When you're gonna get criticized either way, you might as well do the right thing. Which is exactly what the President did.

My favorite news headline of the past month.

This one is real.

~Not!

Whether they found signs or not, the agenda was in place to trash him whatever way he decided.

Good find 1SBM

but I would NOT put it past them. It's their MO.

But very funny.

why are you spreading it around? That's called slander.

We get all outraged when Republicans spread lies and/or unverified "facts" about Democrats, and then we turn around and do the same thing about Republicans. That is called hypocrisy.

Don't complain the next time that some right winger spreads bullshit about one of ours.

I don't think you got to read the last sentence of the story.

And its, properly called "satire."

that CANNOT be slander.

1StrongBlackMan isn't making any claim as to the truth of the rumor.

We should have some standard of facts before posting something like this.

"I cannot attest to the veracity" part and the "the author is a political cartoonist" part?

That should have given one a hint ... or maybe I should have placed the or or thingies?

I came across this:



I believe the picture in the OP to be genuine. Google satellite shows a wide alley behind the building

or in this case, obvious satire.

Thanks for the laugh.

It sounds plausible that they would pull something like that though, lol. Well played. Had me going.

Wouldn't that exclude most of the political stuff that gets posted on this board ... and the internutz, in general?

I mean really ... what happens is people read something that their Blogger or "news-source of choice wrote ... They/we agree with what is written ... They/we post it! Very little though to whether something is "true" or not, just minimally plausible and that they/we argee with the spirit of what is written.

What would be left to post under the "know to be true" criterion ... besides pictures of puppies and kittens ... and "cool story(ies), Bro."?

"What would be left to post under the "know to be true" criterion ... besides pictures of puppies and kittens"

would've gotten you extra recs. Everybody knows that DU just loooves "teh kittehs".

My post was a joke about all those that didn't get the satire. I understand what you mean though. If we posted only what we "know" to be "true," the entire internet would read like an instruction manual with LOLcats as the illustrations, lol. That would be kind of funny, but not very interesting or sensible to expect.