“if this is right it is dishonest to blame it on Obama.”
True.
It’s like that story about Hanoi Jane and the POWs. I haven’t heard it repeated since it was shown to be false. That’s because conservatives do not knowingly repeat such falsehoods.
Not too long ago I fell for a Civil War hoax and posted it. An “Enslavement Proclamation” issued by Jeff Davis in reply to Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.
In my partial defense, it was a contemporary hoax, printed by the 1863 equivalent of The Onion, so the language used was pretty close.
But I posted a retraction as soon as I found out the truth, and I certainly wouldn’t repeat it.