{"id":5939,"date":"2011-12-12T12:18:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T20:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5939"},"modified":"2011-12-12T12:18:17","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T20:18:17","slug":"fox-nation-vs-reality-obamas-marxist-college-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=5939","title":{"rendered":"Fox Nation vs. Reality: Obama’s Marxist College Mate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again Fox Nation has ventured into the realm of make-believe in order to slander President Obama. In this episode the Fox Nationalists posted as their featured headline story an article with the title: College Mate: Obama Was an ‘Ardent’ ‘Marxist-Leninist’<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In order to fabricate this wholly dishonest smear, Fox sunk to re-posting a column written by conservative bomb-thrower Selwyn Duke. Duke’s article was originally published by The New American, the periodical of the extremist and notoriously fascistic John Birch Society.<\/p>\n

In the article, Duke relied entirely on the testimony of John Drew, a man who has been pushing his dubious and uncorroborated account of a college relationship with Obama for years. He claims that Obama was a close friend and confidant. The truth is he only met Obama casually a handful of times at gatherings with many others present. He never attended college with Obama because the future President didn’t enter Occidental College until after Drew had graduated.<\/p>\n

It’s painfully clear to anyone paying attention that Drew is attempting to exploit his brief encounters with Obama to exalt himself, disseminate his rightist propaganda, and earn a few bucks in the process. The only person Drew references in his tales who has spoken publicly about them is a former Obama associate named Hasan Chandoo. Two years ago, when asked about Drew’s assertions that Obama was an ardent Marxist, Chandoo, who is now a financial consultant, told the conservative magazine NewsMax that…<\/p>\n

“I can’t remember Obama ever talking like that. It sounds a bit absurd to me, but that’s my opinion. I can’t remember him ever expressing an interest in being a Marxist.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nevertheless, Drew and his Bircher enablers continue to press this ancient story with no factual basis. And now, after years of plodding through radical right-wing rags and Internet backwater rabble, Drew and Duke have succeeded in getting Fox News to sling their stale mud.<\/p>\n

When Fox has to resort to acquiring material from the John Birch Society that is several years old, you might conclude that they are getting desperate. They have apparently recognized that the comically weak field of Republican presidential aspirants is doomed to defeat next year and they are ramping up any random disparagement they can find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once again Fox Nation has ventured into the realm of make-believe in order to slander President Obama. In this episode the Fox Nationalists posted as their featured headline story an article with the title: College Mate: Obama Was an ‘Ardent’ ‘Marxist-Leninist’ In order to fabricate this wholly dishonest smear, Fox sunk to re-posting a column […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[183,527],"class_list":["post-5939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-propaganda","tag-barack-obama","tag-fox-nation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1xN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6061,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=6061","url_meta":{"origin":5939,"position":0},"title":"Fox Nation’s Extra Special Stupidest Lies About Obama In 2011","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/28\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"In compiling another retrospective of the soon to be completed year, I thought I would present a list of all of the lies featured by the folks at Fox News for 2011. 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