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phone posts
Oct. 16th, 2008 12:09 amI still can't post pictures directly from my phone.
Has anybody done this?
Has anybody done this?
Oct. 16th, 2008
lies, for spreading hatred and fear
Oct. 16th, 2008 09:03 pmThe part that bothers me the most, is not that these people hate blacks or muslims (pathetic though it is) or terrorists (fine, of course), but that they believe these lies about Barack Obama. It comes down to something Cyn said a while back about people believing anything that supports their beliefs. Interesting that many of these people are very matter-of-fact about it. This is the way their lives are. A couple of the people seem a little... apologetic. But only like, "I'm sorry I have to be this way, but this is the way it is." But most of them are utterly convinced.
video showing people who believe the bullshit
Sure John McCain has gone on the public record at least once (*rolls eyes*) to assure a follower that Obama is not an evil Muslim fundamentalist, but since this attitude is so prevalent, shouldn't he be making a broader statement? I guess if nobody asks him the hard questions, he won't answer them.
Speaking of the whole Muslim thing, here's an article that explains where one lie, about him being Arab, came from. I'm not sure I heard this one before, though. Seems it's always him being a Muslim.
Published on Thursday, October 16, 2008 by CommonDreams.org
The Little Lie, and How It Grew
by David Benjamin
GREAT NECK, N.Y. - Last week, Gayle Quinnell, a septuagenarian reactionary from Shakopee, Minnesota, confessed - on TV - to G.O.P. candidate John McCain that she fears Democratic candidate Barack Obama because "he's an Arab." McCain replied that, no, Obama's no Arab at all, but a "decent family man" (implying that the two depictions are mutually exclusive). [I disagree somewhat with this characterization of McCain's reply. -K]
To me, the more intriguing element of this bizarre exchange was the word "Arab," rather than the more common Obama epithets, "Muslim," "terrorist" and "Osama." Mrs. Quinnell's "Arab" formulation was just enough off-key to make me wonder where she picked it up. In a subsequent YouTube video, Mrs. Quinnell helpfully elaborated, explaining that she possesses pages and pages of corroboration, plumbed from the Shakopee Public Library. Since it's unlikely that there's much info on Obama's ethnicity in the Shakopee stacks, I figured what Gayle had done was surf the Web.
So I decided to try tracing her steps. It wasn't hard. No matter where I landed after Googling "obama, arab," I inevitably returned to the same damning quote. It goes: "Mr. Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother's side. He is 43.75% Arabic, and 6.25% African Negro from his father's side." Also: "Obama is not legally African-American. It is impossible for him to be, in truth, America's first African-American president."
Holy Leopold's ghost, Batman!
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video showing people who believe the bullshit
Sure John McCain has gone on the public record at least once (*rolls eyes*) to assure a follower that Obama is not an evil Muslim fundamentalist, but since this attitude is so prevalent, shouldn't he be making a broader statement? I guess if nobody asks him the hard questions, he won't answer them.
Speaking of the whole Muslim thing, here's an article that explains where one lie, about him being Arab, came from. I'm not sure I heard this one before, though. Seems it's always him being a Muslim.
Published on Thursday, October 16, 2008 by CommonDreams.org
The Little Lie, and How It Grew
by David Benjamin
GREAT NECK, N.Y. - Last week, Gayle Quinnell, a septuagenarian reactionary from Shakopee, Minnesota, confessed - on TV - to G.O.P. candidate John McCain that she fears Democratic candidate Barack Obama because "he's an Arab." McCain replied that, no, Obama's no Arab at all, but a "decent family man" (implying that the two depictions are mutually exclusive). [I disagree somewhat with this characterization of McCain's reply. -K]
To me, the more intriguing element of this bizarre exchange was the word "Arab," rather than the more common Obama epithets, "Muslim," "terrorist" and "Osama." Mrs. Quinnell's "Arab" formulation was just enough off-key to make me wonder where she picked it up. In a subsequent YouTube video, Mrs. Quinnell helpfully elaborated, explaining that she possesses pages and pages of corroboration, plumbed from the Shakopee Public Library. Since it's unlikely that there's much info on Obama's ethnicity in the Shakopee stacks, I figured what Gayle had done was surf the Web.
So I decided to try tracing her steps. It wasn't hard. No matter where I landed after Googling "obama, arab," I inevitably returned to the same damning quote. It goes: "Mr. Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother's side. He is 43.75% Arabic, and 6.25% African Negro from his father's side." Also: "Obama is not legally African-American. It is impossible for him to be, in truth, America's first African-American president."
Holy Leopold's ghost, Batman!
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