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Maggie's Farm: "The so-called founders..." Is this real? No.
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The Obama thesis hoax, my favorite story of the day: http://bit.ly/1elRO7 (via @daveweigel) 10/24/2009 |
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From @daveweigel: Michael Ledeen & Rush Limbaugh fall for crudely faked Obama college thesis. http://bit.ly/1elRO7 10/23/2009 |
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HAHAHAHA! RT @daveweigel: The Obama thesis hoax, my favorite story of the day: http://bit.ly/1elRO7 10/23/2009 |
"The so-called founders..." Is this real? No.
Maggie's Farm —
It is a hoax - we were fooled.
From Obama's thesis:
"... 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."
What???
Ledeen at PJ discusses it all in Obama and the Constitution; He Has His Doubts.
Update: I hear there is some question about whether this is real. Can ...
Obama 'Thesis' - a Hoax
Little Green Footballs —
... Rush Limbaugh, Michael Ledeen, and a host of wingnut blogs were radically punk’d today by a hoax report that originated at ‘jumpinginpools’ (a blog run by a fool who was recently banned from LGF for relentlessly pimping his blog, and registering sock puppet after sock puppet to upding his own posts), claiming to have “10 pages from Obama’s college thesis” that proved Obama was a commie who wanted to trash the Constitution. ...
Right falls for 'thesis' hoax
Political Animal —
... 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." That's quite an indictment, even for an Ivy League undergraduate.... Maybe instead of fuming about words that Rush Limbaugh never uttered, the paladins of the free press might ask the president about words that he did write. Yesterday, Rush Limbaugh picked up on Leeden's report, blasting Obama for the alleged paper. The first sign of trouble was ...
No More Mister Nice Blog — ... Ledeen learned about this from a reliable source -- somebody on Twitter. He didn't look at the date of the Jumping in Pools post, didn't notice that JiP describes many of its posts as "satire," and didn't check with Joe Klein, or even Google the passage to read how it was described by Klein in Time (or even to determine whether any "special edition" of this kind had been published since August). He just ran with it, in a Pajamas Media post. Rush Limbaugh ran with it also. Klein pointed out that none of this was true. Learning he'd been stupid and ...
Another 'Scoop' From the Right! Wingnuts Quote Satire Piece As Obama 'Thesis'
Crooks and Liars —
... 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."
That's quite an indictment, even for an Ivy League undergraduate.... Maybe instead of fuming about words that Rush Limbaugh never uttered, the paladins of the free press might ask the president about words that he did write.
Yesterday, Rush Limbaugh picked up on Leeden's report, blasting Obama for the alleged paper.
The first sign of ...
the aptly-named hardly-ever-right
skippy the bush kangaroo —
... yesterday, rush limbaugh picked up on leeden's report, blasting obama for the alleged paper. the first sign of trouble was when joe klein noted that he's never seen or written about obama's college thesis, and has "no idea where this report comes from." the second sign of trouble was when one stopped to notice that obama didn't write a senior thesis (though he did write a thesis-length paper on soviet nuclear disarmament). the third sign of trouble was when one clicked on the link that leeden provided as support and found the word "satire." ...
Reason Morning Links: Shot Shortages, Baghdad Bombs, and Corporate Corruption
Hit & Run —
... • The president declares swine flu a
national emergency as Americans
line up for scarce vaccines.
• Two bombs in Baghdad kill at
least 160 people.
• Stimulus money
just might be going to corrupt companies.
• Dallas cops ticket drivers for
not speaking English.
• Gullibility on
the right. ...
