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Tiger Beer
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Someone should do a correlation study about who believes this and where they get their news. I'm betting Fox News and Rush Limbaugh's name would come up. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:44 am Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| Someone should do a correlation study about who believes this and where they get their news. I'm betting Fox News and Rush Limbaugh's name would come up. |
Its the email chains, not them.
But 1 in 8? That's a really low figure, given cognitive dissonance and all the other stupid crap people believe. |
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Milwaukiedave
Joined: 02 Oct 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:22 am Post subject: |
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The smear machine is still alive and well in terms of the emails going around.
Meanwhile back home CBS is covering for John McCain's gaffes by editing footage. The funny thing is when CBS screwed up in 2004, they got grilled. Back to the cheese isle Senator McCain. |
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Tiger Beer
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 8:17 am Post subject: |
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| Kuros wrote: |
| But 1 in 8? That's a really low figure, given cognitive dissonance and all the other stupid crap people believe. |
Not really low.
If I visit extended family, and let's say I have 80 cousins, aunts, uncles, etc.
Now, let's say 8 of them told me that they were convinced Obama IS a muslim....I'd think my entire family is just completely nuts regardless of the other 60 people.
Guaranteed those 8 wouldn't be like 'oh, he's not? and question it, knowing the U.S. today, all 8 of those people would not only think I was misguided by 'the liberal media' but would guaranteed to fight and argue against me otherwise.
That is American today. I can respect opinions, but it's real hard to respect...well, pure propoganda. |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:18 am Post subject: |
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Just as a tangent, I'd bet that their is a declining correlation between a) thinking that Obama is a Muslim, and b) knowing what a Muslim is.
I remember right after 9/11, some loser in the US went nuts and gunned down a Sikh gas station attendant, under the impression that the guy must somehow be connected to the people who carried out the attacks. Clearly, the gunman's understanding of what a Muslim is didn't extend beyond "people with dark skin who wear strange clothes". I'd bet that's about as cognitively sophisticated as it gets for most of the people hyperventilating over those e-mails.
Not that that helps Obama any, since of course there is no test of knowledge administered before you're allowed to vote. |
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
Joined: 25 May 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:05 pm Post subject: Re: 12% - Still Think Obama is Muslim |
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Gotta love the effective of propoganda: 'News? Newspapers? Books? Education? It's liberal media! It's garbage! Only us of the Conservatives know the truth, so, yes, Obama IS a muslim despite ALL evidence that says otherwise!' |
I don't think he is a muslim , nor do I care.
I do care about his political views and whether or not he understands the nature of the enemy. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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It would be fascinating to find out who these people end up voting for (if anyone)...McCain, Nader...Babar the Libertarian...perhaps Gene Amondson of the Prohibition Party.  Maybe Charles Jay of the Boston Tea Party (a splinter liberarian party with a grudge against Babar) |
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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Is this a thread trying to show how ignorant Americans are?
99% of Koreans think Dokdo is their land. Beat that!! |
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Nowhere Man
Joined: 08 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:17 am Post subject: ... |
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| It would be fascinating to find out who these people end up voting for (if anyone)...McCain, Nader...Babar the Libertarian...perhaps Gene Amondson of the Prohibition Party. Maybe Charles Jay of the Boston Tea Party (a splinter liberarian party with a grudge against Babar) |
An email I received recently indicates 90% of them vote Nazgul.
Straight ticket.
But I disagree. I think most will be voting for Bush. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2008 2:15 pm Post subject: |
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An email I received recently indicates 90% of them vote Nazgul.
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This is plausible. |
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Cheonmunka
Joined: 04 Jun 2004
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| Who cares if he's Muslim, Christian or whathaveyou? It's totally irrelevant to him doing a decent job for the American people. |
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sargx
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| Cheonmunka wrote: |
| Who cares if he's Muslim, Christian or whathaveyou? It's totally irrelevant to him doing a decent job for the American people. |
Religion has an impact on policy. Policy is relevant. |
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blaseblasphemener
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Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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I think Americans should be more concerned that a Columbia and Harvard-educated, Harvard-review, United States senator, worships a man in the sky and his son, and who believes he will give him special favors if he talks nice to him.
chilling. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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worships a man in the sky and his son, and who believes he will give him special favors if he talks nice to him.
chilling. |
At what point in time did Canadian politicians on the national stage become athiests?
You wouldn't be expecting American politicians to do something Canadian politicians don't do, would you? [/quote] |
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