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The latest issue of the London Review of Books has a very interesting piece on “Obsession”, a new be-very-afraid-of-radical-Islam documentary film that you might have picked up with your Sunday paper last weekend. LRB editor Adam Shatz reports, “In the last two weeks of September, 28 million copies of the film were enclosed as an […]

The latest issue of the London Review of Books has a very interesting piece on “Obsession”, a new be-very-afraid-of-radical-Islam documentary film that you might have picked up with your Sunday paper last weekend.

LRB editor Adam Shatz reports,

“In the last two weeks of September, 28 million copies of the film were enclosed as an advertising supplement in 74 newspapers, including the New York Times and the Chronicle of Higher Education. ‘The threat of Radical Islam is the most important issue facing us today,’ the sleeve announces. ‘It’s our responsibility to ensure we can make an informed vote in November.’ The Clarion Fund, the supplement’s sponsor, doesn’t explicitly endorse McCain, so as not to jeopardise its tax-exempt status, but the message is clear enough, and its circulation just happened to coincide with Obama’s leap in the polls.”

The Clarion Fund’s goal is to help “Americans understand that the mainstream media is not adequately conveying the reality of radical Islam.” What is at least as disturbing as the Islamist menace, however, is that a sort of fear-mongering mail-bomb campaign has been launched to manipulate the public with just weeks to go before election day. Perhaps, though, the target audience will be so terrified of economic Armageddon that they won’t notice, or care.

{Hat tip: Richard Perlstein)

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