Come to Indy and I will kick the messengers ass. The world will see you as
the dicksucker you are.
"Jasper Towing; Ltd." <jasptowsniggs@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> 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
> news:cLydnVdDnLGtbLvVnZ2dnUVZ_tHinZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 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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