Arab-phobic McCain Volunteer Isn't Convinced

The Uptake got video of Gayle Quinnel, the woman who called Obama an Arab at a McCain rally. She doesn't believe McCain's rebuke. Totally drank the Kool-Aid which landed in her inbox.

Adam Aigner, NBC News: So even though Senator McCain told you that he didn’t feel that was true and you ought to be more respectful, you still fear that?

Quinnell: I still do.  Yeah.    I’m not alone.  I go to Burnsville, the main Republican headquarters and I do a lot of work over there.  A lot of sending out mail and talking to people.    And all the people agree with what I’m saying to you  about Obama.

Aigner :Then do you feel there are a lot of volunteers for McCain who feel that way?

Quinnell: Yes. A lot of them.  In fact I got a letter from another woman that goes over there to Burnsville and she sent me more things about Obama.

Aigner: What was on the letter?

Quinnell: Oh all kinds of bad things about him and how, I mean I have to tell you to call me.   It’s all bad.

Reporter:  Are a lot of people getting this letter and are a lot of people believeing it and is that turning a lot of votes or support for McCain?

Quinnell: Yeah I sent out 400 letters.  I went to Kinkos and I got them all printed out.   And I sent about 400 letters.  I went in the telephone book and sent them out to people.   So they can decide if they would want Obama.

Aigner :Can you give me  your name again?

Quinnell: Gayle Quinnell and I honestly think that these people hear about this Obama, they wouldn’t want him.

UPDATE: The New York Times has a profile which outs the bastard who started the whisper campaign which this crazy old soul completely believes.

Until this month, the man who is widely credited with starting the cyberwhisper campaign that still dogs Mr. Obama was a secondary character in news reports, with deep explorations of his background largely confined to liberal blogs.

But an appearance in a documentary-style program on the Fox News Channel watched by three million people last week thrust the man, Andy Martin, and his past into the foreground. The program allowed Mr. Martin to assert falsely and without challenge that Mr. Obama had once trained to overthrow the government.

An examination of legal documents and election filings, along with interviews with his acquaintances, revealed Mr. Martin, 62, to be a man with a history of scintillating if not always factual claims. He has left a trail of animosity — some of it provoked by anti-Jewish comments — among political leaders, lawyers and judges in three states over more than 30 years.

He is a law school graduate, but his admission to the Illinois bar was blocked in the 1970s after a psychiatric finding of “moderately severe character defect manifested by well-documented ideation with a paranoid flavor and a grandiose character.”

Though he is not a lawyer, Mr. Martin went on to become a prodigious filer of lawsuits, and he made unsuccessful attempts to win public office for both parties in three states, as well as for president at least twice, in 1988 and 2000. Based in Chicago, he now identifies himself as a writer who focuses on his anti-Obama Web site and press releases.

Comments

[Nancy]

Why isn't someone suing his lying ass?

[Stitch]

They're getting the rumors into the mainstream with this.

[Dusty]

What up with Burnsville....? residents easily led to fear and utilize prejudice...? Have we stumbled onto the Fountain of Dupe....?

[Skycat]

The Times article should be e-mailed to anyone who has skeptical relatives in south Florida!

[donna]

good grief, these people are idiots. Is this kind of crap cover up for their bigotry, or what?

And I bet she's doing this copying at campaign headquarters and not on her own dime, so the McCain campaign is officially responsible for this shit. Where's her receipts to prove she paid for this copying and mailing? What addresses did she really use?