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Friday, November 5, 2010

THIS IS HOW RUMORS START

BREAKING NEWS:
"Obama leaves for India on a ten-day tour ending in South Korea, costing us taxpayers some $200 Million dollars a day! Obama is bringing an entourage of 3,000 people with him. Obama’s trip to India does include a meeting with Prime Minister Manohan Singh in New Delhi. A total of 40 jetliners will haul Obama, family, friends and staff. They’ve rented the entire Taj Mahal Palace & Tower Hotel, all 570 rooms! He’s even bringing his teleprompters with him! He will also be protected by a fleet of 34 warships, including an aircraft carrier, which will patrol the sea lanes off the Mumbai coast during his two-day stay there beginning Saturday. The measure has been taken as Mumbai attack in 2008 took place from the sea."


Holy everything that is God! Really readers we can't make this stuff up.




Should we be surprised that Michele Bachmann is the ring leader for this latest "Government is spending too much" campaign. Not if you read our earlier blog. Last night Anderson Cooper spoke with Bachmann on this very issue and she couldn't validate the story other than to say this is what the press is saying. Can we really accept liars like this in our congress? Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Micheal Savage all jumped the Bachmann bandwagon on this story and spent their air time this AM "spreading the news". These tea bags certainly live up to the titles of "axis of idiots" and "the know-nothings".

NFTOS has fought Dana Loesch on this very issue a million times. Blogging, journalism, reporting, does not mean make up crap as you go. Copy and past reporting is dangerous.

When has the Internet become the "Library of Congress" of factual information? Because information is posted on the Internet does not promise that all is confirmed and true. Because Billy Bob posted that B-ROCK is a Kenyan with Osama Bin Laden ties, doesn't make the story factual!

Debunked information is a plethora on the information highway, especially when it comes Dana Loesch and company. When did the lack of fact checking become a "lame duck" excuse to not support your BS?

We have mentioned frequently that "freedom of speech" is a dangerous tool in the hands of idiots, and this is never more true than with this story. This is the ideology of Andrew Breitbart's "Big Journalism" blog site. These hack writers copy and past any rubbish, or dross that comes across right wing blogosphere.

One could spend their entire life debunking the rhetoric out of camp tea bag. After reviewing the above, one could assert and conclude that all information from any right wing establishment is utter BS!

This is why we at NFTOS painstakingly research all that we report. The result on not doing so damages the equilibrium of those whom seek factual information.

NFTOS