Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Email about Barack Obama in Afghanistan

Have you seen the email yet about Barack Obama's recent visit to the War Zone? Not very complimentary, right? Someone purporting to be a captain in the USMC "wrote" it.

It's false, according to Snopes.com

A good place to check, when you get this type of email, is http://www.snopes.com/ A check there this afternoon reveals that this email is a hoax.

Most emails of this type are junk. Before you place any credence in them or forward them, you might want to take a minute to check Snopes.com and see what you can learn about the credibility of such an email.

3 comments:

Flying Lily said...

Thank you for this sensible advice about internet rumors. Snopes is pretty amazing for debunking the falsehoods.

Gus said...

Thanks, Lily!

Richard W Gorski, M.D. said...

Hi Gus,
Thanks for the web site to check things out; I put it in my Favorites.
I wish some non-partisan (if there is such an entity) organization would make a side-by-side comparison chart/file of the accomplishments and foibles of both McCain and Obama...I bet it would prove interesting if only in the height in inches each would be. This, of course, would not include the length of the speeches which are usually written by someone else.