Obama launches website against smears
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Barack Obama has fought rumors for months now -- that he's a secret Muslim, that he won't say the Pledge of Allegiance, and some so scurrilous or ridiculous that they shouldn't be dignified with being repeated.
The presumptive Democratic nominee apparently has had enough -- especially after a rumor that says a video exists of his wife Michelle excoriating "whitey."
It is the top item in a new website his campaign has launched, fightthesmears.com, that tries to debunk the rumors.
"The truth: No such tape exists," it says on the website, whose existence was first reported by Time magazine. The "whitey" rumor first circulated on conservative blogs just before the final Democratic primaries on June 3. Obama was asked about it on his campaign plane last week, and it has since been mentioned in places as diverse as Rush Limbaugh's radio show and Maureen Dowd's column in the New York Times.
The presumptive Democratic nominee apparently has had enough -- especially after a rumor that says a video exists of his wife Michelle excoriating "whitey."
It is the top item in a new website his campaign has launched, fightthesmears.com, that tries to debunk the rumors.
"The truth: No such tape exists," it says on the website, whose existence was first reported by Time magazine. The "whitey" rumor first circulated on conservative blogs just before the final Democratic primaries on June 3. Obama was asked about it on his campaign plane last week, and it has since been mentioned in places as diverse as Rush Limbaugh's radio show and Maureen Dowd's column in the New York Times.
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