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Thursday, July 22, 2010

[Classified]

The Onion has done it again. One of their videos of fake news has been taken seriously and then shared as real news by paranoid conspiracy junkies. Here's a list of links:







My favorite part is about a minute in when "Rep. John Haller" is reading a classified section and is stunned to silence for a few seconds before just remarking "...Jesus" and then continuing.

Is satire not universally understood? Is sarcasm really that difficult of a concept?

Posted by Jefe at 11:21 AM
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2 comments:

  1. SunnyJuly 22, 2010 at 1:22 PM

    Suspicious that this was double-hoaxed with fake Facebook threads, I looked up a bunch of the names and found several to exist, some confirmed by still having the same profile pic.

    Another awesome reference to this video on a regurgitated version on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8KeeDqE5Xc):

    "Otherworldy, And Great Size? Sounds like the Annunaki, Flesh eating? Might be a weapon they have. Demonic? The Annunaki have been Considered Demonic Looking Beings and are extremely warlike. Thats what i read though no clue how they actually are."

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  2. JefeJuly 22, 2010 at 4:14 PM

    Thanks for doing due diligence on the Facebook side of things. I figured a few of the Facebook threads would be troll baiters, but that many would be genuine. I'm still shocked that anyone would take it seriously.

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