With\u00a0some very nice people across America absolutely convinced that President Obama is either a Communist or a Muslim — or perhaps both, this is refreshing. A Russian government-supported website, Russia Today,\u00a0implies that Obama’s rise to power is due to his family’s connections with the generally-considered-to-be-conservative\u00a0Central Intelligence Agency.<\/p>\n
The Washington, D.C.-based media watchdog group Accuracy in Media is a tad skeptical.<\/p>\n
According to AIM, Russia Today, which AIM calls a Russian government\u00a0propaganda agency, “has been making the rounds for a year claiming that Barack Obama or his family members have had CIA connections. Now, the American Thinker,<\/em> a premier conservative news site, has taken the bait.”<\/p>\n AIM goes on to say that in a July 15 post, Thomas Lifson cites an article on the site of the Claremont Institute.<\/p>\n But the Claremont piece he is promoting and which is titled, \u201cThe Chosen One,\u201d admittedly relies on the work of \u201cSelf-styled investigative journalist Wayne Madsen,\u201d whose \u201ccredibility is certainly checkered.” In addition to serving as a regular on Russia Today, which recently hired suspected Russian spy Ekaterina Zatuliveter, Madsen has produced a number of scoops that don\u2019t pass the smell test.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Madsen’s past bombshells\u00a0include:<\/p>\n AIM continues:<\/p>\n We first wrote about Madsen back in 2006, when he accused White House aide Karl Rove of having personally coordinated the assassination of a Lebanese political official, Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri. In fact, U.S. and U.N. officials, acting through a special tribunal, have charged the Iranian-supported terrorist group Hezbollah with planting the 2005 car bomb that killed al-Hariri.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Another time, Madsen said President Bush himself was:<\/p>\n So, the accusation that Obama is a CIA creation should perhaps be regarded accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With\u00a0some very nice people across America absolutely convinced that President Obama is either a Communist or a Muslim — or perhaps both, this is refreshing. A Russian government-supported website, Russia Today,\u00a0implies that Obama’s rise to power is due to his family’s connections with the generally-considered-to-be-conservative\u00a0Central Intelligence Agency. The Washington, D.C.-based media watchdog group Accuracy in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[338,337,336],"class_list":["post-2416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-accuracy-in-media","tag-obama","tag-russia-today"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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