Chicago Tribune: Mythical trip started with an error - The trip to Libya that Obama didn't take illustrates how the Net can make a small mistake worse
Excerpt:
"There's a story pinging around the Internet about how Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) paid a visit to Libya in 1984 and met with Louis Farrakhan, the Chicago-based Nation of Islam leader whose anti-Semitic remarks have long inflamed relations between blacks and Jews.
But it wasn't Obama who took the 1984 trip. It was his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr.
The error made its way to the Internet a couple of weeks ago, when a conservative Christian leader -- who was actually trying to defend Obama's position on Israel -- apparently confused the two men when speaking to a reporter for a religious news Web site."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0704090407apr10,1,7557285.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed
Alex
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