Comments on: This is so cool: Brack Obama was born in Kenya! https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/03/this-is-so-cool-brack-obama-wa/ Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:46:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/03/this-is-so-cool-brack-obama-wa/#comment-541058 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:46:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/03/this-is-so-cool-brack-obama-wa/#comment-541058 Funny how people can take or leave polling data depending on convenience. There actually is a science to this, and polls do accurately predict behavior remarkably well. It simply isn’t the case that polls can be dismissed as either a) always wrong, or b) wrong when you don’t like the results, or the results expose some uncomfortable fact.

Of course, one does have to look into a given poll and evaluate it.

]]> By: Wing https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/03/this-is-so-cool-brack-obama-wa/#comment-541057 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:55:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/03/this-is-so-cool-brack-obama-wa/#comment-541057 (eyeroll)

Cripes, I called the Birthers mentally retarded. What more clue do you want? I know you were snarking, Greg. My point was that I don’t understand is how you can stand to wallow in this stuff day in and day out. Honestly, I cannot find real people outside of blogs who even know about this stuff beyond a page 20 article header. It was a telephone poll. Smart people with lives hang up on telephone pollsters. They are polls of people who care about silly things. I’m amazed the Birther percentage wasn’t higher, actually.

]]> By: catgirl https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/03/this-is-so-cool-brack-obama-wa/#comment-541056 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:45:35 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/03/this-is-so-cool-brack-obama-wa/#comment-541056 I don’t think the fake birth certificate was meant to be a hoax; I’m pretty sure it was meant to be a joke and the birthers were to dumb to notice. I guess that’s a real life example of Poe’s law.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/03/this-is-so-cool-brack-obama-wa/#comment-541055 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:37:53 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/03/this-is-so-cool-brack-obama-wa/#comment-541055 Wing: You stepped right in that one! Go clean your shoes now. Oh, and stay tuned.

]]> By: Wing https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/03/this-is-so-cool-brack-obama-wa/#comment-541054 Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:56:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/03/this-is-so-cool-brack-obama-wa/#comment-541054 the average American (as you know, Westerners tend to be dumbed down quite a bit by their stupid culture).

Geez, what a bore you can be. I can’t find anyone in real life who give a gnat’s fart about this stuff. There’s so many more interesting and beautiful things in life than wallowing in this piffle. Is it fun? Does it make you feel superior to ridicule mentally retarded people?

]]> By: Steve Ulven https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/03/this-is-so-cool-brack-obama-wa/#comment-541053 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:26:41 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/03/this-is-so-cool-brack-obama-wa/#comment-541053 That’s okay, I don’t count Hawaii part of the United States either. It’s full of brown people. Hehe, just kidding. Sorry, I thought I was one of them for a moment.

]]> By: NewEnglandBob https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/03/this-is-so-cool-brack-obama-wa/#comment-541052 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:22:19 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/03/this-is-so-cool-brack-obama-wa/#comment-541052 It just goes to show, you can expose a Republican to an education but you can’t make it learn anything.

Republicants!

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/03/this-is-so-cool-brack-obama-wa/#comment-541051 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:57:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/03/this-is-so-cool-brack-obama-wa/#comment-541051 And, actually, a country that did not quite exist yet.

]]> By: Judith McDaniel https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/03/this-is-so-cool-brack-obama-wa/#comment-541050 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:52:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/03/this-is-so-cool-brack-obama-wa/#comment-541050 Yup and it is a birth certificate for a hospital with a wrong name in a city that is identified as in the wrong country in the year he was born. Come on forgers, you can do better. I don’t let my students get away with research like that.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/03/this-is-so-cool-brack-obama-wa/#comment-541049 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:22:12 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/03/this-is-so-cool-brack-obama-wa/#comment-541049 That might be the poll. I was just watching Rachel Maddow, and she referred to it. I’m made a note to self to post her spot when it comes out tomorrow. It is actually very funny, good theater.

(and her guest makes the point that this is racist)

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