Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Breaking News: AOL Users will believe anything

Okay maybe I'm picking low hanging fruit lately...but I'm still amused by this.  I'm still amused by flatulence and potty humor in general though so put that in perspective...

Anyway, as the headline from World Net Daily reports (and by the source you should already know this is meaningless propaganda), the Obama citizenship issue has merit according to an AOL poll.  

Stop there, take a second to soak it in....

Yeah, they are quoting the results of a survey of the most technologically inept people in America as breaking news.  Those people were asked whether they believe in a conspiracy theory with nothing but hearsay and fear to back it up.  And SURPRISE!!!!!  Half of them believe it!

Who would have ever thought AOL users, the shrinking population of tailored-internet experience customers, without broadband internet or the smarts to use it, who haven't figured out how to get a free email address from a million other providers, would be the type of people to believe conspiracy theories over available evidence?

Could anyone have imagined that Grandma Betty Sue (a.k.a. NanaPuddin1914@aol), who invested all of her Social Security checks in Beanie Babies and Nigerian Prince Scams, would be likely to put her faith in whacked out 911 Truthers and radical evangelical Bible thumpers who apparently are all experts in Photoshop and Constitutional Law?

Thanks WND for this hard-hitting journalism.

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