Coltrane's Blog

Obama's Anti-Rumor Plan

Thursday, Jun. 12, 2008 By KAREN TUMULTY/WASHINGTON

 ". . .Obama told his top aides it was time for a more aggressive solution to the rumors that have been popping up on the Internet about him and his family for months. And so the Obama campaign has built what might best be described as a Web-based rumor clearinghouse, located at fightthesmears.com, in which it hopes all the shady stories about Obama's faith, his family and his rumored connections with controversial figures can go to die.

Obama is enlisting his millions of supporters to help him hunt down and quash these stories, just as those supporters helped him turn his insurgent campaign into a history-making juggernaut. Says Obama adviser Anita Dunn: "We will not allow Michelle — or, for that matter, Barack—to be defined by rumors."

This will not stop the out of control, hateful, falsehood posts of bloggers like superman, kestral, scotty, char, ivy, etc., but it can serve as a resource to dubunk the silliness they try to pass off as truth.