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I have been encountering another set of behavior when confronting lies spread via e-mail. The sender knows that the story is false, and doesn’t care.
I have often sent back full documentation, including references that conclusively disprove the story. The response I get back is that the sender does not care that the story is a lie: Just as long as the message is something negative about Barak Obama. We are no longer seeing a situation where ignorant, uninformed senders (or bloggers for that matter) are unintentionally sending lies. The know full well that the story is a lie, but they hate Barak Obama so much that the only important matter is that bad stories about Barak Obama be spread around, both for political purpose and for personal enjoyment.
This is the ultimate triumph of Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and the other Conservatives of America. It is not longer a matter even of political power. Hate is all that matters to Conservatives and, as long as the messages serve to propagate, hate that is all that matters: Nothing else.
