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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

Hooboy. Somebody must have explained some of the big words to Gibbsie. Watching him in a press conference on a topic like this is like watching a 4-year-old try to bench press 300 lbs.


41 posted on 09/16/2010 11:50:12 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: OB1kNOb

I LOVE D’Souza! He just lets fly, generally with unassailable logic based on undeniable fact.

Colonel, USAFR


42 posted on 09/16/2010 11:54:37 AM PDT by jagusafr ("We hold these truths to be self-evident...")
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To: DFG

Please, please continue your attacks, Herr Gibbs.

It only brings the article to the attention of those who may not have heard of it yet, and wonder what all the fuss is about.


43 posted on 09/16/2010 11:56:14 AM PDT by mojito
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To: DFG

“Liberals sure are thin skinned.”

It’s actually very easy to push their buttons, but then the commies and the state run media goes into their politics of personal destruction mode.


44 posted on 09/16/2010 11:56:34 AM PDT by Canedawg (...still not digging this tyranny thing.)
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To: libstripper

Well, Bobby, all you need to do is prove it.

I would pay good money and parking to see Gibbs and D’Souza in a debate. If there was a good cabernet to go along with it.

Colonel, USAFR


45 posted on 09/16/2010 11:56:50 AM PDT by jagusafr ("We hold these truths to be self-evident...")
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To: libstripper

I am trying to decide whether your vivid writing gets an A+ or and F-


46 posted on 09/16/2010 11:57:17 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: DFG

The truth hurts.....


47 posted on 09/16/2010 12:00:37 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Paladin2

It did!....It’s a great article!


48 posted on 09/16/2010 12:01:26 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: DFG

The Obama mentality and philosophy that was truthfully exposed in the article is not limited to Barack Obama.

It is reflected in the main stream media, the American academy and currently being indoctrinated into our public school system.

Conservatives really need to get that this neo-Marxist, anti-capitalist, America hating philosophy is the basis of all liberal intellectual thought.

If Barack Obama disappeared from the face of the planet tomorrow, every White liberal in America would carry on the cause, preach it in every public school and university in America.

Liberals don’t believe in the cultural, legal, social legitimacy of the United States.

This is why they support the illegals and their criminality, why they support the redistribution of wealth, why they support affirmative action and racial quotas, why they support a defeatist foreign policy and a supplication to our enemies and think every ill in the world is a direct result of US imperialism and our military.


49 posted on 09/16/2010 12:01:34 PM PDT by radpolis
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To: pingman
Calling on the Queen...


50 posted on 09/16/2010 12:04:24 PM PDT by badgerlandjim (Hillary Clinton is to politics as Helen Thomas is to beauty.)
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To: radpolis

And that’s why November is so important! Start the flushing process from all aspects of our society. They must go! They are poison for the founding principles of this country!


51 posted on 09/16/2010 12:04:51 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Paladin2

I read both the article and Jack Cashill’s deconstruction. They both help define the situation.


52 posted on 09/16/2010 12:05:17 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: circlecity

“Every point made in the article was lifted verbatium from Obama’s “autobiography”.”

Reading between the lines, I believe Gibbs was asserting that Obama’s “autobiography” was packed full of lies and that D’Souza should have carefully fact-checked every point he pulled from it. By extrapolation, much of what POTUS says is packed full of lies and it is our responsibility as citizens to carefully fact check everything he says rather than taking it at face value. Perhaps Gibbs has figured out where the chips are going to fall and is signaling his willingness to flip sides!


53 posted on 09/16/2010 12:06:31 PM PDT by DrC
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To: AndyJackson

And I did it all without profanity in complete accordance with the rules and in perfect, formal English. So much more fun than using profanity.


54 posted on 09/16/2010 12:07:57 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: DrC

This was a great article and should be reposted every few days for those who missed it.


55 posted on 09/16/2010 12:08:12 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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56 posted on 09/16/2010 12:09:02 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

That’s what I love about Gibbs getting hot and bothered by it. Now it will be read by millions more than would otherwise even become aware of its existence.


57 posted on 09/16/2010 12:17:49 PM PDT by DrC
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To: DFG
The Columbia Journalism Review this week called the D'Souza article "a fact-twisting, error-laden piece of paranoia" and "the worst kind of smear journalism -- a singularly disgusting work."

It must be deafening, the sound of all those heads exploding inside the collectivist echo-chamber!

58 posted on 09/16/2010 12:18:20 PM PDT by Ozone34 ("There are only two philosophies: Thomism and bullshitism!" -Leon Bloy)
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To: DuncanWaring
When someone else writes your autobiography sometimes it's hard to remember what you said in it.

Keyboard spew alert :-)

59 posted on 09/16/2010 12:22:29 PM PDT by SteveH (First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.)
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To: badgerlandjim

Wonder whose breasts those are?


60 posted on 09/16/2010 12:33:46 PM PDT by IbJensen (Our government is a disease masquerading as its own cure.)
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