An uncle sends out ‘patriotic spam’. You know, heartwarming stuff that makes one Proud to be an American. I just got one showing a photo (and accomanying story) of wounded Marine Gunnery Sgt. Michael Burghardt giving the bird to the Iraqis who planted the IED that injured him.
I don’t want to be mean, but I really should send ‘Liberal’ versions of this stuff back to my uncle. You know, just to balance things out. Where would I get some?
Left wing glurge must exist but I’ve never seen any. Right wing crap is plentiful- we’re supposed to be outraged about the new dollar coins not having In God We Trust on them (I guess being on the edge doesn’t count), or Pepsi supposedly had cans that proclaimed “One Nation, Indivisible” without having “Under God” as well (well it was Dr. Pepper and that was years ago), or the American Airlines pilot that spouts off how Muslims should be dancing patriotic jigs for us, or the redneck that doesn’t care aboiut mistreatment of US detainees. I like to think that liberals check things out before forwarding but surely there must be some example of leftist glurge out there.
Liberal glurge is almost non existent because liberals are too busy actually doing stuff to help people. We are participating in anti war demonstrations and ponying up money for candidates in the next presidential election. Sorry, we do not have time for sob story e-mailings, we have work to do!
This is a legitimate question. And it mirrors the question of why talk radio is so heavily conservative.
I often hear from conservative friends that this is because the media is so left-saturated already that this is the only way to get the message out. The fact that the message is often demonstrably false is another question.
If I was feeling uppity, I’d say that spam and gluge is generally forwarded on by credulous people who do not do much investigation on their own. I think this type of person, in today’s climate, is likely to be conservative.
This obviously does not mean that all conservatives are credulous morons.
Also, if you wanted to start your own campaign, you could send links to any one of a million left-wing blogs that are ranting and raving about everything under the sun, anyway.
Or, you could copy the text and attribute it to George Carlin.
Left wing, right wing, blogs are sites you choose to see. E-mail glurge is crap you never asked for and the senders of such should spend eternity sorting SPAM, much like Bruce Almighty.
ETA: Should has an L
Or: Oliver North. Let the head spinning commence!
This is “glurge”, not spam. Spam is trying to sell you something. Spam doesn’t have any political orientation, unless you consider longer schlongs to be . . . well, I’m not going to go there.
Here’s a link you can send. It’s abour the little known mercenary army working for the US in Iraq.
http://www.democracynow.org:80/article.pl?sid=07/01/26/1559232
Spam us unwanted email.
I was going to call it glurge, but ‘glurge’ has a more specific meaning to me.
Wow, that’s self-serving.
So, how do you explain this? Or this? Or this? Or this? Or this? Or this? Or this? Or this? Or this? Or this? Or this? Or this? Or this? Or this?
John Corrrado
I do not wish to click your links. Can you give me a brief synposis of your website?
Oh okay, I see what you perveive now as lleft wing bias. :rolleyes:
Good luck in the future, mmkay.
Golly, John. That’s a lot of cites. Let’s review: For each one, does it a) contain falsehoods, b) attack Bush, Republicans, or conservatives, and c) is it unfair.
Presidential IQ. Yes, yes, and yes. One true example here.
God’s wrath borne out by hurricanes. Maybe, not really, yes. When you consider that much of the southern seaboard is “red counties”, then by pure chance it is plausible that Republican counties get hit more often.
Misquotes of Kerry and Bush: yes, yes, and no. Both Kerry and Bush are hit equally here.
Bush by the numbers: perhaps not, yes, and perhaps not. The jury is out on how factual this is.
Bush waving at Wonder: yes, yes, and yes. OK, a second example.
Bush won’t sell to blacks: yes, yes, and yes. OK, a third example.
IQs of states: yes, yes, and yes. A fourth example, but any thinking person would know that IQs of such large groups cannot vary by that much.
Not One Dime Day: no, no, and no. This is against the war- if you buy that Democrats supported it too, then you can’t claim this is partisan.
MLK Stamp: yes, no, and no. Seems quite apolitical to me.
Blackout day: no, no, and no. Not an attack on people, but a protest on policies.
USGS firing: maybe, maybe, and maybe. Hard to classify this one because there may be a wee bit of truth here and it may not be totally unfair. To be generous, let’s call this a 5th example.
Israeli justice: yes, no, and no. This seems to have nothing to do with US politics.
Ashcroft and the statues: no, yes, and no. Ashcroft deserved the ridicule he got.
Sean Penn’s letter: no, yes, and no. One person’s opinion, and there aren’t any misstatements that I can see.
Of 14 cites, I can see maybe five having merit. And perhaps I am not typical, but not a single one has ever graced my inbox. There’s no way to measure, but I suspect the distribution of these pales in comparison to right wing glurge.
Why? Are they spooky? Do they instill forboding into your heart?
Long story short: all my links are to Snopes, the best website for finding the truth (or, usually, lack thereof) behind various glurge and spam e-mails.
The small selection I’ve put forth is some of the spam and glurge from that site which would be considered “liberal”. Such as the myth that states which voted for Kerry in 2004 have a high average IQ and standard of living than those who voted for Bush; that Dr. King’s commemorative stamp will be cancelled if not enough people rush out to buy it; that everyone working together to not buy gas on a certain day will show the American outrage against the illegal war in Iraq; etc.
Wait - so it’s only spam or glurge if it’s untrue and unfair?
So if I send you true accounts of famous people coming to Christ, or of stupid things Democrats have said, or some leftist professor’s latest ranting about the evils of the United States, or the latest thing Rush/Hannity/George Carlin said it’s not actually spam or glurge?
Let me check to see if your e-mail is listed…
Yeah, this conversation is as fruitful as I thought it was.
My apologies. I keep thinking this board is about fighting ignorance. I have no idea what you’re doing.
SPAM or glurge. It doesen’'t matter, the senders are all scum.
What specifically did Sean Penn say that was untrue or unfair? And yeah, if something is true and fair, I’d say it isn’t glurge. If Hannity says something stupid, that’s one thing and his mere stating it doesn’t make it fair. But if Hannity says something true, however unlikely that is, then it’s something you could fairly send out.
So, again - if I send you the true but sappy stories about how certain people learned to accept Jesus into their lives, or Rush Limbaugh’s latest polemic about evil Democrats, you wouldn’t mind? You wouldn’t think it unwanted spam or glurge?