The White House Takes on Forbes

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The White House Takes on Forbes
— By Kevin Drum



The White House gets it. Here's their reaction to the Dinesh D'Souza/Newt Gingrich contention that Barack Obama is motivated by neocolonial hatred of white people and the West:

"It's a stunning thing, to see a publication you would see in a dentist's office, so lacking in truth and fact," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says in an interview. "I think it represents a new low."

Gibbs is meeting with Thursday afternoon with Forbes's Washington bureau chief, Brian Wingfield, to discuss his objections. "Did they not fact-check this at all, or did they fact-check it and just willfully ignore it?" he asks.

The magazine would not make Editor-in-Chief Steve Forbes, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 1996 and 2000, available for comment, or any other editor.

D'Souza is a longtime firebrand who gets his kicks saying outlandish things. Gingrich will do anything for attention. If that's all there was to this, it would hardly be worth responding to.

Except that this all appeared in Forbes, a mainstream magazine that, as Gibbs put it, "you would see in a dentist's office." That's something new.

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http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/09/white-house-takes-forbes

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1. Obama's problem with big business is that it's over-privatized and under-regulated

Why WOULDN'T a pro-big business magazine allow an anti-Obama article, especially neocon-artists with credibility problems? Don't give them free advertising, Mother Jones!

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