There's no allowing for the myriad reason why people feel the need to make stuff up, nor that they would use this false stuff for their own political ends.
Nope.
All we can wonder about is how people actually wind up believe sheer crap and run around repeating it like it was...
true.
Stuff that can be easily shown to be...wait for it...completely false.
Like say the stuff about Barak Obama.
-srbp-