Political rumors, full of sound and fury, fly fast online

Have you read the e-mail from the psychologist who detailed how her South Pacific vacation was ruined by an encounter with a boorish, racist John McCain?

Surely your inbox has been clogged with those exposes about Barack Obama's secret life as a radical Muslim who won't recite the Pledge of Allegiance? And how about Sarah Palin posing with a rifle in a U.S. flag bikini and claiming her daughter's baby as her own?

Malarkey all. Yet people ... Full Story »

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Dennis A. Abbott
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by Dennis A. Abbott - Oct. 18, 2008

Good article, well written, good sources. First thought: If all the people who are forwarding political rumors read this, our democracy would be much better. Second thought. Nah, people believe what they want to.

Gullibility is founded on ignorance. We don't have the informed citizenry the founding fathers relied on. But what if we had an organization that kind of sorted the wheat from the chaff in the media. . . ?

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