PolitiFact: If you're fooled by fake news, this man probably wrote it

[teach1st]

PolitiFact: If you're fooled by fake news, this man probably wrote it
Politifact Florida @ Tampa Bay Times, 6/1/17

http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/national/politifact-if-youre-fooled-by-fake-news-this-man-probably-wrote-it/2325788

If you've seen a fake news story on the Internet, there's a good chance it came from the mind of a 45-year-old Maine man who umpires Little League games.

Barack Obama arrested for wiretapping Donald Trump! Clinton Foundation ship caught smuggling refugees! Trey Gowdy's son found dead in a D.C. dumpster!

...

Under the banner "America's Last Line of Defense," his website's About Us description said it is run by "a group of educated, God-fearing Christian conservative patriots who are tired of Obama's tyrannical reign and ready to see a strong Republican take the White House."

In reality, the Last Line of Defense is run by one person, Blair, mostly under the pseudonym Stryker. He started with partners, he said, but he is currently the "only partner with a public face."

The site is a carefully curated social experiment, Blair said, designed to "feed the Hoverounders their daily need for hate and their undying urge to blame everything in the known universe on Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama

[Thomas Hurt]

1. You ever notice how these whackjobs always complain about tyranny,

and never say what freedoms have supposedly been deprived?

[teach1st]

3. Why it's right there in the Declaration of Indy Pennants

The freedom to kick reporters, libtartds, coloreds, and furnners butts as wrote by one of our founding fathers, Ronnie Raygun or maybe Ted Nugget or some such.

[frazzled]

2. If you're fooled by fake news

of this sort, you are probably a full-fledged idiot.