Right-Wingers Flip Out Over Imaginary "Obama Car" Welfare Program

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Hudson Hongo

09/03/14 08:15AM

Filed to: bad satire

On Friday, humor less "satire" site Empire News published an article titled "Congress Approves Bill That Will Offer Free Automobiles To Welfare Recipients," supplying elderly Facebook users with their weekly requirement of anti-Obama outrage.

According to the story, a new White House-sponsored "Obama Car" program will "offer free motor vehicles to welfare recipients" after being approved by Congress in a "narrow vote." Predictably, conservatives on social media completely lost their shit, and by Wednesday the article had been shared over 50,000 times.

If this is true, i officially declare a revolt against the american government. http://t.co/VuUcCrwUJu
— Mitchell Bryant (@Cowboy2112) September 2, 2014

But as you may have suspected, this story is totally false. Not only does such a bill not exist, even if one did, Congress could hardly have passed it during their current five-week summer recess.

Faced with such evidence, those who spread the hoax graciously conceded almost nothing.

Fake story, but none the less, I wouldn't be surprised if it does happen in the future... @TamaraTuckerRN
— Tamara Hayman Tucker (@TamaraTuckerRN) September 1, 2014

Ironically, Obama's 2012 Republican opponent Mitt Romney did create such a program back in 2006. As governor of Massachusetts, Romney started the controversial Car Ownership Program, giving working welfare recipients free donated cars along with "one year's insurance, inspection, excise tax, title, registration, repairs and a AAA membership."

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Emily_8361 Hudson Hongo 09/03/14 10:49AM

I wonder why Republicans just do not get satire.

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disastergirl Emily_8361 09/03/14 10:51AM

Because they call satire, news.

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jeanneee Emily_8361 09/03/14 10:52AM

I often wonder the same thing about Gawker Media commenters....

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phunkshun Emily_8361 09/03/14 10:56AM

Because humor and satire for right wingers is usually really mean spirited.

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ThisIsMyActualName Emily_8361 09/03/14 10:57AM

It takes brains and self awareness to comprehend satire.

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toothpetard Hudson Hongo 09/03/14 10:49AM

Finally, a place to charge my obamaphone.

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United States Ghost toothpetard 09/03/14 10:58AM

AND a convenient way to pick up my Obamafood, get my Obamacare and take in all the sights of Obamaland!

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ThePriceisWrong toothpetard 09/03/14 11:03AM

I was going to write a quip about falling asleep in a car while working four jobs, but then I realized that I really am just an asshole.

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toscatios toothpetard 09/03/14 11:19AM

I can't be bothered with a car or a phone. I'm too busy playing my Obamaxbox.

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OKTOBERFIST United States Ghost 09/03/14 11:20AM

is Obamaland! Next to The Grand 'Ol Opry?

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nopenopenopenopenopenope Hudson Hongo 09/03/14 10:49AM

3 degrees and you're only an RN? Not an NP? Looks like your years of hard work really were a waste of time, Tamara Hayman Tucker.

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7 Kinds of Stupid nopenopenopenopenopenope 09/03/14 10:54AM

She may be one of those underachievers that counts their high school diploma as a degree.

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me56763 7 Kinds of Stupid 09/03/14 10:57AM

Well she's from West Virginia so she's probably throwing in elementary and middle school "graduation" in there as well.

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SteveDave 7 Kinds of Stupid 09/03/14 10:58AM

Or that certificate she got for sitting through a paid seminar.
Also, it's not the car program that made her "hard work" a waste of time, it's her general inability to distinguish reality from obvious bullshit.

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berentzen nopenopenopenopenopenope 09/03/14 11:01AM

Something tells me she's counting High School, then some random associate's degree then an RN degree (from an actual university according to her bio). So, probably 1 degree in the real world where Obama isn't giving away free cars.

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Penabler Hudson Hongo 09/03/14 10:57AM

Sure, I fell for another fake story and screamed about it to everyone on twitter and facebook, but isn't it really telling how true it feels? I say the revolt is still on!

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JemApple Penabler 09/03/14 11:05AM

I like to think of it as a "faling" as it's a feeling that became fact.

(Also because it leads to falling for things... like satire.)

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toothpetard Penabler 09/03/14 11:07AM

TEACH THE CONTROVERSY

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MrTripps Penabler 09/03/14 11:08AM

And thus the second US Civil War was started because of truthiness. Damn you Colbert!

not working Penabler 09/03/14 11:19AM

*eyeroll*