I heard it on the Internet that Barack Obama blew off American soldiers in Afghanistan. A friend forwarded an email from a soldier who said Obama didn’t even look at soldiers during his visit last week. He didn’t thank them for their service.
Then, I remembered a thing called “Google.” I searched for the author’s name, and finally ended up on a Snopes’ page discounting the soldier’s account with numerous photos and first-hand accounts of Obama’s visit.
The soldier has retracted his thoughts from the email.
“I am writing this to ask that you delete my email and not forward it. After checking my sources, information that was put out in my email was wrong. This email was meant only for my family. Please respect my wishes and delete the email and if there are any blogs you have my email portrayed on I would ask if you would take it down too. Thanks for your understanding.”
Unfortunately, half the country gets 90 percent of their “news” from email forwards.
Barack Obama is a soldier-hating, secret muslim with the middle name “Hussein.” His skin is also black. Pass it on.
I can’t fucking tolerate forwards and spam. Most of my spamming friends have figured this out after I send them an email saying “please don’t send me anymore of your useless crappy forwards”.
I do love replying to forwards with Snopes links though, I get kinda giddy when I get to passive aggressively inform 30 people that “the person who sent you this is an idiot”. Good times…
I thought I was the only one with an awful case of Snopes Smugness. Glad to see I have company.
I’m shocked this didn’t end up on Fox for about 5 hours. This is the shit the Washington Times normally puts in print simply so Fox News can run with it.
“Oh, it was in a newspaper.”
And then, when the Washington Times retracts the story, Fox can pin it all on the paper.
Just saying.
There are a number of conservative blogs still running the email in its original form, as if there were no way to dispute its claims.
what does Obama think about Muslim soldiers? I bet he likes them. Especially if they are black muslim soldiers and their middle name is Hussein. This country needs Ralph Nadar.
Yes, there are many black Muslim soldiers running around the army with their name tags displaying “Hussein” in the middle position. Hadn’t even thought about this.