Monday, June 29, 2009
Fox confuses satire for reality. Again.
Posted by John Grooms on Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 2:45 PM
Ever wonder just how dumb some of the folks at FoxNews and their FoxNation website are? God knows a lot of us do. First, Fox hires someone of dubious IQ like Sean Hannity to be a major voice for their neocon rants (“Sean Hannity: He asks the questions other reporters are too smart to ask”). Then they make fools of themselves by pushing a satirical story , thinking it was true, about disgruntled Muslim students in Maine, which had been created by the parody site Associated Content. Now they’re at it again. Recently, after a tense exchange of quotes by former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge and radio blowhard Rush Limbaugh over who is and isn’t a real Republican, the satirical site Elective Decisions ran a hilarious story which, somehow, the FoxNation site took seriously. Not only took seriously, but kept coming back to in amazement and commenting on, as if they were clueless morons or something. Who'd-a thought, huh?. The Elective Decisions joke story had Ridge saying he was sick of Limbaugh and challenging the famed Oxycontin addict to a boxing match, ending with “I’m calling you out, Limbaugh. Let’s see if you have a big enough set of marbles to back up your crap!” FoxNation’s geniuses treated it as a factual story, apparently without even checking it out. I’d like to say it’s unbelievable, but the sadder truth here is that, if it’s Fox, it’s all too believable.
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