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.
This country is in deep doo-doo. This is Communism, pure and simple, hiding behind a 1st amendment. I put nothing past these creeps. Is FreeRepublic going to be the equivalent of ‘Radio Free Europe’ in a few years?
why does the story make it sound like she just happened to open the spam and find the email, when it is obvious that she is using her job (paid by Princeton) to work for him?
I mean, she traced a few Freepers who brought up the email on FR, but the email started before it was posted to FR.
There isn’t anything about the possibility that it’s like other spam: Not a chain letter but a worm or trojan horse.
Liberal fascist MSM can’t stand to be by-passed by the net...
Google is becoming a part of the liberal-fascist bunch
The fear is changing side!
Obama libs’lunatic fans are feeling fear
Sensible statement ClancyJ warm support from Europe(France)where many fear(not hopefully) an Obama’s presidency at the opposite of liberal MSM
Yes, but they still think the GOP will come knocking on their door for them to save the party.
They never realize that the GOP is full of moderates who do not even want the ultra conservatives. So, the “teach them a lesson” tactic is exactly what the GOP wants and, gee, it opens up space for more moderates to run the party.
Our only chance is to grow our numbers and take over the GOP again - not run from it.
Thank you.
What really scares me is that so many of these “teachers” really are very intelligent people
I can understand they are fed up with not being able to sway the GOP and are taking desperate action. But whatever are we going to do when the Fairness Doctrine—an oxymoron—is passed by a Democrat Congress and President? Where are we going to be able to express our outrage and opinions?
The Dim’s answer will be that the people have spoken—they want fairness in everything—another oxymoron—witness the election.
Next will be Internet tax, among many others.
THIS MAN IS A MARXIST! DON’T PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT? HE MUST BE DEFEATED.
Let them lurk and scheme... while they still have electricity and running water!
It’s because he’s a democrat.
And according to obama’s own friends, he attended a muslim school before transferring to a Catholic school.
From discoverthenetworks.org:
“Obama’s good friend, the attorney and novelist Scott Turow, wrote that Obama as a child spent “two years in a Muslim school, then two more in a Catholic school.” School records show that when Obama attended Catholic school, he was enrolled as a Muslim.”
[If you’re an open book - the Obama thugs will be calling you!]
No, the topic was about people having things to conceal. I have nothing in my life to conceal. That doesn’t mean I’m giving out info here.
Such a bizarre response from the left.
WP: why not just say
“Hey, maybe he IS Muslim by background - not that there’s anything WRONG with that!”
It’s the terrorist friendly connections that are the problem. The fact that they “protest so much” is really curious.
Just listening to O’Reilly where they are interviewing some guy from California about using taxpayer funds to buy tickets for some apprehended drug dealer or something to fly home so that he then can return. They want to rehabilitate? They have sanctuary laws that sort of override American laws, they believe these people can then come in and become good legal citizens.
I am absolutely sick to death of these liberal weasels that lie through their teeth flaunting puny little reasons for the insane things they do - leaving us trying to reason sense with them.
Then I think - wait a minute. Why would they think those petty little reasons are worthy of creating all the harm they are creating. So, logically, they are merely using a petty cover excuse to cover their real purpose which they dare not mention on tv.
Why are we so dumb to try and reason with them - we need to call them out, and say - the reason you are doing this is to destroy the U. S. - no other reason. Your purposes are not to rehabilitate or whatever their lame reason is - your purpose is marxism and we think the public is ready to quit with these lame reasoning interviews and get to the guts of the problem.
Sorry - just had to rant.
Maybe many of these people are really not conservatives at all. A conservative would never sit by and allow what we see coming - they would fight. And, if they are not willing to fight - we sure as heck do not need them or need to waste time on them. Let them sit. Let them cave, let them “teach” - nobody will even notice them because they are nothings. What a win for the liberals and the GOP - they ran supposed conservative off.
We will use the ones that want to fight to save this country with everything we have.
I was livid trying to listen to that guy’s excuses for not deporting DRUG DEALERS!
Me too - I need a break but I have to hear BOR & Sean nightly, Rush daily. I have not reached the point of realizing this has been going on for years and we will survive - I just get worried. And, I am very tired of that worrying.
I wish California would just become a country/republic themselves and get out of the U.S.
Libyan Leader Mu’ammar Al-Qadhafi: Obama Suffers Inferiority Complex That Might Make Him Behave “Whiter Than the White.” He Should Be Proud of His African, Muslim Identity.
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1791.htm
God Bless You Sir!
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