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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
There's enough bait in here to open up a tackle shop. Keep it civil.
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Except that I was in fact fishing.
You see there are two things about my 'story' which do need to be looked at. One is the date it came out, December 24, not a big news day. Its quite possible that such a story with nothing but allegations would be ignored on xmass eve.
There is another more pressing issue, and that is the source. Its not the source I got it from, but the original source it came from.
Newsmax.com
Newsmax is a far right site that, while at a higher level of truth than the ironically named 'truthout.com', will still take the first pro-right piece or factoid that comes it without without even a simple fact check. More than once, back when I used to visit them on a regular basis, I'd see a story that would just 'disappear' when the facts didn't measure up to reality, with no explanation as to where they went. This included the doctored JFKerry photo where he is next to Hanoi Jane giving a speech (the real one is just him in the background with Hanoi Jane sitting on the grass as some such gathering, and I have to wonder if the 'fake' one was put out there to cover for the real more tame version) and another was in 2001 when there was a claim that Bush did in fact win the popular vote apparently someone added wrong and they went with his claim.
I thought it would be fun to compare peoples reaction to this and the wonderful truthout threads and other such threads which have graced theses forums as of late. I did some minor fact checking on the story, and what they claimed did seem to be true, but its not like I dug deep into a three week old story. Apparently all that matters is if you are voted for a turd sandwhich or a giant dueche when it comes to accepting content as worthy of discussion.
After all we all know the press is in fact biased to the left as scientifically proven by UCLA (hehehe) but I can't imagine them all ignoring a story if it were in fact a major story, they haven't tried that since the devil in the blue dress showed her head.