Wash. Post Obama Story Under Fire

How stupid does the Washington Post think the public is? Are we now to believe they made a simple editing error in this blatant attack on Barak Obama? Major papers in America are losing their readership because of these insane articles writtten to please their corporate masters, not the readers. Whether this ugly slander was intended or not is irrelevant. The Post long ago abdicated its credibility as an impartial witness to the truth. Today, American media are useless. This is just the most recent example of this sad fact.

As big an issue is the fact that being Muslim, or receiving a Muslim education is looked at as being slanderous. The racism/xenophobia that remains front and center in this nation, though not surprising, should be astounding. The very reason why such rumors are floated is because it’s know that there will be such an impact.

The very fact that it is seen as “swift-boating” shows this. It’s not that the Post reported the story it’s that they reported it as a “early rumor” rather than a “false report” that was the Post’s offense.

As the leading realist philosopher on the planet, a claim I would be glad to provide proof for if our tsars over disinofmrtaion permitted me space to do so, let me just say for now that I have better reason than anyone (in my opinion) to appreciate one fact that I consider should astonish most readers of political “news” in this country– that is: how much saner and more willing to accept regulational controls on public information intelligent citizens are than are arrogant news-twisting highly-paid corporate tsars’ so-called reporters.
Did the author of this latest smear really believe no one could draw the conclusion that they were attacking Barack Obama, and in relation to a total untruth? if that isn’t neo-fascist “swift boating” what is? When Mr. Obama suggested recently that he understood foreign viewpoints better than did Hillary Clinton and gaveas the reason his having spent much more quality time “over there’, he got no further than did John Edwards when he told a mich bigger truth–that excepting corporate and government connected insider superwealthies and their entourages from taxes and responsibilities others must pay constitutes erecting a two-tiered class system in the United States of un-America.
What we are seeing here I say is the cost of having no categories at the basis of our conceptual foundation as a nation. We have seen one party proudly proclaiming it is “deregulating in the name of pragmatism”–when the two terms mean they are removing the means by which individual citizens could have claimed former rights, in the name of increasing the tyrannical impracticality and staying power of their public-interest benevolent psuedo-theocrtaic government’s de facto dictatorship.
There is only one answer to this sort of thing: category-level regulations differentiating the language and restraints applied 1. to myths as versus attested facts, 2. attitudes as versus standards=based definitions, and 3. unsupportd beliefs as versus scientific proofs presented in an agreed-upon format in full.
Those who avoid attestation, standards and proofs must be stopped from using the language of anything but opinion, belief, betters, worses, opinions,feelings,etc. They cannot and must not be allowed in a republics to use the word “think”, or to use false Kantian misleading titles and headlines, nor to use any value term or term of science–things which they failed to earn.
This shamefully misjudged column and its smear are always going to be the sort of result to which the ungoverned misbehaviors of those unwilling to regard the rights of others must lead–including the rights of Mr. Obama and Mr. Edwards and of every reader and viewer of non-fictional news–as categorically equal to their own.
Especially they must be stopped as here, when they hideously and largely fail to do their job of dealing with what is real, not what they’d like victims of discontexted falsehoods to believe in place of reality.

All I dare say after the last very, very, long winded blog is…he/she is right, I think?

This is the old DLC trying to get Hillary nominated. They are not above using Rovian tactics.

The Washington Post “Story” suggesting Barak Obama may be a closet muslim ranks right up there with MoveOn.org’s “Betrayus” clunker. In both instances people blundered so shamelessly that one wonders about the brains and the thought processes at work leading up to a decision that is so obviously stupid. Where do these people come from, and why are they given positions of power? Unbelievable.

So let me get this straight…either the Washington Post editors are a bunch of dumb idiots who don’t know how to write an article and advance a simple thesis that Obama is a victim of untrue Internet rumors or you just mistakenly left out the supposed point of this front page article. Yeah…

No wonder readership for newspapers is down.

Just how stupid does Washington Post’s assistant managing editor think we readers are?

“We didn’t say it was a false rumor,” [Bill] Hamilton added. “To me, a rumor is not true.”

That’s like saying, “To me, war is peace, ignorance is strength, and up is down.” Hamilton is resorting to Orwellian “newspeak” to defend right-wing trash journalism.

Is it too much to expect that the Washington Post should employ an assistant managing editor who 1) knows to use dictionary definitions, not his own; 2) understands what is and is not “news”; 3) has a modicum of journalistic integrity; and 4) won’t mock readers with such twisted English excuses for sleazy journalism.

According to all the dictionaries I could find, “rumor” does not mean “not true.” It means an “unsubstantiated” and usually “unattributed” statement. Rumors may be true, partially true, or completely false.

(BTW, as long as we’re trafficking in rumors, I heard that Bill Hamilton once passed a college English course.)

It’s outrageous that WP’s assistant managing editor would try to justify his paper’s “swift-boating” of Sen. Obama with such a blatant doubletalk. Perhaps the publisher should consider changing the paper’s name to “The Oceania Post,” to better reflect its role as defender of the Perpetual War Party through newspeak.

I think that maybe the American public isn’t really that stupid, but that the MSM treats us like we’re stupid, along with Washington and Hollywood. When you’re treated like children, you think like a child and behave like one.

When they pull crap like this that is so blatantly false, and express surprise that we, as human beings and Americans, are angry that they would peddle such garbage to us, it infuriates me to no end.