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Title: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: mystery-ak on November 12, 2013, 05:16:41 pm
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updated: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 11:15:00 GMT | By ANI
Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Former classmate also claims that Obama portrayed himself as a foreign student

Washington: A woman, who claims to have been a classmate of Barack Obama, said that the president was gay and used cocaine in school.

In a bizarre interview, Mia Marie Pope told right-wing preacher James David Manning that she believes Obama was not only active within the gay community, but also a heavy cocaine user during his years in Hawaii.

Pope said that Obama always portrayed himself as a foreign student, adding that girls were never anything that he ever was interested in, but he would get along with older white gay men. She added that Obama at that time was also procuring his cocaine, the Huffington Post reports.

She then noted that Obama was having sex with these older white guys and that's how he was getting this cocaine to be able to freebase, the report added.
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: flowers on November 12, 2013, 05:21:52 pm
If true why did it take so long for her to tell this tale?  Oh I hope she enjoys her soon to be visits to the IRS.
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: happyg on November 12, 2013, 05:35:54 pm
If true why did it take so long for her to tell this tale?  Oh I hope she enjoys her soon to be visits to the IRS.

I think she was OK with leaving 'well enough alone' until she was affected personally. ACA affects a lot of people personally, and I believe more will come out about the imitation man!
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: Chieftain on November 12, 2013, 06:09:02 pm
Ties in with the stories about Obama's membership in the "Down Low Club" and how Reverend Wright was a matchmaker for bitches like Obama, in order to give them a legitimate "straight" marriage to cover their preferred deviant sexual activities.

Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: DCPatriot on November 12, 2013, 06:13:40 pm
It's really quite amazing and sad that in this day and age, a person with his background and pedigree escaped public vetting for POTUS.
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: olde north church on November 12, 2013, 06:15:14 pm
It's really quite amazing and sad that in this day and age, a person with his background and pedigree escaped public vetting for POTUS.

I don't think so.  This nation was ripe for personality cult.
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: Atomic Cow on November 12, 2013, 06:22:53 pm
It's really quite amazing and sad that in this day and age, a person with his background and pedigree escaped public vetting for POTUS.

The media, including Fox News, refused to do it, and anyone who attempted to do so would instantly shut down as being a kook, racist, or both.
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: musiclady on November 12, 2013, 06:28:54 pm
The media, including Fox News, refused to do it, and anyone who attempted to do so would instantly shut down as being a kook, racist, or both.

Exactly what happened.

The truth was out there, and was being told, but no one in the MSM accepted it, and attacked those who told it.

And that, most unfortunately, includes Fox.

Had the people on Fox News been honest about Obama, he most likely wouldn't have been elected.
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: DCPatriot on November 12, 2013, 06:32:04 pm
The media, including Fox News, refused to do it, and anyone who attempted to do so would instantly shut down as being a kook, racist, or both.

I cannot accept that.

The TRUTH is what matters.

The moral should be, if you want to aspire to be POTUS, then live a moral life.  Obama is an amoral man...such a person is not fit to serve as POTUS.
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: katzenjammer on November 12, 2013, 07:27:45 pm
I don't think so.  This nation was ripe for personality cult.

Exactly!  (And after the way GWB was torn to shreds for years, the next jackal to come along wearing the "D" label was to be given the "free pass" of a lifetime to just stroll on in.)
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: aligncare on November 12, 2013, 07:34:21 pm
And that he was black made it all the more inevitable. Damn! America got sucker punched.
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: Rapunzel on November 12, 2013, 10:16:25 pm
This is all the worst kept secret in recent memory  - but beware tell one of his supporters and they immediately retort not to believe anything you read on the internet.
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on November 13, 2013, 12:07:08 am
This makes me wonder what books are being written for publication on January 20, 2017 .....  :smokin:
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: Carling on November 13, 2013, 12:15:45 am
The media, including Fox News, refused to do it, and anyone who attempted to do so would instantly shut down as being a kook, racist, or both.

What more could Sean Hannity had done to try and education people about Obama?  To say Fox News refused to vet Obama seems like a half-truth, at best.
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: Atomic Cow on November 13, 2013, 12:18:03 am
What more could Sean Hannity had done to try and education people about Obama?  To say Fox News refused to vet Obama seems like a half-truth, at best.

I do not appreciate you calling me a liar.  Are you looking for a fight or something?  Sean Hannity may work there, but he is not Fox News.
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: DCPatriot on November 13, 2013, 12:22:07 am
What more could Sean Hannity had done to try and education people about Obama?  To say Fox News refused to vet Obama seems like a half-truth, at best.

I'm sorry.  I never heard Sean Hannity suggest that Barack Obama was a male prostitute who sold himself to support his drug habit.

What I want to know is WHO is the person(s) that got the phony degrees from Columbia and got him elected president of the HLR...with no credentials.

My God...no wonder he thinks he's invincible.

The other question.  Why is everybody afraid to step forward and put and end to this charade?  This...Domestic Enemy #1?

What are they afraid of? 
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: NavyCanDo on November 13, 2013, 12:58:21 am

Had the people on Fox News been honest about Obama, he most likely wouldn't have been elected.

There is not an Obama scandal story out there that wasn't covered in some way by Fox News, including the very revealing  quotes from Obama's own book that Hannity played over and over and over again, and that alone should  have destroyed any chance for reelection. I really don't know what rabbit there was left in the hat that FOX was hiding.   
Obama's cult of personality is what carried him to victory, and I don't think there is any story that could have broke that would have changed things. 
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: Carling on November 13, 2013, 01:05:50 am
I do not appreciate you calling me a liar.  Are you looking for a fight or something?  Sean Hannity may work there, but he is not Fox News.

Hannity is one of the loudest voices at Fox News.  Who is "Fox News" to you?
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: Carling on November 13, 2013, 01:07:29 am
I'm sorry.  I never heard Sean Hannity suggest that Barack Obama was a male prostitute who sold himself to support his drug habit.


Hannity played interviews by Larry Sinclair multiple times, where Sinclair claimed Barry did coke, was gay, etc.  There was no information at the time to even insinuate that Barry was a male prostitute.   :thud:
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: Rapunzel on November 13, 2013, 01:10:52 am
Hannity played interviews by Larry Sinclair multiple times, where Sinclair claimed Barry did coke, was gay, etc.  There was no information at the time to even insinuate that Barry was a male prostitute.   :thud:

NONE of the major media has covered that.......   I suspect once he leaves office some more mainstream authors will touch on it though - I think there is info there on him that will make people's heads spin
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: Lipstick on a Hillary on November 13, 2013, 01:11:55 am
Hannity is one of the loudest voices at Fox News.  Who is "Fox News" to you?

Hannity is 1 hour out of 24 at Fox.  He's not a news show anyway and he pretty much preaches to the choir.  And loud isn't necessarily effective.
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: Carling on November 13, 2013, 01:13:09 am
Hannity is 1 hour out of 24 at Fox.  He's not a news show anyway.

Fox News covered every single scandal involving Obama prior to the 2008 election. 
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: Carling on November 13, 2013, 01:13:47 am
NONE of the major media has covered that.......   I suspect once he leaves office some more mainstream authors will touch on it though - I think there is info there on him that will make people's heads spin

Why would they?  Who is the person making these accusations, and where was she in 2008?  Why come out with this information now, when it literally doesn't matter, and won't have any impact on Obama's presidency? 
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: Rapunzel on November 13, 2013, 01:14:55 am
Why would they?  Who is the person making these accusations, and where was she in 2008?

There was talk of this in 2008. 
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: musiclady on November 13, 2013, 01:15:15 am
There is not an Obama scandal story out there that wasn't covered in some way by Fox News, including the very revealing  quotes from Obama's own book that Hannity played over and over and over again, and that alone should  have destroyed any chance for reelection. I really don't know what rabbit there was left in the hat that FOX was hiding.   
Obama's cult of personality is what carried him to victory, and I don't think there is any story that could have broke that would have changed things.

I mostly agree with you, but other than Hannity, who on Fox said anything about his background?

I can remember clearly the Fox panel after the debates swooning over how "presidential" he was.

If you didn't watch Hannity or listen to talk radio, you had no clue who Obama was.

I think everyone was afraid of his color and didn't dare say anything bad, even if they thought it.

And I also think some, like O'Reilly and Krauthammer, were completely fooled by him.

So yes, cult of personality, but it invaded Fox big time.

And I quit watching Fox regularly because of it.
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: Rapunzel on November 13, 2013, 01:17:11 am
Quote
And I also think some, like O'Reilly and Krauthammer, were completely fooled by him.

For sure. Remember the editorials Krauthammer wrote praising him?  and BOR drove me nuts because he was literally pimping himself out to get an interview with Obama.
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: Carling on November 13, 2013, 01:17:51 am
There was talk of this in 2008.

Really?  There was talk of Barry being a coke-addled homosexual who prostituted himself to older white men?  Funny, I don't recall hearing that anywhere.  Not even on TOS.  I can't stand the guy, but this woman's claims amount to a nothingburger at this point.  If she had come out in 2008, I'd believe her.
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: Carling on November 13, 2013, 01:18:51 am
For sure. Remember the editorials Krauthammer wrote praising him?  and BOR drove me nuts because he was literally pimping himself out to get an interview with Obama.

Bill O'Reilly is 1 hour out of 24 on Fox News.  Plus, he spent a lot of time on the Rev. Wright stuff, too.  His interview with Obama was a disgrace, I do agree, because he didn't follow up on any of his 'gotcha' questions.
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: Lipstick on a Hillary on November 13, 2013, 01:19:20 am
Fox News covered every single scandal involving Obama prior to the 2008 election.

Wow, Fox reported that Obama pimped himself out as gay prostitute to finance his free-basing habit in school?    And he still won the election???   :thud:
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: Rapunzel on November 13, 2013, 01:20:01 am
Really?  There was talk of Barry being a coke-addled homosexual who prostituted himself to older white men?  Funny, I don't recall hearing that anywhere.  Not even on TOS.  I can't stand the guy, but this woman's claims amount to a nothingburger at this point.  If she had come out in 2008, I'd believe her.

Larry Sinclair. 
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: Carling on November 13, 2013, 01:20:42 am
Wow, Fox reported that Obama pimped himself out as gay prostitute to finance his free-basing habit in school?    And he still won the election???   :thud:

Again, where was this woman in 2008?  Please tell me.  Because she said it last month doesn't mean the information was available in 2008.  Am I going crazy here, or have you all jumped into a time machine and left me behind?    :beer:
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: musiclady on November 13, 2013, 01:21:39 am
For sure. Remember the editorials Krauthammer wrote praising him?  and BOR drove me nuts because he was literally pimping himself out to get an interview with Obama.

Indeed.

And he still has trouble telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about Obama.
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: DCPatriot on November 13, 2013, 01:22:08 am
Hannity is one of the loudest voices at Fox News.  Who is "Fox News" to you?

Hannity is not a "news" program.  He certainly doesn't deserve to be the face of FOXNEWS Channel.
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: Carling on November 13, 2013, 01:22:51 am
Larry Sinclair.

I already mentioned Larry Sinclair, as did Hannity.  Unfortunately, Sinclair was a loser drug addict, too, so without concrete proof, he's easily dismissed as a crackpot, whether he was telling the truth or not.
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: Rapunzel on November 13, 2013, 01:22:57 am
Indeed.

And he still has trouble telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about Obama.

 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: Carling on November 13, 2013, 01:23:37 am
Hannity is not a "news" program.  He certainly doesn't deserve to be the face of FOXNEWS Channel.

Well, that's an opinion.  Again, who or what is "Fox News?"  Who or what was "Fox News" in 2008?
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: Rapunzel on November 13, 2013, 01:24:36 am
I already mentioned Larry Sinclair, as did Hannity.  Unfortunately, Sinclair was a loser drug addict, too, so without concrete proof, he's easily dismissed as a crackpot, whether he was telling the truth or not.

Obama was (or is) a loser drug addict (admitted in his books) so how does this separate him from Sinclair - O  lies all the time.
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: musiclady on November 13, 2013, 01:28:13 am
Well, that's an opinion.  Again, who or what is "Fox News?"  Who or what was "Fox News" in 2008?

Why do you consider Hannity to be Fox News, rather than the collective voices of the rest of Fox?

Hannity does opinion only, not hard news.

The rest of the Fox News shows did NOT tell the truth about Obama.

And that is, in part, why he was elected. 
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: Carling on November 13, 2013, 01:30:37 am
Obama was (or is) a loser drug addict (admitted in his books) so how does this separate him from Sinclair - O  lies all the time.

Because Obama isn't an admitted homosexual drug addict who prostituted himself, and Sinclair is. 

I'm not saying I don't believe Sinclair, and I certainly don't believe a word Obama says, but chasing the ghost of Larry Sinclair's Wild Limo Ride didn't make sense after the public deemed he wasn't credible.  Which, he isn't/wasn't, even if he's telling the truth.
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: Carling on November 13, 2013, 01:32:13 am
Why do you consider Hannity to be Fox News, rather than the collective voices of the rest of Fox?

Hannity does opinion only, not hard news.

The rest of the Fox News shows did NOT tell the truth about Obama.

And that is, in part, why he was elected.

I don't consider Hannity to be "Fox News".  That's why I'm asking what is "Fox News".  I will say that during that period, Hannity was basically the only show I watched on that network, and I haven't watched his show other than the occasional YouTube clip since that election. 
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: sinkspur on November 13, 2013, 01:33:45 am
Obama is in the 30s in approval ratings, and we have this foolishness.

Because of the birther nonsense, the public is conditioned to disbelieve any of the more outrageous accusations made about Obama.  And this is just about as outrageous as they come.

Obama's presidency is bleeding out because of Obamacare, which will forever tarnish his image.  Let's not tie ourselves to ne'r'do wells looking for their 15 minutes.
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: musiclady on November 13, 2013, 02:37:54 am
I don't consider Hannity to be "Fox News".  That's why I'm asking what is "Fox News".  I will say that during that period, Hannity was basically the only show I watched on that network, and I haven't watched his show other than the occasional YouTube clip since that election.

In terms of 'news,' I would consider Special Report (at the time with Brit Hume) to be more indicative of the network.  That, to me, included the panel that evaluated Obama each night, and more specifically during the debates.

At times they were irrational, and practically swooning over the debonair Obama.

It nauseated me, and I considered myself a Fox fan in general at the time.

It ended with their neglectful coverage of Obama, and their helping to allow a Marxist liar to become our President.
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: truth_seeker on November 13, 2013, 02:55:04 am
Sometimes I wonder if the Kenyan stuff, birth certificate stuff, Larry Sinclair types of things are planted by Obama's side, to drag bait in front of "conservatives" in order to have goofy online quotes etc.

If so, it always works.
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: happyg on November 13, 2013, 02:59:59 am
Sometimes I wonder if the Kenyan stuff, birth certificate stuff, Larry Sinclair types of things are planted by Obama's side, to drag bait in front of "conservatives" in order to have goofy online quotes etc.

If so, it always works.

Conservatives are a helluva lot smarter and wiser than you give them credit for. Statements like that is one reason I'm disappointed in the GOP.
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: Carling on November 13, 2013, 03:04:10 am
Conservatives are a helluva lot smarter and wiser than you give them credit for. Statements like that is one reason I'm disappointed in the GOP.

Thinking that parading Larry Sinclair around to smear Obama isn't a very smart strategy, IMO.  The guy was an admitted male prostitute and drug addict, yet the far right wanted him to champion their cause against Barry?  Dumb, dumb, dumb.

Neither was attacking Rick Perry for "retard shots", having a "heart", and "N********d", for that matter, and basically allowing Romney and Newt to become the front-runners.  Under no scenario are illegals going to be transported, en masse, back to their country of citizenship, and Perry's bi-partisan law in Texas is actually realistic in how to deal with the offspring of illegals.

Whatever happened to Michelle Bachmann and Herb Cain, by the way?  Is Herb putting up that 20' wall along the Mexican border, cutting off access to the Rio Grande and its irrigation source?
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: truth_seeker on November 13, 2013, 03:08:30 am
Conservatives are a helluva lot smarter and wiser than you give them credit for. Statements like that is one reason I'm disappointed in the GOP.
I'm going to respectfully disagree. I didn't coins phrases like "the stupid party" and "circular firing squad."

We have all heard them used for years, perhaps used them ourselves.   
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: ABX on November 13, 2013, 03:13:11 am
Conservatives are a helluva lot smarter and wiser than you give them credit for. Statements like that is one reason I'm disappointed in the GOP.

It isn't 'Conservatives' who played along initially, it was internet kooks. They didn't need Conservatives to fall for those distractions, they just needed a handful of internet kooks to pass it along. They then would label the entire right based on the kooks.

You are going to always have kooks with every thing that comes out. Kooks on the right and left believed those stories. The difference is how each side played the game. The left has always been very Machiavellian while we have been passive in the political game.

I do believe they threw a lot of those stories out there. They only needed a few to pick it up so they could label the rest. The sad part was so many on our side hoped for change, more and more picked it up. I see good Conservative friends every day latch on little by little to these stories because they hope for change and because the stories get passed around so much, they become a common storyline.

One of the biggest things our side has lost recently is our discernment filters.
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: Lipstick on a Hillary on November 13, 2013, 03:23:55 am
I'm going to respectfully disagree. I didn't coins phrases like "the stupid party" and "circular firing squad."

We have all heard them used for years, perhaps used them ourselves.

I think I'd hear those phrases about 1/10 as as often as I do if you didn't post here.
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: happyg on November 13, 2013, 03:24:54 am
I think I'd hear those phrases about 1/10 as as often as I do if you didn't post here.

 :silly: :silly: :silly:
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: ABX on November 13, 2013, 03:27:17 am
Case in point and it also pertains to the article above. I can't tell you how many good Conservatives, from a local radio host to several grandmother types are passing along this photo that Maria Pope allegedly gave Manning of Obama in drag. This is an obvious fake that has been going around the internet for years, but she is passing it along as though it is something she just had. This is such a bad fake, it isn't even funny (zoom in and you can see how they didn't use the lasso tool well in removing the image to add to this photo, you can still see remnants of the old face under it around the edges). Maria Pope is playing games if she really did give this photo to Manning as 'proof'.

(http://beforeitsnews.com/contributor/upload/104385/images/barack-obama-barry-soetoro-mia-maria-pope-gay-homosexual-cocaine-larry-sinclair-pervert.jpg)
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: Carling on November 13, 2013, 04:34:10 am
Case in point and it also pertains to the article above. I can't tell you how many good Conservatives, from a local radio host to several grandmother types are passing along this photo that Maria Pope allegedly gave Manning of Obama in drag. This is an obvious fake that has been going around the internet for years, but she is passing it along as though it is something she just had. This is such a bad fake, it isn't even funny (zoom in and you can see how they didn't use the lasso tool well in removing the image to add to this photo, you can still see remnants of the old face under it around the edges). Maria Pope is playing games if she really did give this photo to Manning as 'proof'.

(http://beforeitsnews.com/contributor/upload/104385/images/barack-obama-barry-soetoro-mia-maria-pope-gay-homosexual-cocaine-larry-sinclair-pervert.jpg)

That's just an embarrassing and obvious fake.  I hadn't seen those "photos."  Wow, if this is what is supposed to bring down Barry ...   :silly:
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: aligncare on November 13, 2013, 05:46:09 am
Yeah, that's obviously fake red hair. Clearly a wig ...... 
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: Oceander on November 13, 2013, 05:47:05 am
There is not an Obama scandal story out there that wasn't covered in some way by Fox News, including the very revealing  quotes from Obama's own book that Hannity played over and over and over again, and that alone should  have destroyed any chance for reelection. I really don't know what rabbit there was left in the hat that FOX was hiding.   
Obama's cult of personality is what carried him to victory, and I don't think there is any story that could have broke that would have changed things. 

You've hit the nail on the head (btw, i'm not taking either side in this particular claim by this alleged ex-classmate; occam's razor suggests this tale be handed with the more than usual precautions).
Title: Re: Obama was ‘cocaine-using gay hustler’, claims ex-classmate
Post by: Oceander on November 13, 2013, 05:48:42 am
It isn't 'Conservatives' who played along initially, it was internet kooks. They didn't need Conservatives to fall for those distractions, they just needed a handful of internet kooks to pass it along. They then would label the entire right based on the kooks.

You are going to always have kooks with every thing that comes out. Kooks on the right and left believed those stories. The difference is how each side played the game. The left has always been very Machiavellian while we have been passive in the political game.

I do believe they threw a lot of those stories out there. They only needed a few to pick it up so they could label the rest. The sad part was so many on our side hoped for change, more and more picked it up. I see good Conservative friends every day latch on little by little to these stories because they hope for change and because the stories get passed around so much, they become a common storyline.

One of the biggest things our side has lost recently is our discernment filters.

Sad but true.