Repuke - Congressman Falls for The Onion's Planned Parenthood 'Abortionplex' Story

[kpete]

Meet John Fleming, the unfortunate Republican U.S. Representative from Louisiana who made that wonderful and all-too-common mistake of thinking that an Onion article http://literallyunbelievable.org/post/17153265749/how-exactly-did-you-get-elected was real and telling his Facebook followers to read it. Fleming's Facebook status was posted by Literally Unbelievable, a Tumblr that collects images of Facebookers who think Onion satires are the real deal and post them on their walls.

Below is an update Fleming posted (from Friday, according to the blogger) for his followers to read about Planned Parenthood's "wholesale" approach to providing abortions:



http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/02/congressman-falls-months-old-onion-story-about-planned-parenthood-abortionplex/48344/



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Hudson Hongo, the freelance writer who runs Literally Unbelievable, explained what happened by email. "The Onion reran their Abortionplex article in response to the Komen Foundation controversy and it has found a second life among misled abortion opponents," he writes. Rep. Fleming shouldn't feel too bad, though: The Abortionplex does have legs. As Literally's Hongo says, "I would completely agree about this being LitUnbelievable's greatest post."
http://literallyunbelievable.org/post/17153265749/how-exactly-did-you-get-elected

[FSogol]

1. LOL, the first comment reads: "The Onion is satire. How exactly did you get elected?

[onehandle]

2. Professional social media requires an expert, not a fanatic. nt

[tanyev]

3. I'm sure Stephen Colbert would be happy to let him come on and tell his side of the story.

[SomethingFishy]

4. K&R... the first response is classic.

[MisterP]

5. another one for Lamebook

[FarLeftFist]

6. Proves that he doesn't really give a shit about abortion it's just a ploy for his stupid base.

If he really cared he would have read the article.