Jon Snow: No one could have seen this coming.

Great job.

Let's face it -- had these words been attributed to any other person on Earth, they would have been dismissed as a reporting error right out of the gate.

Let's face it, anyone that read your original article and believed you had the facts of Gore's speech right the first time is as big a biased idiot as you are.

I'm just kicking myself that I never thought of "American Stinker" before.

+1, subby

Shatner's Bassoon: Let's face it -- had these words been attributed to any other person on Earth, they would have been dismissed as a reporting error right out of the gate.

Let's face it, anyone that read your original article and believed you had the facts of Gore's speech right the first time is as big a biased idiot as you are.

This reminds me of Limbaugh getting punked by that fake "thesis" Obama was supposed to have written: respond to totally farking up by saying "But that's what they meant!"

The right-wing press is garbage.

Jon Snow: No one could have seen this coming.

Debunked before it even sniffed totalfark, and yet, still greenlit. You bastard.

but we know he thinks it...

I, like Jon Snow, was right in the previous thread.

Score for us pointing out the inevitably obvious.

Wow. A conservative actually admitted a mistake.

Cue his expulsion from the Republican party in 5... 4... 3...

Jon Snow: No one could have seen this coming.

I did too

"He didn't say any of this, but I bet liberals would believe him if he did, so he might as well have said it."

jake3988: I, like Jon Snow, was right in the previous thread.

Hobodeluxe: I did too

I was by no means the only person who called BS on it- hell, I wasn't even the first.

I do love, though, how the farktard author of TFA tries to blame Gore for it. It's the old, "Well, if her skirt wasn't so short, she wouldn't have gotten raped" defense.

Oh noes, it might cost 3% of the GDP to potentially save the world! That's way too much! Superheroes do it for free! If it's real, we can just get Superman to use his ice-breath on the world.

Well of course it's Gore's fault. The typo appeared on the Arab web site, Gore invented the Internet, therefore it's all his fault. American Thinker is blameless and virtuous.

Hehehe... I always call it "American Stinker" in my mind. Nice job, subby.

Jon Snow

More like the "Well, she was wearing pants but if she had been wearing a skirt it would've been too short so she deserved it."

I just want to tell you all, "Good luck. We're counting on you."

American Stinker, Submitter?



"I guess now we know what kind of dog he is. A "melancollie". [no response]

Oh wait. I should have said "chi wa-wa". [still no response]

I don't have to farking impress you people."

LOL BOTH SIDES R SAME!

But don't worry, somehow this asinine pile of tripe is okay because of Soros or Air America or MSNBC or the farking tooth fairy having a "lie-beral" bias and doesn't count in the general position that the right is a pack of fringe nutjob liars.

And if that were not the case, that is okay because everyone is actually a Fark Independent™ and stands for "True conservatism" and bootstrappiness and freedom and not trusting The Gubbmint to do anything and letting the invisible hand of the market take care of pollution and global warming.

Also, gravity is a theory.

And so the search continues for something so outrageously stupid that right wingers won't believe it. . .

Shatner's Bassoon: Let's face it -- had these words been attributed to any other person on Earth, they would have been dismissed as a reporting error right out of the gate.

Let's face it, anyone that read your original article and believed you had the facts of Gore's speech right the first time is as big a biased idiot as you are.


THIS. I remember a few of them debating Jon Snow in thet original thread.

I don't need to name them -- after all, they wouldn't slink away -- they're real men who will no doubt be appearing in this thread any minute now to redeem themselves by offering their apologies... right?

jake_lex: This reminds me of Limbaugh getting punked by that fake "thesis" Obama was supposed to have written: respond to totally farking up by saying "But that's what they meant!"

Came in here to say this.

jake_lex: The right-wing press is garbage.

Yep.

rackrent: I'm just kicking myself that I never thought of "American Stinker" before.

+1, subby

Agreed.

I've always thought that "American Thinker" is an incredibly arrogant name. It's basically saying that it's word is the gospel, it has a monopoly on what it means to be American. And the implication is that if you disagree with American Thinker, then by definition you are anti-American.

fifth_of_november: I've always thought that "American Thinker" is an incredibly arrogant name. It's basically saying that it's word is the gospel, it has a monopoly on what it means to be American. And the implication is that if you disagree with American Thinker, then by definition you are anti-American.

This might be true if they had any credibility....

You'd think that a website who publishes the work of such intelligent patriots would have a logo and name that wasn't so obviously derivative of the work of a French sculptor.

Jon Snow: No one could have seen this coming.

To be fair, it wasn't exactly a tough call. I've been pretty open in my low estimation of Gore's truthfulness and grasp of science and statistics, and that story still kinda struck me as either purposeful fabrication or someone jumping on a quote that someone else fabricated.

fifth_of_november: rackrent: I'm just kicking myself that I never thought of "American Stinker" before.

+1, subby

Agreed.

I've always thought that "American Thinker" is an incredibly arrogant name. It's basically saying that it's word is the gospel, it has a monopoly on what it means to be American. And the implication is that if you disagree with American Thinker, then by definition you are anti-American.

Its like calling yourself 'Fair and Balanced.'

I think the quality of Conservative publications greenlighted on Fark is very telling. Is there really a greenlit left wing equivalent to Fox, American Thinker, Hot Air, NRO, NYPOST, News Busters, Michelle Malkin etc. as far as bias and crappy journalistic standards go?
To push the flakey and contradictory GOP talking points the writing needs to be emotive and ignorant to history.

Not gonna give them the click, but let me guess...Something along the lines of, "It had the ring of truth about it"?

phaseolus: I don't need to name them

I will.

muck4doo (shocking, I know)
nicksteel
jjorsett (is he ever right?)
muad dib (another shocker)
mfaby (this is turning into a regular axis of stupid)
JQPublic (another 'tard)
tony41454
saturn5

There are also people in that thread arguing against climate change, but these are some of the people who insist that Al Gore made the sea level claim.

Kazuya: I think the quality of Conservative publications greenlighted on Fark is very telling. Is there really a greenlit left wing equivalent to Fox, American Thinker, Hot Air, NRO, NYPOST, News Busters, Michelle Malkin etc. as far as bias and crappy journalistic standards go?

Kos is regularly greenlit, and it's in American Thinker/News Busters territory most of the time. And I see HuffPo still 'lighted sometimes. Plus plenty of lefty bloggers of Malkin magnitude that randomly pop up.

NRO is harder... maybe Hillaryis44? They were pretty nuts, and got lighted every other damn link during the election.

Anyhow, the short answer is: Yes, of course there is.
In fact, this is the internet, so the full answer is: Yes, and there's also porn of it.

Kazuya: I think the quality of Conservative publications greenlighted on Fark is very telling. Is there really a greenlit left wing equivalent to Fox, American Thinker, Hot Air, NRO, NYPOST, News Busters, Michelle Malkin etc. as far as bias and crappy journalistic standards go?
To push the flakey and contradictory GOP talking points the writing needs to be emotive and ignorant to history.

The auto-response answer to that is Daily Kos, always Daily Kos.

However, some people will claim that Daily is equal to all those sources combined, and even worse somehow.

False but accurate! FALSE BUT ACCURATE!

Jim_Callahan: Kos is regularly greenlit, and it's in American Thinker/News Busters territory most of the time.

KOS tends it link to their sources and does a pretty fair job of self policing the unsupported claims. Can you find crazy on KOS? Sure because literally anyone can get a KOS account and start posting but unsupported crazy doesn't frequently make it to the recommended list.

I'd pay real money to an organisation which gives cockpunches to people who write articles with bold emphasis dabbled throughout.

The bold lies bug me more than the bold type.

Kazuya: I think the quality of Conservative publications greenlighted on Fark is very telling. Is there really a greenlit left wing equivalent to Fox, American Thinker, Hot Air, NRO, NYPOST, News Busters, Michelle Malkin etc. as far as bias and crappy journalistic standards go?
To push the flakey and contradictory GOP talking points the writing needs to be emotive and ignorant to history.

That's a good point. Although there are occasional links from LGF, which is surprisingly wharrgarble-free. And there are some WSJ links that are good reading from time to time, though the potential for wharrgarble is fairly high.

But mostly, I think the mods like to greenlight fairly trollish headlines and then sit back and laugh as the usual suspects collectively lose their shiat. And let's face it, it is rather fun to watch.

So basically what they're saying is, "The fact that our readers are stupid enough to believe us is validation that their stupidity is justified."

Like, "Oh sure, so it turns out that the Earth isn't really flat. But the fact that our readers were willing to believe that it was is proof that this whole round Earth theory hasn't made its case."

No one at American Thinker thought that claim might be even just a little ridiculous? 220 feet rise in sea level?

Psst! American Thinker, word is that Glenn Beck won't address allegations that he raped and murdered a girl in 1990.

schrodinger: So basically what they're saying is, "The fact that our readers are stupid enough to believe us is validation that their stupidity is justified."

Like, "Oh sure, so it turns out that the Earth isn't really flat. But the fact that our readers were willing to believe that it was is proof that this whole round Earth theory hasn't made its case."

Al Gore can use that same justification. Sweet.

fifth_of_november: rackrent: I'm just kicking myself that I never thought of "American Stinker" before.

+1, subby

Agreed.

I've always thought that "American Thinker" is an incredibly arrogant name. It's basically saying that it's word is the gospel, it has a monopoly on what it means to be American. And the implication is that if you disagree with American Thinker, then by definition you are anti-American.

As have I when happening upon names like "Real Clear Politics," "American Thinker" and "Talking Points Memo"

Or Fox "News."

nicksteel: Al Gore can use that same justification. Sweet.

The understanding we've gained from over 120 years worth of research is equivalent to "Some people believe this, therefore it's real to us damn it"? I think I just located your disconnect from reality.

/one of them at any rate

Gore may have never claimed this, but I distinctly remember the environmental movement saying New York City would be under water by the year 2000 if we didn't do something drastic NOW. This was on Earth Day weekend back in 1988 or 89. I remember it so well because as an impressionable & naive 12 year old it scared the hell out of me (which was the point, as I know now). Ted Danson was the one who said this on the Earth Day special on TV.

Well, we didn't do anything drastic then and NYC is still here. And people wonder why some of us call BS on the whole Global Warming alarmism.

glassa: Gore may have never claimed this, but I distinctly remember the environmental movement saying New York City would be under water by the year 2000 if we didn't do something drastic NOW. This was on Earth Day weekend back in 1988 or 89. I remember it so well because as an impressionable & naive 12 year old it scared the hell out of me (which was the point, as I know now). Ted Danson was the one who said this on the Earth Day special on TV.

Well, we didn't do anything drastic then and NYC is still here. And people wonder why some of us call BS on the whole Global Warming alarmism.

Yes I'm sure that all happened.

glassa: Gore may have never claimed this, but I distinctly remember the environmental movement saying New York City would be under water by the year 2000 if we didn't do something drastic NOW. This was on Earth Day weekend back in 1988 or 89. I remember it so well because as an impressionable & naive 12 year old it scared the hell out of me (which was the point, as I know now). Ted Danson was the one who said this on the Earth Day special on TV.

Well, we didn't do anything drastic then and NYC is still here. And people wonder why some of us call BS on the whole Global Warming alarmism.

Scientific predictions change as the people making them receive more and better information?! Ted Danson isn't a climate scientist?!

Now I KNOW you're shiatting me!

jake_lex: Shatner's Bassoon: Let's face it -- had these words been attributed to any other person on Earth, they would have been dismissed as a reporting error right out of the gate.

Let's face it, anyone that read your original article and believed you had the facts of Gore's speech right the first time is as big a biased idiot as you are.

This reminds me of Limbaugh getting punked by that fake "thesis" Obama was supposed to have written: respond to totally farking up by saying "But that's what they meant!"

The right-wing press is garbage.

Bzzt. Wrong. I wasn't even listening, but I caught on the minute I saw the headline on Fark. He was punking you freaks who made up racist quotes about him and then claimed "we know he feels this way" when it was proven that the quotes were fake.
He did the exact same thing with Obama that was done to him. And it was all just to tweak people & see how gullibile they were. And you bought it hook, line & sinker.

This happened a week or two after the whole fake quote thing. How could you not see it for what it was??? Seemed pretty damn obvious to me and all I saw was the Fark headline! I saw the headline, then all the responses & laughed at how gullible people are.

fifth_of_november: jake_lex: This reminds me of Limbaugh getting punked by that fake "thesis" Obama was supposed to have written: respond to totally farking up by saying "But that's what they meant!"

Came in here to say this.

AGain, it should've been obvious that YOU were the one being punked when he said "we know he thinks it" which was the EXACT same thing you people said about him when the racist quotes were proven to be fake. This was only a week or two after that incident. Are you really that gullible about anything that's not liberal? YOU were the one who was punked. He was illustrating your absurdity by doing the exact same thing you did.

The SAME EXACT thing. And you bought it.