Urban legend; Wapo Anti-Obama article: "Obama: The Affirmative Action President"

TW received an email on the subject,"Obama: The Affirmative Action President" today. As usual, I like to check these things for accuracy and hopefully keep from posting the false rumors. Mr Obama has plenty of reasons for being unqualified to be president without us posting untrue articles. Those hurt us much more than they do the left, so be sure to check any anti-Obama stories. Below is what I have found in a search so far. These sites would be a good beginning: Snopes, TruthorFiction or FactCheck (however we cannot vouch for the biases of these sites).


From the left-wing blog SmokingPolitics: "Today, I was forwarded an email with the headline
"Amazing that the Wash. Post would actually print this. Amazing!" "

The Washington Post  August 18, 2011 Obama: The Affirmative Action President by Matt Patterson (columnist – Washington Post, New York Post, San Francisco Examiner)

"....Well, google Matt Patterson Online and here is his site. Seriously, go see it.  And here is his contribution as a ‘columnist’ to The Washington Post. A single online letter to the editor from 2009."

Also this site refutes the Obama article: Reader Meter: The Hermanator and ‘The Post’s’ Matt Patterson states: 

The other is a parcel of e-mails wondering if someone named Matt Patterson works at The Washington Post, and asking if he wrote an anti-Obama satirical screed for The Post that is making the rounds of the Internet. The answer is, no, he doesn’t and he didn’t. This is not the first time I’ve received a round of e-mails about some anti-Obama rant allegedly written by someone from The Post....The mysterious Matt Patterson might be the Matt Patterson who contributes to the Examiner newspaper here in D.C. and who works for the conservative Capital Research Center. His work has appeared in The Post, but not this work.

However this refutation is in contrast to these links from American Thinker:  Obama: The Affirmative Action President by Matt Patterson

Hat tip to Walt Stier, Santa Maria, Ca