Sorry, but "believing shit you see on the internet" is not a phenomenon unique to conservatives.

Just limited to Trump and based on my own social media group:
No, Trump's cousin's obituary did not ask people not to vote for him.
No, Trump didn't say republicans are the "dumbest group of voters."
And no, Cruz and Rubio didn't tweet that they would support Hillary over Trump.

And that's just related to Trump and just in the last week.

Don't even get me started on naturopaths/anti-vaxxer morons (although I will categorically state that doctors are not being murdered because they found "cancer enzymes" in vaccines)

The world would be a better place if everyone stopped to take 5 seconds to google whatever nonsense they're about to share. In fact, I think there should a feature on facebook/twitter that does this automatically.

I don't get a lot of phoney baloney stuff from my lib / dem / progressive friends, but I sure do get a lot from my Republican Mom and some from my R sister. My Mom doesn't have the skills to prove or disprove the stuff, but she sure is good at spreading it around.

We all have our biases.

Conservatives are likely to believe conspiracy nonsense that appeals to their biases (Obama is a muslim/kenyan/communist, etc).

And progressives are just as likely to believe conspiracy nonsense that appeals to their biases (see: anything to do with monsanto).

The trick is acknowledging your biases and fact checking anyway.

I wasn't kidding about automating that. If someone could write a browser plug-in that detected when you were submitting a URL to twitter or facebook and ran it against a snopes-style DB, that would be a boon for humanity.

@ChaosEngine
totally agree my man,this was the title of the video.

Yeah, Cenk went the wrong direction with this. But I think a narrower point can be made, we should expect elected politicians to have some rational skepticism about misinformation on the internet.

Either he cynically believes his base isn't smart enough to tell that it's photo shopped, or he is gullible enough to believe it himself. One is a dramatic failure of character the other of intelligence. And it does seem like republican politicians are far more guilty of spreading bullshit internet memes.

Moving this video to enoch's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

Note: This is hadouken24's partner posting, not hadouken24 himself.

I hate the word "lawmaker." It seems to be almost exclusively used to make minor local politicians who are probably relatively unknown in their own area seem more important in order to generate maximum outrage over their comments.