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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOk, it's going 'round FB about some college roommate of Barack Obama's
and how this is going to "destroy" his presidency. Since I am 'of an excitable nature', I did not click the links.
It smacks of Larry Sinclair to me, but I need to smack the monkeys. Where was this guy when B.O. was running for Congress? For Senate? Suddenly, there's some peculiar story from his undergrad(?) days that will jeopardize his presidency?
still_one
(92,190 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)at least get the name right.
yardwork
(61,604 posts)What do you have against the Brookings Institution? Are they promulgating rumors against Obama now? That would be a change in mission.
still_one
(92,190 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,686 posts)That's all you need to say.
maddezmom
(135,060 posts)it's pure garbage and was around last time around and on DU2 the mods deleted this crap.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)Really!
CabCurious
(954 posts)Until you have something to share, don't stir up "concern" and then freak out when it's thrown in your face.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)company notwithstanding.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)as you said.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)as you said.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)It's ok for you to tell others what to do, but not ok for them to tell you. Gotcha.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)Got it. And the world goes 'round.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)uppityperson
(115,677 posts)UnrepentantLiberal
(11,700 posts)LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)yardwork
(61,604 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)that baseless gossipmongering is RUDE, however??
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)Honey, please.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)Lone_Star_Dem
(28,158 posts)Just as it was a foolish distortion which didn't resonate with anyone not already of a Freeper mentality then, so it remains today.
It's a non-issue. It's not censorship to avoid propagating BS, though. That's rather reactionary on your part.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)to marginalize my position on censorship, I will not be bullied.
Thanks.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)what is the point of your post?
that someone said something to you that something (which you don't know) is going to be said by some guy, (you also don't know) which will be really bad (but you don't know that either).
you act like you deserve a Pulitzer Prize for this post. but it's just rumor and innuendo --about nothing because you don't know anything.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)notwithstanding.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)your post about "oooh, there some bad rumor out there, maybe" because you heard it from someone is a joke.
you haven't posted anything.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)Sorry if you feel the need to WHINE about that.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)Calling those who disagree "whiners" and "haters" seems an attempt to bully others into shutting up, into censoring them.
DevonRex
(22,541 posts)Curtland1015
(4,404 posts)Yavin4
(35,438 posts)So that they could stay in a women only residence in NY.
valerief
(53,235 posts)LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)and ... er, what's his name?
sinkingfeeling
(51,454 posts)Last edited Mon Aug 13, 2012, 11:00 AM - Edit history (1)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Allyn_RootHe was the 2008 Libertarian Party vice-presidential nominee.
His political talk radio show,W.A.R: The Wayne Allyn Root Showis broadcast in New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago. Root is a frequent guest on several nationally syndicated radio shows such as Savage Nation, The Jerry Doyle Show, and Mancow's Morning Madhouse. He has also made numerous appearances on various programs on the Fox News Channel. He is a frequent speaker at Tea Party events across the United States.
Root's political columns appear in the Las Vegas Review Journal and at Newsmax.com.
"Root claims that he does not have any recollection of having met or seen Obama at Columbia.."
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)for saving me from this crap! Oh, God Bless You!
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)worse, you'll post it here, without looking for any explanation beforehand.
sigh.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)thank you for your concern.
trayfoot
(1,568 posts)In '08, I was "concerned" about John Edwards - the rumors and articles in ENQUIRER. When I brought this up on DU, I was shouted down in a not so nice way. Truth was, I was a John Edwards supporter who was just trying to learn the truth.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)to be able to smack it down cogently and quickly. A google search gives NOTHING BUt right wing links. Snopes didn't have anything either so I posted it here because I wanted me and anyone who sees this to be able to refute it easily.
aquart
(69,014 posts)Columbia University is the size of a small city. Even if you were signed up for the same classes, you would not necessarily see someone you were not specifically looking for. If you were NOT signed up for the same classes, the chances of seeing someone YOU DID NOT EVEN KNOW....are about the same as running into your dead uncle in Times Square.
Also, Columbia is not a party school, it's a grind school. You know some of the people in your class, your year, and you don't look up until it's all over and someone on a podium is telling you to move your tassel.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)get the red out
(13,466 posts)video that never showed up in the last election? Sounds about the same. Promises that the right won't keep but that get their minions all excited.
Curtland1015
(4,404 posts)LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)lol
Curtland1015
(4,404 posts)It was pretty much just the first lady using the word "honky"... if I'm remembering their claim correctly.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)wasn't it that they were saying she said "whitey" when she said "why'd he"?
Like "why'd he do that? to "whitey do that"
Curtland1015
(4,404 posts)All I remember for sure was that they were up in arms about Michelle using a "white slur" and the video "proving she was racist".
2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)that she had said "why'd he" because "whitey do that" didn't mesh with the rest of the tone of her speaking but "why'd he do that" did.
get the red out
(13,466 posts)Had the freepers drooling on their shoes for a long time waiting.
GoneOffShore
(17,339 posts)But Jerome Corsi (Seriously batshit) is saying that all kinds of weird stuff about the President's roommate and their relationship.
But it's Jerome Corsi - king of the birthers. So that's worth about a penny.
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)At Mon Aug 13, 2012, 06:53 AM an alert was sent on the following post:
Ok, it's going 'round FB about some college roommate of Barack Obama's
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021122775
REASON FOR ALERT:
This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate. (See <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=aboutus#communitystandards" target="_blank">Community Standards</a>.)
ALERTER'S COMMENTS:
do we really need this bigoted gay conspiracy garbage on DU? it's no better than birther nonsense
You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Mon Aug 13, 2012, 07:00 AM, and the Jury voted 1-5 to LEAVE IT.
Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: LadyDeeBug is not some sort of RW troll etc. Her bringing this up IMNSHO is genuine. No reason to block this post.
Juror #2 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: A link from the OP author would have been helpful but I see
nothing disruptive here. What I do see is projecting and abuse of the alert function by the alerter. LEAVE IT
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No links provided. Could be a concern troll but this isn't over the top.
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: It's a discussion board! Discuss away! Leave the post.
Juror #5 voted to HIDE IT and said: We let the 8th-grade stuff pass around here, but this is 6th-grade stuff.
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Thank you very much for participating in our Jury system, and we hope you will be able to participate again in the future.
Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)As a group and a community, we DO need to be prepared to counter this crap when it appears (and it will). It's best to be prepared to debunk it rather than just look puzzled.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)Al Gore saying he invented the internet (No he fucking didn't. Get a grammar lesson), Howard Dean's scream (listen to it in context of the loud room) or just about everything in the Ken (Porno) Starr Report, and it should fucking be OBVIOUS why we need to head these off.
Shit, to beckon the person who wanted to hide my post, it should be fucking ELEMENTARY for sure. Funny that.
CabCurious
(954 posts)LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)I'm flattered.
cali
(114,904 posts)LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)which is stupid.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)because you posted that there's a big, bad rumor about Obama, but not what that rumor is.
so everyone posts asking, "is it this big, bad rumor?" and so forth.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)I am no more responsible for the things other people post than I am for your WHINING.
Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)When the Office Rightwing Dumbass (tm) starts spouting this nonsense at the water cooler (where a half dozen susceptible people can hear it), it would be massively helpful to say, "That's not true, and here's why" rather than just sputter indignantly about Fox News and media bias.
Bluerthanblue
(13,669 posts)to tell it like it is, or find out the facts if no one knows? DU is filled with people who have more knowledge about so many things than any other single site I've ever encountered and is the perfect place to ask a question like this.
Thank you LaydeeBug for asking it- thank you to those who were able to answer with reassuring facts, and thank you to the jury for making the right decision.
If we don't feel able to ask sincere questions here, and get honest answers from people we have come to trust, then DU would not be the great resource and community that I have known and participated in for many many years.
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JHB
(37,160 posts)... at a family gathering (thus no links involved).
Not knowing what the hell this was about I just gave a "do you expect me to believe that load of crap?" look, but I was wondering what the hell he was talking about this time.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)You must be a plant. Or you must *believe* it, otherwise, why would you post it here? Or you must not be able to be as good a Democrat as the BULLIES running around this very thread whining like sniveling little *Republicans*.
Oh, were this shit not true, it'd be funny.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)Panasonic
(2,921 posts)Opposition research is always a very good thing.
I think I'll go over to Meta and add my support!
Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)He's yet to release the picture. Why he's holding back is a real mystery.
GoneOffShore
(17,339 posts)LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)the broken record technique works remarkably well if we don't play 'whack a mole' with their bullshit
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)Arkana
(24,347 posts)People still listen to Jerome Corsi?
Pisces
(5,599 posts)LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)Pisces
(5,599 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)kxm40
(46 posts)Gay Arabs!
JohnnyLib2
(11,211 posts)It's not just FB. There is a book, talk shows, and apparently a radio show.
I put this under "know thy enemy." The effort to maintain and increase the Obama-hater base is not going away.
Bluerthanblue
(13,669 posts)LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)should be, but that's the way it is. I will post about it whenever the *FUCK* I want. They can alert away. Haters gonna hate. Pretending to be some "General Discussion Posting Gestapo" is *probably* making the matter FAR FUCKING WORSE.
"Forgive them Lord, for they know not what they do" In*fucking*deed.
turtlerescue1
(1,013 posts)"Follow the money".
CJCRANE
(18,184 posts)Brickbat
(19,339 posts)LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)the FACT that it's going around.
cali
(114,904 posts)how darling of you, dear.
sinkingfeeling
(51,454 posts)LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)It's fucking *hilarious* that they are doing what they're bitching about.
progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)There are some people, usually newer, that post things like this because they are genuinely concerned, as you seem to be, that this egregious crap is going around the internet.
Then, there are other DUers who seem to always post that crap... and suddenly, the rumor and bs is floating around on DU, being discussed, being indexed by search engines. There are people here who are not supporters of the Democratic ticket, who are here simply to disrupt, to cast doubt, etc. And some are paid to do it.
So there is this OTHER group of DUers that have seen this every single election, and react badly to it because they're tired of the paid trolls who pose as "concerned voters". It's a fine line.
There are a handful of DUers (not you,) that I can identify without even seeing the name of who started the thread. It's clear to me that they have an agenda, but I figure until other people figure it out and alert on them, I'll just wait.
Most of us don't want to give scumbags like Corsi the light of day, or their destructive and hateful rumors. It's not censorship, it's not dignifying it. We already know the enemy, and they suck.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)part of the DU Rules is to discuss anyway. you aren't supposed to be calling people "trolls". It gets done each day by people who think it's ok for THEM not to follow the rules. There are professionals out here too. *HIRED* to do this shit. And still we must refute their lies with FACTS. DU is a clearing house for such matters, and for that I am grateful.
But I am NOT going to have someone try to BULLY ME or ANYONE ELSE to to piss on my boots and tell me it's raining. It's not DIGNIFIED TO BULLY ANOTHER POSTER. It's not dignified to "bait and switch" censorship (i.e., don't talk about this or that, don't bring it up or else) with dignity.
People who claim the moral high ground (and it's not you personally) at all should not be standing in quick sand when they do it.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)and why with basically no content, so that nobody knows which rumor you are talking about?
Response to CreekDog (Reply #87)
Post removed
Logical
(22,457 posts)LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)to this thread despite your lame assed attempt at bullying.
***BLESS YOUR HEART DEAR, BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME***
zzaapp
(531 posts)demmiblue
(36,848 posts)Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)Yay! We have our 2012 Larry Sinclair.
So - when is the lie detector test scheduled for the new one?
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)Even professional MMF fighter posted it. I didn't want to get on a funky mailing it, or whatever contribution you make to the interworld when one clicks on the link, and so I thought I'd ask here.
I got my answer, and a LOT more was TELLING.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)offensive, and I believe the poster is a woman too (sad, but TELLING).
That there were posters, LONGTIME POSTERS who TOOK THE TIME OUT to celebrate spite and be bitter and accusatory rather than be helpful and informative. That's TELLING.
Oh, and so much more just from the bile end, but I honestly don't feel like getting into it all
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)Which is what I responded to. I didn't read this thread - just came here through a jury (post left standing) and thought I would address the OP.
yardwork
(61,604 posts)I'm so out of the loop. First I hear that Brookings changed their name and mission, now this. I can't keep up.
louis-t
(23,292 posts)"You are not gonna BELIEVE what we found!1!!11"
Think, the Kerry 'mistress' story that was disproven within minutes.
All hype and bullshit, lots of screaming, reported by thousands of talk show creeps, then it becomes true in the minds of the feeble.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)After all, *THAT* story wasn't true either, but the damage was done.
I like whack-a-mole. Others like other things.
valerief
(53,235 posts)LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)quinnox
(20,600 posts)Make sure to keep us informed on other facebook rumors going around about Obama!
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)address these things. <<<------ Being 'boring' and not vigilant is how we got Bush.
spanone
(135,831 posts)Curtland1015
(4,404 posts)The OP isn't claiming that she/he believes it's true and isn't claiming that we should all be scared. Only that it's making the rounds and it's another stupid talking point we're going to have jabbed at us.
It let's me know what's coming and have my facts straight when my "in laws" try to start arguments with me.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)I am aghast at these people who THINK they can tell other people what they can and can't post.
Holy crap!
Ezlivin
(8,153 posts)That's more than I can say for Mr. Magic Underwear.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)really.
aquart
(69,014 posts)Personally, having been to college, I am of the opinion that what happens in the Columbia dorms should stay in the Columbia dorms.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)If "the monkeys" are into this particular pile of poo, there is no need to "smack" them. They are beyond hope.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Barack Obama has been president for several years.
If he has not demonstrated sufficient good character in that job for the last several years to one's satisfaction, then do not vote for him. However, to re-hash the "he has some kind of character issue or flaw" at this point in time, based on bizarre allegations involving events decades ago, is to miss the point that the man has BEEN president for some time now.
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)were that the case, it'd be easy to ignore.
jillan
(39,451 posts)I believe Snopes.com debunks this.
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)I certainly hope snopes says something, but I some searches I did before posting this OP at all said there was nothing.
I snopes and google before I ask here.
Avalux
(35,015 posts)Second - if you didn't read the information, how can you form any sort of opinion about it?
And, why bother spreading an unsubstantiated rumor for which you have no details?
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)secondly, I specifically used periods between those initials to stop any web crawling if there is any, and thirdly your questions are fucking silly considering CONTRIBUTORS already quickly and politely dispensed with it so...
why are YOU posing questions that were already answered? why are YOU involving yourself in a thread you CLEARLY haven't bothered to *read*? <<<--------Answer that question for yourself, and you'll have all of YOUR answers. You're welcome.
uppityperson
(115,677 posts)lolly
(3,248 posts)I never hear/see Democrats refer to Obama as "B.O."
That one was supposed to be oh-so-funny because it was identical with a 6th grade insult.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)uppityperson
(115,677 posts)not jesus christ girlfriend, I am a registered nurse" I was saying "Jimmy Carter Gerald Ford, I am a Richard Nixon".
Avalux
(35,015 posts)ieoeja
(9,748 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I attended a university with some 15,000 students and, remarkably, I remember very few of the people who attended the same classes that I did. I had a chemistry lecture section with some 150 students in it. I can recall with accuracy, three of them.
http://www.thefogbow.com/special-reports/people-remember-president-obama/friends-2/#Columbia
yardwork
(61,604 posts)Freeper logic.
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)Some here waited with bated breath ...
treestar
(82,383 posts)Nobody remembered him and that is another Great Mystery and Proof he was born in Kenya.
mzmolly
(50,992 posts)I'm sure some will try and trot out the tired Sinclair lie, again. But, I think Sinclair is as politically 'dangerous' to the President, as he was the first time he reared his hideous, lying face. < (My constitutionally protected opinion.) In other words, the POS is irrelevant, to anyone but the dumb-asses who give him money.
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)mzmolly
(50,992 posts)'concerns' it seems?
just1voice
(1,362 posts)That means some friend of somebody else said something.
Incitatus
(5,317 posts)have came out by now. Lies didn't work in 08 and they are not going to work now