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In September 2008, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama was interviewed by George Stephanopoulos for ABC's This Week news program. When the subject of the interview turned to Senator Obama's assertion that Republicans were attempting to scare voters by suggesting he is not Christian, the following exchange occurred: This interview was widely circulated online (typically in excerpted form) as purported evidence of Obama's supposedly admitting he was a Muslim: Obama's remark that you're absolutely right that John McCain has not talked about my Muslim faith ... was a straightforward statement: He was not proclaiming his Muslim faith; rather, he was acknowledging that Republican nominee John McCain had not specifically promulgated the false rumor that he (Obama) was a Muslim. Unfortunately, at that point of the interview, George Stephanopoulos — apparently not understanding the context of Obama's response — mistakenly attempted to correct him by interjecting the words Your Christian faith. This non sequitur briefly threw Obama off track, and he responded by repeating the words My Christian faith and then returned to the point he was trying to make: A very brief, out-of-context segment was then clipped from that exchange and sent winging around the Internet as proof that Senator Obama had admitted his Muslim faith, something even the right-leaning Washington Times acknowledged was false:
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