On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 4:02 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > You keep making this analogy, but it is false. There is no evidence that > Obama was born in Kenya, or that Bush planned 9-11. There is evidence that > Bill Cosby raped 14 women. That evidence is not definitive, and not at a > point that could sustain a conviction, but it does sustain asking him a > question about it. If 14 people filed sworn written statements that they > saw Obama's mother falsify his birth certificate, or that they saw Bush > shaking hands with Bin Ladin, then it would justify asking those questions > as well. > > I'm sorry, and with all due respect, but this is not even a close call. If > Simon does not ask that question he might as well just resign from the news > business. > > All analogies are imperfect, I grant you, but it is far from false. For instance, you don't need to search far to find people who claim to have witnessed Obama's birth in Kenya, or to view the "authentic" Kenyan birth certificate on the internet. And I want to emphasize that I'm not attempting to defend a potential rapist; I'm merely pointing out that people saying somebody did something isn't actually evidence they did something, and without any research on the part of a reporter to verify the claims, it is wrong to confront someone with accusations that have not been vetted. Simon wasn't being a journalist when he asked the question; he was being TMZ.
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