SubscribeNYT Reports Kos, Facebook Posts As News
From the Obama campaign outlet, the New York Times:
Obama volunteers from Columbus, Ohio, who have adopted the middle name Hussein include J. T. Marcum, left, Aaron Barclay, Alex Enderle, Norm Shoemaker and Chelsey McCune. They use the name on the Internet and in greeting one another.
Obama Supporters Take His Middle Name as Their Own
By JODI KANTOR
Published: June 29, 2008Emily Nordling has never met a Muslim, at least not to her knowledge. But this spring, Ms. Nordling, a 19-year-old student from Fort Thomas, Ky., gave herself a new middle name on Facebook.com, mimicking her boyfriend and shocking her father.
“Emily Hussein Nordling,” her entry now reads.
With her decision, she joined a growing band of supporters of Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, who are expressing solidarity with him by informally adopting his middle name.
The result is a group of unlikely-sounding Husseins: Jewish and Catholic, Hispanic and Asian and Italian-American, from Jaime Hussein Alvarez of Washington, D.C., to Kelly Hussein Crowley of Norman, Okla., to Sarah Beth Hussein Frumkin of Chicago.
Jeff Strabone of Brooklyn now signs credit card receipts with his newly assumed middle name, while Dan O’Maley of Washington, D.C., jiggered his e-mail account so his name would appear as “D. Hussein O’Maley.” Alex Enderle made the switch online along with several other Obama volunteers from Columbus, Ohio, and now friends greet him that way in person, too.
Mr. Obama is a Christian, not a Muslim. Hussein is a family name inherited from a Kenyan father he barely knew, who was born a Muslim and died an atheist. But the name has become a political liability. Some critics on cable television talk shows dwell on it, while others, on blogs or in e-mail messages, use it to falsely assert that Mr. Obama is a Muslim or, more fantastically, a terrorist.
“I am sick of Republicans pronouncing Barack Obama’s name like it was some sort of cuss word,” Mr. Strabone wrote in a manifesto titled “We Are All Hussein” that he posted on his own blog and on dailykos.com.
So like the residents of Billings, Mont., who reacted to a series of anti-Semitic incidents in 1993 with a townwide display of menorahs in their front windows, these supporters are brandishing the name themselves.
“My name is such a vanilla, white-girl American name,” said Ashley Holmes of Indianapolis, who changed her name online “to show how little meaning ‘Hussein’ really has.”
The movement is hardly a mass one, and it has taken place mostly online, the digital equivalent of wearing a button with a clever, attention-getting message. A search revealed hundreds of participants across the country, along with a YouTube video and bumper stickers promoting the idea. Legally changing names is too much hassle, participants say, so they use “Hussein” on Facebook and in blog posts and comments on sites like nytimes.com, dailykos.com and mybarackobama.com, the campaign’s networking site…
What a hoot of a news article this is. Even by the execrably low standards of the New York Times.
Some critics on cable television talk shows dwell on it…
Name one, Ms. Kantor.
But isn’t it all too telling to see the "newspaper of record" passing off the juvenile claims of a handful posters at Daily Kos as national "news"?
It is of course somewhat tricky to limit a search to reveal the full extent of this alleged activity.
But the following returns may give some indication of just what an enormous phenomenon we are talking about:
(Click on images to enlarge.)
Gee, there are about 388 mentions of this practice on the whole internet — including various permutations of the New York Times article. (In fact, most of the hits in the second search are due directly or indirectly to the NYT piece.)
This is obviously "news that is fit to print." — And not an attempt to drum up support for a juvenile idea. That wouldn’t do at all.
Well, at least The Times didn’t just make the whole story up out of whole cloth, as they are wont to do.
By the way, this is the self-same Jodi Kantor who tried to "whitewash" Reverend Wright for the New York Times’ few remaining readers.
So it is just another Times reporter doing the bidding of their masters at the DNC.
Still, do you remember when the New York Times was a real newspaper and not merely a propaganda sheet for the Democrat Party?
I don’t either.
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June 29th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Just stoopid kids.
Like when I was a collitch freshman my roomate and I invited Krooschev to visit the USA. Never heard from him by the way.
“white-girl American name,” said Ashley Holmes”
Ever hear of Ashley Wilkes and Larry Holmes?
June 29th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Tomorrow there will be a poll about using Hussein as a middle name.
(HHHH)
June 29th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Here’s another tactic they’re trying to use(its speading all over the usual sites) Now the NYT is publishing pro-Obama articles masquerading as “science” articles. The authors explain to us that people who think Obama is Muslim are suffering from a mental disorder. They throw in a little psycho babble wrapped around the poison pill.
Op-Ed Contributor - How Lies Live and Grow in the Brain - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06.....amodt.html
“FALSE beliefs are everywhere. Eighteen percent of Americans think the sun revolves around the earth, one poll has found. Thus it seems slightly less egregious that, according to another poll, 10 percent of us think that Senator Barack Obama, a Christian, is instead a Muslim. The Obama campaign has created a Web site to dispel misinformation. But this effort may be more difficult than it seems, thanks to the quirky way in which our brains store memories — and mislead us along the way.”
Shades of the Soviet Union!
Doesn’t this reminds you of when the Soviet government used to lock dissidents up in mental hospitals for “treatment”?
rags
June 30th, 2008 at 5:20 am
The democrat party takes great comfort in witnessing just how stump dumb ignorant the young adults of today can be. They need votes. Not informed voters, just votes. These kids are proving yet again just how easily no education but tons of self esteem can be manipulated and made to vote a certain way.
Issues? They dont need no damn issues! They have been instructed to lessen the impact of a muslim name on a presidential candidate…..so off they go. The one brilliant dude who signs his credit card receipts with “hussein” doesnt understand that he is forging someone else’s name, and can be denied the transaction, but I digress…..he’s stupid.
Barak Hussein Obama’s name is what he is stuck with. B.Hussein O.’s record speaks for itself…well, until google can remove or sanitize it before november….
If there was no apparent problem or danger from islam or the muslim extremists (read, all) Barak’s middle name HUSSEIN wouldnt make a pick of difference. Remember, the democrats steadfastly deny any danger from islam…..yet they all scramble and run into each other trying to play down any connection of their wonder boy to islam…..with a name like barak hussein obama.
So yeah, take the middle name Hussein….and that way I can call you Saddam and let you try to deny that was your intent. It isnt the name, you stupid dorks, it’s the man. democrat campaign workers started the hussein “controversy”, and you fell for it because you believe it sounds islamic and worry your smooth talking “idol” contestant may lose because of it.
What you need to do is check the man’s record. Plug your ears for just a second, and read about how he got to this point, and who got him here. Read it while you can, because it is evaporating quickly from the internet….ah, forget it.
Keep calling yourselves Hussein…..forget I said anything. Vote for a charismatic smooth talking wonder boy…..then you will find out just how quickly everyone in charge of your life will be called Hussein too…….
June 30th, 2008 at 9:19 am
The really ironic thing about this is that these wonderkins won’t vote for Obamantion, McAmnesty or anyone - that age group it the highest ‘non’ turnout rate of all ‘registered’ voters.
My daughter is learning why - they don’t have a clue about the issues, the candidates or politics in general - she asks questions or makes statements - and her friends go - ‘No way,’ ‘You’re lying,’ or just stand there with their jaw dropped (because my daughter can bring the proof up in two nano-seconds on her computer). . .She berates them for not being involved, not knowing the issues and the candidates and is saddened that most pick an issue and just spout some talking point cliche as the reason that they are for or against it.
But that is the way the msm, DNC and liberals work - make a talking point of what exactly you want the masses to believe and then repeat it over and over again. Too bad that Rock The Vote, Choose or Lose, Declare Yourself or Vote or Die - don’t get much beyond a high registration - there is no follow through. Which is quite typical for young people. And still the msm, DNC and liberals attempt to convince the country (but I believe it is themselves) that this new program/idea/message will work this time.
Too bad that they just all concentrate on the ads and talking points and don’t ever seem to worry about having a candidate of substance, experience and integrity - which would be a winning combination - but then since they don’t have those qualities - I guess it is only right that their candidate doesn’t either.