The Vetting - Exclusive Document Debunks Myth About Obama's Columbia Years
**OBAMA COLUMBIA DOCUMENT RELEASED**
Breitbart News’ discovery
of the 1991 biography distributed by Barack Obama’s then-literary
agency, which stated (incorrectly) that Obama had been “born in Kenya,”
confirmed what we have been saying for months as we pursued “The
Vetting” project. Much of what the country ought to know about Obama,
but does not, is hidden--often in plain sight--yet the mainstream media
covers it up or spins it away to protect him.
The errant biography is only the most sensational example of a
pattern of behavior in which Obama and his supporters manipulate or even
fabricate his life story. And because Obama and his campaign have
refused to provide other, relevant facts--and because the mainstream
media shows such little interest in finding them--conspiracy theories
flourish.
Some of these are easily debunked by conducting some very basic research.
The image above--never before released--is from public records at
Columbia University that prove that Obama did, in fact, graduate in 1983
from the Ivy League school. Contrary to some conspiracy theories, Obama
was a student within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences--not the less
selective, “nontraditional” Columbia University School of General
Studies (which only merged with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in
1990).
This never-before-seen document debunks a persistent myth that is unfairly unfavorable to the President.
Some “fact-checking” websites--such as snopes.com and FactCheck.org--have
attempted to debunk the “Obama never graduated Columbia” conspiracy
theory before. Yet they have relied almost entirely on secondary sources
and mainstream media reports, which fail to cite primary sources. And
the Obama campaign has not provided details of his admission to, or
graduation from, the prestigious Ivy League school.
Crucially, Obama has refused to release his college transcripts from
Columbia and Occidental College, which certainly do exist. Other
candidates--such as George W. Bush--released their transcripts, though
their grades were not necessarily flattering.
The mainstream media has clamored for, and investigated, and leaked
information about other presidential candidates. But not Barack
Obama--not in 2008, and not now.
Even when you lead the mainstream media by the nose to the facts, or
to the questions they should ask, they refuse. They are addicted to a
failing business model: left-wing bias alienates readers, which cuts
revenues, which leads to layoffs, which leads to less news coverage,
which leads to more opinion, which alienates readers anew. They tinker
with every part of that failing model except the bias that launches the
vicious cycle.
As more and more information about Obama emerges--through Breitbart
News and other New Media sources, left and right--the failing mainstream
media look more and more foolish, reduced to beatifying the president instead of reporting what he and his administration have done to this country.
Whether Obama’s college transcripts, or the documents in the Fast and
Furious scandal, the time for excuses and evasions is over.
Update: Several readers point out, correctly, that George W. Bush's transcripts were leaked by the media. All the more reason to wonder why the media has not shown the same interest in Obama's records.
