Monday, November 3, 2008

Another tape fiasco

Real quick here...Fox, Drudge and many others are getting their panties in a bunch about a supposedly hidden tape from an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, which was only just released, that provides damning evidence about Barack's intentions to "bankrupt" the clean coal industry.  The thing is, the Chronicle says this has been available all along since January, and actually Obama and McCain are pretty even when it comes to ideas on clean coal.  But they have manufactured a scheme to hide information in order to further imply that Obama is a man in shadows.


Oh yeah, honorable mention for the Obama Grandmother tape...Sarah Obama, Barack's paternal grandmother, who lives in Kenya and only speaks Swahili, supposedly confirms Obama's birth in Kenya and that she was there.  The proof?  An extremely tinny, unlistenable recording from a source even the right admits is EXTREMELY questionable, of a phone call in which a shady street minister supposedly speaks with an interpreter sitting with Sarah Obama in which she confirms through affirmative answers to this street minister Ron McRae's questioning that the above claim is true.  But the funny thing is that you can barely understand even the english coming from the other end of the phone call, let alone the Swahili in her answers, nor are there any verifications (and I doubt it would be possible with the horrible quality of the audio) that Ms. Obama even understood the questions let alone whether her answers are what they say they are...and then there's the question of whether this is even Sarah Obama at all, how can anyone know if they just picked some random person to stand next to them and say anything in another language and then have a fake interpreter giving the desired answers?  


Republicans, while reluctant to trust our own politicians, media, news outlets, common sense, etc, are perfectly happy to place their faith in the tinny recorded phone call of a foreigner who'se language they cannot understand and must believe the interpretation that has been provided to them by an obviously very biased source.

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