WP: White House rips Forbes article (Gibbs is meeting with Forbes's Washington bureau chief)

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White House rips Forbes article


Sept. 27 issue of Forbes magazine. (Courtesy of Forbes)

Dinesh D'Souza has drawn a torrent of criticism with a Forbes cover story that accuses President Obama of adopting "the cause of anti-colonialism" from his Kenyan father.

But while most detractors focus on the author--and Newt Gingrich, who embraced the critique--the White House is aiming its ammunition at the business magazine.
"It's a stunning thing, to see a publication you would see in a dentist's office, so lacking in truth and fact," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says in an interview. "I think it represents a new low."

Gibbs is meeting with Thursday afternoon with Forbes's Washington bureau chief, Brian Wingfield, to discuss his objections. "Did they not fact-check this at all, or did they fact-check it and just willfully ignore it?" he asks.

The magazine would not make Editor-in-Chief Steve Forbes, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 1996 and 2000, available for comment, or any other editor. The biweekly did issue a statement: "Dinesh D'Souza's cover story was presented as an analysis of how the president thinks. No facts are in contention. Forbes stands by the story."

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The facts are also these: Obama Sr. abandoned the family when his son was 2, and the future president saw his father only one more time, during a visit in Hawaii when he was 10. Obama Sr. died in 1982.
Gibbs says the Forbes attack comes at a time when there is "no limit to innuendo" against the president, including baseless charges that he is a Muslim and was not born in the United States. Forbes, he says, "left the facts on the cutting-room floor.

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Columbia Journalism Review this week called the D'Souza article "a fact-twisting, error-laden piece of paranoia" and "the worst kind of smear journalism--a singularly disgusting work."

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/howard-kurtz/2010/09/white_house_rips_forbes_articl.html

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1. D'Souza made top ten conversative idiots in 2007

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/top10/281

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

3. He's a lifetime achiever...

I've read this guy's drivel off and on for more than a decade. He's like the female version of Ann Coulter -- I think the two may have even dated at one point.

He's the master of thinly-sourced, pseudo-academic nonsense, and a damned good argument for severing diplomatic ties with India and shipping his ass back to Mumbai.

[PopSixSquish]

2. Sic 'em Gibbs!

[Cha]

4. Exactly!