Stupid moonbat pranks (and the dolts who fall for them)
If you read Army Sergeant’s comment below about the “Yes Men”, you’re probably wondering to what she referred. Our buddy, DanNY wrote about it a few days ago. Well, these goofballs “Yes Men” printed a fake New York Times (odd, but the fake NYT is virtually indistinguishable from the actual newspaper in appearance as well as content) with this headline;
There were also stories about a national healthcare system approved by Congress, news that some international organization will try President Bush for war crimes, an end to corporate lobbying, pay caps for CEOs, and a myriad of similar fake stories. Then the “Yes Men” went out on the street and interviewed the dolts who “knew change is coming, but I didn’t expect it so fast”. The video;
I guess the real story here isn’t that there’s a pair of pranksters who have the time and money to do absolutely nothing but trick people, but that people are so ignorant that they’ll believe that all of their petty personal problems can be solved over night with a few strokes of a pen – and all it takes to convince them is an official-looking headline under a banner in a POS, fly-by-night rag like the New York Times.
It’s no wonder that Barack Obama was elected despite his thin resume and criminal associations if these are the kinds of people that vote – people who take their cues from numbnut idiots who call themselves journalists these days. We all laughed off the Howard Stern “Sal in Harlem” interviews as a few ignorant people in NYC – but this prank proves that there are many more idiots than we previously thought.
Category: Antiwar crowd, Liberals suck, Society