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Friday, June 20, 2008 12:00 AM

Barack Obama is a Muslim, and other stories

The Democratic nominee's campaign is working overtime to combat rumors -- yet misinformation is still running rampant across the Internet.
By Mike Madden

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  • Thursday, June 19, 2008 06:52 PM

    If you write a headline, the story will come...

    Madden -- You wrote the article because Salon wanted to run this front page headline, right?

    Someone -- gee, do we need to guess who THAT might be? -- sat there at the editorial meeting and said, "ok, we've got a story, title is 'Barack Obama is a Muslim' -- who's gonna write that one? Madden? You think you can handle it?"

    "Sure boss..."

    Gee, what's coming tomorrow?

    "Barack Obama wants to subjugate all the whites and other rumors"

    Could you at Salon possibly cover any news story about Obama WITHOUT running a front page headline so spurious and sensationalized that it makes Fox News or Ann Coulter look rational in comparison???

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