PrintJune 29, 2008
Free Speech, the Obama Campaign, and the Washington Post
Barack Obama's campaign efforts to "stop the smears" are quickly morphing into an attack on free speech. In a June 28 article, "An attack that came out of the Ether", Washington Post reporter Matthew Mosk attacks FreeRepublic.com and falsely associates a 2007 article I wrote with a stupidly written email claiming that Obama's Indonesian step-father was a "radical", that Obama went to a "Wahhabi" school, and that Obama swore his oath of office on a "Kuran". In fact my article, "Obama: Secular Muslim stealth candidate favored by the corrupt?" served to sort out truth from fiction in such emails and takes a wide ranging view of Obama's background. Mosk sandwiches factual information with nonsense in the hope of getting readers to discount all of it. Anybody who has read Dreams from My Father knows that Obama's step-father Lolo Soetoro was a Muslim who spoke highly of the Hindu monkey-god Hanuman...(Read Full Article)
