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Sorry to say, but aside from changing headlines, I have recently seen all too often a similar phenomenon on FR - a knee-jerk reaction of people who see headline and jump on the bandwagon without reading or thinking on their favorite target or punching bag of the day - Bush, Condi, Rumsfeld etc...

"Just bomb them to smithereens" reaction is also very popular, any meaningless public diplo-speak statement evokes "treason" sentiment and so on...

Only somewhere around post #20 you start seeing someone making an accurate statement about headline not matching the article, article having no new facts or rehashing old "news", or plain "so what's the big deal?" which usually a good description of article "about nothing"...

Unfortunately, knee-jerk reaction and cannibalism are not limited to loony left, it's an infectious decease that affects all, but particularly demoralized, depressed and disaffected - the state of many conservatives and/or Republicans today.

Keep cool, remain proactive... Two years ago Dems were on suicide watch, two years from now... ?

Sorry to say, but aside from changing headlines, I have recently seen all too often a similar phenomenon on FR - a knee-jerk reaction of people who see headline and jump on the bandwagon without reading or thinking on their favorite target or punching bag of the day - Bush, Condi, Rumsfeld etc..

I want to write back to everyone who wrote to me on this thread, but I felt a need to write to you first, because I disagree with you.

True, what you said in terms of there being "knee-jerk" reactions everywhere -- but, for a blog itself to intentionally incite such a response, by tossing out a news headline, omitting the actual news photo, slapping a different photo on a small excerpt of an article -- and keeping the original journalist's name on the newly created fake article -- is another story.

And, FR does not do that because there is a real effort here to archive news, by title, so that you can search it for it by title and retrieve it later. Posers here sometimes add a comment AFTER the original title, but not before it, and not instead of it.

Furthermore, Arianna's blog is responsible not only for allowing this to happen, but for actually DOING IT - her blog administrators, not posters, created and published that fake news item.

Finally, I am not against "fake" news per se -- so long as people know it's satire or know you're altering the original source. Most of those posters on Huff post didn't even realize they were deceived.