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conservatives will basically believe any meme they see

submitted by enoch

8 years 1 month ago

A lot of people get their news online now. From time to time things online aren’t true. The ability to discern fact from fiction is an important skill. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

"Texas state agriculture commissioner Sid Miller posted a fake photo of President Barack Obama holding up a Che Guevara T-shirt late Tuesday on Facebook, alongside a critique of the President's decision to continue his Latin America trip after deadly terror attacks in Brussels.

The Houston Chronicle flagged Miller's photo on Wednesday. Miller wrote that "Obama is laughing at us" and "doesn't care" about the symbolism of a shirt depicting a Marxist revolutionary like Guevara.

Except, as the Chronicle pointed out, the photo of Obama that Miller posted is not only fake, but is based on a photo taken during a presidential visit to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009. The T-shirt Obama held up in the original photo was printed with equations.”*

Read more here: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire...