In a Sept. 29 WorldNetDaily article repeating claims that Barack Obama is “hiding something from his college days,” Aaron Klein writes:
In a posting that was referenced on multiple other blogs, Andy Martin, executive editor of ContrarianCommentary.com, asked whether Obama met Ayers at Columbia.
“Obama spent two years at Columbia University yet left virtually no fingerprints of his presence there. Could that be because Columbia was where Mr. Obama first met ‘mad bomber’ William Ayers?” asked Martin.
You may recall Martin from our entanglements with him: He sued us and our employer, Media Matters, for (accurately, it can be reasonably argued) calling him anti-Semitic — a lawsuit that was laughed out of court (twice), in no small part because he has a long history of lawsuit abuse.
Martin has a history of launching all sorts of Obama smears into the world — he takes credit for launching the essentially false claim that Obama is hiding his “Muslim religion.” As we’ve previously noted, Martin published a March 2007 article at Newsmax claiming that Obama has “locked … away” his white grandmother “in his racist closet,” calling him “one of the most racist politicians in America today” and accusing him of trying to hide his white heritage.
And Klein is taking the word of this guy as fact? Does he think that because an article is “referenced on multiple other blogs,” that automatically makes it true?
Klein also fails to mention that Martin claims to be the executive director of something called the Committee of One Million to Defeat Barack Obama, which might make his musings just a tad biased and, thus, suspect.