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| − | '''Andy Martin''' ( | + | '''Andy Martin''' (born 1945) is an American journalist, politician and pundit. He has appeared on [[Fox News]] and other major news outlets. He also has a history of making spurious and vexatious lawsuits, and issuing [[racist]] and [[anti-Semitic]] statements in court.<ref name=NYT /> |
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| + | In 2004, Andy Martin was the first person to suggest that [[Barack Obama]] is secretly a [[Muslim]], and claimed to have evidence of this, although he did not make any evidence available to the public.<ref name=NYT>[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/13/us/politics/13martin.html ''New York Times'' article.]</ref><ref>[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071112/hayes/single ''The Nation'' article.]</ref><ref>[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062703781.html ''Washington Post'' article.]</ref> Shortly before the 2008 Presidential Election, Martin was interviewed by [[CNN]], at which time he retracted his claim that Obama is or had been a Muslim, thus contradicting his previous claim to have had conclusive evidence about this. Martin claimed instead to have new evidence that Obama is the son of Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987), a black journalist and left-wing activist, but again Martin presented no evidence to corroborate his claim.<ref>See the CNN interview on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxrDlugBj4o YouTube.]</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 19:30, November 18, 2008
Andy Martin (born 1945) is an American journalist, politician and pundit. He has appeared on Fox News and other major news outlets. He also has a history of making spurious and vexatious lawsuits, and issuing racist and anti-Semitic statements in court.[1]
In 2004, Andy Martin was the first person to suggest that Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim, and claimed to have evidence of this, although he did not make any evidence available to the public.[1][2][3] Shortly before the 2008 Presidential Election, Martin was interviewed by CNN, at which time he retracted his claim that Obama is or had been a Muslim, thus contradicting his previous claim to have had conclusive evidence about this. Martin claimed instead to have new evidence that Obama is the son of Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987), a black journalist and left-wing activist, but again Martin presented no evidence to corroborate his claim.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 New York Times article.
- ↑ The Nation article.
- ↑ Washington Post article.
- ↑ See the CNN interview on YouTube.