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Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft scours the intertubes for anything Obama.
Gets taken by not even very good satire:
Bummer. A San Diego High School rescinded its invitation to Barack Obama to speak at commencement after discovering that his long form birth certificate is a fake.
The San Diego Reader reported:
It wasn’t supposed to go down like this. When San Diego’s High Tech High International was named as one of six candidates nationwide to receive a commencement address from president Barack Obama this year, it was supposed to be a validation of how far the fledgling school had come in its first decade of existence. Chief administrative officer Ben Daley boasted that the selection proved the value of his school’s emphasis on “producing meaningful work for a real audience — making things that have lasting value and presenting them to professionals in the field.”
Now, he may be wishing that his students had kept their latest class project to themselves. In a good-natured effort to sweeten the pot for the president prior to his final decision, High Tech High seniors Ramesh Bhangoo and Christina Rivera decided to subject Obama’s recently-released “long-form” birth certificate to the sort of typographic scrutiny given to the so-called “Killian documents” that ultimately led to the resignation/retirement of CBS reporter Dan Rather.
“Remember how the right-wing wackos went nuts in 2004 over those documents that showed how Bush was basically AWOL from the Texas National Guard in the ’70s?” asks Bhangoo. “That guy at Little Green Footballs posted that gif file showing how a memo supposedly typed 30 years ago matched up to a Microsoft Word doc with proportionally spaced font. Of course, they didn’t actually prove that the documents were forgeries, but the fallout was enough to take down Rather, and the whole mess probably helped Bush win in ’04.”
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“Our commitment to ethics really sets us apart at High Tech High,” says fellow senior and commencement ceremony chair Rishika Daryanani. “This case is no exception. Thanks to these two jerkfaces, now we have to disinvite America’s first black president and maybe get him kicked out of office, too. Thanks a lot, guys. Maybe we can get Donald Trump to fill in.”
You can find the story in The San Diego Reader filed under: Stories SD on the QT – Almost Factual News
Along with:
Killer Whale!
SDQT Exclusive! SeaWorld Releases Special Preview Images from Its Upcoming “Red, White & Shamu” Extravaganza, “Osama Bin Eaten”
By Walter Mencken | Published Wednesday, May 11, 2011
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No wonder Wembley looks miffed.
Hoft is billed above a single digit IQ being with long ears. In other words, the smarter one.
You are obviously correct that Wembley is smarter (what sentient being is not?) and has long ears, but single-digit IQ? Pfui. Merely modest and self-effacing.
These guys don’t care. If someone points out to him that this was bullshit he’ll shrug and say “oh well, could have been true”. I’ve seen responses just like that. They thrive on bullshit, whether whoever is putting them on is doing it as satire, for fun, or for purely evil political motives, it really doesn’t matter to them much.
Bush and his gang tap danced and told stories about weapons of mass destruction, all of them, Rumsfeld, Powell, got up in front of Congress and said “Oh yes, they’re in the North, South, all over the place, they’re there” and they might as well have been winking and doing it as comedy for all these guys cared, they just ate it up, being true or not was immaterial, as long as it reinforced their beliefs or political agenda.
A lot of people have remarked that satire can’t keep up these days, but it’s more than just that the right wingers became so brazen or outrageous, it’s because the whole idea of having to be based on fact or truth became unfashionable to them, so the “truth” that this was actually someone making fun of people like them is as immaterial to them as whether Dick Cheney was lying about WMD.
Wow, is The Reader actually worth reading now? I thought it was all cellphone and plastic surgery ads.
Now they’re writing our blog posts for us. Satire has come full circle.
This is America, dammit. If cellphone and plastic surgery ads don’t do it for you, why don’t you take your need for “real” news and “facts” somewhere else, you elitist commie?
These idiots have been publishing self-fulfilling prophecies for years, and swearing it’s gospel. Apparently, Mr. Hoft believes what he wants to see on the Internet; as you said, your dogs clearly have more brainpower. At least we get to laugh at him…
These guys don’t care. If someone points out to him that this was bullshit he’ll shrug and say “oh well, could have been true”.
Or they execute what they think is a clever, meta move (I first typed “meat,” which isn’t so wrong), with “Yes, it was inaccurate. But what does it say about _____, that I and so many others thought it could be true?”
(“It says that you and so many others are imbeciles” is the correct answer.)
Hmm, comments mysteriously stopped last night after this one:
Here’s the REAL hootch, folks.
“The first is that the original so-called “long form” birth certificate — described by Hawaiian officials as a “record of live birth” — absolutely exists, located in a bound volume in a file cabinet on the first floor of the state Department of Health. Fukimo said she has personally inspected it — twice.”
….
“She found the original birth record, properly numbered, half typed and half handwritten, and signed by the doctor who delivered Obama, located in the files. She then put out a public statement asserting to the document’s validity.”
“HALF TYPED AND HALF HANDWRITTEN”???
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42519951/ns/politics-more_politics/t/ex-hawaii-official-denounces-ludicrous-birther-claims/
The fact that this is a satire has apparently penetrated Hoft’s dim consciousness. The post has been taken down. Thank you TBogg, for preserving it for the ages.