Some bloke named Andy Martin has been named as the source of the now viral "Obama is a Muslim," email that has been passed around the net for months. The Washington Post has the story here.
So how was this guy discovered, it took an Obama supporter named Danielle Allen who has two doctorates to figure this one out and she’s nailed the guy. So who the heck is Andy Martin?
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Martin is a doughboy from Illinois. He claims to be an Obama expert, a self proclaimed political expert, and claims to be a military and forgien policy expert. He’s a Republican, an online newspaper publisher, an Obama author, a former political opponent running against Obama, and was running for U.S. Senate this year but got his butt kicked in the primary. You can google him, but I won't be part of providing a link for this butt.
Here’s how Allen unearthed this jerk.
As Allen scrolled through the e-mail about Obama, she saw that the list of people who had received the missive consumed several full screens. Her first thought was to try to learn about the people behind the addresses. She traced a number to North Carolina Web sites about golf, but quickly hit a dead end. Then she had another thought: What if she took some of the unusual phrases from the text of the e-mail and Googled them?
Her eyes fell on this untrue sentence: "ALSO, keep in mind that when he was sworn into office he DID NOT use the Holy Bible, but instead the Kuran (Their equivalency to our Bible, but very different beliefs)."
The use of "their equivalency" and the spelling of "Kuran" instead of "Koran" made the sentence her point of departure.
That search showed that the first mention of the e-mail on the Internet had come more than a year earlier. A participant on the conservative Web site FreeRepublic.com posted a copy of the e-mail on Jan. 8, 2007, and added this line at the end: "Don't know who the original author is, but this email should be sent out to family and friends."
Allen discovered that theories about Obama's religious background had circulated for many years on the Internet. And that the man who takes credit for posting the first article to assert that the Illinois senator was a Muslim is Andy Martin.
And it goes onto say
Other articles followed Martin's. Andrew Walden, the founder of an alternative Hawaiian newspaper with the motto "The untold story, the unspoken opinion, the other side," published an article with many of the same false biographical details from the e-mail in the weeks before Obama announced for president -- that he was "Raised in Muslim lands and educated in Muslim schools." He said in an interview that Obama's "alliance with Islam" was "all over the Internet," a source he often considers more trustworthy than the mainstream media.
You know because everything that you read on the internet is true like... McCain eats children for dinner and cats for breakfast. He’s got a robotic left arm and is missing his right big toe. Oh and he hates all Jews, and Hispanics. Am I missing anything? There, now that all that is on the internet it is now FACT..... snark.
The piece is a wonderful 4 page article with specifics and details about the link to Martin and all the research. Allen did her work and should be congratulated for all the digging and endless time she had to spend on right leaning sites. Now that he's been exposed Martin is now publicly attacking Allen. We need to defend her and help expose this idiot to more press. I hope Allen’s work inspires others to track down those who look to smear.
Update 1: Kosiack Bob B linked to another story by fellow Kosiack Houndcat about Andy Martin Here
Update 2: Media Mattes has targeted this guy before too and he decided to sue them. Here is their story.