When you are able to unequivocally prove that something someone has sent you in an email is false, and you send that proof back in a reply, do you think the people send the truth backward, to the people who sent it to them, etc.?

It destroys what they want to believe. So they think it is bullshit and will think snopes is part of the liberal media. You can’t argue with stupid. Snopes is actually run by conservatives. I would buy them a drink. They are the ones I like.

I bounce to sender when I get that shit.

Barney Frank had it right

I think it is deliberate, and that they have no interest in whether the information is true or not. Their interest is to spread doubt, lies and confusions.

What those two people up there ^^ said. I couldn’t say it any better myself but I’m still leaving a comment anyway.

@johnpowell lurve for “you can’t argue with stupid.”

Sadly, they probably do not. If they actually cared whether or not it was true, they’d have probably investigated it themselves.

@johnpowell The think I like best about Snopes is that they are totally impartial and provide cites out the ears. I didn’t know they were conservatives, but you are absolutely correct. When Snopes refutes some stupid Obama-hating rumor, the conservatives claim it’s liberal BS, and proceed to send you a link to some blog written by a Nichole (with two hearts on either side of her name) who doesn’t know that some words should be capitalized, as further proof of their stand. Floors me!

The most you can accomplish is that they’ll stop forwarding that crap to you.

I have relatives who used to forward around the most ridiculous things. So I debunked each one of them and sent it to everyone that had been cc’d. After about a half-dozen forwards, they just stopped.

And then I found out that the same people were still forwarding around the same sort of garbage, but they had taken me off the distribution list.

The basic problem is, they’d rather believe that Captain Kangaroo and Fred Rogers were Special Forces Marines that served together than actually find out that the story is completely false and that there are no Special Forces Marines. (They’re called Force Recon.) They prefer a lie that reinforces a fantasy they like to the truth.

@cwilbur I believe that Captain Kangaroo is a spy for Obama. Never mind that he’s daid. That’s totally beside the point.