Obama Rep Calls Fox "Appallingly Irresponsible" For Madrassah References

[NYCGirl]

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/

Fox News repeatedly pushed a right-wing magazine accusation that a young Barack Obama "attended a madrassah" and was raised as a Muslim last week, Howard Kurtz notes in today's WP.

Obama's spokesman responds: "To publish this sort of trash without any documentation is surprising, but for Fox to repeat something so false, not once, but many times is appallingly irresponsible."

Additionally, "Obama aides complained to Fox about what the campaign deemed inflammatory language" during the segments on Fox & Friends and The Big Story.

Today at 6:10am, during Fox & Friends First, Steve Doocy said "we want to clarify something. On Friday of last week, we did the story from the Insight magazine where we talked about how they were quoting that Barack Obama, when he was a child growing up in Indonesia, had attended a madrassah. Mr. Obama's people called and they said that is absolutely false. They said the idea that Barack Obama went to a radical Muslim school is completely ridiculous." "We would love to have Barack Obama back on the show," Gretchen Carlson added...

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. All right, what movie is that a quote from?

"But that's not true!"
"Who cares? Get him on record denying it!"

[Rosemary2205]

2. Exactly!!

It's Politics 101.

[indepat]

3. RW media whores modus operandi: slash, burn, destroy and do not let the facts or truth get in the

way.

[Supersedeas]

7. Rovian politics 101

[rodeodance]

4. is Steve the Fox weatherman?

[madrchsod]

5. i thought everyone knew that..

well osama hussein obama ya better get used to it...

[populistdriven]

6. We need a special asking about Condi's sexuality

its fair game now...

[NYCGirl]

8. Why? NT

[RamboLiberal]

9. Good - that is what they need to do - let Faux know they

won't let them do this kind of swiftboating. And if that doesn't work Obama needs to take the gloves off and do a Bill Clinton on Chris Wallace smackdown!

Don't make the mistake the Kerry campaign did thinking this crap would die down.

[dancingme]

10. Right Wing radio is spreading this lie

While driving home on Friday (and briefly checking the right wing nut stations) I heard a caller state that Obama was raised a Muslim and attended a radical Muslim school. I think it was Michael Medved's show. Could have been Hannity.

[sakabatou]

11. Fact checkers?

What fact checkers?

[Fridays Child]

12. I wonder how many times Fox will repeat their "clarification."

And to "clarify" is not to issue a retraction. They owe Obama a retraction, and it should be replayed in all of the time slots that the original lies played. I won't hold my breath, however.

[SemperEadem]

13. Obama's best riposte to this 'swiftboating'

would be to say " you know, Jesus was swiftboated, too". It would turn this on its ear.