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Archae

(46,351 posts)
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 07:55 PM Jun 2015

Just how stupid can the right-wing get?

How about this stupid...

Right-Wing Sites Snookered by Fake Stories About SPLC Hate Group Designations

By David Neiwert on June 12, 2015 - 10:06 am, Posted in Media Extremism

The headlines — widely circulated on social media and a variety of right-wing websites — certainly are attention-grabbing: “Fox News Designated Hate Group by Southern Poverty Law Center” and “Juggalos Classified As Hate Group By Southern Poverty Law Center.” And many of the posts promoting the pieces on Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere clearly seem to take them at face value.

There’s a big problem, though: The stories are complete fakes.

The Fox News piece was published earlier this week at a satirical “news” site called the Free Wood Post, where the motto is: “News That’s Almost Reliable.” The post contained no links to any such SPLC report because, of course, none existed.

http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2015/06/12/right-wing-sites-snookered-by-fake-stories-about-splc-hate-group-designations/

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Just how stupid can the right-wing get? (Original Post) Archae Jun 2015 OP
Is that a rhetorical question? Glassunion Jun 2015 #1
SCHEDULING ARCHAE FOR ASS KICKING Skittles Jun 2015 #2
I CONCUR blm Jun 2015 #3
... Scootaloo Jun 2015 #4
WHY ARE WE YELLING? Glassunion Jun 2015 #5
BECAUSE IT'S ME Skittles Jun 2015 #8
SKITTLES Glassunion Jun 2015 #9
WOOT! Skittles Jun 2015 #10
SKITTLES Glassunion Jun 2015 #11
YEE HAW! Skittles Jun 2015 #12
GO GET 'EM SGT. Glassunion Jun 2015 #6
Considering that they believe everything Dumb Fuks Nooz says LiberalElite Jun 2015 #7
Please don't challenge them. Agnosticsherbet Jun 2015 #13

Skittles

(153,193 posts)
2. SCHEDULING ARCHAE FOR ASS KICKING
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 07:59 PM
Jun 2015

NEVER WONDER HOW LOW REPUKES CAN GO OR HOW STUPID THEY CAN BE - THEY WILL *ALWAYS* FIND A WAY TO GO LOWER / BE EVEN MORE STUPID

Skittles

(153,193 posts)
8. BECAUSE IT'S ME
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 08:19 PM
Jun 2015

YOU WANT I SHOULD KICK YOUR SCARED ASS, GLASSUNION? I WOULD DO THAT FOR YOU MY SWEET.

LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)
7. Considering that they believe everything Dumb Fuks Nooz says
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 08:18 PM
Jun 2015

how are they to know what's fake? I could almost feel sorry for them but, naaaaah.

Which makes me wonder what came first - were they idiots before they watched Fox News or is idiocy a condition caused by watching Fox News?

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