Faux Gibson on CNN reporter, 'probably went to the very madrassa' as Obama

[brettdale]

"Cant he be sued????"

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Fox_sees_State_of_Union_scowl_0124.html


On his radio show this week, Gibson took aim at another high profile Democratic presidential candidate.

"Last week, Fox News highlighted a right-wing report alleging that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) attended an Islamic 'madrassa' school as a 6-year-old child," Think Progress reports. "In a memo released today, Obama’s office specifically called out Fox News host John Gibson for discussing the story 'without any attempt to independently confirm the charges.'"

"On his radio show this week, Gibson refused to back down. He claimed the CNN reporter who debunked the false report 'probably went to the very madrassa' as Obama," Associate Editor Nico Pitney writes for Think Progress

[Rick Myers]

1. Gibson is SUCH a tool!!! The lowest of the low, on Faux!!!

[Divine Discontent]

4. you, my friend, are correct

when I see him, I feel like he sacrifices small children to his dark lord... I jest not, and I pray that's not the case, but the man gives me the heebie jeebies...



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[ninkasi]

2. Doesn't it occur

to shills like Gibson that even if it had been a madrassa, which it wasn't, a six year old was not the one making the decision to send him there? Faux is so twisted, they make pretzels seem straight as an arrow. They are abandoning any semblance of being fair or objective. What tools.

[THUNDER HANDS]

3. isn't a madrassa like a college?

so, how could a 6 year old go there anyway?

[Warpy]

8. More like a seminary

that starts early, teaches kids how to read the Quran and nothing else.

Some push Wahabbism, the most narrow, intolerant and vicious misinterpretation of the Quran out there, and which is why Saudi Arabia is like that.

[Rick Myers]

9. The Wiki definition is:

the word madrasah refers in American English to a university-level or post-graduate Islamic school.

If Obama was 6 and in this school I think he could be President!

He probably knows the difference between strategery and catapulting propaganda!

[Warpy]

17. Madrassas started by Saudi Arabia

have started boys as young as that in some areas. They were especially notorious in north western Pakistan, where there was an endless supply of orphaned boys who had fled Afghanistan during the Russian attempt at occupation. They were great at teaching the most virulent form of Wahabbism, and taught nothing else. The graduates were fitted for nothing but unemployment. Pakistan has taken steps to force those schools to include basic academics with mixed success.

That the schools did this is a measure of compassion. Without them, the boys would have been street kids, perpetually hungry and completely uneducated.

But yes, in most parts of the world a madrassa is a seminary school.

[ninkasi]

15. I'm not sure

I just know that the wing-nuts are talking about whatever school he attended when he was six. When I was six, I would have gone to a school teaching satan worship, if that's where my parents chose to send me. It's not like most six year olds have a lot of options in deciding where they go to school. Faux sux.

[etherealtruth]

26. Madrassa = School

[TankLV]

13. but somehow, bunkerboy's AWOL, drug snorting, alcoholism, animal brutality, failed businesses,

history of lying, cheating and stealing is so "in the past" and we've got to talk about what's happening now...is just ducky. Same goes for ANY repuke. Even the MURDERER Scarborough and the TRAITOR Ollie North who was in CHARGE of the botched Iran rescue mission under PRESIDENT Carter...

[ninkasi]

16. Yes, I agree

Once I heard that the Chimp blew up frogs for enjoyment, he turned my stomach even worse than he did before. He has always exhibited a sadistic side, and that's one of the clues professionals look for when determining if a person has sociopathic tendencies. It's the same for lots of Publicans, as you point out. They are the worst of the worst, but try to deflect that by acting all pious and holier-than-thou. They're the biggest bunch of hypocrites I've ever seen.

Chimp has failed at everything he's ever tried, and has always had his rich daddy, and his rich daddy's friends, bail him out. Apparently his plan now is to run out the clock, leave office, and let the next president clean up the unforgivable screw-up that is his "war on terra".

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. Gibson is a failed NBC cable reporter. He's a shit head like hume.

[Blue_Roses]

18. I can't stand to watch him or Brit Hume

if I'm flipping channels nothing makes me flip past FOX faster than to see those two on:puke:

[Liberal_Dog]

6. America Is A Special Country

We have to be to allow insane people such as Gibson and O'Reilly to broadcast over our public airwaves.

[Warpy]

7. Somebody needs to sue these bastards

and no, winning is not the aim. Costing them money, exposing them, and being enough of a pain in the ass is the aim.

Bullies and lying gossips don't go away on their own. You have to stand up to them.

[Bandit]

30. Someone did sue Fox for broadcasting LIES

The court ruled Fox was under no obligation to broadcast the truth and the suit was ended...

[Warpy]

31. LIES would be one thing. LIBEL is another.

[depakid]

33. The question then would be whther the statement is defamatory

I'm not sure it is. Maybe.

[Eugene]

10. Only a freeper moran would believe such an absurd conspiracy theory.

That might make a semi-plausible defense against a defamation suit.

Lawsuits for defaming public figures are difficult to win in the U.S.
Is the insinuation that Barack Obama is a Muslim fundamentalist even
derogatory? A lawyer just might ask that question even though
the Insight/Faux News hit job is an obvious smear.

[DearAbby]

32. It is clear the intent of this story

was to insinuate radical islamic teachings - of Obama, and a HRC connection to leaking the story. I would think, it was a smear campaign if I were on a jury.

[Stephanie]

11. Why is it "charges?"

What is the crime?

[Jack Rabbit]

12. If John Gibson were a real journalist working for a real news organization

. . . I would say he should be fired.

[MoseyWalker]

14. I don't even know who John Gibson is

and couldn't pick him out of a line up, because I can't watch that channel. I just can't do it. I don't really want to know what they say, usually. It would be good for them to begin existing in an information vacuum where whatever they spew out gets sucked up by themselves and their shrinking cadre of supporters, and the rest of the country never had to ever contemplate what misguided thoughts ever found the way to their lips over the "airwaves".

[Swamp Rat]

22. Here is what he REALLY looks like:

[treestar]

19. Oh for cryin' out loud!

They must be convinced their audience is brain dead.

Don't let them frame - even one who went to a madrassa as a child can be a Christian today. They like to pretend that once you hear the Muslim message, you are helpless and can't think for yourself and must convert. Interesting that they give the religion so much power.

[Midlodemocrat]

20. This morning on GMA, they took that whole lie thing to task pretty well.

Compared it to the swift boating and never get it any credibility at all.

I guess everyone gets it right at least once.

[wryter2000]

24. Going to start a separate thread

My officemate told me that GMA said this morning that the bogus Madrassas story came from Hillary's campaign. I disabused her of that notion, but it wasn't easy. She's convinced that if GMA says something it's true.

[wryter2000]

25. Update

Severall DUer's have pointed out that GMA did NOT say this. In fact, they debunked it.

[Midlodemocrat]

27. About Hillary's camp?

I did hear that they categorically denied it. I had the impression that GMA was blaming Faux for it along with Rush.

[wryter2000]

29. That's true

The did debunk both the story about the school and the lie that Clinton put the story out.

[TZ]

21. isn't this the same fool

who contended that Democrats and Iran's president want the same thing because the letter that the Iranian wrote to the president talked about justice, and freedom and equality or some dangerous stuff like that, that Dems espouse?

[dancingme]

23. And Rush Limpballs is spreading the lie

"The false coloring of Obama's early education gained considerable steam during a "Fox and Friends" round table on Jan. 19, 2006. Host Steve Doocy said that Obama spent "the first decade of his life raised by his Muslim father as a Muslim and was educated in a madrassa." It is almost impossible to tabulate how many false claims are in that sentence.

Doocy went on to colorfully "define" madrassas as "financed by Saudis, they teach the religion that pretty much hates us. The big question: Was that on the curriculum back then?"

"The story seems to have started with Insight magazine, then bounced to Fox News Channel, then to myriad other conservative media outlets including the popular Rush Limbaugh radio program. Often hosts repeating the false charges did so while bemoaning the notion that the Clinton campaign was investigating Obama's past, a charge that remains unproven and unsubstantiated."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2822061&page=2

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

28. This is just like the Alex Polier intern smear against Kerry, which was "supposed" to have

come from the Wes Clark campaign.

Smear one campaign, make the other look bad while claiming all RW hands are free of mud.

[devilgrrl]

34. John Gibson - another bitter Hollywood wannabe

What a pussy