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DogPoundPup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 11:22 AM
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Obama "gaffe" reignites Muslim ((((rumor)))) goes Mainstream to feed the rabid wingnuts
Edited on Mon Sep-08-08 11:23 AM by DogPoundPup
CHICAGO, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- A spokesman for Sen. Barack Obama's campaign is taking the Chicago Sun-Times to task for reporting on a verbal slip Obama made referring to "my Muslim faith."

The Democratic Party nominee for president was discussing false rumors on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" when he made the gaffe, the Sun-Times reported Monday.

Obama suggested that GOP rival Sen. John McCain was behind false rumors that he is a Muslim. Stephanopoulos then reminded him that McCain denied spreading the rumors.

"You're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith," Obama said before Stephanopoulos corrected him.

The Sun-Times says the verbal slip unleashed a barrage of Internet attacks, becoming a magnet for comments on the YouTube.com video site.

"Printing a blogger suspecting that Obama is a Muslim is pretty irresponsible and below the standards that we're used to out of the Sun-Times," Obama spokesman Bill Burton wrote in an e-mail message to the newspaper.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/09/08/Obama_gaffe_reignites_Muslim_rumor/UPI-73421220887755/

:grr:
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 11:24 AM
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1. I wonder if the Republicans REEEEAAALLLY want to go this route. Palin is a WHACKO.
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DogPoundPup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 11:27 AM
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3. And republicons aren't? My opinion... this works FOR the CONS. n/t
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AngryOldDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 11:28 AM
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6. Some do.
I am monitoring such a site. I'm thinking about taking the time and compiling a list of sites for them to check out about their darlin' Sarah. But in the end I'm afraid it will be a huge waste of my time, because they are all definitely convinced that Obama is a Muslim, and all Muslims want us dead, and that Obama will outlaw all Christian religion....same old shit.

Palin is pro-life and just cute as a button to boot, that is where it begins and ends, everything else be damned.

Modern-day flat-earthers scare me and repulse me all at the same time.
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King Coal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 12:03 PM
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17. If he is a Muslim then how could he be influenced by Reverend
Whatisname they were complaining about. They want to have it both ways.
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1corona4u Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 11:26 AM
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2. I agree, what were the Sun Times thinking??
Edited on Mon Sep-08-08 11:28 AM by 1corona4u
Stupid asses.
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DogPoundPup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 11:27 AM
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5. Chicago Sun Times is verrrrrrrrrry right wing n/t
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lady raven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 11:27 AM
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4. Jesus.
Edited on Mon Sep-08-08 11:28 AM by HereKittyKitty
I wonder: How can they simultaneously claim him to be Muslim AND a follower of Wright? They can't have it both ways.
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DogPoundPup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 11:29 AM
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7. Jesus.
was a community organizer...but the cons degradate all Jesus' work.
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 11:30 AM
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8. It's like chumming the waters for sharks.
Edited on Mon Sep-08-08 11:44 AM by AtomicKitten
This email rumor has been going on since the primaries:
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/13820.html
http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2007/12/hillary_campaign_acknowledges_that_hillary_backer_passed_along_obama_madrassa_email.php

I especially love it juxtaposed over the Rev. Wright "thing." Makes all kinds of sense, apparently, to the loons.
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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 11:31 AM
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9. Look for David Gregory to devote 30 min. to this tonight.
He's never seen an Obama smear he doesn't LOVE!
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DogPoundPup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 11:39 AM
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12. Yea look for it by reading it, but don't feed David's master by actually watching it
PLEASE! please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please!

Please turn off the talking heads and let their viewer numbers fall flat.
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Barack_America Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 11:41 AM
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14. Oh no. I blocked MSNBC on my cable.
If I want to watch any of their shows, I'm going to have to enter a passcode.

And I despise Gregory, so I certainly won't be jumping through any hoops to watch his piece of shit show (pardon my French).
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bunkerbuster1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 11:35 AM
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10. Jim Wooten concern-trolls on this topic in today's AJC editorial
He even offers helpful advice!

Obama continues to be bedeviled by questions about his religion, something I picked up repeatedly from people who aren’t political junkies. It’s not surprising that Obama lashed out on that issue Sunday. He can’t shake the believe that he is a Muslim, the religion of his father and religion of at least part of his childhood.

Obama badly needs to do something to shake that perception. A major speech, addressing it head-on, is warranted.


More, if you can stomach it, at:

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/thinkingright/
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 11:38 AM
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11. Well, not hard to see that one coming.
The media is nothing if not predictable.
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City Lights Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 11:41 AM
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13. I was sickened this morning when WGN covered this.
:eyes:

McCain fucks up daily and it gets barely a mention.
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Politicub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 11:41 AM
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15. :sigh: We saw this coming yesterday
It was an unfortunate gaffe, but doesn't really mean anything at the end of the day. But the GOP is going to make hay with it to stoke fears. They can't win fairly, so they will resort to lies and smears to make their case.
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iamthebandfanman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 11:42 AM
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16. since gaffes are now facts
does this mean mccain will be vetoing all the beers?
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wurzel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 12:31 PM
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18. Stephanopoulis did not "correct" Obama. There was no "gaffe".
Edited on Mon Sep-08-08 12:38 PM by wurzel
They were talking about the lie being spread that Obama is a Muslim. And Obama said that Stephanopoulis was right that McCain had not talked about Obama's Muslim faith. Stephanopoulis said "you mean your Christian faith". And Obama said no I mean he has never talked about my being a Muslim. There was no "Gaffe". If Obama had meant to say "Christian Faith" the conversation would have made no sense.
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monmouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 02:11 PM
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19. He (Obama) was being sarcastic was how I heard it...n/t
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Hard Leftt Donating Member (100 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 02:19 PM
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20. Wingnuts
All they hear is "My Muslim Faith". Not Good. EVERYONE needs to fight this, show how the wingnuts will believe anything. Damn Right Wing Media will do anything for ratings.
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InNeedOfUserName Donating Member (101 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-08-08 02:23 PM
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21. "UPI" in not mainstream...it is owned by...

In 2000 UPI was purchased by News World Communications, a media company owned by Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church".<1>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Press_International
Owner of the washington times
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