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TrollBuster9090

(5,954 posts) Tue Jan 31, 2017, 05:27 AM Jan 2017

Fact Check: Just FYI, Mexico Did NOT Build A Wall On The Guatemalan Border.

Last edited Tue Jan 31, 2017, 06:40 AM - Edit history (1)

The facebook meme floating around the net is a great example of (pardon the pun) REAL fake news.

Ironically, the picture of the wall shown is actually an Israeli wall on the West Bank.

From Snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/mexico-guatemala-border/

The meme:
(Amazingly, they even misspell Guatemala, and people still believe it.)

The actual wall, on the West Bank:
http://www.vtjp.org/background/Separation_Wall_Report.htm

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Fact Check: Just FYI, Mexico Did NOT Build A Wall On The Guatemalan Border. (Original Post) TrollBuster9090 Jan 2017 OP

Stupid FAKe NEWS ASSHOLES and all the Stupid Idiots who believe Cha Jan 2017 #1

You'd think the fact that they even mispell "Guadamala" would give them a clue? nt TrollBuster9090 Jan 2017 #2

You'd think.. But, I've never known this type Cha Jan 2017 #3

They don't need no stinkin spellin raging moderate Jan 2017 #4

Ha! One My RW Cousins Posted This Yesterday... JimGinPA Jan 2017 #5

Yeah, one of my old High School friends posted it a couple of days ago, too. TrollBuster9090 Jan 2017 #7

Funny, but I drove across that border. No wall was there and hardly any road. sinkingfeeling Jan 2017 #6

Cha

(297,323 posts)

1. Stupid FAKe NEWS ASSHOLES and all the Stupid Idiots who believe

Reply to TrollBuster9090 (Original post)

Tue Jan 31, 2017, 06:28 AM

Jan 2017

it.

TrollBuster9090

(5,954 posts)

2. You'd think the fact that they even mispell "Guadamala" would give them a clue? nt

Reply to Cha (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 31, 2017, 06:38 AM

Jan 2017

Cha

(297,323 posts)

3. You'd think.. But, I've never known this type

Reply to TrollBuster9090 (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 31, 2017, 06:52 AM

Jan 2017

of genius to bother with details like trying to spell a word correctly.. especially when it's so easily accessible on the INTERNET.

Mahalo, TrollBuster