Reply #70: Case in point.

[woo me with science]

Story today in GD. George Bush is angry that Obama is taking credit for killing Osama Bin Laden. Every public statement we've heard so far from Bush or Cheney has been gracious, and the article is based on an unnamed, "anonymous" source.

Yet people are lining up to express outrage and shout "fuckhead." They assume it is true, because of what they want to believe.

I could give you 100 other examples where the reaction to stories both here and on FR is predictable based not on the facts of the story, but on the "D" or "R" after the person's name in the story.

It is not an indictment of liberals. It is an indictment of human beings and our tendency toward tribal thinking. And it is an omnipresent fact on DU.