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ABBY OHLHEISER MAY 27, 2013
Dean Chambers, the man who started up the now discredited "Unskewed Polls" after he thought 2012's election polls were part of the whole biased liberal media conspiracy thing, is back. And this time, he thinks the president was high on cocaine during the Benghazi attack.
In an article published to the Examiner on Sunday (and noticed by Ezra Klein, who called it "the most amazing article I've ever read" , Chambers experimented with the word "allegedly." Apparently, it can go in front of anything! As in, "While our consulate in Benghazi was attacked during the night of September 11 of last year, our fearless leader was allegedly hiding away somewhere getting 'high as a kite' on cocaine."
The idea, which actually comes from a blog post by Kevin DuJan, revolves around a sticking point for Benghazi conspiracy theorists: where was the president during the night of the Benghazi attacks? This question was reasserted in a Politico piece by the National Review's Rich Lowry last week, to which DuJan's post is apparently a response. Here's HIS timeline of events for the President on September 11, 2012:
From then until the staff was finally able to rouse, dress, and make him presentable enough for the public at 1030am the next day Barack Obama appears to have been out of his mind high on drugs."
full article
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/05/man-behind-unskewed-polls-levels-conspiracy-theories/65626/
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Rozlee
(2,529 posts)I was lurking on World Nut Daily last night and those posters were going batshit crazy, talking it up about how Ambassador Stevens and Obama had a gay relationship and Obama had used his Muslim connections in Libya to get him killed because Stevens was stinging from his rejection and threatening to go public with their relationship. These people are so consumed by their hatred, no conspiracy theory is too wild for them.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)has had one), Chambers is showing remarkable levels of paranoia and idiocy here.
I guess that's to be expected from the guy who was convinced Nate Silver was wrong because Nate Silver was small, skinny, and gay.
catbyte
(34,518 posts)He spent all day watching MSNBC, convinced that Romney would win and that everyone on MSNBC would freak out. It was so sweet seeing that particular delusion crash and burn as the night progressed. It was all the sweeter when in fact it was Karl Rove that freaked out on live TV. I still smile just thinking about it.
frylock
(34,825 posts)or has any credibility whatsoever?
sigmasix
(794 posts)With "expert" "journalism" like this I can understand the need to have the DOJ keep an eye on Fox "news" and thier entertainers/journalists. American news media has become a haven for right wing extremism and AntiAmerican conspiracy theories- why do these traitors deserve the respect and protection only extended to real news agencies? Fox "news" personalities could eat a baby live on television and their viewers would blame Obama.