Fear the Vetting! Breitbart.com Editor Joel Pollak’s Latest Bombshell Exclusive

Vetting the bed again
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Diligently working night and day to do the vetting the mainstream media refuses to do (because they’re IN ON IT), breitbart.com editor Joel Pollak has released a new BOMBSHELL EXCLUSIVE report on Barack Obama’s evil plots.

Well, actually, it’s not really about an evil plot. It’s a document that shows Obama graduated from Columbia University in 1983.

Which everyone already knew.

The Vetting - Exclusive Document Debunks Myth About Obama’s Columbia Years!

It’s almost cute how Pollak pumps up this total non-story, almost managing to make it seem as if breitbart.com is doing real journalism.

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. …

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.

Yes, that’s right; Pollak is congratulating himself on “debunking a myth” that circulates only on the fringes of the conspiracy-minded right wing, a myth that no sane person in America believes. A myth that needs no debunking, because it’s batshit loony from square one.

Devastating.

UPDATE at 5/19/12 12:28:52 pm

By the way, Pollak is flat wrong when he says George W. Bush released his Yale transcripts. In the real world, Bush tried to prevent the transcripts from getting out, but they were leaked to The New Yorker.

The fail is strong in Joel Pollak.

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