Right-wing media figures claim Clinton behind Obama/Muslim smears

[Sid]

Melanie Morgan, Lee Rodgers, Rush Limbaugh, and John Gibson all forwarded the accusation made by a website controlled by Rev. Sun Myung Moon that Sen. Hillary Clinton was responsible for spreading information linking Sen. Barack Obama to a madrassa, or Muslim school.

None of the four cited any evidence, other than the article, that Clinton was responsible for promoting the madrassa story, and the article cited no one by name.


Right-wing media figures claim Clinton behind Obama/Muslim smears (http://mediamatters.org/items/200701200003)

[CoreIssue]

What a shock! :roflmbo:

Liberal wonks, such as Dick Morris, said Bill and here machines would be after him, and were in fact already after him.

[Sid]

As a boy in Indonesia, Barack Obama crisscrossed the religious divide. At the local primary school, he prayed in thanks to a Catholic saint. In the neighborhood mosque, he bowed to Allah.

Obama's four years as a child in Indonesia underscore how dramatically his background differs from that of past presidential hopefuls, most of whom spent little, if any, time in other countries. No one knows how voters will react to a candidate with an early exposure to Islam, a religion that remains foreign to many Americans.

Obama's campaign aides have emphasized his strong Christian beliefs and downplayed any Islamic connection. The candidate was raised "in a secular household in Indonesia by his stepfather and mother," his chief spokesman, Robert Gibbs, said in a statement in January after false reports began circulating that Obama had attended a radical madrasa, or Koranic school, as a child.




As a child, Obama crossed a cultural divide in Indonesia (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-obama15mar15,0,5976747.story?coll=la-home-nation)

[Chrystalwuzhere]

This is gonna get crazy. I'm just gonna pour myself a cup of diet Mtn. Dew, kick up my feet, and watch the circus unfold. It's like watching two hogs in a trough sling mud at each other. :lol:

[Sid]

This is gonna get crazy. I'm just gonna pour myself a cup of diet Mtn. Dew, kick up my feet, and watch the circus unfold. It's like watching two hogs in a trough sling mud at each other. :lol:


Chrystal:


One thing you can count on is that things are going to get much stupider before the elections.

[CoreIssue]

Obama belongs to a church that pushes black first issues.

Can we say racist?

[Sid]

Obama belongs to a church that pushes black first issues.

Can we say racist?


Only if you are black.

Imagine a NAACP for white people?

[CoreIssue]

Some call that the Klan. :eek: