Conservative blog uses twitter joke as evidence of liberal voter fraud

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Humor flies right over their little heads.

The conservative media rose to prominence on the simple idea that the mainstream media wasn't telling the entire truth to the American people.

So it's worth noting when two prominent conservative bloggers, Jim Hoft and Matt Drudge, commit journalistic malpractice.

On Monday, Hoft, who runs the Trump-loving Gateway Pundit blog, posted a buzzy item:

"Postal Worker Brags Online About Destroying Trump Ballots."

Whoa indeed, in an election where the Republican frontrunner is going around telling conservatives that the election will be “rigged.” Unsurprisingly, the story quickly made the Drudge Report.

Just one problem...

http://ijr.com/2016/10/715678-popular-conservative-blog-gateway-pundit-uses-twitter-joke-as-evidence-of-liberal-voter-fraud/

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1. And Wonkette is on the story:

http://wonkette.com/607660/stupidest-people-on-internet-going-postal-over-troll-who-says-he-rips-up-trump-absentee-ballots

Really, DUers, this is a prime example of rightwing idiocy.

Could somebody let Stupidest Man on the Internet Jim Hoft know that the word “gullible” isn’t in the dictionary? He’s having himself a first-class snit over some rando goofball on Twitter who claimed Sunday to be a postal worker who’s destroying all the absentee ballots for Trump.

Instead of dismissing the Tweet as the really obvious (but hilarious!) trolling it is, Hoft went into Full Outrage Mode, because of course here is the smoking Tweet that PROVES the election’s being rigged!!!!!


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