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Originally Posted by Crim
This is Ann Coulter's hobby. Honestly, as a staunch conservative, I hate crap like this.
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It certainly isn't unique to conservatives. I recall many on the left (Barbara Streisand most notably) using the widely-distributed "Shakespeare" passage during the buildup to Iraq.
"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind..." etc.
Which of course sounds nothing like Shakespeare to anyone with even rudimentary knowledge of Shakespeare, and indeed it is not.
The lesson? Lotta stupid, gullible people out there with absolutely no spidey sense for hoaxes. Even Snopes can't stop em.