WaPo After Free Republic Again, Now Over Barack-is-a-Muslim Email

Newsbusters.org ^ | 6/28/08 | Warner Todd Huston

[Mobile Vulgus]

The Washington Post published a June 28th piece geared to protect Barack Obama from the nagging rumors that he is a secret Muslim, rumors that have been circulating since 2004. The Post's Matthew Mosk penned an attack on Free Republic, based on an Obama flak who claims she has somehow discovered that Freepers are to blame, if not initially responsible, for floating the Barack-is-a-Muslim chain email that so many millions of Americans have found in their email boxes over the last four years. But, the Washington Post's article is so filled with assumptions and a singular desire not to really investigate the matter that it boggles the mind. Naturally, all the journalistic missteps serve to shield Barack Obama from any controversy and make all opposition seem nefarious or unhinged.

The Obama flak in question is one Danielle Allen of the Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton. Mosk wishes to assure us that she is one smart cookie, apparently. To settle any question to the contrary, we are treated to some earnest, if over-the-top, adulation for good Doctor Allen. Allen is called a "razor-sharp, 36-year-old political theorist," that she's "gained valuable insight into the way political information circulates," and that she works at the institute "most famous for having been the research home of Albert Einstein." Mosk tells us that Allen "boasts two doctorates, one in classics from Cambridge University and the other in government from Harvard University." The Post tells us that one winter morning Allen was "studying in her office at the Institute for Advanced Study, the renowned haven for some of the nation's most brilliant minds." Mosk also tells us that Allen "works alongside groundbreaking physicists, mathematicians and social scientists. They don't have to teach, and they face no quotas on what they publish. Their only mandate is to work in the tradition of Einstein, wrestling with the most vexing problems in the universe."

Jeeze, next Mosk will be telling us that Danielle Allen is the virtual reincarnation of Einstein himself!

Byron York saw how silly all this puffery was, too. Over at NRO's Corner Blog, York takes a jab at those vaunted “vexing problems in the universe” and succinctly sums up the big nothing that is the real underlying conclusion of the Washington Post's extensive four-page story.

And one of the most vexing problems in the universe, which Allen has decided to pursue in the tradition of Einstein, is the origin of a number of e-mails claiming that Barack Obama is a Muslim. Using the advanced research tools at her disposal, the razor-sharp Allen found…a couple of posters on the Free Republic website, plus a former political rival of Obama's who sends out zillions of e-mails to reporters every day.

The piece goes on and on in grave tones about the chain email that seems to have first surfaced sometime in 2004. Allen "obsessively" worries about such things as chain emails we come to discover. Allen tells the Post, "I started thinking, 'How does one stop it?'" She then informs Mosk that the whole mysterious, shadowy email has a nefarious and unidentified genesis. Mosk assures us that this email is the "modern version of a whisper campaign," and worries about the "secret identities" of the Freepers that Allen reveals to him.

We are dealt the conclusion that all this email and Freeper stuff is… well, dontcha know it's scary, kids? I wondered if Mosk wanted his Mommy to keep the nasty Freepers away from him by the end of this curious piece?

So, what about this email saying that Obama is a secret Muslim? Where did it come from? Matthew Mosk doesn't know and neither does his main source, the brilliant Doctor Allen. But they are both sure it has something to do with the website Free Republic. Or maybe a perennial candidate from Illinois named Andy Martin... or a guy in Philadelphia who operates a website and posts on Free Republic... or maybe not. But whatever the case, Matthew Mosk of the Washington Post just took the word of open Obama supporter Danielle Allen as gospel, assuming that her "research" was indisputable.

Allen began her "investigation" by using key phrases that appears in the email and Googling them to see where else they appear. As a result, she found Andy Martin of Illinois.

Back in 2004 in Obama's hometown, Chicago, a fellow named Andy Martin was attempting to launch his own attempt to become Obama's opponent for the Senate. Martin is a political gadfly and perpetual candidate in Illinois who has never been elected to much of anything, the sort of guy who has been hanging on the fringes for decades without ever getting much traction. To be sure, he was an actual candidate in the last primary to determine who will be the poor GOP sacrificial lamb to face Dick Durbin in the coming general election, so he did get on a ballot for a change. One thing is for sure, that Martin is tenacious and knows how to publicize himself is beyond doubt.

In the run up to the 2004 election, Martin admitted to the Post's Mosk that he had circulated the claim that since Obama was born to a Muslim Father, Barack himself would be considered a Muslim by birth to any other Muslim. Martin also pointed out that the Obama campaign then, as now, rejects any claims that Barack is now or ever has been a Muslim. Martin was quite upfront that he believes that Obama is not being truthful over the whole Muslim question.

But, it is also completely obvious that Martin did not write the original email nor that he is a member of a secret anti-Obama conspiracy. Martin’s activities are well known to many and are completely out in the open.

On top of all that, there is no indication that Doctor Allen ever contacted Andy Martin during her "investigation."

See the rest at NewsBusters.org...

[Brad’s Gramma]

placemark

[libh8er]

ROFL !

[RasterMaster]

A half brother is not a “brother”??? How DUmmy-esque of you. Even if he didn’t want to claim him, it’s not a youngster who appears in the photo so they’ve know of each other long enough to distance himself from radicals within his own family.

“Second, he did not say Obama was ever a Muslim.”

Nice try, but that crap also plays better in DUmmy-land. The article posted mentions that he was raised as a muslim in the headline. Only Osama Obama’s supporters continue to claim otherwise.

You’re playing exactly into what the DUmocrats want...tie our hands and allow their new messiah to walk to the presidency without his lies being exposed. I’m sure Obama’s campaign appreciates you very much.

When Obama lies about the little things he doesn’t have to, everything else he says cannot be trusted. Not only is his religion in question (which it is), every thing Osama Obama says should be in question.

According to those who live by islamic law, “once a muslim ALWAYS a muslim”...it is forbidden to convert to other faiths.

http://egyptianobserver.blogspot.com/2006/03/once-muslim-always-muslim.html

He’s admitted to attending an islamic school even after he’d previously lied by claiming he was never a muslim. He has claimed that he’s “always been a Christian”...which his own campaign now admits is not true.

He attended an anti-american/pro islamic church, then lied about his affiliation with Rev. Wright and support for the radical ideas espoused by the “church”.

His own birth is a matter which he has yet to clear up. Osama Obama says he was born in Hawaii, but that’s currently being exposed as a forgery...right here on FR!

There’s also his hertiage which is questionable. If he’s a Kenyan or Indonesian citizen, that would disqualify him for Senate as well as President. If his parents were radical communists, radical muslims or participated in anti-American activities, that is something that should be exposed. It shows how he was raised and since Osama HUSSEIN Obama has been exposed for having ties to terrorist groups.

Even simple stuff eludes him, but he can’t always blame someone else for his own gaffes. He’s claimed that his uncle liberated a Nazi death camp (which was actually liberated by the communist Russians), then admitted he was “mistaken” (a lie).

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/05/the-nazi-death.html

http://frum.nationalreview.com/post/?q=M2FkNjRiOGMwY2I3OTc1ZThkY2E2MmEzYmUxNzdhY2Q=

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=57341

http://www.commonvoice.com/article.asp?colid=6578

http://www.freedomsenemies.com/_Obama/ObamaLies.htm

http://www.freedomsenemies.com/_Obama/ObamaAfrica.htm

He blames a renegade “staffer” for his own views which were recorded (in his own handwriting) on a candidate survey. Everything is off limits to those who are soft on LIEberals.

You may want to drink the Daily KOS Kool-Aid to cover Obama’s backside, but don’t pass around the pitcher here. The fact that he has lied about any of those is more than enough to disqualify him from holding ANY office.

It’s brain-dead DUmb a$$es from the JACKASS party who claim his birth, heritage, citizenship, and continual lies about his past are ‘off limits’.

http://www.freedomsenemies.com/_images/ObamaAsMuslimSource.jpg

[libh8er]

Very very good points. I think this has the potential to blow up as big as RatherGate, which by the way also started here. Proud of my fellow FReepers !

[B-Cause]

What are the reverse purple lettering past the last entry line on the lower middle right? What do they mean, and why are they there?

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Good questions G'pa Dave - I zoomed in on them, mirrored the zoomed image, and below are the results:


Zoomed & mirrored in color


Zoomed, mirrored & converted to black & white


Zoomed, mirrored, black & white reversed

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Looks to me as though it says "JUN -6 2007" - what do you see??

[CatDancer]

That top picture (B. Hussein O. in Muslim garb) should be posted as much as possible. I’ve seen it many times, but just noticed: He is bare or sock footed and his pants are way too long. Does he wear elevator shoes to appear taller, I wonder? It would fit, being the fake he is.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

PING!

[Cacique]

btt

[Ulysse]

What?Do liberals have a problem with muslims?
I was told by liberals’ MSM that liberals were so tolerants and that they obviously loved muslims and that they would have no problem with a muslim USA...
So what’s their problem????

BTW OBAMA stated,if i don’t mistake myself,that he wanted a kind and friendly approach with iranian antisemitic who support islamo-terrorism...

[Ulysse]

Barrack Hussein had a muslim father(who converted to islam!That’s worth for me)and a muslim step-father who sent him to a madrassa in Indonesia.....

[libh8er]

Does he wear elevator shoes to appear taller, I wonder

At 6'1", I doubt he needs to.

[bcsco]

However, both papers are printed on a form that says in the lower left corner OHSM 1.1 (Rev 11/01) LASER

Uh, huh. But in the lower-right corner on both forms it says "[HRS 338-13(b), 33-19]". That's the same form number on both forms.

I was in the business form industry for over 30 years. When a form is changed its form number either changes to reflect revisions, or its revision date is changed; or both. So why would two forms, both showing a revision date of 11/01, with the same form number, have two different headings for the date it was filed/accepted by the Registrar? That heading change would indicate a change that should be reflected in a form number and/or revision date change. Both are absent here.

Both of these papers were printed in the Hawaii Vital Records Office after November 2001 as the result of a request for a birth certificate.

Are you still sure?

[RasterMaster]

Try reading Osama HUSSEIN Obama's own words then....

“I was a little Jakarta street kid,” he said in a wide-ranging interview in his office (excerpts are on my blog, www.nytimes.com/ontheground). He once got in trouble for making faces during Koran study classes in his elementary school, but a president is less likely to stereotype Muslims as fanatics — and more likely to be aware of their nationalism — if he once studied the Koran with them.

Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”

http://nevadathunder.com/?p=3626

[XR7]

So, anybody seen this?

Eyeblast TV
A Video Potrait of Barak Hussein Obama
http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?RsrcID=2036

[maica]

Are you still sure?

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I am not sure of anything. I just pointed out some details that I noticed, and made some suppositions. I have been doing genealogy research for about thirty years, and have seen many different forms of birth certificate and records that signify a birth certificate exists.

[txhurl]

Good gravy, man, is that some sort of filibuster? :)

[elfman2]

I skimmed the first sentence of that crap. You’re a kook, a drag here and not worth my time. Get lost.

[Gondring]

Let’s say I have 8 dollars in my pocket. I find 5 more dollars, giving me 13 dollars. The increase is 5 dollars. Using the “math” employed here I’ve just increased my money by approximately 62 percent. However, how much have I increased my buying potential? Not by much.

Yeah, only 62%.

[TAdams8591]

The slogan of the first Clinton campaign was also "change." It was a mystery to me then and now how people can vote for change that is undefined.

I do get a kick out of knowing that the Clinton's were defeated with one of the same slogans they used to defeat President Bush.

[TAdams8591]

Most of the stuff about Obama you wish to highlight is NEVER going to resonate with most of the American people. It will bounce off him the way scandal bounced off Bill Clinton.

If you want to defeat Obama stay away from the personal stuff and stick with the issues. For instance since Obama seems unconcerned about higher gas prices and their effect on the average American, exploit the current high gas prices and hit him with it hard. That's an issue that will resonate with the American people, I assure you.