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'Email for Idiots' game, Chapter II  Three days before my last
column appeared, a letter to the Reader Forum (May 4) included
yet one more example of viral email for idiots.  In the letter,
a retired Hays dentist (a registered Republican) quoted from an
email he got. Allegedly, the message originated in the Czech
Republic and later was translated into English. The gist was
that while President Barack Obama is "the prince of fools," the
real problem is the American "multitude of fools that made him
their president."  These days, the prevalent claim is that the
message first appeared in German in the Prager Zeitung newspaper
on April 28, 2010. Sounds convincingly specific, but let's look.
An Internet search using (a) the term Prager Zeitung and (b) the
exact* wording of the first sentence, reveals more than 40,000
Internet websites parroting the claim of Czech origin. (*The
local writer hon