Well done!
Posted on 06/28/2008 9:35:21 AM PDT by Beckwith
Beckwith responds to The Washington Post.
The first thing I have to say about "An Attack That Came Out of the Ether," published by The Washington Post on June 28th, is that at NO time was I ever contacted by this woman, Danielle Allen. I spoke to two male Post reporters, who spoke to me over the phone for a period of months. The first contact was in the fall of 2007. They told me they were trying to track down the source of emails they considered negative to the Obamamessiah.
Allen obsesses about the "Muslim" Obama stories, but steers clear of Obama's relationships with communists, Marxists, socialists, terrorists and convicted swindlers. The trick she attempts to use is to knock down one or two or three items and the other four thousand don't count.
The following notice appears on my website's "About" page: "I don't write this stuff -- I cherry-pick it and publish it here -- every attempt is made to provide attribution and/or links to the original source -- if you don't like the writer's viewpoint -- send them an email -- not me. If the reader finds content that is incorrect, I will correct or delete it upon the submission of two links to an independent source with more accurate information."
And I mean just that and I do just that. I want The Obama File to be able to withstand the type of attack that Allen attempts in this article.
When Allen quotes me: "If 20 percent of what's on my Web site is true, this guy is a clear and present danger," she left out the whole quote. I told her reporters that I believed that The Obama File content was better than 95% accurate, but that If 20 percent of what's on my Web site is true, this guy is a clear and present danger. I still believe that.
Allen writes, "There was 'Beckwith,' whom she pegged as a veteran from Boston, old enough to vote for John F. Kennedy, in uniform by 1964, and host of a Web site that devotes considerable space to an 'Obama file' that says the senator is 'by birth, blood and training, a Muslim.'"
That statement is true. Just ask Obama's sister Maya. In an interview with the New York Times, published on April 30th, 2007, Maya Soetoro-Ng, Obama’s younger half sister, told the Times, "My whole family was Muslim, and most of the people I knew were Muslim."
I assume Maya thinks of her brother, Obama, as a member of her family?
Even if Maya didn't make such a statement. Islam is patrilinear. The son of a Muslim is a Muslim (birth, blood) and Obama did study Islam, the Quran and the Hadith at the Besuki Primary School in Jakarta, Indonesia for two years (training). Further, he attended mengaji classes where he studied the Quran in its native Arabic.
In his autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," Obama mentions studying the Quran and describes the public school as "a Muslim school." He wrote, "In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell mother I made faces during Koranic studies."
According to Tine Hahiyary, one of Obama's teachers and the principal from 1971 through 1989, Barry actively took part in the Islamic religious lessons during his time at the school. His teacher was named Maimunah and she lived in the Puncak area, the Cianjur Regency.
"I remembered that he had studied "mengaji" (recitation of the Quran)" Tine said.
These facts can account for the startling statement Obama made on February 27th, 2007, when he said the Muslim call to prayer was "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth."
In an interview with Nicholas Kristof, published in The New York Times, Obama recited the Muslim call to prayer, the Adhan, "with a first-class [Arabic] accent."
The opening lines of the Adhan (Azaan) is the Shahada:
Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that Muhammad is his prophet...
According to Islamic scholars, reciting the Shahada, the Muslim declaration of faith, makes one a Muslim. This simple yet profound statement expresses a Muslim's complete acceptance of, and total commitment to, the message of Islam.
Obama knows this from his Quranic studies -- and he knows the New York Times will publish this fact and it will be seen throughout the Islamic world.
Regardless of Obama's religion, what message is he sending the world's 1.2 billion Muslims?
I suppose it's easy for Obama to remember the Shahada for the 35 years since he left Indonesia -- and in 'first-class' Arabic -- especially since he believes the Muslim call to prayer is "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth." -- no matter what religion he belongs to, or not, those Muslim prayers run through his head, and often -- what does that really make him?
And although I do have a Boston accent, of which I'm proud (you can hear it on the webcast at the link on the main page), Allen gets in a little ethnic stereotyping by calling my accent a "... thick Boston brogue" -- Bostonians don't have brogues -- my antecedents from Ireland do -- it's a good thing I don't have a chip on my shoulder and charge "racism" at such obvious stereotyping -- like some folks might do.
And there is no "unnamed 'colleague' in Europe" -- that's probably my friend and fellow FReeper, ExpatGuy, who operates the "An American Expat in Southeast Asia" blog (a truly great resource). But, what the heck, Europe, Southeast Asia, they're all foreign places.
Allen is also incorrect when she writes, "His initial goal was to take swats at the liberal left. 'Then this new guy comes along called Obama,' he said." -- All one has to do is to read the "About" page on my website to get it right -- "The Obama File is a spinoff of www.FreedomsEnemies.com where it started out as a single page. Freedom's Enemies documents the relationship between the political left and Islamofascism. Along comes Obama -- with a foot in each camp -- and The Obama File just evolved.
The reason I spun off The Obama File is that I did not want the Freedoms Enemies website a pejorative to the information I was compiling on Obama.
This sentence is also false -- "Beckwith said he built a Web site that features hundreds of pages of material intended to undermine Obama." -- There are 18 pages on my website. Because I take pains to document and provide attribution for everything, those 18 pages link to thousands of source articles, primarily from mainstream media sources (including The Washington Post), and my intention is not to "undermine" poor Barry -- it is to "oppose the most liberal (read "left-wing") member of the U. S. Senate sitting in the Oval Office" -- just like it says on my "About" page.
I suppose it could have been more of a hatchet job, but what amazes me is Allen's obsession with the Muslim thing -- that rumor is a year old and has been fed more by Obama and his family more than anyone else.
Why hasn't Allen attempted to knock down Obama's relationship with communists, Marxists, socialists, terrorists, convicted swindlers, and, dare I say it, DHIMMICRATS!
Could it be that those long-term relationships are just too easy to document?
Google each name together with Obama & see what comes up.
Tony Rezko
Nadhmi Auchi
Allison Davis
Raila Odinga
Jaramogi Oginga Oding
Abongo “Roy” Obama
Maya Soetoro-Ng
Al Bakri Group
Abdulkader al Bakri aka Abdel Qader Bakri
Frank Marshall Davis
Bernardine Dohrn
William Ayers
Saul Alinksy
George Soros
Jonathan Soros
MoveOn.org
Rep. Jan Schakowsky
Robert Creamer
Rev. Jeremiah Wright
Louis Farrakhan
Mohammar Kaddafy
Bernie Sanders
Mike Kruglik
Democratic Socialists of America
Socialist International
Party of European Socialists
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen
Saul Mendelson
Khaleel Ahmed
Zubair A. Ahmed
Talat M. Othman
Rashid Khalidi
Cornell West
New Black Panther Party
Malik Zulu Shabazz
Robert Malley
Edward Said
Harold Koh
Reverend James Meeks
General Merrill “Tony” McPeak
Congressman Chaka Fattah
Father Michael Pfleger
Ali Abunimah
Imam Hassan Qazwini
Hatem El-Hady
Ahmed Yousef
Hamas
Alexi Giannoulias
La Raza
ACORN
Najii Ali (alias Ronald Todd Eskew)
Project Islamic H.O.P.E.
The New Party
Carl Davidson
James “Yousef” Yee
Emil Jones
Shepard Fairey
Daniel Ortega
Raul Castro
Fidel Castro
Kim Jong Il
More than 80 attorneys for Guantanamo detainees
Rep. Keith Ellison
Kwame Kilpatrick
Muslim Americans for Obama ‘08
The Muslim American Society
Obama Supporters for Marijuana Law Reform
Obama Youth
Eric Holder
Jodie Evans
Hanoi Jane Fonda
James A. Johnson
Young Communist League USA
Mohamed Salim Al-Churbaji a/k/a Salim Alchurbaji
Osama Siblani
Greg Craig
Eric Holder
Richard Danzig
David Noble
Mike Klonsky
Imam Sidney Sharif
Last update June 28, 2008
Watch your back. The Obama camp has some very nasty people supportin them.
Now that you have a little notoriety, perhaps the McCain campaign will contact you.They could use a dose of reality on Obama.
Clear and Present Danger indeed. He should be deported to Kenya.
Well done!
The cartoon says it all, it’s Carter Phase II.
And to think Allen is a ‘genuis’. /s
MacArthur Foundation awards 2001 ‘genius grant’ to Allen
6/7/2002
This past fall, when the Macarthur Foundation called Danielle S. Allen to tell her that she was a genius–and to give her $500,000, over five years
Although she was originally slated to teach moral philosophy in the program last year, the Odyssey Project pushed Allen to make a leap, all the way to the United States–in the 18th century.
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Danielle Allen
Professor in Classical Languages & Literatures, Political Science and the Committee on Social Thought
Areas of Expertise:
Democracy
Philosophy: Political, ancient and modern
Poetry: 20th-century American
Race and Ethnicity: American citizenship
Classics: Democratic theory
Classics: Ancient Greece
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She is 32 years old and I doubt she is much of an expert on anything except her bigotry, elitism and leftism.
“I want The Obama File to be able to withstand the type of attack that Allen attempts in this article”
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It does.
It is a great site. I frequently use it for information when I debate. It’s a wonderful tool for us ‘internet warriors’ out to help bring the Messiah down. Thank you.
Don’t worry about lack of links to ‘The Obama File’. I use it as a signature and mention it dozens of times a day- as I’m sure many others do.
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Bravo!!
..at least I hope all here know about Beckwith’s great site
http://www.theobamafile.com/ use it and recommend it.
Let’s get behind this fine American patriot and show him how much we appreciate what he has done.
Spread the word. The more you recommend ‘The Obama File’, the more people read this information, the better chance we have of bringing this fraud Obama to his knees.
Lets make some donations to his site!
Please do not insult my favorite WB character.
I have a question and two observations—
The question: Did Ms. Allen make any attempt to research the actual truth of the Muslim rumour or does she take Obama at his word?
Observation: It would appear that WAPO’s real intention was to intimidate you and hopefully pressure you into closing up shop.
Observation: You write extremely well and your website is fascinating. Very refreshing. Thank you.
Her and the many more like her. I'd rather it not come to that. However, on the other hand I'd love to see them get what they wish for.
Good post.
I’d like to know how they “tracked” you down. Of course they probably could have just sent a freepmail but the way it is reported it sounds quite sinister. Can you share how they “found” you?
Thick Boston accent?
Beckwith..I never knew...LOL!
This reporterette has an agenda, may as well be on the Obamao payroll after all, he does pay better then the WaPo does, and btw, how much money have they donated to the Obamao’s Campaign?
I mean, other then free print advertisement for the Obamao in the form of a article...
There it is, 2,300, what a shock, these people are so tranparant.
So the WaPo’s advertising rate is how much a word these days? How much would an 2,000+ word, 4 page article be worth if one had to pay for such an ad word by word?
2 million dollars maybe? A full pager in USA today is 70 thousand (probably more), so her 2,300 is chicken feed compared to hit pieces such as this one, she may have donated 2,300, she has used her position to wring 2 million out of her employer’s revenue stream..
Nice job Danielle, will you give McCain the same treatment?
And that’s nothing, compared to The Obama’s blatant Father’s Day campaigning in church, recorded and broadcast, of course.
Our government has to jump through hoops to listen in on terrorists, and needs the help of the telecom industry to accomplish this, much to the ire of the screaming left.
Yet, for the second presidential election cycle in a row now, the left has proven it has the ability to expose not only the name of an anonymous poster, but their age, occupation, place of residence, who knows what else....within hours. They're so confident they won't be challenged for their cyberstalking, they have their pranks published in major POS newspapers.
WTH is going on?
Our "about me" pages are something of a hazard. While I am proud of my home state, I don't post a flag. But--Allen--I'm somewhere in the mountainous south. As a matter of fact, FR could go back to the posts she did refer to and attempt to start narrowing down Allen's IP souce. If anyone here cared to do so, which I don't think is useful
There's just too much free speeching in poor Danielle's America!
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