Election-season mass DVD distribution delivered anti-Muslim propaganda to swing voters

Evidence

Only weeks before the presidential election of 2008, 100 newspapers and magazines across the country distributed millions of DVDs of a documentary entitled “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War against the West,” in Sunday editions, and 28 million more DVDs were mailed directly to voters in swing states. The film has also been repeatedly shown on Fox News TV. In lurid and alarming scenes, the film (distributed by an otherwise unknown organization called the Clarion Fund, Inc.) bluntly intercut images of Muslims and Nazis to make the point that they are basically the same. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 30

Categorization

• SHARE: For someone tracking media manipulation or election advertising — the Clarion Fund’s 28 million swing-state DVDs is a striking niche data point.
• XREF: Links to the moral-panic motif of Nazi-equation rhetoric, paralleling other manufactured panics and their dehumanizing image tactics. — connects to: Twenty-eight million swing-state voters received an anti-Islam DVD in 2008. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 766