Received an email from my sister a few hours ago.
It was a forwarded email, through several other forwards, as a blistering attack on the writings of Barack Obama.
Problem is, he never wrote the stuff they said he did.
I've had a bad week. I'm tired, pissed, and frankly I've had it up to ( draw an imaginary line roughly 4 inches above my head) here with all of this.
I won't go into details, but for all practical purposes, this is the snopes rebuttal to the email.
http://www.snopes.com/...
So what did I do. I sent off a pair of fire-throwing emails to my sister, asking her to please send this reply to all of those on her list, and singled out the person (whom we both know- it's one of her oldest friends) that sent it to her.
Then I wrote to the person whom I've never met, the person at the top of the Fwd:Fwd:Fwd list, asking him to stop sending his email without fact-checking it. He's probably some dumbshit ultra-conservative Jew (yes, there are a rare few of us who are conservatives, mostly impotent older guys or their offspring and frankly I want nothing to do with them) who can't bear the fact that we might have an African American president. Especially a Democratic one.
So here's the challenge- we all get these forwards to a forward to a forward... send them right back. Don't just dump them, REPLY to people on the list, especially those who you know, and educate them.
Tell them not to repeat lies- use humor, guilt (works especially well with Jews) and most importantly, the truth. Lord knows, how these bastards hate the truth.
It's our best weapon.