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In reply to the discussion: Snopes.com in Danger of Shuttering [View all]Grins
(7,217 posts)Same argument as "it's in the Bible so it must be true."
I also know a guy like your RW cousin. Constantly sends this shit out - all of which I call out as bullshit. One day a few years ago I hit him - politely - that the shitty screed he had done a mass-email "Fwd: Fwd: Fwd:" was completely wrong (it had to do with Kenya not being a country when Obama was born).
Then he comes back to me, privately (none of that "Reply-All" shit where he could show his ass), with a polite, "How do you know?"
So I go through the drill and point out the bullshit - and even found a press release, complete with a photo of Queen Elizabeth - in Kenya! - by the London Times, five years before Obama was born.
Silence. Not even a thank you.
We have now progressed to the point where all he can say when I point out that another one of his shitty screeds is another Reich-wing lie - "Fuck you!" Whataguy. Did I mention he is a fucking dentist...?