elections.foxnews.com - 11/1/2008
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The Democratic candidate's Kenyan aunt is found living in a rundown public housing neighborhood in South Boston
timesonline.co.uk - 10/29/2008
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timesonline.co.uk —
Barack Obama has lived one version of the
American Dream that has taken him to the steps...
of the White House. But a few miles from where the Democratic presidential candidate studied at Harvard, his Kenyan aunt and uncle, immigrants living in modest ...
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Found in a rundown Boston estate: Barack Obama’s ...
breitbart.com - 11/1/2008
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Barack Obama's aunt, a Kenyan
woman who has been quietly living in public housing...
in Boston, is in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago, The Associated Press has ...
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AP: Obama aunt from Kenya living in US illegally
news.yahoo.com - 11/1/2008
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news.yahoo.com —
AP - Barack Obama's aunt, a Kenyan woman
who has been quietly living in public housing in...
Boston, is in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago, The Associated Press has learned.
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AP: Obama aunt from Kenya living in US illegally
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The Anatomy of a Smear
TPMMuckraker —
Here's how the right's big eleventh-hour smear on Obama was carried out.
First the Murdoch-owned Times of London reported Thursday that Obama's aunt, Zeituni Onyango, is living in a Boston public-housing complex. It's unclear how the paper learned of the woman's presence in the U.S.
From there, the story quickly got taken up by the right-wing echo chamber. Fox News (also Murdoch-owned, of course), Drudge, the Boston Herald, and various conservative blogs -- as well as some mainstream outlets -- began ...
McCain’s November Surprise Is a Dud
Comments from Left Field —
... though, is how this became a story at all:
Here’s how the right’s big eleventh-hour smear on Obama was carried out.
First the Murdoch-owned Times of London reported Thursday that Obama’s aunt, Zeituni Onyango, is living in a Boston public-housing complex. It’s unclear how the paper learned of the woman’s presence in the U.S.
From there, the story quickly got taken up by the right-wing echo chamber. Fox News (also Murdoch-owned, of course), Drudge, the Boston Herald, and ...
The aunt and the smear: The right-wing effort to make an issue of an Obama relative
The Reaction —
... on Saturday, it was The Times, a Rupert Murdoch-owned British newspaper, that first "broke" the story. "From there, the story quickly got taken up by the right-wing echo chamber. Fox News (also Murdoch-owned, of course), Drudge, the ...
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