Dan Gilgoff's next article might be that Jindal/Palin supporters are willing to commit murder to get him in office...
DMof AZ8:34AM February 25, 2009
"I'm surprised that a few comments on my post about Bobby Jindal as the new face of Christian conservatism allege that he's got ancestral Muslim roots......Remind you of any other recent rumor campaigns against promising young minority politicians?"
Define "a few". Out of (currently) 28 comments, I assume "a few" means one or maybe twoish outlandish comments - with these comments being ridiculed in several of the other comments.
Define "surprised". "Surprised" as in you weren't aware that people sometimes say the darndest things under the anonymity of the internet? Or "Surprised" like when I found out that a few thousand people in South Chicago appear to be in agreement that the US Government invented the HIV virus specifically for black Africans?
Define "rumor campaign". Is a "rumor campaign" what happens when news outlets and popular writers at sites like The Atlantic and Huffington Post loosely throw around easily disproved accusations toward promising young minority politicians related to banning of books, infant maternity, and the like because it works toward the campaign agenda?
I'd like to start my own rumor campaign at this time please - I have no doubt in my mind that Dan Gilgoff is sometimes not honest with himself or his readers. And, he's a Scientologist. And a lesbian.
Here's you a headline:
"Dan Gilgoff, Stupendously Honest and In-No-Way Unbiased Blogger, Draws the Same "Secret
Sapphic Scientologist" Allegations That Haunted Tom Cruise Because One Anonymous Poster Said So and He Was Obviously a Southern Republican So We Definitely Need To Make a Big Deal About It By Highlighting It Because In Some Way It May Help Out Obama and Hurt Evil Rush Limbaugh or Something Like That or Whatever, But Anyhoozle Republicans Are Mean"
Corky Lof AL8:13AM February 25, 2009
At first I was disappointed that Gov Jindal was to give the Republican Response to the bama's long winded speech but now I think
Bobby Jindal is through after hearing him speak.
Mary Lou Welzof NY3:17AM February 25, 2009
When I heard President Obama mention 57 cops still on the beat, I immediately thought of all 57 states and the ones he's yet to visit!
Perhaps given enough time and some remedial geography lessons, America's baggy suit of inexperience might finally be able to locate those missing seven (7) states.
Governor Palin had been alerted by Al Gore that there is no more cold in the Arctic, that all the ice is melting, that people and polar bears will sweat or swim with the rising tides.
For those who laughed a couple of times during Gov. Jindal's speech, you were lucky. Smith and his friends were very sad listening to Mr. Obama's empty oratory.
Our fathers, grandfathers and distant antecedents fought and died to preserve our freedom and security. In one month the Chicago Chameleon has managed to even make their buried bones go a-rattling.
The Real Smithof CT1:26AM February 25, 2009
...considering so many of them are boo-hooing tonight about Bobby Jindal's Republican response speech. They think, based on his speech, which was predictably "Republican gloom-and-doom" pessimistic for the most part, that Sarah Palin suddenly has gained ascendency over Jindal for 2012. Counting their chickens....
I just cracked up laughing about one part of Jindal's speech, because I immediately thought of Sarah Palin when he was telling this story:
During the Katrina aftermath, there was this Louisiana sheriff on the telephone, incensed at some bureaucrat who was telling him that he couldn't send his volunteers out in boats to rescue the folks who were stranded by high water -- because they didn't have insurance coverage, etc. Jindal said volunteers donated their time, equipment, resources, whatever they could to help the folks in need as much as they could, not waiting for the bureaucrats to solve the problems within the constraints of regulations.
Jindal may not have realized it, but he just delivered a verbal slap in the face to Sarah Palin, who is the face of Alaskan bureaucracy. She futzed around for 6 weeks in January and February after a cry for help came from an elder of the village of Emmonak, AK. First she should have sent out her rural advisor, but she hadn't replaced the onewho'd quit last October. Then she flew to Washington DC enjoying the Alfalfa dinner and politicking with Fred Malek, doing NOTHING about starving freezing villagers. Her brand-new rural advisor started out on a trek to the villages last week, long after volunteers from Internet blogs, statewide church groups and school kids, and donations from all over the US began to flow to those in need in western Alaska.
Then she herself finally showed up last weekend with cookies and a televangelist in tow, to a town halfway between "civilization" and those in need. That's SO pathetic of her.
KarenJof OR12:04AM February 25, 2009
the Republican to proceed the onslaught on Muslims/Brown People/ Foreign dark colored that are evidently and overwhelming more articulate, smart, and progressive.
Davidof PA11:48PM February 24, 2009
OK this comment just says it all: Most supporters of Sarah Palin would KILL to have Bobby Jindal as her Vice President.
How PRESUMPTUOUS! Why should Palin be on the top of the ticket?? Jindal is far more intelligent and accomplished!! It is comments like this that really just show how clueless Palin supporters are. She is not competent to be President or VP of this country, period and she never will be. Get over your idea because it isn't going to happen. She had her chance and she showed the world how small minded and more she is.
Lornaof AZ10:57PM February 24, 2009
This is exactly why the education system in this country needs to be improved. I am NOT a Jindal fan in the sense I do not agree with his politics, but I this calling him Muslim is ridiculous as it was with Obama. Most Americans probably do not even know what Hinduism is which is very very sad. And many evangelical Christians (sorry to not mean this offensively) think you MUST be Christian to be a good leader. Not so, sorry. It is pathetic.
Lornaof AZ10:54PM February 24, 2009
sarah likes jindal---hello --please try to get facts right--there is so much bull out there
nevadaof NV9:44PM February 24, 2009
I've seen this online -- from the LEFT. They are out to destroy Jindal along with Palin, the GOP's two bright rising stars. It smacks of the left and of Saul Alinsky all around, even in the style of the claim. After everything Governor Palin endured at their hands, why do you think her supporters would use the same dirty tricks against a fellow young, fiscally conservative governor? I urge USNews to get their story straight, before rushing into print with misleading allegations like this.
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