At Newsmax, speculation = evidence
August 14, 2009 3:59 pm ET by Terry Krepel
One almost has to admire Matthew Vadum, senior editor at the right-wing Capital Research Center, for the sheer audacity of admitting that he doesn't have the facts to support his smear of President Obama, yet going ahead with the smear anyway.
In an Aug. 13 Newsmax article suggesting that an advertiser boycott campaign of Glenn Beck's Fox News show spearheaded by the group Color for Change, co-founded by current Obama administration official Van Jones, is "being orchestrated with some high level help from the Obama White House," reporter David A. Patten quotes Vadum as saying, "I don't have proof that the White House asked Color of Change to help it fight back against Glenn Beck ... But I wouldn't be surprised to learn it had. Van Jones has the president's ear. It's a few hundred feet from his office at the Council on Environmental Quality to the Oval Office."
That's it. The relative proximity of Jones' and Obama's offices -- a mere football field length away from each other! -- plus Vadum's baseless speculation are all the evidence Patten offers of this purported scheme.
It's hard to tell who's more foolish here -- Vadum for making such a boldly empty claim or Patten for building an article around it.
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("wouldn't be surprised if" + proximity) = fact.
Yup, that's how they roll on the right, baby...
"It's obvious..", "We all know..", " The fact is...", these are all phrases that frequently introduce long, rambling comments here that are entirely built on an opinion stated as fact.
I saw another classic yesterday. A poster posts several links over several days or weeks to right wing opinion pieces that agree with the poster about some BS talking point. When the topic comes up again, the poster insists that he's "proven" or "debunked" the point many times in the past.
That's how they roll, kfraz.
Shut up. Get the facts and stop focusing on stupid minutae. Obama is teasing all of you politically apathetic trolls with "birther" talk and "mob" comments while he is systematically removing almost all of our freedoms. Sadly, he TOLD US he was going to do this, yet you voted for him anyway thanks to your hatred for Bush. Bend over, it's gonna hurt. Look at the facts. Get educated.
Oh, and the bending over line---brilliant!
Thanks for bringing so much to the discussion and most of all, thanks for not typing in caps.
Something about Obama teasing people with the birfer movement? Anybody?
I can hardly wait.
One other note: These guys making this allegation are basing it on how the Bush White House handled situations like this. They called Fox News and other right wing outlets to start a smear campaign and got cooperation.
In Beck's case no one from the White House had to instigate anything. He is just that bad.
He maybe telling you that law enforcement officials in general, and one in particular has not, and do not act stupidly.
Perhaps that no one else will be allowed to be an example for the future. Not a sunny view.
I could be wrong in part or totally stupid. Somehow it weighs lightly upon me.
Given their derangement during the Clinton years, it's not all about race. But those of us who understand that our hopes for our nation's future rest solely with President Obama and the Democrats in Congress should all become more sensitized to the racial subtext of all conservative spew.
And am I the only one who thinks cann0nba11 is an idiot undeserving of reply much less engagement? Could any of these incoherent sputtering teabagging birthers explain exactly what "freedoms" are being threatened by any of the Democrat's proposals? ("They took our jobs!" "They took our jobs!" "They took our jobs!")