 | Politics "wid" a taste of Philly, by Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News |
| Politics "wid" a taste of Philly, by Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News |
Journalism is an old business, and so we have a lot of old sayings. One key one is: "If you haven't heard it, it's news to you!" Campaign Extra!'s editors live by that rule.
Now, they've heard there's this newfangled thing called the World Wide Web. Wow. What's more, there's some kind of funny joke that plodded its way, slowly (very slowly) into their awareness zone -- something about the Florida hurricanes, God, and Bush voters from the 2000 election. The fact that Campaign Extra! wrote about this online (what is this?) on Sept. 24 had no bearing, apparently, on their decision to hype this joke for the front page of the newspaper (what is this?).
So, ever the contrarian, we decided to head for the debunkers. Our special investigative report follows.
A FEW YEARS back, reporters at the Washington Post used to joke about the file of stories that were "too good to check."
In other words, the juicier the rumor, the more likely it would fall apart if you actually tried to get the story in the newspaper.
That's why we can't stand the people at Snopes.com, the Internet site that's devoted to debunking (and on rare occasions verifying) rumors and urban legends.
Now they're trying to take all the fun out of the funniest thing on the Internet for the past week - the map suggesting God is punishing pro-Bush counties in Florida. As you can see, the counties are done up in red for those carried by President Bush, and blue for those for Al Gore.
Superimposed is something close to the actual paths of the first three hurricanes to slam the Sunshine State this year - Charley, Frances, and Ivan. As if by an occult hand, each seemed to batter the Bush-backing bastions while sparing the guardians of Gore.
An unknown blogger named Bob Morris called it "an unmistakable message from God."
Except that it is mistakable. As the Snopes site notes, hundreds of millions of dollars in damage were done by Hurricane Charley in places like Orlando, Daytona Beach and St. Lucie County, all of which backed Gore in 2000.
Of another Democratic stronghold on the Gulf Coast, it notes: "After lashing Pasco County for most of the day Sunday, Tropical Storm Frances damaged mobile homes, toppled trees and left roughly 52,000 people without power."
Democrats can't take much solace from this weekend's Hurricane Jeanne, either. The storm cut a swath similar to Frances, smoting mobile home parks of Democrats as well as Republicans.
We knew it was too good to check.
Wow, so God punishes people that don't think the way he wants them to.
Falwell and Robertson would proud of you Will!
(Of course, I guess you could argue that the difference is that those two are serious and you're just kidding. I hope anyway.)
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