DSK wrote:

Joe wrote:
Worst president in history?

(The following appeared in the Durham, NC local paper as a letter to
the editor.

Actually, it did not. This is the first of several non-truthful
statements in this post, I happen to live quite close to Durham NC and
subscribe to the Durham Herald-Sun.

Indeed. A Lexis-nexis search turns up empty for the Durham Herald-Sun.

But it does turn up two hits:

The Herald (Rock Hill, S.C.), March 14, 2004
Saturday State Times/Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), April
10, 2004

While this bogus astroturf letter made it's way into two obscure small
newspapers, it was not printed by the "Durham, NC local paper" as
claimed. Like the rest of the piece, it's loosely based on what might
be charitably be called "facts", but misses the [ob-sailing] boat
entirely when it comes to the truth.

I guess if you're stupid enough to mistake Rock Hill, South Carolina for
Durham, North Carolina, you'll swallow the rest of the ahistorical crap
contained within.

IOW, just another internet hoax reeling in a bunch of suckers who'll
believe *anything*. How many suckers? Just look at this:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?X21921258

(BTW - good job debunking the rest of it, Doug. You have much more
patience than I.)

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//-Walt
//
// There's a village in Texas that's missing its idiot.

Walt wrote:
I guess if you're stupid enough to mistake Rock Hill, South Carolina for
Durham, North Carolina, you'll swallow the rest of the ahistorical crap
contained within.

I'm a little flattered that somebody thought "Durham, NC" was somehow
more impressive than Rock Hill, SC. But it's still nonsense. One small
town newspaper I used to read had regular letters to the editor from two
citizens carrying on a public argument about UFOs. The capper was when
one of them claimed that UFOs were responsible for her pet's
incontinence. Why doesn't somebody pop up quoting this, and claiming
that it somehow proves Bush & Cheney are doing a great job?


(BTW - good job debunking the rest of it, Doug. You have much more
patience than I.)

Actually it was canned. I first saw that same bushwa about 2 weeks ago
and wrote it then, and pulled it up from the 'sent' folder. Three clicks
is all it took!

I have the bad luck to work with a bunch of dittoheads. Only a few of
them are really serious but they much better by now than to try and
argue with me. I think these fascist whacko media types affect some
people's brains just like PCP.

REgards
Doug King

DSK wrote:
Walt wrote:
I guess if you're stupid enough to mistake Rock Hill, South Carolina for
Durham, North Carolina, you'll swallow the rest of the ahistorical crap
contained within.

I'm a little flattered that somebody thought "Durham, NC" was somehow
more impressive than Rock Hill, SC.

Well, I've at least heard of Durham, and while it's not a big city, I
doubt that the editor of the newspaper is so glad to get any letters at
all that he'll print *anything*. Rock Hill is... well... not so large.
Not that there's anything wrong with small towns, it's just that the
local papers can't afford to be as picky about what letters they print.

But it's still nonsense. One small
town newspaper I used to read had regular letters to the editor from two
citizens carrying on a public argument about UFOs. The capper was when
one of them claimed that UFOs were responsible for her pet's
incontinence.

What's far fetched about that? I know I'd be incontinent if I saw a
UFO. Wouldn't anybody?

Why doesn't somebody pop up quoting this, and claiming
that it somehow proves Bush & Cheney are doing a great job?

Isn't it obvious? Why do you hate America, Doug?

(BTW - good job debunking the rest of it, Doug. You have much more
patience than I.)

Actually it was canned. I first saw that same bushwa about 2 weeks ago
and wrote it then, and pulled it up from the 'sent' folder. Three clicks
is all it took!

At least you're plagiarizing yourself, not just mindlessly passing along
whatever nonsense shows up in your in-box.


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//-Walt
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Walt wrote:
Well, I've at least heard of Durham, and while it's not a big city, I
doubt that the editor of the newspaper is so glad to get any letters at
all that he'll print *anything*. Rock Hill is... well... not so large.
Not that there's anything wrong with small towns, it's just that the
local papers can't afford to be as picky about what letters they print.

I dunno, the papers here will print a wide range of whacko stuff, but a
lot of it is about college basketball. The Durham and Raleigh papers
both have a conservative slant (more accurately, the Durham Herald-Sun
is merely pro-Bush/Cheney, the Raleigh N&O is actually conservative).

Not too long ago they were publishing a series of letters from a
Bush/Cheney cheerleader who seems to think that Clinton is still in
power, in some murky underworld way. Among other things, this person has
claimed that not one Iraqi or Afghan citizen has been harmed by U.S.
military action, whereas Clinton's nefarious scheming has killed
millions of Americans. I wish I were making this up.




But it's still nonsense. One small
town newspaper I used to read had regular letters to the editor from two
citizens carrying on a public argument about UFOs. The capper was when
one of them claimed that UFOs were responsible for her pet's
incontinence.


What's far fetched about that? I know I'd be incontinent if I saw a
UFO. Wouldn't anybody?

Did I say it was farfetched? It was the *truth*, man!

BTW small town gossip... one of the UFOers kids was the towns biggest
drug dealer... I always wondered if it was cause & effect, and if so,
which one was the cause and which was the effect...

DSK