--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <salsunsh...@...> wrote: > > On May 12, 2009, at 1:01 PM, Mike Dixon wrote: > > > Yes Sal, you did say that and I found it quite amusing as well. > > You know, Mike, I went back and checked... > I never used that phrase in any message, > and it doesn't even sound like me as I'm > not even sure what xenophobic means > without looking it up. (And no, I haven't > deleted any.) So either your mistaken, > or you can now add lying to the list.
It was do.rflex, actually. But as I pointed out at the time, what Mike said was a lot more subtle and devious. He was trying to provoke Obama supporters here to react with outrage at the suggestion that Obama was a Muslim, so that he, Mike, could accuse Obama's supporters of xenophobia. (Xenophobia = fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners) Thing is, most here wouldn't have any problem with Obama being a Muslim. The outrage was, quite properly, at the suggestion that Obama was lying about being a Christian, as well as disgust at the way the right was appealing to xenophobia among the voting public generally by spreading the rumor that Obama was a Muslim.
