During the Bush years, I’d get an occasional 9/11 truther e-mail written with a left wing slant.
The iPod had the videos and showtunes, but it did in fact include two of President Obama’s speeches. I don’t find anything terribly wrong with that - but people who state that the iPod did not include any of Obama’s speeches are probably in error.
I’ve wondered this myself. I presume there’d almost have to be, but I’ve never received or even heard of one.
Not only that, but this mess of an argument cropped up from time to time on the boards, often pasted from some list somewhere. It was about as inaccurate and cherrypicked as this Obama email above.
I can only seem to find it once on this board-what are the other times it appeared?
Yes. If you think liberals are too smart for this, you’re kidding yourself. Here’s the Snopes page for Bush-related emails. Here is their much, much shorter page for John McCain.
I have, usually with fauxtography showing what an idiot Bush was. This one was given to us by a fellow teacher at a school meeting to demonstrate how stupid the President was.
I personally have never received a liberal chain email. Certainly some may have existed in the Bush years. However, in terms of the volume and tone of the emails, it isn’t even close. I receive probably on average 1-2 of these per week, accusing Obama of things that only the most gullible and/or dull witted people would believe. Don’t fall into the trap of false equivalency, “both sides do it” or “MSNBC is just like FOX” because it isn’t remotely true.
It’s ridiculous that people are treating this as a conditional statement. It is unquestionably true that liberals sent chain emails during the Bush years. I linked to a whole bunch of them.
Now this might be true, but we can’t judge it based on one person’s email list.
The 9/11 Truther stuff was always fringe and never part of th liberal mainstream. The Obama birther/secret Muslim/ Antichrist/socialist stuff is part of the right wing mainstream and goes all the way up to elected officials.
How about two, two people’s email? [lighning crack] Hahahahaha! 
A lot of the Bush emails had nothing to do with Truthers. The claims about Obama are probably crazier, but there were some totally erroneous emails about Bush that circulated very widely, including the one that alleged he had the lowest IQ of any president, that Nostradamus predicted his election, and the Photoshopped image of him holding a book upside down.
Yes, the Bush = dumb stuff got a little over the top, but the insane conspiracy stuff was never anything close to what it is with Obama (or Clinton, for that matter), and did not involve actual elected officials and 24/7 media campaigns like what’s going on now.
And, there’s a Palin page too. Which amazes me- as stupid and blabbermouthed as she is, some dudes still had to make shit up about her. (In fact, some of the half-truths and lies were posted here during the election, including her “book banning”). I mean- why make up lies attacking her when the truth is far worse?
However, the amount of Obama Urban Legends and “Big Lies” go far beyond what has been told about anyone. The Tea-partiers and Truthers are going to new levels of making shit up.
I’ll take an easy one, because I heard this one a lot and checked the video myself.
Obama said that they had campaigned in 57 states, and had 1 more to go because his campaign manager said they weren’t going to Hawaii or Alaska.
Most people apparently just repeated what they heard. But the originators of this claim knew the actual context but apparently decided that being off by 7 sounded dumber than being off by 10.
Either way, he said 57 when he meant to say 47. Simple mistake that got turned into “Obama said that there are 57 states!” which he did not.
I did not know that.
The response from 9/10 of true believers, whether they sent it to you or not, would be “He’s lying,” or “Ah, he’s another one of Obama’s sheep.” Repeat drivel like this enough times, and people inclined to believe it will do so.
It may have been obviously a mistake. It may have been a slip of a tounge by a tired man who was bouncing around the nation and probably sleep deprived, exhausted, and suffering from so much time lag he was in middle of last week. But he did actually say it. In fighting ignorance please don’t distort the truth. In context, is was just a minor blunder rather than a sign of stupidity, but the truth is that, to quote yourself, Obama said that they had campaigned in 57 states.
That being said, the proper reply to anyone who sends a political spam email like this (against any politician regardless of party) is to inform them that voting has now been moved to November 6th. If it’s dressed up enough, they should buy it.
And it probably would have passed if Bush-bashers didn’t promulgate the meme misspeaking=idiot.
People have always made fun of politicians who misspeak and say dumb things. You can’t blame everything on Bush bashers.