O'Reilly: Native American Community Don't be Offended Geroninmo Just a Code Name for Bin Laden

Has O'Reilly any kind of sense? Our government can do NO wrong by using Geronimo as a code name for the most-wanted TERRORIST the world has ever sought?

His two guests agreed with him. Arthelle Neville and Greg Gutfield. The government did no wrong, the military did no wrong by using a Native American name as a code for a slaughterer, murderer, claimed by the government to be responsible for the loss of 3,000 lives on United States soil (how many jumped out of World Trade Center building there's a good question on history tests)?

I could understand Gutfield and O'Reilly. Neocons, apparently. Stong-g hand.

Neville? No empathy, no common sense, no sympatico?

Why the hell wasn't the code name an acronym? Aim To Kill. ATK. Or anything benign.

Why select the name of a well known defender of his people? Geronimo.

Our government should apologize profusely. And whoever came up with the code should be out of a job. We're sure it wasn't President Barack Obama. And if he had any authorization of the code name - oh ok - I agree to Geronimo - he should be looked at even far more closely than he has been per his early childhood teaching.

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Is Obama Anti-Smear Site Right on Denial Raised Muslim?

Lie:
Barack Obama is a Muslim.

Truth:
Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised as a Muslim, and is a committed Christian.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/invite/christian

The Israel Insider site informs its readers otherwise.

Linked from World Net Daily with the front page Introduction:

Obama's half-brother: Barack grew up Muslim
Kenyan sibling contradicts campaign's claim about Islamic background
--Israel Insider

the Israel Insider article references and links a Jerusalem Post report which quotes a half-brother, Malik Obama...

The Jerusalem Post titles its spot:

Jun 12, 2008 12:15
Malik Obama says his brother will be good president for the Jews

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1212659716936&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

The Israel Insider front page entitles its piece Malik Obama confirms his half-brother Barack grew up a Muslim and introduces its article as

Barack's Kenyan kin takes as a given that his half-brother was brought up Muslim but still thinks President Obama will be good for the Jews.

http://www.israelinsider.com/

But we find the line crediting Obama's half brother Malik with confirming Obama was "raised" Muslim raises more questions about the article's headline and its contents and confirms nothing specifically about Obama being raised a Muslim.

Note the difference:

Israel Insider: Jerusalem Post reports

As the Jerusalem Post reports, "Barack Obama's half brother Malik said Thursday that if elected his brother will be a good president for the Jewish people, despite his Muslim background. In an interview with Army Radio he expressed a special salutation from the Obamas of Kenya."

Headline

Malik Obama confirms his half-brother Barack grew up a Muslim
By Israel Insider staff June 13, 2008

http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/12918.htm

In the Israel Insider piece, the quote referenced does not contain any "confirmation" Obama was raised a Muslim. The Jerusalem Post quote as referenced states Malik (Barack Obama's half brother) said "that if elected his brother will be a good president for the Jewish people, despite his Muslim background..."

Key words are "despite his Muslim background."

That's quite a stretch to Obama was raised a Muslim, which obviously, Obama's half-brother, at least in the quote referenced, does not state.

Having a Muslim background has been admitted. Obama emphatically denies being raised a Muslim on the new anti-rumor website, Fight the Smears and elsewhere.

World Net Daily follows its headliner with a poll question and two "exclusives."

WND POLL
Are you now or have you ever been ...
If it turns out Obama really was raised a Muslim, would it make a difference to you?
--WND

WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Obama anti-smear site: 'He was never a Muslim'
But contemporaries, records indicate candidate once 'quite religious in Islam'

Posted: June 12, 2008
10:50 pm Eastern
By Aaron Klein
© 2008 WorldNetDaily

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=66981


WorldNetDaily Exclusive
TV ad questions Obama's statements on faith
'Whether he was Muslim not as important as whether he's telling truth'
--WND

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/

We won't be surprised when Sean Hannity of Hannity and Colmes graps the headlines from World Net Daily and the Israel Insider and devotes an entire radio hour and program special to the topic without rebuttal directly from the Obama campaign site, or blogs such as ours which attempt to dissect everything down to its roots to reveal the truth.

Bloggers are already discussing the headline and quote as being factual, when nothing in the quote attributed to Barack Obama's half-brother confirms Obama was raised a Muslim. A photograph of Barack Obama appearing as an older man in obviously Muslim clothing has surfaced and been circulated for months.

A Hillary Clinton Forum picked up on the headline

http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=16742

If one reads the Israel Insider piece more thoroughly, in fact, it notes Malik Obama didn't meet his half-brother Barack Obama until 1985, a few years after Obama's father was killed in an car accident.

The Obama brothers' father, a senior economist for the Kenyan government who studied at Harvard University, died in car crash in 1982. He left six sons and a daughter. All of his children - except Malik -- live in Britain or the United States. Malik and Barack met in 1985.

http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/12918.htm

So that bit of info brings up the question how could Malik Obama have any direct knowledge of how Barack Obama was raised when Malik was not raised apparently with Barack during the formative years of childhood?

Our ruling

the statement malik obama confirms his half brother grew up muslim and variations on it appearing in search terms

is debunked

this is the find that comes up - it's a one-liner comment made by Malik Obama during a radio interview and the headline from the Jerusalem Post is quite different than that of the Israel Informer and World Net Daily and other blogs

Malik Obama says his brother will be good president for the Jews

Jun. 12, 2008
JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST
Barack Obama's half brother Malik said Thursday that if elected his brother will be a good president for the Jewish people, despite his Muslim background.

In an interview with Army Radio he expressed a special salutation from the Obamas of Kenya.

This article can also be read at http://www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1212659716936&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1212659716936&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter

Further

Infolive.tv

Malik Obama says his brother will be good president for the Jews
Barack Obama's half brother Malik said Thursday that if elected his brother will be a good president for the Jewish people, despite his Muslim background. In an interview with Army Radio he expressed a special salutation from the Obamas of Kenya.


http://www.infolive.tv/en/infolive.tv-23891-israelnews-malik-obama-says-his-brother-will-be-good-president-jews

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Aired June 13, 2008 - 06:00 ET

Barack Obama dogged by persistent rumors on things like his patriotism and religion. Many claims peppered on the Internet now. So Obama is using cyberspace to fight back. Suzanne Malveaux has more -- Suzanne.

SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN White House CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Kyra, John. Obama has been burned in the past. During the primary season, rumors continue to dog him questioning his patriotism, his faith, sincerity. Well, now, he's trying to reintroduce himself to voters across the country in the general election. So he's not letting false claims spread over the Internet go unanswered.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

MALVEAUX (voice-over): Barack Obama has had enough while he's been dogged by rumors over the Internet for months. It was the claim that his wife Michelle was on videotape in church referring to someone as whitey that propelled his campaign to fight back.

His new Web site, www.fightthesmears.com takes on that rumor first. It cites conservative Republican blogs and talk show host Rush Limbaugh as the sources behind the smear.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

RUSH LIMBAUGH, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: They're waiting to use it in October -- of Michelle going nuts in the church, too, talking about whitey this and whitey that.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MALVEAUX: The Web site counters, the truth is no such tape exists. The rumor hit Obama directly last week when a newspaper reporter confronted him with it.

SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D), PRESUMPTIVE PRES. NOMINEE: There is dirt and lies that are circulated in e-mail, and they pump them out long enough until finally you, a mainstream reporter, asks me about them, and then that gives legs to the story.

MALVEAUX: Another story Obama confronted is the claim he attended a radical Muslim school.

OBAMA: This is the same kind of nonsense that we started with the madrassas, in which CNN had to fly to Jakarta to disprove it.

MALVEAUX: Obama's Web site actually has a link to CNN's report which debunks the false rumor.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, FIGHTTHESMEARS.COM)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The deputy headmaster tells me he's unaware that his school has been labeled an Islamic madrassa by some in the United States and bristles at the thought.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MALVEAUX: Obama's Web site states he is not a Muslim but a Christian. A photo shows he was sworn into the U.S. Senate with his hand on a family bible, not the Koran. And there is video showing him leading the pledge of allegiance debunking the rumor he refuses to do so. The persistent false claims have been frustrating.

OBAMA: Simply because something appears in the e-mail, that should lend it no more credence than if you heard it on the corner.

MALVEAUX: Conventional wisdom has been for candidates to ignore the buzz and hope that the vitriol goes away.

ALEX WELLEN, CNNPOLITICS.COM, DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR: At the lightning speed at which rumors are being spread, it's wise for a lot of these campaigns and they're learning this, to respond in a way that kind of debunks the information quickly.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

MALVEAUX: Obama's campaign aides tell me that the best antidote to a smear campaign is the truth, and it's the campaign's responsibility to make sure the most accurate information about Obama is actually out there. And the Web site also encourages supporters to fight these false claims by sending mass e-mails discrediting the Internet buzz -- John, Kyra.

ROBERTS: Suzanne Malveaux for us this morning. Suzanne, thanks.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0806/13/ltm.01.html

Wright Rejection Obama's Road to Democratic Nomination

This will do it. Obama's clear break with his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright will give the on-the-fence superdelegates the substance to Obama they will have been looking for after North Carolina and Indiana voters express their will at the polling place.

Press Conference Transcript

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/04/29/transcript-obama-press-conference-on-jeremiah-wright/

We were wondering after our earlier post on Rev. Wright's appearance at the National Press Club whether his challenging words were enough to cause Obama to make a clear break with Wright. We didn't think they would be. We wondered whether Wright would have to make a statement over the next days that he did not believe the Holocaust had occurred - it was a Jewish conspiracy.

Nope. Wright didn't have to go that far. He'd gone far enough. We believe that's exactly what Rev. Wright intended. The pastor is no dummy. He understands politics. He can read and understand polls. And his absence from the public scene during his restful few weeks of silence were not enabling Obama to be the clear frontrunner before or after Pennsylvania.

Obama lost, but only by some 200,000 votes and a 9.2 percent spread in Clinton's favor. Not the dramatic push Obama needed to sway a clear majority of superdelegates.

Upcoming a few weeks later are North Carolina and Indiana, and the media and blogs are still going on about Rev. Wright. Wright had to do something dramatic. And that he did.

He overplayed his hand, for those of us who look behind these games, but that was intended. He claimed Obama had not denounced him but did what he had to do politically. He's a politician.

Really now as if Wright doesn't understand that is exactly the image Obama does not want to project and what he is not about.

so what better way to invite rejection, outright rejection, and get that outright rejection than to say among a string of outrageous to anybody statements, say the one thing you know will cause Obama to have to reject you now?

call him out as no different than any other politician.

After watching Obama for near 20-years, marrying him and his wife and baptizing his children, and watching him through a dozen years in the Illinois state Senate and throughout his short few years in the U.S. Senate - and now on his way to capture the nomination of the Democratic Party for President of the U.S. because he has the delegate count and the popular vote count still on his side - Rev. Wright absolutely knows Obama is different than other politicians.

Rev. Wright gave Barack Obama exactly what Obama needed at this point in time - a reason to reject not only the words of Wright, but the man behind the words.

The style of Wright's delivery of his words was revealing. Obama got it right in his response: His performance... he made a caricature of himself.

Exactly. And that's so revealing, because Wright is a very practiced public speaker. He knows the effect of his words, his movements, when he raises his hands in an exclamation point, and his every dance step in tune to his style of music.

Wright acted purposefully to create an outlandish character, himself, so even Obama could not sustain a relationship of any sort with him at all.

Obama had only one recourse - clean and clear denouncement and rejection.

Watch as the polling numbers increase for Barack Obama over the next few days and are maintained through North Carolina and Indiana.

Read what all Barack Obama said in response to hearing and watching Rev. Wright's as Obama puts it, performance, at the National Press Club.

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=barack+obama+rev.+wright+condemns&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=news_result&resnum=1&ct=title

Realize, Rev. Jeremiah Wright has a book already in the works, surely he does, it could be entitled: My ___**** 1 Million Sermons and if he had to lose some "face" and lose a friend, for a few months or a year, or maybe 8 years, he did it for his country - the country that needs an unfettered Barack Obama at this point in time unlike any other.

The media has dogged Obama long enough about Rev. Wright. Now after a few days of discussion and articles, they won't be able to do that.

Jack Cafferty on the Situation Room got it exactly right. This was the best thing for Obama to do... the best thing that could have happened, now this can be put aside.

Barack Obama Blasts Former Pastor; McCain Introduces Health Care Plan; Gas Tax Reality Check Aired April 29, 2008 - 18:00 ET

Jack Cafferty: ...I'm not sure after that performance that Wright put on in front of the National Press Club that this was all that difficult for Barack Obama. It shouldn't have been. What this did was create the opportunity to maybe do what he was reluctant to do the first time. Remember, he distanced himself from the comments, but he said, you know, I've known the man a long time, he married us, blah, blah, blah. He didn't throw the man under the bus.

Now he can stand up and say you know what, he's a bigoted bitter old jerk and I'm out of here. And maybe, in a way, this is the best thing that could have happened, because Reverend Wright, in the beginning, was complaining how those short clips that were running on all of the TV networks were caricatures of him. Well, he walked down to National -- to Washington, D.C. to the National Press Club yesterday and proved that he's nothing much more than a cartoon character mired in the racial bitterness of a generation ago. I mean he's old news now. Maybe it's over.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0804/29/sitroom.03.html

we agree, but we won't put it past the media to cover Rev. Wright no matter who hosts him next. But our bet is Wright won't come back at Obama for the rejection, because Wright basically had every reason to cause the circumstances for the rejection.

(Net the Truth Online)

Partial excerpt

Transcript: Obama Press Conference on Jeremiah Wright
by FOXNews.com
Tuesday, April 29, 2008

QUESTION: You heard the reports about the AIDS comments.

OBAMA: I had not. I had not seen the transcript. What I had heard was he had given a performance, and I thought at the time that it would be sufficient simply to reiterate what I had said in Philadelphia.

Upon watching it, what became clear to me was that it was more than just him defending himself. What became clear to me was that he was presenting a worldview that contradicts who I am and what I stand for.

And what I think particularly angered me was his suggestion somehow that my previous denunciation of his remarks were somehow political posturing. Anybody who knows me and knows what I am about knows that I am about trying to bridge gaps and that I see the commonality in all people.

And so when I start hearing comments about conspiracy theories and AIDS and suggestions that somehow Minister Farrakhan has been a great voice in the 20th century, then that goes directly at who I am and what I believe this country needs.

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/04/29/transcript-obama-press-conference-on-jeremiah-wright/

CNN Transcripts

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/

MSNBC Hardball discussing Wright's Press Club comments and Obama's rejection of Wright after learning of the comments...

MSNBC Transcript

Matthews says unless Obama wins both North Carolina and Indiana this race is going all the way to the convention in Denver.

Of course, and that's exactly why the media has dogged Obama about the Rev. Wright comments from previously - so they could keep giving Clinton supporters hope that something really damning would affect Obama's chances... this after Obama is ahead in delegates and popular vote to date.

Ed Gordon: Obama has to get back on his message.

Howard Fineman: Obama has to get ahead of Hillary Clinton tactics... promising everything...

Margaret Carlson: it's an absolute stunt, Hillary Clinton's gas tax holiday... just hand out whatever it is... Obama is done with the Wright story, he can't follow her on this gas tax...

Matthews: pandering tends to work in the Democratic Party... will pandering sell.

Fineman: it could work for Hillary as a theme for the rest of the primary season if she makes it look like action and not speeches...

Net the Truth Online

Obama 'outraged' by Wright's remarks
Obama said he is outraged by Wright's remarks that seemed to suggest the U.S. government might be responsible for the spread of AIDS in the black community and his equation of some American wartime efforts with terrorism.

"What particularly angered me was his suggestion somehow that my previous denunciation of his remarks were somehow political posturing," Obama said, adding that Wright had shown "little regard for me" and seemed more concerned with "taking center stage."

Obama said Wright's comments were not only "divisive and destructive," but they "end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate." Watch Obama describe Wright's comments »

Obama said he did not think Wright's comments accurately portrayed the perspective of the black church and said they "certainly do not portray accurately" his own values and beliefs.

Throughout his campaign, Obama has said he wants to be a uniter, said Bill Schneider, a CNN senior political analyst...

...Obama said Monday that Wright's remarks were "antithetical to our campaign; it was antithetical to what we're about." Watch Obama denounce Wright's remarks »

"I cannot prevent him from making these remarks," but "when I say I find these comments appalling, I mean it. It contradicts what I'm about and who I am. ... It is completely opposed to what I stand for and where I want to take this country."

In a break with previous comments, Obama focused his criticism on Wright the man, and not simply his remarks.

Obama said he gave Wright "the benefit of the doubt" before his speech on race relations.

"What we saw yesterday from Rev. Wright was a resurfacing and, I believe, an exploitation of these old divisions," Obama said.

Obama said he did not see a transcript of Wright's remarks until Tuesday...

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/29/obama.wright/index.html

Barack Obama denounces Rev Jeremiah Wright
By Alex Spillius in Washington
Last Updated: 8:04PM BST 29/04/2008

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/1911973/Barack-Obama-denounces-Rev-Jeremiah-Wright.html

FACTBOX: Obama condemns ex-pastor's "appalling" remarks
Tue Apr 29, 2008 5:52pm EDT

http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed1/idUSN2928781420080429

Rev. Wright Taunts Journalists, Blasts Government
April 28: The Rev. Jeremiah Wright taunts the national media in Washington, D.C.

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright taunted a gathering of journalists Monday in Washington, D.C., calling their coverage of his speeches an attack on the black church, while defending his claim that the U.S. was responsible for the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

Wright, the controversial former pastor of Barack Obama’s church, took dead aim at the U.S. government Monday — saying American soldiers in Iraq have died “over a lie” and calling the war “unjust” — as he called for reconciliation and understanding between blacks and whites.

Wright was speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. as he continues a series of nationwide appearances following an uproar over remarks he made in some of his sermons delivered from the pulpit.

Click here to read a full transcript of Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s remarks and question-answer session at the National Press Club.

http://www.thecitizen.com/~citizen0/node/27780

Rev. Wright Show Goes On
Posted Apr 28th 2008 9:00AM by Faye Anderson
Filed under: BlackSpin, Elections, Barack Obama, Rev. Jeremiah Wright

Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. is making headlines again. In recent days, he was interviewed by Bill Moyers and delivered a speech before the Detroit Branch of the NAACP...

http://www.blackvoices.com/blogs/2008/04/28/rev-wright-speaks-out/

Obama looks to put controversial pastor behind him

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080430/ap_on_el_pr/obama_wright

Reverend Wright at the National Press Club
Published: April 28, 2008
Following is the transcript of the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.'s remarks to the National Press Club, as provided by CQ Transcriptions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/28/us/politics/28text-wright.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

December 2007 Atlantic Monthly
Is Iraq Vietnam? Who really won in 2000? Which side are you on in the culture wars? These questions have divided the Baby Boomers and distorted our politics. One candidate could transcend them.
by Andrew Sullivan
Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters

...But he knows, and privately acknowledges, that the fundamental point of his candidacy is that it is happening now. In politics, timing matters. And the most persuasive case for Obama has less to do with him than with the moment he is meeting. The moment has been a long time coming, and it is the result of a confluence of events, from one traumatizing war in Southeast Asia to another in the most fractious country in the Middle East. The legacy is a cultural climate that stultifies our politics and corrupts our discourse.

Obama’s candidacy in this sense is a potentially transformational one. Unlike any of the other candidates, he could take America—finally—past the debilitating, self-perpetuating family quarrel of the Baby Boom generation that has long engulfed all of us. So much has happened in America in the past seven years, let alone the past 40, that we can be forgiven for focusing on the present and the immediate future. But it is only when you take several large steps back into the long past that the full logic of an Obama presidency stares directly—and uncomfortably—at you...

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200712/obama