[MarkL]

Don't you know that every time a black votes for the GOP candidate, "another black church burns"??

Actually, being a resident of the state of MO, I did hear that advertisement in 2000!

When I said that it was just plainly NOT true, she insisted that it was. When I suggested that she check out the Consitution of the US, she said she didn't care what was in "it," that she "knew" what the facts were.

This is the same sort of person who was sure that Churches Chicken was putting something in their batter that would render black men impotent, or that the scene formerly on the bottles of Snapple drinks were slave ships unloading their cargo, although it was actually the famous "Boston Tea Party" etching! And that the the "K" on the bottle meant support for the KKK.

Mark

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Don't forget the one about "US Government planes" flying massive amounts of drugs from Latin America to inner cities in the US for the purpose of promoting drug addiction among blacks. I first heard this on the short-lived Whoopie Goldberg TV show that came on immediately after the Rush Limbaugh TV show back in early '93. If I was too comfortable in my LaZboy to get up and go to bed after Rush, then just minutes later, Whoopie would have me whooping & laughing so hard that I'd be awake enough to go to bed. Never did see one entire show of hers. What a riot.

Later that same year, I saw a "Townhall DC" Nightline show where some of the audience repeated this same scurrilous rumor to Koppel. And if I remember correctly, the San Jose Mercury News sometime later did a big "expose" piece where they claimed this was a TRUE rumor, and claimed that the entire operation was run by ex-Contras from Nicaragua. The SJMN management immediately disavowed the entire piece as a fabrication and blamed its publication on the fact that their own "journalist" who wrote it and published it did it during a week when the editor was on vacation and so it didn't go through the normal fact-checking phase where they would have discovered that it was a totally bogus story. But of course this gave the story new life in the black community. I think Maxine Waters used the original SJMN story - and completely ignored the retraction of the story - to start a Congressional investigation into it that of course went nowhere - but just its mere existence perpetuated the rumor further.