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Obamadroids Frantic: Attack Canadian Media NAFTA Story [UPDATED x2]

By SusanUnPC on February 28, 2008 at 1:31 PM in Barack Obama, NAFTA

UPDATE: “The facts of our story are accurate.” – Greg McIsaac, Communications Manager, News Information and Current Affairs, CTV (Taylor Marsh has the report in “CTV Stands by NAFTA Story.” Besides, this is a first-rate national news organization that wouldn’t go with an off-record story that wasn’t solidly vetted.)

Original: Now competing with my diary in the recommended list at MyDD:
BREAKING: Canadian Embassy: Obama NAFTA call story is a lie
by Bob Johnson, Thu Feb 28, 2008 at 12:24:57 PM EST

So one person for the right Canadian government — a single official — issues a public denial to Politico’s Ben Smith, and that’s it? Even though the entire Canadian media are all over this story? Nationwide? And it’s the top story in Canada?

REMEDIAL POLITICS/GOVERNMENT 101: How many times has the Bush administration denied everything? (Along with every governnent on the face of the earth, thousands of times?)

And you’ve believed Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld — and every “official” government statement around the world — every time? Really? From a single official? Really?

Do I have a bridge to sell you!

(Politico’s Ben Smith: It’s he who quoted the always authoritative David Axelrod the other day saying that of course Bill Ayers and Obama know each other because their kids go to the same school.

Ben Smith, who doesn’t ask the obvious: Uh, how do Ayers’ grown adult children go to school with Obama’s elementary-age children? A Guardian blogger and I asked, with the actual AGES. I looked up all the ages at Wikipedia. The Guardian blogger went to summer camp when he was a child with Ayers’ children, so he happens to know. Ben Smith unquestioningly quotes whatever ANYBODY says — including the spinning Axelrod — and doesn’t ask FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS. Sorry excuse for a reporter. Leave it to Bob to think his single call to a single official, without any apparent follow-ups or hard questions, will suffice. The Canadian media will pursue this further.)

Then there’s a tip-off in Smith’s earlier story on this that quotes an Obama spokesman: “‘The news reports on Obama’s position on NAFTA are inaccurate and in no way represent Senator Obama’s consistent position on trade,’ says Obama spokesman Bill Burton.” The word INACCURATE is a tip-off. The Obama campaign has not said the Canadian news stories, across the nation of Canada, are a lie. Has not said that.

Dare I ever tell you what a pal privately calls Bob Johnson? Think his initials. It’s so bad, I know. But he spouts this weak drivel all the time.

UPDATE from Campaign Spot at the National Review (Yeah, so? His logic is what counts here.)

UPDATE: The Obama campaign denies this, and the Canadian Embassy in the U.S. denies this. Then again, did anyone expect the Ambassador’s office to come out and say, “yes, I will confirm this tremendously damaging report about Senator Obama several days before contests where he could effectively wrap-up the nomination, and thus ensure that I, my embassy, and my country are on the you-know-what list of a man who is potentially the next U.S. President”?