Obama And Occidental College

The argument against believing Rev. Jeremiah Wright is not unique. It is the same pattern used every day by police and psychiatrists and other professionals. They use and rely on self identification. If a person says he or she is mentally ill, they are automatically believed. But if they say the FBI is following them they are not believed. Is that what happened to the 19 victims of James Bulger, FBI informant extraordinaire? If they say they are sane or innocent they are not believed. If they admit criminal acts, they are believed. That gives rise to false confessions, about 25 percent of all confessions according to one researcher. What makes this understandable is that people believe what they want to believe when they have no facts, only words. That is what credibility is about. But many people rely on credentials which they equate with credibility. How is the issue of unidentified sources by Klein, different from Bob Woodward's unidentified sources? Woodward remembered exact quotes from unidentified sources. The issue is a double standard, which journalists enjoy and thrive on. 

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The book’s big revelation comes from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. He claims, in an on-the-record interview with Klein, that in 2008 an unnamed friend of an unnamed friend of Obama sent Wright an email offering him $150,000 “not to preach at all until the November presidential election.” Republicans may seethe, but it’s odd that they would suddenly take the word of Jeremiah Wright, a publicity-seeking narcissist who says AIDS was invented by the government.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/self-made-man_646858.html?nopager=1

Self-Made Man
Barack Obama’s autobiographical fictions
JUN 18, 2012, VOL. 17, NO. 38
BY ANDREW FERGUSON
Weekly Standard