How 30 Million DVDs Sent In 2008 Election Fuel The Anti-Mosque Debate Today

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How 30 Million DVDs Sent In 2008 Election Fuel The Anti-Mosque Debate Today
Rachel Slajda | August 25, 2010, 8:15AM


In the last weeks before the 2008 elections, an organization called the Clarion Fund spent some $16 million to reprint and distribute 28 million copies of their 2005 film about radical Islam and terrorist groups. "Obsession" was inserted into newspapers -- and packaged with scary photos of scarf-clad men -- in swing states.

That move, funded by a single anonymous donor, may still be echoing in 2010's protests about the Cordoba House and other mosques around the country.

"The single most powerful piece of media over the past five years that has been effective in persuading average Americans to the Islamist threat has been 'Obsession,'" Tom Trento, the director of the Florida Security Council, told TPMmuckraker today. Trento said he participated in the multimillion-dollar distribution of the film by giving out tens of thousands of copies at both parties' 2008 conventions.

"Obsession" -- the abridged version of which you can watch here -- aims to scare, with graphic footage of terrorist attacks and large rallies where clerics scream in Arabic, "Death to America!" Commentators, including the daughter of a jihadist and Jerusalem Post writer Caroline Glick, say things like, "Jihad has come to America" and describe terrorist attacks as "multiple fronts in a global Jihad."

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http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/08/_obsession_and_the_cordoba_house.php?ref=fpb

[Karenina]

1. . .

[Mugweed]

2. I had one sent to me in the mail

I assumed it was because I was registered as "no party affiliation". My wife was registered as Democratic Party and she did not get one sent to her. I kept it as an example of the right-wing hate and fear machine.

[Scurrilous]

3. K & R

:thumbsup:

[EC]

4. Threw it out

I don't know if many people even bothered to watch them, except the ones that were scared already. I don't know too many people who keep any discs sent to them...advertisers waste their money sending out these things..

[Sal Minella]

5. Didn't get one in the mail (registered Dem) but picked one out of the

trash at the Post Office -- still have it sitting on top of the DVD player, but have never mustered up the stomach to watch it.

Suppose I should really watch it, now that we know Obama is really a Muslim. :sarcasm:

[tech9413]

6. remember it well. The counter is Reel Bad Arabs

It shows how the media in this country has demonized Arabs for decades. Just another example of the elite trying to tell us that they are not us and therefor the enemy.