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HipChick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-23-09 10:32 PM
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Fox does not check fact the News: - Obama's Fake Thesis leak..
Edited on Fri Oct-23-09 10:33 PM by HipChick

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/23/fake-obama-thesis-story-g_n_332255.html

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2009/10/23/obama_thesis/index.html

On Friday, it seemed for a moment -- at least to Rush Limbaugh's listeners -- that the right had finally found the smoking gun to prove that President Obama secretly hates the U.S., its founders and even the Constitution.

Limbaugh read his radio audience an excerpt from what he said was Obama's senior thesis, which he wrote while at Columbia University. After more than a year shrouded in secrecy by the Obama campaign and a compliant media, the thesis had finally emerged, and it was even worse than some had feared.

The excerpt read by Limbaugh:

he Constitution allows for many things, but what it does not allow is the most revealing. The so-called Founders did not allow for economic freedom. While political freedom is supposedly a cornerstone of the document, the distribution of wealth is not even mentioned. While many believed that the new Constitution gave them liberty, it instead fitted them with the shackles of hypocrisy.

Limbaugh was, naturally, up in arms about this, calling the college-aged Obama a "little boy," and saying, "he still shares those same feelings."

Only not so much. As a bit of basic research would have shown Limbaugh, Obama didn't technically write a thesis at Columbia -- at the time, Columbia didn't really have senior theses -- though he did write a thesis-length paper. But it was on Soviet nuclear disarmament, not the Constitution.

Limbaugh and many others -- including Fox News' FoxNation.com -- fell for a hoax, believing that a post put up by a conservative blogger in August as satire was the truth. Apparently, Pajamas Media's Michael Ledeen was the conduit, as he dug it up and posted it earlier this week, apparently believing it to be true. (Not the first time Ledeen and Pajamas Media have been embarrassed by something he posted -- back in January of 2007, he reported that Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had died. Khamenei remains alive to this day.) Again, a bit of basic research would have prevented all this, as this isn't the first time conservatives have treated this particular blogger's satire as if it were true.

Limbaugh noted later on in his show that it seemed the excerpts were fake, though he said he didn't care, both because of a series of quotes falsely attributed to him recently and because, "I know Obama thinks it."

Update: Ledeen has put up a post noting that the excerpt is a fake, and that he fell for a satire.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-23-09 10:34 PM
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1. Wingnuts don't know the truth
They lie so much they can't tell truth from fiction.
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rhett o rick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-23-09 11:07 PM
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8. They dont care about the truth. They only care about their causes. The ends justifies the means. nt
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Drunken Irishman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-23-09 10:37 PM
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2. More proof Pres. Obama's right about FOX News.
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Lasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-23-09 10:37 PM
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3. Like he said, Limbaugh doesn't care.
He's put it out there for his dittoheads to absorb and it's not branded into their tiny brains as fact.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-23-09 10:45 PM
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4. robble robble robble robble robble robble robble robble robble robble
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HipChick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-23-09 10:46 PM
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5. now I'm going to have to get bleach for my eyes
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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-24-09 12:44 PM
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19. I need drugs I need drugs I need drugs I need drugs I need drugs I need drugs







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npk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-23-09 10:51 PM
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6. What is really so sad
Is that Limbaugh and Faux felt they had to go back to Obama's college years to dig up any dirt. I guess they are really getting desperate now. As they have not been able to make anything over the past 11 1/2 months stick.
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HipChick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-23-09 11:03 PM
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7. Exactly..and they look more pathetic with each attempt..
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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-24-09 06:44 PM
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20. Well hell they went back to Pres Obama's elementry education
to attempt to deligitimize him.....I am not surprised by this. Limbaugh admits he doesn't care if it's a lie....
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Puzzler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-23-09 11:09 PM
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9. This reminds me that about 20 years ago, a RW columnist...
... in our local newspaper essentially ended his career by basing several of his columns on a fake news story. He was rabidly anti-French-Canadian, and eagerly took the bait when he was fed a fake report from a non-existent university professor. He didn't even bother to pick up the phone to see if the guy was real. There were plenty of hints too, since the guy's fake French name (I forget now) translated into something like "ass". He was set up by a couple of reporters from a smaller weekly left-leaning local newspaper.
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HipChick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-23-09 11:57 PM
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10. I found a thesis by Limbaugh
The title is Why I am an Ass..
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HipChick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-24-09 12:05 AM
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11. Rush likes to fondle under-aged goats.


Rush likes to fondle under-aged goats. I can't prove it, but I know he thinks about fondling under-agedgoats.
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Ozymanithrax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-24-09 12:30 AM
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12. The right wing, having been unable to prove that Obama was born in Kenya with a hammer and sickle
in his hands (imagine the pain his mother felt at birth), have been forced to look to more recent possible transgressions. So I must assume that they could not dig up in dirt in grades K through 12 or in his first three years of college.
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bleever Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-24-09 01:33 AM
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13. Michael Ledeen believe in
what?

He famously wanted international order blown up so that a new order could be established. To hell with collateral damage. Especially if the truth is the only thing sacrificed in order to further the higher cause.
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Kablooie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-24-09 06:21 AM
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14. Now it's out there and wingnuts will hold it up as truth for many months to come.
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hvn_nbr_2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-24-09 12:26 PM
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15. So I guess the librul media will now "Rather" Limbaugh, right?
:fat fucking chance:
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-24-09 12:29 PM
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16. Please send this to KO and Rachel
for Ledeen and the Drugster to be named the Worst persons in the wooooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrld.
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Truthway Donating Member (58 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-24-09 12:30 PM
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17. fox news
fox sox
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-24-09 12:34 PM
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18. Hahaha, Limbaugh got punked
He was going on a rant about it yesterday - and halfway through his show found out it was a hoax.

Then he made some lame excuse like "It sure sounds like Obama"
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