The leftward and other blatherings of Span (now with Snaps!)

Friday, October 29, 2004

how can this be true?!

Over at No Right Turn, IS has posted a picture of a leaflet apparently circulating amongst African Americans (in the USA of course).

this seems farcical - not to say it isn't real and happening - it is just so extreme as to be unbelievable. if it isn't a pisstake then it is very very sad indeed :-(

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

That is fairly blatant. Dare I say that anyone stupid enough to take a flyer like that seriously, probably shouldn't be allowed to vote anyway.

Span said...

You'd be surprised what people will believe Anon, especially if they've heard about it from people they find credible, eg others in their community. I have seen some pretty outrageous things on leaflets which people have believed. In fact I was the author of some pisstake leaflets in a student politics campaign once (for someone else) and some people took some of them seriously, when they were clearly absurd to the point of surreal. I mean things like that the candidates had won a flower-eating contest. People would actually ask about it as if they believed.