Clinton & the talking dog: another fake story

[grumpyduck]

This morning I received an email from an old friend who's a Republican. He receives jokes online and forwards some of them (just regular jokes) to me all the time, so I didn't think anything of it: I just figured it was another one. But this one got under my skin.

So the story is about a kid in Arkansas who goes to college, needs money, and comes up with this story about a course to teach dogs to talk. He gets $1,000 and the family dog from his Dad. Later he runs out of money again and comes up with another story and gets $2,500; now he has money for pot for the whole year. End of school year, he goes home, but, to avoid having to bring the (non-talking dog) back, tells his Dad that the dog asked whether the dad was still seeing the waitress at the local diner. The dad blows up and asks the kid if he shot the dog and the kid says yes. Later, the kid and his girl friend went to law school and became lawyers. In the end he became President of the US and his girl friend... (and I'm quoting here) "well, we know what a liar she is."

So, being a cynical type, I decided to look this up.

The "talking dog" story appeared in the humor section of ba-bamail.com. Never heard of the site, but it's there. Now get this: the original story was quite a bit shorter than the version I received; there was no mention of Arkansas, a girl friend, or money for pot; and it ended with "The lad went on to be a successful lawyer." Nothing about becoming President or the girl friend being a liar. And I didn't find anything about the story having anything to do with Clinton.

So somebody took a joke and padded it to point at the Clintons. And sent it around, and heaven only knows how many times it's been read by now. Just like that fake story about Nancy Pelosi I received some weeks ago, which actually dated back to 2006.

And heaven only knows how many people have read that story and believed it outright instead of bothering to check it out. I'm going to drop my friend a note (like I did with the Pelosi story) and square him away, but man, this one pissed me off.

[pandr32]

1. Sounds about right.

A joke was modified to slam the Clintons and the right-wing base eats it up.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. I don't get the story at all, but it's sure great that you passed it along!

[TheSmarterDog]

3. This is an example of what's called propaganda.

It doesn't need facts or any basis in reality. It's only purpose is to get the message across that Bill is untrustworthy and Hillary is a liar. What makes it memorable is the joke.

Unfortunately, a lot of people are caught by shit like this. Even those who should know better.

[world wide wally]

4. It's just a good thing Trump doesn't lie

Who the fuck are these people to call Hillary a liar? Such total fucking nonsense and projection