this story is interesting because someone (dr allen) puts on their sherlock holms hat and tries to trace a false, ugly, full of lies, virulent e-mail.
An Attack That Came Out of the Ether
Scholar Looks for First Link in E-Mail Chain About Obama
By Matthew Mosk
Washington Post Staff WriterPRINCETON, N.J.
The e-mail landed in Danielle Allen's queue one winter morning as she was studying in her office at the Institute for Advanced Study, the renowned haven for some of the nation's most brilliant minds. The missive began: "THIS DEFINITELY WARRANTS LOOKING INTO." Laid out before Allen, a razor-sharp, 36-year-old political theorist, was what purported to be a biographical sketch of Barack Obama that has become one of the most effective -- and baseless -- Internet attacks of the 2008 presidential season............
........Beckwith said he built a Web site that features hundreds of pages of material intended to undermine Obama. "If 20 percent of what's on my Web site is true, this guy is a clear and present danger," Beckwith said..........
2 comments:
So he just made it all up . . .
and millions of nitwits believe it.
yes. and even though it's been proven to be FALSE, people STILL believe it. then again people will believe what they WANT to believe. people will conveniently forget or ignore what they don't want to know.
this isn't new. we're just going to see it in record numbers now
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