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...Marine 1st reconnaissance Battalion waits in Kuwait for the order to invade Iraq, there's a troubling rumor. It's not about the mission or WMD or the equipment they have not received. It's about Jennifer Lopez. J. Lo's dead, the buzz says, and the government is hiding the truth to prop up morale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater of the Absurd | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

...greeted with hostility - even in his own family. Mahameed has been ostracized by his brothers, who say that his obsession with the Holocaust is tantamount to sympathizing with Israel. Last week, one of his lectures in a refugee camp was canceled because a militant group spread the false rumor that he was secretly on Israeli payroll. On the Israeli side, there is incomprehension, too. Only last January did Yad Vashem put up an Arabic language website on the Holocaust, and when asked about Mahameed's activities, one staffer replied warily: "We have doubts about his agenda." Replies Mahameed: "They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching Auschwitz to the Palestinians | 7/8/2008 | See Source »

...talk about Obama's rumor-fighting plan, go to Swampland

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Obama's Anti-Rumor Plan Work? | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

Obama's new rumor shredder makes it easy to find both the "lies" and the "facts" behind the "mystery tape rumor." Secondary pages note that "even some conservatives don't buy it" and list two well-read conservative bloggers who have debunked the tape tale. And in what is likely to be the most read part of the new site, the campaign cites the probable sources of the stories in a section called "Who's behind the lies?" As the Obama sleuths explain it, the "Michelle Obama Mystery Tape Rumor" appears to be a work of fiction lifted "almost word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Obama's Anti-Rumor Plan Work? | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

...rest of fightthesmears.com is designed to be a guided tour of other sensational rumors circulating on the Web about Obama and his family. Click on the claim that Obama attended a "radical madrasah," for instance, and it takes you to a CNN feature on the very ordinary-looking elementary school he actually went to as a child in Indonesia. The rumor that Obama was sworn in to the U.S. Senate with the Koran yields a photo of him with his hand on a family Bible. Also featured are videos of Obama saying the Pledge of Allegiance, to combat claims that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Obama's Anti-Rumor Plan Work? | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

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