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more about #hoaxes more comments → Trai_Dep: It will be a cruel realization as it slowly dawns on Falcon that he's the most well-balanced, mature thinker in his entire family. I say, give HIM cus... more » AzureTexan: How 'bout we make fame-whoring a Class B misdemeanor, like streetwalking, and go from there? Granted, half of California would have to make bail, but ... more » The Real JR: Actually I blame Richard Heene for all of this. He's the attention whore, not so much her. She is so incredibly passive (which is probably why he chos... more » BxgrlJeri: I was listening to right wing nut radio this morning (again, I mistook it for the SciFi channel) and they said "Oh we should just paint a rosy picture... more » onebadclam: Don't leave Glenn Beck alone! #glennbeck more » Ron Draper: What the hell does cnt B mean? Did he just call Pelosi a cunt of the B-grade variety? #glennbeck more » ethylic: Next Beck RT: "Why haven't we had an official response to the rumor that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a girl in 1990?" [www.npr.org] more » Mediahohoho: His hyper-attenuated sense of his own persecution makes me want to keep him away from incendiary devices and backpacks. more » fuckingoldman: What a fucking moron. When will we non-liberals have somebody that actually makes sense and doesn't make a fool of themselves? While I'm at it I'll as... more » ngonzogo: I'll lay money down that Beck'll justify his stupidity just like Limbaugh did: "I believed it because it's just the kind of thing they do." They era... more » Matt Cherette: It seriously seems that Beck will RT anything. I might start @replying to him with random "Weekly World News" headlines and see if he passes them alon... more » i'm a bottle: Not only does he cry like a preteen girl, he abbreviates like one. #glennbeck more » Conchie Birdie: Yet another reason why twitter is stupid. #glennbeck more » Rhymenocerous: "cnt" should not be used as an abbreviation, for obvious reasons - even in tweet about Nancy Pelosi. #glennbeck more » Claire Buoyant: Nice job using a URL-shortening service through Libya, Glenn and pals. Just to be clear: I, personally, don't care (companies such as ow.ly and bit.l... more » -
#crime
Balloon Boy's Parents to Plead Guilty to Hoaxing America's Cable News Personalities
Richard and Mayumi Heene, the parents of that cute vomiting boy who did not get lost in the air in a balloon, will plead guilty tomorrow to charges that they concocted the story in order to become famous, which happened. More » -
#sigh
Glenn Beck Warns of Imaginary Fox News Ban
This Glenn Beck tweet links to a blog that has misread a piece of obvious (and terrible) satire, penned by a right-wing talk radio producer. Just like he did last week. They don't even get the unfunny jokes they make themselves! -
#hoaxes
Rush Limbaugh Falls For Non-Hoax
Whoops! Rush Limbaugh accidentally read, on-air, statements attributed to Barack Obama that Barack Obama never wrote. He must be super-embarrassed! Especially after he made a big deal out of people doing that with him last week. More » -
#balloonboy
'Who Would Possibly Do Something Like This? It Has to Be Richard Heene.'
Well look here, it's our friend Robert Thomas—ex-associate of Balloon Dad Richard Heene—all up on the Today Show this morning. Thomas on Heene: "The negatives outweigh the positives." It seems so! Click through for the entire interview. More » -
#stunts
The Yes Men Make Chamber of Commerce Look Like (Bigger) Dinosaurs
The Chamber of Commerce held a press conference in DC today to declare that it's ending its longstanding, controversial opposition to climate-change regulations. No it didn't. [UPDATED with fun media clips below!] More » -
#assessments
Deflated: Balloon Boy's the Story of Our Ugly, Sorry Era
Richard Heene has spoken out after Sheriff Jim Aldernan's press conference. He's currently "seeking counsel" and got teary as he told the AP that "this thing has become so convoluted." He's pretty on point in that regard. More » -
#breaking
Colorado Sheriff Says We Were Right: Balloon Hoax Was Publicity Stunt For TV Show
At a press conference in Colorado, Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden has come to a conclusion on the case of Richard Heene's Balloon Boy: "It has been determined this was a hoax, a publicity stunt to market a reality show." More » -
#balloonboy
Exclusive: I Helped Richard Heene Plan a Balloon Hoax
For the first time, 25-year-old researcher Robert Thomas reveals to Gawker how earlier this year he and Richard Heene drew up a master plan to generate a massive media controversy using a weather balloon. To get famous, of course. More » -
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#balloonboy
Colorado Cops Say Balloon Boy Fiasco Wasn't a Hoax
The local sheriff in Ft. Collins, Colo., is defending the Heene family, saying at a press conference that he doesn't think Richard and Mayumi Heene were faking their emotions during yesterday's ordeal. More » -
#boyintheballoon
With New Home Videos and 911 Audio, World Wonders Whether Balloon Boy Was a Hoax
More evidence emerged this morning that yesterday's Balloon Boy escapade was either a deliberate hoax or the result of galactic idiocy, and local authorities have begun investigating whether it was staged. More » -
#publicitystunts
Rape Tunnel Succeeds in Sparking Conversation, But Not Rape
Yesterday we brought you the ridic story of the purported "Rape Tunnel," where Rape Artist "Richard Whitehurst" would rape anyone daring to crawl through. Alas, it was just another art hoax. Our field trip is canceled.
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#hoaxes
German Media Punk'd By Local Morons Into Reporting a Suicide Attack In California
A group of German idiots seeking publicity for their movie staged a fake suicide bombing in a fake California town yesterday and tricked the German media into running with it. Kind of like the Coast Guard did with CNN today. More » -
#dang
Roxanne Shante's Feel-Good Story a Fake?
Noooooooo: Last week we heard the heartwarming story of how old school rapper Roxanne Shante got her evil record company to pay more than $200K for her to get a Ph.D. Now Slate says the whole story's a fake. More » -
#journalismism
Happy Anniversary, Moon People
On this day in 1835, the New York Sun published the first in a series of articles detailing the wondrous discoveries of life forms and civilization on the moon. It was all downhill for the New York Sun after that. More » -
#hoaxes
Thomas Pynchon is No Indie Rock Groupie
In 1996 the New Yorker ran a "Talk of the Town" piece about the notoriously reclusive Thomas Pynchon becoming a huge fan of an indie rock band called Lotion, a story the magazine now acknowledges was all a hilarious hoax. More » -
#surrealestate
Huffington Post Serves up Hoax on Front Page
It's hard to imagine anyone taking seriously a satirical proposal to build an airport on Central Park. Except maybe for the Huffington Post, which ran with the story on its front page tonight. More » -
#literature
Adorable Literary Hoax Goes Entirely Unnoticed
In a 2004 issue of academic journal Modernism/Modernity, David Foster Wallace's short story collection Oblivion was reviewed by Jay Murray Siskind, a professor at Blacksmith College, and a fictional Don DeLillo character. And no one noticed! More » -
#hoaxes
Chopped Onion Makes Us Cry
Well-played, Onion tipsters: That rumor we heard last week about a possible Onion buyout announcement Monday? It was insiders who lulled us into promoting their new we're-selling-out-to-China issue. More » -
#usefulidiots
The Company Keith Olbermann Keeps
Remember Erich "Mancow" Muller, Keith Olbermann's radio-clown pal who kept getting MSNBC airtime because Olbermann found his waterboarding conversion politically useful to flog even though it was a hoax? He just called Barack Obama a "Kenyan-Muslim turd" on the radio. More » -
#gawkerneverforgets
Surprise! Mancow Wasn't Telling the Truth When He Blamed Cops for His Waterboarding Hoax
One of the strangest explanations Chicago shock jock Erich "Mancow" Muller gave for why his publicist had called his waterboarding "a hoax" was that he risked arrest if she said otherwise. For real? Like Mancow's original stunt, that's a fabrication. More »
