Viral e-mails attack Obama's life story

Prefacing a question about the challenges of winning over white, blue-collar voters, the reporter offered this observation: "They think you are un-American," he said.

Such questions, asked by reporters and plainly on the minds of voters in Appalachia and elsewhere, are the fruits of an unprecedented, subterranean e-mail campaign.

What began as a demonstrably false attempt to cast Obama as a Muslim has now metastasized into something far ... Full Story »

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Beth Wellington
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by Beth Wellington - Oct. 1, 2008

The article details the how smear emails despite their debunking on Snopes has plagued Obama w. a link to Snopes and looks at how the internet has changed politics to both help and hurt Obama and how he has supposedly has changed his behavior to counteract the smears. It also lists a link to the a Pew study on how many people believe that Obama is Muslim or don't know because they have heard varied reports. I looked at the report and there is no mention in it of the source of the information. This has raised on various media, including radio, tv, newspapers (and their comment sections and letters to the editor), not just emails.

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