Why Smears and Spoofs Work

Dave McLane — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:48:18 EDT

Somewhere among the twists and turns of the internet there must be information we can rely on enough to make informed decisions. Yet we seem to have entered the age of WSIWYG -- What You See Is What You Get -- and all we can say for sure is what's on the screen at the moment because it's too much work to find information that connects to facts on the ground and stays constant long enough to be useable. Full story

Maureen Dowd spoof spreads

Dave McLane — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:01:25 EDT

As I reported in a previous post ThomasMoore has posted as spoof claiming the Maureen Dowd of the New York Times has written an article saying that some of the millions of $$$ that Obama has received from Internet fund raising efforts comes from overseas... China and the Middle East, to be exact. The spoof has now spread to http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showthread.php?p-4037456 Details in Extended Post

Maureen Dowd spoof smears Obama

Dave McLane — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:23:37 EDT

The smear is basically this: "It appears that some of the millions of $$$ that Obama has received from Internet fund raising efforts comes from overseas... China and the Middle East, to be exact. Why would donors in those countries contribute to an election campaign for President of USA?"

Here are the details:

ThomasMoore commented on my article "Unite for Change: Prescott, Arizona" on www.azcentral.com (The same article is also on www.barackobama.com .) and said:

========== ThomasMoore Comment ==========
It's not a secret any more, Dave, about where the millions of dollars are coming from that Obama has been receiving, so much that he went back on his promise to accept the spending limits of public campaign financing.

The millions are not from small donations of $25 to $100, as Obama has claimed. It's been traced to banks in Saudi Arabia and other Middle East countries, as well as a bank in China. The many small donations come from only a few credit-card accounts.

Wealthy foreigners, including the radical Islamic Wahabi sect that supports Osama bin Ladin, are attempting to provide millions of dollars for television ads to influence the U. S. Presidential election.

Don't take my word; read NYT columnist Maureen Dowd, who's about as liberal as anyone who works for that newspaper. Click on this link:

http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/ThomasMoore/26838
========== ThomasMoore Comment ==========

When you check out that link, it's not to the New York Times but to ThomasMoore's blog which doesn't provide a link to an original article by Maureen Dowd and I was unable to find such an article on the NYT or elsewhere.

The operative line is "I wonder if we WILL see this article in the Arizona Republic tomorrow? (the www.azcentral.com is the Arizona Republic's website).

I've sent a report to www.azcentral.com and to Marueen Dowd but no reply.

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