Thread: HOAX / Satire Warning: Obama declares Muslim appreciation month

This article is a HOAX! National Report is a satirical website which sometimes posts things that are very believable. Please note that you are NOT seeing this anywhere credible.

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By the following day links and excerpts referencing this article were being circulated via social media, with many of those who encountered the item mistaking it for a genuine news article. However, the article was just a bit of satire from the National Report, a web site that publishes outrageous fictional stories such as "IRS Plans to Target Leprechauns Next," "Boy Scouts Announce Boobs Merit Badge," and "New CDC Study Indicates Pets of Gay Couples Worse at Sports, Better at Fashion Than Pets of Straight Couples."

The National Report's (since removed) disclaimer page notes that:

National Report is a news and political satire web publication, which may or may not use real names, often in semi-real or mostly fictitious ways. All news articles contained within National Report are fiction, and presumably fake news. Any resemblance to the truth is purely coincidental.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/muslimmonth.asp

Many awoke this morning to the headline that Barack Obama had declared November to be “National Muslim Appreciation Month.”

Just one little snag with this caption – it isn’t true.

Fortunately the hoax was quickly exposed for what it was and the predictable right-wing hand-wringing and lamentation soon gave way to declarations of embarrassment accompanied by the obligatory red-faced “oopsie-daisies” for so readily believing the news.

http://www.examiner.com/article/the-...eciation-month

No, November is not Muslim Appreciation Month; it’s America is Gullible Month, and you’ve been nominated Grand Marshal of the parade

Some people used to get suckered periodically by headlines in The Onion, before most people figured out it was a publication full of parodies.

But the along came The Courant; not everyone got that one yet.
Then there’s National Report. Even fewer have it figured out.

So, there was uproar on Facebook, on Twitter, and probably on your e-mail, earlier this evening when this story leaked out gushed all over unwitting computer-screen gazers.

http://timpanogos.wordpress.com/2013...of-the-parade/