Rights stupidity forces Snopes to debunk article by the Onion

[Quixote1818]

Last week, President Obama made a historic trip to Cuba and the right-wing went absolutely insane. Republicans were outraged that our president had the audacity to reestablish a relationship with the country more than fifty years after the Cuban Missile Crisis. After the trip to Cuba, The Onion, a satire website, decided to post a fictional article about his trip home; but, in a hilarious turn of events, paranoid conservatives didn’t get the joke and Snopes actually had to debunk the article.


The comment section under the article soon filled with people who thought it was real:








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[Jackie Wilson Said]

1. And these people vote.

[msanthrope]

7. Worse, they reproduce. nt

[Fritz Walter]

11. And carry weapons! n/t

[sarge43]

13. And operate heavy equipment, own guns and reproduce. n/t

[sufrommich]

2. There's a whole website dedicated to morons

who believe the unbelievable:

http://literallyunbelievable.org/

[dorkzilla]

6. That is frightening

I can't believe there are that many stupid people out there.

[SwankyXomb]

22. Carlin said it best (blunt language)

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. The Stupid - it must go straight to the core.

[liberal N proud]

4. And we wondered who Trump supporters were.

Ignorance.

[IDemo]

5. They just needed to include a T-Rex and a giraffe to make it complete n/t

[Thespian2]

8. Could this be considered

"the height of stupidity"?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. No. The depths of gullibility. Plus warping reality to fit a pre-conceived agenda

... an agenda shaped by RW oligarchs and including climate change denial.

But none of that denies the level of stupidity involved.

[Hydra]

26. Oh, no- stupidity and ignorance have infinite growth potential

There's no known limit to either. Bad as this is, it can and will be topped.

[Thespian2]

27. I fear you are absolutely correct.

[forest444]

9. More and more real news stories about the GOP have be preceded by 'Not the Onion'.

Ah, we laugh to keep from crying.

[awoke_in_2003]

10. Bright as a black hole

and twice as dense

[pansypoo53219]

14. i am sure a few of those commenters are being sarcastic.

i blame CGI.

[Dont call me Shirley]

15. The posters are obviously "Locust Parents"...

[PatrickforO]

18. What are locust parents?

[Dont call me Shirley]

24. "Locust" parents, shove steal kids' candy at Easter Egg Hunt...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141393107

[world wide wally]

16. And I am sure that each one of those commenters is a Constitutional expert.

Too bad they can only count to 2

[PatrickforO]

17. These are some really dumb people.

Why did they allow them to cling???

The sickening part of this is that so much of our population has been propagandized by the huge, throbbing, rock-hard right wing propaganda organ to completely de-legitimize Obama's presidency. To these people, he's not even human, and that is so sad and so un-American that it makes me want to cry.

[lark]

19. How stupid can some people be?

Stupid enough to ignore reality and vote for Repugs, which is usually against their best interests. Rich, greedy, selfish, non-caring, science ignoring, assholes are the Repugs natural followers.

[jtuck004]

20. That is precisely how we train people to be successful, just react, do what you are told. It works

for just enough to keep us doing it. Kinda like slot machines.

And, I suspect, the same bad odds of cashing out.

[gratuitous]

21. My reading of some of the responses is that they're in on the joke

But that last one from Jan Gorham has clearly missed the boat. My usual rejoinder to folks who say we have to take care of our own first is to ask if they've contacted their congressional representatives about that.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

23. It can get very windy on the wing, hard to light the cigar.

I liked that at least one comment mentioned that the plane flew from Cuba to Argentina. And did it without stopping at the hub in Atlanta!

[spanone]

25. that's hilarious!!!!

[burrowowl]

28. K&R!!!!!!

[lpbk2713]

29. Some times all you can do is point and laugh at these losers.