I see the Internet propoganda machine is humming along nicely thanks to friendly little reminders that have popped up on my account telling me several of my Facebook friends are "mad as heck and not going to take it anymore" because they've been told (without verification mind you) that President Obama has demanded "No Christmas trees on his White House watch! The Obamas will call them Holiday Trees!"
Just a simple Google search can quickly denounce that little diddy as a hoax (try http://www.factcheck.org/2009/10/holiday-tree-hooey/ for starters), but hey it's more fun to spread lies and false accusations because after all that is what ...
To paraphrase something a wise old man once told me, "If it looks like a hoax, smells like a hoax, tastes like a hoax, feels like a hoax, sounds like a hoax, and has the letters H-O-A-X tattooed to its butt cheeks, THEN IT IS A HOAX!"
But, people only believe what they want to believe.
This goes both ways. The extreme left share's center stage as the extreme right when it comes to winning accolades for over use of scare tactics.
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