by Frank James
Just catching up with some reading and noticed Slate's Christopher Beam had a funny piece that went up earlier this week in which he suggests that Sen. Barack Obama fight fire with fire by spreading Internet rumors that are as outrageously over-the-top in a "positive" direction as some of the Web rumors have been in a negative way.
A snippet:
Barack Obama is a DEVOUT CHRISTIAN. His favorite book is the BIBLE, which he has memorized. His name means HE WHO LOVES JESUS in the ancient language of Aramaic. He is PROUD that Jesus was an American.
Barack Obama goes to church every morning. He goes to church every afternoon. He goes to church every evening. He is IN CHURCH RIGHT NOW.
Barack Obama's new airplane includes a conference room, a kitchen, and a MEGACHURCH.
Brilliant!
(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Comments
Has President Bush and the Republicans altered our ideals that much, that we now are entertaining the idea of spreading nonsense, like they do so regularly. We can beat them with straightforward talk, no nonsense. Let's leave them with the deceptions, innuendoes, and sometimes, yes, even lies, that they have developed, almost into an art form !!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.
Posted by: Don Fitzgerald, Chicago | June 19, 2008 10:32 AM
You end the article with the word "brilliant." Spreading false rumors is "brilliant"? I can understand a campaign doing it...but to get the approval of members of the media has to make me wonder what's going on in newsrooms around this country. Is this how newsroom operate? Spread false rumors ...and only correct them if you get caught? This is the exact reason why nobody trusts the media!!!!!!!
Posted by: joe | June 19, 2008 10:43 AM
Still nothing about the Texas GOP convention and racist buttons?
Posted by: jackson | June 19, 2008 10:57 AM
You end the article with the word "brilliant." Spreading false rumors is "brilliant"? I can understand a campaign doing it...but to get the approval of members of the media has to make me wonder what's going on in newsrooms around this country. Is this how newsroom operate? Spread false rumors ...and only correct them if you get caught? This is the exact reason why nobody trusts the media!!!!!!!
Posted by: joe | June 19, 2008 10:43 AM
Lighten up, Francis. It's "satire," which is to say that moderately intelligent people will know that it's conveying a true message through medium of an obviously false story.
Do we have to spoon feed everything for you knuckledraggers?
Posted by: a blinkin | June 19, 2008 11:02 AM
Oh get serious, Joe. It was obviously meant "tounge-in-cheek". Like an "Onion" article. Lighten up!! Frank's first line says "Slate's Christopher Beam had a 'funny' piece" Did you miss the word FUNNY? Or just convienently ignore it? No wonder republicans are so miserable. They can't even enjoy good satire.
Posted by: syj | June 19, 2008 11:03 AM
I assume that the MegaChurch will be preached by Wright?
Posted by: RFB-IL | June 19, 2008 11:04 AM
The problem is...idiot liberals believe these false rumors! Have you been on a college campus lately? The "Onion" is available on every street corner!! Add that with the false information being pumped into their heads by liberal professors..and it's easy to understand why this generation is the generation of "whiners." Why did the author of this article feel this type of "satire" is "BRILLIANT"?
Posted by: joe | June 19, 2008 11:14 AM
The problem is...idiot liberals believe these false rumors!
Posted by: joe | June 19, 2008 11:14 AM
and thats different than Faux News madrassas stories? Racist stories? Flag pin stories? Please!
Posted by: bill r. | June 19, 2008 11:27 AM
Spreading rumors worked for Dubya in South Carolina as orchestrated and spread by KKKarl Rove.
Then John McCain sold his soul to the RNC store by literally embracing Dubya and taking $$$ from KKKarl. That's change that ought to make you puke.
Posted by: Doug "Hussein" Zook | June 19, 2008 11:58 AM
Posted by: joe | June 19, 2008 11:14 AM
Again, I think you miss the point. I believe he said "Brilliant" in the contex of humor. Not unlike those very funny "Guiness Beer" commercials. Where they end with one of the Irish "cut-out" characters saying "BRILLIANT!!" I'm pretty sure that is the spirit Frank intended. In this long campiagn process, it might be a good idea if you and your republican freinds develop a sense of humor.
Posted by: syj | June 19, 2008 11:58 AM
The problem is Democrats don't own a majority of talk radio stations and their own cable 'news' network. Without the mouthpiece, it's hard to make people believe the truth let alone lies.
Posted by: Paul | June 19, 2008 12:20 PM
BRILLIANT!!
Posted by: You want more of the same, vote McCain | June 19, 2008 1:07 PM
That's right Joe. The problem isn't the GOP idiots who equate lapel pins with patriotism, mistake lip service for faith, and believe Obama is a secret Muslim because they saw a picture of him in traditional Kenyan garb. The problem is obviously the idiot liberals who believe a politician might actually try to change something after the election.
Posted by: Tom O | June 19, 2008 2:14 PM
Come on people get a life, there are too many hungry and homeless people who need our attention.
Posted by: valjean | June 19, 2008 8:33 PM
The campaign on Monday barred cameras from a large gathering of African-American civic leaders Mr. Obama attended. It recently refused to provide names of religious figures with whom Mr. Obama met in Chicago and directed some of them to avoid reporters by using a special exit
Does anyone has the attendes list or a movie from this event?
Posted by: AG | June 20, 2008 11:32 AM