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Mortos

(2,389 posts)
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 10:55 PM Jan 2012

Get ready to refute this ridiculous story

I saw this on a facebook post with one of my "friends."

Obama's Chicago Home Foreclosed!

Along with a story of the President trying to break into his home with a credit card and being confronted by the new owner. It was posted on a satirical website but it's not very funny. In fact, it plays to racist stereotypes. I posted on the facebook page that it was a joke and not true and attached a link to the original site, but two different right wingers had already commented on it as if it were factual.

http://www.supertuesdaynews.com/

Get ready for this to be taken as gospel by your right wing friends and family. Just tell them that the same site broke the news that Mitt Romney fired his son and replaced him with Tim Tebow and that he also outsourced his entire election team to China.

Here is a link to the "article" which is already being posted to right wing websites with no mention that it is bad satire:

http://www.supertuesdaynews.com/1/post/2012/01/obamas-chicago-home-gets-foreclosed.html

I get so tired of defending President Obama against bullshit like this.

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Get ready to refute this ridiculous story (Original Post) Mortos Jan 2012 OP
get on facebook and... Charlemagne Jan 2012 #1
Satire is lost on small minds Motown_Johnny Jan 2012 #2
 

Charlemagne

(576 posts)
1. get on facebook and...
Mon Jan 16, 2012, 10:58 PM
Jan 2012

put "obama foreclosed" in the search thing.

Click the search icon.

Then, click on 'public posts.'

look at allllll the people who are presenting this as gospel.

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