By David Edwards Friday, November 26th, 2010 -- 1:32 pm
Fox News' opinion website Fox Nation and many of their readers don't seem to know satire when they see it.
The Fox News sister site re-posted a spoof 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. This sounds more like a book than an email.
This is the not the first time Fox News jumped on a fake story. Gretchen Carson ran a story that the Taiwanese animation company, NMA, had created.
An NMA animation showed the Taliban training monkeys to fight the US troops in Afghanistan. The story was a complete fabrication as was the Onion spoof on the long Obama email.
See the complete story at http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/fox-nation-readers-confuse-onion-article-real-news/
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The Fox News sister site re-posted a spoof 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. This sounds more like a book than an email.
This is the not the first time Fox News jumped on a fake story. Gretchen Carson ran a story that the Taiwanese animation company, NMA, had created.
An NMA animation showed the Taliban training monkeys to fight the US troops in Afghanistan. The story was a complete fabrication as was the Onion spoof on the long Obama email.
See the complete story at http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/fox-nation-readers-confuse-onion-article-real-news/
Rightardia feed: feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/IGiu
Netcraft rank: 8515
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://rightardia.blogspot.com
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