Posted on 08/24/2007 1:59:43 PM PDT by Renfield
"Michael Vick is innocent (like OJ)"
MSNBC's Alex Johnson (with the assistance of two NBC/MSNBC reporters) recently posted a story addressing whether the prosecution of Michael Vick was racist. Roughly a fourth of the MSNBC story was based on a quote from Al Sharpton's Blog. Or as Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell explains:
'...The quote was actually from our Newsgroper site's fake Al Sharpton Blog.
They thought Al really said this:
"If the police caught Brett Favre (a white quarterback for the Green Bay Packers) running a dolphin-fighting ring out of his pool, where dolphins with spears attached to their foreheads fought each other, would they bust him? Of course not," Sharpton wrote Tuesday on his personal blog.
They finally figured it out and made a correction, but instead of apologizing to their readers for reporting parody as fact, they called it a hoax. I wonder what finally tipped off their crack investigative journalism unit:
1. The words "fake parody blogs" in the titlebar of every page of our site; 2. Our logo; 3. Al Sharpton blogging on the same site as Lindsay Lohan, George Bush, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; 4. Our about page; or 5. Al Sharpton referring to himself in his bio as a "Emancipation Proclamation enthusiast."
Gawker said it best:
"The next time someone trots out the adage about bloggers not being reporters, we're going to note that reporters aren't exactly reporters these days either."...'
Greg Pollowitz comments at NRO's Media Blog. "Al Sharpton" gets the last word on MSNBC's characterization of his comment as "a hoax" in "Alex Johnson of MSNBC is the hoax."
"MSNBC" spells "Nitwits"!
Usually, the DBM sticks to Kos and DU to get their scoops...
If OJ had a superbowl ring, they wouldn’t have busted him either.
This is just too funny.
Here’s another one for those maroons.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1886128/posts
Thousands Line Up in Bookstores - Amazon’s Site Derailed
Self | August 24, 2007 | Self
Posted on 08/24/2007 1:44:14 PM PDT by Paved Paradise
Thousands have lined up in bookstores across the country and Amazon’s website was said to have collapsed due to the fervor over the release of God’s new book, “Christopher Hitchens is Not Great.”
God, already the author of the best seller of all time, “The Bible,” was quoted as saying, “Christopher wrote a fairly interesting book, but he really put some doozies in there. I honestly had a good laugh at some of them.”
God’s new book has been expected to sell out by the end of the business day, Friday, August 24, 2007.
“Four layers of editors” at work in the Liberalstream Media.
Hilarious!
That’s hilarious. The original post (not the Powerline) post had over 100 comments and scanning down through them, I didn’t see one that caught on it was satire. I guess that means it is entirely believable that Sharpton would say this.
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