CJ Summers feels the same way I do about some bogus emails making the rounds.
I got that very email from my aunt in Minnesota a few weeks back, and answered with some links disproving the email. Sadly, I got back not one, but TWO ridiculous responses from other recipients of the original email.
One said, “…it is SO true…were you there to see him swear in?” and the other said, “if you don’t like it, don’t read it. Whether it’s true or not is not the issue, it’s how many people we can make THINK it’s true.”   The first one was from an idiot. Plain and simple. But the second one was much more frightening. Honest enough to admit it was an intentional smear campaign. I had to check the address to see if the name “Rove” wasn’t somewhere in there.
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jenjw4
// Feb 12, 2008 at 8:43 am
That is really appalling, and you are right, scary. And sad. And ignorant.
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reno
// Feb 12, 2008 at 9:42 am
Y’know, the next American civil war will undoubtedly fall along ideological fault lines.
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vonster
// Feb 12, 2008 at 10:07 am
Beej won’t admit he knows most of the nasty anti-Obama stuff is coming from the Clinton camp.
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NewsAnchorMom
// Feb 13, 2008 at 7:18 pm
I get a lot of these emails at the station. I have just gotten in the habit of deleting everything that says “forward” on it. When I cam back from maternity leave, I had 3100 emails in my inbox, many of them were political in nature and that was several months ago.
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Anon E. Mouse
// Feb 13, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Vonster is, again, correct.
I’ve been sending out my corrections on these, when I get them. I’ve had a few of the same ignorant remarks. It is super-stupid. False-Authority Syndrome is a dangerous thing.
It is also amazing what people will believe without checking it out for themselves.
I am not likely to vote for Mr. Obama, but I am not going to watch his character be assassinated in such a manner, either. Especially when you are just a few clicks away from checking something like this out.
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bjstone
// Feb 13, 2008 at 8:44 pm
“vonster is, again, correct”. Now that made me laugh out loud. I can count on one hand the times Vonster has been “correct”…and they all happen when he agrees with one of my driving rants. Other than that…um, no.
Mouse and Vonster miss the point…AGAIN. It’s not WHO puts it out I’m complaining about, it is the fact that there are two groups of idiots out there: A) the ones who actually think this crap is true and B) the ones who know it’s false but don’t care as long as there are people in Group A out there.
For the record, I have no idea about the source of these bogus emails, but I would be somewhat surprised if they came from the Clinton camp. It would be STUPID for the Clintons to do this, and one thing we should ALL agree on: the Clinton’s are NOT stupid.
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vonster
// Feb 14, 2008 at 7:56 am
Oh Beej…[face palm]
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Anon E. Mouse
// Feb 15, 2008 at 6:57 pm
Let’s break it down, shall we?
After intimating that Karl Rove might have been involved, BJ sez: “For the record, I have no idea about the source of these bogus emails,”
Then BJ has the audacity to sez: “I would be somewhat surprised if they came from the Clinton camp. It would be STUPID for the Clintons to do this, and one thing we should ALL agree on: the Clinton’s are NOT stupid.”
I sez: really?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/10/second-clinton-volunteer-_n_76047.html
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Anon E. Mouse
// Feb 15, 2008 at 7:00 pm
I meant to also add…
BJ sez: “the Clinton’s are NOT stupid”
I sez: Name one Presidential candidate (who’s initials are HRC) that votes for the invasion of Iraq? Now, in your opinion, was that smart or stupid?
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reno
// Feb 18, 2008 at 9:27 am
Is this a concession that the Republicans are stupid?
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