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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLies from the right are not being debunked and you can go pages and pages in Google and it is
only a bunch of right winged sites that are stating the same thing. I was a victim of this several months ago and when I posted the fake article I got the shit beat out of me here.
I found this on someone's FB page.
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/03/25/new-york-house-passes-bill-allowing-shooting-babies-through-the-heart-with-poison-to-kill-them/
"New York Assembly Passes Bill Allowing Shooting Babies Through the Heart With Poison to Kill Them"
snip
"Today in a vote of 94-49 the New York State Assembly approved passage of AB 6221, the extreme stand-alone 10th point from the previously packaged 10-point Womens Equality Act, which would expand third-trimester abortions and allow non-doctors to perform abortions. "
So I went through several pages on Google and all of the sites said the same thing. I had to put the bill number in to get the right information. I wish groups like Snoops and Politifact would cover these things
http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A06221&term=2015&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Votes=Y#A06221
Maraya1969
(22,480 posts)I think this is kind of a big problem that may have been intentionally set up. There are ways to get your site up on Google rankings. But the non-debunking of things has me uncomfortable
edhopper
(33,579 posts)And unfortunately, neither is theMSMgiving them a pass.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)They throw out a ton of bullshit they can generate in moments, each point of which takes careful research and linking to refute, there simply is no way to keep up with them.
http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop
Remember that even back in the day before telephones Mark Twain said a lie could travel halfway around the world before the truth could get its boots on...
Maraya1969
(22,480 posts)Obama I had ever heard. Of course he wrote them like facts and like each one is enough to send the president to jail.
So I took one and told him I wasn't going to go through his list because he would just make up more. And then I showed how the stock market has not been on an upward trajectory with no dips in the last 30 years. (Because that is their response to the booming stock market now.....it has always been this way)
And that was it. He didn't write me back.
progree
(10,907 posts)LOL.
Using the last closing before inauguration (G.W. Bush inaugurated noon Jan 20, 2001, Obama at noon, Jan 20, 2009)
. . # When Clinton left office and G.W. Bush took office, the S&P 500 index was at 1343.
. . # When G.W. Bush left office and Obama took office, the S&P 500 index was at 850.
Thus under G.W. Bush, the S&P 500 index dropped 37%, from 1343 to 850.
So no, it hasn't always been booming.
It's at 2105 as of 4/16/15 close, up a bit from when Obama took office when it was at 850.
okaawhatever
(9,461 posts)don't care. Enough people will have read it by then that will always have it in the back of their mind.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)per week.
5 hours of television every day!
Doh!