RW-ers: The Most Gullible People On The Face Of The Earth

[K8-EEE]

Case in point, has anybody gotten that stupid "Target Stores Are Anti-Veteran and Owned By The French" email? I have seen it posted on one non-political forum and gotten it from two wingnuts on opposite sides of the country.

It took me 3 minutes to fact check it and see that literally every "fact" presented for boycotting Target was 100% false.

And let nobody else on the scores of people cc'd on it even look up the facts! They all start ranting about boycotts, etc., at the drop of a hat.

Same with WMD, Jessica Lynch "Rambo" stories, "the economic recovery," you name it...when did everyone get so freaking stupid?

[htuttle]

1. I think I know the reason for the stupidity...

Most of those penis enlargement pills can cause brain damage.

[Touchdown]

12. Then why are 3/4ths of the r/w e-mails I get...

come from women? Is America that stupid that the repug ladies are taking penis pills too? ;-)

[david_vincent]

2. My favorite RW lie

is the one about Canada being bankrupt, supposedly because of their health care system.
Fact of the matter is that Canada just posted its 6th straight surplus, something Governor Bush couldn't do to save his life.

[K8-EEE]

4. Canada

Do you live in Canada? I have been seriously thinking of sending my daughter to college in Vancouver -- even though it would be more expensive for us than for Canadians, $8,000 a year is still a bargain compared to here!

Sometimes I think this business of making education more and more available only to the elite, is just in the interest of promoting stupidity. If there wasn't rampant stupidity, ignorance and apathy GWB wouldn't have a chance.

[NavajoRug]

26. It's important to remember that Canada . . .

. . . relies heavily on its trade with the U.S. Canada's economy is in "good" shape from a Canadian perspective because their weak dollar has driven up their exports to the U.S. But the weak dollar has also caused their standard of living to decline relative to the U.S. because consumers in the U.S. can afford to buy things that Canadians cannot afford to buy. This applies even to a lot of things in Canada, like oceanfront property in the maritime provinces, great hockey players, etc.

[Must_B_Free]

3. it started in 1976

people stopped sharing a join amongst the whole group and started going off in private to do cocaine.

That was the end of "us" and the beginning of "me".

and "me" can't see too well by himself.

That's also why there is so much 70's nostalgia people dream of and long for a time when their was progress-

[Postman]

5. They are "reactionaries". Doesn't require work or thought.

Like the mainstream media in the US.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

6. Dumbass freepers

probably thought because people kid around and call Target "Tarzhay" that it was somehow French, and concocted a story that the store chain was anti-Murikan.

[K8-EEE]

8. J'adore Tarzhay!

Actually it says on snopes.com that they guy who started it, was turned down by a local Target store when he asked for bucks for some Veteran memorial thing....but the reason is because they give through their corporate offices not through individual stores.

It turns out they are on the Forbes list of Most Generous Companies -- that they had in fact donated a lot to Vet causes including the one he rants about in the letter -- there is apparently another version of the letter which has them GAY owned or something...

[Logansquare]

18. You know, you're probably right about the "Tarzhay" thing n/t

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[K8-EEE]

22. Proof Of French Target Connection!!

LOL!! Them Frenchies is tryin' to corrupt our women folk with their sophisticated Fifi The Poodle pajamers!

http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/601-1093273-5402529?asin=B0000DZF2S&alt%5fview=images#images

Look!! IT'S THE EIFFLE TOWER...RUN!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

27. Those are so cute!

I wonder if they are on sale after Xmas...

[K8-EEE]

29. They Have A MATCHING ROBE!

Tres belle!

[tom_paine]

7. It was always bad...it got Orwell-level with the onset of Goebbels v2.0

Including a billion dollar network of Propaganda Mills (the Busheviks erroneously call them "think-tanks")...

and a multi-billion dollar Party-Loyal Right-Wing Sub-Media that, in addition to it's own creation, has effectively changed the mores of "journalism" into a Soviet-style Pravda festival...

and MUCH MUCH MORE!

So much isn't allowed to be discussed on TV...behind the Televised Curtain of the Amerikan Empire.

This is not a coincidence that our media is looking more and more like Old Soviet Pravda every day. Once the Leader in World Journalism, rapidly degenerating into World Laughingstock.

[Skittles]

9. they have a tendency to believe what the propaganda masters tell them

without questioning or asking for proof. It's very sad.

[denverbill]

10. Oh hell, they still think Osama was stalking Ollie North.

And that Ollie North testified to it in front of Congress.

If it supports their viewpoint, nothing is beyond belief for a freeper, source be damned. If it doesn't support their viewpoint, the source is immediately suspect, and if the author misspelled the name of a quotee in an article 25 years ago, they'll paste it everywhere.

[11 Bravo]

17. The only time I was proud to be a Virginian

was when Ollie North ran for the Senate and Virginia voters told him to go piss up a rope.

[K8-EEE]

28. Ollie On Jeopardy!

Did you see THAT??? OMG -- they were TRYING to make it easy on him, military questions etc....HE'S DUMBER THAN A ROCK!

[arcane1]

11. Repubes will believe ANY email you fwd to them, it seems

as long as it reinforces their prejudices...

debunking the same email chain-letters has become something of a hobby of mine, since I get so many of them from family...

[snippy]

13. It is because of their insatiable hunger to hate.

[Piperay]

14. RWers are as dumb as a post

I know several of them and they are really dense, they just never can "connect the dots" on anything.:dunce:

[maggrwaggr]

15. the worst ones I know are horribly under educated

as in never finished high school kind of ignorant.

[T Bone]

23. I know a dumb RWer

college eduacated, but extremely naive. He still goes on about how Cheney was made VP to 'help' shrubster with Congressional relations !

Yeah right. sarcasm on</ "ok george, here's what ya do, mail this envelope to dascle & Leahy, then in a couple days call them and tell them they better play ball with us, or we will call them major-league assholes."</sarcasm off<<<

[MacCovern]

16. Just How Gullible?

One of the best tests is to ask them:

Did you know the word gullible isn't in the dictionary?

See what kind of responses you get!

[silverweb]

19. I received that Target email from two different people...

I replied to everyone on the email list and told them about the misunderstanding that started the email, then asked them to spread the truth as assiduously as they spread the original.

Not one person responded.

It's that way every time. Even the guy who started the original flap tried spreading the true story and he said no one was interested.

Apparently, the RW isn't just gullible. Its minions apparently actually prefer lies. Go figure.

:shrug:

[K8-EEE]

30. Exactly!

You think the perpetrator would be like, oh God I'm sorry I sent out this crappy lying email that had like, 10 lies in it and no truth whatsover!

They really DON'T CARE!!

[MrPrax]

20. sorta like the Pep Boys email...

Pep Boys wasn't giving leave to servicemen and the incident reported on the email was in Kansas and it was quoting an 'arab' sounding gentleman suggesting that there was NO exceptions to employee calling in with an excuse about defending America!!

Yeah people are stupid...

[genius]

21. It's the educational system. They train kids to grow up subservient

I'm mostly disappionted in the Dean people who don't care if he's right wing. I expected more from Democrats.

[silverweb]

33. *lol*

Nice try, but that won't fly.

:D

[Nederland]

24. The far Right and the far Left are equally Gullible

I base this upon a DU thread entitled "Could US have caused the Iran earthquake?" There is plenty of tinfoil on both sides of the aisle.

[K8-EEE]

25. As Soon As You Start Getting Multiple Emails About It...

Then I will believe you. I'm not talking about one single nut....IMO you can COUNT on RWers will believe ANY AngryMan type email they get with no discussion or fact checking. The same way they believe Bush has made the world safer because he says so, even though bombs are exploding as he says it and our service people continue to die every day!

[maggrwaggr]

31. Yeah, that and the WTC "collapse conspiracy" thingy

which just gets a major eye-roll out of me every time I hear about it.

And then the raw-food people ...... OY!

[Silverhair]

32. I think some of our tinfoil hatters are just as gullible. n/t

[VOX]

34. Not only are they gullible -- they're deluded!

They persist in their ignorance in spite of any/all reputable information that runs contrary to their beliefs.

Of course, they get a lot of help from Faux News. :evilgrin:

[Wapsie B]

35. This is why

MLM'ers prey upon this crowd constantly. Companies like Amway(Alticor) and countless others have made fortunes conning these people out of their hard earned money. One would think that after being used by the repugs and flim-flam artists alike some of them would wake up and smell the coffee.

Come to think of it, this would be a great way to DEFUND the right. Start an MLM front company and send the proceeds to favored Democratic candidates.