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Check12 Donating Member (445 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 03:49 PM
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A Scandal Tracking Experiment..
What if one were to plant identical phony scandals in the blogs involving a US Rep. One on the left, and one on the right. With identical details so that later both stories could be proven as hoaxes.

After the scandals are posted, sit back and watch what happens to each one. Will they both be revealed as phony right away? Will the MSM pick up only the story on the Dem Rep, and ignore the Repub Rep? Or would the lefty blogs launch the scandal on the righty into prominence on all the left blogs, to the point that the MSM would pick up on it.

This is just a dumb thought experiment of course, how do you think it would turn out?
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hippiegranny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 03:51 PM
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1. how it would turn out:
all the sheeple would remember what they heard about the lefty rep getting in trouble and never have it register it was a hoax. they will believe the worst about the lefty rep for the rest of their wooly lives.
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