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.
It really doesn’t.
No matter how strange it seems to others, I’ve studied those topics extensively for many decades . . . as in DECADES.
I have very reasonable and solid reasons for my perspectives regardless of how off the wall my perspectives may seem to the uninitiated.
I have 0.0000% doubt that the bulk of my perspectives on those scores will be confirmed in due course. It’s not arrogance or foolhardiness—it’s a function of extensive study of quality materials and quality sources adding thereto.
Have I been wrong? Certainly—mostly on timing of some things. The essentials of my perspectives have been increasingly confirmed redundantly as time has progressed toward the Biblical benchmark events of the END TIMES.
That’s just a fact.
BTW, what do you consider the 3 most outlandish things you’ve seen me post to be?
We’re gonna nail their messiah on his false birth cert, too. Toss a rock into a pack of mangey dogs and the one that yelps is the one you hit. Listen to these lieberal pukes yelping ...
Whoa......better be careful there - that would surely put us on the subversive underground watch list.
They don’t want to watch terrorists because terrorists have rights - but, they have no qualms about mistreating their countrymen and abusing the rights of citizens.
Makes you realize what a wonderful president Obama would be doesn’t it?
Gee - look at that - only whiteys under his bus! That should make his pastor wright proud of him.
LOL.
their messiah believes in abortion. ANYONE that endorses abortion is NOT a Christian.
PREVIEW, PREVIEW, PREVIEW
Particularly when posting a substantial amount of copy and paste text from another site.
Any little embedded html code thingy will trigger the no paragraph’d text.
Resutling in no one reading the post, of course.
It can be painstaking to go through and find the html culprit. I’ve sometimes had to give up and just code the durn thing by hand to force paragraphs in html coding.
I’ve taken increasingly to do it in a Word text file where I can make the font large enough to see from my lazyboy.
Blessings,
I assume you know html basics?
You can search from FR’s home page or find the links there for HTML bootcamp etc. sites.
Ah, but Americans believe what the presswhores say in that regard to cover for the obsequious democrats, and you know how many catholics (didn’t capitalize on purpose with cinos) vote democrap every election!
Actually, that’s far too charitable.
They have plans in place, fairly detailed plans with the capacities to carry them out—to forcefully kill world population numbers down to 200 million.
Thankfully, God will prevent their reaching that goal.
However, even Scripture talks about the global population being reduced 1/3 to 2/3’s in this era.
And the Supreme Court just ruled the Constitution is not un-Constitutional.
yitbos
This text was free form yuk. It is a sample of how bad it gets. I pasted it as I found it.
I got a headache just reading it. I didn’t want to even take the time to put it in paragraphs.
I understand the feeling.
Trouble is, a very small fraction of folks will bother reading it either . . . 1%?
Blessings,
Would you please ping me when you post the info?
Of course we are also forgetting that they are dealing with Americans here - not the minions in other countries.
We have had one revolution and were given a few wonderful gifted men to craft a constitution and a country that has been the finest country I believe that man has created. Don’t think we will look lightly at any seeking to take those freedoms from Americans.
We can do that again when any seek to destroy this country.
Terrifying .. God save us.
Got your back!
Come see me at your grand re-opening.. I’ll pour you some wine.
No. This is the technique of invalidation-by-proxy.
They want to make out ALL criticism of Obama to be racist and vile. How they do this is to play up false allegations, and then swat them down. What they will do is this:
1. Someone on freerepublic.com called Obama a Muslim.
2. Calling Obama a Muslim is false (true point), and it is racist fearmongering (their spin).
3. Freerepublic.com calls Obama a Liberal.
4. Therefore, calling Obama a Liberal is false racist fearmongering.
Look up logical fallacies. ... yet it works!
Freepers take note: For this reason, it is particularly important to stick to relevant, proven points about Obama.
Dont worry, there’s enough to nail him as a leftwing zero accomplishment corrupt lying bamboozler.
http://no-bama.blogspot.com/ -
Ping me, too, please, Sir.
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