Too good to check: RW blogs again snared by satire
March 29, 2010 5:47 pm ET by Matt Gertz
The right-wing media's tendency to believe anything that bolsters their worldview is well-documented. Last October, for example, they rushed to trumpet a blogger's entirely unsourced claim that President Obama attacked the Founders and the Constitution in his college thesis, only to end up looking extremely foolish once it became clear that the initial blog post that started the firestorm was tagged "Satire."
So you'll probably guess where I'm going when I mention that several right-wing news sources -- including Fox News -- today jumped on an EcoEnquirer.com report that "Famed global warming activist James Schneider and a journalist friend were both found frozen to death on Saturday, about 90 miles from South Pole Station."
Yup, EcoEnquirer.com is a satire site currently fronting "Breaking News" about the successful 2027 Bali global warming conference. Other EcoEnquirer.com stories include "U.S.-Canada Border Conflict Continues" and "EPA to Mandate Reductions in Emissions from Volcanoes."
The wall of shame is below the fold:
Oh that Poe's Law...makes for some funny moments.
And this would be an example of "divine irony" in their minds. Because if you remember, Al Gore told us all that "it will never, ever be cold again".
Today on Tucker Carlson's site, the Daily Caller, they dishonestly implied that the expenses for the lesbian simulated sex club visit were Michael Steele's. They also baselessly stated that Steele wanted a private jet. When called to account for those dishonest portrayals, they couldn't admit it.
At least these fools who were too lazy to verify the story before running with it here are admitting their errors.
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Where is all this global warming? In your head!
How ignorant of history to you have to be to... oh, wait, I answered my own question.