More Lies Spread Over Internet About Obama than about Bush

[Facial_King]

To anyone with a pulse, this is no surprise:

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/...s_rumors_obama_bush_open2010/index.html?obama

Excerpt:

After eight years in the White House (with Snopes.com around all that time), George W. Bush has been the subject of 47 internet rumors. After less than two years in office, Barack Obama has been the subject of 87, or nearly twice as many.

Even more telling is the relative accuracy of those stories. For Bush, 20 rumors, or 43%, are true. Only 17, or 36%, are false. The remainder are of mixed veracity (4), undetermined (4), or unclassifiable (2).

In contrast, for Obama only 8 of the 87 rumors, or 9%, are true, and a whopping 59, or 68%, are whoppers. There are 17 of mixed veracity and 3 undetermined.

I delved down to the stories that the site designates as a mixture of truth and falsehood. For Obama, in many cases the truth is innocuous while the lie reflects poorly on the President, particularly photographs that are misrepresented or show behavior that produced no complaints when his predecessors did the same. In contrast, in this mixture of truth and falsehood about George W. Bush praying with an injured soldier, the lie reflected well on that President from the perspective of the religious person spreading it.

 

[Hot Mega]

GOPers are perfect candidates for jobs with Burger King....they sure can sell some Whoppers.:2 cents:

 

[GregCentauro]

Don't blame the people! People like horror stories. They have to invent them about Obama. The horror stories about Bush were all true.

 

[BlueBalls]

Well that was kinda obvious.

To anyone with a pulse, this is no surprise:

Oh, you already said that. Well, then....

*slowly backs out of thread*

 

[lurkingdirk]

But these lies are all supported by the "truth" that geniuses like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh speak. Are you suggesting that some of the "news" people out there are telling fibs?

*look of horror*

 

[Facetious]

Yesterday it was overcast, today, not so.

Some people are beholden to the ward of state welfare lifestyle, others not. :dunno:



Official Newsworthy sources please! If you're correct than fine, I have no dog in this hunt other than being a selfish & greedy guy who wants to retain as much of his income as possible, but c'mon ABC NBC CBS CNN, hell, I'll even listen to PBS what the hell, just give me some genuine sources.

 

[JacknCoke]

and the sky is blue...

 

[Facetious]

Whoops, it timed out on me. Anyway, what I was gonna add was: Every time I've used Snopes as a ref when making a point, my beloved - fun loving - cuddly American left wing friends have chided me for such practices.

jus sayin



Oh yeah, Re: sources ~ obviously any major newspaper clip e.g. LA Times, Boston Globe, Sacramento Bee . . .New York Times regrettably, work in a pinch as well.

 

[Crazy4theBrat]

After eight years in the White House (with Snopes.com around all that time), George W. Bush has been the subject of 47 internet rumors. After less than two years in office, Barack Obama has been the subject of 87, or nearly twice as many.

Even more telling is the relative accuracy of those stories. For Bush, 20 rumors, or 43%, are true. Only 17, or 36%, are false. The remainder are of mixed veracity (4), undetermined (4), or unclassifiable (2).

In contrast, for Obama only 8 of the 87 rumors, or 9%, are true, and a whopping 59, or 68%, are whoppers. There are 17 of mixed veracity and 3 undetermined.

What would be even more telling is to hear exactly who is determining whether these stories are "accurate" or not. Last time I saw you spouting a bunch of "facts", your source was a web site called www.liberal.com, or something to that effect.

It would be interesting to see how many inaccurate stories and accusations the lefties have come out with about Sarah Palin since Obama was elected.

 

[roronoa3000]

 

[Smallville417]

Not surprised by this at all.

 

[titsrock]

While Dubya was in charge in his first term, believe it or not, but the "internets" were really still nascent things for people (2000-2002). The Liberals were the first to take to the internets (in 1995-2003) and so it makes sense that there would be fewer "lies" about Bush because Liberals are the critical thinkers in the land, suspicious of everything.

It's only post-2006 really that the Loons have finally discovered the internets and this is why there's an increase in truly embarrassing bullshit about Obama.

Liberal activism on the web has actually declined since 2006 and in its place is the neoconservative/loonitarian/teabagger who now shouts down the Liberal activist online basically....
The Loons believe, "Hey pa! This thing here is great! I can say whatever I want to and peepo are believin' me!" "Thank the lordy for the internets!"

 

[roronoa3000]

This just in....

...Obama is a the bastard son of Hitler and Ann Coulter.

 

[LaLiLuLeLohan]

I don't even get this article...or, more specifically, what constitutes "rumor."

A real picture of Obama without his hand over his heart during the anthem is a rumor?

A real quote from JFK is a rumor? A real speech given by Tiger Woods is somehow a "true Obama rumor"? Facts are now true rumors??

And how do rumors of Biden stepping down to make room for Hillary or Native Americans calling Obama the "Walking Eagle" imply anything negative or uneven about Obama's treatment by the GOP or Conservatives?

Remember, 1/3 of this country believe that 9-11 was an inside job. AKA 33% of Americans believe that the Bush administration had a hand in bringing down the WTC. True or not, people believe that because of a series of internet rumors. This list is conveniently missing a whole lot of rumors I've seen online about Bush, 9-11, the war in Iraq, his daughters, abortion allegations, drug use and his "relationships" with Rice and Cheney, etc.

I fucking hate George W Bush and his entire administration, but this is just bad, intentionally misleading writing, man. What happened? Salon used to be an OK site.

 

[roronoa3000]

I don't even get this article...or, more specifically, what constitutes "rumor."

A real picture of Obama without his hand over his heart during the anthem is a rumor?

A real quote from JFK is a rumor? A real speech given by Tiger Woods is somehow a "true Obama rumor"? Facts are now true rumors??

And how do rumors of Biden stepping down to make room for Hillary or Native Americans calling Obama the "Walking Eagle" imply anything negative or uneven about Obama's treatment by the GOP or Conservatives?

Remember, 1/3 of this country believe that 9-11 was an inside job. AKA 33% of Americans believe that the Bush administration had a hand in bringing down the WTC. True or not, people believe that because of a series of internet rumors. This list is conveniently missing a whole lot of rumors I've seen online about Bush, 9-11, the war in Iraq, his daughters, abortion allegations, drug use and his "relationships" with Rice and Cheney, etc.

I fucking hate George W Bush and his entire administration, but this is just bad, intentionally misleading writing, man. What happened? Salon used to be an OK site.

1/3 of this country? lol
There are more idiots than I thought. :rofl:

 

[LaLiLuLeLohan]

1/3 of this country? lol
There are more idiots than I thought. :rofl:

According to one poll at least.

http://www.scrippsnews.com/911poll

74% of Americans think the government conspired to assassinate JFK, or at least acted to cover up the "true" assassination. And something like 84% of that 74% couldn't actually provide any reason for their belief. 90% of Americans believe that Lee Harvey Oswald didn't act alone, yet again, the vast majority of that 90% cannot express why they believe that Harvey could not act alone.

For the record, I'm not criticizing anybody fort not believing the official assassination account, I just think it's sad that so many people discount the credibility for reasons they haven't even contemplated.

 

[Facetious]

^ While 20% of Americans believe that we landed on the moon ! :tongue: :spin: :1orglaugh

Fox TV and the Apollo Moon Hoax

(February 13, 2001)
On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. The program was an hour long, and featured interviews with a series of people who believe that NASA faked the Apollo Moon landings in the 1960s and 1970s. The biggest voice in this is Bill Kaysing, who claims to have all sorts of hoax evidence, including pictures taken by the astronauts, engineering details, discussions of physics and even some testimony by astronauts themselves. The program's conclusion was that the whole thing was faked in the Nevada desert (in Area 51, of course!). According to them, NASA did not have the technical capability of going to the Moon, but pressure due to the Cold War with the Soviet Union forced them to fake it.

Sound ridiculous? Of course it does!

It continues

 

[PlasmaTwa2]

Of course there are more lies about Obama then Bush. It's not a lie when you call Bush a fucking retard.

 

[Facetious]

Excerpt:

After eight years in the White House (with Snopes.com around all that time), George W. Bush has been the subject of 47 internet rumors. After less than two years in office, Barack Obama has been the subject of 87, or nearly twice as many.

Well, when you hang around Chicago's finest, Tony Rezko, Bill ''the bomber'' Ayres & Bernadine "?"< are they legally married ?
Reverend "wrong" Wright (shouter - whitey hater - America basher), Calypso Louis, Relieved Governor Blago (flako), The ACORN voting fraud racketeers (drones led by a pied piper of sort), Cornell West (black panther sympathizer), Van Jones (Hard core commy extraordinare anti First Amendment if you disagree with his ideology), Cass Sundstein (another goofy brained dreamer / commy whose totally esoteric and out of his mind), Rahm Emanuel (douche), Georgi Soreohhs (the prick who nearly busted the UK £ as well as the . . Indonesian currency was it ? )and about 1,000 other highly suspect caracters, people are going to tend to draw conclusions ! :1orglaugh

Now how in the hell this guy ever got elected to become President of the formerly free world is anybodies guess. . . I'm open to hear any and all theories.

 

[Facetious]

Edit : not ''caracters'' but :

. . other highly suspect characters, people are going to tend to draw conclusions !

....

:o