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Krakowiak (275 posts) Tue Apr-05-11 03:56 PMOriginal message Seriously? 249 Recs for a hoax? I've been here 7 years and not once thought to post an OP, but someone has to do it. This thread here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph... Is an EMBARRASSMENT to DU. As many have attempted to point out, only to be swept downstream into the raging current of outrage and recommending, this is a HOAX. The website that originally published the article http://www.redesign.rumormiller.com currently has on its frontpage other "true" stories such as: Westboro Baptist Church Protests Ewok Funeral & Goldman Sachs CEO Commits Ritualistic Suicide.This is the equivalent of having people respond seriously to an article from the Onion.I know that people are busy. I also suspect that this phony article isn't so far off from how politicians from both sides of the aisle look upon most of our population as a whole. But please, take a few minutes to try to verify a story such as this when it gets posted. Or, in this case, simply read through some of the replies trying to call attention to the mistake.When we post articles like this and blindly recommend, we come off no better than those at those 'other' sites posting 'evidence' of Barack Obama's 'Kenyan Birth Certificate', etc...We don't need made up articles to prove how despicable people like John Boehner are. There is plenty of actual, verifiable evidence that demonstrates it beyond a doubt.
Drale (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-05-11 03:57 PMResponse to Original message 1. I think that shows that Tea baggers are so crazy that it is nearly impossible to tell when something is a joke and when its not.
drm604 (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-05-11 03:59 PMResponse to Reply #1 2. Poe's law at work. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poes_law
gratuitous (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-05-11 04:01 PMResponse to Reply #1 5. Gee, who would ever think . . . To make up a story about John Boehner drinking to excess? Or saying reprehensible things about "the little people"? It's just so, uhm, unbelievable that it's amazing anyone would even think of such a tale. As children's book author Patricia Polacco tells about her Nana, who was quite a story-teller: The grandkids would listen, goggle-eyed, as Nana spun out a story. At the end, one of them would ask Nana if the story was true. "Of course it's true!" Nana would say in mock indignation. "It just may not have happened."I'll put the Boehner story in the same category.
Bunny, I was just about to bring that over. What dumbasses. They weren't apologetic or embarrassed or anything. Same reaction as when they plagairize. "Oh well."
JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-05-11 04:05 PMResponse to Original message 12. Your concern is duly noted... eom
Krakowiak (281 posts) Tue Apr-05-11 04:08 PMResponse to Reply #12 15. Yep, you got me.. I've been waiting 7 years to unveil myself as a right wing troll.. your concern over my concern is duly noted.. thanks for the code words.
JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Tue Apr-05-11 04:10 PMResponse to Reply #15 19. LOL! I never said such a thing!Whatever.
bunkerbuster1 (1000+ posts) Thu Jun-08-06 12:11 PMOriginal message What is a "concern troll?" I recently used that term and got a thumbs-up from a fellow DUer who had, apparently, never heard it before.It's not necessarily in common parlance, but I think it ought to be.Here's some instances of its usage, from Kos:http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/5/23/23539/8255 and I'll quote:"I am a lifelong Democrat but I just feel the party is being damaged by association with Howard Dean/Russ Feingold/DailyKos""I don't know why you're so upset. I only called you a big-assed whore because I'm so worried about your health."I thought the term deserved a DU thread of its own. Can you come up with a really solid definition of your own? Here's the best I can do on the fly:Concern Troll (n): One who professes complete faith in the progressive cause, who deliberately works to destroy it by claiming falsely that our displays of courage and strength are actually a weakness.Anyone got anything better?
"I don't know why you're so upset. I only called you a big-assed whore because I'm so worried about your health."
Krakowiak When we post articles like this and blindly recommend, we come off no better than those at those 'other' sites posting 'evidence' of Barack Obama's 'Kenyan Birth Certificate', etc...
The TEA Party is toast in 24 business hours.
Didn't their hero du jour, Rachel Maddow, fall for a hoax recently? Then when she found out, she blamed Faux Snooze for her not catching on.
Amazing how easy it is to constantly fool the "smartest" people on the planet. And they don't even have the common sense to be embarrassed. Cindie
BINGO!This is one of the mental disease called liberalism/progressivism/socialism. It is always an outside (& evil) force that causes liberalism/progressivism/socialism concepts to fail. USSR, USA's fault. Cuba, again USA fault. Decent and civilized people are mass murdered, it those people's fault. It's a concept that only a mentally deficient person could come up with...and believe in. 1+1 does not equal POTATO, basic arithmetic's fault.
Just like the Pitt "Rove Indictment of 2005" and the "Walmart Detention Center Expose" on FR during the BFEE years. That was some funny stuff right there!
At least half the DUmpmonkeys still secretly believe in chemtrails.