Obama Fights Smears With New Web Site

[BNWriter]

The Obamas are fighting back against the rumor mill with a new website, Chicago's WBBM AM 780 is reporting.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OBAMA_SMEARS?SITE=WBBMAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Site URL is: http://www.fightthesmears.com

 

[BTExpress]

Web site is falling behind, then.

Latest rumor is that Obama refuses to make his birth certificate public because he was born in Kenya.

 

[lone star scribe]

Typical GOP dirty tricks, right out of the Nixon archives. Repeat the big lie enough, and people think you can't make up something that over the top.

And we in the media play right into their hands by reporting the rumor. How about if we investigated first to determine whether there was anything to the story before running anything? Or does that take too much effort -- or ethics?

 

[spinning27]

Wow; I'm impressed.

 

[Cousin Jeffrey]

The sad part of the Obama is Muslim smear is that these people are denigrating all Muslims, as if being part of the religion is wrong in principle. There's more Muslims in the world than any other religion, how many are terrorists, abusers, etc? Very few. How many of these people who proffer such slurs have Muslim doctors, grocers, etc? Very shameful.

 

[DemoChristian]

Web site is falling behind, then.

Latest rumor is that Obama refuses to make his birth certificate public because he was born in Kenya.

They're going to put that on there too.

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1813663,00.html?cnn=yes

 

[DemoChristian]

The sad part of the Obama is Muslim smear is that these people are denigrating all Muslims, as if being part of the religion is wrong in principle. There's more Muslims in the world than any other religion, how many are terrorists, abusers, etc? Very few. How many of these people who proffer such slurs have Muslim doctors, grocers, etc? Very shameful.

Actually, I would have guessed there were more Buddhists, but this site says Christians are the biggest group.

http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html

 

[Cousin Jeffrey]

I stand corrected. Either way, it's a big friggin' religion, and 9/11 and its aftershocks have basically given people (mostly the ill-informed or right-wing) carte blanche to lump them into one group. I know NPR is doing a year-long piece on being Muslim in America (I once worked with the reporter doing it). should be interesting.

 

[spinning27]

By the way, Obama has now posted a copy of his birth certificate proving he was born in Honolulu.

I hope everybody feels better now.

http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6/12/11012/6168/320/534616

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Typical GOP dirty tricks, right out of the Nixon archives. Repeat the big lie enough, and people think you can't make up something that over the top.

And we in the media play right into their hands by reporting the rumor. How about if we investigated first to determine whether there was anything to the story before running anything? Or does that take too much effort -- or ethics?

It's a lot easier taking pictures of puppies than it is investigating politicians' charges. Plus, the longer it takes to investigate, the less column inches a reporter is writing to fill his quota.

 

[Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L)]

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[PeteyPirate]

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You are either not funny or just live to antagonize.

 

[Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L)]

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You are either not funny or just live to antagonize.

I was just pointing out where the rumor got its genesis.

Yeesh lighten up.

 

[Lugnuts]

If this stuff keeps building up at its current pace, it will backfire on the Republicans.

 

[spinning27]

If this stuff keeps building up at its current pace, it will backfire on the Republicans.

Hillary didn't get the respect she deserved.....but Michelle Obama is a "baby mama." Nice way to win the women's vote.

 

[Oz]

Given the swift-boat attacks that dogged Kerry, who had to focus X amount of time debunking those rumors rather than talking Iraq and domestic policy, this is a smart move for Obama. If you don't feel like you've got anything to hide, address the rumors head on through the site, debunk them and keep your focus on the issues Americans are really worried about.

 

[Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L)]

Given the swift-boat attacks that dogged Kerry, who had to focus X amount of time debunking those rumors rather than talking Iraq and domestic policy, this is a smart move for Obama. If you don't feel like you've got anything to hide, address the rumors head on through the site, debunk them and keep your focus on the issues Americans are really worried about.

Kerry didn't debunk anything because they weren't rumors. They were the truth.

 

[writing irish]

And the Fail goes up to eleven.

 

[Oz]

Given the swift-boat attacks that dogged Kerry, who had to focus X amount of time debunking those rumors rather than talking Iraq and domestic policy, this is a smart move for Obama. If you don't feel like you've got anything to hide, address the rumors head on through the site, debunk them and keep your focus on the issues Americans are really worried about.

Kerry didn't debunk anything because they weren't rumors. They were the truth.

Saw they were the truth, they were still cheap shots given that one candidate risked his life to serve in the U.S. armed forces and fighting overseas while the other ducked out, and those ads diverted people from that fact.

Bottom line, Obama's smart for creating this Web site given what he's gone through and what lies ahead.