Insight Mag: Gore mulling third party run in '08

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Is this some kind of Onion thing? Is Insight part of the "Just Make Shit Up" school of journalism.

Nader and Gore may have buried the hatchet, but this aint happening
http://www.insightmag.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=5D3B38F8A2584DB5A77BA05660C6045C&nm=Free+Access&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=AF78CF08A2B54E6FBD091E5251011D58

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Idiot Freepers excited and rejoicing and wondering how DU will react
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1808429/posts

by laughing our asses off, that's how

[blue cat]

1. There is no way

He wouldn't do that to the democratic party.

[hlthe2b]

6. agree... Insight Mag is associated with the Moonie Wash Times

IIRC.... Enough said

[Bucky]

10. Thanks for the context

Anyone who knows Al Gore would ever believe that. He's as yeller dog as they come.

[ruiner4u]

2. uht-o...

i can already see the fights...

[Radical Activist]

3. Hard to believe.

Especially the part about Nader recruiting him to run. Doesn't that officially make Nader's entire 2000 candidacy completely unjustified bullshit by his own admission? Nader would have to finally apologize for running and I think he's too proud to do that.

[MH1]

Isn't Insight a right winger publication? n/t

[yellowcanine]

4. Isn't this the same Moonie rag that touted the Obama/Madressa B.S.?

I think it is safe to say they don't know WTF they are talking about.

[NYCGirl]

5. Insight Magazine is the sister publication of the Washington Times and

is published by the Moonies. It can't get wingnuttier than that.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Insight_Magazine

Insight on the News is a national biweekly newsmagazine published in Washington D.C by the Washington Times Corp. On its website it describes states "as Newsweek is the sister publication of the Washington Post, Insight is the sister publication of the Washington Times".<1>

Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church owns The Washington Times, UPI and Insight Magazine.

Insight was a freely distributed magazine owned by the Unification Church and was meant to propagate far right-wing views on university campuses in the United States. The magazine promoted Reagan's war in El Salvador, and attempted to smear the Salvadoran guerrillas or their political arm. It similarly promoted the Contras fighting against the Nicaraguan government. It also promoted several speaking tours of the leading Contra leaders and their Puebla Institute apologists.

Although originally developed as a US university campus publication, it seems that this wasn't successful. The magazine was pushed upscale into a biweekly magazine competing with US News and World Report. The first issues of the magazine were glossy and millions of issues were dispensed for free around the US to carve out a niche. Massive resources were spent on this operation.

[Telly Savalas]

Sam Brownback is going to switch to the Democrats and try to get the nomination.

Also, Denver is going to trade Allen Iverson to Houston for draft picks, and John Grisham is working on a novel that doesn't have any characters who are lawyers.

[WePurrsevere]

7. Consider the source.... according to Sourcewatch...

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Insight

Insight on the News is a national biweekly newsmagazine published in Washington D.C by the Washington Times Corp. On its website it describes states "as Newsweek is the sister publication of the Washington Post, Insight is the sister publication of the Washington Times".<1>

Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church owns The Washington Times, UPI and Insight Magazine.

<snip>

Insight was a freely distributed magazine owned by the Unification Church and was meant to propagate far right-wing views on university campuses in the United States. The magazine promoted Reagan's war in El Salvador, and attempted to smear the Salvadoran guerrillas or their political arm. It similarly promoted the Contras fighting against the Nicaraguan government. It also promoted several speaking tours of the leading Contra leaders and their Puebla Institute apologists.

<snip>

In recent years it has covered issues and topics that many other conservative magazines have covered, including rejection of the UN, pro-corporate policy, and anti-immigration rhetoric.

[John Q. Citizen]

8. Rumors and gossip. I read that Regis is dying in the check out line and I

figured that was probably true, and at the current rate he'd be dead in 20 - 25 years.

[Pirate Smile]

9. Insight Mag. is where the Obama - Madrassa story came from which they said was from Hillary

people - trying to slime both Obama and Hillary at the same time.

They have zero credibility.



CNN debunks false report about Obama
POSTED: 2:01 a.m. EST, January 23, 2007

JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) -- Allegations that Sen. Barack Obama was educated in a radical Muslim school known as a "madrassa" are not accurate, according to CNN reporting.

Insight Magazine, which is owned by the same company as The Washington Times, reported on its Web site last week that associates of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-New York, had unearthed information the Illinois Democrat and likely presidential candidate attended a Muslim religious school known for teaching the most fundamentalist form of Islam.

Obama lived in Indonesia as a child, from 1967 to 1971, with his mother and stepfather and has acknowledged attending a Muslim school, but an aide said it was not a madrassa. (Watch video of Obama's school )

Insight attributed the information in its article to an unnamed source, who said it was discovered by "researchers connected to Senator Clinton." A spokesman for Clinton, who is also weighing a White House bid, denied that the campaign was the source of the Obama claim.

He called the story "an obvious right-wing hit job."

Insight stood by its story in a response posted on its Web site Monday afternoon.

The Insight article was cited several times Friday on Fox News and was also referenced by the New York Post, The Glenn Beck program on CNN Headline News and a number of political blogs. (Watch how the Obama "gossip" spread )

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/22/obama.madrassa/

[Kelly Rupert]

11. THIS IS HUGH!!! THIS IS A CREDIBUL SORSE!!!!!!!!

:rofl:

[tbyg52]

12. And this is why I come to DU

to get the background story.

C'mon people! Rate this up for the newbies!

[RestoreGore]

13. He has stated the political process is toxic

Therefore, if he truly wished to run it would then follow logically that he would not run in that system which does include both parties... that he would want to do so in a way that he would be apart from it completely and be able to run it his way. While I do not think he will run, I could most definitely get behind him doing so in that fashion and I think Republicans would get their butts handed to them. He is an American first, and I think if he ever really did that it also would shake the political world and perhaps even wake up Democrats who simply accept the status quo just as much as Republicans do. I could definitely get behind shaking it up a bit at this point because frankly, the Democrats in power in Washington DC aren't really doing much to distinquish themselves as a majority party. And after the proposals he delivered at the Capitol last week it is obvious he is not part of that status quo. But I do not believe he would do it for "revenge" as the right would propangandize about, nor do I think he would do it to be a spoiler as Democrats would try to brainwash people into thinking. He would do it because neither major party is doing anything at this point to make positive change in this world, and I could and would support it one hundred percent because I too put country first. And that opinion is irrespective of any BS printed in this source or any other sources that also publish unsubstantiated political speculation.

[flaminbats]

14. lol..a Gore/Bloomberg ticket in 2008?

and according to this article Gore now "stands behind Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama in any race for the Democratic presidential nomination." :eyes:

So I guess Tipper will vote for one in the primary and Al will vote for the other. News or green cheese fresh from the moon?

[The Magistrate]

15. The Former, Sir

A splendid example of the 'make shit up' school....