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Obama's secret obssesion
Theories of the former president
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Summary
Recently, a series of problamatic recorses have been exposed onto the internet conercing the former president's, Barack Obama, sexuality. Most famous, was a letter written by him (in college) to his former girlfriend which reveleaved his fantasies of being with men.
Representations
The 4 main representations that are presented within the article.
Secrecy
Homosexuality
Barack Obama
Lies/Truth
There's ongoing references to secrecy througout. Always linking back to him not certain things/ hiding it from others.
Of course, Barack is represented as he is the person who is being talked about in the article.
Continuosly questioning of the ex-president's sexuality. Including information about his 'homosexuality'.
The article is about prooving what is fact and what is fiction: 'News story, and then a conspiracy theory'
Other represetations...
- Media
- Exposure/being exposed
- text reciever/text producer
- Government/politics
- Evidence: (the letter & interview)
- Conspiracy (links with lies/truth)
Glossary
Detractors
Robust
Unsubstantiated
Criticizer of specific topics
Not supported/proved with evidence
Strong, sturdy, healthy
Rendezvous
Androgenous
Ecosystem
Community with specific environment
A secret agreed meeting
Part male and female
Salacious
Cabal
Contingency
A secret political clique who plots action
To be unnecessarily sexual
An event that may not happen
Percolated
Intrinsic
Substantive
To become active/lively (slang)
Belonging naturally: essential
Dealing with important/real issues
Reverberated
Perpetuate
Delegate
To be echoed/repeated continuously
To make something last indefinitely
Give to someone else
Inferes that it'll expose truth. Was fact and now fiction?
Why Barack Obama’s sexuality became a news story, and then a conspiracy theory The claims were fueled by a robust online misinformation ecosystem that did not exist when they first emerged more than a decade earlier. He spent eight years in the White House, nearly every move recorded by press and watched by staff. But six years after former President Barack Obama left office, some conservative media figures aggressively circulated a salacious rumor: that Obama is secretly gay. The claim percolated across social media and conservative news sites for weeks throughout August and reverberated throughout September. An Aug. 3 headline in the Tucker Carlson-founded Daily Caller said “Obama once wrote to ex-girlfriend that he ‘repeatedly fantasizes about making love to men,’ biographer says.” A day later, Infowars, the website founded by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, published a similar story. By Aug. 15, conservative news sites had published over 20 stories with headlines about the former president’s “gay sex fantasies” or his “gay sex fantasy confession.” Carlson, the former Fox News host, on Aug. 30 told podcaster Adam Carolla that, “In 2008, it became really clear that Barack Obama had been having sex with men.”
Diffrentiates themselves to the conspiracy theorits by labelling them.
Introduction
Part 1
Declaritives used for fact manipuation.
Huge tabloid subject. Hyperbole for dramatics.
Suggets that it's all true because hey coldn't find it.
Really clear? As part of PolitiFact’s work reporting on misinformation online, we found this claim to be anything but. By the time Carlson made this statement, speculation about Obama’s sexuality had fused into even broader online conspiracy theories, including that Obama had murdered both his chef Tafari Campbell and comedian Joan Rivers to keep his secret. Videos on Facebook revived the 15-year-old unsubstantiated allegations of Larry Sinclair, a man with a criminal history of fraud and forgery who in 2008 claimed to have had drug-fueled sex with Obama in 1999. On Sept. 6, Carlson fanned interest in Obama’s sexuality, releasing on X a new interview with Sinclair in which Sinclair repeated his allegations. "This is really neatly entangled with the upcoming electoral cycles, the ogoing political assaults on the LGBTQ+ and in particular trans people," said TJ Billard, assistant professor of communiction at Northwestern University. Anxiety that people in power are pushing a secret "gay agenda" helps fual theories tat those powerful people are themselves secretly gay, Syracuse Univeristy associates proffessor Joshua P. Darr said.
Exxagerrated theories to villainise Obama.
Introduction
Part 2
Secrecy because it could cause uproar due to hate
Topic is controversial which makes it more popular
Transcript
I've given out an edited piece of the transcript. All previous context etc is still there it's justa complation of specfic bts of the article.
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omg
Obama's secret obssesion
Theories of the former president
go!
Summary
Recently, a series of problamatic recorses have been exposed onto the internet conercing the former president's, Barack Obama, sexuality. Most famous, was a letter written by him (in college) to his former girlfriend which reveleaved his fantasies of being with men.
Representations
The 4 main representations that are presented within the article.
Secrecy
Homosexuality
Barack Obama
Lies/Truth
There's ongoing references to secrecy througout. Always linking back to him not certain things/ hiding it from others.
Of course, Barack is represented as he is the person who is being talked about in the article.
Continuosly questioning of the ex-president's sexuality. Including information about his 'homosexuality'.
The article is about prooving what is fact and what is fiction: 'News story, and then a conspiracy theory'
Other represetations...
Glossary
Detractors
Robust
Unsubstantiated
Criticizer of specific topics
Not supported/proved with evidence
Strong, sturdy, healthy
Rendezvous
Androgenous
Ecosystem
Community with specific environment
A secret agreed meeting
Part male and female
Salacious
Cabal
Contingency
A secret political clique who plots action
To be unnecessarily sexual
An event that may not happen
Percolated
Intrinsic
Substantive
To become active/lively (slang)
Belonging naturally: essential
Dealing with important/real issues
Reverberated
Perpetuate
Delegate
To be echoed/repeated continuously
To make something last indefinitely
Give to someone else
Inferes that it'll expose truth. Was fact and now fiction?
Why Barack Obama’s sexuality became a news story, and then a conspiracy theory The claims were fueled by a robust online misinformation ecosystem that did not exist when they first emerged more than a decade earlier. He spent eight years in the White House, nearly every move recorded by press and watched by staff. But six years after former President Barack Obama left office, some conservative media figures aggressively circulated a salacious rumor: that Obama is secretly gay. The claim percolated across social media and conservative news sites for weeks throughout August and reverberated throughout September. An Aug. 3 headline in the Tucker Carlson-founded Daily Caller said “Obama once wrote to ex-girlfriend that he ‘repeatedly fantasizes about making love to men,’ biographer says.” A day later, Infowars, the website founded by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, published a similar story. By Aug. 15, conservative news sites had published over 20 stories with headlines about the former president’s “gay sex fantasies” or his “gay sex fantasy confession.” Carlson, the former Fox News host, on Aug. 30 told podcaster Adam Carolla that, “In 2008, it became really clear that Barack Obama had been having sex with men.”
Diffrentiates themselves to the conspiracy theorits by labelling them.
Introduction
Part 1
Declaritives used for fact manipuation.
Huge tabloid subject. Hyperbole for dramatics.
Suggets that it's all true because hey coldn't find it.
Really clear? As part of PolitiFact’s work reporting on misinformation online, we found this claim to be anything but. By the time Carlson made this statement, speculation about Obama’s sexuality had fused into even broader online conspiracy theories, including that Obama had murdered both his chef Tafari Campbell and comedian Joan Rivers to keep his secret. Videos on Facebook revived the 15-year-old unsubstantiated allegations of Larry Sinclair, a man with a criminal history of fraud and forgery who in 2008 claimed to have had drug-fueled sex with Obama in 1999. On Sept. 6, Carlson fanned interest in Obama’s sexuality, releasing on X a new interview with Sinclair in which Sinclair repeated his allegations. "This is really neatly entangled with the upcoming electoral cycles, the ogoing political assaults on the LGBTQ+ and in particular trans people," said TJ Billard, assistant professor of communiction at Northwestern University. Anxiety that people in power are pushing a secret "gay agenda" helps fual theories tat those powerful people are themselves secretly gay, Syracuse Univeristy associates proffessor Joshua P. Darr said.
Exxagerrated theories to villainise Obama.
Introduction
Part 2
Secrecy because it could cause uproar due to hate
Topic is controversial which makes it more popular
Transcript
I've given out an edited piece of the transcript. All previous context etc is still there it's justa complation of specfic bts of the article.