The fake news stories that fooled liberals

sfgate ^ | December 9, 2016 | Alix Martichoux

[OldGuard1]

Rundown of some of the fake stories that liberals fell for during the election (# of shares):

*Ireland accepting American refugees fleeing the possibility of a Trump presidency (810k)

*Bernie Sanders running for president as an independent (34k)

*Pence called Michelle Obama "the most vulgar first lady we've ever had." (246k)

*5 million uncounted Sanders ballot found on Clinton's email server (141k)

*RuPaul claims Trump touched him inappropriately at a party (285k)

*'Clueless' star Stacey Dash to lead Trump's 'Negro Outreach Program.' (71k)

*Hacked emails revealed that Hillary Clinton threatened Bernie Sanders' wife(66k)

*Trump planned to appoint WWE owner Vince McMahon as his running mate(33k)

*South African billionaire offering $1m, a home and a car to any African American leaving America if Trump became president (278k)

*'Rage Against the Machine' reuniting and releasing new music, inspired by their hatred of Donald Trump (512k)

*Pope Francis endorsed Bernie Sanders (46k)

*Monica Lewinsky planned to vote for Hillary (75k)

*Claimed Trump said "I'll overturn the shocking gay marriage decision- trust me." (195k)

*Donald Trump caught snorting cocaine with prostitutes at a Phoenix hotel (79k)

*Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau preparing to accept 250k American refugees in case Trump was elected (39k)

*Trump University offered Sarah Palin an honorary degree in climate science (72k)

*Hillary Clinton campaign committed election fraud in the Arizona primary (35k)

*Nancy's Reagan's last words: "Do not vote for Donald Trump." (16k)

When you see these numbers, remember that Clinton only got 65.5 million votes. So literally over-1% of them shared the Ireland-refugee story, nearly-1% shared the Rage Against the Machine story, 1/2% were so dumb as to think Trump touched RuPaul or a South African billionaire was going to give them a million dollars, etc.

[jsanders2001]

That Barack Obama:

is a straight man is a Christian and not a Muslim is the best president we've ever had has a transparent administration actually gave Iran all that money is wealthy because he earned it honestly ...

[jsanders2001]

That Barack Obama:

• is a straight man
• is a Christian and not a Muslim
• is the best president we've ever had
• has a transparent administration
• actually gave Iran all that money
• is wealthy because he earned it honestly ...

[Drango]

Hillary Clinton campaign committed election fraud in the Arizona primary (35k)

This one may be true.

[FreeAtlanta]

• Benghazi was about an internet video
• unemployment is < 10%
• The economy is GREAT!
• If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor
• etc. etc. etc.

[cicero2k]

Fact:

Many millenials get their news from the Comedy Channel.

In Comedy, fake is normal.

Absurdity in the mind of the performer, becomes fact in the mind of the listener.

Fake news is not new.

What is new is now: fake news is used against the “performer class”, and they don’t like it.

[FreeAtlanta]

I still run into idiot leftist who believe that Sarah Palin said that she can “see Russia from her front porch”, and to top that off, they don’t know that you actually can see Russia from Alaska.

They are stunned when I tell them and I have to show them pictures for them to believe it. smh.

[Buckeye McFrog]

*Pope Francis endorsed Bernie Sanders

In fairness he came pretty damn close.

[jsanders2001]

I bet this list could get VERY long...lol

The man has been a complete disaster to America. I don't know how the leftists can't see that. Actually I think they can; they just will never admit they got scammed and were idiots. First time I saw him on Oprah I knew we were in trouble. My wife even said (before he announced it) I bet he's going to run for president. I said that guy is a conman just by the way he talked. First impressions are usually right. Not always but they were then.

[bigbob]

#1. Climate change is caused by man
#2. Most transparent
#3. Affordable

[Buckeye McFrog]

they don’t know that you actually can see Russia from Alaska.

The more people I talk to the more I am convinced that I must be part of 1% of all high-school graduates who did not fall asleep in geography class.

[DaveA37]

“Hillary Clinton campaign committed election fraud in the Arizona primary (35k)”........

Why did you list ONLY Arizona when their fraud was nation wide?

[Cobra64]

Does anyone know what the numbers represent?

[Bob]

First paragraph: (# of shares)

Many of those, though, may have been by conservatives laughing at them.

[Vaduz]

Not hard to fool a liberal the democrats have been doing it for years.

[Leep]

Hillary was a human..I mean had the election locked up.

[Graybeard58]

Geography, shemogrphy.

Lot’s of people, even on this forum, do not know that Mexico is in North America - I’ve seen it several times.

[catnipman]

The only reason fake news has gotten a toehold is because the main stream media have knowingly published so much obviously biased and false material that they’ve made it very difficult for the average misinformed alt-left snowflake to distinguish between fake news from the main stream media and fake news from fake internet sites.