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Bill Clinton Wants Internet Rumor Debunking Agency
« on: May 14, 2011, 11:30:24 PM »
"It would be like, I don't know, NPR..."

Well, there's a good start right there.  ;/

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/05/14/clinton-muses-creating-internet-agency-combat-falsehoods/?test=latestnews
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Re: Bill Clinton Wants Internet Rumor Debunking Agency
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2011, 11:39:35 PM »
That's just *expletive deleted*ing assine.

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"Somebody needs to be doing it, and maybe it's a worthy expenditure of taxpayer money

No they don't and no it isn't. Now STFU.


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Re: Bill Clinton Wants Internet Rumor Debunking Agency
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2011, 11:44:15 PM »
Wait. He wants the government to keep the internet honest? Leftists have the most curious knack for being not just wrong, but backwards.
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Re: Bill Clinton Wants Internet Rumor Debunking Agency
« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2011, 11:46:37 PM »
Clinton wants another government agency? :facepalm:

Clinton -- who lied under oath -- wants the government to be in the government to regulate honesty on the internetz?  Can we have one to keep politicians honest?
  The irony is delicious ...

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Re: Bill Clinton Wants Internet Rumor Debunking Agency
« Reply #4 on: May 15, 2011, 08:17:31 AM »
Maybe we'll finally find out what "is" is?.....  ;/
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Re: Bill Clinton Wants Internet Rumor Debunking Agency
« Reply #5 on: May 15, 2011, 10:15:14 AM »
Ministry of Truth  ???
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Re: Bill Clinton Wants Internet Rumor Debunking Agency
« Reply #6 on: May 15, 2011, 11:13:03 AM »
There's no fool like an arrogant, narcissistic old fool.
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Re: Bill Clinton Wants Internet Rumor Debunking Agency
« Reply #7 on: May 15, 2011, 11:23:10 AM »
Quote from: longeyes on May 15, 2011, 11:13:03 AM
There's no fool like an arrogant, narcissistic old fool.

And then there is Bill Clinton, kind of in a class by himself.
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Re: Bill Clinton Wants Internet Rumor Debunking Agency
« Reply #8 on: May 15, 2011, 12:19:08 PM »
Quote from: Tallpine on May 15, 2011, 10:15:14 AM
Ministry of Truth  ???

Ya beat me to it.
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Re: Bill Clinton Wants Internet Rumor Debunking Agency
« Reply #9 on: May 19, 2011, 07:51:08 AM »
I'd vote for bluedress.com
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Re: Bill Clinton Wants Internet Rumor Debunking Agency
« Reply #10 on: May 19, 2011, 10:31:48 AM »
It already exists. It's called Snopes.
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Re: Bill Clinton Wants Internet Rumor Debunking Agency
« Reply #11 on: May 19, 2011, 10:35:45 AM »
Snopes isn't enough. If this sort of agency had been around 14 years ago, the Drudge Report would have been censored on the Monica Lewinsky story.
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Re: Bill Clinton Wants Internet Rumor Debunking Agency
« Reply #12 on: May 19, 2011, 12:59:39 PM »
Snopes has an agenda
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Re: Bill Clinton Wants Internet Rumor Debunking Agency
« Reply #13 on: May 19, 2011, 01:05:41 PM »
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Re: Bill Clinton Wants Internet Rumor Debunking Agency
« Reply #14 on: May 19, 2011, 01:19:18 PM »
That's not even funny anymore
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Re: Bill Clinton Wants Internet Rumor Debunking Agency
« Reply #15 on: May 19, 2011, 09:41:23 PM »
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Re: Bill Clinton Wants Internet Rumor Debunking Agency
« Reply #16 on: May 20, 2011, 07:06:39 AM »
So this agency would use critical thinking and research to determine what is fact and what is fiction...isn't that, well, a school?  Don't we already have a massively funded department that is supposed to do that?
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Re: Bill Clinton Wants Internet Rumor Debunking Agency
« Reply #17 on: May 20, 2011, 01:07:08 PM »
If Clinton were to get his way, there would be a whole fedguv department consisting of these guys.
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Re: Bill Clinton Wants Internet Rumor Debunking Agency
« Reply #18 on: May 20, 2011, 02:06:14 PM »
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Re: Bill Clinton Wants Internet Rumor Debunking Agency
« Reply #19 on: May 21, 2011, 07:14:19 PM »
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Re: Bill Clinton Wants Internet Rumor Debunking Agency
« Reply #20 on: May 24, 2011, 12:52:20 PM »
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... and their mandate would be narrowly confined to identifying relevant factual errors," he said.

Depends on what your definition of "relevant" is.

Dang.  I keep hearing the words "mandate creep" coming from somewhere, but there's nobody else in the house.  Darned annoying.

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Re: Bill Clinton Wants Internet Rumor Debunking Agency
« Reply #21 on: May 24, 2011, 06:42:00 PM »
Looks like Obama has assigned a czar to do just that. 

http://www.libertynewsonline.com/article_301_30605.php

With a President like Obama who thinks his executive power does not come with checks and balances, you never know what your going to get. I have never seen the word “Czar” in the Constitution. Apparently Barack has seen it there many times because he just appointed his 33rd Czar, Jesse Lee, to help fight the TRUE stories that paint Obama in a negative light.
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