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2011-10-28 11:58:09 AM
I really wouldnt call Bachmann a major candidate anymore

/DRTFA
 
2011-10-28 11:59:47 AM
Aar1012: I really wouldnt call Bachmann a major candidate anymore

/DRTFA


it's perry.

and the answer is the mainstream media, which does not debunk this stuff because it's too terrified of being called liberal.
 
2011-10-28 12:06:35 PM
WHY WON'T 0BAMA TELL US BOXERS OR BREIFS? IT'S CASUE HE DON'T WANT US TO KNOW HE HAS WEIRD NON-HUMAN GENETALIA!
 
2011-10-28 12:07:01 PM
I read somewhere there's a website that makes up anti-Obama, anti-Democrat rumors and circulates them on the Internet as emails. I've gotten a lot of such emails from more conservative friends and thought they were too good to just be created by some backwoods redneck on their PC.

You know, Weekly World News-quality stuff.

upload.wikimedia.org
 
2011-10-28 12:38:48 PM
As I said in the other thread: It's called desperation. Conservatives have absolutely nothing, so they have to take the Fairytale Train to Magic Town to buy their myths and talking points with whatever magic beans their stupid donors give them.

For most normal, well-adjusted American adults, this would be the point in their lives where they would feel genuinely embarrassed at their antics. For these gibbering basket cases, they're all willing to double-down on the stupid.

You have to laugh at them. They really are that freakin' worthless as candidates.
 
2011-10-28 12:59:28 PM
I'm forwarding a forwarded message...read on, it it works you may get an abortion from 0bama! Certainly "Barry" has enough to share!

I am forwarding this because the person who sent it to me is a good friend and does not send me junk. Planned Parenthood is now the largest abortion company and in an effort make sure that Planned Parenthood remains the most widely used Provider, 0bama and PP are running an e-mail beta test. When you forward this e-mail to friends, 0bama can and will track it (if you are an American citizen) for a two week time period. For every person that you forward this e-mail to, 0bama will pay you $5.00, for every person that you sent it to that forwards it on, 0bama will pay you $3.00 and for every third person that receives it, you will be paid $1.00. Within two weeks, 0bama will contact you for your address and then send you a check. I thought this was a scam myself, but two weeks after receiving this e-mail and forwarding it on, Planned Parenthood contacted me for my e-mail and within days, I received a free abortion!
 
2011-10-28 01:00:34 PM
LOLAPRILFOOLSJOKE
 
2011-10-28 01:06:06 PM
I have been saying for a long time that the Tea Party is made up of people that believe every email they get and pass it on to other as cold hard evidence.

I even made one up and sent it to my aunt about Obama banning guns that had a clip. It was total horseshiat but she forwarded it to everyone in her contact list with a big.. I TOLD YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN!!.
 
2011-10-28 01:06:30 PM
vernonFL: I'm forwarding a forwarded message...read on, it it works you may get an abortion from 0bama! Certainly "Barry" has enough to share!

I am forwarding this because the person who sent it to me is a good friend and does not send me junk. Planned Parenthood is now the largest abortion company and in an effort make sure that Planned Parenthood remains the most widely used Provider, 0bama and PP are running an e-mail beta test. When you forward this e-mail to friends, 0bama can and will track it (if you are an American citizen) for a two week time period. For every person that you forward this e-mail to, 0bama will pay you $5.00, for every person that you sent it to that forwards it on, 0bama will pay you $3.00 and for every third person that receives it, you will be paid $1.00. Within two weeks, 0bama will contact you for your address and then send you a check. I thought this was a scam myself, but two weeks after receiving this e-mail and forwarding it on, Planned Parenthood contacted me for my e-mail and within days, I received a free abortion!


considering adapting this for facebook....hope you don't mind.
it's just too fantastic.
 
2011-10-28 01:08:16 PM
None of those things in the headline have been in the singular sense for quite some time now.

/why enable voting? Well, if the Republicans have their way, this will be all the voting some of us can do.
 
2011-10-28 01:10:06 PM
Can we start a new made up talking point on Fark.com already?

1) Greenlight a discussion/voting thread to come up with the best one(s).
2) Someone throw up a semi-credible looking post on their blog and greenlight the submission.
3) Everyone troll the thread hating on 0bama, leaking the info to some right wing blogs.
4) Wait for it to snowball, get on Fox News/GOP debate.
5) Thank reddit.
 
2011-10-28 01:10:15 PM
You know, sooner or later we're going to have to stop trying to convince these people with words that their conspiracy theories, petty hatreds and right wing talking points have no basis in fact or reality, and move on to convincing them with the backs of our hands. If you get my drift.
 
2011-10-28 01:10:23 PM
Parry is talking shiat about somebody's college grades? Brass balls.
 
2011-10-28 01:12:22 PM
GWLush: I have been saying for a long time that the Tea Party is made up of people that believe every email they get and pass it on to other as cold hard evidence.

Anybody see the Colbert Report from Wed night where the GOP strategist was on explaining how evidence-based arguments should/do not standup to gut feelings?

Seems like a good fit here
 
2011-10-28 01:13:20 PM
Vodka Zombie: As I said in the other thread: It's called desperation. Conservatives have absolutely nothing, so they have to take the Fairytale Train to Magic Town to buy their myths and talking points with whatever magic beans their stupid donors give them.

For most normal, well-adjusted American adults, this would be the point in their lives where they would feel genuinely embarrassed at their antics. For these gibbering basket cases, they're all willing to double-down on the stupid.

You have to laugh at them. They really are that freakin' worthless as candidates.


This reminds me of what Fatbo was saying on the radio today (I occasionally listen in tiny doses). His main points were:

1) if anyone tells you Obama's popularity is improving, don't believe them, because they are lying
2) the only reason the stock market is rebounding is because people are finally, finally beginning to realize that Obama might not be reelected

If you make up your own reality, you are always right in it.
 
2011-10-28 01:14:27 PM
This "rumor" is another part of the grand grades conspiracy, which was also referenced in the above WND article. But it seems to be based on a fake AP story that was originally circulated in a chain e-mail in 2009. Dated April 1st (April Fools' Day), the e-mail subject is "OBAMA - SMOKING GUN FINALLY FOUND?"

God damn these guys are farking morons.
 
2011-10-28 01:14:41 PM
Oh God, these chain letters. They're like the political equivalent of supermarket tabloids. If you actually believe anything in them, you have only yourself to blame when people atart laughing at you.
 
2011-10-28 01:15:21 PM
Perhaps because.... Republican politicians are willing to tell lies to their idiot fans?
 
2011-10-28 01:17:15 PM
Barbigazi: WHY WON'T 0BAMA TELL US BOXERS OR BREIFS? IT'S CASUE HE DON'T WANT US TO KNOW HE HAS WEIRD NON-HUMAN GENETALIA!

Thanks. I almost shot turkey sandwich out of my nose.
 
2011-10-28 01:17:20 PM
vernonFL: I'm forwarding a forwarded message...read on, it it works you may get an abortion from 0bama! Certainly "Barry" has enough to share!

I am forwarding this because the person who sent it to me is a good friend and does not send me junk. Planned Parenthood is now the largest abortion company and in an effort make sure that Planned Parenthood remains the most widely used Provider, 0bama and PP are running an e-mail beta test. When you forward this e-mail to friends, 0bama can and will track it (if you are an American citizen) for a two week time period. For every person that you forward this e-mail to, 0bama will pay you $5.00, for every person that you sent it to that forwards it on, 0bama will pay you $3.00 and for every third person that receives it, you will be paid $1.00. Within two weeks, 0bama will contact you for your address and then send you a check. I thought this was a scam myself, but two weeks after receiving this e-mail and forwarding it on, Planned Parenthood contacted me for my e-mail and within days, I received a free abortion!


You probably should have thrown something in there about "Failure to redeem your free abortion may result in life imprisonment" or something.

/also, 0bama's school records burned up in WTC 7 along with The M00ch's "Kill Whitey" tape
 
2011-10-28 01:18:37 PM
lennavan: Can we start a new made up talking point on Fark.com already?

1) Greenlight a discussion/voting thread to come up with the best one(s).
2) Someone throw up a semi-credible looking post on their blog and greenlight the submission.
3) Everyone troll the thread hating on 0bama, leaking the info to some right wing blogs.
4) Wait for it to snowball, get on Fox News/GOP debate.
5) Thank reddit.


I say we come up with a story that Barry Soetoro Hangten No-sa-rembObama is housing three illegitimate children in the White House. At TAXPAYER EXPENSE!!!!

Believable, unprovable, subject to endless speculation.

Who's with me?
 
2011-10-28 01:18:43 PM
I think the only thing Obama is likely to release is a can of whoop-ass in the general election.
 
2011-10-28 01:18:49 PM
30.media.tumblr.com
 
2011-10-28 01:19:07 PM
Just one? Several chain emails have ended up major GOP talking points.
 
MFL
2011-10-28 01:20:05 PM
Didn't one of these things ruin Dan Rather's career?
 
2011-10-28 01:20:23 PM
monoski: GWLush: I have been saying for a long time that the Tea Party is made up of people that believe every email they get and pass it on to other as cold hard evidence.

Anybody see the Colbert Report from Wed night where the GOP strategist was on explaining how evidence-based arguments should/do not standup to gut feelings?

Seems like a good fit here



Also appropriate:

Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable, he might damage GOP chances of capturing the Senate: Republican successes down the ticket will depend on the energies of the tea party and other conservatives, who will be deflated by a nominee whose blurry profile in caution communicates only calculated trimming. Republicans may have found their Michael Dukakis, a technocratic Massachusetts governor who takes his bearings from 'data' ... Has conservatism come so far, surmounting so many obstacles, to settle, at a moment of economic crisis, for THIS?

/You know who else took his bearings from Data?

zillowzollo.files.wordpress.com
 
2011-10-28 01:21:08 PM
because the GOP is representative of its constituents who are a bunch of xenophobic, racist idiots.
 
2011-10-28 01:22:57 PM
GWLush: I have been saying for a long time that the Tea Party is made up of people that believe every email they get and pass it on to other as cold hard evidence.

I even made one up and sent it to my aunt about Obama banning guns that had a clip. It was total horseshiat but she forwarded it to everyone in her contact list with a big.. I TOLD YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN!!.


Here is the opportunity: Make up one that uses all the familiar buzzwords, but have it say that there is clear evidence that [insert wing-nut talking point here] is not true, that [insert reasonable premise here] is the fact. Dress it up just like one of those chain emails (and put a whole raft of evidence that it's been forwarded all over the place), put a lot of familiar outrage in it, send it off to your out-there relatives, and see if you can create a whole new right-wing meme that actually veers toward sanity. This form of "news" dissemination can be used for good! Repurpose!
 
2011-10-28 01:25:08 PM
Are we trying to get Fark to end up on Snopes again, related to the president?
 
2011-10-28 01:25:39 PM
Still waiting for a presidential candidate to refer to him as Fartbongo.
 
2011-10-28 01:25:47 PM
Crapinoleum: GWLush: I have been saying for a long time that the Tea Party is made up of people that believe every email they get and pass it on to other as cold hard evidence.

I even made one up and sent it to my aunt about Obama banning guns that had a clip. It was total horseshiat but she forwarded it to everyone in her contact list with a big.. I TOLD YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN!!.

Here is the opportunity: Make up one that uses all the familiar buzzwords, but have it say that there is clear evidence that [insert wing-nut talking point here] is not true, that [insert reasonable premise here] is the fact. Dress it up just like one of those chain emails (and put a whole raft of evidence that it's been forwarded all over the place), put a lot of familiar outrage in it, send it off to your out-there relatives, and see if you can create a whole new right-wing meme that actually veers toward sanity. This form of "news" dissemination can be used for good! Repurpose!


don't forget to change up your font colors and sizes for no good reason. use Comic Sans.
 
2011-10-28 01:31:41 PM
lennavan: Can we start a new made up talking point on Fark.com already?

1) Greenlight a discussion/voting thread to come up with the best one(s).
2) Someone throw up a semi-credible looking post on their blog and greenlight the submission.
3) Everyone troll the thread hating on 0bama, leaking the info to some right wing blogs.
4) Wait for it to snowball, get on Fox News/GOP debate.
5) Thank reddit.


Obama is preparing to take all the troops currently in Iraq and station them in Israel. He's planning on forcibly dividing Jerusalem in half to give half to his rich Palestinian Muslim allies in exchange for their support in the 2012 elections. The fifth column in the already left-wing media has already begun reporting bogus polls indicating an increased popularity so the election fraud won't be as obvious.
 
2011-10-28 01:34:02 PM
Crapinoleum: Here is the opportunity: Make up one that uses all the familiar buzzwords, but have it say that there is clear evidence that [insert wing-nut talking point here] is not true, that [insert reasonable premise here] is the fact. Dress it up just like one of those chain emails (and put a whole raft of evidence that it's been forwarded all over the place), put a lot of familiar outrage in it, send it off to your out-there relatives, and see if you can create a whole new right-wing meme that actually veers toward sanity. This form of "news" dissemination can be used for good! Repurpose!


...and don't forget to say "Snopes checked this out and says it's all true!", even though we're just now making it all up.
 
2011-10-28 01:36:51 PM
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2011-10-28 01:39:42 PM
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Yessir, the check is in the mail.
 
2011-10-28 01:40:38 PM
lennavan: Can we start a new made up talking point on Fark.com already?

1) Greenlight a discussion/voting thread to come up with the best one(s).
2) Someone throw up a semi-credible looking post on their blog and greenlight the submission.
3) Everyone troll the thread hating on 0bama, leaking the info to some right wing blogs.
4) Wait for it to snowball, get on Fox News/GOP debate.
5) Thank reddit.


I thought we already did this with a certain media "personality"'s alleged dalliances with a dodecally-aged female.

// as I recall, the Fun Police put a stop to it
// brb, black-clad modmins at the door
 
2011-10-28 01:41:28 PM
lennavan: Can we start a new made up talking point on Fark.com already?

1) Greenlight a discussion/voting thread to come up with the best one(s).
2) Someone throw up a semi-credible looking post on their blog and greenlight the submission.
3) Everyone troll the thread hating on 0bama, leaking the info to some right wing blogs.
4) Wait for it to snowball, get on Fox News/GOP debate.
5) Thank reddit.


I'd love to see this.
 
2011-10-28 01:45:14 PM
vernonFL: I'm forwarding a forwarded message...read on, it it works you may get an abortion from 0bama! Certainly "Barry" has enough to share!

I am forwarding this because the person who sent it to me is a good friend and does not send me junk. Planned Parenthood is now the largest abortion company and in an effort make sure that Planned Parenthood remains the most widely used Provider, 0bama and PP are running an e-mail beta test. When you forward this e-mail to friends, 0bama can and will track it (if you are an American citizen) for a two week time period. For every person that you forward this e-mail to, 0bama will pay you $5.00, for every person that you sent it to that forwards it on, 0bama will pay you $3.00 and for every third person that receives it, you will be paid $1.00. Within two weeks, 0bama will contact you for your address and then send you a check. I thought this was a scam myself, but two weeks after receiving this e-mail and forwarding it on, Planned Parenthood contacted me for my e-mail and within days, I received a free abortion!


It happens!

President Obama's aides today are preparing an executive order that would bring state national guard units under the direct control of the federal government with zero input from State governments. This means that Obama has control over local security forces who no longer are accountable to citizens of there states. One can only wonder what the purpose of such an order is but the implications are huge. Obama may now enforce his unconstitutional regime by boots and guns.

Contact your congresman and let them know you won't stand for this kind of government control! As always be prepared to defend your own rights! Pass this on so we can wake up as many people as possible!

//How's that? I tried to throw in subtle spelling and grammar mistakes to make it more believable.
 
2011-10-28 01:51:47 PM
phaseolus: Crapinoleum: Here is the opportunity: Make up one that uses all the familiar buzzwords, but have it say that there is clear evidence that [insert wing-nut talking point here] is not true, that [insert reasonable premise here] is the fact. Dress it up just like one of those chain emails (and put a whole raft of evidence that it's been forwarded all over the place), put a lot of familiar outrage in it, send it off to your out-there relatives, and see if you can create a whole new right-wing meme that actually veers toward sanity. This form of "news" dissemination can be used for good! Repurpose!


...and don't forget to say "Snopes checked this out and says it's all true!", even though we're just now making it all up.


My favorites are the ones that reference or link to a source that says the exact opposite of what the email says.
 
2011-10-28 01:55:58 PM
GWLush: I have been saying for a long time that the Tea Party is made up of people that believe every email they get and pass it on to other as cold hard evidence.

I even made one up and sent it to my aunt about Obama banning guns that had a clip. It was total horseshiat but she forwarded it to everyone in her contact list with a big.. I TOLD YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN!!.


repeat after me: "It's true, I know so because I read it on the internet"
 
2011-10-28 02:00:01 PM
I was going to make a joke about going after his drawings from kindergarten, but then I remembered Hillary already did that during the primaries.
 
2011-10-28 02:02:46 PM
palelizard: lennavan: Can we start a new made up talking point on Fark.com already?

1) Greenlight a discussion/voting thread to come up with the best one(s).
2) Someone throw up a semi-credible looking post on their blog and greenlight the submission.
3) Everyone troll the thread hating on 0bama, leaking the info to some right wing blogs.
4) Wait for it to snowball, get on Fox News/GOP debate.
5) Thank reddit.

Obama is preparing to take all the troops currently in Iraq and station them in Israel. He's planning on forcibly dividing Jerusalem in half to give half to his rich Palestinian Muslim allies in exchange for their support in the 2012 elections. The fifth column in the already left-wing media has already begun reporting bogus polls indicating an increased popularity so the election fraud won't be as obvious.


I know, I know, I heard all about this from El Fatbo today!
 
2011-10-28 02:02:47 PM
GWLush: I have been saying for a long time that the Tea Party is made up of people that believe every email they get and pass it on to other as cold hard evidence.

Back when Joe Miller was running for Senator from Alaska, Rachel Maddow traveled up there to interview some of the Miller supporters who were holding a mini-protest outside Murkowski's office.

"What is your issue with Lisa Murkowski?"

"She voted to confirm Eric Holder, and he and Obama are trying to take away our guns!"

"How do you know that? Have they done anything that would indicate they are trying to clamp down on gun ownership?"

"They just are. You know they are."

"What evidence do you have?"

"Just go on the Internet."

Absolute farking sheep.
 
2011-10-28 02:02:48 PM
monoski: GWLush: I have been saying for a long time that the Tea Party is made up of people that believe every email they get and pass it on to other as cold hard evidence.

Anybody see the Colbert Report from Wed night where the GOP strategist was on explaining how evidence-based arguments should/do not standup to gut feelings?

Seems like a good fit here


It was a nice companion piece to the one Daily Show did that night where Aasif Mandvi interviewed Republican strategist Noelle Nikpour about science and global warming. She explained that Americans have a "gut feeling" that scientists are skewing numbers because "scientists are the only ones qualified to comment on scientific theories." Mandvi brought it to the next logical step and got her to agree that it was ridiculous that surgeons were the only ones qualified to recommend and perform surgeries.

Bonus points to Mandvi for asking a Nobel prize winner "How are you different from a rapist?" The reply should be used for so many more Conservative "issues."

/"Am I really supposed to answer this?!"
 
2011-10-28 02:02:49 PM
palelizard: lennavan: Can we start a new made up talking point on Fark.com already?

1) Greenlight a discussion/voting thread to come up with the best one(s).
2) Someone throw up a semi-credible looking post on their blog and greenlight the submission.
3) Everyone troll the thread hating on 0bama, leaking the info to some right wing blogs.
4) Wait for it to snowball, get on Fox News/GOP debate.
5) Thank reddit.

Obama is preparing to take all the troops currently in Iraq and station them in Israel. He's planning on forcibly dividing Jerusalem in half to give half to his rich Palestinian Muslim allies in exchange for their support in the 2012 elections. The fifth column in the already left-wing media has already begun reporting bogus polls indicating an increased popularity so the election fraud won't be as obvious.


I like this one. I've got a teabagger friend (known him forever , used to be the exact opposite) that tries to say Barry Sotero has us in 4 wars (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Sudan) totally ignoring any facts as they pertain to each situation. He would totally believe this and spread to other teabaggers he knows.
 
2011-10-28 02:08:10 PM
Better yet, list things that Reagan actually did as things Obama is planning to do.
 
2011-10-28 02:18:35 PM
Lunchlady: President Obama's aides today are preparing an executive order that would bring state national guard units under the direct control of the federal government with zero input from State governments. This means that Obama has control over local security forces who no longer are accountable to citizens of there states. One can only wonder what the purpose of such an order is but the implications are huge. Obama may now enforce his unconstitutional regime by boots and guns.

Contact your congresman and let them know you won't stand for this kind of government control! As always be prepared to defend your own rights! Pass this on so we can wake up as many people as possible!


That's a pretty good one.
 
2011-10-28 02:19:31 PM
Uchiha_Cycliste: GWLush: I have been saying for a long time that the Tea Party is made up of people that believe every email they get and pass it on to other as cold hard evidence.

I even made one up and sent it to my aunt about Obama banning guns that had a clip. It was total horseshiat but she forwarded it to everyone in her contact list with a big.. I TOLD YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN!!.

repeat after me: "It's true, I know so because I read it on the internet"


Or in other words: "Garbage in, gospel out."
 
2011-10-28 02:22:46 PM
The GOP's long running whispering campaign of chain e-mails is one of the most evil, insidious and effective things they've ever done.

/The only things the GOP are good at doing are bad things.
 
2011-10-28 02:26:04 PM
Can we get a chain email started about how Obama is planning to have his ACORN cronies surveil the polling places on election day so they can put all Republican voters put into FEMA death camps?
 
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