Right-wing smear machine falls for fake Obama quote labeled as "satire" (Media Matters)

[struggle4progress]

October 23, 2009 9:00 pm ET — 12 Comments

Right-wing media figures trumpeted a blogger's fake report that in a college thesis -- which the post's author claimed was obtained by Time's Joe Klein -- President Obama attacked the Founders and the Constitution. Lou Dobbs ran with the claim even after Klein had denied the story, Michael Ledeen had apologized for having repeated it, and Rush Limbaugh had acknowledged that it might not be accurate ...

http://mediamatters.org/research/200910230037

[LaPera]

1. They are all repulicans...they vote only republican.

[Anakin Skywalker]

2. Ah Hah Hah Hah! They're So Desperate

Dumb f*cks!

[mwb970]

3. Right-wingers rarely respond to irony or indeed to any form of complexity.

Simplistic thinking, taking things at face value, seeing only surfaces - these are defining characteristics of today's clueless conservatives. Their complete lack of imagination accounts for their many abject failures at creating or even recognizing humor. They literally cannot "get it" due to their small, narrow minds.

I am very, very sick of right-wing wackaloons. Deliver us, Lord.

[mariawr]

4. Faux punked them again Friday....

..with the lying story about the WH boycotting them from a press avail, and the other networks stood up in unison against it.

Another baldfaced lie by Faux Noise.

And the other networks, like good little parrots, repeated it without checking the sources.

It's ALL the networks vs the WH.


You better recognize this pattern. Been done over and over.