Reynoldswrite: did you like mccain's bear story?

obamamamablog: the one about how we spent 3 million dollars to study the dna of bears in montana?

reynoldswrite: yeah. and his punchline was: i don't know if the issue is criminal or paternity.

obamamamablog: very funny. it's a good demonstration of what goes on in washington.

reynoldswrite: well, there actually was such a bill and mccain voted for it.

obamamamablog: then why's he making fun of it.

reynoldswrite: to win some votes.

obamamamablog: doesn't he know we can find out such things?

reynoldswrite: the people he's trying to appeal to aren't paying close attention. they like his zingers, they make up their mind fast, on emotion, and won't be following up. needless to say, the mainstream media won't follow up either. never has. never will. but now there's the internet, the blogosphere, and it's just full of people who have plenty of time to fact-check and who can post the results for the world to see.

obamamamablog: where'd you hear about him voting for the bear dna study?

reynoldswrite: http://www.factcheck.org/

obamamamablog: so he makes fun of what he voted for?

reynoldswrite: yeah. he knows he's got to make his audience mad--like i said, they vote their emotions and they aren't into checking facts

reynoldswrite: pretty callous, but it works

obamamamablog: if i had time, i'd check factcheck.org/ myself, but i'm getting ready for work.

reynoldswrite: you can take my word for it

obamamamablog: no way.

reynoldswrite: the bear dna study made you mad, the guy who told the bear dna story to make you mad voted for it, and you're so upset about it that you're going to do something about it by voting for the guy who voted for it and told you about it to make you mad to vote for him

obamamamablog: something like that

reynoldswrite: well, the bears of montana and the people who study them thank you for supporting mccain for supporting them, mccain thanks you for getting mad about washington supporting the bears, and the mccain campaign thanks you for being part of the dumbed-down electorate

obamamamablog: somebody's had too much coffee today

reynoldswrite: six cups. i read that if you drink six cups of coffee a day you won't get diabetes. so that's what i do, but i got diabetes anyway

obamamamablog: well, we have something in common, then. too bad.

obamamamablog: by the way, you can't believe everything you read

reynoldswrite: if it's on factcheck.org/ you can