Political rumors, full of sound and fury, fly fast online

Chicago Tribune by Bob Secter | Oct. 17, 2008 (News Analysis)

Have you read the e-mail from the psychologist who detailed how her South Pacific vacation was ruined by an encounter with a boorish, racist John McCain?

Surely your inbox has been clogged with those exposes about Barack Obama's secret life as a radical Muslim who won't recite the Pledge of Allegiance? And how about Sarah Palin posing with a rifle in a U.S. flag bikini and claiming her daughter's baby as her own?

Malarkey all. Yet people ... Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 19, 2008

The article is a little bit of shotgun journalism, some pellets on target, others in the right general direction, but not finely targeted. Links are vague. Debunking is general. But the identification of a trend and a potential or real current problem is in the right quadrant of the firing range.

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