Yes, the now infamous "Fingergate" has been exposed for what most of us here thought it was: A COMPLETE FRAUD.
http://mediamatters.org/...
But, on a website that has become the focus of quite some ridicule of late, I have to at least give the crew at MyDD some props for helping to clear things up...
It was silly, it was stupid and it was childish, but as many of you know the accusation was out there. Did Barack Obama at a speech in Raleigh, North Carolina earlier this week, flip off Hillary Clinton?
As Media Matters demonstrates in the above link, not only did he not, but the idiot media tried it's darnest to drum up another hit job on Obama.
Well, it failed, and not only for the Rethug-loving press, but for the HRC supporters trying to tie another anchor around his neck. Just yesterday, we got this:
http://www.mydd.com/...
Well, just a day later and a few thousand jumps to conclusions, I must give some props to Jonathan Singer at MyDD for posting this story on the mainpage:
http://www.mydd.com/...
Two Fingers
by Jonathan Singer, Sat Apr 19, 2008 at 05:24:25 PM EST
Because I've been getting a whole lot of email on the subject, particularly complaints about all of the posts on this site suggesting that Barack Obama flipped off Hillary Clinton, it's probably worth responding en masse rather than email by email with rather clear proof from Media Matters that no such thing happened:
That's Obama scratching his face with two fingers, not flipping Clinton the "bird." Hope that clears things up.
So there you have it...the perfect object lesson for anybody jumping to conclusions too quickly...
So the next time you hear something too bad to be true about a candidate, take a deep breath and either do your own research or wait for the video-masters of the internet community to do it for you...