Are Bedards Gullible?
Permalink | Tweet This! | | January 17, 2008 by John in Family, Ranting and Whining
Lately I’ve been getting a ton of bogus chain e-mails forwarded from the Bedard side of my family, mostly political in nature.
As always I fact check with snopes.com. If the message is especially slanderous, I ‘reply-all’ with my findings, usually “false,” on Snopes. The standout gems of late include how Barack Obama is a radical, madrassa-indoctrinated muslim, and the North American Union, or how the U.S., Canada and Mexico are supposed to be combined into one union with one currency called the “amero.” Both, of course, are false. But these are just the two most recent examples. I’ve been fact-checking my family’s e-mails for years.
I’ve been guilty of being gullible, more so when I was younger. What I’m starting to believe is that the gullibility is a Bedard trait, whilst the healthy cynicism I have that keeps my gullibility in check comes from the Stewart side.
I get my stubbornness from both. 