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They just can't get over it - Obama birthplace mistake: Yahoo! News declines comment
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gateley
(62,683 posts)Who is Rachel Rose Hartman? They LET this be printed?
I can't breathe.
pink-o
(4,056 posts)gateley
(62,683 posts)spelled different. Hartman/Hartmann.
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,445 posts)LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)mimi85
(1,805 posts)is beyond depressing. I rarely do it anymore since it's hard to believe there are that many low info people in the US.
I shouldn't be surprised anymore, but sometimes the reality hits home.
siligut
(12,272 posts)During the election it was a snake-pit of conservatives.
jimlup
(7,968 posts)Doing such things exposes this source as blatantly biased or ignorant. No need for further critic.
Renew Deal
(81,871 posts)Lugal Zaggesi
(366 posts)to find out what people who don't think,
are thinking. Thanks, Rachel.
http://news.yahoo.com/author/rachel-rose-hartman/
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified the president's birthplace.
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)As in, "they're a buncha yahoos."
AllyCat
(16,222 posts)Because I still use this term. In fact, when I read this aloud, Mr. AC and I both sang the old Yahoo teevee commercial.
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)thesquanderer
(11,991 posts)Here's where it comes from...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_(Gulliver's_Travels)
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)lol
tblue37
(65,487 posts)Last edited Tue Jun 25, 2013, 12:17 PM - Edit history (1)
Gulliver's Travels. The Yahoos were humans in the land of the noble, rational, decent Houyhnhnms. (I am misspelling that, but I can'tgoogle it on my Nook w/o losing this message.)The humans (the Yahoos) were despised by the Huoynims, who were intelligent horses, because the humans were filthy, vicious, uncivilize, and disgusting animals that exhibited no sign of intelligence. That is why calling someone a Yahoo is an insult.
Edited to fix typo in subject line and to correct spelling of Houyhnhnms.
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)Yahoo is just a bunch of yahoos!
Enrique
(27,461 posts)news for yahoos
srican69
(1,426 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)it only continues the "birther" bullshit and hopefully influence the 2014 elections like 2010.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Mmmm hmmmm.
They're a bunch of Yahoos, they wouldn't know news if it bit them on their asses, and really, what could they possibly say that wouldn't make someone think "You racist so-and-sos."
tavalon
(27,985 posts)Earl, I'm begging you. This has to be a joke. It's a joke right. Please Earl, with all the crap flying right now, we just don't have time to go back to birther stuff.
Daemonaquila
(1,712 posts)Like you, I can only wish it's a joke... but I don't think it is. It's just like that kook in the TX legislature who believes that a rape kit at the ER is for preventing pregnancy.
Renew Deal
(81,871 posts)Who is Rachel Rose Hartman?
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)One right-wing site calls her a "Far Left Obama Supporter"
I don't see how she can be that dumb and still be called a real "reporter"...even for Yahoo News.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)... like those people in that laxative commercial on TV.
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Iliyah
(25,111 posts)and later changed it to "ancestral homeland".
Marksman_91
(2,035 posts)...she just had to make a fool of herself. Such a poor excuse for journalism.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Wolf Frankula
(3,601 posts)That's where he was born.
I use Yahoo for e-mail, and that's about it.
Wolf
timdog44
(1,388 posts)He will be starting in the country of his birth. She must be a Fox throw away.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)riverwalker
(8,694 posts)@rachelrhartman
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)White House doesnt have figure on costs of Africa trip
Rachel Rose Hartman
South Africa
Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified the president's birthplace.
President Barack Obama makes the first extended trip to Africa of his presidency next weekbut he won't be stopping in his ancestral homeland.
Obama's weeklong tripJune 26-July 3which he's taking with his wife, Michelle, and daughters Sasha and Malia, as well as with members of his economic and trade team, is to signal America's interest in trade, democracy and economic development in Africa. He will visit Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania.
"We see Africa as one of the most important emerging regions in the world," deputy national security adviser for strategic communications Ben Rhodes told reporters on a conference call Friday. He added that the administration sees "growing economic opportunities [in the continent] for increased trade and investment" by U.S. businesses.
The trip will also focus on "democracy and democratic institution-building," Rhodes said.
Read More
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-administration-defers-security-africa-trip-costs-skips-211646601.html
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)in the birther claims back in 2011. Did she write that...or did someone attach it?
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/birth-certificate-won-t-end-race-related-attacks-213432124.html
Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)Initech
(100,102 posts)Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)but I'm thinking it will still go on well past then as Obama goes into the history books. Some children will probably have their RW grandparents telling them that he was America's first "illegal" president.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I hate ALL this teabag brained "news"fotainment media we've got. Fucking Enquirer Nation.
npk
(3,660 posts)Looks like the story has been corrected. She is probably should really dumb, not that it excuses what she wrote in the first place.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)...such the stupid fuck.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,020 posts)this ad:
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toby jo
(1,269 posts)Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Repeat the LIE! Repeat the LIE! Repeat the LIE! Repeat the LIE! Repeat the LIE! Repeat the LIE!
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DFW
(54,436 posts)They might not be wrong, either..........
Mr.Bill
(24,319 posts)Lately it seems every other headline I click on there is an advertisement disguised as a news headline.
Rain Mcloud
(812 posts)Honesty?
Integrity?
Informative?
Un-biased?
30 years ago this was mostly true before the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine.
Now the media is state run Pravda by one of five corporations who also happen to run the government.
That Obama guy is just a scapegoat in the grand scheme of fascist totalitarianism,this is fairly easily accepted.
What is not so easily embraced is the joy that he seems to take in kowtowing to the mighty Templars while wiping clean the muck from the fetlocks of their might chargers as they rain spittle from on high.
Since he doesn't fight back how can anyone else be blamed for this?
A lie remains the accepted truth until it is banished to the ages of ridiculosity.
'Till someone actually does something,square up that peasant cap and tuck in that socialist union shirt,Tovarich,get back to digging Potatoes for victory over those Kapitalist Pig-Dogs!
merrily
(45,251 posts)Then, they seemed to turn on a dime, even though people had polled in favor of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine
In fairness (no pun intended), Obama had said he opposed it while running for President in 2008.
In related news, Obama's first nominee for FCC chair had been responsible for creation of Fox Broadcasting Company and it was conservative radio broadcasters who seemed most opposed to the doctrine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Genachowski
So, it all seems consistent.
Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)makes an "oopsie" and refers to Kenya as his home of birth.. It would be hilarious to watch all the conservative talking heads explode.
maybe followed with something like "As my Imam always said..."