{"id":5213,"date":"2008-11-15T10:14:13","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T15:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=5213"},"modified":"2008-11-16T20:12:44","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T01:12:44","slug":"stupid-moonbat-pranks-and-the-dolts-who-fall-for-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=5213","title":{"rendered":"Stupid moonbat pranks (and the dolts who fall for them)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=5179#comment-66591\">Army Sergeant&#8217;s comment<\/a> below about the &#8220;Yes Men&#8221;, you&#8217;re probably wondering to what she referred. Our buddy, <a href=\"http:\/\/nygoe.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/13\/when-lunatics-run-the-asylum\/\" target=\"_blank\">DanNY wrote about it<\/a> a few days ago. Well, these goofballs &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theyesmen.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yes Men<\/a>&#8221; printed a fake New York Times (odd, but the fake NYT is virtually indistinguishable from the actual newspaper in appearance as well as content) with this headline;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/3025523897_968a21ed44.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5214\" title=\"3025523897_968a21ed44\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/3025523897_968a21ed44.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/3025523897_968a21ed44.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/3025523897_968a21ed44-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were also stories about a national healthcare system approved by Congress, news that some international organization will try President Bush for war crimes, an end to corporate lobbying, pay caps for CEOs, and a myriad of similar fake stories. Then the &#8220;Yes Men&#8221; went out on the street and interviewed the dolts who &#8220;knew change is coming, but I didn&#8217;t expect it so fast&#8221;. The video;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2215007&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2215007&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I guess the real story here isn&#8217;t that there&#8217;s a pair of pranksters who have the time and money to do absolutely nothing but trick people, but that people are so ignorant that they&#8217;ll believe that all of their petty personal problems can be solved over night with a few strokes of a pen &#8211; and all it takes to convince them is an official-looking headline under a banner in a POS, fly-by-night rag like the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no wonder that Barack Obama was elected despite his thin resume and criminal associations if these are the kinds of people that vote &#8211; people who take their cues from numbnut idiots who call themselves journalists these days. We all laughed off the Howard Stern &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=3895\" target=\"_blank\">Sal in Harlem<\/a>&#8221; interviews as a few ignorant people in NYC &#8211; but this prank proves that there are many more idiots than we previously thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you read Army Sergeant&#8217;s comment below about the &#8220;Yes Men&#8221;, you&#8217;re probably wondering to what &hellip; <a title=\"Stupid moonbat pranks (and the dolts who fall for them)\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=5213\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stupid moonbat pranks (and the dolts who fall for them)<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,47,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-liberals-suck","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}