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Showing posts with label birther. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birther. Show all posts

Saturday, September 26, 2015

Bombshell -- ‘Washington Post’ Confirms Hillary Clinton Started the Birther Movement

From Breitbart's Big Journalism:
New analysis from the Washington Post removes any doubt that the anti-Obama Birther movement was started in 2007 and 2008 by Hillary Clinton, her campaign, and her Democrat supporters.

As Breitbart News reported earlier this month, other left-wing media outlets, like Politico and the Guardian, had already traced the Birther movement back to Democrats and Ms. Clinton. Using his wayback machine on Wednesday, the Post’s David Weigel took an in-depth look at the origins of the false rumors that President Obama is a practicing Muslim who was not born in a America. Weigel’s reporting contains the final pieces of a very disturbing puzzle.

What Weigel found and re-reported was astounding, details many of us had forgotten or never heard of, including a 2007 bombshell memo from the Clinton campaign’s chief strategist.
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Because the Washington Post’s primary job is to protect Democrats, Weigel’s headline and conclusion are an objective lie. Despite the fact that what he uncovered (and chose to not cover) points directly to Ms. Clinton and her campaign, Weigel concludes she had nothing to do with the Birther movement.
Weigel's 'analysis follows Jim Treacher's tweet on journalism:

Wednesday, September 23, 2015

CNN’s Don Lemon Confronts Clinton For Her Role In Questioning Obama’s Birth Status

From The Daily Caller:
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was confronted by CNN’s Don Lemon Wednesday for starting the rumor that Barack Obama was not born in the United States.

Appearing with Lemon on the “Tom Joyner Morning Show,” Clinton responded, “No, that’s so ludicrous.”

She called the rumor another “bad example of what’s wrong with the instantaneous reactions and Americans getting all worked up and people feeding prejudice and paranoia like Donald Trump.”

On Monday’s “Morning Joe,” the “official historian” for the 2008 presidential campaign and co-author of “Game Change,” John Heilemann affirmed that Hillary Clinton’s team started circulating the the rumors that Obama was a Muslim during the 2008 Democratic primary.
Wow, someone if the Drive-By Media actually doing their job, asking the hard questions of Hillary.

I applaud Don Lemon for committing a random act of real journalism.