[Grovenet] "Guess Who the Scoundrel Is"

[JBlair2154 at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/1/2006 2:04:52 PM Central Daylight Time,  
grovenet-request at rdrop.com writes:

The  title of this thread is "Guess Who the Scroundrel Is".  At this   
point, I would guess that the answer is "the author of the original e-  
mail".  Right?



RIGHT.  And wouldn't we just love to be able to track  down the source(s) of 
all the false emails that pollute email boxes all over the  world? I can't 
even count the number of politically slanted junk mail forwarded  to me prior to 
the last two elections, and 99.9% of them supported the far right  ideology. 
If I challenged or disproved the authenticity of any of these, I was  attacked 
by person who had forwarded it to me....although of course, the sender  had no 
idea who had written it.  Unconditional acceptance of every lie (or  absurd 
spin) -- as long as it supports the receiver's views -- seems to be part  of 
the Creed. So I wasn't surprised when Steven shrugged off snopes.com -- not  the 
first time I've seen this happen. Once I asked the most radical of my  former 
classmates to please give me a list of sources she considers "truthful"  and 
therefore non-liberal, so I would be enlightened as to where I must go for  
"accurate" research. She didn't respond. Gradually, I discovered, on my own,  
where much of the dogma originates and/or from which it is disseminated. (George 
 Clooney had an excellent rejoinder to one of those sources: one of the 
prominent  professional political pundits posing as a journalist, whose name I've 
happily  forgotten.) Wouldn't it be nice if there were a cost-effective way to 
track down  the original writers of such emails and sue them for libel or 
slander or  whatever? Now and then, a celebrity will take on one of the tabloids, 
however,  and those things keep being published...so I suppose whereever there 
is a market  for ANYTHING, there will be providers -- as every pornographer 
and drug dealer  knows.
 
Joy