Has anyone here ever received a crazy left wing viral email filled with complete fabrications?

[rfranklin]

I sometimes receive those lunatic right wing emails that contain distortions and outright lies but I have never received one with a left wing perspective. I mentioned this to a mildly conservative acquaintance today and he couldn't believe it. Am I just kidding myself?

[SomethingFishy]

1. Doesn't matter what you tell them, they will deny the truth

right to your face, knowing they are lying.

Some jackass Republican the other day was having it out with some elderly constituents, he was claiming America had the best health care in the world and the highest lifespan of any country in the world. When he was informed that we actually rank 50th in lifespan right behind North Korea, he said and I quote, "I don't believe that".




What does it say about a person who is willing to lie to be right? Schizophrenic.

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Certainly not schizophrenic.

More likely psychopathic.

[Fumesucker]

9. Actually he didn't say it wasn't true..

He said he didn't believe it, a somewhat different matter.

[RKP5637]

2. No, I never have. Also, I've never heard/seen violence from the LW like the

sh** we hear all the time from the RW.

[Journeyman]

3. I've certainly seem some whackadoodle doozies on this board, that's for certain. . .

but however full-up with crazy some leftists may become, they seem to keep it among themselves.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. No

[MADem]

6. Never. And I have very few lunatic rightwing friends, and fewer relatives with that view.

But the odd political email I might get that's just a pile of crap get is ALWAYS a rightwing distortion-lies job.

[Scuba]

7. Nah, the truth works better for our side. I did hear that Breitbart guy had syphilis.

[wandy]

8. That type of stuff comes around from time to time.......

One 'client' sends me Obama jokes.

In less dire times some of them might even be funny.

[Mz Pip]

10. I've never gotten one

Mostly I just get legitimate articles forwarded to me.

My cousin sends me a lot of RW screeds from World Nut Daily and CNS but I think I've finally convinced him that they are opinions not fact. Now he'll ask me if they are true or not. Small steps, small steps.

[OmahaBlueDog]

11. The truth is rarely pure and never simple

That said, in the sense I think you mean, no. I've gotten lefty e-mails that put a spin on things, or made donating/protesting right now seem more urgent than necessary. I have not, however, gotten the consistent level of distortion and outright mis-statement that I've gotten from my friends on the right.

[RebelOne]

12. No, because all my friends and family know that I am an extreme left-winger.

They used to, but soon learned better when I started debunking their e-mails.

[dipsydoodle]

13. No

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[Jamastiene]

14. Do they even exist?

No, I haven't ever gotten one of those types of emails from the left. I've never even seen one.

[Permanut]

15. Just got one the other day...

Claimed President Obama was born in Hawaii and is a Christian, the earth is warming up and is more than six thousand years old, that Romney is "unemployed", that Limbaugh called a female law student a slut, and that Santorum has "concerns" about women in combt. Did you ever hear such a load of BS?

[Rex]

16. Nope. Even more, what would one look like?

Anyone wanna take a guess?

[Initech]

17. The right wing wouldn't survive without fear and misinformation.

It's part of their mantra and line of thinking. Just remember - if you repeat the lie long enough it becomes fact.

[treestar]

18. NO

It would not work. Right wingers believe anything they hear that they want to believe and industriously forward it to everyone they know so they can know about it too. We see something false and question it and would not be caught dead forwarding something so stupid.

[dems_rightnow]

19. Only one

One about "mysterious deaths" surrounding Bush.

Very similar to the one about mysterious deaths surrounding Clinton prior to that. All innuendo and bullshit.

[Ilsa]

20. Rightwingers don't want to be bothered by facts

influencing their beliefs. They think that certain facts, like scientific facts, are subject to opinion and their belief systems.

Their stories in their emails usually follow some ridiculous format, too.

I've never gotten hyperbolic leftwing emails.

[Old and In the Way]

21. Never.

But I used to get these unsolicited Rightwing e-mails from people I knew. They were chain mail - send this to everyone in your address book now! -... the author was always unsigned and it was a total fabrication and/or misinformation. Some e-mails would even reference a Democrat as an author of legislation or a statement that was actually done by a Republican . I would respond, point-by-point with links and refute these letters, and copy the same people who were on the cc list. Eventually, I stopped getting them. I assume they still send these e-mails out, but I'm no longer on anyone's list.

[eridani]

30. Excellent strategy. Reply All is definitely your friend

I don't get that crap anymore.

[madokie]

22. I've not received a thing from the democratic caucus that was fabricated bullshit

from the pukes on the other hand, yes I have

[Kingofalldems]

23. Never. Not once

[hack89]

24. Besides 9/11 CT crap? No. nt

[steve2470]

25. never have nt

[dogknob]

26. Cyber-Rat-Fucking, perhaps? n/t

[saras]

27. Only in science fiction, never in this universe.

The unfortunate truth is that at this point in time, ANY random collection of insane ravings is going to look right-wing, just from statistical coincidence.

[Igel]

28. Yup.

Sometimes there's been a grain of truth buried in them--not that it matters, since the grains were surrounded by cement that was used to build an ediface of misdirection and falsity.

Some have been downright hilarious. A few I've taken the time to debunk.

Of course, I've been in the extreme minority. Usually when I get the goofy emails the response from most others on the distribution list has been, "Great!" or "How insightful!" or "More people should know about this!"

[jeff47]

29. Yes

9/11 conspiracy stuff, some "cell phones are causing cancer" stuff

There was a bunch of stuff from the Gulf oil spill. My favorite was the claim that the oil was going to displace all of the water in the Gulf of Mexico and it would become a crude oil sea.

There's also a bunch from the Fukushima disaster. According to those emails, nothing should still be alive on the west coast of the US.