"The Obama Loving media’s attack on the truth"

By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown, Western Center for Journalism

"David Frum is a conservative? That is shocking news to us. The L.A. Times quoted the “conservative” Frum, to attack news organizations that demand the truth about Obama’s eligibility. Frum called these theories “wild accusations and the paranoid delusions coming from the fever swamps.” He is worried that these groups will somehow diminish the credibility of the more mainline critiques of Obama’s liberal agenda.

"It is quite ironic that the L.A. Times quotes David Frum, and refers to him as a “conservative,” when the former Bush speechwriter endorsed Obama over McCain in the last presidential election. So a former Republican operative who endorses a liberal Democrat and makes his living disparaging conservatives in the press is a “conservative”? Interesting. What is also interesting is that the L.A. Times hit piece that attacked WorldNetDaily did not bother to interview the news site’s editor, Joseph Farah. Unlike the rest of the Obama-loving media, Farah and his crew at WorldNetDaily are pursuing the truth and reporting on and investigating the Obama eligibility story.

"Rather than being fringe or unnecessary, the questions WorldNetDaily and others are reporting on remain very significant.

"Call us crazy. Call us conspiracy theorists. We prefer to think of ourselves as inquisitive and investigative. If someone tells us to ignore the elephant in the room, we generally ignore the messenger. While the media and their favorite “mainstream” conservatives are willing to ignore the mounting questions and evidence, we prefer to dig deeper into yet unanswered questions. If the same people in the media who are disparaging those who ask these questions would have done some investigating in the past, perhaps the issue would be resolved.

"President Obama has hidden and suppressed more information than any other president in recent history. While Obama campaigned on the promise of a “more open and transparent government,” he has conveniently exempted his personal records from that promise. Obama has yet to release his long-form birth certificate, numerous university and college records, his medical records and a myriad of other documents. As a candidate for the highest office in the land, with a top-secret security clearance, shouldn’t Obama be required to produce a document that the rest of us show to get a driver’s license at 16? Doesn’t Obama have a constitutional obligation to prove his eligibility?

"We now know that Obama lied in his autobiography as well as in his recent speech to schoolchildren. Obama claimed his father left him and his mom behind when he headed to Harvard in 1962.

"In reality, his mom began attending class at the University of Washington 15 days after he was born, leaving the father behind in Hawaii. This sort of discrepancy is quite common in Obama’s fairy tale story.

"The media have never vetted Obama – all we know about him comes from two autobiographies that when stacked against the historical record do not add up. This has nothing to do with racism.

"If a president is caught lying, those lies should be investigated.

"With the media constantly neglecting their duty to report objectively on Obama, it should surprise no one that they are ignoring the recent news that a federal judge has ordered a federal eligibility case to go to trial. You would think it would be slightly newsworthy that the president of the United States is facing a trial before a federal judge about whether he is eligible to be president. The only time the mainstream media even mentions the eligibility story is when they use it to denounce citizens or online journalists as being conspiracy theorists.

"As was shown in the recent reporting on ACORN and the reporting on Obama Green Czar Van Jones, the mainstream media are powerless to censor the news. Persistent conservative media outlets and investigative journalists now have the ability to push the story to the forefront even when the mainstream media do their best to ignore it, or even worse, suppress it.

"The conservative movement and, more importantly, the American people benefit from true journalists who pursue the truth without regard for what so-called “conservatives” like David Frum or the Los Angeles Times think about them. Rather than discrediting the movement as a whole, these people who put the truth first will ultimately lead our movement and our country back to prominence."

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