Christopher Hayes of The Nation, is outraged! Outraged I tell you! Just how outraged is he? Well he took one of those urban legend e-mails that we all get, and proceeded to take a Snopes.com debunking as his own and called it a right-wing smear machine! Snopes last updated theirs in March 2005.
If you compare the two works, one can’t help but wonder, for all the allegations, why Hayes was not capable of linking to actual sources. Note that the Snopes item provides links.
I wasn’t aware that all the internet rumors that flow through the e-mail boxes are actually a carefully crafted plan by the Republicans and Rush and Fox News…See, they get all of us to keep sending them around and that’s why the Democrats message doesn’t get out! It’s just a big fat right wing conspiracy. There are absolutely no emails circulating that put Republicans in the same light!
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Hey now, hold it second…
That Picture that you have there, with the tin foil on his head, is a Amateur Radio Operator. Those people are some of the most patriotic people in the world. They have served this nation will in times of disaster. I don’t think it’s fair to use them as a example of democratic nonsense, as I know a good fair of Ham (as they are called) who are staunch Republicans.
please fix that.
-Chuck
P.S. I am a Amateur Radio Operator, and recognized the equipment that he was using.
Yes, that tin foil on his head is actually an antenna!
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