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A New Smear Storm Brewing


A few weeks ago, Newsmax published a story claiming that Obama's law school tuition was bankrolled by a "radical Black Muslim" with connections to the Saudi royal family.  Here is an excerpt:

The allegations first surfaced in late March, when former Manhattan Borough president Percy Sutton told a New York cable channel that a former business partner who was "raising money" for Obama had approached him in 1988 to help Obama get into Harvard Law School.

In the interview, Sutton says he first heard of Obama about twenty years ago from Khalid Al-Mansour, a Black Muslim and Black Nationalist who was a "mentor" to the founders of the Black Panther party at the time the party was founded in the early 1960s.

Sutton described al-Mansour as adviser to "one of the world's richest men," Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal.

Naturally this story has been picked up by FoxNews.  I hope the other media outlets and bloggers will investigate this story and find that it is based on thin evidence.  I would not be surprised if I see this subject broached at a Sarah Palin rally.  Perhaps McCain is holding this accusation in his back pocket for tonight's debate.

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