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White House rips Forbes article
Washington Post ^ | 09/16/10 | Howard Kurtz

Posted on 09/16/2010 11:13:52 AM PDT by DFG

Dinesh D'Souza has drawn a torrent of criticism with a Forbes cover story that accuses President Obama of adopting "the cause of anti-colonialism" from his Kenyan father.

But while most detractors focus on the author--and Newt Gingrich, who embraced the critique--the White House is aiming its ammunition at the business magazine.

"It's a stunning thing, to see a publication you would see in a dentist's office, so lacking in truth and fact," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says in an interview. "I think it represents a new low."

(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africancolonialism; dinesh; dsouza; forbes; freedomofpress; freespeech; obama
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To: DFG
The Truth: Leaving a Mark Since Eden.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

61 posted on 09/16/2010 12:34:18 PM PDT by The Comedian
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To: DFG

Where there is smoke, there is fire! Forbes has gotten very close to the fire and the WH doesn’t want anyone to find this out.

This needs to shouted from the rooftops!


62 posted on 09/16/2010 12:35:48 PM PDT by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
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To: IbJensen

Don’t rightly know. I just swiped the photoshopped pic from somebody else and added the bust of Churchill.


63 posted on 09/16/2010 12:41:04 PM PDT by badgerlandjim (Hillary Clinton is to politics as Helen Thomas is to beauty.)
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To: DFG

I enjoey the liberal fascist FREAK show.

Winston Churchill pioneered themethods o f fighting fascism, into 3 categories:

1) Truth
2) Exposure
3) Ridicule.

Its good to see that Churchill’s method still works.

I want to see a lot more of these responses from Obama as people begin to understand how to combat liberal fascism.


65 posted on 09/16/2010 12:51:54 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: SteveH

I love it when a plan comes together.


66 posted on 09/16/2010 12:58:57 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: truthandlife; DFG
Freepers were right on the mark a long time ago:

Obama, the African Colonial
June 25, 2009 | L.E. Ikenga

67 posted on 09/16/2010 1:07:19 PM PDT by Natural Born 54 (FUBO x 10)
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To: circlecity

That’s the trouble. Obama’s whole life is a “fiction”


68 posted on 09/16/2010 1:11:40 PM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: DFG
It's amazing to me that the WH continually responds to these things.

It's like they're out in a cow pasture, actually looking for piles to stomp in...

69 posted on 09/16/2010 1:15:14 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: LucyT; STARWISE; maggief; onyx; penelopesire
How stupid can the WH be? THey should have just ignored the article. By complaining they have brought even greater attention to the entire premise...And since it quotes his book, it makes them look even more like AMATEURS!
70 posted on 09/16/2010 1:17:34 PM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: hoosiermama

Me thinks these clowns are WAY off message.

Wasn’t 0 going to devote 24/7 to the economy? Meanwhile (Recovery-Summer-bite-me) Biden is off to Delaware for Coons.

Desperate.


71 posted on 09/16/2010 1:24:19 PM PDT by maggief
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To: DFG
Reference to the article ran in the Daily Mail UK today. Beck covered this yesterday on his radio show. It has hit a nerve because it helps explain many policy decisions that are not good for the US
72 posted on 09/16/2010 1:24:45 PM PDT by opentalk
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To: hoosiermama; maggief; STARWISE; LucyT; penelopesire

Forbes is in print, unlike American Thinker, where Jack Cashill’s series went into detail about the very same.


73 posted on 09/16/2010 1:25:58 PM PDT by onyx (If you support Sarah and want on her Ping List, let me know!)
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To: DFG
I read the aforementioned article, titled How Obama Thinks and...

"Gibbs is meeting with Thursday afternoon with Forbes's Washington bureau chief, Brian Wingfield, to discuss his objections. "Did they not fact-check this at all, or did they fact-check it and just willfully ignore it?" he asks.

Someone alert Gibbs that most of the contents of the article were taken from Obama's book (s) Dreams of My communist Father.

74 posted on 09/16/2010 1:35:11 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: circlecity

BINGO! I just posted this very thought.


75 posted on 09/16/2010 1:36:15 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: hoosiermama; maggief; STARWISE; onyx

LOL..Did anyone else catch this bit:

“D’Souza acknowledges one error. He wrote that Obama “is a man who spent his formative years—the first 17 years of his life—off the American mainland, in Hawaii, Indonesia and Pakistan, with multiple subsequent journeys to Africa.” Obama visited Pakistan once, as a college student, when he was older than 17. (Hawaii, of course, may be off the American mainland, but it is hardly out of the American mainstream.)”

Funny..they don’t mention the Indonesia ‘timeline’. ????


76 posted on 09/16/2010 1:44:07 PM PDT by penelopesire (NEVER FORGET!! 'You are either with us or you are with the terrorists')
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To: LucyT

FYI

Leonard Daneman’s blog

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2590529/posts


77 posted on 09/16/2010 1:46:51 PM PDT by rosettasister
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To: circlecity
Lacking in truth and fact? Every point made in the article was lifted verbatium from Obama's "autobiography".

"Let me be clear, these are nothing but Lies, and I condemn anyone who repeats them".

But Mr. Totus, 'twas you yourself and your twin tele's that spread the very words that find you twixed and 'tween them.

"It's that cheap ass prompter on the right that did it, not me, couldn't be, it was Bush, that's who it be".

78 posted on 09/16/2010 1:48:41 PM PDT by 4woodenboats (Defend America peacefully, vigorously, and swiftly against all enemies before she becomes a memory)
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To: LucyT

Thanks for the PING Lucy, the Forbes Article is thorough, and VERY WELL researched.

It should be read by all patriots.Its really, really good.

We have them on the run.


79 posted on 09/16/2010 2:03:43 PM PDT by Candor7 (Obama . fascist info..http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: onyx; Fred Nerks

ANd Fred Nerks of Fr has been connecting mega material on the same American Thinker since they ran the original (over 700 research posts)....Forbes and AMerican Thinker have a way to go to catch up to Fred.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278969/posts


80 posted on 09/16/2010 2:12:35 PM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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