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It's your fault DUmbasses fell for a hoax
« on: April 05, 2011, 03:31:26 PM »
SPLIFF NOTES Version: DUmbasses spend all their time fabricating wild caricatures of TEA party.

A parody site write an article.

examiner.com treats the article as a real news piece.

DUmbasses pile-on with +249 recs

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Krakowiak (275 posts)      Tue Apr-05-11 03:56 PM
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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. 

So whose fault is it?

Yours apparently:

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Drale (1000+ posts)        Tue Apr-05-11 03:57 PM
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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.

Balanced budgets and minimal government.

Only lunatics want THAT!

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drm604  (1000+ posts)        Tue Apr-05-11 03:59 PM
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2. Poe's law at work.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poes_law 

I prefer Poe's policy of walling-up annoying people.

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gratuitous  (1000+ posts)      Tue Apr-05-11 04:01 PM
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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.

And the fake-but-accurate drum beat rolls on...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x818430
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Re: It's your fault DUmbasses fell for a hoax
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2011, 03:42:14 PM »
The TEA Party is toast in 24 business hours.
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Re: It's your fault DUmbasses fell for a hoax
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2011, 03:55:47 PM »
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." 
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Re: It's your fault DUmbasses fell for a hoax
« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2011, 04:13:28 PM »
Quote from: Karin on April 05, 2011, 03:55:47 PM
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." 

And the OP is taking his lumps for de-bunking while having a low post count:

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JuniperLea  (1000+ posts)        Tue Apr-05-11 04:05 PM
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12. Your concern is duly noted... eom
   

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Krakowiak (281 posts)      Tue Apr-05-11 04:08 PM
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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.


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JuniperLea  (1000+ posts)        Tue Apr-05-11 04:10 PM
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19. LOL!
 I never said such a thing!

Whatever.

See, this is where liberals are deceptive (wilbur does this a lot as well). They make a statement that is a play upon earlier statements then when you reference the originating statement they claim that is NOT what they meant.

"Thank-you for your concern," is a means for calling someone a "concern troll" without violating the ban on personal insults.

What is a concern troll?

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bunkerbuster1 (1000+ posts)      Thu Jun-08-06 12:11 PM
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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?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1382185

So PubertyLea is gaming this. It knows exactly what the term means: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=9090136&mesg_id=9090136
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Re: It's your fault DUmbasses fell for a hoax
« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2011, 04:28:11 PM »
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"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."

 :rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
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Re: It's your fault DUmbasses fell for a hoax
« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2011, 05:02:48 PM »
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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...

Pfffft!

Obama is so unpopular, even the Kenyans are saying "He wasn't born here. We don't want credit for that disaster."

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Re: It's your fault DUmbasses fell for a hoax
« Reply #6 on: April 05, 2011, 05:10:42 PM »
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.

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Re: It's your fault DUmbasses fell for a hoax
« Reply #7 on: April 05, 2011, 05:16:03 PM »
Quote from: jukin on April 05, 2011, 03:42:14 PM
The TEA Party is toast in 24 business hours.

You racist....toast is brown, our president is brown, ergo the use of the word toast is racist.
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Re: It's your fault DUmbasses fell for a hoax
« Reply #8 on: April 05, 2011, 05:38:16 PM »
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.

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Re: It's your fault DUmbasses fell for a hoax
« Reply #9 on: April 05, 2011, 05:40:53 PM »
Quote from: Freeper on April 05, 2011, 05:38:16 PM
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.


I think she fell for two. One about Sarah Palin wanting to invade...Egypt? And then a couple of weeks before that, she fell for something else and did the "outrage" thing.
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Re: It's your fault DUmbasses fell for a hoax
« Reply #10 on: April 05, 2011, 05:52:29 PM »
Quote from: delilahmused on April 05, 2011, 05:10:42 PM
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.
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Re: It's your fault DUmbasses fell for a hoax
« Reply #11 on: April 05, 2011, 08:39:33 PM »
Quote from: jukin on April 05, 2011, 05:52:29 PM
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.
Nothing more can be expected of creed which has as amongst it's fundemental tenets "If it feels good, it has to be right."  The notion of socialism feels good to them, so any failure must be excused.
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Re: It's your fault DUmbasses fell for a hoax
« Reply #12 on: April 06, 2011, 03:18:57 AM »
Quote from: delilahmused on April 05, 2011, 05:10:42 PM
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

Just like the Pitt "Rove Indictment of 2005" and the "Walmart Detention Center Expose" on FR during the BFEE years.   :rotf:   :rotf:   :rotf:

That was some funny stuff right there!   :lmao:  :rotf:  :lmao:
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Re: It's your fault DUmbasses fell for a hoax
« Reply #13 on: April 06, 2011, 07:09:51 AM »
Quote from: diesel driver on April 06, 2011, 03:18:57 AM
Just like the Pitt "Rove Indictment of 2005" and the "Walmart Detention Center Expose" on FR during the BFEE years.   :rotf:   :rotf:   :rotf:

That was some funny stuff right there!   :lmao:  :rotf:  :lmao:

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Re: It's your fault DUmbasses fell for a hoax
« Reply #14 on: April 06, 2011, 07:13:49 AM »
Isn't this the same website where Thor got all worked up about Charlie Sheen being dead?

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« Reply #15 on: April 06, 2011, 10:53:39 AM »
At least half the DUmpmonkeys still secretly believe in chemtrails.
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Re: It's your fault DUmbasses fell for a hoax
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At least half the DUmpmonkeys still secretly believe in chemtrails.

..The other half openly believe in chemtrails...
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