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Showing Original Post only (View all)Rights stupidity forces Snopes to debunk article by the Onion [View all]
Last week, President Obama made a historic trip to Cuba and the right-wing went absolutely insane. Republicans were outraged that our president had the audacity to reestablish a relationship with the country more than fifty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis. After the trip to Cuba, The Onion, a satire website, decided to post a fictional article about his trip home; but, in a hilarious turn of events, paranoid conservatives didnt get the joke and Snopes actually had to debunk the article.
The comment section under the article soon filled with people who thought it was real:
More: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/03/26/the-rights-stupidity-forces-snopes-to-debunk-an-article-by-the-onion-screenshots/
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No. The depths of gullibility. Plus warping reality to fit a pre-conceived agenda
Bernardo de La Paz
Mar 2016
#12
More and more real news stories about the GOP have be preceded by 'Not the Onion'.
forest444
Mar 2016
#9
And I am sure that each one of those commenters is a Constitutional expert.
world wide wally
Mar 2016
#16