Re: OBAMA TAKES ON FOX NEWS.

On 25 Jan, 18:46, Culture of Corruption
<CultureOfCorrupt...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> OBAMA TAKES ON FOX NEWS.
>
> If this is a sign of how Barack Obama intends to deal with the
> right-wing media during his Presidential campaign, then I'm all for
> it.
>
> Obama is aggressively going after Fox News today for pushing that
> smear-job report claiming that he went to an Islamic "madrassa" school
> as a child. The report has already been completely debunked by CNN,
> but Obama isn't letting up. The Senator's office has just emailed out
> a blistering memo targeting Fox that says the following:
>
> In the past week, many of you have read a now thoroughly-debunked
> story by Insight Magazine, owned by the Washington Times, which cites
> unnamed sources close to a political campaign that claim Senator Obama
> was enrolled for "at least four years" in an Indonesian
"Madrassa".
> The article says the "sources" believe the Madrassa was "espousing
> Wahhabism," a form of radical Islam.
> Insight Magazine published these allegations without a single named
> source, and without doing any independent reporting to confirm or deny
> the allegations. Fox News quickly parroted the charges, and Fox and
> Friends host Steve Doocy went so far as to ask, "Why didn't anybody
> ever mention that that man right there was raised - spent the first
> decade of his life, raised by his Muslim father - as a Muslim and was
> educated in a Madrassa?"
>
> All of the claims about Senator Obama raised in the Insight Magazine
> piece were thoroughly debunked by CNN, which, instead of relying on
> unnamed sources, sent a reporter to Obama's former school in Jakarta
> to check the facts.
>
> If Doocy or the staff at Fox and Friends had taken [time] to check
> their facts, or simply made a call to his office, they would have
> learned that Senator Obama was not educated in a Madrassa, was not
> raised as a Muslim, and was not raised by his father - an atheist
> Obama met once in his life before he died.
>
> Later in the day, Fox News host John Gibson again discussed the
> Insight Magazine story without any attempt to independently confirm
> the charges.
>
> All of the claims about Senator Obama's faith and education raised in
> the Insight Magazine story and repeated on Fox News are false. Senator
> Obama was raised in a secular household in Indonesia by his stepfather
> and mother. Obama's stepfather worked for a U.S. oil company, and sent
> his stepson to two years of Catholic school, as well as two years of
> public school. As Obama described it, "Without the money to go to the
> international school that most expatriate children attended, I went to
> local Indonesian schools and ran the streets with the children of
> farmers, servants, tailors, and clerks." [The Audacity of Hope, p.
> 274]
>
> To be clear, Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a
> Muslim, and is a committed Christian who attends the United Church of
> Christ in Chicago. Furthermore, the Indonesian school Obama attended
> in Jakarta is a public school that is not and never has been a
> Madrassa.
>
> These malicious, irresponsible charges are precisely the kind of
> politics the American people have grown tired of, and that Senator
> Obama is trying to change by focusing on bringing people together to
> solve our common problems.
>
> This is exactly the right thing to do: Take these guys on very
> aggressively, and above all, single out by name the people who are
> lying about you. Wrap their lies around their necks.
>
> Let's hope we see lots more of this.
>
> http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/horsesmouth/2007/01/post_15.php
>
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