Posted on 10/23/2009 11:32:03 AM PDT by kristinn
Two months ago, the blog Jumping in Pools, which has been banned from FR for its chain-yanking postings of bogus news stories, posted a bogus story about Time magazine writer Joe Klein supposedly reporting on Barack Obama's writings at Columbia University about the Constitution.
Apparently without doing any research to see if Klein had actually written such an article, respected sites including American Thinker and Pajamas Media got all excited about the story and reported it today as if it were true.
They apparently hadn't noticed there was no source link at Jumping in Pools back to the supposed Joe Klein article. A search of the web produced no original source. A search of Time magazine for the term "Aristocracy Reborn", the supposed title of Obama's paper, returned this message: "Your search produced no results."
Funny thing though, the Dems and liberal media do this to conservatives all the time.
No one is ever taken to account over it.
Good for you for posting this, Kristinn. The DUmmies and KOS never would have bothered.
The few verified samples of his writing show someone barely coherent. There is a verified essay on the military-political complex that is in the student newspaper (I forget whether it was Occidental or Columbia) that is rambling and barely readable.
Fake, but accurate.
Jumping in Pools is one of the worst blogs for passing along hoaxes. I think they are liberal trolls out to plant these in order to discredit conservatives.
“Obama is a blank slate. We know almost nothing about the man.”
Got it. But we have no reason to fall for BS. It’s a problem with both sides. They’ll believe the most ludicrous crap simply because they WANT to believe it.
I’m pretty sure I’ve heard 0bama himself say something VERY similar to what was “faked”.
Some people are really gullible.
I never source anything from a blog. I always go to original sources, and make sure they are places that at least I won’t be laughed at for trusting.
Rush is talking about it today as if its true.....
An empty vacuum vessel sucks in all around it. Obama is that vessel.
Rush corrected himself.
I was wondering what was up when I searched earlier today and couldn’t find the Time article by Joe Klein, or any mention of the thesis title other than referencing back to the blog.
The moral of this is that until Barry takes his life out of lockdown mode, there will be continual efforts by some to float things like this for whatever reason they might have.
As for Rush "blundering", I doubt that he did (I cannot listen to him because of work policy). Rush is a very smart guy, and most of the time a lefty "nails" Rush on something Rush said or did, it is a libel. Manufactured. Stupid. With Rush having the last - and best - laugh.
No, he just said that he was informed.....
The good thing about FR is that by the time I had concluded my research to see if the Joe Klein piece did or did not exist the mods had pulled a post about it already.
While several news articles have mentioned a thesis in passing no-one has any actual text from it.
It’s pretty amazing how secret the life of Obama is.
We should always go with the original source. There are some blogs that do original reporting that I’ve been able to trust. Jumping in Pools is not one of them.
At the beginning of third hour Rush said it apparently was satire. He said that it is fake but accurate. Isn’t that the standard in the MSM?
That’s why Freepers such as your self make this site what it is. We ask questions and seek answers.
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