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HAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!! They re-printed the story about some meltdown Obama email to the entire nation - they could have punched the story into google and seen it on Onion.com home page - hahahha
Fox News' opinion website Fox Nation and their readers don't seem to know satire when they see it.
The Fox News sister site re-posted a joke from the satirical website The Onion Friday about President Barack Obama sending a 75,000-word e-mail to the the entire nation. At no point does Fox Nation note that the story is a satire.
The Onion story joked that Obama had "reached the end of [his] rope" and sent out the "rambling" stream of consciousness e-mail that addressed everything from the war in Afghanistan to his live-in mother-in-law.
The story goes on to say that the fake Obama e-mail was 27 megabytes and 127 printed pages
LOL @
UPDATE: Fox Nation scrubs page, comments that mistook Onion satire for real news
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doesn't surprise me :D :D
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HAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!! They re-printed the story about some meltdown Obama email to the entire nation - they could have punched the story into google and seen it on Onion.com home page - hahahha
Fox News' opinion website Fox Nation and their readers don't seem to know satire when they see it.
The Fox News sister site re-posted a joke from the satirical website The Onion Friday about President Barack Obama sending a 75,000-word e-mail to the the entire nation. At no point does Fox Nation note that the story is a satire.
The Onion story joked that Obama had "reached the end of [his] rope" and sent out the "rambling" stream of consciousness e-mail that addressed everything from the war in Afghanistan to his live-in mother-in-law.
The story goes on to say that the fake Obama e-mail was 27 megabytes and 127 printed pages
LOL @
UPDATE: Fox Nation scrubs page, comments that mistook Onion satire for real news
was there any actual apology or retraction or did they just pretend it never existed?
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#1 in news :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
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was there any actual apology or retraction or did they just pretend it never existed?
They just deleted it. normally, news organizations will post a retraction. You know, so people aren't repeating it as truth because they read it as news.
They just heard something about Obama writing an email TO AMERICA - a huge, ranting meltdown email of 127 pages - and they printed it. It would, of course, be a HUGE HUGE story, were Obama to do this. So they ran it. Without checking any source. They just read it on Onion (or received some chain mail) and just printed it.
insane.
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Who only gets their news from one source anymore? Me personally, I scan rcp, wsj, drudge fr, etc and even rarely watch tv.
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you would be surprised, i bet their are quite a few on this site