'Morning Joe' crew debunks viral e-mail slamming Obama on troops

Transcript
JOE SCARBOROUGH: There is an e-mail that I've gotten probably a hundred times since Obama has gotten back from Europe and from Iraq and Afghanistan, talking about him dissing troops. And it's supposedly written by this, this soldier. And, I don't know, it smells fishy to me and-- but that's the problem with the Internet. You talk about how campaigns have changed. And now you can put a lie on the Internet, push send, and soon 3, 4 million, 5 million people have read this lie and they believe it.

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: You can smear somebody in a matter of seconds.

PETER HAMMILL: [...] It's not journalism, it's therapy. [...]
(MSNBC, "Morning Joe" 07/30/08, 8:01am)

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[ILUVFUNKEYS345]

The McCain camp is sending the Emails

[gamefan101]

i agree msnbc should be cancled their ratings are way under fox news

[beethovenqueen]

It's the nature of MSNBC to "smear people within seconds", don't care what it does to the country as a whole, I I I, because it's not journalism, it's therapy (then very telling) THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT HOW MUCH DAMAGE IT DOES TO US (get it - US!!) Who's I I I here??? MSNBC - THE WORST!