Posted on 06/28/2008 10:36:43 AM PDT by kristinn
The Washington Post published an article today in the Style section about researcher Danielle Allen's efforts to track down who is behind allegations that presumed Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Hussein Obama (Illinois) is a Muslim. Allen is an Obama supporter who works for the Institute for Advanced Study.
The article was written by Matthew Mosk. A curious choice for The Post considering Mosk's involvement in the nefarious MD4Bush scandal in which Mosk claimed to have been given access to a Free Republic poster's account to expose a Maryland GOP government appointee who was alleged to have commented on rumors that a Maryland Democratic mayor was an adulterer.
Mosk displayed the same talent for exposing Freepers' identities in today's article that he did in the MD4Bush scandal. However, the only person he exposed then was the Republican. The person (or persons) behind the MD4Bush screen name was not reported by Mosk.
The article Mosk wrote today purports to be about efforts to track down where the 'Obama is a Muslim' allegations began. However, it is actually a warning shot across the bow to opponents of Obama that they will be tracked down and exposed for speaking ill of the Obamessiah.
Mosk even makes sure to let Obamaniacs know who is behind Free Republic and where he can be found:
Of the file folders that are spread in neat rows across Allen's desk, only one is bulging. It holds printouts of the reams of conversations about Obama's religion appearing on Free Republic. Since its start in 1996 by Jim Robinson of Fresno, Calif....
The effort by The Post to protect Obama from rumors is in stark contrast to how they promoted potentially candidacy-damaging rumors eight-years ago.
When George W. Bush ran for president in 1999, The Washington Post led the way in rumor-mongering about whether he used cocaine in his youth. Bush refused to deny cocaine use saying that denying rumors just leads to having to deny more and more rumors. No one ever came forward with allegatons that they had first-hand knowledge of Bush using cocaine, but that didn't stop The Post and the mainstream media as painting Bush as a cokehead. No reporter ever asked Bill Clinton about cocaine use, even though several people known to Clinton claimed to have first-hand knowledge of Clinton using the drug while in public office.
While Mosk ignores The Post's own rumor-mongering, he leaves the impression of Free Republic as the rumor mill of the right. A fair reporter would have noted that Freepers exposed the fraudulent Texas Air National Guard documents that CBS News used in its attempt to derail President Bush's reelection bid in 2004. Buckhead, the Freeper who called foul on the documents, was tracked down by the Los Angeles Times even though he did not post his name on Free Republic.
Mosk's article closes with Allen complaining that the Internet has become as influential as unions and political action committees (PACs) in elections. Unstated is that the political activities of unions and PACs are heavily regulated by the federal government.
Allen seriously misunderstands the right to anonymous political speech--equating political speech with the right of a citizen to face his accuser when charged with a crime by the government:
..."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."
While Mosk and The Post are furiously protecting Obama from the Obama is a Muslim allegation, they steadfstly refuse to report on Obama's well-documented connection to the terrorist supporter and Osama bin Laden sympathizer, Jodie Evans, co-founder of the anti-American group Code Pink.
The Post article claims that the Internet's danger to politics is the ability to spread rumors anonymously. The real danger is the left's willingness to use the Internet to track down and destroy its perceived enemies. Allen and Mosk's teamwork exposing Freepers is one more example of that.
As a member of the VRWC, I have yet to get such an email.
..sobbing...
Well, I truly think he’s either a muslim or a muslim sympathizer, but this picture only shows him in AFRICAN clothes.
Just in time for the Freepathon!!
Woo Hoo!!!
A response to #143, sorry it went to you.
We have not yet begun to fight!
So....they now have to stoop to “veiled threats”? At least with hill, she’d threaten you right to your face. He’s not just a muslim, but a freakin little girl in an empty suit.
Bring it on fake messiah, we have your number.
When you find your enemy’s weakness, pound it unmercifully! The sharks here at FreeRepublic now smell blood in the water...
If he were as great as he pretends to be, he never would have stepped over that line. What a fool.
If there was not something there, would this be a problem? Sounds like a preemptive strike from the left, Drill NOW, NOBAMMA.
Because he admitted to it they feel it is not newsworthy anymore and should be tabled as an issue. Personally I look at the type of man that can be swayed by peer pressure into using it, and then call into question the judgment of such a man in so powerful a position.
I have one question on that subject too, if a Secret Service agent guarding him was found out to have used cocaine would he be removed from the Presidential Protection Detail due to his poor lack of judgment? Just curious...
Thanks for the list. I’ve been hoping someone would post it. It’s a reminder that these people have been following a slow, steady path and aren’t about to give it up anytime soon.
"McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Sat Jun-28-08 05:03 PM Response to Original message 70. This article is an attack on Obama, guys. I will write more on it in my journals. This is yet another example of what I was talking about in my recent journal about how the MSM would "report" on the bad behavior of Fox, Drudge and others when they call Obama a Muslim---in order to spread the lie that Obama is a Muslim. The WaPo is a Neo Con rag.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3372822
HOLLA!!!
I’m more worried about the possibility he’s a Marxist rather than a Muslim.
Far more dangerous and destructive, in my opinion.
On a more serious note - The Great Gumbama also intends to throw America under the bus.
One angle that has been overlooked is perhaps the fact that the Washington (Com)post, like it’s publishing brethren are experiencing shortfalls in revenue, decreasing ad sales, they’re discovering that phrase about ‘Dying Dinosaur Media Watch’ isn’t just rhetoric.
So the WP is losing money, FR is holding it’s own financially based on quarterly Freep-A-Thons, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a bit of economic envy at work!
Which means that scumbags like Matthew Mosk and his ilk will work that much more enthusiastically to sneer, smear and intimidate FR members and FR in general if possible.
As always, “follow the money”.
Bring it on ComPost!
FR is in the vanguard of defending this nation and we will...Obamama or no Obamama.
Finally, some real fire on this site, it was beginning to worry me.
The little twits haven't figured out yet that they will be unemployed and uncomfortably hungry in an Obama world.
A good start is your profile page.
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