Larry Johnson is a hack.
Larry Johnson is a hack who no one should pay any attention to. As proof, see Exhibit A:
First, he tells us that Obama will "do for Africa what George Bush has done for Iraq. Only worse. He is taking sides in a tribal war in Kenya that is on the verge of becoming a Rwanda-like genocide." Sounds scary, right? Well, if you read the rest of the article, there is not one iota of evidence put forth that Obama would commit a single US troop to Kenya. Hack.
Then he links to an article (the link is broken in Mr. Johnson's original article) and implies that Robert Ethan wrote it. In fact, Robert Ethan is not the author of the article (here's the original. Timothy Kalyegira wrote it.) Who is Robert Ethan? Just some guy on the internet who wrote a blog post about Obama and linked to the Kalyegira piece at allafrica.com. If you skip to the third block quote in Mr. Johnson's article, you'll see the spectacular claim that
The rest of the article contains equal parts Red-baiting and half-truths (e.g. the purported agreement between Odinga and the National Muslim Leaders Forum that would bring sharia to Kenya had been revealed as a fake two months prior to Mr.Johnson writing his article). Hack.
Note: I've taken a comment I tried to post to here, cleaned it up, and turned it into this blog post. For whatever reason, it did not got through when I sent it as a comment.
First, he tells us that Obama will "do for Africa what George Bush has done for Iraq. Only worse. He is taking sides in a tribal war in Kenya that is on the verge of becoming a Rwanda-like genocide." Sounds scary, right? Well, if you read the rest of the article, there is not one iota of evidence put forth that Obama would commit a single US troop to Kenya. Hack.
Then he links to an article (the link is broken in Mr. Johnson's original article) and implies that Robert Ethan wrote it. In fact, Robert Ethan is not the author of the article (here's the original. Timothy Kalyegira wrote it.) Who is Robert Ethan? Just some guy on the internet who wrote a blog post about Obama and linked to the Kalyegira piece at allafrica.com. If you skip to the third block quote in Mr. Johnson's article, you'll see the spectacular claim that
Former Clinton aides currently working for Obama were the “mutual acquaintances” who directed Dick Morris to Kenya to advise the Odinga campaignAgain, the link above the quote is a broken link to the same Kalyegira op-ed piece. It's interesteing to note, Mr. Kalyegira's piece does not mention Dick Morris once. Where did Mr.Johnson get the idea that Mr. Morris was sent to Kenya by Obama aides? Again from Robert Ethan. So Mr.Johnson's bogus allegations are based on the unsourced allegations of Clinton partisan Robert Ethan. Hack^2
The rest of the article contains equal parts Red-baiting and half-truths (e.g. the purported agreement between Odinga and the National Muslim Leaders Forum that would bring sharia to Kenya had been revealed as a fake two months prior to Mr.Johnson writing his article). Hack.
Note: I've taken a comment I tried to post to here, cleaned it up, and turned it into this blog post. For whatever reason, it did not got through when I sent it as a comment.
