A leading American newspaper on Monday castigated evangelical circles believed to be responsible for an insidious smear campaign against Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, projecting him as a “stealth Muslim.”
In an editorial, the Los Angeles Times wrote, “The Great American Smear is back. In 2000, the victim was Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain, and the vector for transmission was telephone lines and leaflets left on windshields in church parking lots. This year, the victim is Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama, and the vector is e-mail messages that appear to have originated in evangelical networks. As always, the smears play to the ugly underside of American politics: prejudice and hatred.”
Hmmm, wonder who benefits from that, hmmmm, ...
And the Hildebeast is certainly capable of using 'evangelical networks' ... |
The newspaper said it is worth considering the persistence of the Internet rumours that Obama, well known to the people of Chicago as a Christian, is actually a stealth Muslim, a “Manchurian candidate” who would take the presidential oath with his hand on the Quran. LA Times recalled that the rumours first surfaced during Obama’s run for the Senate but took off in a “viral” e-mail campaign in 2006. An e-mail called Obama “The Enemy Within”.
GOP strategist Ed Rogers also pointedly mentioned ObamaÂ’s middle name, Hussein. In January, the Obama campaign was forced to denounce Fox News for repeating a false Insight magazine report that he had spent fours years in an Indonesian madrassa.
CNN sent out a reporter who found that the school Obama had attended had nothing in common with the “Pakistani incubators for jihadists”, and though his campaign has set the record straight repeatedly, last week the Washington Post ran a front-page story about Obama’s “Muslim ties”. |