Yes, Cokie, I see your point. We private citizens should just sit down and shut up and let the truth telling professionals of the left stream media decide what's fit to print.
By the way, Free Republic is not a newspaper. We did not write the story in question, nor did we "pick it up," or vouch for its accuracy. We are a noncommercial discussion forum open to the general public. Apparently, the story in question was a press release that a member of the general public posted to FR in 1994 for discussion purposes. And it languished in the backwater archives of FR until some dimwitted, but sharp-eyed left stream reporter "discovered" it via google. Doubt it had any influence on the raging Barak Hussein Obama was born a Muslim rumor whatsoever.
However, as it turns out, our young Barak Hussein really was born to a Muslim and raised in his early years as a Muslim. It's in all the papers. Must be true.
I do realize that Obama’s praise, mentorship and ogoing relationship with Bill Ayers would have been the top story on CBS news at 6.
I’m sure Reverend Jeremiah Wright sermons would have been Brian Williams’ lead story on NBC News.
ACORN would be another top story for Keith Olbermann.
I’m sure Rezko would be investigated on PBS, in fact Charlie Rose and Bill Moyers would tag team him on his involvment with the shady bank and even more shady property purchases for Obama.
I am also sure Chris Matthews would be knocking on doors, Dateline-style, to find out about Odinga and his fundraising and visit from Obama.
The Media is a front for the DNC, I am unsure why a GE-owned enterprise would allow the Leftist NBC(s) to run wild for Marxism, but that is something probably discussed at Bohemian Grove.
Hey, Cokie... maybe you can help me. I heard a rumor that your brother works at a firm that does PR work for Saudi Arabia. Can you clarify that?
We'll be needing a detailed definition here Kookie. I'm still confused about the differences between a reporter and a jpurnalist. And why are all reports called "stories". When I was a kid, my dad told me not to tell stories except around the campfire.
I find it remarkable that Cokie was moved to directly attribute the “Obama is an Arab” rumor to us, but she could not find the courage to attribute the “the Gov is not Trig’s mother” rumor to the DailyKos, where, according to O’Reilly, a reporter meeting Cokie’s standards, it originated and was deliberately proliferated.
Back around the mid-late 90s, I was watching one of those sunday morning programs. I think it was on CBS, and during their round table discussion, one of the so called journalists brought up a mention of people getting their news off of the internet. At which point they all broke down in derisive laughter.
I'll bet they arent laughing now.
Jim:
I sent the Roberts an email specifically noting that the alternate media would not exist if the primary media would fill-in the gaps of its reporting.
I provided the example that the NY Times sent reporters to find Gov George W Bush’s drug dealer but has expended no such resources on Sen Obama’s self-professed drug habit.
I also asked rhetorically if the average citizen could clearly explain Sen Obama’s pedigree. Most explanations from the primary media contradict each other with regard to Sen Obama’s heritage.
I think more Freepers need to confront these reporters directly with the facts. It has been Freepers that find the gaps and contradictions in the media’s reporting on certain issues. It is not wrong for us to ask questions.
What BS!
The MSM currently involves itself in enough rumor and innuendo to make the internet gossip mills irrelevant. How many “questions start with “Some say...” or, “The rumor is...” How many articles are based purely on speculation? Look in the mirror!
the term “professional journalist” in 2008 is a total oxymoron.
After telling all of us for years how they have “no bias” they completely blew their cover in the past 2 years fawning over a Muslim socialist.
Only the weatherman holds any integrity any more.
Oh well, they are all tree huggers, so perhaps dropping the use of newsprint and magazine paper for the internet is what they really want deep down inside??
Cokie who?
The "he's an Arab" smear reached so widely that the New York Times devoted a front-page story to its origins.
Notice they fail to mention who is an "Arab"..
It defends the concept of "professional journalists" as if they are not propaganda-spewing leftists.
One newspaper editor made a speech the other day and proclaimed it was his newspaper's duty to get Obama elected.
That's "professional journalism" in late 2008.
Thank God for the Internet and talk radio.
Cokie was the one who said on ABC, “based on the tourists I see, there is a definite mirror shortage in America”. How dare average citizens dress comfortably to view Cokie’s town?
Blighted elite bitch.
Pinging the Dinosaur Media DeathWatch list. Y’all need to see this one.
There is no dark side of "Freedom of Speech".
Just feed her whatever she wants to know. She'll do whatever you want in return.