A March 20 CNSNews.com article by Fred Lucas essentially calls Michelle Obama a liar for claiming that Barack Obama’s grandmother suffered discrimination while working in the banking industry. Lucas’ evidence to back this up? The grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, “was the first female vice president of the Bank of Hawaii,” and the Obamas “inherited almost $500,000 worth of the bank’s stock from the president’s grandmother.”
As we pointed out last October when CNS editor in chief Terry Jeffrey made this exact same argument, Dunham’s ultimate success in the banking industry does not disprove the claim that she was discriminated against earlier in her career.
This bogus talking point appears to be something CNS won’t let go, further indicating that Jeffrey and Co. care only about attacking Obama at every opportunity, not actual journalism.