The source of the Obama rumoursFollow

I thought the distinction was so obvious that I didn't need to explain it. Apparently, I was wrong.

Several points here:

1. People in the field of journalism interview people. Yes. Even people they don't like. If a reporter interviews Charles Manson, we don't assume he agrees with the guy. If a reporter interviews OBL, we also don't assume he agrees with the guy. You interview people to get their side of the story. Period. It's your job to do so.


2. Serving on the board of a non-profit organization generally requires that one agree with the goals and agenda of said organization and the others you work with. When the organization (in this case the Chicago Annenberg Challenge) exists because of the efforts of a particular person (William Ayers), and you are chosen to be the chairman of the board of that organization, it's doubly assumed that you and he share a common set of goals. It's therefore quite reasonable to make the point that if one is a far left radical with an agenda that most Americans would cringe at, that perhaps voters might want to know this before voting the other to the highest office in the land.


3. It's not splitting hairs. The two things are completely different. Hannity choose to interview someone who had some pretty "out there" ideas. Fine. Here's the thing though. Ayers chose Obama to run his 100 million dollar program. You don't do that unless you trust that person to do with the money what you want done with it, right? And in the case of a politically active non-profit organization, that does kinda fall right into the area of "incredibly relevant to judging Obama's political viewpoint", doesn't it?


EDIT: Forgot the final point:

4. Sean Hannity is not running for President of the United States of America.

Edited, Oct 14th 2008 1:02pm by gbaji

Oh and we'll take Nadenu. I never thought of you as Southern. I thought of you as being one of the Peanuts Gang.

I <3 Nads. I just couldn't get into EQ2.

Edited, Oct 14th 2008 4:22pm by Annabella

What's also funny is that knox probably doesn't realize that by virtue of being from rural Northern Maine, I' probably had a more guntoting, republican, hick background than most Southerners who are from the 'burbs and the city.

Excellent. I'll take this at face value and assume that this load of ******** is true. What do you say about this, then?





No, but he is a journalist, and expected to check his sources in keeping with his ethics. More seasoned journalists than he have lost careers over much less. Hannity's just lucky enough to work for a network that apparently couldn't give less of a **** about their integrity.