A Quick Rant Against Myself

I received an email tonight from my Mom (a Christian Republican). She is a sweet lady and isn't extremely political but is extremely loyal. I think she is a fairly representative example of the Republican Party as it is today. She is an over 65, white, retired, professional, who is very active in her church and is not happy with the direction she believes the moral fabric of this country is headed.

As I said she sent me an email tonight, that probably most of us have previously seen, about Jay Leno urging Americans to focus on the positive. It was a good read and probably needs to be read by more Americans, the problem is Leno never wrote it. Over the past few years I have been repeatedly emailed false information by my senior citizen parents. They have no idea what Snopes.com is and don't really care to find out.

I can recall in the past few months receiving false emails about or by; Nancy Pelosi (and I'm no fan of hers), Barack Obama, Robin Williams, George Carlin and many others. The one common trait of all of the emails, is they come from a Right-wing perspective. I am not sure if it is an epidemic of the Right or just that I have fewer gullible Left-wing friends forwarding to me, but the propaganda machine seems to only strike me from the Right.

I have always considered my self Right-leaning, but this bastardization of the truth is truly turning me off. Could some of my more liberal friends please send me some complete BS stories to level the playing field.