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Citations in Freddoso's anti-Obama book rife with misinformation
Summary: The first few pages of David Freddoso's book, The Case Against Barack Obama, are marked by false and misleading assertions about Sen. Barack Obama, accompanied by dubious citations. A Media Matters review of the endnotes reveals that the rest of the book is little different from these first few pages, as throughout the book, Freddoso misrepresents or distorts his sources and even makes assertions that are actually refuted by sources he cites.
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Posted by wolf kotenberg
Posted Tuesday August 5, 2008 9:19:16 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by carlileb5935 in reply to wolf kotenberg
Did anybody else note that in #3, he actually plagiarized the supposed newspaper article "source,", by framing his passage the same way, merely substituting different synonyms and verbs?
That would be a no-no in a college class.
Besides phony footnoting, these guys always end up plagiarizing other people's work. It's something to watch for-- a googling of his more purple or involved passages might come up with something interesting down the line...
Posted Wednesday August 6, 2008 2:53:17 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by achrispage6992 in reply to wolf kotenberg
Posted Wednesday August 6, 2008 11:03:38 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by foghornleghorn in reply to achrispage6992
If Jesus Christ was the Democratic Nominee...
Let's imagine the talking points.
Jesus cares about the poor, so he's a socialist/communist/marxist.
Jesus is a pacifist and therefore a terrorist sypathizer.
Posted Wednesday August 6, 2008 11:34:40 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by wzwriter in reply to foghornleghorn
Let's imagine the talking points.
Jesus cares about the poor, so he's a socialist/communist/marxist.
Jesus is a pacifist and therefore a terrorist sypathizer.
Not to mention the long hair and the beard.....
Posted Wednesday August 6, 2008 12:18:05 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by eweston8542983
He is the very model of a major modern wingnut.
If he ain't prepared, fake it. His audience will never notice.
Posted Tuesday August 5, 2008 11:15:29 PM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by Col. Harlan Sanders in reply to eweston8542983
Posted Wednesday August 6, 2008 12:27:33 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by wolf kotenberg in reply to Col. Harlan Sanders
Posted Wednesday August 6, 2008 1:02:55 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by wzwriter in reply to wolf kotenberg
Wonder if there is a link between Corsi and Fredozzo ?
They're both stupid? :-)
Posted Wednesday August 6, 2008 8:31:15 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by pearlene_scott1602
The first few pages of David Freddoso's book, The Case Against Barack Obama, are marked by false and misleading assertions about Sen. Barack Obama, accompanied by dubious citations.
Surprised? NOT
Posted Wednesday August 6, 2008 1:06:23 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by wzwriter in reply to pearlene_scott1602
The first few pages of David Freddoso's book, The Case Against Barack Obama, are marked by false and misleading assertions about Sen. Barack Obama, accompanied by dubious citations.
And after that, it's all downhill... :-)
(Any minute now, I predict Shoes89 will slither in here to declare MMFA's criticism of Fressoso's book "lame", and then go on to declare "The Case Against Barack Obama" the greatest literary work of all time.....)
Posted Wednesday August 6, 2008 8:30:45 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by captfoster2 in reply to wzwriter
Any minute now, I predict Shoes89 will slither in here to declare MMFA's criticism of Fressoso's book "lame"
I personally would predict it to be Science101
Posted Wednesday August 6, 2008 9:40:31 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by eweston8542983 in reply to captfoster2
Nah he's busy defending the oil companies.
I think half the posts on the subject yesterday were his. Mind there wasn't a lot of variation in what he did post...continously.
Posted Wednesday August 6, 2008 9:48:28 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by captfoster2
This post fits in as perfectly as the one about Corsi that I did..... only with a few changes.... I post it here as well!
I've said this before here and in every other place I blog.... hell, I even brought my kids up on this (only for them I cleaned it up a bit)------>
The truth is a bitch when one relies on lying!
Moral: It is easier to stand in front of people and tell the truth than it is to lie.... as the truth is what really happened.... where a lie (or in the case of this Fredosso charactor) a bunch of lies are a story of the imagination! A made up story that needs constant looking after..... in other words... what did NOT happen!
Think you'll ever see Freddoso on TV beyond FoxNoise talking about these slanderous books? Might... but I doubt it!
Posted Wednesday August 6, 2008 8:51:15 AM EDT / Flag this comment
Posted by princeofwheels
Posted Wednesday August 6, 2008 11:51:30 AM EDT / Flag this comment