An appearance in a documentary-style program on the Fox News Channel watched by three million people last week thrust the man, Andy Martin, and his past into the foreground. The program allowed Mr. Martin to assert falsely and without challenge that Mr. Obama had once trained to overthrow the government.
The Man Behind the Whispers About Obama in this morning's New York Times.
According to the Times piece Martin, who in 2004 seeded rumors on the Internet that Obama is a radical Muslim (when in fact Obama is not Muslim, or a radical), is a lawschool graduate whose prolific filing of frivolous lawsuits was the subject of a 1993 hour-long CBS news show and whose "admission to the Illinois bar was blocked in the 1970s after a psychiatric finding of 'moderately severe character defect manifested by well-documented ideation with a paranoid flavor and a grandiose character.'"
Dear Fox News: God knows you're lying too.
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3 comments:
Stuff like this makes my heart hurt. It even did when McCain was the victim of it back in 2000.
But I thought they couldn't say things on TV that weren't true...
you and 3 million other americans.
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