White House Promotes Fake News Article Praising Trump Budget

[DonViejo]

Source: The Daily Beast


On Friday, the White House blasted out an email that included headlines from and links to favorable news articles—it’s just that one of those links was to a satirical comedy piece written by Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri that mocks President Donald Trump’s new budget blueprint.

Petri’s “analysis,” titled, “Trump’s budget makes perfect sense and will fix America, and I will tell you why,” includes such lines as “AMERICA WILL BE STRONGER THAN IT HAS EVER BEEN! Anyone who survives will be a gun covered in the fur of a rare mammal, capable of fighting disease with a single muscular flex. RAW POWER! HARD RAW POWER GRRRRRR HISSS POW!”

It’s a small act of the Trump administration owning itself online that Petri finds wonderful.

Link to tweet

"I am honored to finally be real, true news, which is all I've ever striven for," Petri told The Daily Beast on Friday afternoon, gently mocking Trump’s “fake news” talking point. Petri said she had not been signed up for the White House’s “1600 Daily” newsletter emails but is now, “now that I know it uses reliable sources.”

Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2017/03/17/white-house-promotes-fake-news-article-praising-trump-budget.html?via=desktop&source=copyurl

[JHan]

1. Oh God. Oh God.. please.. is this a joke?

............

>............


......jFIOAJDFIOAJDfodaofjdoaofjdaj......


do I laugh or sob... can I do both? >?????

[Arkansas Granny]

3. Scroll to the bottom of the page and it's listed under News

https://www.whitehouse.gov/1600daily

[JHan]

7. I........................... no words.

[herding cats]

9. I'm afraid the joke is that it's real. nt

[bunnies]

2. The stupid never stops with this group, does it.

[underpants]

5. Stupid? Yes! PERIOD! Great writing? Yes! PERIOD!

A few other things we are cutting:

Chemical Safety Board: Give us CHEMICAL DANGER, which sounds way more metal.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting: Instead, anyone who turns on the radio will be able to hear audio footage of a Trump son shooting a rare land mammal.

National Endowment for the Arts: The NEA will be destroyed and replaced with an armored helicopter with a shark painted on it.

National Endowment for the Humanities: The NEH will be replaced with half a fighter jet and a bunch of drones. This is the only art America needs.


All schoolchildren will be taught by an F-35 wearing a Make America Great Again hat.

[underpants]

4. Mammal

[dalton99a]

6. +1

[progressoid]

10. That's a keeper!11!

[BumRushDaShow]

11. !!!

[uponit7771]

15. +1

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. The cited satirical article is very funny,

and it's obvious that whoever collects these things for the WH web site doesn't read past the headlines - or else they're so weapons-grade stupid that they can't detect very broad satire.

[Solly Mack]

12. No. Seriously?

Wow.

That's painful.

[Kimchijeon]

13. Ouch lol

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. Petri's reaction: How the White House made me Real News

I was as surprised as anyone to discover that I was Real News. Here I thought that I was toiling away in the Dank Cesspool of the Mainstream Media, but all along I was a Trusted News Source, just like Breitbart.com! I just needed to BELIEVE in myself more.

The White House believes in me, and the White House is not full of careless people who skim headlines looking for the ones that sound sort of positive and then send them out in their daily briefing newsletter hoping for the best haaa ha ha nope ha ha these are the minds who control war and peace and the budget and things ha ha ha it’s fine ha ha oh god help.

I honestly thought that, no matter the headline, there was no way that anyone could think this piece was anything other than me yelling at the budget for a number of paragraphs — the last words were “RAW POWER! HARD RAW POWER GRRRRRR HISSS POW!” — but I have always overestimated people’s desire to read things I write. But the White House, as Noel Coward once said of himself, can take any amount of criticism so long as it is unadulterated praise.

This is 2017 in a nutshell: You start with what you think is obviously a joke, and then a few days later it is being sent out from the White House.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2017/03/17/how-the-white-house-made-me-real-news/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.eba7347dfa02

[gopiscrap]

17. welcome to DU

[not fooled]

18. Prolly

a malfunction in the Russian news-scanner bot. Can't handle American idioms yet.