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posted by takyon on Sunday January 10 2016, @11:30AM   Printer-friendly
from the the-truth-is-out-there dept.

Although many U.S. presidential candidates are discussing "aliens," the Daily Mail has a story about a candidate talking about aliens from potentially much farther away. According to the Daily Mail, Hillary Clinton has made a campaign promise to 'get to the bottom' of Area 51 if she should be elected President of the United States of America. Specifically, Clinton said that she would reveal the UFO truth:

"one way or another. Maybe we could have, like, a task force to go to Area 51."

"I think we may have been [visited already]. We don't know for sure."

The Daily Mail story is based on the report of an interview with the candidate published in the Conway Daily Sun newspaper of Conway, New Hampshire.

Do the contributors here think that extraterrestrials are a promising and important campaign topic? Or is there skepticism?


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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday January 10 2016, @06:42PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Sunday January 10 2016, @06:42PM (#287702) Journal
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  • (Score: 2) by ledow on Sunday January 10 2016, @08:45PM

    by ledow (5567) on Sunday January 10 2016, @08:45PM (#287766) Homepage

    Doesn't matter.

    The Daily Mail quote it, it's bollocks.
    The Daily Mail cite it, it's made up.
    The Daily Mail publish it, it's fabricated junk.

    The Daily Mail is tabloid trash, and I can't see anyone else of reliance publishing it.

    • (Score: 2, Disagree) by takyon on Sunday January 10 2016, @10:00PM

      by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Sunday January 10 2016, @10:00PM (#287816) Journal

      The Daily Mail quote it, it's bollocks.
      The Daily Mail cite it, it's made up.
      The Daily Mail publish it, it's fabricated junk.

      Three untrue statements. Your extremism has been noted.

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      • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Sunday January 10 2016, @11:58PM

        by aristarchus (2645) on Sunday January 10 2016, @11:58PM (#287873) Journal

        The Daily Mail quote it, it's bollocks.
                The Daily Mail cite it, it's made up.
                The Daily Mail publish it, it's fabricated junk.

        Three untrue statements. Your extremism has been noted.

        Just one, actually. The second to the last. And Oh, as Barry said (Goldwater), extremism in the defense of journalism is no vice!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2016, @11:42AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2016, @11:42AM (#288080)

      Ah, so if I want you to not believe a story, all I have to do is to send it to the daily mail? :-)

  • (Score: 2) by fleg on Monday January 11 2016, @04:13AM

    by fleg (128) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 11 2016, @04:13AM (#287968)

    sure, but if you have a source other than the daily mail, then dont even mention the daily mail.
    it doesnt do anything but diminsh the story.

    • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday January 11 2016, @07:28AM

      by aristarchus (2645) on Monday January 11 2016, @07:28AM (#288020) Journal

      The Daily Mail is owned by Rupert Murdoch. It's main journalistic feature is boobs. Some have referred to the Weekly World News, but they are now sadly defunct and Batboy is no longer among us (thought I hear that Sean Penn just had a meeting with the Werewolf Boy!) No one has contributed so much to the decline in journalism as Murdock. He makes Hearst look like an amateur. He makes Sun Young Moon's Washington Times look like a real paper! And that is not easy to do! So, while I agree with the response that says "if you don't like what gets posted, submit something better", there are standards beneath which we should not go. Daily Mail is one of those. I might also add "Infowars", Drudge, and Brietbart. Not because they are right wing, but because they are crazy. But then, really, what is the difference?

      • (Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday January 12 2016, @08:10PM

        by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Tuesday January 12 2016, @08:10PM (#288767) Journal

        This Daily Mail article is entirely factual.
        This Daily Mail article is entirely factual.
        This Daily Mail article is entirely factual.

        So what's the problem? Don't want to give them ad revenue? Use an adblocker. Then you'll be getting the factual information while driving up their costs slightly.

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