*snicker*…

Bwahahahaha!

Doesn’t surprise me in the least, though. But, isn’t Fox News satire, anyway?

Everything in The Onion is satire. If Saturday Night Live presented a skit in which Obama sent out a 75,000-word e-mail, would anyone take it seriously?

I wonder if the responses were intended to be satirical. Doubtful…you have to have a sense of humor to write satire.

RWNJ’s are hilarious. Im surprised that Doocey and Kilmeade didnt expose this email from the pres themselves

No Fox is not satire. It’s just a joke

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Well of course it’s real. It’s as real as the fox news network is fair and balanced. Fox news network would never ever ever ever post anything that wasn’t thoroughly checked out, vetted and confirmed by thousands of its loyal readers, editors and advisory boards. If the onion posted it, and fox news confirmed it, it must be true. Why else would they do something stupid like post something that isn’t true. I mean they got glen beck, sarah palin, bill o’reilly, shaun hannity . . .all truthiness people who never ever ever tell lies or misinformation. Just ask em.

The degree of ignorance these so-called “patriots” are capable of, and display every day, is fucking appalling. The teaparty- rational peoples’ worst nightmare.

And the intelligence quotient just keeps dropping, doesn’t it?

It’s sort of interesting, isn’t it – according to psychiatrists,
if you don’t understand what a joke is, and you take it for REAL,
you clearly have a thought disorder. That means the republicans
who thought the Onion piece was “real” actually have a thought
disorder!

Don’t most people know what the Onion is about? Or a joke?

You would think a Fake News organization would be able to recognize fake news.

They’re really gonna be let down when they find out that Palin was a joke too! lol

These people can’t be expected to distinguish “real” from “fantasy” because their entire world view is one big paranoid fantasy constructed by Fox News. In other words, this is nothing new, for them.

Its obvious that Fox news watchers don’t “do” satire. How could they? If they believe the satire they are fed by Fox and Republican politicians to be true, they’ll obviously believe the Onion to be true.

How is Sarah Palin as a serious presidential candidate not satire? Or how about when Obama takes taxpayer money and gives it to the rich, and the Republicans call him a socialist? You just can’t get any more satirical than that! ROTFLMAO!

Some commenters have even reported knowing people who received the e-mail.

The above is from the article. It shows Fox Fraud News isn’t the only one full of it. Their viewers are full of it too. The Fox viewers bullshit piled on as in this post from the article above:

…Bettybonnie said. She forwarded it to me…

Fox viewer Bettybonnie is claiming she got the 75,000 word 27 megabyte e-mail. Is Bettybonnie doing the Hannity, the O’Reilly, the Beck, the Fox Fraud News?

Fox punked by the Onion. Of course anyone can punk Fox, all you have to do is bullshit the Fox Fraud News way and they will take it from there.

This article is hilarious! Got a good belly laugh from this one!

“… from The Onion. A comedic, satirical news website. …”

just like faux … a comedic, satirical news website.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. They won’t know the truth until their SS money and Medicare disappears because FAUX told them how to vote.

You simply can not be a Right Winger unless you are fuck stupid. It is impossible. bigotry is also required.

These people should not be allowed to vote. it’s just time to change our governmental system entirely and get rid of any influence these idiots have.

Satire is completely lost on conservatives. As is kindness and empathy.

All you can do with this story is laugh!!! ROTFLMAO!!!!!! Fixed News strikes again!!!

One funny aspect – a Faux reader “emailed the Onion to confirm the story”….I bet the folks at the Onion are laughing their heads off at getting emails from “concerned” Fox readers about the veracity of their articles. Priceless.

These people do not get it. You can make up the wildest comments and it will be on Faux within hours. All I can do anymore is laugh,

“Fox News’ opinion website Fox Nation and their readers don’t seem to know satire when they see it.”

No, shit, Sherlock! If FAUX Nation readers knew satire would they be FAUX Nation readers? And for FAUX Nation not knowing satire, I beg to differ. What, if not satire – albeit tragic & dangerous satire – would you call that shit?

And intelligence. Don’t forget intelligence.

Same people watch and believe Fox News Hahahahahaha!

You know what that means? We can now start citing Onion articles to back up our arguments. Ha ha! They’ll never know the difference anyway. It appears that FAUX News has found itself a mighty opponent, at last.

The real world implications of this story are horrifying…..plain and simple…..horrifying.

hopefully the Onion will reprint the emails they receive.

Satire isn’t lost on them. They have no mental ability to understand it. These people really believed this story. And so many of them are complete BS attention whores that they then turned around and said “My friend got this email”…NO THEY DIDN’T! I KNOW your friend didn’t get that email.. When all you know is lies, jokes and satire and comedic embelishment are just more interesting “truths” than the other guy is telling.

The difference being that The Onion is not dangerous. FAUX, not so much.

Waaa haaaa…I just realized that it won’t be long now before they start demanding that Obama be impeached and citing The Onion article as the grounds for it.

The punker just hot punked!

Why wouldnt they? They think everything on fox is true as well.

I would love to see those emails….probably full of spelling errors and lots of type in CAPS.

This is very chilling…did anyone check the email for HIDDEN JIHADIST CODES?? I’m worried that today their may be 1 million radical islamist opening up their email and reading activation orders…..hold on to your seats folks, might be a whopper of a weekend.

According to my sources on facebook this story is very real!

These are the same people who believed that there were WMD in Iraq, the Health Care Bill would institute “Death Panels,” and that Obama wasn’t born in Kenya, even though his birth certificate and his birth announcement were both widely posted on the internet and even the conservative website “Red State” agreed that he was an American cvitisen.

They are also the same people who believed that the Teaparty was a “grassroots organization” and that the Republican Party that drove the deficit and debt through the ceiling under Bush was now a fiscally responsible party that would do everything they could to cut back earmarks and put the nation on a sound financial footing.

They are the same people who watch the “Colbert Report” and think that he is really a conservative. So after all this evidence of their inability to differentiate between fact and fiction, I can’t say I am surprised with this. In turn, they believed that Obama was spending $200 Million a day on his trip to India and that he is a “socialist” and too many other lies fed to them by Fox News too numerous to mention. But the alarming thing as the last election showed these people who are too stupid to tie their won shoes vote and generally vote Republican, even when they mistakenly think that they are voting for something new run by the Republicans like Dick Armey called the TeaParty.

Why not mistake it for news? Remember “Our long nightmare of peace and prosperity is over?” It WAS news! And this satire from the Onion cuts quite close too.

There’s always some bettybonnie yelling, “I seen it, I seen it!” in situations like this.

I’m confused…Which is the satire site FAUX Nation or the Onion?
(tongue firmly planted in cheek)

i agree with you but i can’t laugh.

Fox News viewer/reader = Dumba$$

Are the comments noted in the RS story still up?

I clicked over to FOXNation and can’t see any comments at all– but that might be the fault of my ancient browser. I’m just curious to know if mods there are censoring out the stupid. So are they still up?

The “CAPS lock” key:
Conservative American Patriot Stupidity key

Of course Fox Noise viewers would take this seriously. They’re LOOKING for bad news on the President just to talk more Beck points about his “Hitler-esk” charactistics. It’s pathetic. Especially the people like BettyBonnie who blatantly lie about getting an actual e-mail. They’re desperate to believe Fox Noise is right because they’re too stupid to look at the truth banging on their empty skulls.

My favorite comment is from JaneRogers who claims “we already know he has Narcissistic Personality Disorder.” Yah, where did that piece of B.S. news come from? $20 she doesn’t even know what that disorder actually is.

The simple fact these numb-nuts don’t know The Onion is a satirical periodical says it all. They probably have never even read a newspaper because it doesn’t say Fox on it!

Actually, some right-wingers are very smart; the ones making 7 figures (or more) a year who convince the unwashed masses to vote against the health care, unemployment benefits, military cutbacks, and progressive taxation system they so desperately need. Other than those exceptions, you are 100% correct.

PWND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

“…his “Hitler-esk” charactistics. ”

I know what you meant to say, but please, your spell-checker should have flagged this. The word you’re looking for is “Hitler-esque”.

hee hee hee hee hee hee hee hee – Pour your Ignorance out on me! ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Sadly some of my friends turn to Fox news for information.

Excuse me but I spelled it that way on purpose. Maybe look at the context of the sentence before you attack my spelling abilities.

FOX is very dangerous and its audience are also a danger , PLEASE get FOX off Australian television !!! We Aussies can tell bull shit from a mile away !

Still going strong as of 515PM EST.

Still going strong as of 520PM EST.

What was Fox thinking? Was this like the time they were displaying the three stooges as being Democrats… listing Larry Craig as “D-Idaho” and Mark Foley as “D-Florida” and Mark Sanford as “D-South Carolina” by chance?

Fox engages in outright propaganda and only retracts something if caught AFTER the fact. Then they never give an actual on-air correction.

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Fox isn’t desperate to dump on Obama are they?

A bunch of FOX watchers falling for bullshit, made-up “news”.

Gee, who could ever have predicted that ?

Not surprised. Fox viewers/conservatives only sense of humor comes from those racist posters of the President, nor do they possess the brain power needed to recognize satire.

Thanks.

WHAT A SHAME…..YOU THINK FOXETTES WILL WAKE THE F—UP NOW.

If The Onion had put up a disclaimer saying “attention everyone, especially Fox viewers, this article, as everything else we put out, is made-up satire. Get it? WE MADE IT UP!” most Fox viewers would just post back “Prove it, or shut up!” and demand “Link?”

Once again…sarcasm goes whistling directly above the heads of GOP stalwarts…while the rest of us delight in sweet, sweet irony.

fox nation can’t spell ‘IQ’, let alone have one.

DIMWITS!

They also believe Sarah Palin and think Steven Colbert is conservative. What else is new?

And I read on the internets that Al-Qaeda terrorist are using kielbasi sausage to sneak by the body scanners at the airports. What their doing is extracting about an inch of pork out of the casing and slipping it over their penises to fool the scanners. And if they do have to go to the pat down area where all the feeler uppers work the only thing they get is a phone number! Works with turkey kielbasi too.

The Onion itself couldn’t have made this one up.

Hannity swallowed the whole Onion bait, hook line and sinker. On his November 18 radio show he said President Obama was losing it. “He’s unhinged.” Hannity relished this thought with sex-wrapped glee.

Adding his personal spin to the Onion fable, Hannity said of the president, “He can’t stand Biden, he hates the Clintons, the Clintons hate him. The only thing he’s passionate about seems to be ESPN and playing golf, and playing some basketball. It’s the only thing that gets his interest.”

Hannity elaborated that President Obama “brought more bad news on the economy, and has a meltdown every time he hears it.” He said infighting and finger pointing in the White House is “at an all-time high.” He said the president “shouldn’t seek reelection in 2012.”

Later Hannity had two guest pundits who wrote an editorial in the Washington Times, in which they stated President Obama should not run for president in 2012. These two were also on Fox, reciting the same editorial. The kicker to the Onion fable is that Hannity claimed a “reliable Democratic source” told him about the president’s approaching insanity, and his obsession with media critics, specifically Fox.

This Onion spread tale of a presidential meltdown via a “rambling email’ shows that you can fool Obama haters 24/7 and twice on Sunday. Unfortunately, stupidity is forever, but ignorance, if treated by the right psychiatrist, can be fixed if the individual is willing to disabuse him or herself of this illness.

Now I’m getting a “404: not found”.
Did FOX take the article down?

Yes I think they did and I was having so much fun making comments to the people who thought it was real, darnit

To begin with, there are people out there that believe fox noise to be the ultimate truth in broadcast news. Which means they hate anything liberal, progressive and anyone in the “democrat” party. Which is why they truly want to believe anything and everything that paints Obama in a bad light.

So when a satirical web site writes a piece of fake news about Obama, they think it’s actual news because they’re already brainwashed into believing that fake news is real life news, courtesy of Faux Noose.

The fact that FN took the article down without comment is a clear admission that they thought it was real and just want it to go away. What morons. Seriously.

Obama should sue !!

Heh, good for you! Thanks for confirming. Too bad it came down, though; I never got the comments to work for me, so I didn’t get to play. Oh well, I’m certain FOX will step in it again soon….

lol…what a surprise!…

We ALL know Fox “news” republican propaganda is spewed out to the uneducated & uninformed sheep who need to be led, these same gullible sheep will believe anything told to them by Fox, Beck, Limbaugh and the rest of the hateful republican shills for corporate fascism……

The sheep need to fill their shameless holes of hatred & greed – which makes even sadder & more pitiful that flock actually know they are being manipulated, fed trash, lies, garbage, smears & distortions 24/7 – Yet, they don’t care, they don’t want to change…. their selfishness, hatred finger pointing of others, gives them stupid dumb satisfaction. Fox makes it easy for them to admit, even celebrate (as sick as that is) to their own hatred, predices & greed as being normal and acceptable.

The gullible sheep would rather believe and repeat the lies fed to them by Fox & hate radio, than to admit to their own ignorance.

It’s much more difficult, it’s hard work to grow to become a better more understanding caring giving person…many just don’t have it in them,and prefer their hate & greed and to are happy to be led by hate, greed & evil…..These are very ugly vile regressive intolerant selfish republican creatures of our society.

Fox Nation/News: stupid is as stupid does.

I’d be more inclined to believe an Onion than I would a Faux News Alert………

People who watch False News have the IQ of crap. Wai, I shouldn’t say that; I don’t want to offend crap.

Any-thing connected to FOX NOISE is an absolute joke—-Who watches this TRIVIA CHANNEL ? They are the TOKYO ROSE of this age,,Why do many Americans watch this bilge but are reluctant to admit it in public——-Well I read the NEW YORK TIMES,,,watch MSNBC,,,and a frequent visitor to the Huffington Post—I’m pretty well dammed proud that I do !………………………………………………….Charles Belenchia

Sometimes it’s a billyjoe

Sometimes it’s a billyjoe

Could not agree more—-keep fighting these morons—FOX noise and their viewers……………………………….Charles Belenchia

Just think of the market these people represent! What a boon for those who are selling shoddy goods, overpriced precious metal, and commemorative coins.

Basically there’s three levels of ignorance:

One Dumb
Two Dumb
And Too Fucking Dumb for words.

Yet we actually allow these people to vote.

Ain’t that America…

The difference is that the Onion is actually funny sometimes, and Faux Nuuz ain’t. The Onion is also sometimes prescient. My favorite was their story from around 16 January 2001, a preview of Dubya’s first inaugural blather, where they have Bush say,, “Our long nightmare of peace and prosperity is over!” Yup, they got THAT one right.

Faux Nuuz humor is of the sort where Ann Coulter proclaims that certain non-fascist Senators and Supremes should be assassinated, then says, “That’s a joke.” No it ain’t. A joke is funny. Calling for political murders, ain’t funny. In many countries, that kind of joke will land the jokester in prison. The Faux gang should be careful what they wish for.

Well, anyone who believes Fox news is just as likely to believe the Onion.
They are both equally ludicrous, although the Onion makes me smile, while Fox makes me plain angry.

These are the same people standing in line for hours at Palin book signings.

IQ equal to a turnip!!

One #&%*
Two #&%*
Three #&%* for,
I can’t believe this $*!% anymore.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

The Onion rocks – GOPers are simple.

Sometimes? The Onion is laugh out loud funny, all the time. I didn’t like that one but love their stories on religion. FAUX has no humor but plenty of tragedy.

Being that FAUX is the mouthpiece of the corporations, nothing will ever happen to them. Those days are long gone.

Everyone knows faux news drones will belive anything on their cult channel LOL… dumb jerks.

My friend is a Democrat, too, and she forwarded the email to me. In it, he admits that he hates America, is planning on outlawing Patriotism, and that he plans on “Crushing Jesus, like a bug.”

Give the Fox readers a break. In terms of factual accuracy there is virtually no difference between Fox and The Onion. Surely you can see how a mix-up like this could happen. The only reliable way to distinguish these two “news” sources is how you feel after reading it. If you want to laugh, it came from the Onion. If you want to throw something or weep, it came from Fox.

“Morans” :-)

Sure do. An Onion classic!

why didnt you aussies just leave him in the desert some where instead of unleashing him on us?

Christwire pwns The Onion. They’ve had more news stations, radio stations and news papers re post their fake stories more then The Onion.

To their credit, this story probably makes more sense than most of what fox nation readers see on a regular basis. Oh, and they’re just really REALLY dumb.

Hahahaha. The Fox Nation brings one word to mind: Dense.

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The Onion is just as true as anything else on Fox.

What do you expect from people who’s guiding light Palin, would have a call sign of AIRHEAD 1.

How many members of Fox Nation does it take to screw-in a light bulb?None. They all get into an argument over whether or not it should be an incandescent light bulb or a long-life fluorescent light bulb, which will save them a whole lot of money in lower electricity bills, but since it’s seen by them as part of a liberal plot led by Al Gore to pry the incandescent light bulb out of their cold, dead hands (hey, they heard it on Fox News and Rush Limbaugh said so), they decide against the long-life fluorescent light bulb and choose instead to just sit in the dark, sucking on their thumbs, or something.

When the villagers cannot understand simple satire it kind of makes me feel worried…

Foxidits.

Excellent point.

Are they grasping at straws that bad that they are in a constant brain fart mode? It would seem so when Faux Fools would make this out to be something to get the sheeple ranting and raving about. I’d say this is a new low for them but they’ve been so low most of the time that they are at rock bottom almost continuously.

I wonder if one of the questions for a Mensa test is “Do you watch Fox news in any form?”. If you answer yes, you can skip the remainder of the test and leave. We already know that you will not meet the minimum Mensa requirements.

None because changing the light bulb isn’t needed since vermin thrive in the dark.

Dumbfuckistan never ceases to amaze.

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127 pages?!? LOL

I encourage everyone (real journalists included) to put the word news in quotes whenever associating it with Fox “News”.

Paul Harris
Author, “Diary From the Dome, Reflections on Fear and Privilege During Katrina”

I have noticed that “conservative” people generally fail to grasp satire. They are unable to grasp nuance and subtleties and are easily fooled. It’s a sign of low intelligence.

Exactly. The sub-par intellect of these people is jaw dropping.

It shold.

Do they even know what a light bulb is?

Right on, Johnny Warbucks.

You’re talking about people that spread vicious rumors about McCain having an illegitimate half-black child instead of the adopted child it was. They trashed one of their own in an nasty way just to help Bush win his nomination.

These kinds of people don’t care if something is true or not. The only thing they care about are excuses to trash Obama.

Fanatics, like Fox fans, have no sense of humor. That’s because fanatics have no sense of proportion.

Dumb and dumber …..

gone now, apparently they realized it was a joke. Frighting to think of how easily they swallow this bull.

Conservatives don’t have a sense of humor (unless it is defaming a group they hate like gays, muslims, brown or black folks, jews, atheists, educated folk, etc.). In fact, most conservatives don’t even know that Stephen Colbert is joking, so they have little chance to understand the humor contained within The Onion. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/27/colbert-study-conservativ_n_191899.html

This is the kind of thing you pull when you throw out your intellect, O my brothers. No doubt some very smart people put their faith in this hoax as surely as those crazed opportunists Hamity and O’Liely, because they killed their reason for the sake of blind faith. It’s not that satire is lost on the cons, it’s that satire is impossible to them. Absolute faith leaves no room for irony.

They will get pwned again, repeatedly, and not just by The Onion. Trust me on this.

They took it down because it did its job. It incited their idiot people which id what they do

If you think Obama is the worst president or think he is destroying America, then your real problem is that he is black. And if I am wrong about that, than tell me the real reason? Is it cause you hate liberals?

they believed it because they wanted to believe it.

OMG! You repugnant-cons are idiots! You have lied so much on president Obama that you would grasp at any straws (aka a joke written as a satire,of a NON EXISTANT 75,000 words ,or some FAKE anonymous source(YOU) stating that his trip to India cost “one hundred millions A DAY”! You sick ass sores need to get a life already!

The stupidity that comes about from incest is just the gift that keeps on giving.

They don’t like him because he is Black. They don’t like him because he is not White.

Yes. As in, all of the above. And exactly that much, too.

I have a few PDFs and screen shots from the Martial Law freak out.
Posted them here.

http://current.com/entertainment/comedy/92563153_facebook-martial-law-freak-out-group-from-googles-webcache.htm

goes to show the type of people following fox. simple.

talk about low information voters, whoa there!

Thank you right wing extremists for reminding every how stupid you really are!

As far as I can tell, Fox has erased any reference to their error (if it was one-they do love to pull their little stunts, maybe they knew damn well.) No errata or apology that I can find.

The Dumbing Down programs are working really well…

That is a slap in the face to all the simple people out there.

75,000 words? Obama got his NaNoWriMo entry in just under the wire!

just call it fux news.

Ladies and gentlemen, we now have our phrase. If ever confronted by right wing bilge being spouted with condescending authority just say hey, didn’t you get the memo?

Fox nation pulled their post. Maybe they finally figured it out, huh?

He’s a bit of a foreign policy wonk, too, Limbaugh forgets that because, you know, foreign countries just happen on TV–the only thing that’s real is the bankster conspiracy.

It’s true. When they make corrections, it’s always of the sort, “Well, what we meant to say was this, so that doesn’t really change anything.” I’d like to see them come on like Tony whatshisname from BP as satirized on SOUTH PARK. “I’m sorry” (petting a kitten). “I’m sorry.” (naked on a bearskin rug).

I have no words. This is like a terrifying TWILIGHT ZONE episode where news eats itself.

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/gPLQ4qUdrC4/0.jpg

Republipigz don’t understand satire, sarcasm, nor hypocrisy.

They’re a bunch of ignoranus’s!

What is the average age of a Fox viewer? 65? Nuff said

To even suggest that the T.E.A. Party is uneducated under a flawwed misconception is not accurate. Is this the best you got?

This is not the first time Faux and it’s viewers have been confused with a completely fabricated story,…. well how would the know any different?

you sure got the anus part right

Wow, these people are crazy and obviously have no sense of humor whatsoever.. completely unihinged, I’d say.

The Onion piece was actually pretty funny.

I read in the email is utterly losing it

Faux News is Faux.

Except for the white hot hate exibited for all things Democratic and this president specifically by the fair and balanced propaganda arm of the republican party, AKA Faux news, its easy to see why one would mistake a story from the Onion, for a Faux news story. Here’s the difference
The Onion = Totally fabricated/bizarre and beyond belief/delivered as if its a real story /funny
Faux News = Totally fabricated/bizarre and beyond belief/delivered as if its a real story/ not funny

The sad fact is that these people believe it. And anyone telling them that it is a joke won’t convince them otherwise. They saw it on a Fox New Website and that is just as good as the Bible! It won’t be long and they will be using it to try and say Obama is just as bad as they thought.

FOXNEWS NATION readers arren’t too bright. They’re kinda Sarah Palin disinterested unread incurious types, longing for the return of the 1780′s…You betcha!

Look, these idiots believe everything Fox News tell them. That alone should explain why they did not question the truth of this. Sheeple, pure and simple…. especially simple.

This is just proof of how ridiculously gullible and easily mislead Fox News viewers are. Fox News could post anythng about the President (which they do) and the viewers will eat it up as 100% truth.

Sheep Alert

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I am sure Michelle Bachman will go on television this week complaining about Obama’ s email and questioning his mental health. Everything she knows she learned from Fox News.

Found via @Jennifer Cary Diers and absolutely ridiculous. My favorite quote from the article: “Freedomfighter2 said he e-mailed The Onion to ask them to confirm the story.”

Hahahahahahahahaaaaaa!!!!!! This is funnier than the original Onion article, which I had posted on my FB page! Especially the poster who said she knew someone who received it! Hahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!

“‘Can anyone say Hitler?’ Mmttomb3 asked.”

Can any of these teabag idiots NOT say Hitler? Repeatedly, and for any or no apparent reason?

It is true that Obama is on many anti-depressants and other drugs to keep him “steady”. That is why he needs his teleprompter all the time and looks zoned out. He is a complete idiot and a wussy. Thanks to all the dummies who voted for him and ruined the country.

The tragedy of democracy is that these people vote.

I really don’t think you can find a dumber group of people than Fox News’ regular subscribers.

This just proves it.

It is true that David is a Nazi homosexual drug addict pedophile illegal alien with a third grade education from a madrasah in Ethiopia.

I saw it on Fox News.

This site has the most idiotic readers of any site I’ve ever been. Change the domain name to: we suck Obama’s di-ock! How does it taste?

Look, if they believe Fox News, they will believe The Onion. Both sources are equally accurate.

Actually, the Onion may be a bit more accurate.

Are you okay David? I am concerned for you and your health. Your irrational response if very concerning and I wonder if you have a secret liking for President Obama (the phallic remark), which is okay, just seems you need to come to terms with the crush and seek some outside assistance for your health. Be well.

Those commenters over at FOX NEWS are about as gullible as you can possibly get. That’s why they’re there. You can’t even explain to them that it’s satire, not true, intended as humor. They take doltishness to the level of fanaticism.

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Yeah, they just don’t get humor unless it’s on the level of a 12 year old. That’s why they love Sarah’s clumsy sarcastic insults and snarky put downs.

You have a typo there, David. You should have said this site has the most idiotic reader. But no one is making you read it; you’re free to remove yourself from the premises and go back to playing with your Limbaugh Logs.

The folks on the right seem to have reached the point where they would NOT recognize the truth if it bit them on the butt!!

Further proof that anyone watching Fox News because they think they’re getting “the truth” in a fair and balanced manner are some of the most gullible people on the face of the earth.

Why do all righty troglodytes post gay material in their “attacks”? Seriously. Only the deepest closet dwellers, frustrated by their own homosexuality, would constantly bring up the gay when trying to rattle political opponents. I’ve seen it everywhere – on rightist and lefty boards alike. It’s OK, David. You can stop being so scared. There are people who would accept you as you are. Just try and improve the intelligence level, ‘kay? Great.

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HAHAHA! Just goes to show that Fox readers don’t have a sense of humor!. We “Libruls” have always enjoyed The Onion. You Conservaturds are a Big Joke !

LOL

Me likey!

David, that’s the most asinine thing I’ve ever heard. Get yourself some help, dude. You’re an ass clown.

I wouldn’t put it past her.

This is some really scary ish that people would believe the email is legit.

The comment on FoxNation that says they know people that have received the e-mail is typical of the regressive tea bagger republican drones that will say anything to slander Obama or liberals/progressives. These are the dumbest Americans ever, how else could one describe Beck/Fox fans?

I don’t know, but I imagine it tastes just like Rupert Murdoch’s, Roger Ailes’, Bill O’Reilly’s, Sean Hannity’s, or Glenn Beck’s, of which I’m sure you’re familiar. Only not as old and crusty

Fox “News” viewers would be better off watching Barney.

I can’t find the story on the FOX nation site. Did they take it down already?? Anyone have a link??

The country was alreay ruined when President Obama took office. I think he’s doing a better job of saving it from going completely under than John “MIA” McCain would be doing.

The Tea Baggers say Hitler often, in private they often put a “Heil” before it…..

Because Michelle Bachman has proved herself being of sound mind……

It reminds me of all the people who claim to have had a friend in the emergency room when Richard Gere had a gerbilectomy.

And they believe everything in her books as well.

And knuckle dragging.

However, the article below is NOT a mistake. Seems 18 more left wing morons are off to jail as good little democrats should be:

http://www.resistnet.com/forum/topic/show?id=2600775%3ATopic%3A2951644&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_topic

The right wing isn’t known for their critical thinking skills, but for trolling “liberal intellectual elitists”.

LMAO

Yeah, I’m pretty sure it’s been taken down. There was a “404″ (page not found) in the address bar when I tried to find it.

Saying that Fox Nation readers confuse anything is giving them too much credit. You have to have a brain to confuse something.

X 10

Relevance, please?

Exactly!

ahhh…a Nation of Foxes, indeed…

The FOX Nation got suckered because the Onion story fits the FOX narrative.

That is a phony article from another phony website, all lies.

No one has gone to jail, no one has been formally charged in a court of law, only charged with hyperbole based lies on some wacko tea bagger website.
If you ever come up with a valid and real article on the subject go ahead and post it even though it is way off topic.

FucksNews (?) got chumped. Ha-HAH!

I see your Acorn story and I raise you 1 Tom Delay and 1 Duke Cunningham conviction.

I get your surprise at the Acorn story, but this RUSH LIBERAL is pretty used to TOP RANKING Republican Leaders being found guilty of FRAUD and CONSPIRACY.

http://inyourfaceradio.net/?p=2736

Neocon”hater”………seems you are well informed huh? Can’t take the truth it would seem. We are all sorry for that though. Someday you can rejoin the morally principaled society again after extensive “consultations” you crybaby, whack-job! I wonder if either of the “Poverty Pimps”, Sharpton or Jackson will visit these left wing commies while they are serving their sentences? Maybe you could visit them since you’re so concerned about their health and wellbeing! You people are a joke!

TaterSalad is a perfect example of how dumbed-down some of us have become. There’s no attempt by the poster to use critical thinking, no attempt to cite respectable sources, no attempt at any research. It’s just more faith-based nonsense. TaterSalad needs to go back to high school and re-take his freshman classes.

Hey, spud, do you know that David guy? He’s a stupid bigot too.

Yes, I hate your heroes, neocons are the scum of the earth, thanks for understanding.

Again, your link is a joke, just another phony baloney tea bagger moron website full of lies to feed the drooling right wingnut sheep.
The ACORN canard, is that all you’ve got??

YAWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and a big LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’ll bump you a Rangel, Waters, Jefferson, Clinton (Billy bobbing), Spitzer, Geithner(turbo-Tax), Bill Ayers & wife, Van Jones, Holdren, Podesta, Dunn, Heather Booth, Obama’s mentor…Davis, Geo. Soros the Marxist and Obama’s moneyman, Pevins, Alinsky, Grayson, Dingy Harry, and your favorite ………Nancy Pea..losi! What a fine bunch of left wing morons to “look up to” for support! Pathetic! Don’t forget the cocaine user…….Obama!

He’s in school, Beck University.

Delusional Wingnut Studies, he’s gonna get a degree!
If he can stand the stench he might even get a Phd!

The reason Fox readers believed The Onion’s satire is because they are total evil racists.

punk’d

Fox nation can wipe back to front or front to back all they want, but the smell and stain will remain forever.

Some of those restroom republicans prolly get off just on the thought of a gerbilecomy.
They sure know how to party!

How about this, taterboy:

http://911review.org/Alex/Republican_Pedophiles.html

That is the truth, not some made up hash by some wacko right-wing puke.

Are you by chance a fan of Beck?
Your incoherent rants seem to be the same jive from his shows??

Or are you really a student at Beck University?

Oh!! Both!

Oops… down the memory hole.

Fox readers don’t know much of anything they believe what they hear, and don’t check any facts. I feel bad for them more than that they are bringing the rest of us down and I don’t like it. They stand behind GOD and are so full of hatred,and bigotry. They should be scared because my God will not forget what they are doing.

GOP = Group of Pedophiles

Well, not really, but they do have more than a few just like the Catholic Party/Church/House of perverts.

Nobody at Fox News is capable of being humiliated, and the people who imbibe this crap wouldn’t know anything that isn’t “reported” on their favorite “news outlet” either.

Catholic church = world’s largest pedophile incubator.

Nothing like an entertaining anecdote on the gullibility of the right wing.
It is funny but very frightening at the same time.

Oh and, way to go on preserving the comments and the most excellent screenshot, Rawstory!

HA!…there is no news anyway! Opinion News is what we get. I’ve lost all respect for 99.9% of reporters. Show me a TRUE, investigative Reporter. Now they are branching out into “Predator News” where they don’t even fact check it they just STEAL IT like a coyote in the night.

Seems that you know all about Becl it would seem. AYou must be watching then! If that is the case, that makes you just another left wing “hypocrite” doesn’t it?

So who’s deranged again? Keep drinking the TEA babies, keep drinking the tea

hahaha! Your brains have been tatered, TaterSalad. heeheehee! I love it when the rightwingnuts rant!

More damning evidence that those who purport to be the most Patriotic and the most God fearing are also the least skeptical and the most dependable dupes of Australian native Murdoch’s Empire of Useful Idiots.

I love it when Conservatives take the bait! LMAO!

Okay Okay….
now go cash that gov disabilty check you get, get tweeking and leave us alone.

The posting of this story may not be an “error” as they would like you to believe. In the same way a trial attorney makes a claim about a defendants actions that the opposing counsel objects to and the judge sustains and admonishes the jury to disregard, the “bell has been rung” and no matter the judge’s instructions the “thought” has been planted in the jury’s minds.

This supposed “error” only re-enforces the official Faux News meme that the O man is not up to the job which will be the questioned asked of all voters (aka the jury) in 2012.

And now for a refresher on the “purpose” of Faux News:
“The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money and more power.
They claim to be superpatriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjugation”
Vice President Henry Wallace

It figures a republican would reference inflagrante-delecto here, as you have to be a self loathing closet gay dude to get into the repub party. I do not speak hyperbolically. I worked in DC and met some of those RNC dudes. They are all gay. No really.

Once again the story gets misreported. They were not convicted of ELECTION fraud and not a single vote was cast nor a single election “flipped”. If you read the original reporting you would also find that ACORN officials testified against these crooks because these EMPLOYEES defrauded them too. The facts will ALWAYS make anyone “promoting” this meme look foolish.

If you want to see what REAL election fraud looks like read the link below about the 7 officials in Kentucky who were convicted of flipping computer tallies and fixing elections.
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7765

TaterSalad don’t you think that if ACORN was capable of true election fraud that they would have been caught by the Norm Coleman campaign in Minnesota in 08. ACORN registered tens of thousands of new voters in Minnesota that year and Norm Coleman took seven months and spent $14 MILLION dollars on a recount and in the process challenged THOUSNDS of votes and could not find a SINGLE fraudulent VOTE or even REGISTRATION linked to ACORN. So where is the proof that ACORN is linked to ELECTION fraud other than in the accusations that pour from the mouths of Faux News hosts like drool from a Saint Bernard’s yap? Only in their integrity challenged minds that’s where!

The whole ACORN story is designed and promoted to energize the GOP base and play up their generational racism pure and simple. If you have fallen for it you might ask yourself why? I mean seriously, if after 15 years of local and congressional investigations, and candidate challenges they have yet to find a SINGLE fraudulent VOTE tied to ACORN where is the STORY? WHERE?

AND….AND even if they DID find a illegal vote here or there where is the FLIPPED ELECTION? Wayne do you really see how absolutely foolish the whole get ACRON story line looks?

If you want to talk about election fraud check out the link below to get an idea how W stole 2004 Ohio Presidential election that describes Documented proof of ELECTION flipping that caused W’s goons to kill their IT expert before he could testify in OPEN court!

http://www.velvetrevolution.us/prosecute_rove/

Tater Salad read these links and learn where the real election fraud IS occurring today in the good ole US of A.

As Joseph Stalin said “it’s not who votes that matters, it’s who COUNTS the votes that determines who “wins” elections!”

Bro I think you reading another Onion article. Ok let’s go through this again. ‘The Onion’ is a satyrical website.., now, that means the articles there are NOT real. They are meant to be humorous.

Wait a minute did you say, ‘A Wussy’? What, did you take the Bill Oreilly course in ‘Nahnah Nahnah’ riposting?

And the names that you put forth amount to how many CONVICTIONS for the crimes initially charged? And the names that you put forth amount to the theft or acceptance of how much money?

Seriously there is no comparison to Abramoff, Delay or Cunningham.

Your post is a typical Fox Fraud News tactic of getting the embarssment of Fox Fraud News swept under the rug. Your source of news got clowned. Notice the following from the article above:

For a news outlet to retain credibility, standard industry procedure dictates that reporters and editors not only correct mistakes, but acknowledge them as well. Fox Nation had done neither at time of this writing.

Fox Fraud News has no standards. It donates to Republicans and then cons the public into believing their Network is unbiased. Remember George Will the Conservative? Well is a Fox Fraud Clown kinda guy too. He ripped off Carter’s debate papers, coached Reagan and then got on television and sucked Reagans dick right on the air without telling the people that he coached Reagan. Just like Fox would do.

Back to Fox Fraud News. They donated to Republicans, 30 of their people donated to Republicans and all of them do the George Will, which is spew fake anaylsis to the people.

Fox Fraud News and the viewers were caught clowned face and all. The viewers even piled on the crap saying they actually had the e-mail. Typical Fox Fraud viewers.

So you come along and do what every scum Fox Fraud News people and viewers do which is try your damn best to bury the hard core facts that all of you are clowned face.

Stick with the topic which is, “why would anyone want to watch and news show that has zero standards? The standards of a fake O’keefee video, the standards of a fake Brietbart video, the standard of the fake Paris Business Review Magazine O’Reilly fabricated?

If you like fake so much you are pathetic.

If you hit the “last channel” buttom on a Faux News viewer’s remote it WILL take you to Cartoon net work where they live in the fantasy world of hero’s avenging threats to their MYTHICAL way of life.

Do we need any further proof that the collective IQ of Fox viewers is less than 50?

Fake News’ hatred of Obama has blinded them more than red-hot pokers in their eyes.

The election of President Obama broke the brain of these people. They were so sure, so confident that a black man would never be elected to the highest office in the land but when they saw it happen, it caused a severe crushing breakdown. Remember, they’re not playing with a full deck. See David’s comment below me. No matter what you do…You cannot fix that.

OMGosh! ROFLMBO!!! Faux Noise never fails to amaze and amuse me! Surely they MUST have more brains than to fall for an Onion story. This is beyond belief. It tells me that President has nothing to worry about, except innocent elbows, lolol. Jennynews, I’d settle for IQs of room temperature at least, but, alas, FN still doesn’t “get it!” Soooo sad!

Examining multiple points of view isn’t “hypocrisy”, it’s “research”. I know it’s a difficult concept, but “research” is that thing people do when they want to learn more about a topic in an effort to discover the truth. If you need a frame of reference to your own way of thinking, this is the polar opposite of what you call “faith”, which is unfounded belief in someone else’s words, and the absence of critical thought. Did that help clear anything up for you?

No, it makes us viewers of some of the funniest Faux Noise comedians now, since Ralph Cramden, Red Skelton, Bob Hope, and Uncle Milty. But the last four mentioned had… integrity!

Fox News watchers have long abandoned reality, so is anyone surprised? Not me.

Mr. Webster, you are awesome! You always bring us the best stuff!

* Voters Outreach of America – Tore up Democrat voter registration slips because “They were only being paid to register Republicans”
* Arizona Green Party Debacle – Several Republican candidates coerced staffers and friends to register as Green Party candidates and write themselves in during

the primaries, to obscure choices and confuse voters.
* Orange County Colleges Fraud – GOP signature gatherers coerce voters to switch to GOP, bribing with sunglasses and falsifying voter registrations- 11

convictions, 8 jail sentences
* Nevada GOP disposes of Democrat Voter Registration cards they collected
* Head of NH GOP jailed for blocking Democrat Party office phone lines
* Then there was the 2000 election in Florida, in addition to the 2004 election in Florida AND Ohio. Between the two states and two elections, official counts show that over 500,000 votes for Gore/Kerry were not counted. Leaked memos from Diebold showed that Precinct 216 in Volusia county reported NEGATIVE votes for Gore. That is, 16,022 were *subtracted* from Gore’s total, while 4,000 votes for George Bush were *added*.

What you tea baggers and FoxNewsies forget is that in 2004 allegations of Republican vote fraud were so rampant, that they came out with a PR campaign to turn the tide in their favor. Was the campaign “We don’t cheat!” or “One man, one vote” or “Honest Elections Now!”? No… Their campaign was…

“They do it too!”

Sounds like the words of a real bastion of honesty and integrity. Get caught with your hands in the cookie jar? Easy! Don’t take responsibility and take steps to change for the better- just BLAME THE OTHER GUY!

See, that’s my problem with politics in America, and Americans who “follow” politics. Their memories are so short-term it isn’t even funny. I’m only 27, and yet it’s been a HILARIOUS ride to watch the nutjobs on both sides, and the nutjobs who listen to those nutjobs, flip-flop ALMOST ANNUALLY, on almost every issue, then pretend that they’ve ALWAYS been of that opinion. I was 17 at the time of the 2000 elections, so I couldn’t vote (not that it would have mattered, since I live in Florida), but I can remember the OUTRAGE- pure contempt and outrage across the country- that there was even a QUESTION of vote fraud, nevermind all-out-in-your-face-blatent-to-the-point-of-being-insulting-fraud. I’m just amazed that, only 10 years later, everyone (especially Republicans) seem to have forgotten about the 2000/2004 elections.

But putting those elections aside, during the 10 years since, allegations of fraud, obstruction and rigging have only increased. Republicans do it, Democrats do it. Pinning the blame on one party as being “destructive of democracy” is pure ignorance at best, willful deception at worst- likely a mix of both.

If you think that any President since Reagan has been looking out for America, or has America’s best interests at heart, you’re way off the mark. Since 1980, the Office of President has basically amounted to being CEO of AmeriCorp. You look out for it’s various subsidiary companies (esp. Goldman Sachs, Lockheed, et al) and keep the public confused long enough for whatever company financed your campaign to fleece the Treasury Dept. You can attack “liberals” all you want, but the fact is that liberals have nearly no voice in the Congress or Senate. Since 1980 the Left has moved Center and the Right… well, there are some legitimate comparisons to a certain other far-right political machine.

I encourage everyone, RUN FOR A PUBLIC OFFICE. I’ve actually run for a public office before and worked with others who have successfully campaigned for elected offices and I can tell you- there are some serious hoops to jump through. Getting my name on the ballot for Mosquito Control Commission took either $5,000 (didn’t have) or 1,000 signatures (before you say anything about putting myself in for a government job I’m not qualified for, I was in pest control for 5 years and was branch manager of the fastest-growing Natural Pest Control company in Florida— the chick who won is a 25 year old with an AA in Anthropology and only one job as a clerk at her parent’s real estate office). I didn’t lose because I was less qualified. I lost because I couldn’t afford to buy upwards of 1,000 roadside signs, and because I couldn’t afford to pay state fees for 32 6′x10′ billboards. — Interestingly enough, you know why they went through all this effort to get a family member on the Mosquito Control Commission? Because they owned 1,100 acres of swampland that they wanted to develop- but they needed to convince the Mosquito Control Commission to add 1,100 acres of PRIVATE land to their register so they could spray there. Their son also serves on the county commission Land Planning Board, and they spent about $10,000 opposing a local ballot measure that would require a public vote before redistricting SWFWMD-designated Protected Wetlands.

Either way, it breaks down to this: election rigging and election fraud is not new, it’s not “republican” or “democrat”/”liberal” or “conservative”. It’s MONEY. Money makes elections or breaks elections. The Chamber of Commerce won a STUNNING victory in the midterms this year. Let’s see who wins next election- will it be Goldman Sachs? Will it be BP? Will it be General Motors? Or what if the Kingdom Foundation ends up stealing next year’s elections? Oh, the possibilities! No matter who wins though, I can guarantee you one thing: They will be paid through the ass by megabuck funding from anonymous donors. Bet on it.

These folks are SO stupid they don’t even understand that you can’t send an email to “everybody”?

Add to this the fact that none of these idiots GOT the email that was supposedly sent to everybody. You’d think there’d be something resembling a reality testing routine in these folks’ thought processes that would allow them to compare what they read with what their senses tell them is true. I guess not.

It’s not surprising. FoxNews has a history of such confusion. They confused Iraq with the source of the 9-11 attacks against the U.S., George W. Bush with a real president, “Mission Accomplished” with an accomplished mission, and themselves (FoxNews) with an actual news network.

I once called one of these idiots on this kind of reporting and his excuse was he would’nt have enough time with his “family” if he did his job right.

A worldview in which the president can send an email to the entire population of the country? Do you ever get the feeling we should be building more mental hospitals rather than more prisons?

Quayle couldn’t spell “potatoe” either.

Go visit DeLay in prison. He needs a warm loving body to fondle.

It also matter who stops the counting.

Po-ta-to. No “e”. No “r”.

Let’s see. An organization that tells its applicants up front that they can’t have sex with woman, but they will have access to lots of young men and eventually to young boys who serve as altar boys. Why is anybody surprised?

Thank you for the dose of reality. Now if we could just get this miscreant to take his medicine.

And they have become brilliant at it too. I believe you’re right. It’s all about planting a thought.

Preaching to the choire again.

“Soros the Marxist.” Yes…which explains why he spent so much money trying to bring down the Soviet regime. And you misspelled the name of the cocaine user. I think it’s spelled “G. W. B-U-S-H.”

The comment section over there before they nuked it was great. It had hundreds of comments, and the number one ‘liked’ comment was smart, funny, and insulting to ignorant people. Actually, all the highest rated liked comments were mocking, and likely for the first time in their history, all the racist, ignorant schoolyard taunts only had two or three likes.

I went and looked at some other stories while I was there, and apparently the comment boards are frequented by eleven year-old poor white boys that are convinced they are the master race.

Makes me think that the Simpsons writer that came up with the slogan ‘FOX Not Racist, But #1 With Racists’ had been cruising the Fox Nation comment boards.

Yeah … “confused,” heh.

That would be a reasonable explanation, but the actual reasons are so disgustingly insidious.

I do like your sense of irony, though!

Oh but they do. Don’t touch their Barney or they’ll have you arrested.

A reality testing routine? You mean like processing something one learns before lashing out about it? How’s that reasonable?

=)

Wingnuts can’t tell reality from fantasy, truth doesn’t matter to them.

You’re not from around here are you. Otherwise you would know better.

You’re so right, if they were as smart as Rove they wouldn’t have gotten caught!

You’re so right, if they were as smart as Rove they wouldn’t have gotten caught!

The only thing that can surpass this lot’s stupidity is their dishonesty.

In the cases I’ve read about, it was the ACORN supervisors themselves who originally reported improper registration cards to election officials. Then the organization itself gets smeared by a-holes like spud-brains here for doing the right thing. ACORN was systematically targeted by the right wing for the simple reason that they empowered poor and minority people to vote (and rich whites can’t let that happen in the great US of A, now can they?).

And Palin takes ADHD medication, so what? If you ruled out everyone whose taking something there wouldn’t be any one left to run for president would there?

Nothing changes, when the democrats are in EVERYBODY steals when the Republicans are in only THEY get to steal. The American people get robbed either way.

Asking the Republicans to save us from the Democrats is like asking Jeffery Dahmner to save us from the Cannibals.

“I went and looked at some other stories while I was there, and apparently the comment boards are frequented by eleven year-old poor white boys that are convinced they are the master race.”

Hmmm…no, I’m willing to bet that they were all that except for the age. I’d put them more at about 11. By having it out with one of them over the weekend, I came to the revelation that alas! their intelligence is stunned. They have the intellectual capacity of an 11 year old. Where most kids stop believing in Santa Claus, these folks go on believing in the other Santa, the one up in the sky. And that’s where their development ends.

Sad, ain’t it?

I agree. He pisses me off a lot. More so than Clinton did and that was plenty. But I don’t worship the people I vote for. Still…a little more fight would be twice as nice.

Trash talk anyone you like, but don’t you dare trash talk cocaine!

You know my cousine told me her neighbor read that somewhere…

Did they?

What they will do is e-mail everyone they can to spread it around ” see, I told ya.”

These people watch FOX Fake Facts the station that believes the pilgrims were fleeing socialism not religious persecution. The people who watch Fox News have no critical thinking skills. MY wife’s best friend boy friend watches Fox News according to him if it isn’t said by fox or published by Fox it is not the truth. I refuse to go anywhere near the dude cause frankly I find him sort of scary. We are becoming a giant version of North Korea that has no clue of world history, or how the rest of the world thinks of us.

More likely they’ve accomplished their mission.

If I recall, last year I did get an e-mail from the head of health and human services (Sebilius?) warning about the swine flu and directing the public to run out and get a flu shot
ASAP. As I had never contacted that facet of government before, I thought it was pretty strange that they had access to my e-mail address.

I posted a comment on this in a reply to stumptown, below. But I did want to point out, in case you were having trouble following along, that the article you reference is completely irrelevant to the discussion. I mean, the RawStory article we are all posting about demonstrates that tea-baggers are too stupid to pick up on the fact that a piece of satire is not news. Did you think that if you personally identified any random news story that was NOT satire, our views of tea-baggers would change? Or are you helping us out by demonstrating that tea-baggers also can’t determine the topic under discussion? If so — good job!

Just shows how divorced from reality Fox and its readers are, that they take an obvious parody for reality. Fox’s own pundits are so crazed that they parody themselves.

Unhinging the bell.

The problem is, the dummies out number the rational by 100 to 1. We live in a society where half the people believe in angels and that aliens from another planet have visited us.

Is it any wonder that W got elected twice?

The basic flaw in our Constitution is that the Founders presumed literacy and commonsense in voters. They wanted landowners who were white, male and could read.

We seem to have evaded that pretty thoroughly, as proved by the last election.

” A friend of mine received it because she’s an Obama supporter…” You know it’s a new age when “I have a friend who works there” isn’t good enough anymore.

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No body watches Fox for the facts. Or to engage in critical thinking for that matter. They watch it for a comfort level. Simple. Like comfort food.

As Fox’s news is essentially a parody it isn’t surprising their fans would confuse parody with news…

I didn’t get one so I guess they don’t have mine. Do your taxes electronically maybe? You could have given it to them inadvertantly.

nope, no surprise.

Yep people can’t tell Fox News from the Onion. Why doesn’t that surprise me?

actually, he was elected once and Fox news reported his original “win” as a done deal when it never actually happened. I guess posting fake news is sort of a Fox thing.

fox fans source of fun is hating…it makes them feel better about themselves.

This is my favorite comment of all. Wow.

Hahaha, wait….wasn’t it W who admitted to abusing cocaine years ago?

When you never fact-check any anti-Obama story, even articles like that fly directly from the internet onto Fox air. The Onion piece is no more ridiculous than a lot of the other fiction Fox broadcasts.

GWB was a drunk, plain and simple. Obama admits using cocaine in his book. Have you even read it?

A wussy? Di-ock? Drugs? What are you, 7 years old? To answer your question: No. You just made that up yourself to try to perpetuate hate for something way outside your mental capacity. Go back to elementary school and stop watching Fox News.

Wait, you mean angels and aliens from another planet have NOT visited us? One of those is in It’s a Wonderful Life, and the other is proved by Mindy and Mork.

Yes, it is true! I know because Rupert Murdock told me himself! Why would Fox lie to us about David? :)

No, they are eleven.

I disagree. Their mental age is about eleven.

Ok, my bad — appointed once, conceded to once — it’s just all so tedious.

I can’t believe Fox Noise just took the story and comment board down as if it never happened. I smell cowardice. I guess that makes sense though. Fox Noise is excellent at lying and never apologizing for lying when they’re blatantly caught in one, such as this. Whatever happened to Dr. Laura by the way? She never apologized… nor has anyone else bought out by Satan and his network.

And I give you Richard Nixon and his merry band.

The President admitted to *trying* cocaine as a college student. Totally irrelevant to Fox News employing people too stupid to realize that the Onion prints satire, not news.

Or Richard Milhouse Nixon and his first vice president, who accepted bribes in the White House.

Not to mention that they seem incapable of realizing that a 75,000 word post is approximately the length of a paperback novel. “Stupid” doesn’t begin to describe these people.

Not only are you an idiot, you have not the slightest idea of what someone on anti-depressants looks or acts like.

FAIL.

They’re probably still laughing.

Who’s surprised?

People who believed this are participating in false logi at its very best. They will believe anything inferior, and I do mean anything, about someone they have already decided they don’t like. Conversely, they will never believe anything positive about someone they have already decided they don’t like. Their reality is just that, their own. They don’t care about facts, evidence, the truth or anything that invades their own little myopic view of the world. And when the truth invades their little world, they just ignore it and go on.

I’m wondering if it even was a mistake on the part of Fox…or more liki a deliberate mistake. Fox isn’t stupid..just the people who watch them and read the onion..

So which are they, eleven or 11?

I think it’s 11. Or maybe eleven, one or the other.

So whats the big deal ? People who get their news from Fox are used to getting fake news and swallowing it daily anyway . Actually that story isn’t any farther out than a lot of the stuff they lap up on a regular basis or complete nonsense that Fox pounds daily for somethings weeks on end .

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Remind me to laugh at your joke later. I’m sure it’s every bit as funny as you intended it. Right now, I’ m busy trying to figure out whether you are eleven or 11.

Actually, that whould be “we are becoming more like Sarah Palin”, shouldn’t it? Now, THAT IS scary!

This makes what they do so obvious. It is not the first time they have USED The Onion in this way. I have recieved such emails before on other subjects as I have a couple of Faux-gullibles in the family.

I certainly hope “Obamacare” will provide the help they need!

[...] http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/fox-nation-readers-confuse-onion-article-real-news/ [...]

Isn’t twisting facts, which proves they actually KNOW the facts, what the GOP does best? When they get caught at it, do they just pretend to be dumb? Well, maybe some pretend.

That’s weird, too, because the Onion is generally well-written, in stark contrast to Fox

Our democracy is in danger. We need to bring back the Jim Crowe laws immediately, before we decend irrevocably into totalitarian populism like so many of our NAFTA and CAFTA neighbors.

It’ll be interesting to hear what Fox does to the staffer who fell for the Onion satire. Give him/her a raise? Fire him? Or just deny that any of it ever happened?

Story? Onion? What story? What onion? You must be dreaming!

I don’t think they’ll ever admit their gaffe. Totalitarian governments, including corporations like FoxNews, make their own rules and their own ‘news.’ When you own the media you can affirm or deny anything–like the USSR in the 1950s and the Chinese today. “The news is whatever we say it is! Take him away, comrade! Shoot him, and bill his family for the bullet!”

I completely agree, @party_of_lincoln, but from the looks of the FOX commenters, allowing women the vote was the larger of the two mistakes. Also we need to immediately take the vote away from the illegal immigrants: they’re obviously going to vote to allow more of themselves in, creating a phenomenon scientists call “Positive Feedback”. It was a really big mistake when CAFTA allowed them to vote.

And what hillbilly kin are going to visit you in the FEMA camps? As soon as we spot a pickup truck load of billy’s our glorious and brave soldiers will shoot out the tires and round them up too, but we can’t put them in the same camp as you because of the inbreeding issue. Inbreeding is what started this problem. Yep, we’ll put a bounty on them like Coyotes. Your kind hunts defenseless animals to feel more manly, to brag, feel as though you accomplished something. If you hunted for food that would be one thing but you hunt so you can thump on you chest for a fleeting moment and to impress Bonita Bob/sister. We’ll be hunting to rid the planet of intellectual zombies. To avoid the hunt, turn yourself in.

In a yet to be published paper, cognitive scientists at a prominent Southern university concluded that as little as two months’ exposure to Fox News resulted in permanent lowering of I.Q. by an average of 10%. Because of the controversial nature of the peer reviewed findings, there is a rumor that the study is going to be embargoed by the host university fearing a back-lash from the legislature and rich donors.

It doesn’t surprise me; conservatives are by and large right-brain disabled anyway. What concerns me is that I’ve been hearing “insider” rumors that Obama’s White House is contemplating removing him from office using the 25th Amendment and that he is so depressed White House doctors put him on anti-depressants. That Fox went so quickly with this story indicates to me that all of those rumors, which have been going on since before the time Obama toured the Far East at “$200 million a day,” are bogus, pure-D old bullshit started by a duplicitous cabal of fascist thinking neocons.

Still have doubts about “scrubbing” from the right”

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/8/21/895233/-UPDATED:-Fox-News-Scrubbing-Wikipedia-Entry-on-$1-Mil.-Donation-

UPDATED: Fox News Scrubbing Wikipedia Entry on $1 Mil. Donation

What do you expect from drooling RepubliKans? Those mouthbreathing mongrels are barely functional even on the best of days.

How do you go from 100 to 1 and then go to half (50%) Cmon. Dummy is written all over your comment. Anyone who THINKS about issues, cannot follow a political party, because you take every issue at hand and look at it logically. You just aren’t in the know (about aliens)… and probably shouldn’t be. I haven’t seen Jesus so I won’t believe in him, cmon buddy. Dummies forgive thier pedophile leaders in their churches. GO MADTOWN Madison! The Onion keeps getting bigger and more powerful, in Wisconsin that paper is our laughter for the week, seriously check it out.

any body can get elected if you pay off dibold or just the people counting or destroing the votes

Sorry it’s such a difficult concept for you, Johnny. There was no offense intended, just a friendly wink and nudge. So you can stop brandishing that turkey leg and go back to see if there’s any pie left.

Awww, isn’t that cute.
Fox Nation is actually embarrassed that real people think they’re stupid.

Once in awhile.

Obama is like the 2nd in command of the Titanic. It hit, the Captain said, “Ummm, I have something to DO! YOU TAKE OVER!” and ran out. I voted for neither party as they PLOWED US INTO THIS DAMN ICEBERG!!!

It’s all very reasonable. If your business model is raising packs of dogs, you’re not going to feed them prime rib. Pet food manufacturers know that it’s people’s tastes that are considered in making it. The animals prefer the stinky stuff.

Here, apparently someone threw in a rubber chicken.

Why do I get the sneaking suspicion that Fox Nation is going to blame this whole affair on the “libruhls”?

Like

If there was no offend intended, then none is taken.

It was supposed to be a “51″ not an “11″ – sometimes I let stuff like that go assuming that people are grown up and intelligent enough to realize it.

WhoooHOOOO!!! I wish I could say I was amazed, but I’m not. I have number of relatives that are Fox Nation, and a more gullible group does not exist!!!
This is just tooo funny!!

When did pointing out the readily apparent stupidity of Fox and their fans become news worthy. I could see a small link towards the bottom of the homepage but certainly not big red text above the fold.

Probably show their picture and label them a Democrat.

One has to admit that these days that the line between reality and satire is growing slimmer and slimmer. Consider some of the women and men that ran for political office under the Tea Party banner. Could anyone, however humorous and clever actually have made them up. Angle, O’Donnell, the half-beard from Alaska – Are they really for real. Sometimes I wish I had been duped. Where is Onion when you need it?

I was supposed to have said ” Did they” but either I’m drunk and don’t remember saying what some one replied too. Really Raw Story you are going to have to start showing me what I said that others are responding to. Lot’s of times lately I don’t have a clue what my reponder is talkng about. You are not showing what my comment was.

I love this very, very much.

FAUX News viewers are not noted for critical thinking skills, doing their homework, or having a sense of humor.

Yet more unambiguous evidence of the mental malleability cum gullibility that infects the horde of knuckle draggers that are convinced that the only way to save America is to turn it over to corporations and the wealthy.

Not a single one of them realizes that thanks to the people they elect, they paid more in income taxes last year than the Bank of America.

[...] Fox Nation publishes an article about President Obama that was printed in The Onion and their readers think that it is real. The Nation scrubs the article and writes no [...]

psh. you guys are so gullible, this never happened. I just called Fox News to confirm and they said that Rawstory is putting me on. pshh…

We cool.

I think you need to get your timeline right! W was President when the US economy hit the iceberg. The O man is the captain of the rescue squad yet the survivors seem to blame the man in charge none the less!

Ouch… how right you are.

[...] Fox Nation readers confuse Onion article with real news [...]

The Onion is just a better Fox news. It’s no surprise these people would think The Onion was a real news source because they already think Fox news is real news.

Well, the Fox Nation website is finally up to the standards of that Indian website which “reported” that President Obama’s recent 10-day trip overseas was costing $200 million a day and tying up a tenth of our naval forces.

Or maybe it’s just that the Fox Nation’s website has been outsourced to India like so much else in America, with the Fox Nation’s computer sitting right next to the India website’s computer, with the operators comparing notes and sipping tea, giggling about how gullible right-wingers are in America, how they’ll swallow pure crap morning, noon and night, and keep coming back for more?

Absolutely frightening. The allusions to 1984 are spot on.

This only happened because of our liberal North Korean allies.

It’s insane that Fox didn’t at least post some sort of correction.

Fox makes stuff up all the time. This was par for the course, business as usual and just like every other time when they get caught lying, they simply ignore the disclosure they lied and move on. There are plenty of people who can believe Fox’s deception and even after they’re told it was a lie continue to believe it or something like it while looking at themselves in the mirror, being happy with what they see and sleeping soundly at night. Fox has no integrity at all. Zero! It’s not in their vocabulary. All we can do is laugh at them but we cannot have any expectations of legitimacy on their part!

try http://www.democracynow.org

[...] From RawStory.com: [...]

“…the dummies out-number the rational by 100 to 1.”

Not only that, but half the population are below average!

Why is this not a good move for FOX? If they wish to continue distancing themselves from reality which they’ve shown is their m.o., I think this is GENIUS!

HAHA I love it!!!!!

Now if we can get FAUX to report more bogus news items, … maybe the half sane ones will be saved from FAUX.

Ah, … who are we kidding, … If they have already tuned into FAUX, … it’s to late, … their not worth saving.

. . again with the demeaning comments . . are you stalking me?

They must have let you out of jail for the holiday. You should put your time to good use and try not to use our “socialist” commons–like the internet. Asswipe.

Nice to see you back. And again by having an interesting post.

thanxxx
financial help

Teach them not to remove embarrassing pages…

On a mac or linux box, edit a file to contain the following (I’m adding a 1 second sleep out of mercy…).

i7:~ qo$ cat fox.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl

while(1) {
`curl http://nation.foxnews.com/barack-obama/2010/11/26/frustrated-obama-sends-nation-rambling-75000-word-e-mail#comment-103546348`;
sleep(1);
}
i7:~ qo$
i7:~ qo$ chmod u+x fox.pl
i7:~ qo$ ./fox.pl
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 13494 100 13494 0 0 13907 0 –:–:– –:–:– –:–:– 23106
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 13494 100 13494 0 0 21751 0 –:–:– –:–:– –:–:– 22755
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 13494 100 13494 0 0 125k 0 –:–:– –:–:– –:–:– 173k
etc…

I hope people don’t turn this into yet another “republicans are dumb/evil” agenda. What matters here is the compromise of integrity in journalism, and to try to pinpoint that fault on one specific division of the country would be foolish.

FOX Snooze pwned by the Onion. Isn’t that funny FOX reports FAUX News.

The Onion is more believable than faux news.

This could just be a test to figure out just how gullible and idiotic their readers are and have a good laugh themselves. “Lets see how far we can go” seems to be the motto of Amerikka today. They’re doing it with the TSA as well.

[...] very publicly mocked by other major online media for passing off satire as if it were actual news. More… [...]

FOXNEWS has successfully, and I think DELIBERATELY, blurred ‘news’ and ‘political commentary’, and ‘facts’ and ‘dogmatic ideology’. Facts no longer matter, and news is ‘we hate Obama’ stories all day long. Take a poll. Approx 27% or more will respond they believe a proven non-truth that FOX runs with day after day as ‘news’. If you read a newspaper, you’re an ‘intellectual elite’. If you watch anything but FOX, you’re watching ‘lame stream media’. If you ask a conservative a real question, you’re a socialist. If you hate the Prez and deny his birth certificate is real, you are a patriot. Up is down and black is white.

“Fox Nation readers confuse Onion article with real news.”

Hell! Why not? Fox Nation readers confuse FOX with real news!

[...] ~This story about Fox Nation just writes itself. Unfortunately, Fox took down the original article and that is a travesty because the comments were priceless. Apparently the fake story was “recommended” on Facebook over 1,000 times. [...]

This is not the first time The Onion’s satire has been mistaken for real news. Just before the election in 2004, the Onion published a report that, because of the huge voter turnout expected, Republicans were to vote on Tuesday and Democrats on Wednesday. http://mhking.mu.nu/archives/075462.php Liberal groups, including John Kerry, jumped on this as a Republican “Dirty Trick.” Hahaha! Sounded good to me.

speechless

Anything that is perceived as negative about the Obama administration, Fox picks up that gauntlet and runs with it. It doesn’t matter that the truth comes out and exposing their crappy news reporting….too much pride will be their downfall. Its one thing to be wrong and admit your mistake, but its another to be proved wrong and let your pride prevent acknowledgment. The latter just makes you look foolish to all.

Anyone who believed that this was real is simply willing to except anything that can validate their hatred of the President. No matter what good our President accomplishes they will choose the insane, the irrational and even the satirical to validate themselves. In the famous words of Ron Wight “You can’t fix stupid”.

I agree that journalism has been compromised however those folks that become outraged by fake news are looking for that kind of thing. Those that listen to Limbaugh and Beck and accept something so obviously fake as reality will always go to the “news” source that validates what they want to believe. A persons political affiliation is not an indication of dumb/evil it in my opinion is much deeper than that.

scary

the folks who didn’t read orwelle’s 1984 were probably threatened by the number of chapters the book contained the the words with too any syllables

These idiots want to believe something like that because it would give credibility to Hannity’s lie about having a source in the WH who said Obama is “losing it”! SH also claims that Obama is fighting with Biden, the Clintons’, all his staff, and only cares about basketball on ESPN! It’s too bad this happened during Hannity’s holiday break, the thought that this alleged email would have given him credibility might have stopped any questioning regarding the veracity of the article. He would have been delirious to finally have told a lie that was actually turning out to be truthful.

What a sorry statement these comments from FoxNation speak regarding the right wing lunatics that want to see their President fail not realizing that means the failure of their country. Or worse yet, they are aware of the latter and the former is more important to them!

51? What am I missing?

Fox is so retarded….in a satirical way. Don’t want to rile up the mama grizzly. ‘Course, she works for Fox, also,too.

THE FOX TEAPUBLICAN PROPAGANDA NETWORK IS THE HOME OF THE LUNATIC FRINGE FROM INSIDE AND OUTSIDE….AND THIS IS PROOF…MAKE SURE THE WORD IS SPREAD…

This is just more proof that Fox “News” Channel is just easily susceptible to anything and everything they find on the web or word of mouth. They take a bait based story, in this case satirical, and actually run with it as news. Sean Hannity intakes fake stories as actual news and is proud to present them as facts. It isn’t just him but he’s the main fool that falls for these things, and reports them with great confidence.

Not only that, but the viewers of fox “news” channel and blog readers take stories like these as truths which is entertaining and scary at the same time.

This is just the beginning.
So much for the Constitution. Where is the left wing moonbats and the ACLU now? What bunch of pussies!

http://www.naturalnews.com/030542_censorship_internet.html

what a bunch of dumb assholes

Consider the Fox target group.

This is just too hilarious!

Is there anything so obviously fake that Fox News won’t present it as news?

Inquiring Minds Want To Know!

I know people who are participating in NaNoWriMo and can’t hit 75,000 in a month! Anyone who believes this for a second has no idea how much work that much writing is.

I was made aware of this joke while it was still up.
I had a great time writing the dumbest, paranoid, conspiratorial tripe I could think of in the comments.

They just blended in with the other comments

Why would anyone be surprised at a bunch of morons that are too stupid to see the obvious?

They do it FOR us. Excellent.

This is a prime example of how stupid Fix is. And an example of how little they vet a story before they publish it. And this is hardly the first time it has happened. To this entertainment group nothing is too absurd to be a fact, and to them rumor and fact are identical. They fail to ever discern the difference.

Stupid people and brain dead viewers. I bet also that despite the fact that Onion has delivered the blow and accepted their share of the fun, there will be those viewers that will still claim it is the truth.

Faux Noise makes all thier stuff up. So what’s the difference?

Faux Noise??!!!??? Whoda thunk it??? There are really no positive words to describe FNC or its followers… none. End of discussion!

Huhhh??? Just… what is your point? You’re in the wrong story and comment section. The left wing people are actually getting a hoot of laughs from Faux Noise’s goof up! Duhhhhh!!!

But it is something the republicans and Fox would do.

From the beginning Faux Noise and the reich-wing blogosphere villified Obama. Planted seedds of doubt, racial inuendo, bred contempt. Then they simply hung his name on Healthcare reform, spewed their BS so naturally the ditto heads of the world had to hate it, after all it was “Obama-Care”! It is so sad to see the destruction of America right before my eyes as these low information, ill informed people vote…..can’t wait to see how they will react to the idea of losing employer based health care and have to foot the entire bill on their own!

I went on the FOX site to comment on their erasing that story and their readers’ comments but it never showed up. I guess it never really happened and I guess I never made a comment either.

Wait I’m confused… naturalnews.com is a satirical news site for trolls… right?

Markejohn commented: “The guy is losing it and we should all be SCARED . . . Obama is unstable and who knows what he might do.”

He might invade North Korea….. Smile :-)

Before launching a denial-of-service attack or encouraging others to do the same, you might want to review your ISP’s acceptable use policy and the law in your jurisdiction.

Very childish to always find bogymen.

FOX obviously has an Achille’s Heel.

FOX obviously has an Achille’s Heel.

FOX obviously has an Achille’s Heel.

Am no fan of Fox, though it does turn up the odd gem now and then.

In this case, it sounds like it was put on the wire during the nightshift by some intern of Republican persuasions.

You’d think after Fox News reported a Weekly World News story about the LAPD buying jet packs as being true, they’d be more careful (The WWN also reported Dick Cheney is a robot.) This isn’t just a problem with Fox News, but also moderate and left-wing networks who forsake checking their sources because they want to brag that they broke the story first.

mr_natural , they will prolly give them a pat on the back because that is what the machine they use does very well , give the gullable something to believe that just happens to be propaganda ! If you ask me the neocons are the SCARY communists that they so tipidly keep connecting to liberals . Anti-americans ? when you want your country to go down the drain just for the sake of party then there is definately something communistic about it period end of story ! Patriotics Ass @@

you obviously dont watch msnbc w/ rachel maddow and that lot , they may be opinionated but they tell it like it is. That being said I still fact check sources just to be sure.

It’s another accidentally-on-purpose “accident,” just like when they identify Republicans as Democrats. They knew it would sound believable to their readers, who distrust Obama because he writes. Probably Fox took it down only after people started posting the link to The Onion story.

While I appreciate your concern, this wasn’t intended as a DOS attack Thomas. That’s why a 1 second sleep is inserted. Rather, it’s intended to send a message via web server stats for the resulting 404 error.

Perhaps modifying the snippet to include some logic along the lines of the following would serve to avoid any legal repercussions?

if($anythingWorthReadingFound) {
exit(0);
}

Between this, and the reporting on Obama’s children’s book, it fairly obvious that Fox is no longer a credible news source, but is simply pandering to the right-wing racist hysteria fueled by morons such as Beck and Coulter.

Also, interesting to note Fox’s memory holing of the article and no retraction published. Clearly they’re embarrassed, but a reputable

Between this, and the reporting on Obama’s children’s book, it fairly obvious that Fox is no longer a credible news source, but is simply pandering to the right-wing racist hysteria fueled by morons such as Beck and Coulter.

Also, interesting to note Fox’s memory holing of the article and no retraction published. Clearly they’re embarrassed, but a reputable organisation would at least admit to the gaffe.

Propaganda?.

Communists and Neocons are opposites.

This website is totally anti-Mac. I won’t be back…

$20 says not one of the Fox Nation commentors quoted above will ever find out the story wasn’t real. They’re probably relating it to their most “patriotic” brethren as I type.

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That is because only clowns use Macs. Consider it clown proofing.

This is awesome. One need only consider the President’s hectic schedule to realize that rattling off a 100+ page email is impossible.

FOX…”Family Of Xtremists”

L M A O !!!!!! this is just PRICELESS. enough said. :D

Yeah, most call it telling the truth

Freakish Obtuse Xenophobes

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You could have bolstered your point considerably by including some instances where Fux noise has actually committed that act.I’m wagering that for every instance of that sort we could dig up ten or more of their deliberately misleading their audience of minimally reprogrammable zombies and drooling, mouth-breathing shake and bake fucktards.. Up to and including their successful court suit to legalize their right to misinform and mislead.The remainder from your most would cal it lying out their anus,but we know how conditioning works and your most would be deaf and blind to such occurrences.

This is just hilarious! The fact that people thought the story was real… I was laughing quite a lot at the original story, but this just makes me laugh even harder! I follow The Onion because I enjoy their “take” on news.

This also shows Fox News and Fox Nation for what they really are and that’s just sad, mostly because people still follow both almost religiously.

From the inanity of Hannity
To the dreck that spews from Beck
From doofus Doocy’s brainless quips
To O’Reilly’s artless blech
No truth in sight, all fact-free spin
A carnival of shocks
Murdoch’s gift to feeble minds
Nobody…does stupid…like Fox

@cameron: I believe that Teri was communicating her observation that FOX’s Achille’s Heel *is* telling the truth.

dam people on the right are just so stupid and the people on the left are just so much smarter. How did this happen?

dam people on the right are just so stupid and the people on the left are just so much smarter. How did this happen?

dam people on the right are just so stupid and the people on the left are just so much smarter. How did this happen?

dam people on the right are just so stupid and the people on the left are just so much smarter. How did this happen?

I’m looking forward to getting e-mail forwards of this “story” from the Obama is a Muslim born in Kenya crowd. If it is on the web and it in some way reinforces your world view – then it is an indisputable fact….

Regular Fox News listeners are pre-selected by the network content as overly credulous. No surprises here.

As every con artist knows it is easier to fool a lier than an honest person.

The knee-jerk Foxnews-loving rabble will use the slightest excuse you can imagine to beat on Obama. There doesn’t have to be a whiff of reality about it, it just has to be a meme. That’s really all that’s required for them to kick into action- someone simply has to put it in words.

You do realize what the definition of “average” is, right? Mr Natural was making a little joke. Not a great one, but a cute one ;)

“I don’t believe the liberal media!” — Well, you should try it sometime. It would do wonders at covering up the douchy that seems to be all over you guys.

As for me? I don’t believe a word that anyone associated with that network says. In fact, if I had a friend whose initials were F.O.X…. I would think twice before I ask them to babysit.

I started out thinking that perhaps the Fox Nation site knew it was satire and assumed that an origin of The Onion was enough to tip anybody off that is was satire. Then I realized that by not noting the story was humorous the folks at Fox Nation have left only two logical conclusions. Either, A) Fox Nation did NOT recognize the satire and seriously reported the story, or B) someone at Fox Nation is playing a cruel joke on it’s own readers. I’m guessing A, not that I don’t think B would be a lot more surprising and fun :)

[...] FOX News Publishes Article from “The Onion” as Real News, Then Removes it After They are Called Out and Fox Nation readers confuse Onion article with real news [...]

Actually, when an (alleged) news organization runs something quoted from another (alleged) news organization, you can’t blame the first organization’s haste on wanting to break the story first, because from their point of view, the story is already broken. In particular, Fox couldn’t possibly have thought that they were going to be the first to break a story that had already run in WWN or The Onion.

Unfortunately, many white males can’t read and they don’t own land. Perhaps you should stick with the “read” portion and expand on that.

Unfortunately, “real” reporting isn’t encouraged. There’s no money in it, no one wants to read it, and it may require you to step on toes. In college, I felt like I was going to change the world. When I graduated, I just changed careers. Not to mention, journalists get paid shit. Why should they work so hard to try to educate the mass population of idiots?

Everyone seems surprised that this happened. Critical thinkers would check facts. We all know most repubs just toe the party line and believe everything spoon fed them. Case in point the last election. Come on people a bunch of millionaires saying they know whats best for the middle class and our country. Its tantamount to having wolves protecting your sheep . If you believe anything that passes for news on the fox news program I have a bridge in Brooklyn I can sell you cheap. fox the news that f$cks with you.

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So much for only the right wing being knee-jerk.

End of discussion? There’s that famous liberal open-mindedness…oh wait, no it isn’t.

Is that why you keep saying the same thing over and over again? Because you’re so smart?

Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck aren’t news reporters nor do they pretend to be. If you think they are then they’re not fooling you. You’re fooling yourself.

Actually, they did. In the web archive from Nov. 26 it says right in the headline “The Onion:…”

So did you just not know any better or were you lying?

It’s a bad analogy. Presidents don’t have as much control over the economy as people think they do. The Congress has more direct control thru the federal budget and taxes. And guess who had a majority in Congress when the recession hit…oh, that’s right, it was the Democrats. Oops! I guess you could call that an inconvenient truth.

It’s ironic that people are throwing around comparisons to a book they haven’t even read.

You would know why it’s ironic if you had read the book.

Right-brain…you mean the hemisphere commonly associated with emotions, creativity and recalling memorized lists? Are you sure about that?

The headline was captured above. The picture does not denote “The Onion,” apparently you can’t read.

I meant abstract thinking, but if that’s centered in the left brain I just learned something. They seem to me to be restricted to concrete, dichotomous thinking. At any rate, their thinking errors are too numerous to count.

You are so right. Perhaps Danny meant to use the term fascist, which is on the far right like the Likudnik party in Israel. The federal government in the States is looking more and more fascist everyday.

I learn something new about myself every freakin’ day!

;^)

Hmm… I’m posting from a MacBook and having exactly zero trouble. Maybe the problem isn’t with the website or the Mac, ya think?

I know that they are not “real” news my point is that they fulfill the need for people who need to validate their beliefs. By the way Glenn Beck’s lead in to his radio program is “A unique mix of entertainment and NEWS”. Rush Limbaugh tells his listeners that he is here to INFORM them, so yes they do portray themselves as real news the only time they don’t is in a one on one “real” interview then they say “Hey, I just an entertainer”.

Hahahah…. Fox News as good as the bible.

Wait…that’s actually pretty good…considering the bible is a book of fiction as well.

Well played, Kathryn!

Quote:
“Fox makes stuff up all the time. This was… business as usual and just like every other time when they get caught lying, they simply ignore the disclosure [that] they lied and move on….”

I don’t think Fox management is concerned about facts vs. fiction. Their corporate function is not to report facts (what the rest of us call ‘journalism’) but to manufacture and distribute (sell) information that they want the public to have. In this respect they are successful.

You said you’re putting us all in your will, and you invited us over for drinks.
lol

Proof that Fox New’s research staff is nothing but a bunch of idiots.

Heyyyy, what can I say? Read the majority of comments here. If you enjoy talking to yourself, maybe you can enlighten yourself somewhat? I stand by my comment!!! Cheers!

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Well given that stories like “Palin to star in reality show”, or “Palin clubs baby seal” aren’t satire in the republican world of politics, it’s not surprising they have a hard time telling the difference.

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