Last week, NewsBusters’ P.J. Gladnick peddled conspiracy theories about Harry Reid. Now, in an April 5 post, he’s latched onto old conspiracy theories about President Obama:
Does anybody know what Barack Obama was doing during his college years? We know that he was the president of the Harvard Law Review but do we even know what articles, if any, he wrote for it? Beyond that his college years are almost completely blank as to his grades or activitivies to the extent that his time at Columbia University has been completely erased from memory. No professor nor student from that time even remembers him attending classes at Columbia. Compare that big MSM yawn to the recent mainstream media frenzy which included a 2223 word front page Washington Post story devoted to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s college career which ended before graduation. And now we have something of an MSM Crime Scene Investigation carried out by Politifact Wisconsin about Scott Walker’s claim that he recently purchased a sweater at Kohl’s department store for only a dollar.
Of course, it’s been well documented that Obama attended Columbia, and that Columbia considers him a graduate — after all, he couldn’t havegotten into Harvard Law School if he hadn’t graduated from Columbia.
But as with many conspiracy theorists, such evidence isn’t good enough. In a Twitter exchange we had with Gladnick, he demanded information about “Classes? Grades? Profs?” When we asked Gladnick if he was a birther — since, after all, believing the conspiracy theory that Obama didn’t actually attend Columbia is not that far from believing he wasn’t born in the U.S., he freaked out and refused to answer the question (while also refusing to deny that he was) and hurled personal insults at us.
NewsBusters and its parent, the Media Research Center, used to consider themselves above such conspiracy-mongering. Not anymore, apparently. And, thus, the creeping WorldNetDaily-ization of the MRC continues.