HILARIOUS! When people mistake "The Onion" for real news

There's an entire website dedicated to capturing FB posts where people mistake Onion articles for the real thing:

http://literallyunbelievable.org/

reading those comments makes me kind of sad.

Good grief people.

...and starts cussing up a storm..

I've done it myself sometimes.

there is no Nicholas Cage? I mean as a real human?

Certainly it is a robot programmed to act horrid.

...is that "the man inside the Nicholas Cage costume" is actually my friend Andrew!

He also happens to be the actor who played Wormser in Revenge of the Nerds...

" OK, well that's your opinion"

Although people should know that there are no dance moves to the National Anthem.

These are the types of people that put guys like Louie Gohmert and Jim Inhofe in Washington.

IQ points subtract with each entry read . . . especially with the poster who misspells "stupid" twice, and with two different versions of that error, no less.

I suspect a lot of those people at the link are relatively young. Of course I don't know that for sure since the pics were hidden.

But I'd also bet that plenty of them aren't even registered to vote.

Wow

" massive star in center of solar system causing heat wave".

"If I were him I'd be studying more the bible...."

That level of ignorance is hard to fathom.

Abortionplex. Doesn't that place sound so cool?! Grab some coffee, get a nice mani-pedi, have an abortion, and wrap it up with a nice lunch.

joke as a real news item is a republican congressman from Louisiana ?

First, as we all know, republicans are stupid (sorry, I meant stupied.) Secondly, I remember that rumor and recall A LOT of right-wingers repeating it as actual fact. Amazing.

That was awesome!

but nearly as disturbing as when I read a headline here and think that's got to be the onion and it turns out to be real

Put his name into posts and especially headings for searches: John Fleming, Republican, Louisiana congressman.

That way his enormous stupidity will get more notice as it rises to the top, the same way Santorum got associated with the frothy mixture, but for real.

Specifically, John Fleming on abortion, got taken in by an obviously over-the-top Onion satire and posted a link to it on his facebook page with a comment that shows he believed the article about the $8 billion (with b) abortion complex. He wrote: "More on Planned Parenthood, abortion by the wholesale". Note in the English language we don't write "by the wholesale"; we write "by wholesale" or simply "wholesale".

Someone with more intelligence wrote a comment "How exactly did you get elected", which is an excellent question.



That would John Fleming, Louisiana Republican congressman. Fleming (R) Louisiana.

But I have one question: Are you sure they are not right about Justin Bieber?

Subscribe to various tea party and right wing websites like Human Events. In between their daily articles about Obama loving terrorists and hating babies, you'll get the most hilarious "sponsor" emails from their advertisers selling everything from magical beans that cure cancer to survival packs for the coming apocalypse to a never ending barrage of "secret get rich quick" scams.

These people on the right are fucking idiots, every last one of them.

...and it was my job to write articles more absurd than reality the way it is these days, I'd have ulcers, high blood pressure and I'd be eating Prozacs out of a bowl with a spoon.

I love the wolf attacks and the person who just will not believe The Onion is fake. Oh and the little girls freaking out over Bieber.

repug way. Life in the bubble.

The Onion is pretty clever, though. Sometimes the articles are so well written you almost forget where it's from.

to find that no, this is a real story...

FaceBook,
Where gullible users believe "The Onion" articles such as :

"Scientists trace heat wave to massive star at center of solar system"
"Wolf attacks are leading cause of death"
"Dick Van Dyke Finally Confesses to Zodiac Killings"
"Judge Rules White Girl Will Be Tried As Black Adult"
(The court ruled a white teen will be tried as a 200 lb. black man)

Facebook
Where a gullible GOP Tea Party Congressmen named John Fleming (R-LA) believes
"Planned Parenthood Opens $8 billion dollar "Abortionplex"


And, (sadly, NOT from "The Onion", Facebook, which states that
"Sharing any graphic content for sadistic pleasure is forbidden."
Yet, animal rights activists have been trying to remove Facebook sites that have the clear and intentional purpose of "enjoying" abusive behavior, including graphic content:
"Skinning Animals Alive"
"Inserting Fireworks Into Live Animals"
"Strangling Live Animals"
"Sexually Abusing Animals"
"Provoking Others To Harm Animals"
and "Animal Hate Sites"

At the Care 2 Petition Site, you can sign a petition to Facebook:
"Remove Facebook Sites That Promote Intentional Animal Abuse"
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/722/714/330/remove-facebook-sites-that-promote-intentional-animal-abuse/

posters who try to explain to them that The Onion is satirical and fictitious.

The fools respond with "That's your opinion!" or squawk that the MSM never bother to use stories from The Onion, as though their failure to do so is evidence that they are suppressing the "real" news because of a liberal bias.

Even when the joke is explained to them, they have to double down and insist on believing that the bizarre stories are true.

I love the comments from those who accept the story that our heat wave is caused by the presence of a massive star at the center of our solar system.

Of course our sun is precisely that--a star at the center of our solar system that is directly responsible for a lot of our planet's heat. But the posters assume this means that there is actually a second star among the planets that is responsible for how hot it is, and some brag about having captured an image of that extra star!

For some reason, I just flashed back to an essay written for an English 101 class I was teaching back in the mid 1970s. The student wrote, "The English language was invented by the kings and queens of England so that they could communicate with the captains of their ships at sea."

When people think that way, it can be difficult to get past such beliefs.

When I was young and naive, I thought that many people must be sandbagging--i.e., pretending to be less informed and less thoughtful than they really were. I just couldn't believe that such ignorance was as pervasive as it seemed to be. But now, at the age of 63, I have come to accept the wisdom of the old saying that the worst problems are caused not by what people don't know, but by what they think they know that just ain't so.