This incident is interesting. I came across these quotes posted a month ago on youtube. I’m not endorsing them nor do I necessarily believe them.
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Amir Taheri is the same guy who claimed Irans parliament had passed sumptuary laws for religious minorities, which ended up being fake. Not only did the law not exist but it wasnt even discussed in Parliament as the associated press showed. The National Post had to retracted the story and apologize for not checking to see if the story was true.
Taheri on the other hand still maintains that the law was passed, which shows his poor journalistic skills.
San Francisco state university also documented faked stories that Taheri authored to make himself appear like he had inside knowledge.
Historian Shaul Bakhash of George Mason University has accused Amir Taheri of concocting nonexistent conpiracies in his writings and “repeatedly refers us to books where the information he cites simply does not exist. Often the documents cannot be found in the volumes to which he attributes them.... “
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I think there is a lot of rhetoric thrown out during the election time that needs scrutiny before its pushed forward as fact. Again, no BHO fan here.
Like I said, even if he is dubious...
All he is doing is drawing attention to words uttered by The One himself. He’s merely taking a large highlighting pen and screaming to us “did ya’ll see this several months ago?!”
I read Taheri frequently. I find him accurate and with insight.
If you read THE ARTICLE THAT I POSTED you will see that he specifically states that these are factual statements made by others and he documents them.
I’m not sure why you posted criticsms of the man instead of commenting on the criticsms of Obama.
You list San Francisco State U. and The National Post> I thought he wrote for the The Daily Post.
The Obama camp admitted he said this and gave the reasons:
There were more people in the room and the press in Iraq were picking up on it. If you read the other threads on this, you would see where this has been confirmed.