Obama "Muslim" email- Snopes

[dapper]

I received my 1st Obama chain letter last week. This letter makes some references to Obama and his parents being muslim, basically making it sound like voting for him would be like voting for terrorists. In the chain letter it states that it is True and states that it was on snopes.com

I responded to the letter stating that Snopes actually states it is false.

I received the same chain letter again yesterday (from the same person!!!) and this time I responded to each person who previously forwarded the email with

"Actually, the below email is untrue. You can research it yourself by *Actually* visiting the website that you reference in your email instead of passing on false information."

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

to which I got the following response:
"part is true and part is not. I did reference the article. "


so, I responded with:
"No you did not reference the article, you just fell for a chain letter trying to hurt someones credibility. Again, if you ACTUALLY visited the site, you would see that Snopes states it is false.

but I guess it's easier just to forward chain letters without actually researching to see if they are true or not."



Why are people so freeking gullible? Why... time after time, when you ask someone to research something before they pass it along, do they continue to show how gullible they are?

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[babylonsister]

1. I don't think it's gullibility, I think the motive is to smear and hope

the ones they're sending it to don't research. There's a lot of hate out there.

[OKNancy]

2. They probably aren't gullible ( maybe some are) They want

it to be true so they believe it. LOL - now that I think about it, that happens a lot here too.

[sk8rrobert2]

3. IMHO most americans are willing to believe anything that sounds

even slightly credible...I could start a chain letter that said 98% of people are poor and hippies from outerspace verified by Snopes later confirmed by CNN and people would be like watch out for the neighbors they smoke cheap moon pot.......

[dapper]

4. h-wat?

:-)

... yes, agreeing to all of the above that some people just want to believe it because they might be Right Wing, or have their hopes on a different candidate. I just think people forwarding it are repugnant.


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[sk8rrobert2]

6. completely agree...my comment was really far out there but i did that to get the point across

[sk8rrobert2]

7. double post

[LuckyTheDog]

5. The Obama campaign needs to address this

Obama is being Swiftboated. Thom Hartmann addressed this on his show today. The e-mail is a political dirty trick.