Rebuttal to "Caution....Be Careful How You Vote & Why"
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Desert Observer's Page Yucca Valley resident Mary Brhel, who posts on MyDesert.com as AllAmerican, has reproduced a nasty, hateful email as part of her blog that attacks Senator Barack Obama. She admits receiving the information in an email, that she's not verified its truthfulness, but showed no hesitation in spreading the false email for she's posted it online. Here's what she said. |
- "Someone sent this to me in an email..(honestly, I have not read either book) but, with the quotes attached I felt compelled to send it on. I was tempted to purchase the books and read these quotes myself to confirm them. But, if you are a major B O supporter you may already have purchased his books."
The remainder of her blog consists of the email of made-up quotations falsely attributed to Senator Obama in his book "From Dreams of My Father". Click here to view AllAmerican's blog.
The highly reputable Annenberg FactCheck.org project has thoroughly debunked the email in question and has posted a full report on their website. Their review of that email resulted in the following statement. "A widely circulated e-mail fabricates some quotes from Obama's books and twists others." Click here to view their entire report.
AllAmerican could easily have learned the truth about the nasty, false, hateful email she received. However, she contributed to spreading the falsehoods by incorporating them into her blog. In doing so she is following in the footsteps of her husband who posts on MyDesert under the pseudonym mbrheljr. He too produced a spurious blog about Senator Obama ("Obama and Race") which contained false information from an email that had been thoroughly debunked by reputable fact checking sources on the Internet. His blog, and my rebuttal (click here to view it), appear elsewhere on the MyDesert website.
Shame on you, Mary Brhel. Spreading slander is simply shameful, shameful, shameful!
I am growing very tired of the rantings, the lies, the scare tactics and then, and then, the "I only sent it, I didn't write it, I didn't believe it." Bull. Stop treating people like they are stupid and don't read....just because you don't. Shame, shame and thanks Bond for showing her character. Such garbage.....
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