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- Coffeedemon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+63Found the Onion he would have taken that out of - I guess he missed the other headlines "Christ converts to Islam" and "I hope my baby doesn't come out all *****-up and *****"
Find it hard to believe anyone can be so ***** stupid. - dan2, on 10/12/2007, -8/+68Honestly these people can vote doesn't that scare the crap out of you?
- WarpFox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+60LOL @ comments:
I laughed so hard I aborted my foetus. Thanks for nothing, babykiller.
Bev | 07.11.06 - 1:25 am | # - Drealoth, on 10/12/2007, -15/+69Q: How can you tell if a member of the Christian Right is telling a lie?
A: Their lips are moving. - shreveyboy, on 10/12/2007, -9/+57"Find it hard to believe anyone can be so ***** stupid."
Move to the South (I'm talking about the south of America), then it's not so hard to believe.
(Fell free to bury this biased comment. I, being a Southern, just couldn't let this pass me up!) - TRUEPATRIOT, on 10/12/2007, -3/+48best comment
"I'm pro life, but sweet Jesus you're an idiot. For your next post, how about a passionate speech on the need to immediately free Prince Albert from the can?
Boo | 07.08.06 - 12:24 am | # "
nice find Dugg. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29@Dan2
What scares me is that I'm a Christian. But when it comes to space cases like that, that share the same beliefs (religiously speaking) as me, it makes me sick to think that I'm at least in some ways on the same thought plane as that guy... - GamingFox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27His (yes, the author of the blog is a guy... his name is pete) most recent post just made it even worse...
http://marchtogether.blogspot.com/2006/07/satire.html
I don't know if I should laugh or cry... - shogunu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24You misspelled HE.
- madjo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22Her?! The writer of the article was called Pete.... not really a feminine name. :)
The picture you see on that blog page is a deeplinked image from the article of the Onion. - maiku00, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23this. is. CLASSIC.
- SuperSloth, on 10/12/2007, -4/+24Would you rather have a woman with no remorse about having her nth child she doesn't plan to care for?
You're assuming such a woman will magically become a wonderful loving mother if she decides to carry her child to term. That's *****. - vonnie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Another quote from that blog:
"To many liberals, freedom of speech means they can say anything."
Well... yes.. (?) - Phlag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16I am a goddamn retard for saying "her" after reading the debate over the gender of "Pete." Let's pretend that it was an intentional ribbing.
- maiku00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16His second post is almost as good as the first!
- Dimensio, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16The response -- claiming that the outrage is justified even though the story is false -- is common amongst those who have been taken by urban legends and those who have mistaken satire for reality.
Recently, the maintainer of Michael Dembski's "Uncommon Descent" blog fell for a hoax about the ACLU trying to stop marines from praying. When informed that the story was completely false and that the ACLU representative quoted in the piece, "Lucius Traveler", did not exist, the site maintainer erased any comments that criticized him for falling for fiction, edited out the ficticious names, and continued claiming that the story represented true events.
I find it curious that it seems more common for those who have a religious perspective to fall for urban legends and to mistake satire for reality than those without. The majority of urban legends I see being promoted as truth are those with a religious theme, such as an "inspiring" story presented as truth even though no evidence exists for it (look up "the little girl", which even became the subject of a country-western song, the writer of which stating that if the story of an abused girl witnessing the murder-suicide of her parents wasn't true, then "it ought to be") or stories of "outrage" where some organization attempts to silence religious people even though the cited events are fiction. I have to wonder why those with religious convictions are more likely to be taken in by false stories -- whether intended as satire or simply hoaxes -- without making an effort to research the claims than those without. - schwab002, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15hahahahah after everyone tells Pete that Miss Weber isn't real:
Don't listen to these heathens Pete, you know in your heart of hearts that Caroline Weber is just as real as I am. Keep believing child.
the comments are all so good.
Jesus Christ | 07.11.06 - 3:15 am | # - ffingers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15So even if it was to generate traffic, great! Gave me a laugh and represented those wingnuts as being just that, WINGNUTS! If I give him a digg, great, more people can laugh at him and his retarded views and comments. I see no harm in promoting this, hell, it might actually show some people how wacked out these zealots are. Either way, it was funny, he's a moron, and yeah for The Onion for getting more publicity.
- Scottamus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16'Please don't be so quick to label people as "f'n stupid"'
You are right. These people are so used to being pawns for the right wing agenda they don't even know what satire is. They think the world was created 6000 years ago, that gay marriage will destroy the world. These people are not ***** stupid. They are ***** retarded sheep blind to anything that wasn't told to them on fox news or at sunday morning mega church sermon. - IcyStorm, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17LOL Check out the blogger's response:
http://marchtogether.blogspot.com/2006/07/satire.html - nolanistic, on 10/12/2007, -7/+20What? It's a satirical article you partisan-blinded bigot.
- TRUEPATRIOT, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16anyone wondering if she genuinely believed the article she did heres her response http://marchtogether.blogspot.com/2006/07/satire.html
- harley999, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16I found this one funny as well:
Comment:
AHAHAHA! Totally missed the boat, huh? You are so smart, S-M-R-T!
Anonymous | 07.07.06 - 4:13 pm | # - haleym, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12The article was reposted recently on the Onion's front page as part of their 10th anniversary review of past stories. He probably just saw it on the front page and assumed it was a recent story.
- harumph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12this person was put down so unmercifully! wow, that is gratifying to see sometimes. i wonder if they have read all the comments or perhaps they gave up at 100 or so.
- Strangers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I'm gonna turn the satire on you!
- EnricoFermi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14HAH AlpineJones you're just as obtuse as he is.
- lechatron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Anyone else notice that that Onion Article is over 7 years old? Caroline Weber is probably on her 10th abortion right now, and she'll do an 11th just to spite Pete.
- steve693, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10This is why the onion is so great! It's been around for however many years, but people STILL mistake it for a real newspaper.
Classic. - scottc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Your willingness to correct yourself and your ability to laugh at yourself are two things that "Pete" hasn't yet learned.
- BetaMe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10It happened before, and it will probably happen again. See: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,63048,00.html
quote:
> "People every single day think The Onion stories are real," says Kolb.
>"If we're doing our job right, we try to do it in a really straight, AP style. People aren't used to seeing their humor without a punch line."
The article mentions the case of a local sheriff dept. issuing a warning based on an Onion article describing Al-Qaida's telemarketing scam for fundraising. (the linked article's url has since changed, but it is still here: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/27716 ) - crashflow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10This is definitely an example of "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." gone horribly wrong. Will be checking his site if he ever comes back, which he really shouldn't do. But since he was able to respond to the feedback with an even "better" article , I cross my fingers.
- scrubadub, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10"A woman was watching us put up GAP (genocidal awareness project) signs"
oh crap! I can make up TLA's too! (three letter acronyms) - ericeman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Hahaha, I love both The Onion and the article... brilliant.
- shogunu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Well then you wouldn't be a nutjob if you had those abilities.
- nolanistic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Holy crap, he's right, this is meta-satire. We're the fools, everything on the internet is lies! Everything. It's all satire!
This reminds me of that Chaser segment "THIS PERSON VOTES!"
And I'd assume only on one issue :P - cheekybastard, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Digg needs a humor section. But its gotta be 'change your drawers funny' like this was.
- windsorknot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9christ almighty...too bad no one aborted this blogging douchebag before he could inflict his idiocy on the internet
- Phlag, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Maybe HER reply is satire as well, and we're the suckers for not realizing this multi-leveled, crazy ass meta-satire!
But of course that's not really the case. People are just really dumb. - CompIsMyRx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Wow. I have just lost all faith in humanity.
- trampish, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8i just wet myself.
- Dustyb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Best comment in the bunch:
"Lemme just say, I was at the post-abortion party and if ***** rocked....Fallopian tubes were just falling out for the hell of it.
I believe L. Ron Hubbard could use a mindless zealot like yourself." - anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I know it's a huge longshot, but hey, wouldn't we look the fools if March Together For Life was actually satire on satire?
Ponder that! :) - StinkyHobo, on 10/12/2007, -14/+20HA! I almost posted this earlier, but was unsure where to put it, being new to digg and all. Still, it's freakin', if unintentionally, hilarious!
- allmytrials, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7...and you wouldnt be relgious if you had those abilities
- Pokelicious, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Brilliant!
- geekchic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6*dies laughing*
- otheus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Definitely, laugh.
The blogger was merely covering up for his own stupidity. In his subsequent blog, he claims he meets people like the satired abortion-loving girl "all the time". He then proceeds to give an example of a woman he once met who is *pro-choice*. The irony in this is *exactly* what the Onion's article is satiring -- those, like the stupid blogger, who think there are women out there just *eager* to have an abortion.
It's hyperbole, stupid.
Oh, and anyone who suggests that the blogger should have just deleted his original post rather than try to cover for it misses the point that the blogger is too stupid to realise that the Onion is satire. - elliam, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Er.. if it was an attempt at increasing traffic, it was brilliant.
From the comment above I see that there are even fools that would agree with what was written.
Of course, no one that agrees with that ass hat has the courage to post a comment to the blog. - GinsuGuy585, on 10/12/2007, -9/+14I wish people like this had been aborted...
...with a coathanger...
...twice -
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