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."
Rush was talking about this today on his program. He was reporting it as being right.
Read by Rush, but he did say this might not be accurate
Rush just “corrected” this.
..Rush just said it was satire...
Obama is a blank slate. We know almost nothing about the man.
Fake (maybe), but accurate.
Obama is a blank slate. We know almost nothing about the man.
He came back after initial reading and mentioned it could be false.
Please report what he just said!
The title caused me some skepticism at first. The rest of the article read close enough to the truth to snag me.
Source? Who is taking delight that conservative blogs got it wrong? Just wondering.
Obama is a blank slate. We know almost nothing about the man.
We know the left is going to bait us in hopes of discrediting the entire conservative movement.
We all need to keep our heads screwed on and think before posting.
Rush just quoted you.
Report is a satire. But Rush says that all satire has an element of truth so he accepts this as factual and Obamas beliefs. lol
Call immediately for release of the thesis to clear up any doubts.
See how quickly the subject changes from Rush’s blunder to The One’s lack of transparency.
Might take a few days but the mood of the country at this moment in time may help put the focus back on zer0.
We all need to keep our heads screwed on and think before posting.
Agree. They are looking for any false reporting from Rush, Fox News, FR any conservative outlets.
We all know better:
1-We all know Joe Klein is a liar and trades in bogus stories.
2-We all know there is no evidence of Obama attending Columbia.
3-We all know that all records of any of Obama’s writings have been destroyed.
So, why pretend that ANY of us, fell for any such thing?
Did he give props to FR?
Kristinn rocks!
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.
Yes, he did. But he corrected himself on show detailing that there was no source.
Adam and Jamie need to get on this right away! This is so plausible. Even if it’s a hoax, let’s press it more so they’ll have to release the official paper.
HERE IS OGUMBY HIMSELF ON THE FLAWS OF THE CONSTITUTION AND NEED FOR REDISTRIBUTIVE CHANGE. “CHANGE”. DOES THIS ALL SOUND FAMILIAR?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkpdNtTgQNM&feature=related
What amazes me is that so few seem to care that his life reads like something produced by a Hollywood script writer. I mean the one he “wrote”, Surely the press must know. “Everyone” knew that JFK did not actually write “Profiles in Courage.” Yet the all went along with the gag, because reporters know that so much of what they write is also made up.
Thank you.
BTW, there are nine trackers on that site. Correction, make that ten. They added another one.
But we do have Obama on tape talking about the constitution not going far enough in defining what the federal government must do on your behalf, especially in the area of economic justice and “redistributive” change. Says it can’t be done by the courts but the congress has the power to legislate redistributive economic change, ie, spread the wealth around.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck
Are these among the bloggers that the Obama White House is funding?
What's interesting is that it was plausible because.....
WE STILL DON'T KNOW JACK ABOUT OBAMA'S PAST
The Left is trotting out fabricated quotes for Rush and he is being dinged because he is not personally denying each and every one put in front of him every day.
So the “evidence” is left out there in the MSM for public consumption with the caveat that it is “unsubstantiated” (fake but accurate).
Whereas conservative sites and publications are being led down the primrose path by leftists who’ve again fabricated quotes and this time the the conservative sites and publications are taken to task for not employing due dilligence to verify the evidence before commenting on what is claimed to be a breaking news item with little grounded facts.
Two sets of rules folks. Two sets of rules.
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