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pinboy3niner

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1. Debunked by multiple fact-check sites

Reply to Yooperman (Original post)

Thu Mar 1, 2012, 09:34 PM

Mar 2012

The one Buffet quote is accurate, but the rest of the email has nothing to do with him--and, in fact, includes a lot of false information and inaccuracies.

Here's one debunking:
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/c/congressional-reform-act-2011.htm

Google the title of the fictitious Act for more of the same.

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I just received the email on a quote from Warren Buffet.... [View all] Yooperman Mar 2012 OP

Debunked by multiple fact-check sites pinboy3niner Mar 2012 #1

doesn't matter who authored it. i wonder is sending it out would do anything. eom ellenfl Mar 2012 #2

You are correct however, Yooperman Mar 2012 #3

The problem is that most of the email's claims are FALSE pinboy3niner Mar 2012 #4