{"id":6,"date":"2008-01-30T11:18:02","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T17:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/2008\/01\/30\/obamas-not-a-muslim-pass-it-on\/"},"modified":"2008-01-31T10:49:13","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T16:49:13","slug":"obamas-not-a-muslim-pass-it-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2008\/01\/30\/obamas-not-a-muslim-pass-it-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Not a Muslim! Pass it on!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obama is trying to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/politics\/law\/news\/2008\/01\/obama_mail\">be proactive<\/a> about the email chain letters containing <a href=\"http:\/\/snopes.com\/politics\/obama\/obama.asp\">falsehoods about his religious background<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe Obama campaign announced the debunking effort with an e-mail barrage from John Kerry of Massachusetts, in which the former presidential candidate urges supporters to &#8220;e-mail the truth&#8221; to everyone on their address books, to print out the facts about Obama&#8217;s background and post them at work, and to call local radio stations and talk to neighbors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/politics\/law\/news\/2008\/01\/obama_mail\">Wired talked<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociology.northwestern.edu\/faculty\/fine\/home.html\">Gary Alan Fine<\/a> about whether this strategy would work and Fine was skeptical. &#8220;It underlines the attack,&#8221; Fine says. &#8220;Sometimes defenses against rumors work; sometimes they backfire&#8230;What you want to do, when you deny the rumor, you only want to deny it to the people who originally heard it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama is trying to be proactive about the email chain letters containing falsehoods about his religious background: The Obama campaign announced the debunking effort with an e-mail barrage from John Kerry of Massachusetts, in which the former presidential candidate urges supporters to &#8220;e-mail the truth&#8221; to everyone on their address books, to print out the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[39115,42,113],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-politics","tag-religion","tag-socialpsych"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}