Since I read these reports about how correcting wingnut factual errors may make them more entrenched in their twisted minds, I've worried about the usefulness of my own attempt to do so, here and on message boards.
The good news is that at least in one very well-known case, coming out with the facts can have a major effect.
Truth trumps birthers
By Jonathan Capehart
Posted at 12:08 PM ET, 05/05/2011
Washington Post
This just in: release of President Obama’s birth certificate — the long-form version of the one he released in 2008 — has caused sanity to finally break out across America. According to a new Post poll, the ranks of the birthers has gone poof.
Those polled who believe Obama was born in Hawaii
2010: 48 percent
2011: 70 percent
Those polled who believe Obama was likely born abroad
2010: 20 percent
2011: 10 percent
Republicans who believe Obama was not born in the U.S.
2010: 31 percent
2011: 14 percent
Conservative Republicans who believe Obama was not born in the U.S.
2010: 35 percent
2011: 16 percent
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