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The above screen grab from Snopes.com’s Barack Obama index is a frightening indicator of how much falsehood is spread about our President. (Red means untrue, in case you don’t know.)
Remember, these are just the most popular Internet rumors spread about Obama. Imagine the off-handed bullshit passed along every day in personal e-mails and dinner conversations.
Muslim this. Un-American that.
Even the “green” items (the true ones) are sad, like this photo of a bookstore display that feature Obama-related books with one about monkeys.
It’s one thing if no one credits these lies. But 1 in 5 Americans believe Obama is Muslim, and they didn’t get that impression from so-called mainstream media. They got it from viral internet content: e-mails, Facebook links and the like. It’s not a good precedent for the future of American politics.
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