skippy the bush kangaroo: we are tired of those kids on saturday nite live tricking us into believing it's really dick cheney making those funny faces

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

we are tired of those kids on saturday nite live tricking us into believing it's really dick cheney making those funny faces

the moderate voice catches msnbc quoting a parody news site as the real thing, and then refusing to cop to it:

msnbc found that out recently, when it quoted a great quote on the michael vicks case by the rev. al sharpton. only it turned out not to be a quote by the rev. al sharpton. here’s the part as quoted by msnbc, in reference to the michael vicks case:

“if the police caught brett favre (a white quarterback for the green bay packers) running a dolphin-fighting ring out of his pool, where dolphins with spears attached to their foreheads fought each other, would they bust him? of course not,” sharpton wrote tuesday on his personal blog .

we can’t give you the graphic since work is being done on this site and our photo/image sizer is not operating. but click here to view the page and the msnbc correction (be sure to scroll down from the dolphin photos).

how did msnbc explain it?

by running a correction saying the quoted sharpton site was a “hoax.”

wrong. newsgroper is a supremely delicious parody site that anyone except someone who believes in the easter bunny will conclude is a parody — perfectly done. it’s sort of like a fake huffington post.

but rather than admit “we put that on the site without really checking the website source as a whole — sorry!” or “we made a mistake in not looking at the post a bit more carefully but mistakes do happen!” msnbc’s website writer called it “hoax” which implies newsgroper set up to trick people.

newsgroper is set up to trick people as much as mad magazine is set up to trick people. its a treasure chest of parody that anyone who takes the time to look at will realize is just that…

we must agree with joe. if you are stupid enough to think "star wars" was filmed in outerspace, you can't blame george lucas for being deceitful when you find out otherwise.

of course, both the moderate voice and skippy have been the recipients of good fortune when msnbc have been fooled before. devoted readers of this space may remember years ago when msnbc was tricked into using joe gandelman as an on-air expert for blogs during the ron and monica travelling conundrum show. and during that same show, joe correctly used the phrase "blogtopia."

those msnbc guys will swallow anything!

Labels: moderate voice, multi-millionaire media

posted by skippy at 8:36 AM |

3 Comments:

Next you'll be telling me the Weekly World News isn't real...

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Carl, 9:12 AM PDT

MSNBC is known for their blunders. Between the Weasel Capus removing Imus to the unintelligence of Contessa Brewer who cannot even read the news. It is a wonder they still have a Cable Station.

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Bruce, 9:16 AM PDT

No, Fox News is a hoax. Parody is different, you MSNBC idiots.

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