Barbra Streisand's latest Truth Alert (Snort!!)

Barbra Streisand website ^ | 11/6/02 | Barbra Streisand

[I_Love_My_Husband]

f...sometime within the last 7 days a falsehood has been written in print, spoken on radio, or aired on television about Ms. Streisand...the TRUTH ALERT will contain a statement made by Ms. Streisand and/or her representatives to correct that falsehood. Current falsehood corrections will appear in the section called "Truth Alert." After one week all "Truth Alerts" will be transferred to the Truth Archive. A daily visit to both will keep you up-to-date with these additions.

TRUTH ALERT: Question: If the NY Post does not know that Richard Gephardt is House Minority Leader and that he is not a Senator, how do they know what Barbra Streisand thinks and what she is doing?

Answer: They DON'T! It seems from a flurry of fabricated stories about Barbra Streisand in the conservative New York Post that this publication feels that freedom of the press only applies to those who own the presses. This concerns the latest in a series of defamations.

THE LIES: On the final day of election campaigning (Nov. 4, 2002) The New York Post created one more viciously false story to try to malign Barbra Streisand's support of Democratic candidates and Democratic issues. Richard Johnson, in his Page Six column, headlined a ludicrous concoction that must have defied even his credulity-or, certainly, that of his readers. The story asserted that Barbra Streisand had advanced a "paranoid conspiracy theory" in respect to the tragic air crash that took the lives of Paul Wellstone and seven others. Nothing could be further from the truth, but Johnson went on to offer the similarly ridiculous lie that Ms. Streisand had presented this idea in a letter to "an audience of interior designers bidding on a chance to decorate" her new addition. Page Six further asserts that she told them they had to concur with her political beliefs.

THE TRUTH:

Ms. Streisand never advanced "a paranoid conspiracy theory" in any letter (there is none) to 5 candidates bidding for a job to decorate her home since she is her own decorator. The Page Six story was yet another Post article attempting to discredit this vocal Democrat with baseless charges.

Now, let's consider the amazing irony of the November 4 story in which the New York Post identified House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt as "SEN. Dick Gephardt"... it established a new context for the Post's repeated castigations of Ms. Streisand for a misspelling of Gephardt's name (this was in a memo DICTATED BUT NOT READ BY HER). Presumably it was Mr. Johnson or one of his two credited co-writers who wrote "Sen. Dick Gephardt." It was published, unchallenged, after inspection by highly paid and knowledgeable New York Post editors. It is significant only because Mr. Johnson holds others, very belligerently, to standards with which he himself cannot comply.

Of course he erred. Why? Not because he is stupid, but because he is human. It is why even so prestigious a paper as The New York Times has a corrections column every day.

But while inadvertent errors are human and should be accepted as such and not ridiculed, the writers of calculated falsehoods designed to detract from intended content and aimed only to shame and defame people, should accept their responsibility and be held accountable.

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[Numbers Guy]

If I had a Page Six type column I'd continue to make very minor unflattering references to Babs just to see what sort of idiotic rants she'd post on her website in response. I've seen thin-skinned before, but she takes the cake.

[coramdeo]

I realize Bab's writing style does not lend itself to clear comprehension, but it seems to me that she does not deny that she believes in a Wellstone's death conspiracy theory. It seems the main point of contention is that she put it in a letter (as I read it, what really teed her off was the idea that she would need an interior designer "since she is her own decorator").

[Always Right]

The story asserted that Barbra Streisand had advanced a "paranoid conspiracy theory" in respect to the tragic air crash that took the lives of Paul Wellstone and seven others. Nothing could be further from the truth, but Johnson went on to offer the similarly ridiculous lie that Ms. Streisand had presented this idea in a letter to "an audience of interior designers bidding on a chance to decorate" her new addition.

I can see why Babs was so angry. They were plastic surgeons not interior designers.

[Bigg Red]

Who's Barbra Streisand?

[Darth Reagan]

And it wasn't a "paranoid conspiracy theory" to cross-eyed Babs, but a sensible axiom.

Another example of what P.J. O'Rourke has termed "the idiot famous".

[Seruzawa]

.....The New York Post created one more viciously false story....

That's pretty funny coming from a vicious mean-spirited trollop.

[onedoug]

Longform for pure BS.

[Doctor Freeze]

Barbra's been a little quiet lately. Maybe she's shell-shocked. Maybe she moved to another country? Let's hope. I wish I could have seen the reaction on her face when she heard, "GOP retains House, takes Senate: Bush has ability to do whatever he damn well pleases." Hahaha!

[HamiltonJay]

BABS, YOU ARE *&#$ING ENTERTAINER... YOUR OPPINIONS ON POLITICS AND FOREIGN POLICY MEAN NOTHING!!! YOU BLOWHARD NUTBALL! Now go see if Traitor Jane will let you borrow her orgasmatron, you loopy leftist.

[Steve Van Doorn]

”Who's Barbara Streisand?”

I am not sure but whoever it is titles their headlines ‘Lies’ then says, ‘Of course he erred. Why? …. Because he is human.’

So who ever Barbara Streisand is she thinks a Lie is human error and obviously not very bright.

[ozzymandus]

Anna Nicole Smith is more entertaining than Babs, and at least as intelligent.

[dinasour]

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[RooRoobird14]

Heh, heh, heh---what I love about the NYPost stories is how much they're infuriating Babs The AntEater Face.