Lefty News Blogs Fall For Michele Bachmann "Labor Camps" Story

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Hudson Hongo

07/28/14 01:10PM

Filed to: bad satire

That Michele Bachmann, she sure says some wacky stuff, right? Well, what if she said something really wacky? That's the hi-larious gag "satire" news site KCTV7 ran with last week, publishing an article titled "Michele Bachmann Suggests Labor Camps for Immigrant Children."

According to the report, the congresswoman purposed putting kids detained at the border in "Americanization Facilities" where they'd spend "half of their day working, and the other half learning what every child should learn, and that's English."

As you may have noticed, this sort of thing is practically progressive catnip, and a number of liberal blogs pounced on the story, including Daily Kos, Think Progress and Crooks and Liars, who ran the headline "Crazy Eyes Bachmann Wants Central American Children Put In Indoctrination Camps."

On Sunday, Raw Story finally pointed out the KCTV7 report's overwhelming bogosity. This prompted a swift but quiet round of corrections, Think Progress going so far as to strikethrough their entire article.

Of course, because we live in some kind of hoax news dystopia, KCTV7 didn't even write the original piece, having plagiarized the story's text from fellow fake news shitheels National Report. Somehow, this is closest thing the whole garbage story has to an upside, making a solid case for banning the Internet entirely.

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BulletsAreBlind Hudson Hongo 07/28/14 03:24PM

I love when things like this happen, and Liberals still retain that anger. "Well she may as well have said it! It's what THEY think!"

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Paul_D BulletsAreBlind 07/28/14 03:27PM

If the tinfoil hat fits, wear it.

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KaMai BulletsAreBlind 07/28/14 03:28PM

Well, considering her track record, it's not surprising that people think this is something she would actually say. This is the same woman who thinks gay rights are a Trojan horse for legalizing pedophilia.

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unfortunatelylostburner BulletsAreBlind 07/28/14 03:30PM

Plenty of jackasses of all political stripes who lack the ability to say, "Well, I'm an idiot. You got me."

humanSuitcase BulletsAreBlind 07/28/14 03:31PM

Not mean if it's true.

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Libturd Hudson Hongo 07/28/14 03:23PM

Well, "lefties" and "progressives" are naive idiots, so it isn't surprising.

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KaMai Libturd 07/28/14 03:29PM

It's not hard to see why people believed this. It makes about as much sense as saying gay rights are a Trojan horse for legalizing pedophilia....which she actually did say.

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optimusprimerib Libturd 07/28/14 03:37PM

Yeah because they spent a couple of years trying to say the President's birth certificate is a fake and that a women's body can tell it's being legitimately raped and automatically reject speed. Oh, wait....

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rraattbbooyyy KaMai 07/28/14 03:43PM

"Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas." -Rep. Michelle Bachmann, April, 2009

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CleverUsername Libturd 07/28/14 03:52PM

Unlike "righties" and Conservatives"," who are known for their intelligence and healthy skepticism of non-fact-checked claims.

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DanCopeland Hudson Hongo 07/28/14 03:43PM

"Haw haw dum libruls!" -Right-wingers who constantly fall for even the most unrealistic and unbelievable lies and hoaxes. It's not like it's far-fetched that she'd say this, especially in light of her actual statements regarding illegal immigration and some of the pisitions staked out by her party. Wsn't it just within the last week that the right was getting its panties in a bunch over a far-fetched fabricated quote?

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daysanddaysofsad DanCopeland 07/28/14 04:52PM

As I've said in other posts, isn't the point of the left that we don't make bullshit excuses like "well, it could have happened" when we screw up? Isn't the qualified apology and the apology combined with a double down supposed to be the thing we mock? Aren't we the ones who are supposed to be more trustworthy because we can admit to our biases and flaws because we aren't overly invested in always being 100% right? As I wrote elsewhere, I'm getting a little bored with how the internet is open to endless revision, but so very few people actually say "Yeah, I was wrong, my bad" and instead give in to that urge to justify. "Yeah, I was wrong, but the other side is worse" is not the way to handle it.

DanCopeland daysanddaysofsad 07/28/14 06:23PM

I should be clear, the mistake is still stupid, and you're absolutely right. I'm not defending that they fell for it, just mocking the speed with which the response becomes about asserting liberal gullibility, when being gullible has little to do with intellect or political bias. It's absolutely fair to say that regardless of her actual words, we should not be adding to them falsely. I should, in retrospect, been less quick to mock.

kobayashimaroon daysanddaysofsad 07/28/14 08:37PM

100% agreed. If they want to be the moron party I say we let them, not compete with them for the honor.

DMoose daysanddaysofsad 07/29/14 02:16AM

Unfortunately "The other side is worse" is the basis of our entire two party system.

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America's Wang Hudson Hongo 07/28/14 03:25PM

Whereas her claiming the gays are plotting widespread child molestation actually happened. So...understandable.

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daysanddaysofsad America's Wang 07/28/14 04:47PM

So the next time some right wing blogger repeats satire as fact and then says "well it could have happened" instead of admitting they screwed up, that will be totally acceptable.

America's Wang daysanddaysofsad 07/28/14 04:53PM

No idea what you're basing that on.

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GifsForYou daysanddaysofsad 07/28/14 05:24PM

TheDiscordian GifsForYou 07/29/14 05:00PM

Thank you! Now I don't have to run laps after work.