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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.
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I have a lovely gift awaiting anybody who manages to track me down. It is a copper encased lead pellet weighing slightly less than ½ ounce, which I will deliver immediately at more than 1200 feet per second to the lucky winner of the ‘track KarinG1 down’ contest. Bring it on, WaPo. And don’t forget, there are second and third place prizes available as well. Don’t bother to knock, just come on in.
Hannity has been relentless and he’ll come back from his vacation loaded with more WMDs on Obama. Its going to be an interesting fall.
Allen & Mosk are going to out you name as a person spreading hate speech by mentioning Ubama’s middle name, you do realize that, don’t you?
/sarc
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TO INFINITY AND BEYOND!!!!!
Who did LBJ run against in 1964? It’s hard to believe anyone was uglier than LBJ:-P Powerful Man and certainly NOT good looking in the classical sense!
out you BY name, sorry!
Wasn’t my list. I kept it a long while back to post every chance I get.
Pass it along. We can’t get too much info out there.
Feel free to add to it.
Barry Goldwater - You’d have to ask a woman who was better looking.
Mugabe wannabe
Wht did they do? What did they say? How did they act? Any physical altercations? How about physical descriptions of the thugs? Thinking this is good info for reepers to know about:-) GOD BLESS amd Be Careful, Expatguy!
Thanks, I really liked Barry Goldwater, but he was a little before my time. I just asked a great Judge and she said “ Barry was Fantastically Handsome compared to drop jowls LBJ!” But We know LBJ won, so much for that theory.
GUMBY PING
I'll agree with that...Mostly they are consciously or consciously just slanting the news to fit their view of the world filtered through a dirty prism.
Am for all that.
I just think it’s likely to be inadequate given lots of givens.
And, I’d like to see us have several tentative plans of actions already brainstormed and in the wings should any FREEPER be targeted by such traitorous ruthlessness.
Jim, would there be any merit in some of those more . . . outspoken in terms of political things related to such targeted perspectives . . . having another FREEPNAME OR TWO to confuse the traitors trying to seek individuals out and target them?
Seems to me there would.
Of course some of us would have to work hard to alter our personnas! LOL.
If I understand your link posting . . . you’re saying that org would be a good defense org for us?
Priceless. I’m going to remember that one.
Because Obama is a Muslim, we are required to vote for him. Otherwise, we will be offending the Muslims. Isn’t that how Western thinking goes these days?
Hey if you going run for president expect exam from internet
HELLO if he doesn’t run for president he shouldn’t do it RIGHT
I don’t think Free Republic is racist website we just run smack chat barek is Leftist socialist with Muslum background expect get full anal exam from Freepers
We are Dr House of the net
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