1 posted on
07/25/2006 1:02:55 PM PDT by
lowbridge
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To: lowbridge
It's no phonier than 90% of what the MSM barfs up each day.
2 posted on
07/25/2006 1:05:04 PM PDT by
pissant
To: lowbridge
I'm sure Bill Press will listen to you.
To: lowbridge
Gosh, even Snopes got that one right.
Could Press be repeating this knowing it isn't true?
4 posted on
07/25/2006 1:06:29 PM PDT by
DBrow
To: lowbridge
The Lovenstein Institute IQ Report
In July 2001 an e-mail (see below) began to circulate around the internet claiming that the
Lovenstein Institute, a think-tank based in Scranton, Pennsylvania, had conducted research into the IQ of all the Presidents of the past 50 years and concluded that George W. Bush ranked at the bottom, with an IQ of only 91.
This news quickly gained attention from the international media. The London
Guardian broke the story on July 19, and on August 26 Garry Trudeau featured the report in his Doonesbury comic strip.
Unfortunately both Trudeau and the
Guardian had fallen for a hoax.
The e-mail had originated as a joke on a website called
linkydinky.com. In its original version, the joke was pretty obvious. For instance, Linkydinky.com cited the
Pennsylvania Court Observer as its source for the news, noting that this newspaper only had a circlation of five readers. Furthermore, it described Dr. Lovenstein as "living in a mobile home in Scranton, Pennsylvania."
As the joke made its way through people's inboxes, these textual clues were stripped away, until in the final version of the email it sounded as if the Lovenstein Institute was an actual research organization.
Once they learned of their mistake, both Trudeau and the
Guardian published retractions.
5 posted on
07/25/2006 1:06:55 PM PDT by
Dog Gone
To: lowbridge
Bill just proved that he's as gullible as every other pseudo intellectual that fell for the faked Lovenstein study on the basis that it seemed to use the right kind of language.
Just wait until he uses the defense, "It may be fake, but I believe it is 100% accurate."
6 posted on
07/25/2006 1:07:27 PM PDT by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: lowbridge
With President Clinton leading the class at 182.BS! i'd be suprised if he could get 125
To: lowbridge
9 posted on
07/25/2006 1:08:16 PM PDT by
lowbridge
(I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming, like his passengers.)
To: lowbridge
About the authors : Cristina L. Borenstein and Lana Taamar are both recently off the campaign trail where they served as receptionists for the Pennsylvania chapter of Gore For President, Inc., and have co-written the eBook Gore Got Gored. Together they publish the The Pennsylvania Court Observer which has a circulation of 5.
Dr. Lovenstein lives in a mobile home in Scranton, Pennsylvania with his long time companion Patricia F. Dilliams. When the two are not publishing reports for their Lovenstein Institute, they run an internet business www.collegedegreesforsale.com.
To: lowbridge
And Bill Press's IQ is what??
11 posted on
07/25/2006 1:10:11 PM PDT by
nuconvert
([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
To: lowbridge
Since when do liberals care about reality and facts?
They just invent their own.
To: lowbridge
How far did baby bill make it through school? I would say the assessment that Dubya has a 91 IQ doesn't say much for the bozos in the demoncrat party he has defeated...Where did billy boy get this information. And can he prove it? I doubt it...
13 posted on
07/25/2006 1:10:19 PM PDT by
Edgerunner
(The WOT will not be won without Iran and Syria going down)
To: lowbridge
Bwa-ha-ha-ha, first Garry Trudeau, now Bill Press...
six friggin years after it was exposed as a hoax!Hey Bill!
14 posted on
07/25/2006 1:10:33 PM PDT by
RightWingAtheist
(Creationism is to conservatism what Howard Dean is to liberalism)
To: lowbridge
What a maroon! It usually takes about 15 secs to check these out.....it's only a matter of time before I receive this in e-mail from my Lexus-driving, country club-golfing, WalMart hating, Costco loving, Al Gore worshiping, NRDC donating, mother.....
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/presiq.htm
17 posted on
07/25/2006 1:11:37 PM PDT by
TMD
(Get Planned Parenthood out of our schools!)
To: lowbridge
If Carter and Clinton were 'smart, I'll take a 'dumb' President Bush any day!
18 posted on
07/25/2006 1:11:47 PM PDT by
Rummyfan
To: lowbridge
Judging from the fact that both GWB and his mother have a well developed and attested spontaneous sense of humor [as opposed to somebody parroting the jokes prepared and/or written by others], it necessarily follows that their IQs are above average. This much could be said without any actual testing. Therefore Bill Press better switch to a new laxative lest he bursts, he's so full of it.
19 posted on
07/25/2006 1:12:14 PM PDT by
GSlob
To: lowbridge
Savor the irony of someone insulting another's intelligence while being taken in by a hoax.
To: lowbridge
2 post in one week to an article he writes. We're going to give him more hits in a day than he gets in a year!
23 posted on
07/25/2006 1:13:03 PM PDT by
Andy from Beaverton
(I only vote Republican to stop the Democrats)
To: lowbridge
Press is such a loathsome, odious repulsoid.
28 posted on
07/25/2006 1:15:10 PM PDT by
Skooz
(Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
To: lowbridge
maybe he heard the new york times was going to replace jason blair
32 posted on
07/25/2006 1:16:56 PM PDT by
edzo4
To: lowbridge
Why is there no mention of Harry Truman? Lyndon Johnson? Although I certainly believe they were not of below average intelligence, they were not acclaimed intellectuals.
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