What is it with conservatives and conspiracy theories and faking desired results?
This happened last week with someone faking Hillary Clinton's health records. The photoshops or faked documents spread over the right wingo-sphere like news of a two-headed goat.
And this week someone decided to post fake, totally fake, results of an "internal, restricted access" Florida PPP poll to Scribd. The "poll" shows Trump has 74% of the vote total in the Sunshine State, and (I am not making this up, but they are)....
The fake poll says 94% OF DEMOCRATS expect Donald Trump to win the Presidency.
A woman on Twitter named Susan Reaney decided she would check on the validity of this poll with @ppppolls. Because she had to know!
Hey @ppppolls saw a post that had this on Scribd...any comment? https://t.co/tnQZhgDGRc@FoxNews @BreitbartNews @CNN @MSNBC
— Susan Reaney (@SSReaney) August 18, 2016
And she made sure to send it to ALL the important news outlets, like Breitbart.
PPP Polls didn't know what to say. Oh yes they did.
Yes, it's really a commentary on the credulity of Trump supporters that so many think this memo could be real https://t.co/PvRRExDnzo
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) August 18, 2016
But Susan wasn't done, again making sure that the major news outlets were looped in on this important convo:
@ppppolls I never said it was real or not or that I believed it or not. I'm asking, are you denying it? @FoxNews @BreitbartNews @MSNBC @cnn
— Susan Reaney (@SSReaney) August 18, 2016
I'm not going to bother denying it because I want y'all to waste as much energy being outraged about it as possible https://t.co/GArhApyiA2
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) August 18, 2016
Susan says "GOTCHA PPP Polls!" because they did not deny its authenticity.
@DFerrisi apparently @ppppolls wants to throw it back on Trump supporters but they did NOT deny its authenticity. https://t.co/Tb52BtN0Yg
— Susan Reaney (@SSReaney) August 18, 2016
I think at this point the PPP people were tweeting more in sorrow than in anger:
Susan, bless you, you are like one of our polls about Trump supporters come to life https://t.co/5PUexhh5yw
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) August 18, 2016
By now anyone would think you'd stop digging, right?
@MattStehman @FoxNews @BreitbartNews @CNN @MSNBC I never said it was legit; but @ppppolls refusal to confirm or deny IS legit and an issue.
— Susan Reaney (@SSReaney) August 18, 2016
And now, they're done over at PPP Polls.
I can neither confirm nor deny that I'm one of the lizard people sent by the Illuminati to be your overlord either https://t.co/s4fQVBETfM
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) August 18, 2016
Whoops, turns out if you actually read the fine print on the fake PPP Poll that is fake, there are some giveaways that it's actually fake.
This parody @ppppolls memo has the greatest methods statement ever written. https://t.co/FmvyBh2dya pic.twitter.com/1MZZkGRovp
— Steve Koczela (@skoczela) August 18, 2016
Which leads to some really IMPORTANT questions:
@skoczela @ppppolls cc @QuinnipiacPoll @MonmouthPoll can you confirm you have Bernie grade weed
— Conservative Crank (@SpareTimer) August 18, 2016
Which leads to disappointment...
PPP team is actually very straitlaced irl I'm afraid, no Bernie grade weed https://t.co/hXswRTYmpF
— PublicPolicyPolling (@ppppolls) August 18, 2016
They neither CONFIRM nor DENY that they have Martin O'Malley grade weed.
And finally, this.
.@ppppolls @ssreaney I too, have discovered this secret internal memo from PPP's basement in Raleigh. Is it real? pic.twitter.com/X1vj0fwzzo
— 옆집에 사는 Alex (@alexnextdoorkr) August 18, 2016
Has anyone ever said conservatives willingly blind themselves to the obvious?
