Sunday, February 15, 2015

MALICIOUS INTERNET MISCHIEF: THE PRESIDENT WE LOV TO HATE

I've concluded that 95 per cent of the negative stuff on the internet about Obama and his inner circle is either an outright lie or a gross distortion of the truth

[Valerie] Jarrett is one of the most powerful presidential advisers in history. No wonder Obama leans toward the Islamists. READ VALERIE JARRETT'S WORDS BELOW CAREFULLY. IF YOU'RE NOT SCARED, YOU'RE IN DENIAL.

"I am an Iranian by birth and of my Islamic faith. I am also an American Citizen and I seek to help change America to be a more Islamic country. My faith guides me and I feel like it is going well in the transition of using freedom of religion in America against itself."
- Valerie Jarrett, Stanford University 1977

Farsi-speaking Valerie Jarrett , the senior advisor to Obama, his right-hand woman was born in Iran . She also has ties with terrorist William Ayers, and her father-in-law, Vernon Jarrett is a card-carrying communist party member and associate of Frank Marshall Davis, the controversial Communist Party activist who was Obama's childhood mentor. While a student at Stanford University , Jarrett admitted her loyalty to Islam and continues to object to any negative statements aimed at any part of her "religion of peace."

I have received countless emails, the latest example of which is above, about President Obama and his traitorous inner circle that are designed to scare the supreme shit out of me into believing that Obama and his advisors are turning America into a communist country under Sharia law.

As much as I dislike Obama, I've concluded that 95 per cent of the negative stuff on the internet about Obama and his inner circle is either an outright lie or a gross distortion of the truth.

Here is what Snopes had to say about the accusations against Valerie Jarrett:

Contrary to common rumor, however, neither Jarrett nor her parents are Iranian, nor (as far as well can tell) are any of them Muslim. Jarrett's parents, James E. Bowman and Barbara Taylor Bowman, were both American-born U.S. citizens from Washington, D.C. and Chicago, respectively; the couple merely lived in Iran for about six years in the late 1950s and early 1960s while James served as chair of pathology at Nemazee Hospital in Shiraz as part of a program that sent American physicians to work in developing countries.

Valerie was born in Shiraz during the Jarretts' sojourn in Iran; she returned to the U.S. with her parents in 1962 (when she was five years old), whereupon she attended prep school in Massachusetts, graduated with a B.A. in psychology from Stanford University in 1978, and earned a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1981 before returning to Chicago to begin her working career. We've found no evidence Valerie Jarrett is (or ever was) Muslim, her only apparent connection to that religion being the incidental one that she temporarily lived in a predominantly Muslim country with her American parents for the first few years of her life.

The quote to attributed "Valerie Jarrett, Stanford University, 1977" about her "seek[ing] to help change America to be a more Islamic country" is an unfounded one that has no source other than recent repetition (primarily on right-wing web sites and blogs) and that in its commonly reproduced form is too stilted to be believable as the utterance of a fluent English speaker (e.g., "I am an Iranian by birth and of [sic] my Islamic faith"). No news article or document associated with Stanford University records Jarrett as having made this statement back in 1977; and if there were any credible evidence Jarrett had ever said anything remotely like this, it would have been a well-covered news story since shortly after the 2008 presidential election and not a obscure meme that didn't pop up until several years later.


Ever since Obama was first elected President, I have received a steady stream of one or more emails per week about Obama and his fellow conspiracists that are simply false or a gross distortion of the truth.

Of course, these false emails are preaching to the choir of those who dislike or hate Obama. Many of those folks readily eat all that shit up. Whatever its purpose, that malicious internet mischief hasn't worked. We're still stuck with the president we love to hate.

By the way, look for the same internet barrage of falsehoods about Hillary during her terms as president. If the Republicans keep harping on abortion, contraception and immigration, they will drive away the women’s and Hispanic voting blocks, thereby handing the presidency to Hillary on a silver platter.

2 comments:

bob walsh said...

There is plenty of real stuff to dislike the God-Emperor Barack I over. Inventing stuff is useless and counterproductive.

Anonymous said...

I agree with both Bob Walsh and BarkGrowlBite.