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Big surprise: Republicans are spreading un-true smears
Apparently only McClatchy is willing to go on record actually debunking some of these wild email smears against Barack Obama. McClatchy has been the best American-based news source since they were Knight-Ridder, but let me add something to this pretty-good report.
These anti-Obama rumors are not just popping up like dandelions, they're being planted by Republican operatives. And that's not an allegation, I know it.
Though I despise the Republican Party, I send them a ten dollar check every year, for only one reason: It keeps my in-box stuffed with emails from the Republican Party, and keeps me clued in to what these scoundrels are up to. And it's amazing how often gives me the heads-up on what will be "breaking news" in two weeks, because an awful lot of the slimiest allegations against Democrats surface first in Republican emails and newsletters and fundraisers, and work their way into mainstream media after a few days or weeks.
I have received hundreds of emails lying that Obama is a Muslim, that he attended a Muslim madrasa, that he's a Manchurian candidate, an operative of al Qaeda, etc. The flood of these lying emails has subsided in recent weeks, but these emails undoubtedly were sent to average Republicans everywhere, and they undoubtedly did the damage they were intended to do. These emails are why so many millions of Americans believe Obama is an uppity un-American Muslim Manchurian candidate.
Well, these emails don't come from Republican headquarters, but they invariably come to an
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Where did the Web rumors
about Obama come from?
Excerpt: 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. ... |
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email address I use *only* for my clandestine Republican connections. Every single one of these hundreds of emails, ostensibly sent by dozens of different people, all come to my Republican-only email address -- which means they're either being sent by Republican Party workers, or (pretend this is a meaningful difference) Republican Party membership roles are sold, leased, or loaned to people who send these email lies.
That's what McClatchy couldn't say, but I'll say it. These things don't just happen, not this well-organized, not on this scale. This is standard operating procedure for Republicans -- I've been receiving Republican-tuilting smear emails for as long as I've been a clandestine Republican.
And in case you're wondering or you think both parties do this, I'm actually a Democrat, and I send the Dems much larger checks much more often than the palty check I send Republicans ... but I never receive lying anti-Republican emails in my "Democratic Party" email account. Not once, ever.
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Every single one of these hundreds of emails, ostensibly sent by dozens of different people, all come to my Republican-only email address -- which means they're either being sent by Republican Party workers, or (pretend this is a meaningful difference) Republican Party membership roles are sold, leased, or loaned to people who send these email lies.
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