NEW HAVEN, Conn., 8:44 p.m. — A long-debunked attack on Senator Barack Obama is making the rounds via e-mail in this area, with an unusual twist: it is now being attributed to a non-existent official at Yale.
The message — which was forwarded to the News on Wednesday night — has been passed around the Web for over a year. But, lately, the e-mail has a new author: William H. Shay, who claims to be in the procurement office at Yale University. Mr. Shay even provides a Yale phone number in his e-mail.
Mr. Shay, it turns out, is a fabrication. So are the claims in the e-mail.
Neither the Yale Phonebook nor the staff listing for the Yale Procurement office shows any employee named William Shay. And the phone number he provided, though in the form of a Yale number, is not a working number.
A quick Google search shows that copies of the e-mail, attributed to Mr. Shay, have been received elsewhere in the country in recent months, and an earlier copy of the message has floated around since 2006. (It is debunked here.)
But the e-mail forwarded to the News had been making its way around offices and among friends in New Haven County in recent days.
The e-mail is below. We’ll check tomorrow with the Office of Public Affairs to see if the University has received any complaints about the supposed Mr. Shay and his opinions about Senator Obama.
SUBJECT: WHO IS BARACK OBAMA?
(You’ve got to read this written by William H. Shay at Yale University.)
Probable presidential candidate, Barack Hussein Obama was born in
Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a black MUSLIM from
Nyangoma-Kogel, Kenya and Ann Dunham, a white ATHEIST from Wichita,
Kansas.
Obama’s parents met at the University of Hawaii. When Obama was two
years old, his parents divorced. His father returned to Kenya. His mother
then married Lolo Soetoro, a RADICAL Muslim from Indonesia.
When Obama was 6 years old, the family relocated to Indonesia. Obama
attended a MUSLIM school in Jakarta. He also spent two years in a
Catholic school.
Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim.
He is quick to point out that, “He was once a Muslim, but that he
also attended Catholic school.”
Obama’s political handlers are attempting to make it appe ar that
Obama’s introduction to Islam came via his father, and that this influence wa! s
tem porary at best. In reality, the senior Obama returned to Kenya soon
after the divorce, and never again had any direct influence over his son’s
education.
Lolo Soetoro, the second husband of Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham,
introduced his stepson to Islam. Obama was enrolled in a Wahabi
school in Jakarta.
Wahabism is the RADICAL teaching that is followed by the Muslim
terrorists who are now waging Jihad against the Western world.
Since it is politically expedient to be a CHRISTIAN, when seeking Major
public office in the United States, Barack Hussein Obama joined the
United Church of Christ in an attempt to downplay his Muslim
background.
Let us all remain alert concerning Obama’s expected presidential
candidacy.
The Muslims have said they plan on destroying the US from the inside out.
What better way to start than at the highest level - th rough the
President of the United States!
ALSO, keep in mind that when he was sworn into office - he DID NOT use
the Holy Bible, but instead the Kuran
(Their equivalent to our Bible, but very different beliefs.)
Please forward to everyone you know. Would you want this man leading
our country?……NOT ME!!!
William H. Shay
Yale University - Procurement
(203) 432-4656
— Thomas Kaplan
9 responses so far ↓
1 Gary // Jan 3, 2008 at 8:31 pm
This one was debunked in one click!!!
2 Marissa // Jan 7, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Haha! People with politial biases are always desperate to smear the campaigns of others.
My best advice: DO YOUR HOMEWORK and make an INTELLIGENT decision.
God Bless America!
3 BT // Jan 7, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Thank you for the information!
4 Jeff // Jan 8, 2008 at 12:06 pm
So what is the real story? Is he from a Muslim or Islamic background or not? And, if he is, but proclaims a religious affiliation with Christianity, is that someone we want in the White House?
5 Jane Ericsson // Jan 9, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Upon receiving the E-Mail, though it came from a trusted source, I too immediately dialed the number to Shay and getting no reply, found this. Well, you are rightly concerned if the source is not from Yale, a thing easy to track down, but where is your evidence to support calling the article a fabrication along with this evidently bogus source? Is the truth that easy to track down? If so, please do so and encourage Obama to do so in a very broad public forum.
If he deserves to be in the clear, we too deserve to know the truth and source of the facts that are evidently confusing enough to be contorted, which confusion can serve to hide the truth as well as lead some to jump to false conclusions - if they have.
If you are really an expert on Obama, help me because I was disturbed last night after congratulating Hillary Clinton he gave an unnamed series of historical figures. One was obviously JFK, but he gave a description of a PROPHET IN A CAVE ON A MOUNTAINTOP that simply does not fit biblical imagery of Moses but does fit Mohamed during his time in a cave on Mount Hora, NOT during Moses’ contact with God, before, during or after the Exodus to the Promised Land, but during the time an evil god inspired Jihad while Mohamed was holed up in a cave on Mount Hira. So why make this reference to the Promised Land in this unnamed series? Was his error due to taking poetic license? If so, how like Mohammed who was both a bad poet and a poor plagiarist. Will you help or are you only selectively concerned about the truth and strange utterances to about and from Senator Obama during his “Night of Power”.
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7 CAL // Jan 10, 2008 at 10:10 am
If you want to know about Barak Obama the man read his book “Dreams of My Father: A story of Race and Inheritance”. If you want to know his political views read “Audacity of Hope”. Instead of waiting on someone to give you the answer find out for yourself. People suffer for a lack of knowledge.
8 Dean // Jan 10, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Who cares if this is true, The guy is a no load and has done absoulutly nothing for the state of Il. He is a smooth talker thats about all he has to offer. Hillary is no better apparently she is qualified because her husband was the president for 8 years. Thats like saying Bret Farve’s wife is going to play quarterback for the packers in there next game. she is qualified because they have talked about his position for the last eight years what a joke.
9 Car // Jan 18, 2008 at 9:30 am
Wow, Dean. I certainly hope you aren’t enrolled at Yale.
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