One of the most active members of Fogbow is Anna Stoddard. Stoddard is a respected figure at Fogbow, but her name has been tarnished by her own errors and laziness. For the record, I just caught Anna Stoddard, the author of the "Oh For Goodness Sake" blog lying about her first article on me. She made the silly mistake of suggesting that I worked for Ann Coulter while Ann Coulter was an undergraduate at Cornell University.
Now, Ms. Stoddard is spinning her mistake and indignantly claiming she "immediately" corrected her error.
In truth, we both know that she left that error in place for over a year after I brought the mistake to her attention. I know that she saw my outrage over her mistake over a year ago because she quoted from my article - without ever correcting the mistake I brought to her attention regarding her absurd suggestion about Ann Coulter employing me. Today, she writes:
John Drew came here and said I had misinterpreted something he said about being a teaching assistant of Ann Coulter. I did misunderstand what he had tweeted and I posted a correction to OFGS linking to John Drew's blog immediately.I guess she is trying to argue that she just noticed my complaint about her silliness when in truth she has known about it for over a year.
By the way, Stoddard also has not explained the even sillier idea that I did not know young Obama drove a red Fiat. This second error is funny and revealing since you can easily tell from my article that the car I first saw Obama arrive in was owned (and driven) by his friend Hasan Chandoo.
What should be alarming to everyone at Fogbow is Stoddard's willingness to lie in print to her friends at Fogbow to cover up her obvious mistake.
As you might expect, the folks at Fogbow did not stand up long when I started turning up the heat - particularly their absurd claim that I said I was Obama's classmate or the bizarre assertion that I believe Obama is still a Marxist socialist based only on my 1980 debate with him.
The most pathetic person in the Fogbow group is a fellow named Kevin Kesseler, 42, an unmarried math Ph.D. who lives up to the worst stereotypes you might imagine about him. He has a massive gap in his resume, between 2009-2011, which is visible in his LinkedIn profile. Last time I checked, he is bragging about his math model building company, Bespoke Modeling, which only had a one page web presence.
The folks at Fogbow, particularly, the disbarred CA attorney, Bill Byran, believe that my take on young Obama's ideological extremism will be diluted by tossing in a thorough list of everyone else who ever interacted with young Obama.
I certainly welcome that debate. Remnick's book verifies that Obama's true Occidental College roommate, Hasan Chandoo, was a Marxist, socialist. The book quotes Margot Mifflin saying Chandoo was a Marxist. I say Chandoo was a Marxist and that Obama was a more extreme Marxist than Chandoo. I do not think any objective observer would buy Remnick's suggestion that Obama's Marxism was somehow unprogrammatic or unideological. Remnick is a liberal Democrat partisan who seeking to protect Obama's image. The people he quotes are typically donors to the Obama presidential campaign.
I would expect Remnick and Obama's Democrat party friends to minimize the ideological extremism I saw in young Obama.
All in all, I think Remnick underestimated how much additional information was available on Obama's radicalism, information later uncovered by both Jack Cashill in Deconstructing Obama and Stanley Kurtz in Radical-In-Chief.
One of the more notable guys contributing to Fogbow is a real sociology professor named Richard C. Rockwell who is known as Tolland RCR. Prof. Rockwell, at the very least, should insist that the folks at Fogbow remove any suggestion from their website that I ever claimed I was Obama's classmate or that my take on contemporary Obama is solely based on meeting him in 1980-1981. Rockwell used to be the Executive Director, The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research.
Richard C. Rockwell should know better than to tarnish himself, his academic institution or the Roper Center by tolerating the shoddy reporting and dishonest practices used by his friends at Fogbow.
If Fox New wants to host an Occidental College reunion, then I certainly hope I'm invited to share what I know about the young Obama's extremist ideology. I spoke at Occidental College regarding young Obama this summer. I welcome any opportunity to discuss Obama's Marxist socialist roots with those who knew him at Occidental College and those who are protecting him at the University of Connecticut or the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research.
John C. Drew, Ph.D. is an award-winning political scientist.
2 comments:
Wow, are you a hypocrite! You complain that someone published inaccurate information about you (even though it was due to an innocent misunderstanding* and was corrected when brought to their notice) while you've been spewing anything you can find on the web without doing any sort of checking for accuracy (and you've repeated many lies already--not to mention your ridiculous suppositions...). I would also note that you claimed it was not your responsibility to correct other's mistaken impressions about you--at least as long as they are flattering to you. So, to recap, if someone says something about you that is incorrect, but flattering, it's not your responsibility to correct them, but if someone makes a simple mistake regarding you that isn't flattering (and corrects it when they are informed), they are spreading wild inaccuracies and must be stopped. On the other hand, you apparently feel absolutely no compunction to do even the most rudimentary verification of facts before you print names that you think are associated with anonymous identities. You really are a sad, pathetic human being
* Which, I note, was caused by your use of language that, while clear to you, wasn't really clear to people with no experience in academia.
Anna Stoddard's unprofessionalism in her Oh For Goodness Sake blog is much, much worse than you let on. She knew for over a year that I was never the TA for an undergraduate student at Cornell, but Stoddard did nothing to correct that error. We know that she knew the truth at least a year ago because she read my rebuttal to her first article smearing me, an article which clearly pointed out her error. Stoddard is not a journalist, she is a ruthless smear artist who didn't care about the truth...only in making me look stupid or flawed as part of her effort to protect President Obama.
Kevin. The gap in your employment record between 2009 and 2011 is a matter of public record. You posted it yourself. I'm just asking you to answer the simple question, how did you support yourself between 2009 and 2011. Surely a brilliant, 42 year old, math Ph.D. from Duke must have done some amazing work in that time period. My guess is that you were the most interesting patient in the mental hospital or the most fascinating cell mate of a convicted white collar criminal.
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