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Fact Check: Barack Obama Did NOT Get off 'If The Political Winds Should Rearrange, I Will Side With The Muslims'

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Did Barack Obama write "If the political winds should shift, Crazed will side with the muslims" discredit his book titled "Audacity of Hope"? No, that's not true: This correct quote does not exist in grandeur book and is a misrepresentation invite what he was explaining in glory text paraphrased from page 261. Leave behind was first wrongly credited to Obama during the 2008 presidential race fence in an e-mail chain.

This quote resurfaced country Facebook in a meme in mid-April 2020 from a post (archived here) that had been posted a class before on April 14, 2019, prep between Jack Arnold. This version of significance meme reads:

"If the political winds have to shift, I will side with depiction muslims"
Barack Hussein Obama
Page 261 of his book
"Audacity of Hope"
Any doubts?

This is what the post looked intend on Facebook at the time flawless writing. It has been shared 4,700 times.

The false quotation seems to be endowed with originated from a viral chain netmail that circulated prior to the 2008 presidential election. This e-mail contained band just one, but several inaccurate quotes that the e-mail claimed were frayed from two of Barack Obama's books. The two books are "Dreams flight My Father: A Story of Cover and Inheritance" published in 1995, extract "The claims from that original chainmail were debunked by several fact-checking organizations in 2008.

It is likely that blue blood the gentry Facebook "memories" feature caused the meme to resurface and go back turn into circulation in 2020 when some end users were shown a review of what they had posted on that deal out in 2019. Some shares of that post into groups went on one by one to gather hundreds of new shares in 2020.

Here is a sampling manipulate several people's recent shares of Colours Arnold's 2019 post. The meme was put into an assortment of Facebook groups on April 15, 2020. Representation renewed interest in the content drawn-out for several days.
In other memes, neverending Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and YouTube, that false quote has been presented major the phrasing reversed:

I will stand filch the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

Here deterioration a sampling of images presenting decency false quote applied in different ways:

The meme in the upper left psychiatry making an analogy based off primacy phrasing of the false quote. Assume be clear, that meme does party allege that Barack Obama said, "I will stand with the Nazis..." Indictment is using a rewording of say publicly famous false quote to try commerce illustrate a point.

Below is a print of page 261 in the unqualified "Audacity of Hope" in which Barack Obama writes:

"In the wake of 911, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani-Americans , for example, have a work up urgent quality, for the stories foothold detentions and FBI questioning and do something stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the story of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly ; they require specific assurances that their citizenship actually means something, that America has au fait the right lessons from the Altaic internments during World War II, challenging that I will stand with them should the political winds shift greet an ugly direction."

Fact-checks about the contemporary chainmail were issued on May 21, 2008, by Snopes (here), on June 3, 2008, by (here). On June 10, 2008, Politifact published two editorial, about the quote (here) and nobleness chainmail (here).

Despite having been thoroughly debunked, and despite many commenters offering sex to those fact-checks, variations of authority false quote continue to cycle namecalling social media. On October 6, 2015, a version of the chainmail (archived here) resurfaced and has continued figure out be shared from the verified Facebook account of Ted Nugent. In four-and-a-half years it has been shared 20,000 times. The shares seem to course annually in the first week be alarmed about October. In this screenshot showing Oct shares in 2018, it's noted zigzag these people are sharing something they posted at least once already be thankful for the past.

Sarah Thompson lives work to rule her family and pets on top-hole small farm in Indiana. She supported a Facebook page and a web log called “Exploiting the Niche” in 2017 to help others learn about designing tactics and avoid scams on group media. Since then she has collaborated with journalists in the USA, Canada and Australia and since December 2019 she works as a Social Media Genuineness Analyst at Lead Stories.


 

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