Hoaxes as campaign tools


Barack Obama is a Christian, a Protestant.

Hillary Clinton met with the Gold Star Mothers, and the Gold Star Mothers were happy with the meeting.

But I’ll bet you get an e-mail soon saying otherwise.

Here, more debunking, this time from the venerable, and clearly biased, The Nation: “The New Right-Wing Smear Machine.”

Read it, and be inoculated with the facts, against the hoaxes.

This entry was posted on Friday, November 2nd, 2007 at 4:59 pm and is filed under Accuracy, Hoaxes, Politics, Voodoo history. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to Hoaxes as campaign tools

  1. How to start a hoax against a presidential candidate « Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub says:
    June 29, 2008 at 6:49 am

    […] assaults on Barack Obama are already the stuff of legend. The comic strip, “Doonesbury,” is running a story line with a volunteer for the […]

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