# A serious question for Sam Stone on Factual Errors **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 11, 2021, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881 "2021-12-11T12:32:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1746
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881/1746 "2024-01-17T21:05:04Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > The first 15 years or so that I was here I think I got pitted maybe once or twice. Bullshit. Do you think this is hard to find? > [@Another Swiftie lie gets shot down (this one's for you, Sam Stone)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-swiftie-lie-gets-shot-down-this-ones-for-you-sam-stone/267273): > > One of the Swifties’ favorite allegations has been that the shrapnel in John Kerry’s ass was rice, not metal. They have been yelling that he did not deserve his third Purple Heart because according to them, he was wounded in the ass before the incident (in which he turned his boat into live fire to save the life of a Green Beret who had fallen overboard. He was awarded the Bronze Star) when he blew up some caches of rice. Our own Sam Stone has been quite fond of denigrating this particular war … > [@Reading comprehension with Sam Stone, or: What did John Kerry really say?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reading-comprehension-with-sam-stone-or-what-did-john-kerry-really-say/268028): > > In the pit thread [Another Swiftie lie gets shot down (this one’s for you Sam Stone)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=278894&page=1&pp=50) I was a bit surprised to see [Sam](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=5325491&postcount=103) making this assertion: I thought: Wow! Saying that the whole US Army in vietnam was like the army of Genghis Khan, that sounds pretty shrill! Did Kerry really say that? So I tried google, and [searched](http://www.google.se/search?hl=sv&q=%22like+the+army+of+Genghis+Khan%22&meta=) for that little quoted sement of Sam Stones. I got seven hits, five of them reprinting an open letter by Swiftie extraordinaire John O’Neill. So I tweaked my search some and foun… > [@Sam Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sam-stone/332667): > > From [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=346400) in Great Debates: Not all the people who live on them; only those whose tub-thumping caveman politics haven’t progressed since William Aberhart and his women-should-be-pregnant-and-barefoot-and-chained-to-the-stove oxymoronic Social Credit psychopathy. They don’t have to demonize the opposition. The opposition does the job fine on its own. Yes it is. Its only other natural resource is its never-ending supply of white supremacists who used to be teachers but now fix flats a… > [@Sam Stone - Why do you hate America?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sam-stone-why-do-you-hate-america/552037): > > Seriously - Why do you hate America? You’re a Canadian with no dog in the fight yet rant like you fear Hussein’s secret muslim storm troopers are going to kick in your door, hyperinflate your savings and start waterboarding the moment you land in Guantanamo. This ain’t about infringing your right to airing an opinion (asinine or otherwise) but you’re so \*serious \*about politics in a country you don’t even live in. [It is getting really tiresome with you posting some patently obvious partisan pol…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=576238) > [@Is it a Sam Stone economic prediction? Then it's guaranteed to be wrong.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-a-sam-stone-economic-prediction-then-its-guaranteed-to-be-wrong/594191): > > I saw a news story today that reminded me of a discussion here at the SDMB. Rather than re-open a two year old thread, and because this is more of a point regarding Sam Stone’s predictions generally, I thought it best to put it here in the pit. [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11201462&postcount=16](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=11201462&postcount=16) Bolding mine. Oh really? [http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011\_08/its\_a\_good\_thing\_obama\_saved\_t031808.php](http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_08/its_a_good_thing_obama_saved_t031808.php) The link above is to Steve Benen at the Washington… > [@Thank you, Sam Stone!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thank-you-sam-stone/259161): > > In reference to [this thread…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=269680&page=1&pp=50) I’d just like to briefly thank Sam Stone for providing me with countless hours of entertainment. Watching Sam cling desperately to the Swifties’ account of events – despite the total lack of evidence for their claims, and the preponderence of evidence against them – is the kind of tenacity you only get with the truly zealous. His mind’s hammered shut so hard, the Branch Davidians could take tips from him. Such devotion would almost be considered admirable, if the… That last one is the earliest I found without spending more than 30 seconds poking around, but I found it amusing that he was pitted for literally the exact same thing as always. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-serious-question-for-sam-stone-on-factual-errors/955881)._