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Nov. 21 2009 - 2:05 pm | 3 views | 1 recommendation | 1 comment

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By RYAN SAGER

I think biased news sources can start a message that just keeps getting repeated in one circle until it’s twisted like an elementary school game of telephone.

Example: my husband’s family is very conservative. Evangelical Christians, homeschool, anti-evolution, etc. Last year, my niece, who’s 14 wrote a post on facebook about how she wasn’t going to let Barack Obama take her away to a concentration work camp for the summer and indoctrinate her with liberal ideas. She refused to go!

I couldn’t figure it out, until I saw that Michelle Bachmann had said something about how Obama’s stimulus money for kids to get summer jobs would include indoctrinating them with some sort of liberal values (as far as I know, not true). My niece heard this and felt she was going to be dragged away to one of these places. No one in her circle of people seemed to be able to correct her.

Where did she hear it? A tea party.

— Megan Cottrell

On: ACORN FAIL: 52% of GOP Conspiracists

 
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    10:27 pm on 11/21/09
    andylevinson
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    RE:No one in her circle of people seemed to be able to correct her.

    Heck, Ryan….do any in the circle of obama, reid, pelosi ever correct their lies…?

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