This was ably diaried yesterday by Stroszek here but didn't make the rec list so I wanted to reprise and at least give it some additional air time.

Bottom line, the New York Times published an abysmal hit piece recycling the Obama is a Muslim smear:

Senator Obama is half African by birth and Africans can understandably identify with him. In Islam, however, there is no such thing as a half-Muslim. Like all monotheistic religions, Islam is an exclusive faith.

As the son of the Muslim father, Senator Obama was born a Muslim under Muslim law as it is universally understood. It makes no difference that, as Senator Obama has written, his father said he renounced his religion. Likewise, under Muslim law based on the Koran his mother’s Christian background is irrelevant.

Or at least so claims the author ... (flip for the rest!)

Thomas Edsall at the Huffington Post has now written a second very misleading story that is simply spreading false rumors about Obama paying the Clinton debt. Obama is now all but officially the head of the Democratic party and it is time for us to get together behind him. Inflammatory and misleading stories like this one are not helping. This is New York Post quality journalism. I am really beginning to question the reliability of Huffington Post.

Below is my e-mail to Mr. Edsall explaining why his story is so misleading. Please join me in asking him to stop manufacturig these bogus controversies.

Huffington Post is making a big deal out McCain possibly not voting for Bush in 2000 to try to undermine Obama's "Bush Third-Term" strategy against McCain, but here is why it doesn't matter...

Last night on Comedy Central blogging ruled the airwaves. First, Jon Stewart talks to Kansas professor David Perlmutter about his new book "Blog Wars" and the nature of blogging in general.

It was followed up by Stephen Colbert's interview with Blogosphere mega-celeb Arianna Huffington. She tries to convince Stephen that the John McCain of 2000 is no more and that many of his decisions (like flipping on torture) would be like Stephen joining the Grizzly Bears fan club.

The important question is... now that we're blogging about bloggers who are themselves talking about blogging - is anyone's mind getting blown?

There has been some heated discussion about whether or not the Obama camaign should pay the debts of the Clinton campaign. I agree with many others that there is no justifciation for transferring funds from the small donors of the Obama campaign to the exceedingly wealthy Clintons.

However, as it turns out the controversy has been generated from an incredibly misleading story at the  Huffington Post

I explain why the entire cotreversy is bogus below with an e-mail to Thomas Edsall, the man who started the rumor. Please take the time to send an e-mail of your own to let him know that we expect better.

About the most outrageous piece of political hogwash I've ever seen posted on a blog is up on the Huffington Post at this moment. Under the teaser, "Big Rewards Await Clinton If She Drops Out Now," Thomas B. Edsall, political editor of the Huff Po and reputedly a professor of Journalism at Columbia University, asserts in his second paragraph:

One of the most inviting is the near certainty that the Obama campaign would agree to pay back the $11.4 million she has loaned her own bid, along with an estimated $10 million to $15 million in unpaid campaign expenses.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

It made me so hot and bothered, I couldn't even pay the gentleman the courtesy of reading the rest of this absurdity. Someone must have diaried this already? I'd be happy to delete!

I know there have been a couple of other diaries complaining about Mayhill Fowler on Huffington Post and her "citizen-journalism" coverage of the Obama campaign.  She claims to have given more money to Obama than Hillary (and also contributed to Fred Thompson just to support her home state!), and claims to be somewhat of an Obama supporter, but what she writes are without a doubt hit pieces on Obama and she's even fabricates stories to make him look bad.  If that's citizen journalism, it's no better (and maybe even worse) than the MSM.
Today when I logged onto the Huff Post site, Fowler's newest headline jumped out at me, and I decided I couldn't take it any more.  So I wrote emails to the addresses I could find for Huffington Post.  Here's what I wrote:

James Carville, the "ragin' Cajun", issued the following statement in support of his candidate:

"If she gave him one of her cojones, they'd both have two."

This is from the HuffPo's coverage of the Newsweek article that quotes him (sorry for the daisy chain reference).  (Uhm, isn't he saying his candidate is chock full of nuts?)

As a feminist and woman, I'm kind of pissed off that the woman candidate who claims she represents progress for women has a surrogate out there reinforcing the "male is strong/female is weak" meme.  How the heck does that help women??????

Tom Hanks is a good American  I just caught this over at the Huffington Post.  Tom Hanks, self deprecating and dryly funny as usual, posted a video on his myspace page endorsing Obama.

The NYTimes has an interesting blog article about the role Evan Bayh has played in the upcoming Tues. primary, most notably that this campaign has tested Bayh's leadership in the state.  

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama aren’t the only politicians with a whole lot on the line in Indiana next Tuesday: Senator Evan Bayh — Democratic moderate, Hillary supporter, vice-presidential aspirant and Hoosier-state powerbroker — also has a future hanging in the balance. So, how’s it going? According to The Indianapolis Star’s political ace Matthew Tulley, not so well...

I just read another quite interesting article on the Huffington Post.  I have to say, their wide reporting open to both the likes of Taylor Marsh(don't roll the eyes, some people love her) and also Sam Stein(a fairly obvious Obama supporter I believe) makes this a place I like to dwell.  Basically, you get your fill.  

This particular article delves into the Media.  I know we all here have been decrying the media when it drenches us with the latest in gaffes or "misstatements", or participates in the guilt by association stories (especially when those stories concentrate on the candidate of our liking). I have come to call the media, our Media DJ's.  They just spin the stories around and around and around until the public gets tired of dancing to the tune.

Dear Kos community,

On the Kantor Issue, I completely agree with Sun dog.

If we Do truly Believe in Obama and we Support his message of Change and the "Audacity of Hope" then I believe that, like Obama, it starts from the ground up.  I'd rather the bottom up approach include us being our own better angels and exercising good judgement and self restraint.

The Kantor Indiana story is starting to hit the mainstream, and Kantor has responded to Huffpo.

This is utterly disgusting. I have for a few weeks tried to soften the rhetoric regarding Clinton and her Campaign, arguing that they have every right to fight for the nomination.  With information such as this, how are we supposed to filter through this garbage with hope that somehow a Clinton presidency will be any different from the Karl Rove-esqe presidency of George Bush

An article on Huffington Post-by Peter Dreier (Off the Bus)

This is an opinion piece, not a satire like my other entries here so far. I'm posting the links here on top because I don't yet know how to hyperlink (yes,I feel like a dork)so my apologies for the inconvenience.

By Mayhill Fowler, the article in question:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

The actual incident in question, from YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/...

NY Times article on 'Off the Bus'
http://www.nytimes.com/...

Mayhills piece, "Bill and Hillary: Just Regular Folk in North Carolina"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

From the Huffington Post:

Host Chris Matthews pressed McCain on the issue. "You've heard the ideological argument to keep U.S. forces in the Middle East. I've heard it from the hawks. They say, keep United States military presence in the Middle East, like we have with the 7th Fleet in Asia. We have the German...the South Korean component. Do you think we could get along without it?"

McCain held fast, rejecting the very policy he urges today. "I not only think we could get along without it, but I think one of our big problems has been the fact that many Iraqis resent American military presence," he responded. "And I don't pretend to know exactly Iraqi public opinion. But as soon as we can reduce our visibility as much as possible, the better I think it is going to be."

"Basic research is like shooting an arrow into the air and, where it lands, painting a target." --Homer Burton Adkins (1892-1949, American organic chemist)

"Paranoia will destroy ya" --Kinks

New poll!  This is a followup to an earlier diary I wrote wondering why I was banned from commenting on Huffington Post.  Several Kossacks replied that they had recently been banned or knew of others who had been banned too.  None of the banned knew why, and only one had been reinstated.

I had wondered about every possible reason I could think of why I might have been banned by Huffington Post (or disappeared by AT&T!) and left a poll in my earlier diary.  With 50 votes, the top vote-getters were (16 votes) decline to state for fear of being disappeared too, (12) other, (11) Clinton moles, and (4) Dick Cheney/AT&T.

Arianna Huffington replied to my e-mail (after my e-mail to Info was not answered) and apologized, said it was a technical error, and she directed a blog editor to reinstate me.  Soon I was undead.

It's such a curious error, now I'm looking for banning patterns, see below, there may be method to this madness.

Hi, this is Adam Green with MoveOn.

It’s no secret that MoveOn.org members have been very supportive of Barack Obama’s candidacy – endorsing him with a 70% vote, raising lots of small dollar donations for him, sending hundreds of thousands of personal endorsement emails to friends and family before key primaries and caucuses, and making over 1,000 30-second ads on his behalf (one of which will  soon air on national TV). We’re excited about his candidacy, and we think he’ll make a great president. But Obama did himself, the Democratic Party, and the progressive movement a disservice this weekend.

It was a mistake for Obama to go on FOX’s Sunday show and treat the experience as if it was a real news interview. Democratic politicians need to understand that FOX is a Republican mouthpiece masquerading as a news outlet. When dealing with FOX, you either burn them or they will burn you.