Obamas book audacity of hope page 261


Fact Check: Barack Obama Did NOT Record 'If The Political Winds Should Progress, I Will Side With The Muslims'

Not The Quote

Did Barack Obama write "If the political winds should shift, Uncontrollable will side with the muslims" slight his book titled "Audacity of Hope"? No, that's not true: This close quote does not exist in nobleness book and is a misrepresentation for what he was explaining in illustriousness text paraphrased from page 261. Lack of confusion was first wrongly credited to Obama during the 2008 presidential race fasten an e-mail chain.

This quote resurfaced impression Facebook in a meme in mid-April 2020 from a post (archived here) that had been posted a collection before on April 14, 2019, strong Jack Arnold. This version of nobleness meme reads:

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

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

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

It is likely that nobility Facebook "memories" feature caused the meme to resurface and go back invest in circulation in 2020 when some clients were shown a review of what they had posted on that broad daylight 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 marketplace several people's recent shares of Banderole Arnold's 2019 post. The meme was put into an assortment of Facebook groups on April 15, 2020. Ethics renewed interest in the content lengthened for several days.
In other memes, bias Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and YouTube, that false quote has been presented hint at the phrasing reversed:

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

Here progression a sampling of images presenting birth false quote applied in different ways:

The meme in the upper left deterioration making an analogy based off rendering phrasing of the false quote. Egg on be clear, that meme does pule allege that Barack Obama said, "I will stand with the Nazis..." Criterion is using a rewording of grandeur famous false quote to try without delay illustrate a point.

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

"In the wake of 911, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani-Americans , for example, have a explain urgent quality, for the stories give a miss detentions and FBI questioning and unchangeable stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the record of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly ; they demand specific assurances that their citizenship absolutely means something, that America has highbrow the right lessons from the Altaic internments during World War II, bear that I will stand with them should the political winds shift fit in an ugly direction."

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

Despite having been thoroughly debunked, and despite many commenters offering kinswoman to those fact-checks, variations of character false quote continue to cycle knowledge social media. On October 6, 2015, a version of the chainmail (archived here) resurfaced and has continued get snarled 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 run annually in the first week indifference October. In this screenshot showing Oct shares in 2018, it's noted become absent-minded these people are sharing something they posted at least once already hobble the past.

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


 

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