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MSNBC trashes 'Dreams' documentary on Obama
Show host claims filmmaker 'othering' the president
WND
Jerome R. Corsi
9/17/2012
Excerpt:
"MSNBC’s Alex Wagner on her “Now” show today bashed Joel Gilbert’s documentary “Dreams from My Real Father,” which posits that Barack Obama’s real father was not the Kenyan goatherder, but Frank Marshall Davis, a communist party activist.
It came as part of a segment where she recognized that Dinesh D’Souza’s film “2016,” a hit documentary on Obama’s life and cultural influences, is No. 5 on the list of highest grossing documentaries,
The “Dreams” project explains the evidence behind the claim that Obama’s father was not the Kenyan student, as he has written, but Davis.
MSNBC archived on its website the segment that the network characterized as: “What NOW?! Why some anti-Obama ads aren’t a joking matter.”
Showing the full-page advertisement Gilbert ran in last week’s New York Post, Wagner correctly pointed out that Gilbert argues in the documentary that Davis, the radical poet and journalist who was a card-carrying member of the Communist Party of the USA, was the real, biological and ideological father of Obama, not Barack Obama, the Kenyan, who came from Africa in 1959 to attend the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.
New York Post: “Dreams from My Real Father,” Full-Page Ad, scheduled to appear in New York Post
Wagner introduced discussion of Gilbert’s video in racial terms, by showing on the screen a copy of the New York Post ad and claiming Gilbert was “othering” Obama, presenting him as of outside mainstream America in terms of his nativity story.
Then panelist Wes Moore jumped in to argue that Obama would ignore Gilbert’s claim much as Moore claims Obama has sought to minimize challenges that the long-form birth certificate the White House presented the nation on April 27, 2011, is a forgery.
He argued that a lot of “good, qualified, smart people” would be discouraged from going into public office because of the scrutiny Barack Obama has received regarding his nativity story and his life narrative.
“Vilifying public servants and public service in general doesn’t make anyone eager to run for public office,” Wagner agreed, joining in with Moore’s characterization of Gilbert’s documentary as less than factually based.
“The panelists biggest fear appeared to be that people like Obama might not want to run for office if the stories they tell about their origins and life are subject to scrutiny and are exposed,” Gilbert told WND.
“I think this is a good thing. The only people who should run for office are those who tell the truth about who they are. Obama has failed to do this.”
In running the segment, MSNBC had a graphic on the screen that read, “Born-Again Birthers.”
Gilbert objected to this as well.
“This is a clever attempt by MSNBC to dismiss legitimate research into President Obama’s official nativity story by demeaning the effort as yet another ‘birther’ quest,” Gilbert commented. “By throwing in ‘born-again,’ MSNBC tried to slip in the insinuation that my documentary is an extremist hatchet job when in fact the film is based on two years of research.”
Gilbert noted that so far MSNBC is the only television news outlet to report on his documentary, even if the report was intended to demean the film.
“I ran the ad in the New York Post to provoke interest in the public and the media, but ironically only MSNBC had the courage – if you want to call it that – to report on the provocative ad,” Gilbert said.
“The only time Fox News has mentioned ‘Dreams from My Real Father’ is when Megan Kelly announced it as part of a film festival taking place in Tampa, Fla., during the Republican National Convention. Hannity has not called, but he has my phone number.”
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View the complete article at:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/msnbc-tra...tary-on-obama/
Show host claims filmmaker 'othering' the president
WND
Jerome R. Corsi
9/17/2012
Excerpt:
"MSNBC’s Alex Wagner on her “Now” show today bashed Joel Gilbert’s documentary “Dreams from My Real Father,” which posits that Barack Obama’s real father was not the Kenyan goatherder, but Frank Marshall Davis, a communist party activist.
It came as part of a segment where she recognized that Dinesh D’Souza’s film “2016,” a hit documentary on Obama’s life and cultural influences, is No. 5 on the list of highest grossing documentaries,
The “Dreams” project explains the evidence behind the claim that Obama’s father was not the Kenyan student, as he has written, but Davis.
MSNBC archived on its website the segment that the network characterized as: “What NOW?! Why some anti-Obama ads aren’t a joking matter.”
Showing the full-page advertisement Gilbert ran in last week’s New York Post, Wagner correctly pointed out that Gilbert argues in the documentary that Davis, the radical poet and journalist who was a card-carrying member of the Communist Party of the USA, was the real, biological and ideological father of Obama, not Barack Obama, the Kenyan, who came from Africa in 1959 to attend the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.
New York Post: “Dreams from My Real Father,” Full-Page Ad, scheduled to appear in New York Post
Wagner introduced discussion of Gilbert’s video in racial terms, by showing on the screen a copy of the New York Post ad and claiming Gilbert was “othering” Obama, presenting him as of outside mainstream America in terms of his nativity story.
Then panelist Wes Moore jumped in to argue that Obama would ignore Gilbert’s claim much as Moore claims Obama has sought to minimize challenges that the long-form birth certificate the White House presented the nation on April 27, 2011, is a forgery.
He argued that a lot of “good, qualified, smart people” would be discouraged from going into public office because of the scrutiny Barack Obama has received regarding his nativity story and his life narrative.
“Vilifying public servants and public service in general doesn’t make anyone eager to run for public office,” Wagner agreed, joining in with Moore’s characterization of Gilbert’s documentary as less than factually based.
“The panelists biggest fear appeared to be that people like Obama might not want to run for office if the stories they tell about their origins and life are subject to scrutiny and are exposed,” Gilbert told WND.
“I think this is a good thing. The only people who should run for office are those who tell the truth about who they are. Obama has failed to do this.”
In running the segment, MSNBC had a graphic on the screen that read, “Born-Again Birthers.”
Gilbert objected to this as well.
“This is a clever attempt by MSNBC to dismiss legitimate research into President Obama’s official nativity story by demeaning the effort as yet another ‘birther’ quest,” Gilbert commented. “By throwing in ‘born-again,’ MSNBC tried to slip in the insinuation that my documentary is an extremist hatchet job when in fact the film is based on two years of research.”
Gilbert noted that so far MSNBC is the only television news outlet to report on his documentary, even if the report was intended to demean the film.
“I ran the ad in the New York Post to provoke interest in the public and the media, but ironically only MSNBC had the courage – if you want to call it that – to report on the provocative ad,” Gilbert said.
“The only time Fox News has mentioned ‘Dreams from My Real Father’ is when Megan Kelly announced it as part of a film festival taking place in Tampa, Fla., during the Republican National Convention. Hannity has not called, but he has my phone number.”
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View the complete article at:
http://www.wnd.com/2012/09/msnbc-tra...tary-on-obama/
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