Urban legends political e-mails

Lies, damned lies and statistics.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/pastor.asp

 

i love to sit back and watch you get fired up.

 

Someday when I somehow become a zillionaire and own my own newspaper, that is what I'm renaming the agate page.

 

Dixie, I'd buy the paper on principle, even if it sucked.

Tom, screw you, pal.

 

demo - you had me at "screw you."

 

There are a ton of Israel-related emails that get passed around. I remember a year or so ago, one of my wife's friend's husbands wanted to talk to me about the one below because I "know a lot about Israel." He was really fired up about it. I took one look at this, not from snopes obv., and told him it's fake (the speech would've dominated news coverage, too pristine to be translated or spoken). I had to tell a few other people too when they sent impassioned e-mails with this attached. some people will believe anything.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/olmert.asp

 

Use Hertz?

 

i miss oj.

 

Still waiting to find a SINGLE one about a Republican, but here's another lie about Obama.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/stance.asp

 

I got this from a friend today, who received it originally. He was saying pretty much the same thing as DemoChristian, though he was reminded of the whisper campaign against McCain in 2000, alleging McCain fathered a black child.

Weird shit.


THE MEDIA HAS HAD THIS STORY FOR MONTHS AND THEY ARE REFUSING TO LET THE AMERICAN VOTERS KNOW ABOUT IT! WHY? I CAN THINK OF TWO REASONS: 1. THEY ARE WAITING FOR OBAMA TO GET THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION AND THEN THEY WILL TOTALLY SMEAR HIM WITH THIS STORY AND MCCAIN WINS THE WHITE HOUSE. 2. THEY ARE SCARED TO DEATH TO RELEASE IT FOR FEAR OF RETALIATION FROM THE BLACK COMMUNITY. SO WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE?? WE MUST MAKE THEM INVESTIGATE!!!!__________________________________

Larry Sinclair alleges that on 6th and 7th November 1999 in Chicago, Illinois he met Barack Obama for a social evening which included drinks in a lounge, followed by a drive around town in his hired limousine during which Obama supplied cocaine, smoked crack through his own glass pipe while accepting fellatio from Sinclair.

The next day Obama took the initiative to visit Sinclair's Comfort Inn hotel room in Gurney, Illinois for a "quickie" version of the previous night's activities. Both men were 38 years of age. Larry Sinclair was on parole visiting for a few days from Colorado. Barack Obama was a member of the Illinois Senate.

These scenes are reminiscent of the Oprah Winfrey's show in which she featured J.L. King's book "Men On the Down Low: A Journey into the Lives of Straight Black Men Who Sleep with Men"

The story has produced some newsworthy reactions most of which can be described as a cover-up:

1. A virtual internet and media lynch mob composed mainly of Obama supporters is bent on discrediting Sinclair with allegations about his homosexuality, his convictions for check fraud in the 1980's and his mental and emotional stability. Part of their dirty tricks is to circulate to the media a forged facsimile of a page for the Washington Post which includes numerous lies about Sinclair and to declare that he was in a mental hospital at the time he said he was with Obama, and to attack his family and neighbors.

A noteworthy participant in the campaign of vilification is Andres W. Lopez an attorney for the Obama campaign in Puerto Rico who is a member of the campaign's National Finance Committee. He appeared on Puerto Rico's most popular TV magazine show WAPA TV's "SuperXclusivo" on April 10th 2008 to denounce Sinclair as a major headache and distraction for the Obama campaign and implied that he was mentally ill and working for the Hilary Clinton campaign.

Sinclair has hit back against some of the critics with law suits for defamation in the DC district court filed by his attorney Montgomery Sibley most recently noteworthy for his defence of the "DC Madam".

On 1st April, 2008 US District Court Judge Henry Kennedy granted a motion for discovery in the matter. The aim of the Sinclair-Sibley legal strategy is eventually to discover Barack Obama on oath.

2. Larry Sinclair took a polygraph test in February confident that he would pass and he challenged Obama to do the same. The test was arranged by Whitehouse.com an internet site best known for pornography and anti-Clinton political satire.

The raw computer readings showed that Larry Sinclair passed the test with flying colours. But two testers hired by Whitehouse.com re-interpreted the readings to claim that they showed deception. One of the testers was Edward I. Gelb who has been exposed by specialists in the field for claiming a phony Ph.D.

Whitehouse.com refused to publish the full results or the video of the test and in many other respects breached good faith undertakings they gave Sinclair to induce him to participate. He claims that he and his attorney are in possession of information that the Obama campaign bribed Whitehouse.com to distort the test and spin the presentation of the results.

Whitehouse.com has not denied these allegations but has abruptly gone silent on the matter.

3. Many in the mainstream media are aware of Larry Sinclair's allegations about Barack Obama and rumours in Chicago restaurant and club land since at least 2001 that Barack Obama has been doing the Down Low with gay men. Some newspaper have interviewed Larry Sinclair and visited his home in Minnesota. He has provided them with his criminal record, his health and financial records and his family history.

At least one major Chicago newspaper has indicated that it will not proceed yet because it does not want to be accused of racism or of causing problems for the first viable black candidate. Other newspapers have asked for more proof such as access to the limousine driver who witnessed the events of November 6th, 1999.

Larry Sinclair has said the driver will testify in legal proceedings. But in the meantime he wants to protect him from interference from Obama campaign, from the kind of death threats to which Sinclair has been subjected and from the kind of harrssment that Obama supporters have visited on Sinclair's elderly mother, his siblings and neighbors. However, Larry Sinclair is willing to provide assurances about his evidence to the media through his lawyer.

4. When Larry Sinclair first reported his allegations to the Obama campaign in September 2007 he wanted Obama to correct his claim that he had stopped taking drugs in his teens and had never taken crack. He believes crack is addictive and difficult to shake off.

Over the following months until December, 2007 he was contacted several times by Donald Young who appeared to be Obama's emissary. He was the choir master at the Trinity Church of Christ which was under the direction of Pastor Jeremiah Wright and where Barack Obama is a member of the congregation. Donald Young informed Larry Sinclair that he, too, had a sex and drugs relationship with Barack Obama similar to his.

At first he suggested that Obama was seeking the assistance of Jeremiah Wright in making a statement acknowledging his use of crack cocaine as recently as 1999. But he had second thoughts in early December 2007. Donald Young was murdered in his appartment at Christmas 2007.

Larry Sinclair notified the Chicago police of his contacts with him but received no acknowledgment. Subsequently he has submitted a sworn affidavit which has so far not been acknowledged by the Chicago Police.

Larry' Sinclair's original video on YouTube has received more than 800,000 hits and his blog is in the top ten percentile on WordPress. Links to all his radio interviews can be found at his blog together will all contact details for the media.
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Larry Sinclair's blog with links to all his YouTube videos and radio interviews:

http://larrysinclair0926.wordpress.com

 

Here is one I'd already seen from Yawn.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/votedforchange.asp

And this one is actually not terrible, though its exaggerations still put it on my list.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/clinton-bush.asp

 

The idiocy of some people never ceases to amaze me. I guess I could be a cynic and be surprised by these things from time to time, but it's much more fun to shake my head in dismay.

What's worse is that I actually know people who will forward me those emails in about a month or so, claiming them to be true. You'd be surprised how often I've referred people to Snopes because of eye-rolling email forwards.