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Rumors and partisan politics


Posted: May 25, 2010

Rumors and Partisan Politics

J.L. Bell at Oz and Ends counted the number of rumors about President G.W. Bush and President Obama that were identified and determined by rumor-validation site, snopes.com, to be true, false, a mixture of true and false, or uncertain.  It turns out, there are a lot more rumors and a lot more false rumors about Obama than there were about Bush:

Jay Livingston summarizes:

In less than two years, Obama rumor-mongers have had nearly twice the output that their Bush counterparts managed in eight years – 87 to 47. And while the Bush rumors split almost evenly true-false, false Obama rumors dwarfed the true ones. The false rumors about Obama outnumbered the total number of rumors about Bush. And while the lies about Obama are almost all negative, some of the false rumors about Bush are quite flattering, along the lines of the George Washington cheery tree rumor – like the rumor that had Bush paying for the funeral of a boy who had drowned near the Crawford ranch.

Looking closer at the mixed rumors, Bell reports that:

I delved down to the stories that the site designates as a mixture of truth and falsehood. For Obama, in most cases the truth is innocuous while the lie reflects poorly on the President, particularly photographs that are misrepresented or show behavior that produced no complaints when his predecessors did the same. In contrast, in this mixture of truth and falsehood about George W. Bush praying with an injured soldier, the lie reflected well on that President…

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Maybe if our president - sm

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wasn't spending money to keep records from public view....maybe there wouldn't be so many rumors about him. Just a thought. If you continue to keep things hidden, people are going to theorize why you are hiding things. Be transparent like the president campaigned on and there wouldn't be so many unanswered questions that lead to rumors.

The problem with this is that the majority of - false rumors have been

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silly, stupid things that have nothing to do with transparency and more to do with certain people trying to make something huge out of absolutely nothing. He has been far more transparent than many on this board give him credit for-not necessarily you. Many see the information that has been released and refuse to believe it. He did his part, some just need to get off the rumor wagon and accept that this president is not the bogey-man some want to paint him as, and move on.

Thanks, dssd for the post,btw. I appreciate it and what it shows reflects perfectly what I personally have be observing as well.

Records - Vikefantam

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Sarah Palin had to prove her baby with Down's Syndrome was hers and not her daughter's. She did it without a fight. McCain was born around Panama. He had to show his papers too, and also did so without a fight.

To hide one's supposedly public information is to infer you have something to hide - especially when you have millions to do it.

And I just posted that without a teleprompter.

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