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LiberalLovinLug

(14,764 posts)
5. Zombies is right
Thu Mar 29, 2012, 04:01 PM
Mar 2012

These assholes I'm sure are constantly repeating the meme of "you can't trust anything on the internet" in reference to factual stories and sites like Media Matters that only highlight actual footage for instance. But when they get this forwarded to them via viral email, they are convinced of its authenticity.

And if later its reported on "liberal" news sources like the Times or MSNBC that its a fake photo...they are lying or its too late at any rate, they already have decided its the truth...and even if that one wasn't real there must be SOME photo out there similar.

I am perpetually astounded (and I'm sure privately so is Murdoch) at how easily huge swaths of these mindless TV zombies can be steered away from the truth and corralled into whatever narrow made-up narrative they want to instill.

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