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Obama Thesis Hoax Causes Media Stir
October 26th, 2009
Rush Limbaugh and Lou Dobbs owe the President and their listeners/viewers an apology.
Limbaugh and Dobbs thought they had the story of the year as Time reporter Joe Klein discovered Barack Obama’s college thesis paper in which the then 20-something Columbia University student insulted the ‘Founding Fathers” and said the Constitution oppresses poor Americans.
Too bad the whole thing was made up.
The satirical blog was posted on Jumping In Pools and was meant to be a joke. But when another blogger for conservative blog network Pajamas Media picked up the story it reached as high up as CNN and Limbaugh.
When the real Joe Klein said that he has never seen the President’s thesis,bloggers from all over the country apologized for running with an unsubstantiated story. As for Limbaugh, he said this–even after realizing the story is bogus.
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Poor barack obama .
So Rusky does not fact check? Wow, what a surprised.
Oh, and when contronted that he was punked, he defended himself by saying “we stand by the fabricated quote because we know Obama thinks it anyway”
After so many years of mis-labeling and mis-characterizing others he gets smacked down by the NFL “Not For Limbaugh”. Great job NFL.