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“Mr. Sensitive” over here, Barack Obama, has launched a creepy new website to tackle the various Smears about him that have reached unforeseen levels of ubiquity among AOL e-mail accounts. It features a number of neon blue bald eagles flying around for The Truth. It also calls GOP operative Roger Stone a “sleazemeister,” which is a pretty funny made-up word. And that’s why he’s a Muslim. [Fight the Smears]
whatever. i heard he has not only one black baby, but two!
Who are these “smears?” From what planet whence they come? How does one destroy the “smears?”
it is a funny word, and of course makes me think of this, which we saw every year in elementary school.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yon2YuXssvo
I’m glad Barack is in on the Web v2.0 and not still stuck in the 90s with Clinton when Algore invented it.
shortsshortsshorts: good laundry detergent helps
I’m confused. That site’s far too pretty. The real ‘muricans who may actually be considering such “smears” prefer the look of hcsfjm, or doomedreport.com
Now they will accuse Michelle of being against Pap Smears.
This is a mistake. Now every crazy-ass rumor started about Obama will have to be addressed here. And those that aren’t listed will be fodder for idiots all across our great land.
Jeez, Hopey’s people are even worse lyzdexic spellers than McCant’s.
The site was supposed to be called “Smite The Fears.”
Doglessliberal: Using Tide is good… remember, those darkies can’t swim!
I heard that Barack Obama has a 12 inch Coal Sausage. Is this true? or just another smear by the right to scare ’small penised whitey’? I mean the bush administration has to compensate for their small dicks by starting wars.
As a president with a 12 inch coal sausage, Sen. Obama wouldn’t have to compensate by starting wars. He just has to fist bump the fuck out of Michelle.
Aren’t smears involved in the Dirty Sanchez, and in this country aren’t we free to do the Dirty Sanchez? Why does Barack hate our freedom?
shortsshortsshorts: Damn, you’re fast.
That eagle with the Obama logo on it? What is he, Stephen Motherfucking Colbert? Does he realize Steve is kidding?
ah cool, so i guess any rumors not addressed in the website must be true.
damn, i bet that “whitey” video is K-razzzy!!!
In other news, the McCain campaign quickly answered the ‘Fight the Smears’ website with their own ‘Smear the Queers’ website.
Nothing wrong with shmears, especially when spread over a toasted bagel.
Oh. Smears.
AnnieGetYourFun: Hangovers provide supernatural powers.
Gopherit v2.0: yeah, but Kerry did zip about SwiftBoats until it was too late and the smears worked. It is a double edged sword.
What I love is that the Repubs are so desperate to find something bad about Hopey, they are attacking the VP search commitee members. These are people gathering info on candidates. They are not in the friggin’ Administration that doesn’t exist yet or even policy advisers for the campaign. It’s like attacking Obama’s tailor or campaign food supplier. The WaPo is of course making a huge deal out of how damaging this is to Obama, but really, does anyone outside the Beltway give a hoot about this issue? Wait until McCain picks The Dark Lord Dick for his VP, then people might start to pay attention.
I’m loving the McSmear McAsterisks.
Smear-fighting is the kind of thing you see in websites of third party, racially suspect organizations, where it will be like:
“SMEAR: Pat Buchanan is a Holocaust denier.
TRUTH: Pat Buchanan is one of the few public figures with the cojones to question liberal propaganda, and suggest that the Holocaust may have been exaggerated.
SMEAR: Ron Paul is a racist.
TRUTH: Ron Paul merely published a newspaper in which he encouraged his subordinates to say racist things. The Sheeple who hate freedom of speech are the real racists!
SMEAR: Ann Coulter is hideous and looks like a tranny dominatrix.
TRUTH: Ann Coulter is a beautiful, beautiful women.”
You see what I’m saying? Smear-busters are usually people on the fringe…of course Obama has to do it too, because he’s black. This is a racist country, the end.
Ha ha, they “prove” Obama didn’t take his oath on the Koran by showing a picture of him, his lovely family, and a sneering Dick Cheney with Barry’s hand on … some random book? Sure, they say it’s his “family bible,” but for all we know it could be the Necronomicon.
…hey, that’s actually a pretty good idea. “Lie: Senator Obama was sworn into the US Senate using the Koran. Truth: Senator Obama was sworn into office using the forbidden book of the Mad Arab Abdul Alhazred, and he dedicates his service in Congress to advancing the cause of his Dread Lord Cthulu.”
Josh Fruhlinger: Smear: Barack Obama drinks lattes. Truth: Barack Obama is a latte. A delicious, delicious latte.
Taste the latte, bitches.
…I heard that Barack Obama has not one but 4 wives! Or as they say in the MUSLIM world “baby-mamas”!!!
Josh Fruhlinger:
http://www.amazon.com/Legit-Baller-Jerry-Blackshear/dp/0976600722/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1213290569&sr=1-2
NegativeZero: Funny + 1
The “Dreams of My Father” quotes page is funny. Some of the quotes are taken insultingly out of context.
Fake quote: ‘I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.’
Real quote: But these men had become object lessons for me, men I might love but never emulate, white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.
Hey Obama, do you realize Malcolm would kick your ass? Not as hard as he would kick mine, but still.
metropolitan: Whitey video is addressed on the site.
AHHHH
Theres a creepy ass picture of the Obama family stading right next to Oswald Cobblepot. I mean Dick Cheney.
I’m hoping it’s a shoop.
ronaldpagan: Oh please. More than anything, Malcolm X wanted to be a lawyer and regretted his lack of educational opportunity. Five minutes with Barry, and Malcolm would’ve been on the streets, organizing the electorate for him.
AxmxZ: Malcolm couldn’t stand MLK. I find it hard to believe that he could have tolerated Barry. Maybe in his (Malcolm’s) old age…
AxmxZ: The anti-smear site needs more latte humor, but the people who need to read this can’t separate snark from reality. “What? He’s a Latvian African Amurican? What in THE hayull?” “That’s a devil book?”
ronaldpagan: I think he couldn’t stand MLK because the whole Lordy-Lordy-preacher angle to the fight for basic civil rights sickened him. I can relate. So he might have found Barry a chump, but for different reasons than MLK. He’d probably find his constant pleasantness inhuman and grating; ditto for his general lack of outrage at any given injustice. But I think he would sense enough ambition, drive, intellectual acuity and snobbery in Barry to make up for the boring sweetness and light.
Plus, Malcolm X was no more a static creature than anyone else. He might not have been educated, but he was pretty sharp. There’s a reason his own people had him whacked.
Not very savvy! The way to fight sleezy internet rumors is to MAKE UP YOUR OWN and GET THEM OUT THERE!
vicuna: Smear: Barack Obama is a Latvian African-American. Truth: Barack Obama is an Estonian African-American. This is why he stammers when speaking without a teleprompter.
Ok, that was probably funny to no one but myself and whatever other Russians might be lurking nearby.
The best one I’ve seen is that “Obama is not half white and half African… In fact, his father is not African, but really an Arab. So that actually makes him half African and Half Arab”
These MORANS can’t even add 1/2 + 1/2!!!
“LIE: Senator Obama was sworn into the US Senate using the Koran.” The US Senate uses the Koran? For what?
Fight the Smears. Don’t eat the 7-11 spicy beef taquitos no matter how der-licious they look.
AxmxZ: Good points. But it wasn’t just the preacher angle; it was that he saw Martin as too compromising. I think if he wasn’t won over by Martin - whose eloquence and devotion to civil rights are a million times more impressive than Barry’s - he’d be unimpressed by Bear-Bear. He still respected Martin a lot, and there’s good odds he’d secretly vote for Barry. And have a crush on Michelle.
AxmxZ: didn’t you guys see the movie? Malcolm made peace with everyone after the Nation of Islam put a price no his head and just before that embarrassing montage of children saying “I am Malcolm X.” Know your history.
Can’t wait for the WALNUTS! version:
“Smear: I married my wife for her beer money and connections.
Truth: I married my cunt of a trollop for her beer money and connections.”
Johnny Zhivago: I heard John McCain hates NASCAR, and called the revered Dale Earnhardt an “overated, whiny pussy.”
Also, he insulted the entire states of West Virginia, Tennessee and both Carolinas by calling them “inbred retards that want to get their freak on with Ned Beatty.”
It’s true.
This website is by far, the worst idea the Obama campaign has ever had.
Lascauxcaveman:
You hate in other people what you see in yourself.
ronaldpagan: Yeah, but Barry would totally play pool and poker with him. Did MLK ever play pool and poker with poor Malcolm? Didn’t think so.
TGY: Are they in any way related
to the S’mores?
ronaldpagan: Malcolm in no way would kick Obama’s ass. Why would you say that?
Gopherit v2.0: I had the same thought at first, but actually this is genious.
The Republican strategy against Barack Obama this fall amounts to creating an air of uncertainty around him, make white folks uncomfortable - especially white women – so then Oldy McOlderson can slip in under the wire and into the White House.
Well, yeah right. The October “surprise” ain’t no surprise at all to any body who isn’t an economist or working for a ratings agency: the American economy, workforce and housing market will be so fucking decimated by the fall, the American people would be ready to elect Rev. Wright himself to end the bumblefuckkery of the past 8 years.
This website will provide a trough that can feed the media consistent facts to manage all dumb rumors crossing their desks. They can preemptively stave off the poor reporting that ultimately lands them as a screenshot on Huffington Post or TPM, or The Daily Show. The Obama campaign burned the media with that ABC debate; they are still smarting. This website is giving the MSM a chance to step up to the plate.
The Drudge Report fake-leak shit felled Hillary’s campaign, it will fell McCain’s as well.
ronaldpagan: Almost. Malcolm couldn’t stand MLK only prior the Mecca prilgrimage. Afterwards he wrote at length about the grudging respect he had for the man and his non-violent mission, giving America’s violently unrelenting racist landscape. He realized it actually took more balls…What were we talking about?
Words to live by in this field, Admit nothing, Deny everything, Demand proof………… and never never, never, I mean never Rat Yourself off. Berry, this site is a mistake.
What about the rumors that Obama and his family used to be members of the Illuminati, the Trilateral Commission, Interpol and The Federal City Council?
AxmxZ: Barry would have bought coke from him way back in the Harlem hustler days!
problemwithcaring: I know I know…I was talking about Angry Malcolm. He’s the fun one anyway.
NedPepper: What, you’re not banned yet, Mr. Worked Himself into a Tizzy Over the Obama Pound?
*Fist Pound.
In all seriousness, Ned, I don’t care much for you.
problemwithcaring: I don’t buy it. It’s the political equivalent of “Am Not!”, “Are, too!” No one wants to hear it. Anyone who believes those smears isn’t going to change their mind because a bunch of libs tell them it’s wrong. Barry’s strategy has been A+ so far. Ignore the garbage, address legitimate concerns, and apologize when you’re wrong. He should stick with that.
I like the fact the proof that Obama was sworn in on a bible is a picture of him standing next to his cousin Dick with his hand on a book. Isn’t the Koran also a book?
Also, where’s the flag pin anti-smear? I want to see a 15-minute slideshow of pictures of Barack wearing flag pins, dagnamit!
ronaldpagan: There you go! Bonding opportunities wherever you look. And Barry is such a Rorscharch blot, Malcolm would probably look into his eyes and see a better version of himself, just like everyone else under the freaking sun.
ronaldpagan: A rat if cornered will become so angry it will bite itself. That is exactly what the harboring of hate and resentment against me is, a biting of yourself. You think you are harming me in holding these spites and hates, the deeper harm is to yourself. Chomp, Chomp, Chomp.
Gopherit v2.0: And get Swiftboated just like Kerry? No, thanks. Believe it or not, there are plenty of people out there who believe the lies not because they desperately want to believe them but because they are the most readily available information. So if Barry starts an active truth-disseminating campaign, he’ll do himslf no end of good.
AxmxZ: I’m between the two of you. Obama posting a video of himself saying the Pledge of Allegiance can only help. But giving credence to some of these rumors is not really helping…the people inclined to believe these, aren’t going to disbelieve them just because Barry said otherwise. (Obama…Osama…hum…are they brothers?)
NedPepper: Okay, that comment was funny. I’ll give you that.
ronaldpagan: Naw man, I own the DVD’s of Malcolm’s speeches. I can tell you MX2008 would love to have an apprentice like Barry “Europe adores you” O.
Ned Pepper:
Dull as dishwater? Check.
Pointless? Check.
Singularly unfunny? Check.
Pompously imperious? Check.
Tony?
Canuckledragger: Oh come on…
Racist? Check.
Chomp chomp chomp? LOL!
The dude actually said he was Tony the other day, but I’m not sure I believe him…the style seems a tad different, and Tony usually posts way more.
BlackEuro.Observer: Where do I find the DVDs of Malcolm’s speeches? I’d kill for them. And I want “this isn’t DEMocracy, this is HYPocrisy” to be my ringtone. Anyway, I like X and Obama a lot, so let’s all be friends.
AxmxZ: As a Rizhanin myself, I WISH Barack Obama was Latvian.
AxmxZ: ronaldpagan: Eh. I hope it won’t hurt him, either way. I just think answering every little douchebaggy thing said about him is a waste of time. The Swiftboat garbage worked against Kerry because he’s not a likable guy. He was completely out of touch with what most Dems thought, and had a negative charisma to boot. Even most of the Dems loved to make fun of him. I don’t think most of the smear even stuck. It won’t be anywhere as easy to do something like this with Obama. They’ve tried with several times already, and nothing is sticking…..because he’s genuine. Hell, even Bill Clinton didn’t have that going for him.
Gopherit v2.0: Ignore the garbage? What campaign have you been watching? He “ignores the garbage” for about two seconds before scheduling a huge press event, giving interviews to Fox news about it and then planning two-day policy conferences on rumor transcendence, the whole time bitching about the “climate of smear”…
Google “Obama Denies” much?
Barack Obama Denies Plagarism
Obama Denies Flipping Hillary
Barack Obama Denies Snoop Dog’s KKK Accusations
Barack Obama denies snubbing Hillary Clinton - Los Angeles Times
Obama denies rumours he is Mulsim - The Hindu international
Obama sets record straight on religion - Barack Obama News- msnbc.com Jan 21, 2008
Obama denies education as radical Muslim - The Houston Chronicle
Obama Denies he said he Never Wear a Flagpin….
This is the GOP plan - throw shit ’til sumthing sticks. I submit that only way to play this game - asa black man with the name Hussien - is to lump them all into the same desparate-looking boat - the blow said boat up.
problemwithcaring: Hahahahaha he denied Snoop’s KKK accusations!
Poor McCain, he’s so fucking boring he’ll have to make up the rumors about himself to then dispel in some kind of pathetic propaganda infinity loop, like a snake eating its’ own tail…
Also, when did the “American Public” get so willingly paranoid? Is it something in the water?
Jobbotch: I wish he were a Finn. That would really explode everyone’s head.
“See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.” - GWB
I think it kind of works like this: http://www.sugar-free-games.com/playgame.php?game=1515
problemwithcaring: I’m trying to understand your point, or even if you have one. Time and again I’ve seen the following: when asked a ridiculous question by a reporter, he addresses and refutes the garbage being directed towards him, and moves forward. In the case of the Rev Wright story, where there might have been some legitimate concern, he took actions to mitigate it. Your description of “scheduling a huge press event, giving interviews to Fox news about it and then planning two-day policy conferences on rumor transcendence, the whole time bitching about the “climate of smear” “sounds more like a Clintonian fap -fest than anything approaching reality. His only mention of a “climate of smear” occurred, according to your friend Google, a year and a half ago when the madrassa smear started at the beginning of his campaign.
Regardless, my point is thus: maintaining a web page just to deny garbage only retards would believe without proof after the issues in question have been soundly refuted is pointless. This has been proved time and time again. From the minority that still support Bush, to the 9/11 Truthers, it’s only waste of time and energy to argue with them.
Canuckledragger: Hate is only power to love misused. The difference between those superior and their inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass bends when the wind blows over it. I see you are leaning to near the tipping point. whoooooooooooooosh!
Gopherit v2.0: I’m trying to understand YOUR point. Is snopes.com a bad idea? If he didn’t need the site, if the reporter/rumor mill relationship was not so fraught with difficulties, he wouldn’t need to repeat the same denials over and over again. Yes, my description was snark-heavy - thanks for holding it against me, asshole - but the point I made should have been clear. Step One: He repeatedly answers questions about the flagpins; two: he repeats statements about appropriateness of wearing flagpins; three: he clarifies previous statements about flagpins: step four, he just starts wearing ‘em.
Obviously, his blackness makes him suspect and the press sees nothing “illegitimate” about bombarding him with questions like this throughout the campaign. So this becomes a preemptive attempt to weaken an existing, very real GOP tactic going into the general election. Instead of just getting in bed with Donnie McClurkin to prove to all the ‘tards that he loves Jesus, or giving rambling speeches against powerless dictators to prove that you don’t plan to annihilate all Jews, he creates a mechanism by which all such innuendo gets painted with the same broad brush and subsequently further delegitimized.
Stra-te-ge-ry. It made not work, but I applaud its proactive nature.
Anyway you, say: “Regardless, my point is thus: maintaining a web page just to deny garbage only retards would believe without proof after the issues in question have been soundly refuted is pointless.”
Isn’t this exactly the point of the website you deride? To serve as a clearinghouse that “soundly refutes” such garbage? So what is YOUR point? Or do you have one, besides you don’t like this idea of it happening through a web site, so the campaign shouldn’t do it?
Also - watch how you talk to me.
Obama ‘08: Because Elijah Mohommed’s UFO has a whitey-seeking death ray.
I TOTALLY get it, Pap smears are a drag!
Senator Obama is NOT a Dirty Muslim!
“What you won’t hear from this campaign or this party is the kind of politics that uses religion as a wedge,” says Mr. Obama, while denouncing statements of him being a Muslim as a smear. Why is the presidential candidate who claims to be religiously inclusive is treating the word “Muslim” as an insult? Apparently, it is OK for Mr. Obama to be associated with terrorists like William Ayers or racists like Jeremiah Wright, but God forbid somebody would call him a Muslim! No, he won’t stand for that kind of smear! We admit that most terrorists are Muslims, but most Muslims are not terrorists and the statement on Mr. Obama’s website is insulting to hundreds of millions of people.
How could a man who discards his family heritage in favor of political expediency be even considered for presidency of the United States? Where are all the so-called “Islamic civil rights groups” like CAIR, MPAC, ISNA, MAS, etc. who are quick to defend every Islamic terrorist, but are silent when Muslims in general are being denigrated? Would Mr. Obama have the same reaction if someone claimed that he was raised as a Jew? We sincerely doubt that.
Muslims Against Sharia demand immediate removal of “SMEAR: Barack Obama is a Muslim” statement from the official Barack Obama’s website as well as an apology for giving the word “Muslim” a negative connotation.
http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/2008/06/senator-obama-is-not-dirty-muslim.html