05-27-2008 08:06 PM
I had to laugh at how hard some right-wingers are willing to push against reality or, at least, credibility, to prove a point.* For example, you KFYI’s (Phoeniz, AZ) right-wingnut Bruce Jacobs who decides to read, on air,
a Wall Street Journal “article” attributed to Bill Cosby.* You might have seen it before, it starts off with the following:
“Rev. Wright epitomizes the thoughts and actions that have prevented and continue to prevent black America from moving ahead and achieving their potential as a people. He suggests that this United States of America made up of sons and daughters of immigrants (I’m talking of the millions of 1st, 2nd, 3rd generation immigrants in this country) of every race, creed, color and religion each and everyone of them who had nothing to do with slavery, some how owe something to a group of people who have never been slaves?”
Now, if you click on the link above, you might be confused.* You might say, “hey, that’s not the article!* This article is about Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s recent speeches on reconciliation, not Bill Cosby’s article!”
Well, that’s because you didn’t scroll down to the comments section.* My quote above was from comments posted by a reader calling himself “Bill Cosby”.* So, because this person posted under the name of “Bill Cosby”, the internet has been lit up with message board posts and blog posts about what “Bill Cosby” said about Rev. Wright.* Funny enough, in all the posts I’ve seen, I had not seen one link to this supposed article.* So, I went to Snopes.com, which is an internet myth-busting site, and saw that
they* had the real deal on the story.
The funny part about it is that Jacobs was reading the story like it was in an actual newspaper and not a printout of comments from a post on the Wall Street Journal blogs.* So, Jacobs deceived his listeners and, no doubt, many of these suckers went on to repeat this nonsense.
However, it doesn’t appear to be the first time he’s done this.* In 2003, Jacobs
reported an urban legend about Bill Clinton as fact.* In
that urban legend, Bill Clinton dodged the draft and became a fugitive from justice.* However, as a “fugitive from justice”, Bill Clinton ran for Congress in 1974 and for Attorney General of Arkansas in 1976 (okay, has this gotten ridiculous enough yet?) * They way this urban legend goes, he was pardoned by President Jimmy Carter right after Carter was
inaugurated in 1977 (never mind that Presidents usually issue pardons when leaving office, not right after they’re sworn in).
In other words, Jacobs is not big on the truth.
Now, of course, he was not content with just making himself
sound stupid so, yes, he put up a YouTube video.
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