Fight The Smears
June 12, 2008 by Bruce
Filed under Barack Obama
Barak Obama or one of his supporters has created a website designed to Fight the Smears as they call it. The site is located at http://www.fightthesmears.com and attempts to dispel some of the rumors running around the net about Barak Obama. I took a quick look at the site and it does seem to cover several of the many rumors running around the web. These range from the alleged Michelle Obama Whitey Video to rumors that Barak Obama would not release his birth certificate. Well this is all fine and dandy and I’m glad to see some official communication from the Obama camp on these rumors. Of course it does make me wonder why they feel the need to put up content on these subjects. Especially the Michelle Obama Whitey video.
Now I understand why they are denying her saying these words as they would be detrimental to the Obama campaign if such a tape did exist. Not long after Larry Johnson posted about this alleged tape and many blogs including this one picked up the story and posted it, then many Obama supporters immediately admitted there was a tape but the words spoken where not Whitey, but Why’d He as she was speaking about Bush.
Now this is where I get confused. If there was not any tape then why would the supporters start saying this. Was this just something that the Obama supporters picked up in some forum or group or did they get this information from the Obama camp. Either it came from the Obama camp or someone made up the story to discredit what Larry posted about. As I have always said, I have no hard data that this tape exists or does not exist, but I have heard from sources. And apparently other people had heard the tape exists from various sources. One thing I learned from the fight the smears website is the Rush Limbagh mentioned this too. I was not aware of that. Of course he may have picked it up from Larry Johnson’s original post or it may have come form another source.
The part I’m not clear about is why is Obama making any sort of semi official statement on this subject at all. One of the first rules of politics is that you don’t deny something such as this when there is not any concrete proof of something. This makes me even more suspicious and I’m sure as I start my daily routine of checking out other blogs, I’ll see a lot of comments on this subject.
Seems to me that the alleged Michelle Obama Whitey video rumor had died down, so why bring it back to the forefront with a denial? I don’t understand what the strategy is with this move and it may serve to hurt Obama more in the end than any denial may help dispel these rumors.
Of course if the tape does exist and its released now that its been officially denied, it may prompt the people who may have it to go ahead and post it to YouTube or have it aired on one of the Fox News programs such as Hannity and Colmes. We’ll just have to see what plays out over the next few days. Fight the smears seems to be attracting some people
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Senator Obama is NOT a Dirty Muslim!
“What you won’t hear from this campaign or this party is the kind of politics that uses religion as a wedge,” says Mr. Obama, while denouncing statements of him being a Muslim as a smear. Why is the presidential candidate who claims to be religiously inclusive is treating the word “Muslim” as an insult? Apparently, it is OK for Mr. Obama to be associated with terrorists like William Ayers or racists like Jeremiah Wright, but God forbid somebody would call him a Muslim! No, he won’t stand for that kind of smear! We admit that most terrorists are Muslims, but most Muslims are not terrorists and the statement on Mr. Obama’s website is insulting to hundreds of millions of people.
How could a man who discards his family heritage in favor of political expediency be even considered for presidency of the United States? Where are all the so-called “Islamic civil rights groups” like CAIR, MPAC, ISNA, MAS, etc. who are quick to defend every Islamic terrorist, but are silent when Muslims in general are being denigrated? Would Mr. Obama have the same reaction if someone claimed that he was raised as a Jew? We sincerely doubt that.
Muslims Against Sharia demand immediate removal of “SMEAR: Barack Obama is a Muslim” statement from the official Barack Obama’s website as well as an apology for giving the word “Muslim” a negative connotation.
http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/2008/06/senator-obama-is-not-dirty-muslim.html
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Interesting take on this. Not something I picked up on, but you are definitely right. You have the great unifier throwing another group of individuals under the bus because he thinks it will help his campaign.
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The only reason that Obama is putting out a fight the smears website now is to try to discredit Larry Sinclair who alleges that he and Obama did drugs in 1999 and that they had homosexual relations! I think that Obama is not addressing this issue and trying to smear Sinclair because these allegations are true. If he did not know Sinclair or had never done these things, all he would have had to do was take it on head on and quiet these rumors. Instead he has let this fester on the internet and allowed we the people to draw our own conclusions seeing that he refused to talk about this and had the mainstream media, which are obviously on his payroll (fox news was not having it!), did everything they could to not talk about these serious allegations. If this turns out to be a lie then let it be a lie but the American people deserve to know everything there is to know about this so called messiah. Is he really the opposite of the chosen one and some of us have been decieved? Knowing the facts before hand would have helped to knock Obama off of his golden pedestal and perhaps given the only candidate worthy of the post a chance.
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