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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

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Are Hillary Clinton Supporters Spreading Loren Davis Attacks?

Filed under Barack Obama, Democrats, Election 2008, Irregular Ideas, Media by jclifford at 10:21 am

I am truly sad to report this, but it seems that a large number of Hillary Clinton’s supporters are working to spread the nasty slurs originating from Loren Davis, a faith healer who claims that:
1. Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim
2. Barack Obama is part of a secret Islamic jihad conspiracy to complete the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001
3. Barack Obama has been in contact with the Kenyan half of his family in order to promote a man who claims to be his relative, and to use to the supposed corruption and violence of that family to help gain victory in the Democratic presidential nomination.

There is no factual basis for these claims other than the mere assertion that Loren Davis and his wife Celeste say it’s all true.

What else does Loren Davis say is true? As I’ve written in the last couple of days:
1. Loren Davis Ministries says that the National Football League is a servant of Satan using television broadcasts to encourage people to worship the Devil
2. Loren Davis has written that the simple, common visual symbol of the 5-pointed star, which is central in John McCain’s campaign logo, is a satanic symbol that marks people who have made an evil pact with Satan
3. Loren Davis even writes that the American flag is evil and satanic

After I started writing about the truly insane conspiracy theories promoted by Loren Davis, Loren Davis moved quickly to try to delete the document in which much of Loren Davis’s absurd ideas about an international satanic conspiracy are presented. I was able to find the document through Google Cache, however, and I have preserved a PDF version of the original document.

Don’t take my word for it. Read the PDF yourself. Then, go search for it on Google, and look for the cache link. Or, go to Archive.org and search for the following address, where the article was until the Loren Davis Ministries deleted it: http://www.lorendavis.com/news_articles_sirius.html

Any reasonable person who looks at this kind of material from the Loren Davis Ministries quickly comes to the conclusion that conspiracy theories promoted by Loren Davis cannot be regarded as credible. Hillary Clinton supporters especially ought not to give any credibility to Loren Davis, as he has suggested that Hillary Clinton is a socialist who is in league with Satan.

It is very disappointing to me to see, therefore, that some supporters of Hillary Clinton are working to promote Loren Davis and his crazy conspiracy theories about Barack Obama, Kenya, Satan, and Islam.

Starting this month, at a site called Hillary Clinton Forum, a group of Hillary Clinton supporters began to promote conspiracy theories quoting from the infamous spam email from Celeste and Loren Davis, in the screed entitled “The Real Obama Story Exposed!”

Some Hillary Clinton supporters on the forum jumped at the chance to slam Obama with the Loren Davis conspiracy theory. One wrote, “That man is surrounded by evil! I have known this all along,I have a very strong “6th sense”. The people who follow him are too deep in to believe this. Someone has to stop him and stop him now! This could be the end of our lives as we know them.”

Another Clinton supporter asked in exasperation of Loren Davis, “Why is this not being taken seriously by the American Press and the DNC?”

The person who posted the Loren Davis rumors rallied people to spread the email from Celeste and Loren Davis as far as possible: “It needs to be sent -exposed in the media tonight. Election is tomorrow. How do we get this out.” Others on the forum started a campaign to use Digg.com to promote Loren Davis and his anti-Obama conspiracy theories. The group started citing sources like right wing publication Human Events and a book review by Ann Coulter, of all people, accusing Barack Obama of writing his own Mein Kampf.

Finally, yesterday, a Clinton supporter with more integrity alerted the group that Loren Davis is prone to bizarre satanic conspiracy theories. “The missionaries that provided the information for The Real Obama Story Exposed! seem to be NOT credible,” she wrote.

Her call for critical thinking was ignored. “As I said, the only ones that seem to have put this ministry down - making these claims against them were Obama supporters trying to discredit this group,” she was told. As proof of the credibility of the Loren Davis conspiracy theories, Canada Free Press was cited as a confirming source, though what wasn’t explained is that Canada Free Press is yet another political extremist publication, whose latest writings include articles promoting conspiracy theories about the mythical North American Union, attacking Al Gore, and claiming that gay sex is fatal.

My hope is that the people on this Hillary Clinton Forum are not really Clinton supporters, but are Republicans posing as Clinton supporters, trying to spread venom into the Democratic race. Given the setup of the Hillary Clinton Forum, I have no way of determining whether or not this is the case.

Let me reiterate to genuine Hillary Clinton supporters: Please don’t cooperate with these efforts to promote the insane satanic conspiracy theories of Loren Davis. In doing so, you’ll end up embarrassing Hillary Clinton in the long term, and alienating her from Democratic voters. Remember that Loren Davis also accuses Hillary Clinton of being a satanist who hates Christianity and America.

Please, if you happen to encounter other Clinton supporters who start repeating the nonsense about Obama and Islam that has come from Loren Davis Ministries, tell them the facts: That the rumors come from Loren Davis, a nutcase convinced that Satan hides around every corner, who hates Hillary Clinton as much as he hates Barack Obama.

Confronting the outrageous lies of Loren Davis ought to be a point of solidarity for supporters of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton - not a point of division.

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5 Comments »

  1. Do you have any “anti Hillary” or “anti-Obama” shirts? My group of 125,000,000 friends are trying to find them!!

    Thanks for your help if you can!!!

    Love ya

    Comment by Nunofurbiz — 4/25/2008 @ 2:22 pm

  2. No, we don’t sell bumper stickers or shirts of buttons against either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. I’ll support either one if the Democratic nominee, though I’d prefer Obama.

    We do have a whole big whopping bunch of anti-McCain items, though, at http://www.cafepress.com/nogop2008/1277187

    and made-in-the-USA anti-McCain shirts at http://skreened.com/irregularwear/category/the_republican_menace

    Thanks for asking!

    Comment by J. Clifford — 4/25/2008 @ 5:09 pm

  3. Hey, gang. I actually got a copy of the now infamous email forwarded to me a couple of days ago. It didn’t take long for me to find that Davis’ claims are utterly ludicrous. What I find truly saddening and infuriating is that this guy is claiming to speak in the name of Christ, yet his lies and loony teachings reflect very badly on the REAL Christ, who is nowhere near as much of a hater, a fool and a liar as this guy is. It bothers me that him and his missionary team in Kenya may be spreading this twisted, hate-filled perversion of Christianity among the Kenyans. It all makes me just groan.

    Comment by Kevin — 5/10/2008 @ 2:23 pm

  4. Oh, Kevin, don’t just groan.

    Spread the word.

    To the person that sent you that email, and to everyone they sent it to, send an email message in return, explaining the truth about Celeste and Loren Davis.

    Comment by J. Clifford — 5/10/2008 @ 2:27 pm

  5. I’d gotten the fictional Meet the Press transcript ( “I’d like to teach the world to sing should be our national anthem” to “this is why Michelle and I go to flag burnings” one ) a few days ago and someone on the email list snopesed it and replied to all.(God bless them.) When I got the missionary one I just had to reply to all, after checking sources. God holds us accountable for our words and hitting forward does not relieve you of ownership of that lie. We used to call this ‘gossip’.

    Comment by Grandma — 11/5/2008 @ 1:11 pm

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