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Best thread EVER: USA Today fact-checked The Babylon Bee about Trump wanting a Space Navy for the Moon, but then the real U.S. Navy got involved and ROFL
Twitchy ^
| October 30, 2020
| Greg P.
Posted on 10/30/2020 7:05:06 PM PDT by McGruff
The Babylon Bee had this really funny satirical article up earlier this week joking that President Trump proposed a Space Navy now that NASA found water on the Moon:
With Moon Water Announcement, Trump Proposes Space Navy https://t.co/aG1at5Wp1F
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 27, 2020
And then the morons at USA Today decided this needed a fact check, which led to an even funnier “retraction” from the Bee:
Sadly, we must retract this one. We'd like to thank @USATODAY for calling us out with this fact check. We will strive to do better. pic.twitter.com/5tk5ApSQjv
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) October 30, 2020
(Excerpt) Read more at twitchy.com ...
TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: babylonbee; factcheck; factcheckers; h2o; media; mediots; moon; moonwater; oops; spacenavy; usatoday; water
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To: rlmorel
Is that the New York Times or CNN?
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posted on
10/30/2020 7:57:01 PM PDT
by
reg45
(Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
To: McGruff
Leftists fail at symbolic thinking. It’s why they are humorless, they don’t comprehend satire, and they think actual canines are smuggling humans across the southern border.
There is something badly wrong with thee people. It’s as if of that which makes us human has been cut out of them.
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posted on
10/30/2020 7:57:37 PM PDT
by
JamesP81
(The Democrat Party is a criminal organization.)
To: McGruff
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posted on
10/30/2020 8:00:18 PM PDT
by
xenia
("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." George Orwell)
To: rlmorel
ROFL!! ⚓️
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posted on
10/30/2020 8:04:19 PM PDT
by
mass55th
("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
To: McGruff
That is so funny! The media critters are idiots.
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posted on
10/30/2020 8:08:04 PM PDT
by
MayflowerMadam
(Political Correctness: The inability to speak truth to the obvious. - Bongino)
To: rlmorel
No, San Miguel Negra came out after the Navy built a barrier to stop Sailors from throwing Peso to $hit River Queens. Coincidence, I think not! San Miguel Negra tasted like -hit!
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posted on
10/30/2020 8:08:32 PM PDT
by
OldGoatCPO
(No Caitiff Choir of Angles will sing for me)
To: JamesP81
When I mentioned the story to a liberal friend, she asked, how would they even get the navy ships up there?
I didn’t but should have said, the Navy will sail as fast as they can to the horizon when the full moon is just setting, so they have a straight shot at getting there.
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posted on
10/30/2020 8:16:52 PM PDT
by
drSteve78
(Je suis deplorable. WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE)
To: McGruff
Some Thread Background Music
"Moon River" - Andy Williams
(youtube song link)
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To: McGruff
To: reg45
Heh, no idea...But I give the USN credit for piling on!
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posted on
10/30/2020 8:20:52 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
("Leftism is the plaything of a society with too much time on its hands." - Candace Owens)
To: McGruff
The funniest line from the Bee article:
He also noted this is an innovation you would never get from “Sleepy Joe,” since Biden most likely goes to bed before it’s dark and has never even seen space.
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posted on
10/30/2020 8:22:04 PM PDT
by
Rastus
To: OldGoatCPO
Hahahahahaha...legendary.
Just legendary, and I was only a kid watching it all...
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posted on
10/30/2020 8:22:07 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
("Leftism is the plaything of a society with too much time on its hands." - Candace Owens)
To: The MAGA-Deplorian
The continuing chickification of the media.....
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posted on
10/30/2020 8:23:00 PM PDT
by
clintonh8r
(Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
To: mass55th
Glad you liked it...
I remember being completely smashed on liberty once and singing that with a bunch of guys!
Someone taught it to us, and we began making up verses on the fly!
I guess they don’t let you do that anymore in the Navy...I guess I am old school now...:)
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posted on
10/30/2020 8:25:20 PM PDT
by
rlmorel
("Leftism is the plaything of a society with too much time on its hands." - Candace Owens)
To: Vermont Lt
“What would the hull look like after 217 days on the “moon tour.”
Moon Barnacles of course.
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posted on
10/30/2020 8:26:20 PM PDT
by
dljordan
To: blueunicorn6
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posted on
10/30/2020 8:26:24 PM PDT
by
cgbg
(Biden n-2020: Criminal enterprise using cokehead as bagman. Pronounced: Bye Done.)
To: McGruff
Someone in the Navy was allowed to display a sense of humor?
57
posted on
10/30/2020 8:33:51 PM PDT
by
Rocky
To: dljordan
Or....starfish.
(Sorry...couldn’t help myself.)
To: Disambiguator
Cant tell but somewhere out there some highly qualified kid was passed over by USAtoday so a report with a funny name could be added to staff.
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posted on
10/30/2020 8:41:14 PM PDT
by
Gasshog
To: Equine1952
“I might as well clean the stack bat shit off the ceiling.”
You’ll need fifty feet of chow line for that.
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posted on
10/30/2020 8:41:27 PM PDT
by
dsc
(Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger men.)
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