“Well Bill O’Reilly said it so it must be true…he wouldn’t say lies to us.”
If Williams had noted the falsity of the rumors in asking his question he would be an agenda-driven liberal medialyzer. Actually, I don’t think that’s true, but I think Williams thinks that, which is evidence of the ultimate victory of the whole Left Wing Media meme.
It was never targeted at us- it was targeted at the journalists.
You realize, don’t you, that Barack Obama and Dick Cheney are, in fact, eighth cousins.
So what are you saying – Obama’s election would be creating/continuing another dynasty of sorts?
Wait… so he’s not going to swear in with a Koran? Well, he’s just lost my vote.
No, that an Obama Presidentcy would be owned by a zombi Strom Thurman.
I’m a bit bothered by the fact that he was basically raised in a non-religious environment, and then found Christianity as an adult/late teenager. But I won’t hold it too much against him.
I think there’s plenty of room for more rumors, though, just based on reading the short interview with Obama’s half-sister today in the NYT Sunday Magazine. Her name is Maya Soetoro-Ng, and she says she’s a Buddhist. Obama is clearly going to sell us out to Inida and China! What’'s kind of funny is that she sort of looks like a White version of Michelle Obama. I guess he also has a half-sister in Kenya, presumably through his father (Maya has the same mother as Barack).
I had a 1966 labia last year. Didn’t smell too bad, but we took turns driving it, so it did smell like latex by the time I got to sit in the driver’s seat.
Why don’t you scroll up and re-read the quoted portion of the question before other people start noticing and you embarrass yourself?
Doesn’t that kind of make him a better Christian, though? I was raised a Christian (Catholic actually, maybe that’s where they went wrong) and somewhere along the way I fell away. I have to imagine that Barack and others who found the faith later in life are much more committed than I would have been had I just kept going to church instead of doing what I now do on Sundays, which is mostly, watch Meet the Press and hear people talking about going to church.
So if I were a Christian, which I am not, I think I might find Barack more appealing because of his late start, not less. Know what I mean?
I personally think that he’s kind of a political Christian, in that, he knows that he has no chance of being elected if he isn’t. In fact, maybe that’s what you were thinking. In which case, I agree with you.
Somehow I don’t think that’s what John Mace is worried about.
:o Well, consider me suitably embarrassed.
I completely missed the line where Williams explicitly begins by stating that the information is false. Mea culpa.
If they had to bring this issue up—something i’m still not convinced was necessary—then at least they went about it the right way.
I don’t really view that as a converse of the question I asked of you, but I’ll run with it. But if the rumor is debunked with factual information, or the piece of information clarified/contextualized upon the first asking, it strikes me that bringing it up again as though it hadn’t been satisfactorily answered seems like a skeezy trick to ensure the widest possible dissemination of the original rumor. If a journalist can be resourceful enough to find the original rumor to ask about, ISTM that he can be arsed to research whether it’s already been asked and answered.
See my remark above about ensuring the widest possible dissemination of the original rumor. I’d like to think that such motivations exist only in the fevered imaginations of paranoid partisans, but I’m not prepared to think that at this time.
My answer would be that one reporter is entitled to one satisfactory final answer to each question, and that he bears some responsibility to provide evidence that the answer he has been given is not satisfactory before he raises it again.
Now that I’ve made a good-faith effort to answer your questions, I’ll ask you mine again, and I’d be grateful for an actual answer: Are you suggesting that repeatedly putting the same rumors to the candidate in front of different audiences is a form of fact-checking?
You would think so. The voters loved the candidate who had probably been an alcoholic and cocaine user well into adulthood, and then got clean. He seemed to get a lot of extra points for finding Jesus after trying the other route.