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Mitch McConnell: Worried Gitmo prisoners will get GI benefits
Mitch McConnell: Worried Gitmo prisoners will get GI benefitsRemember how earlier this month Breitbart legacy-keeper Ben Shapiro, who is either one of the stupidest persons alive or one of the most mendacious (or quite possibly both), decided he was going to take a set of obviously-facetious comments made by a New York Daily Newsjournalist, treat them as factual, and use them as clubs with which to beat up Chuck Hagel?
Turns out this sort of thing is quite common among the conservative set. Back in October, the Duffel Blog — which is a satirical site, sort of a military-minded version of The Onion — put up a post stating that Guantanamo prisoners were to receive G.I. Bill benefits. And guess what? One of Senator Mitch McConnell’s constituents (a person who like Shapiro is stupid or mendacious or both) reported it as fact to McConnell’s office, which in turn forwarded the note to DoD on the assumption it was fact.
McConnell’s staffers aren’t the first conservatives or Republicans to demagogue stuff from the Duffel Blog. In November, thousands of Romney fans, treating a satirical Duffel Blog posting as fact, called for a recount after the blog posted a 100%-fact-free piece stating that military absentee ballots were delivered a day late.
It almost makes me want to start a rumor just to see how fast some conblogger picks up on it.
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Let’s show these earnest folk The Colbert Report. They’ll take it at face value.
Only if it’s 100% fact free! Oh wait, never mind, conbloggers never fact check. Throw the political chum overboard and watch the feeding frenzy.
I find it ironic that my conservative rethug spouse constantly asks me if I can trust fdl while he listens to flush limpballs…
What was my favorite new term?
Oh Yeah! Termilogically Inexactitude. That’s what they all subscribe too.
Incredible. And we head to Teh Sequestration full speed ahead. What is there to hope for?
nice work, PW.
facts! we don need no steenking facts!
BTW: gravity is justa theory which limpballs, et. al. should disprove asap
and radio waves are just theory. This proves that limpballs is really not transmitting properly!
You know, the Tom Delay staff did that once.
A lot of them do, from what I hear.
Thanks for the reminder! I knew at least Congressional Republican (or his/her staff) did.
The thing is, this is the reverse of the whole “I was only joking!” coin discussed last week. Republicans will say something outrageous that they obviously meant to be taken seriously and then retreat behind the “I was only joking!” shield when called on it.
Those who are ridiculous cannot distinguish reality from ridicule.
I fear that shark has already been jumped…there have been multiple Colbert themed #ironyfail moments provided by earnest conservative sons-o-the-soil appearances.
Given his statemate’s return of $600,000 that should have been spent on constituent service and local offices, both McConnell and Rand Paul are doing Kentuckians no service at all. This is a ridiculous use of power by staffers, or an absurd peek at McConnell’s own idiocy.
Either way, I hope Ashley Judd’s people are paying attention.
Sean Hannity doesn’t want to be left out. His outrage meter broke about an SNL skit featuring a gun toting Jesus coming back to life and out of the cave to seek revenge on all his enemies. OMG! how dare they make fun of conservo-Jesus!