WTF?? "Enquirer Claims Obama Behind Murder of Gay Choir Director of His Church"

[orleans]

i guess malloy walk talking about this--first i heard of it. i am getting so fucking sick of all this BULLSHIT i could PUKE.


March 24, 2008 at 08:16:17

Headlined on 3/24/08:
New Anti-Obama Smears in Tabloids Owned by Staunch Clintonista

Tabloid Stories May Be Politically Motivated

But the tabloid attempts to smear Obama didn't stop there. Since then, Globe ran a story in which a Minnesota man claims that he had a gay sexual relationship with Obama in 1999 and that the Illinois senator smoked crack cocaine.

At the same time, another of Globe's sister tabloids, the National Enquirer, claimed that, among other things, "Obama's amazing appeal to woman has ignited shouting matches" between the senator and his wife, Michelle.

Much more seriously, the Enquirer -- citing "a top Chicago private investigator" whom the tabloid didn't name -- insinuated that Obama had something to do with the murder last December of the choir director of Obama's church in Chicago.

Supporters of the Illinois senator are convinced that the articles are politically motivated, but don't know who's behind them. But an examination of the tabloids' ownership yields one very interesting finding.

It turns out that American Media Inc., the parent company of the Enquirer, Globe and the Examiner, is, in turn, controlled by Evercore Partners, whose founder, chairman, co-CEO and principal owner is Roger Altman, a prominent New York investment banker.

Altman is also a former deputy treasury secretary in the administration of President Bill Clinton -- and a key economic advisor of Hillary Clinton's campaign for the White House.

Enquirer Claims Obama Behind Murder of Gay Choir Director of His Church

The Enquirer, in dramatic fashion, published a story in its March 17 issue claiming that Obama may have had something to do with the murder last December of Donald Young, the choir director at the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, to which Obama has been a member for more than 20 years.

Yes, it's the same church whose former pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, made headlines with his inflammatory sermons -- a controversy that threatened to derail Obama's campaign and forced the Illinois senator to confront the race issue head-on in a powerful speech last Tuesday that evoked memories of John F. Kennedy's 1960 speech on the controversy over his Roman Catholic faith.

The 47-year-old Young was found dead in his South Side apartment two days before Christmas, the victim of multiple gunshot wounds. A spokesperson for the Cook County medical examiner's office would say only that Young's death was ruled a homicide and that Chicago police were investigating the incident.

Why would the editors of the Enquirer, Globe, Examiner and other Altman-controlled tabloids publish these wild allegations about Obama without a shred of evidence to back them up -- and knowing full well of their boss' ties to the Clinton campaign?

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http://www.opednews.com/articles/2/opedne_skeeter__080323_new_anti_obama_smear.htm

:puke:

[scheming daemons]

1. Dude... it's the freaking National Enquirer..... Come on, already....

...

[orleans]

2. and the globe, and the examiner

"dude" aren't you sick of this shit?

btw--i'm not a "dude"

[Yes We Did]

7. Whatever... they're still tabloids.

[scheming daemons]

8. Yeah.. you're right.... the Globe and Examiner are MUCH better......

:eyes:

[papau]

21. Goes to show what nice folks Hillary supporters are - no DU posts on any of that

[Umbram]

27. Not true

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4641977

Thanks for playing though.

[Emit]

30. Owned by Evercore Capital Part., headed by Altman, Clinton's former Deputy Treasury Secretary.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=5027883

Silly stuff, but nevertheless, they're at every grocery counter, and someone's buying them. :shrug:

[anigbrowl]

3. Becuase they make money out of peddling nonsense

It's very hard to sue for libel in the US and almost impossible if you're a public figure - the legal hurdles are so high because of the first amendment that you are better off just ignoring it. In this case yeah, they are probably trying to please the publisher...on the other hand, there's been plnety of stories like 'Hill tells Bill: It's Over!!'

I think about 25% of these papers are bought by stoners who want a laugh and the other 75% by people who don't vote or always vote GOP.

[Katina]

4. oh yeah, same source for the Vince Foster murder

yeah, believable.

[pnwmom]

5. Why would these tabloids publish these stories? To make MONEY.

They publish whatever they think will sell. Truth isn't an issue, money is.

[AnnieBW]

6. Obama Fathered Alien Love Child with Britney!

Is their next headline.

[Bigleaf]

9. Fuck! No wonder the over 65 females are Hillarys base. The Enquirer has the same base.

[bilgewaterbill]

11. I think you're on to something there.

[anamandujano]

18. They probably buy it for belly laughs, not for freaking out like the OP.

[JoFerret]

33. Ah! Lovely. Another uniter

It's remarks like that by committed Obama supporters that make him just sooo unattractive.

Keep up the slice and dice on the electorate.

[Bigleaf]

34. Oh come on. Laugh a little. It was a joke.

[JoFerret]

35. Nah. Not a joke but a bit of a silly game

...imagine the possibilities of extending it to other groups. Let's say - young black men. Not useful, not sensible, wildly unfair.

[LTR]

10. If we were to believe the Enquirer...

...Bill and Hillary would have been divorced about 15 times by now. Same with the Dubyas.

And Dubya himself would be bangin' Condi every night in the Warren Harding Memorial Broom Closet.

In other words, it's all bullshit, and the people who believe that are too stupid to find their polling place to vote anyway.

[Unsane]

12. and John Edwards has a love child

[totodeinhere]

13. Why are you dignifying sleazy crap like this?

[CitizenLeft]

14. I think this is the pertinent part:

It turns out that American Media Inc., the parent company of the Enquirer, Globe and the Examiner, is, in turn, controlled by Evercore Partners, whose founder, chairman, co-CEO and principal owner is Roger Altman, a prominent New York investment banker.

Altman is also a former deputy treasury secretary in the administration of President Bill Clinton -- and a key economic advisor of Hillary Clinton's campaign for the White House.

That doesn't make that the motivation, it probably is just trash for profit. And it definitely doesn't mean that this Altman has any input whatsoever with what is printed daily. But it does give you pause.

[anamandujano]

17. If Altman were trying to help Hillary, he would not publish this because

every time poor widdle Bama stubs a toe, it's blamed on Hillary's dirty tricks.

[CitizenLeft]

23. I have no idea what you said, you're on "ignore"

If you posted something nasty and hostile, too bad. It was wasted.

On the other hand, if your post was pleasant, thoughtful, mildly argumentative, or honestly upset, I apologize that I can't respond. I hope that, after we have a nominee, we can have discourse again.

[orleans]

22. ...this is why

"What the tabloid's readers, in politics and out, may not know is that a key owner of the Enquirer is a prominent New York investment banker and one of Hillary Clinton's key backers, Roger Altman. Altman was an official in the first Clinton administration, and his name is often mentioned as a possible Clinton Treasury Secretary."
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1007/The_Clintonite_who_owns_National_Enquirer.html

[Beregond2]

15. !

I heard that Obama is the biological father of Batboy!

[JKaiser]

16. More reason not to vote for him

j/k

[zonkers]

19. I just knew murdering the gay choir guy was going to come back and bite Obama in the ass.

[MonkeyFunk]

20. uh oh....

Gay zombie ass-biting choir directors?!?! That can't be good.

[orleans]

24. lol n/t

[donheld]

25. Oh great! now we're getting our material from the Enquirer?

If that isn't a new low. And people complain because we want to "let it sink"

[Umbram]

28. No, HRC supporters hit that low a while back

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4641977

[Kurovski]

26. FINALLY! I get to vote for a president who's a murderer going INTO office.

None of this "waiting for them to declare illegal war" crap!

[Eurobabe]

29. Then why bother posting this filth here?

National Anthrax Enquirer??

[kevinmc]

31. Well I guess I won't vote for him either ....

can't have a murderer running loose in the WH.

[JoFerret]

32. Welcome to tabloid world

Congratulations - feel proud that Obama has made it to their "level". It means he is doing well. The Clintons have been fodder for years.

Now - what is your theory on the anthrax?

[surfermaw]

36. If there is any thing out there the Enquirer will come up with it they have the money to buy info.

During Oj. trial they had better information that our leading news papers, if they don't find the truth, then there is nothing to worry about... They have all the money in the world to buy information.