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Dobbs runs with debunked Obama quote that even Limbaugh acknowledged might be fake

October 23, 2009 5:26 pm ET

From the October 23 broadcast of United Stations Radio Networks' The Lou Dobbs Show:

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DOBBS: Well talking about pitiful performances, the liberal national media which has all but abdicated its responsibilities to inform the American people and do some significant investigative reporting did such a poor job of vetting the President in election that they continue to look the other way on a host of issues. This story that I'm about to tell you has been out there since late August. There hasn't been a word in the national media about it. It concerns the President's Columbia College thesis. Now Joe Klein of Time Magazine got a hold of ten whole pages. In his paper that is entitled Aristocracy Reborn, Mr. Obama wrote the following about the constitution while in college: "The 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." Whoah.

Previously:

Claiming "I have had this happen to me," Limbaugh says he doesn't care if thesis quotes are fake, "I know Obama thinks it"

Limbaugh on college "thesis" he says Obama wrote: "[T]his little boy in college" had "disdain" for Constitution

So desperate they'll believe anything -- the fake Obama thesis debunked

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    • Author by wzwriter (October 23, 2009 5:29 pm ET)
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      If Lou Dobbs had any professional integrity at all, he's resign in disgrace. Seeing as he won't, we KNOW he has no integrity.
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      • Author by usp (October 23, 2009 5:40 pm ET)
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        he must really not know. i mean, would you volunteer to make an ass of yourself on TV? he must not know.
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    • Author by pros2pros2940 (October 23, 2009 5:38 pm ET)
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      The right wing has so many tools at their disposal to get lies into more mainstream media outlets. That it doesn't appear that supposed major outlets fact check things doesn't bode well for the future
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    • Author by bintx (October 23, 2009 5:40 pm ET)
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      Why does the headline say "may be fake"? It is fake.
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    • Author by mikelartist (October 23, 2009 5:56 pm ET)
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      Let's read your laughable college thesis from Harvard Dobbs.

      You are more and more clueless, reckless and UN-American with each passing day Dobbs.

      Do our country a favor and get lost.
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    • Author by Truth Crusader (October 23, 2009 6:03 pm ET)
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      Wow! That's pretty embarrassing! Or, at least it should be.
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    • Author by bewildered (October 24, 2009 2:46 am ET)
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      And Dobbs was wondering why he has been heavily criticized by advocates on the left.

      Exbibit A
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    • Author by noneyabidnis (October 24, 2009 11:13 pm ET)
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      So, we're quickly discovering that a lot of folks on the right will run with any story, regardless if it's true or not.

      Are they really that easy to make look like clowns?
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