face it, boy
your 'ObaMessiah' has a bunch of skeletons in his closet
and now that they are coming to light, all you can do is attack the
messenger
"God's Chosen Person" <baying46584@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> But a few months after the man began his work, the allegation that Obama
was
> educated in a madrassa appeared in an anonymous article in Insight
Magazine,
> an online publication of the Unification Church (Reverend Moon's cult),
in
> January 2007.
>
> One practitioner in Virginia, who hates Obama like a dog hates cats, led
a
> re****ter through his efforts. Because the man is a retired clandestine
CIA
> officer, identifying him could endanger officers or operations that
remain
> classified, so McClatchy will not reveal his name.
>
> Sidney Blumenthal, a Clinton adviser, was criticized after the liberal
> Huffington Post blog revealed that he was circulating anti-Obama screeds
>
>
> http://www.mcclatchydc.com/254/story/36410.html
>
> Where did the Web rumors about Obama come from?
> By Matt Stearns | McClatchy Newspapers
>
> * Posted on Thursday, May 8, 2008
>
> WA****NGTON ? Some things about Barack Obama rub some voters the wrong
> way.
>
> "We don't need a Muslim," said Jannay Smith, a retiree from Kokomo, Ind.
> "Who's to say if he gets in there what he'll do?"
>
> Added Steve Shallenberger, a Kokomo electrician: "He's just calling
himself
> a Christian because he knows that's what we in Indiana want to hear."
>
> Then there's Sherry Richey, also from Kokomo: "He wouldn't put his hand
on
> the Bible; he wanted the Quran. He won't put his hand over his heart
during
> the anthem or say the Pledge of Allegiance. He's too un-American."
>
> All of these slurs on Obama are categorically untrue.
>
> Obama, the front-running Democratic presidential candidate, is a
> Christian, has never been a Muslim, swore his Senate oath on the
> Bible, says the pledge and generally puts his hand over his heart when
he
> sings the national anthem.
>
> So why were people aware enough of current events to attend political
> rallies in the days leading up to the Indiana primary saying such
things?
>
> They'd been misled by the Internet.
>
> In the ugly new world of online political rumor-mongering, aggressive
> Googling and e-mailing allow anyone to join the cacophonous
misinformation
> campaign against a politician ? in this case, Obama.
>
> Dirty tricks have been a part of politics for as long as there's been
> politics. But the Internet has taken "the old-fa****oned slanderous
> whispering campaign to a completely new level," said Brooks Jackson, the
> director of the Annenberg Political Fact Check, a nonpartisan
organization
> that monitors the truthfulness of political discussion. "They are more
> dangerous and more insidious."
>
> E-mails falsely claiming that Obama is a Muslim, that he took the oath
of
> office on a Quran and that he refuses to take the Pledge of Allegiance
have
> stormed inboxes. A newer e-mail has a picture,
> allegedly of Obama posing with his African family, with the title "Say
Hi
to
> the next potential first family."
>
> In addition, virulently racist e-mails are making the rounds, too.
>
> "These things have a heft to them that gives them a seeming
> credibility that a verbal rumor wouldn't have," Jackson said. "You can
> replicate them infinitely. We've all got crazy relatives or friends that
are
> sure they're right and the world's wrong. They just blast
> them out."
>
> The anonymous nature of the Internet also makes the origins of the
> allegations impossible to trace, Jackson said.
>
> Although virtually every allegation about Obama's religion and
> patriotism has been debunked, the lies remain in the political
> bloodstream, a virus that Obama and his sup****ters can't kill.
>
> Experts say they stay alive because they reinforce stereotypes and some
> voters' assumptions. That Obama doesn't wear a flag pin, for instance,
helps
> feed some voters' darker suspicions. There's a real video that shows him
> singing the national anthem without his hand over his heart. His name,
> Barack Hussein Obama, gives some foundation - if a false one - to the
Muslim
> fears.
>
> Still, it hasn't hurt too much: Obama is almost certainly the
> Democratic presidential nominee. "He's proven to be pretty resilient,"
said
> Burdett Loomis, a political scientist at the University of Kansas.
>
> Addressing the Internet rumors at a January debate, Obama said:
> "Fortunately, the American people are, I think, smarter than folks
> give them credit for."
>
> Obama isn't the only victim. Last week, in a dirty trick that couldn't
have
> occurred in the pre-YouTube age, a video ricocheted through cyberspace
that
> appeared to show Clinton adviser Mickey Kantor using slurs and
obscenities
> to describe Indiana people in a do***entary about the 1992 election -
> potential political dynamite in a tightly contested election.
>
> A link to the video arrived in a re****ter's e-mail inbox, along with
> the admonition "You must re****t this. It will change the election."
> Within an hour, the Clinton campaign issued a statement from the
> filmmaker saying it was bogus: The video had been doctored, by attack
> artists unknown.
>
> Such efforts quietly infect the body politic via a virtual personal
> touch.
>
> "People believe things they hear from a trusted source," said Julie
> Germany, director of the Institute for Politics, Democracy & the
> Internet at George Wa****ngton University. "If you get an e-mail from a
close
> friend or a work colleague or your parents, you're more likely to
believe
> it. That's how word-of-mouth marketing works."
>
> Those in or near the political or journalistic mainstream who traffic in
the
> s*** can get tainted. Sidney Blumenthal, a Clinton adviser, was
criticized
> after the liberal Huffington Post blog revealed that he was circulating
> anti-Obama screeds, though there was no claim that he wrote them.
>
> The Blumenthal example shows why it's unlikely that any campaign or
> political professional is associated with creating the sordid stuff -
the
> fallout would be a political nightmare, Germany said.
>
> In fact, they tend to be the work of committed political amateurs.
>
> One practitioner in Virginia, who hates Obama like a dog hates cats, led
a
> re****ter through his efforts. Because the man is a retired clandestine
CIA
> officer, identifying him could endanger officers or operations that
remain
> classified, so McClatchy will not reveal his name.
>
> In late 2006, convinced that an Obama presidency would be disastrous for
> America, he decided to start an anti-Obama operation. He combed the
public
> record on Obama. He used a couple of allies and informants -
half-jokingly
> dubbing his group "The Crusaders" - to learn about Obama's background,
> especially his Africa connection and how he came to be the editor of the
> Harvard Law Review.
>
> He assembled a dossier on Obama, including allegations that Obama
attended
a
> madrassa, or Islamic religious school, in his youth in Indonesia.
>
> Then the retired spook tried to get Israeli intelligence officials
> interested in his Obama dossier. They weren't, to his chagrin. He also
> shopped it to some foreign re****ters. Again, no luck.
>
> He wound up posting some of it on a blog ? and where it went from there
in
> the vast world of cyberspace is anybody's guess.
>
> But a few months after the man began his work, the allegation that
> Obama was educated in a madrassa appeared in an anonymous article in
Insight
> Magazine, an online publication of the Unification Church, in January
2007.
> It also claimed that Clinton operatives had dug up the information. The
> article was cited by several conservative commentators, including on Fox
> News, before it was debunked.
>
> The piece had the markings of what's called a "false-flag" operation:
Make
a
> covert operation appear to be the work of another party. And, like many
> misinformation campaigns, it "takes what you might believe without any
> factual basis and seen circulating around ...a lot of speculation spun
into
> a story," said Vince Cannistraro, a former CIA official.
>
> The retired CIA officer, who said that he and his fellow Crusaders
> have abandoned their effort, said he wasn't the source of the Insight
story.
>
> "I might have been a secondhand, or third-hand, or fourth-hand
> source," he added. "But I don't think so."
>
> In the world of Internet rumors, however, you never really know.
>
>
> --
> Pucker your lips for the Apocalypse!
>
> Johnny Asia, Guitarist from the Future
> http://music.download.com/johnnyasia
>
>
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