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State of Ohio to Investigate Satirical Tweet That Fooled Drudge and Limbaugh
Robert Mackey
October 17 2016, 9:18 p.m.
A CHORUS OF OUTRAGED conservatives, including Matt Drudge, Rush Limbaugh, and Curt Schilling, expressed anger on Monday at what they wrongly called evidence that a postal worker in Ohio had destroyed absentee ballots cast in the Republican’s favor.
The anger was prompted by the widespread misunderstanding of a satirical tweet posted online Sunday by a member of the loose coalition of pranksters known as Weird Twitter, who use the social network to post Dadaist jokes and fictional anecdotes disguised as earnest statements of fact.
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i love working at the post office in Columbus, Ohio and ripping up absentee ballots that vote for trump
3:09 PM - 16 Oct 2016
The satirist, who writes as @randygdub, describes himself only as a “cool and chill guy of online,” living in California. Within minutes of posting his tweet on Sunday, he was surprised and delighted that his joke was mistaken for a genuine confession by Trump supporters eager to find any evidence of the election rigging their candidate, falsely, claims is rampant.
Full article: https://theintercept.com/2016/10/17/state-ohio-investigate-satirical-tweet-fooled-drudge-limbaugh/
Sadly Trump and his loyal minions use Twitter and FB as their means for true news. I've seen Trumpsters admitting that claim on his FB page.
