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.
When we said “free speech”, we didn’t mean for you.
-the American Left
You know, if those SOBs want to find hate and vitriol on the internet, they need go no further than the Daily KOS, the Huffington Post and DU.
Those sites each outnumber Free Republic 10-1 in the number of kooks. DU may outnumber us 100-1.
Oh, wait: those are liberal sites. So I guess they’re just “expressing themselves”.
I tell you, if Hussein occupies the Oval Office, there could be a crackdown on free expression that would make our forefathers shudder.
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I don’t think Obama is Muslim. I think he does not believe in god period.
Just get that impression from him and his ‘clinging to bibles’ thing. Also, Obama’s arguments about scripture sound like atheist talk to me. Just my two cents anyway.
I think he pretty much dislikes christians because he is threatened by us.
Obama is a Muslim? Is that really true. If the Washington Post is reporting that Obama is a Muslim, I guess it's true."
That out to help out those search engines...
Some liberals will admit they want to ‘redistribute global wealth’.
Eventually they will have to answer to the truth: the truth being they want to turn the US into a bananna republic.
They hardly ever say “i wish everyone had the lifestyles we had in the US”. It is always “we need to make ourselves poorer to help”.
That's scary. Still waiting with anticipation for your revelation.
Grampa, any idea what it will be? Indo passport in his name? A photo of him embracing the Indo flag? A school essay titled, "Why I Love Indonesia, and Why America and Kenya Stink"?
I show that as of this post, expatguy’s last post was Sunday, June 29, 2008 9:26:42 PM.
In truth, Obama clings to no religion but himself.
It is absurd to think he could be a Muslim. He believes himself to be the second coming of Christ Messiah and that cannot fit into Islamic theology.
That’s Sunday, June 29, 2008 9:26:42 PM EDT.
Are we sure he was born in HI, maybe he came out of a well in Iran? ;)
Had I not joined FR,
I would not have known how very funny your line is.
A+
I have two times now heard statements like the following....
- “If water rates are priced higher, it will lead to more conservation of water”
- “If the price of oil goes to $5/gallon, people will do more for alternative fuel, or drive less.”
To me, this is the beginning of how the liberals will run the government. Control what we can have, raise the prices on what we have and the government saps the funds from the multitudes bleeding the wealth from the country. This is why the “elites” want control - they want to drain the wealth from America into their own pockets, same as they do in congress.
Let us watch to see if we see more such statements regarding higher prices leading to environmental goals.
Isn’t that the truth.
If he is going to come out and mock obscure scripture he should have the nuts required to go ahead and admit he is not Christian.
Oh but then he might not get a chance at the presidency.
No real christian would go to a church that preaches hate anyway.
The worst part is the overt and actually blatent threat that if you say something negative about Obama, you will be under threat. If you don’t follow our lead, we’re going to personally destroy you is the message the press is putting forth.
Fortunately, since this crazy woman was a staffer at University of Chicago (where my very conservative girlfriend is a graduate of) she’s still listed on the pages of their website. Her e-mail address is actually given as dsallen@ias.edu which is NOT a UofC address, but instead is the internal address that she doesn’t reveal on the IAS website.
Her phone is listed as:
(609) 734-8252 (Voice)
A little more information about our Obamaite:
FIELDS OF EXPERTISE
• Political theory: democratic theory, language and politics, political sociology
• History of political thought: Greek and Roman, early modern, 20th century
• History of democracies; Athenian political and legal history; American political and legal history
• 20th c. American poetry.
EDUCATION
• Ph.D. Harvard University, 2001
• MA. Harvard University, 1998
• Ph.D. King’s College, University of Cambridge, 1996
• M.Phil. King’s College, University of Cambridge, 1994
• A.B. Princeton University (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), 1993
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
• 2007- UPS Foundation Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
• 2007- Visiting Professor and Research Associate, University of Chicago
• 2000- Instructor, Odyssey Project
• 2004-07 Dean, Division of Humanities, University of Chicago.
• 2003-07 Professor, Political Science, Classical Languages and Literatures, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College, University of Chicago
• 2000-03 Associate Professor, Political Science, Classical Languages and Literatures, and the Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
• 1997-2000 Assistant Professor, Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago
So, just in case the libs think they can “expose” us as “those dangerous conservatives”, we can also “expose” them as “liberal whackjobs”.
Paul
Thanks for your research.
Why is anything published, posted, aired or whatever by the liberals is okay?
Yet when we let the world know often via their own documentation, we are the bag guys.
Oh, didn’t ya hear? He bought a newer, larger model...
Yeah, I wondered about that one, too. Last I knew he was a he.
“He has said that he came to Christ as an adult through Pastor Wright, a former muslim.”
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Wright may claim to be a Christian and a “former” Muslim but I suspect that he will in truth become a fomer Muslim one day in the same way that John Dillinger became a former bank robber, that is by cooling to room temperature. Until that day I am convinced he is living a lie that suits his own purpose and possibly his handler’s purpose. “Black Liberation Theology” is not Christianity regardlesss of who says so.
If it walks like a duck . . .
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And it does seem to perambulate in a fashion reminding one of a waddling farmyard Drake, full of his own imagined importance and oblivious to the fact that he exists only to serve the purposes of his owner.
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