time: That night, in a conference call, Obama told his top aides it was time for a more aggressive solution to the rumors that have been popping up on the Internet about him and his family for months. And so the Obama campaign has built what might best be described as a Web-based rumor clearinghouse, located at fightthesmears.com, in which it hopes all the shady stories about Obama's faith, his family and his rumored connections with controversial figures can go to die.
Obama is enlisting his millions of supporters to help him hunt down and quash these stories, just as those supporters helped him turn his insurgent campaign into a history-making juggernaut. Says Obama adviser Anita Dunn: "We will not allow Michelle — or, for that matter, Barack—to be defined by rumors."
For more than a year, Obama relied on conventional means to confront the blogosphere's superheated rumor mill—to little effect. The "fact-check" feature on his website, for instance, only seemed to spawn more, and wilder, rumors. A mention there of Obama's birth certificate spurred National Review Online to demand that he produce it to dispel groundless reports that Obama was actually born in Kenya and therefore would be constitutionally ineligible to be President; that his middle name is not Hussein but Muhammad; and that his mother actually named him Barry. That National Review article in turn became fodder for cable television.
one of the sites that leads the hate mongering is humanevents.com. they claim to be a conservative site, but i don't think smearing is what conservatism really is.
human events put out the "barack obama exposed," a 30-some page missive, on how obama is one evil dude.
i signed up to get their silly emails just so i can track them. they're always pushing a new hate book (how do they churn them out so quickly?) and they're always pitting christianity against islam. these are people who should know better. they've been educated. but i guess it isn't just about education is it?
here is their latest email, pushing a new hate book, by supreme hater columnist mark steyn:
Dear Fellow Conservative:
Someday soon, you might wake up to the call to prayer from a Muslim muezzin. Millions of Europeans already do.
And liberals will still tell you that "diversity is our strength" -- while Talibanic enforcers cruise our cities burning books and barber shops... the Supreme Court decides sharia law doesn't violate the "separation of church and state" ... and the Hollywood Left gives up gay rights in favor of the much safer charms of polygamy.
here's their attempt to recruit black people's vote (and yes, it's supposed to be serious and they ask for a donation):
We must act today to keep the White House in the hands of Republicans!
To win the 2008 election, Republicans must accomplish this one very important goal - win just 25% of the black vote.
But how do we win 25% of the black vote? Most black voters favor conservative policies - not liberal ones. They do not support higher taxes, surrendering in Iraq, partial birth abortion and same-sex marriage. For middle class blacks, voting their values NOW means voting Republican.
That's why we must act immediately to get the ball rolling on our proven 2008 VICTORY PLAN to educate and bring these black voters back to the Party of Lincoln.
Our 4-step 2008 Victory Plan: • Recruit and train black church and community leaders to spread our conservative Republican message
• Script, produce and air our hard-hitting radio and TV ads for black radio and TV outlets
• Put up MLK billboards across America
• Publish and distribute our very effective magazine, The Black Republican
