[StBernard] Sen. Chris Dodd can't retire soon enough

[Westley Annis]

  If you're determined to believe that Dodd actually said this, I'm not sure
what amount of evidence will persuade you that he didn't. I'm satisfied that
this did indeed come from a satirical column written by John Semmens. There
are plenty of references other than FactCheck that point to Semmens as the
source of this.
  I did a search on the text of the story when I was trying to detemine if
it was accurate. Although I didn't find this on any "legitimate" news
outlets or government archives, I did see the exact same story posted word
for word in the comment sections of dozens of conservative blogs. To me,
that indicates a concerted effort by an individual or group to promote a
false story as factual.
  I just find it personally insulting that any group, liberal or
conservative, would put forth an obviously outlandish and assume that people
will accept it as fact. I suppose if it didn't work they wouldn't be doing
it, though.
Richard 
 

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> Factcheck.org...Hmmm, located at the University of Pennsylvania 

> (extremeliberal university) and controlled by a board of 

> directors whose members are

> also behind moveon.org, a self proclaimed liberal-leftist-socialist

> organization that works solely for the National Democratic 

> Committee.  Yeah,

> I'd say factcheck.org is an unbias credible source.

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> No, he really didn't say it.

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> Richard

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> http://factcheck.org/2010/06/satire-alert-dodds-quote-on-mortgages/

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