The source of the Obama rumoursFollow

Fair and balanced, but apparently not very well-researched.



So it pretty much turns out that this guy published false claims about Obama back in 2004 and that those have been picked up by various sources who have re-published such info without bothering to authenticate it. In the new age of the Internet, have journalistic standards really become so lax that we assign serious authority to hatemongering charlatans?

I'm talking about you, Hannity.

In case you're interested, the reason Hannity gives for interviewing this nutjob on national media is that "I, Sean Hannity, would never sit on a board with someone who had bombed the Pentagon" and he wanted to know why Barack Obama would. If that is truly the case, then he would have had better luck digging a hole in the ground and shouting his questions into it, or I don't know, ******* BEING A LEGITIMATE JOURNALIST and maybe attempting to interview Ayers, or any of the other Annenberg Challenge Board Members (of which Obama was one) or authors (of which Ayers was one), or perhaps even Alice Palmer.

Edited, Oct 14th 2008 5:53am by Atomicflea

Holy ****. I've never watched Hannity before. I can't believe anybody would give him an ounce of credibility on pretty much anything.

That's just a cyberwhisper (intersayz word for the day)! He did used to be a white woman midget though, before the discovery.

Do you honestly think that Obama's collage years are in any way relevant to anything he is doing now?

Obviously i missed the nuked post or I would address it directly.

Boy, what an article! I'm really not sure how anyone can take Hannity seriously; I think it might because it is really is just him trying to stir up trouble (and trouble always makes for good ratings!). I loved Hannity's back-pedaling after the debate.

"I would never sit down with someone who bombed the Pentagon! That's poor judgment."
2 minutes later:
"I invite all people, all sides, to sit down with me to interview. Yes, even Andy Martin."

Hannity's pseudo-documentary was about how Obama's Chicago organizing was in fact a front for Bill Ayers' radical terrorism. The main theme: guilty by association. When confronted with the blatant Antisemitism (Gibbs never even got to the anti-Muslim history of Andry Martin), Hannity backed up, literally threw up his hands said, "I don't agree with him on that, but it was perfectly ok to interview him and post his made-up allegations as fact!"

FOX news is a joke, and Hannity is a slimeball. A dumb slimeball at that, who really should check his sources :D

Just FYI, I am using this blog as a primary source for my doctorate thesis that Obama is a muslim terrorist.

And all was right with the world.

/sunshinelollipopsrainbows

While I agree that Hannity is much to willing to get out ahead of a story (IMO steps on it badly most of the time), that does not excuse you rewording his statements to make a false point:



What he said was that he "would never sit on a board with someone who bombed the Pentagon".

There's a pretty significant difference between that and interviewing someone.


As to the documentary, was Martin the only source of information? The article only states that he's believed to be the source of the "Obama is a Muslim" rumor. But that in no way changes the mountain of fact entangling Obama and Ayers politically and professionally. I don't know why he was included in the thing (haven't watched it myself yet), but I think that the whole point of the counter here is to hope to discredit the Ayers story by discrediting someone saying something completely different.


Hannity tend to take a "kitchen sink" approach to his politics. He's one of those idiots who thinks that by listing a mountain of attacks against someone it makes his argument/side "stronger". Unfortunately, what he actually ends up doing is just giving the other side easy strawman to attack. This is one such strawman. You attack this nutball and ignore the factual parts of the story and let people assume you've debunked the whole thing.




True. But honestly, he's not much worse than a whole lot of folks at so-called mainstream media outlets. They don't get attacked often for it though...

Power to the people, good sir. Would you have it any other way?

Belkira is from Tennessee. However, I live in Boston and I am judging you right now.

God, Varrus, I wish they had let the south secede from the union. We'll take Samira and Belkira but leave the rest.

I'll bring you with me, Nadenu. I don't know why Anna doesn't like you.