Nonsense

Oh, I thought you WROTE it. No, wait. That was Bill Ayers who wrote his thesis.

Or was it Chairman Mao?

And did you see it in the original Kiswahili?

You ought to be chuffed. There are envious blokes in the rightosphere.

Joe - You do realize that by denying that you have seen it, you have confirmed to the wingnuts that you have seen it? That's the logic they practice

In your last post you just got done telling us:

"If the problem is broader--that Fox News spreads seditious lies ...The best antidote to their garbage is elegant, intelligent governance

Using the same standard wouldn't your best antidote to this rumor is elegant intelligent journalism?

-MBirchmeier

Clearly, Joe, the fact that this rumor exists proves that TIME magazine should, in your words, "be a bit more diligent about whom it hires".

So, can someone fill me in on this so-called "meltdown" that I missed?

I think I see what happened here: Rush Limbaugh was using a fake unsourced quote from a parody site to draw out everyone who just reused the Wikiquotes to bash him.

I've read Obama's thesis. In fact, I'm holding a copy right now. Anyone who wants me to email them a pdf copy should post here.

(Note: This is his thesis from kindergarten where he declares that, "One day, I want to be president!")

Crazy Pete Hoekstra told me that you told him about the thesis. I have neither the time nor the legal background to decide if he is right.

Hmmm... The White House isn't supposed to defend itself from the constant barrage of attacks from Fox "News" because it would give Fox 'greater spasms of self-inflation'. But it's OK for Joe to defend himself.

Joe, I sympathize with your problem. It sucks to be slandered and lied about. I just wish you'd be a bit more consistent.

I'm trying to work out why anyone cares whether you've seen it or not.

The bright side for the left is that the lap dog MSM will have something to write about instead of rising unemployment, porkulus having no impact, or any proof that the TARP actually helped.

Why bother with these when you can report on a thesis from a C+ student

Everything's always about you, isn't it, Joke Line?

" .. I have no idea where this report comes from--but I can assure you that it's complete nonsense. .."

If you hadn't mentioned it, most of us wouldn't have known about it.
Now what was that about spreading manure ... and those who have the time and inclination to spread it?

Joe, have you asked for a retraction? Isn't that what is usually done?

"Update: Michael Ledeen now has apologized to me..."
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I can't tell you how relieved I am to hear that.
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Because maybe you will STFU for a little while.

[...] problem: It was a hoax, actually marked as a satire, as Klein blogged earlier today. Ledeen [...]

[...] Klein caught wind of the thesis that people were saying he had read and penned a post at Swampland, saying that it was “nonsense.” A report is circulating among the wingnuts that I had a peek at Barack Obama’s senior thesis. [...]

Not surprisingly, Dobbs is pushing this lie (and staying true to form, he has not corrected his error). He's just a mean, nasty crank these days. Pressure and declining ratings are obviously getting to him.

[...] Klein finally jumped in, and called the report "nonsense" on his Swampland blog, and the blogger who thought the hoax was real also [...]

Joe, at 12:49 today you advised the Obama administration to practice stoicism in regards to the lies that the Right Wing is pushing.
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"If the problem is broader--that Fox News spreads seditious lies to its demographic sliver of an audience--the Administration should probably be stoic: the wingnuts will always be with us."
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90 minutes later you rushed to this blog to decry the lies being pushed about you. By responding to the lies aren't you just inflating Rush? Wouldn't stoicism have been a better response?

[...] I have no idea where this report comes from--but I can assure you that it's complete nonsense. Nonsense - Swampland - TIME.com [...]

[...] around to asking Joe Klein, who was cited in the piece, about his opinion on the Obama thesis, he thoroughly debunked the article as untrue (having not seen a copy of the thesis he supposedly discovered and all).  [...]

[...] Joe Klein at Swampland at Time: A report is circulating among the wingnuts that I had a peek at Barack Obama’s senior thesis. It is completely false. I’ve never seen Obama’s thesis. I have no idea where this report comes from–but I can assure you that it’s complete nonsense. [...]

Hannity is a thug I don;t think so. Why not attack him for his ideas instead of the name calling What shld bother Klein is the fact that the Presdt and his administration single out a network for attack. Seems like an attempt at intimidation to me. Reminiscent of when the Nixon administration went after the Washington Post and NY Times. And I would think that the more the administration attacks Fox the more it will help their ratings.