By Jeff Foxworthy:
If plastic water bottles are okay, but plastic bags are banned, — you might live in a nation (state) that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots. WE DO LIVE IN SUCH A DUMB COUNTRY!!
If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for entering and remaining in the country illegally — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If you have to get your parents' permission to go on a field trip or to take an aspirin in school, but not to get an abortion — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If you MUST show your identification to board an airplane, cash a check, buy liquor, or check out a library book and rent a video, but not to vote for who runs the government — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If the government wants to prevent stable, law-abiding citizens from owning gun magazines that hold more than ten rounds, but gives twenty F-16 fighter jets to the crazy new leaders in Egypt — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If, in the nation's largest city, you can buy two 16-ounce sodas, but not one 24-ounce soda, because 24-ounces of a sugary drink might make you fat — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If an 80-year-old woman who is confined to a wheelchair or a three-year-old girl can be strip-searched by the TSA at the airport, but a woman in a burka or a hijab is only subject to having her neck and head searched — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If a seven-year-old boy can be thrown out of school for saying his teacher is "cute" but hosting a sexual exploration or diversity class in grade school is perfectly acceptable — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If hard work and success are met with higher taxes and more government regulation and intrusion while not working is rewarded with Food Stamps, WIC checks, Medicaid benefits, subsidized housing, and free cell phones — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If you pay your mortgage faithfully, denying yourself the newest big-screen TV, while your neighbor buys iPhones, time shares, a wall-sized do-it-all plasma screen TV and new cars, and the government forgives his debt when he defaults on his mortgage — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
If being stripped of your Constitutional right to defend yourself makes you more "safe" according to the government — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
THINK BEFORE YOU VOTE IN ALL UPCOMING ELECTIONS. MOST OF THE IDIOTS RUNNING THIS COUNTRY SAY ONE THING AND DO THE OPPOSITE KNOWING THAT THE PEOPLE WHO VOTED THEM IN DO NOT PAY ATTENTION
LET'S SEE IF I GOT THIS RIGHT!!!
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AND, IN MANY INSTANCES, YOU CAN VOTE.
#1: Tooconservative To: IbJensen (#0)
Just another email chain letter relying on gullibility and misattribution to some known public figure.
Tooconservative posted on 2017-12-01 08:41:47 Reply Private Reply
#2: Stoner To: Tooconservative (#1)
So ?? Who cares who the actual author is ?
I agree completely with the content !!!!
Stoner posted on 2017-12-01 09:48:09 Reply Private Reply
#3: Gatlin To: Tooconservative (#1)
Thanks for fact checking this.
Fake news is fake news.
Some people post fake news while other people believe fake news.
Gatlin posted on 2017-12-01 10:31:33 Reply Private Reply
#4: Deckard To: Tooconservative (#1)
Who cares what that discredited site has to say?
Deckard posted on 2017-12-01 10:56:05 Reply Private Reply
#5: Deckard To: Stoner (#2)
I'm with you on this one - it all rings true even if Foxworthy didn't write it.
Deckard posted on 2017-12-01 10:56:52 Reply Private Reply
#6: Deckard To: Gatlin (#3)
Nothing fake about any of it.
If the government wants to prevent stable, law-abiding citizens from owning gun magazines that hold more than ten rounds, but gives twenty F-16 fighter jets to the crazy new leaders in Egypt — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.
Deckard posted on 2017-12-01 10:58:24 Reply Private Reply
#7: IbJensen To: Tooconservative (#1)
You should change your handle as one can see you're not 'TOO' Conservative. It appears as though you're just another moderate (a middle of the road type who doesn't believe in much of anything.)
IbJensen posted on 2017-12-01 11:02:32 Reply Private Reply
#8: Deckard To: IbJensen, Tooconservative, Gatlin, Stoner (#7)
Snopes isn't what I would call a trustworthy source.
Snopes on the Ropes – Founder of Fact Checking Website Accused of Fraud
Deckard posted on 2017-12-01 11:12:08 Reply Private Reply
#9: Gatlin To: Deckard (#8)
And the sources for your yellow journalism posted articles are?
Give me a friggin’ break …
Gatlin posted on 2017-12-01 11:38:18 Reply Private Reply
#10: Gatlin To: Deckard (#6)
If the person said to have written it did not….then it is “fake.”
What is so hard about “fake” for you to understand?
Gatlin posted on 2017-12-01 11:40:22 Reply Private Reply
#11: Deckard To: Gatlin (#9)
Gee - you mean you couldn't figure out how to click the provided link?
Redstate.com.
Maybe you've heard of it.
Besides - any intelligent person has known for quite sometime that Snopes is a fraud.
Snopes.com is reported to be in big trouble financially. The founder, David Mikkelson even launched a GoFundMe page to raise money to keep the site afloat. According to the Daily Mail he’s not giving the whole story as to why the company now finds itself in hot water.
At one time it might have been shocking to find out that the founder of a web site devoted to fact checking is being accused of fraud. Today that’s become a dog bites man story but...
Snopes.com was started by David Mikkelson and his ex-wife Barbara in the mid-1990s as a website that debunked myths and urban legends.
In recent years, it has started to delve into the area of politics and ‘fact-checking’ so-called ‘fake news’ stories.
After the presidential election, Snopes was chosen by Facebook to sit on a panel of arbiters who would determine whether news stories posted to the social media site were ‘fake news.’
But at the same time, DailyMail.com revealed in December, the two co-founders were involved in a bitter divorce battle in which he was accused of embezzling nearly $100,000 in company funds to spend on personal expenses and prostitutes.
Deckard posted on 2017-12-01 11:57:26 Reply Private Reply
#12: Tooconservative To: Gatlin, IbJensen, Stoner, Deckard (#3)
“I’m With Jeff” or “A Country Founded by Geniuses But Run By Idiots” by Jeff Foxworthy-Incorrect Attribution!
Summary of eRumor:
A commentary titled “I’m with Jeff” or “A Country Founded By Geniuses But Run By Idiots” that was supposedly written by Jeff Foxworthy uses the comedians famous “you might be a redneck” joke setup to blast modern politics.
The Truth:
This commentary didn’t come from Jeff Foxworthy.
It’s been making the rounds under the title “I’m With Jeff” or “A Country Founded By Geniuses But Run By Idiots” since as early as October 2014 — but it didn’t actually come from Jeff Foxworthy.
The commentary was published by blogger Fitz Simmons in early 2013 at his blog site, Politically True. However, Simmons’ name was quickly dropped from the post, and it was circulated without an author named throughout 2013.
But, by early 2014, Jeff Foxworthy’s name was quickly added to the piece to give it more credibility given that it borrowed his famous “you might be a redneck” joke setup.
Some blog posts that feature the “I’m With Jeff” commentary claim that he made the comments when asked about his thoughts on President Obama during an interview. We weren’t able to find any record of Foxworthy actually say that in an interview or in his standup routine.
Jeff Foxworthy has been a vocal supporter of conservative politics and Christian causes in the past. In 2012, he supported Mitt Romney’s presidential bid and campaigned with him across southern states. That same year he described his Christian beliefs in an appearance on Glenn Beck’s The Blaze.
However, his standup routine and public personae has historically been far less divisive than the “A Country Founded by Geniuses But Run By Idiots” commentary.
Given all that, we’re classifying this one as incorrect attribution.
Readers here at LF are so gullible that it isn't worth posting here. Hardly anyone ever bothers to read an article either.
Tooconservative posted on 2017-12-01 11:59:34 Reply Private Reply
#13: Deckard To: Tooconservative, Stoner (#12)
You're missing the point.
Would the article have been any more or less true if the author had been listed as "anonymous"?
Deckard posted on 2017-12-01 13:04:41 Reply Private Reply
#14: Gatlin To: Tooconservative, A K A Stone (#12)
I have come to believe it is the latter …
Paraphrasing: ”Damn the Truth….Full Speed Ahead.”
You do excellent research and you are to be commended on your ability to dredge up hard facts.
You are truly an asset to Stone’s forum.
Gatlin posted on 2017-12-01 14:03:30 Reply Private Reply
#15: Gatlin To: Deckard (#11)
I said: “And the sources for your yellow journalism posted articles are?
And you do POST yellow journalism articles….NUMEROUS times.
Gatlin posted on 2017-12-01 14:08:29 Reply Private Reply
#16: Tooconservative To: Deckard (#13)
So you're defending the misattibution under the rubric of fake-but-true?
The piece seemed to me to be a cheap takeoff of Foxworthy's routines but including a pet phrase "founded by geniuses...run by idiots".
Authentic frontier gibberish.
Tooconservative posted on 2017-12-01 14:31:36 Reply Private Reply
#17: Tooconservative To: Gatlin (#14)
I dunno.
Slashdot: New Study Finds That Most Redditors Don't Actually Read the Articles They Vote On
Argh.
Tooconservative posted on 2017-12-01 14:35:28 Reply Private Reply
#18: IbJensen To: Tooconservative (#12)
Then go nitpicking elsewhee!
IbJensen posted on 2017-12-01 14:50:41 Reply Private Reply
#19: Deckard To: Gatlin (#15)
Any article that makes you uncomfortable is considered yellow journalism by you.
Deckard posted on 2017-12-01 16:41:29 Reply Private Reply
#20: rlk To: Stoner (#2)
Bravo!
rlk posted on 2017-12-02 20:42:31 Reply Private Reply
#21: Liberator To: Tooconservative (#1)
If you quote Snopes, YOU might be a Statist. (Snopes is found to be associated with both the Democrat Party AND Soros, Genius.) Now THEY are "CTs."
Just another email chain letter relying on gullibility and misattribution to some known public figure.
Just ONE MORE USUAL Red Herring fed to Liberty's Flame forum posters by Too (NOT-AT-ALL) Conservative.
Are those facts attributed to Jeff Foxworthy TRUE OR NOT??
Can't ever stay on topic, can you?
Liberator posted on 2017-12-03 10:32:20 Reply Private Reply
#22: Liberator To: rlk, Stoner, RLKK (#20)
DITTO!!
Liberator posted on 2017-12-03 10:34:24 Reply Private Reply
#23: Liberator To: Gatlin, Cyclops (#3)
Why don't you flush your ACLU-SPLC loving subversive azz down the commode??
Tell us, Cyclops -- WHICH of the the statements attributed to Jeff Foxworthy is "FAKE NEWS"??
YOU are one of the heavily discredited main purveyors of propaganda, subversives, and FAKE POSTERS on LF.
Liberator posted on 2017-12-03 10:37:10 Reply Private Reply
#24: Liberator To: IbJensen, TooConservative (#18)
He probably is. At salon.com. OR, the National Review where his hero Bill Kristol resides.
Liberator posted on 2017-12-03 10:38:40 Reply Private Reply
#25: Liberator To: Tooconservative, Deckard, ALL (#16)
Liberator posted on 2017-12-03 10:40:31 Reply Private Reply
#26: Tooconservative To: Liberator (#24)
Kristol was never at NRO. He still writes and podcasts at Weekly Standard, which he co-founded with Fred Barnes in the late Nineties, when it became clear that Dan Quayle was going nowhere as a standalone national pol. He stepped down as head at WS a year ago, handing off that job to neocon Steve Hayes.
Tooconservative posted on 2017-12-03 17:19:50 Reply Private Reply
#27: Gatlin To: Deckard (#19)
Please permit me to rephrase your crudely composed malicious remark so that I may properly reflect my true sentiment and it will therefore not let your erroneous supposition incorrectly stand for the record.
To do this, I simply need to say:
Any article that definitely is yellow journalism makes me feel uncomfortable when I see people duped into accepting it as the Gospel truth and asininely react in a ridiculous emotional manner instead of making a truly rational objective response.
There …
Gatlin posted on 2017-12-03 17:53:20 Reply Private Reply
#28: Liberator To: Tooconservative (#26)
Ok, I stand corrected. I meant the Weekly Standard. I sometimes mix up the type of neocon publications delivered to your mailbox.
Liberator posted on 2017-12-03 22:38:32 Reply Private Reply