FightTheSmears is a site launched by Barack Obama to combat the negative rumors spread on the internet. Here are the current smears being debunked:

smear:
Michelle Obama Says “Whitey” On a Tape

LIE: Rush Limbaugh says a tape exists of Michelle Obama using the word “whitey” from the pulpit of Trinity United

LIE: Blogger Larry Johnson writes “New and dramatic developments. This is a heads up. I’ll post the news Monday morning by 0900 hours.”

LIE: Proven GOP sleazemeister Roger Stone says he has “credible evidence that some indelible record exists” of a tape of Michelle Obama using the term “whitey.”

LIE: Blogger: “Tape was filmed between June 26th - July 1st 2004 in Chicago, IL at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Conference at Trinity United Church: specifically the Women’s Event.”

NO TAPE EXISTS

Watch The Video

Smear:
Barack Obama’s birth certificate

LIE: Barack Obama is hiding his birth certificate

SEE HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE HERE

Smear:
Barack Obama is a Muslim

LIE: Barack Obama is a Muslim

LIE: Barack Obama attended a radical madrassa

LIE: Senator Obama was sworn into the US Senate using the Koran

Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian

Smear:
Obama’s Books Contain Racially Incendiary Remarks

A recent email forward allegedly quotes passages from Senator Obama’s books related to race and religion. The majority of these are alterations, deliberate manipulations, and in one case, an outright fabrication of Obama’s words.

Book Quotes are Truncated and Out of Context

Smear:
Barack Obama Won’t Say The Pledge of Allegiance/Won’t Put His Hand Over His Heart

LIE: Barack Obama won’t say the pledge

LIE: Barack Obama won’t put his hand over this heart during the pledge of allegiance

View video of Barack leading The Pledge of Allegiance in the United States Senate