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RevStPatrick

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11. Ummm...

Reply to undeterred (Reply #8)

Sat Sep 29, 2012, 12:03 PM

Sep 2012

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

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

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 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.

And another source:

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/02/congressman-abortionplex-facebook-onion-john-fleming.html

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Weird news: Iranian news agency reposts Onion article [View all] Douglas Carpenter Sep 2012 OP

I don't like Laurajr Sep 2012 #1

sometimes the stories sound just plausible enough - that they have a believability element Douglas Carpenter Sep 2012 #3

Exactly. n/t Grateful for Hope Sep 2012 #4

I like the Onion for that same quality, which I call "sarcasm deficiency detection". Scuba Sep 2012 #5

�or sarcasm detection deficiency? Jackpine Radical Sep 2012 #6

I knew it sounded awkward when I wrote it. Scuba Sep 2012 #9

The people who fall for those things ARE the joke, they are the punchline others Bluenorthwest Sep 2012 #7

It isn't just Onion stories.. Lightbulb_on Sep 2012 #12

The Onion does that on purpose rock Sep 2012 #13

Ok, THAT is awesome! Edweird Sep 2012 #2

Then they should really like "Planned Parenthood Opens $8 Billion Abortionplex" undeterred Sep 2012 #8

Ummm... RevStPatrick Sep 2012 #11

As fundamentalists are generally literalists, it isn't hard to see why no_hypocrisy Sep 2012 #10