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Rhiannon12866

(205,429 posts)
Sun Sep 13, 2020, 11:03 PM Sep 2020

P.A. System at Trump Rally Accidentally Blasts Woodward Tapes

MINDEN, NEVADA (The Borowitz Report)—Questions arose after the P.A. system at a Trump rally in Nevada accidentally blasted excerpts from Bob Woodward’s interviews with the President.

As supporters streamed into the rally, the customary sounds of such classic rock songs as “Fortunate Son” and “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” were supplanted by audio of Trump acknowledging that the coronavirus was far deadlier than a flu.

After Trump was heard revealing the details of a previously secret weapons program, campaign aides frantically disconnected the P.A. system and started scrambling for an explanation.

“We have no idea how this happened,” one aide said. “Jared was in charge of the playlist.”

Unlike artists like John Fogerty and the Rolling Stones, Woodward said that he wholeheartedly endorsed the Trump campaign’s use of his recordings at its rallies.

“If the people at these rallies watch Fox News, this might be the only way they hear these tapes,” Woodward said.


Short article, no more at link: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/pa-system-at-trump-rally-accidentally-blasts-woodward-tapes



Photograph by Jonathan Ernst / Reuters

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P.A. System at Trump Rally Accidentally Blasts Woodward Tapes (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Sep 2020 OP
Should label as satire - some will think it's real. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2020 #1
Most DUers recognize Borowitz Rhiannon12866 Sep 2020 #4
Awwww Borowitz... SheltieLover Sep 2020 #2
Same! soothsayer Sep 2020 #3
That would've been great! SheltieLover Sep 2020 #5
Seriously! soothsayer Sep 2020 #6
IKR!?!? SheltieLover Sep 2020 #7
Oh boy more fake news 4now Sep 2020 #8
For about four seconds, my eyes were really big! Dem2theMax Sep 2020 #9
I think Borowitz is good at what he does but there is absolutely NOTHING amusing about any of this tenderfoot Sep 2020 #10
Aww shucks, was so excited until I saw Borowitz. Lol nt ecstatic Sep 2020 #11
Annoying and not even funny Disaffected Sep 2020 #12

Dem2theMax

(9,651 posts)
9. For about four seconds, my eyes were really big!
Sun Sep 13, 2020, 11:34 PM
Sep 2020

Then it hit me that it was satire.

But wouldn't it be grand if this really happened?

tenderfoot

(8,437 posts)
10. I think Borowitz is good at what he does but there is absolutely NOTHING amusing about any of this
Sun Sep 13, 2020, 11:36 PM
Sep 2020

Nothing.

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