Were the 2008 election rumors planted? It does seem likely that some partisans purposely crafted the Obama-is-a-Muslim rumor and the Trig-is-Palin's-grandson rumor-while knowing they were false-then planting them in blogospheres where they were sure to flourish. The extreme sense of polarized conflict along ideological lines currently extant in the political scene makes this idea plausible.

(This post was adapted from an Op-Ed article I wrote in the NY Post, 9/14/08)

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