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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster
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To: Bill who wrote (60509)11/20/2011 7:36:50 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 103300
 
Re: "It's just a push back on the media that refuses to cover stories that cast a negative light on liberals."

(You fall comfortably into Ari's exact meme for explaining why this is going on.)

I think he had the best explanation for this phenomena of masses of mostly demonstrably false claims being spread virally via no-or-low-cost email:

Perhaps the best theory comes from Ari Fleischer, who served as Bush’s first press secretary. Fleischer points out that conservatives traditionally mistrust mainstream news. E-mail is another way for them to put out their own messages, countering the perceived biases of traditional media sources, he says. “If you believe the liberal media is covering up,” Fleischer explains, then you might be more susceptible to believe and pass on an outrageous e-mail.

Re: "And while a lot of the emails are indeed false, the majority are true."

Nonpartisan debunkers such as FactCheck.org, Snopes.com, PolitiFact.com, Emery and The Washington Post’s Fact Checker have ACTUALLY bothered to keep track and COUNT these chain-emails for many years now... so they have some hard numbers to turn to.

Do you? (Or is it just that you feel that way?)
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