the New York Times. As for Free Republic, according to the Post, Allen "counted 23 freepers among those engaging in regular discussions about Obama's religion, and isolated a handful whom she began to suspect as having a role in the e-mail. Sifting through hundreds of postings, she began to piece together their identities."
Allen gave her information to the Post reporter, who used it to track down two allegedly offending freepers, one a 69-year-old retired grandfather in the suburbs of Boston and the other a 60-year-old schoolteacher in rural Washington state. Both said they had nothing to do with the emails. And that's about it.
But the article has a pretty clear subtext, and it is that the exchange of such information on the Internet should be controlled. "I started thinking, 'How does one stop it?'" Allen told the Post. "Citizens and political scientists must face the fact that the Internet has enabled a new form of political organization that is just as influential on local and national elections as unions and political action committees…This kind of misinformation campaign short-circuits judgment. It also aggressively disregards the fundamental principle of free societies that one be able to debate one's accusers."
Of course, we have laws that regulate the political activities of unions and political action committees. Is it going too far to guess that the scholar from the Institute for Advanced Studies might be searching for some way to do the same for Free Republic?
06/28 08:45 AM
The SC ruled correctly, though far too closely, on the 2nd amendment. Now we have to worry about how they would rule on the first!! Unbelievable, this leftist Twilight Zone of supposed free speech.
ping to McArthur Foundation
Any more of those $500,000 grants left to fund FReeping?Does this count as a $500,000 donation to Obama campaign? It bought a scholar/ researcher/ operative after all.
Yes, and I believe he was born in the tribal area of Pakistan. I heard that anyway.
The Obamassiah is a marxist son of a muslim.I can see the commie-libs trying to imlement some sort of a Fairness Doctrine for internet “speech.”
erm . . . implement
Truth is offensive to those who take it as condemnation and not correction. And then those who hid under PC so the truth will not be exposed. That’s liberalism!
Don't look at me. I only send out 9 million a day.
Good one!
You know you belong in the Rat Party (formerly the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party) if you believe that.
.. another clue that you belong there is if you believe that the cost of the myriad multi-billion-dollar social programs (how many trillions spent in the quagmire of the WOP, war on poverty?) are just find if Congress funds them and the taxpayers do not have to pay for them.
Q. Why did Obama say that the madrassa where he went to school wasn’t a “radical” one?
A. They didn’t have live ammo training exercises.
Not surprising that this "razor-sharp political theorist" from the Ivy League only calls for the regulation of conservative political websites.
probably has oppo-research file on global warming deniers, pro-lifers, anti-gun grabbers, anti-evolutionists as well. in obama administration, she’ll be turning them over to Eric Holder’s DOJ, and then the knocks on the door.
Irresponsible dissent is dangerous for our democracy. Any deviation from majority opinion is very dangerous for our democracy — social equality in thought and action are the goals of democracy. True freedom is the absence of dissent from the views of the anointed ones.
You know you belong in the Rat Party (formerly the traditional, patriotic Democratic Party) if you believe that.
I’m going to walk the dog and clear my brain.
Danielle S. Allen
School of Social Science
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, N.J. 08540
(609) 734-8252 (Voice)
e-mail: dsallen@ias.edu
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/depts/classics/people/dallencv.htm
The good Dr. (an affirmative action 2fer (a WOC-woman of color)) has built a career out of distorting the past through the filter of her bitterness, to conform with the current politically correct orthodoxy.
Personal to the good Dr. If you are a lesbian, that would make you a 3fer, a LOC (lesbian of color.) I don't want to assume things that I'm not certain of, so please forgive me if I have shortchanged recognition of your victim-hood.
Check this out!
I read the following:
Allen found…a couple of posters on the Free Republic website, plus a former political rival of Obama's who sends out zillions of e-mails to reporters every day.Although I regret to say that I - Responsibility2nd - am not one of the 23 freepers, I would certainly like to be. Could you help me? If you would provide me with the e-mail addresses of the reporters in the known universe, I will be glad to start spreading the message that yes; Obama is a Muslim.The former political rival appears to have been completely open about the stuff he sent out, some of which was based on arguments similar to an op-ed that appeared in the pages of the New York Times. As for Free Republic, according to the Post, Allen "counted 23 freepers among those engaging in regular discussions about Obama's religion, and isolated a handful whom she began to suspect as having a role in the e-mail. Sifting through hundreds of postings, she began to piece together their identities."
Sincerely yours,
Responsibility2nd
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