The ultimate viral smear You knew the viral smear emails were headed this way, and a reader sends it along, courtesy of a relative in Syracuse: One of the standard anti-Obama emails in circulation, but with a top added to go the extra half-yard, and actually assert that Obama is ... wait for it ... the Antichrist. The rest of the e-mail, which I won't reprint, is of the now standard "Who is Barack Obama" variety, peddling an amalgam of smears. Snopes debunks one variant. This stuff is strikingly ecumenical: According to the emails in wide circulation, Obama is meant to be, simultaneously, a Muslim, a member of an unsuitably radical Christian church, and, at least if you believe Jerry Falwell's theory on the Antichrist, Jewish. Also, if you had any doubts that this stuff, no matter how wild-eyed, it is having an impact: The share of Americans who believe Obama is a Muslim has doubled, according to the new NBC/WSJ poll, to 13 percent. http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0308/The_ultimate_viral_smear.html
I got that email today. In the version I recieved, it says that snopes.com is the source of the information. However, snopes.com already has a page up about this email, and calls most of its claims false. I guess they are counting on people not to do a search. http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslim.asp
I definitely don't agree with people that send that garbage around, but if you're a voter who gets swayed by that, you're probably still backwards enough to believe that Black people aren't capable of holding a position of authority. The audience for this junk is mostly people who would never vote for Obama anyway - close minded morons.
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