Seriously. This is pissing me off:
There seems to be no shortage of serious issues for this campaign season, but lurking in e-mail accounts are attacks on the candidates’ biographies. Sen. Barack Obama has been a particular target of anonymous e-mail; we at PolitiFact have received more negative e-mails about him than any other candidate, by a significant margin. Typically, e-mails portray him as unpatriotic and un-American. The latest chain e-mail involves his wife.
The e-mail looks at a research paper Michelle Obama wrote while a student at Princeton University 23 years ago. It takes a few actual sentences out of context, and fabricates a few quotes that don’t exist in her work.
Seriously, when Rick Santorum thinks you’re going too far…
I hope my family never gets shafted because of what I wrote when I was 21. It wouldn’t even need to be taken out of context. Course, I think I burned all that stuff thinking that I would run for Pres someday…
If you don’t know for sure by the time you hit college that you are going to be married to a presidential candidate some day and jackasses will be rifling through your long-ago college papers like paparazzi rifling through celebrities’ trash bins, then you, Ms. Obama, have forfeited the right to be not-insulted!!!
People stink, is my summation of this.
But, on a happier note – woo fucking hoooooooo! About the news today, I mean. Clinched it! I haven’t had persistent eff-Hillary feelings and I am not feeling smug towards her or looking down my nose at her supporters…there is too much to be excited and happy about, which I know you say in another post here, too.
okay, goddamn it, now I’m here to swear again. I clicked on the link. I am not mad at the people who wrote that article for saying “she didn’t write the things they say she wrote.” But I have to say – just once in my life time, I really would like to see the following template take over from the current, “S/he put forth the incendiary notion that racism goes on in America and has since its inception!” – “No no, s/he never said that, s/he loves this country so stop trying to defame her/him buy accusing her/him of saying confrontational things!” one:
Idiot “news” reporting people: “A person of color in the public eye just said this country was founded in violent racism!”
Everyfuckingbodyelse: “Yeah. So?”
Amen, Joan. Unfortunately, I think it’s going to get worse.
what Joan said. I understand that she didn’t say “the country was founded on crime and hatred,” but, um, what do you call genocide, slavery, racism, the ideas behind manifest destiny, etc.?
Yeah, it’s going to get a whole lot worse so let’s celebrate the here and now.
An historic day ! Well done Barack Obama, for inspiring those of us outside the US to connect with this election. The outcome matters to all of us but especially to the world’s poor, disenfranchised and usually people of colour who have been utterly ignored, destroyed, trampled on, used, killed and maimed during the Bush years.
Change. Change. Change. For all of us.
One of the most bizaar aspects of journamalism as currently practiced is the shock factor of presenting a simple fact that everyone has always already known. The shock is not in the fact, since everyone already knows it, but in the stating of the fact. How dare you speak of what everyone already knows, doesn’t seem like anything to hang a news cycle on, unless your news consists of speculation regarding motivation and subtext.
Criminy, I loathe the corporate media for teaching our children that this crap passes for news and analysis.
It’s going to be exhausting just trying to set people straight. They can’t seem to use logic, or even common sense. Anything written or verbalized anywhere will be believed, out of context or not, until proven otherwise.
They couldn’t come up with that video someone made up, and so they decided to find some truth and place it in a context which makes it look ugly and go with it.
yup it’s gonna be a long haul.
It would be nice to see her a little bit (some) more upbeat.
@Jannie: I’m not sure what you mean by your comment, Jannie.
@cooper: “They can’t seem to use logic, or even common sense. Anything written or verbalized anywhere will be believed, out of context or not, until proven otherwise.”
Ah, Cooper, you know good and well even if it’s proven otherwise people will still believe it.
I’m just saying.
@thebewilderness: “unless your news consists of speculation regarding motivation and subtext.”
Hmmm…sounds to me like you have most of the major news outlets summed up pretty well there. And no, I’m not going to single out Fox here. They are all guilty!
“Criminy, I loathe the corporate media for teaching our children that this crap passes for news and analysis.”
Me too!
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