This morning's racist anti-Obama spam mail

[MindPilot]

I'm not even going to post it here; you've paroably all seen it. It's the one using quotes from Obama's books to make white people a-skeerd of the black man.

It came from someone I don't even know, so my response was polite:

Please check with Snopes before you allowing yourself to become a pawn of the right-wing's racist propaganda machine.

This is a combination of cherry-picked out-of-context quotes and outright fabrications.

I look forward to receiving your retraction.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/ownwords.asp

--mp

[CoffeeCat]

1. I think it is imperative...

...to respond to this tripe. You did it perfectly. You were
polite, but succinct, and you called it like it is.

I think we all need to sign up at these right-wing sources, and get
these emails, so we can debunk them.

I know that if I get any racist propaganda from anyone--I will be replying
to all--and politely telling it like it is.

[MindPilot]

3. Snopes has 'em all

No need to give the RW sites any more traffic than they already get.

But yeah, we have to combat this shit en mass. Don't delete them, get the link to the Snopes article, hit "reply all" and blast it back in their faces.

[AlinPA]

2. My sister-in -law is forwarding that junk and I mentioned Snopes to her; "never heard of it" she

says....people who trade in that crap won't vote for Obama anyway. He moronic brother forwarded all kind of crap and she tried to pass it on to me and I said "It sounds like some rw wing asshole who is afraid of Obama created that garbage - you don't believe that crap do you?" No reply.

[MindPilot]

4. Curious coincidence that e-mail came from someone in PA - Westchester

I hope by the time this election is over, Snopes will be a household name and both a noun and a verb--like Google.

I want to know why isn't Snopes in DU's spellchecker?

[maui9002]

9. My own brother forwarded me an email about Nancy Pelosi

introducing legislation to tax retirement accounts; I researched the misrepresentation on scopes.com and replied to all with an explanation that relied not just on scopes.com but on common sense. Didn't use the right wing blather argument at all. Received two replies from the list thanking me for the response to my brother's email (neither of which was from my brother). I hope that when people are confronted with obvious lies and misrepresentations (and much of the stuff put out by the right wing nuts is pretty easy to shoot down), at least some stop and consider "jeez, that's kind of embarrassing; maybe I shouldn't believe all of this stuff."

[NJmaverick]

5. Hit reply all and send back this:

Obama- 11 McCain- 0


That's the number of false rumors, targeted at each of the presidential candidates. Seems the Republicans are guilty of 11 outright lies, while there has been none, coming from the Democrats.

Here are website links you can use to verify this information.

John McCain's Snopes (a website devoted to truth and accuracy on the internet) entry:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/mccain/mccain.asp

Barack Obama's Snopes entry:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/obama.asp

So next time you see a political email in your in-box, consider its source before you even read it. If one of your conservative friends sends you a "friendly" email, letting you know some secret information about Obama, just remember 11-0.

[izquierdista]

6. I got to get on these mailing lists!

Since my job was outsourced a couple years ago, I have been thinking about a career change. I've decided to go into the con-man business. Not the illegal type Ponzi scheme that you can get busted and do hard time for, but the legal ones -- preacher or Republican fund raiser. Not having gone to church since I was a teenager, I'm kind of at a disadvantage for the preacher thing, but I could certainly raise funds from people who forward e-mails full of bogus information. I'm pretty good at writing up a line of bullshit, so if could get on a RW mailing list and use the "reply to all" feature, soon I would have quite a following of people willing to pay for my 'secret' information on Obama. And I wouldn't have to advertise either, just wait for all the forwarding to disseminate it far and wide.

Yes, this sounds like it could be a promising career move. Just one question though, does anybody here know if there is any limit on "administrative fees" that you can charge for Republican fund raising? Do you think they would notice if I kept 99.7% to cover my expenses? :think:

[NJmaverick]

7. You know that number is not really that out there

In college I briefly took a job as a door to door fund raiser for NJ PERG. My "take" was 33%. You have to figure that other people in the fund raising operation got their take as well. So probably less than 50% of the $$$$ actually went to the charity

[Joanie Baloney]

8. Nice reply

Do these people stay up late at nights trying to fabricate the most outrageous lies they can think of? And the majority of people who receive them think "Oooh - it came from the internet, so it must be true!" They probably believe in the tabloid crap-fest as well.

*sigh*

JB