If we are lucky we all have our own old and abiding family political discord. Personally, I think it’s what makes Christmas dinner worth the fuss. I wrote the following in response to an email I received stemming from my own old and abiding family political discord. We’re all always trying to one up each other. I don't intend to make a habit of responding nor posting my responses to bullshit right wing propaganda. First, I think it's generally unhelpful to engage the fringe because that’s what they eat, and second it's usually not very interesting. Sometimes though it seems one is unable to help oneself, and this I thought bore at the very least some entertainment value.
This is the return volley to a shot came in the form of two attached articles one purportedly by Maureen Dowd and one by Kenneth R. Timmerman which break the "news" that the Obama campaign has received innumerable campaign contributions from Saudi Arabia, Iran and North Korea. Now don't laugh it hasn't even started yet.
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These articles about Barack Obama's fundraising are not true. To find out why please see the following:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/donations.asp
The first clue is the by line. I like Maureen Dowd quite a bit but idea that she'd write an article this critical of Obama does indeed give one pause. She may be a journalist in that she's published in newspapers, but she's a journalist more akin to the Fox News variety and not the Bill Moyers variety and, well, she just swings the other way.
That said, she can be a mighty entertaining source as evidenced by the following link where she reprints a piece written by Aaron Sorkin a few weeks ago. This, like the pieces about Iran funding the Obama campaign, is also a work of fiction, though in my opinion it has a better arc and payoff at the end, especially if you're a big West Wing fan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/opinion/21dowd-sorkin.html
The article by Kenneth R. Timmerman has, so far as I can tell, been published and reprinted on a number of right-wing blogs and comments pages, but not a single reputable news organization seems to have carried it. Being myself not an investigative journalist I can only suppose why that might be.
A brief peruse through the internets reveals Kenneth R. Timmerman, fair and balanced journalist and author of such fare as "The French Betrayal of America", "Countdown to Crisis: the Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran" and "Shadow Warriors: The Untold Story of Traitors, Saboteurs, and the Party of Surrender". However, we all remember him from his big hit, written coincidentally 7 years ago today on October 15th, 2002: "How Saddam got weapons of mass destruction: Saddam Hussein's war machine is being built systematically to strike at the U.S. with new nuclear, biological and chemical weapons designed to kill millions". So, at the very least we can all thank him for that.
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Incidentally, even if this were true, if really the worst we can say about Obama is that his campaign staffers have been the unwitting victims of internet hackers, well, he's connecting with the common man there. I been in that boat man, I can tell you! But again, it isn't true, is it.
http://fightthesmears.com/
1 comment:
lol awesome.
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