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Candidates Fight Back Against Internet Smears

by Terrence O'Brien on October 20, 2008 at 05:10 PM

Candidates Fight Back Against Internet SmearsCandidates Fight Back Against Internet Smears
If you've been getting most of your information this election cycle via the Internet and e-mail, chances are you've come across a series of rumors about the candidates that are just flatly false. The nature of the Web spreads the flames of these lies like the Santa Ana Winds during the dry season.

The candidates are fighting back as quickly as possible by using the Web themselves. Obama has a whole section of his site dedicated to "fighting the smears," and sites such as Factcheck.org do their best to keep the rhetoric honest. That doesn't stop these rumors from having a negative impact on the campaigns, however, especially when they make the front pages of reputable news papers.

Allow us to do out part to dispel some of these more heinous rumors. Barack Obama is not a Muslim, or a terrorist. John McCain did not admit to being a war criminal. Joe Biden is not being replaced by Hillary Clinton. Trig Palin is Sarah Palin's son. Obama is a natural born U.S. citizen, and McCain didn't cause problems for a resort in Fiji by acting in a way unbecoming of a senator.

Because tracking the origins of these rumors is all but impossible, the best we can do is dispel them as quickly as possible and encourage our readers to view every piece of information that they come across (including things on this site) with a critical eye. [From: CNN]

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