Dumbass Darragh Debunked
A little over a week ago I saw that Darragh “McCainiac” Murphy was pushing a viral email in the comments of Petulant PAC two days after she promised to “take better care in checking sources in the future”:
#82 murphy on 10.23.08 at 1:10 pm
gopumago posted this email downstairs. It’s an email that is going viral, from a Michigan polices officer who claims that Obama is disdainful of people in uniform.
There are LOTS of phony viral emails, so I checked this one out.
Seems to be absolutely real. I’m reposting it [...]
The claims in the email sounded bogus to me (and some quick research backed that up), so I looked around the Google machine to make sure that it had gone viral and, once I confirmed that it had, I sent it off to Snopes. Well, they just emailed me back to thank me for the tip and let me know they wrote about it.
Yep, you guessed it:
Claim: Barack Obama shunned law enforcement personnel by asking them remain out of view before a campaign event in Battle Creek, Michigan.
Status:
False.
Dumbass or disingenuous? I just can’t decide.
Posted by Kevin K. on 10/31/08 at 04:15 PM • Permalink
Categories: Politics • Election '08 • Barack Obama • PUMAs • Skull Hampers •
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