Breitbart.com Duped Again ... along with other lemmings.

[Cigar]

A satirical item published last week purporting that economist Paul Krugman had filed for bankruptcy has spread to Boston.com and the conservative website Breitbart this morning.

The item originated in The Daily Currant, a satirical news site. Austria's Format online magazine picked it up, and their report was subsequently cited by Boston.com. Then it spread to Breitbart.

Krugman responded to the mix-up this morning, writing on his blog that he knew of the fake news item and was asked about it by a Russian television station. He wrote that he did not address it on his blog because he "wanted to wait and see which right-wing media outlets would fall for the hoax."

"Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go give a lavishly paid speech to Friends of Hamas," Krugman quipped, referring to Breitbart's recent invention of a group purportedly tied to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel that ended up not actually existing.

http://www.businessinsider.com/paul-krugman-bankruptcy-story-false-spreads-2013-3


Looks like a few other suckers got pulled in also ... but we won't call them out by name, we'll just let them marinate in their own brown liquids.

:roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::rofl mao::roflmao:

[nic34]

Don't worry, we can expect the retractions and apologies from our fair minded forum compatriots any time now..........>:grin:

[Cigar]

Don't worry, we can expect the retractions and apologies from our fair minded forum compatriots any time now..........>:grin:



If they can just get that nasty taste out of their mouths :smiley_ROFLMAO:

[Mainecoons]

Here's the link to Breitbart.

http://www.breitbart.com/

Please let us know where this story is. I ran a search on "Krugman" as well.

Don't worry Nic, we can expect that you didn't check things out before you posted again. By now you should know how full of BS Cigar and his sources are. We all do.

:rofl:

[Cigar]

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/936792/thumbs/r-PAUL-KRUGMAN-DEFICIT-large570.jpg?7

False reports that Paul Krugman has filed for bankruptcy spread across the Internet on Monday morning.
The rumor came from the satirical news site The Daily Currant, which said that the Nobel Prize-winning economist had accrued over $7 million in debt. The fake story was picked up by Austria's Format online magazine, which then reported as true by Boston.com (http://finance.boston.com/boston/news/read?GUID=23632832) and Breitbart.com.


"Things really went downhill for the star economist," Boston.com wrote (http://finance.boston.com/boston/news/read?GUID=23632832). Breitbart's article has since been taken down.

Their stories repeated the Currant's version of events, which had Krugman racking up bills on his American Express black card at Tiffany's, and buying rare Portuguese wines and 19th century English cloth.


"Rather than tighten his belt and pay the sums back, the pseudo-Keynesian economist decided to 'stimulate' his way to a personal recovery by investing in expenses he hoped would one day boost his income," the Currant wrote. The site joked that Krugman had said, "They say always dress for the job you want. So I thought maybe if I showed up in $70,000 Alexander Amosu suits they would give me ownership of part of the company. If I had only been granted a sliver of the New York Times Co., I could have paid everything back."


The Daily Currant is the same website that did a satirical piece about Sarah Palin joining Al Jazeera as a contributor earlier this year. The story was picked up by The Washington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/12/sarah-palin-washington-post-al-jazeera_n_2671397.html) and reported as real.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/11/paul-krugman-bankrupt-reports-false_n_2852538.html

Chew first ... then swallow .... :grin:

[patrickt]

Now, the lemming Cigar doesn't feel so lonely.

[Cigar]

Now, the lemming Cigar doesn't feel so lonely.

Krugman Declares Personal Bankruptcy (The Daily Currant) (http://thepoliticalforums.com/threads/11483-Krugman-Declares-Personal-Bankruptcy-%28The-Daily-Currant%29?highlight=Krugman+Declares+Personal+Ban kruptcy+%28The+Daily+Currant%29)

Governor ... please proceed :f_doh:

[Mainecoons]

Every conservative source I saw this on treated it as satire. I guess it was too subtle for Cigar and Nic.

:rofl:

[KC]

Every conservative source I saw this on treated it as satire. I guess it was too subtle for Cigar and Nic.

:rofl:

I don't know why they wouldn't. It was a funny article and it was pretty obvious that is was satire. It was on the Daily Currant after all.

[Cigar]

Every conservative source I saw this on treated it as satire. I guess it was too subtle for Cigar and Nic.

:rofl:

It doesn't look like it according to the replies within the Thread ... or do you need someone to read it to you. :rofl:

[nic34]

The original thread.... looks like everyone got punked to me....

(Kat, does lol mean you were the only one that got it?)

http://thepoliticalforums.com/threads/11483-Krugman-Declares-Personal-Bankruptcy-(The-Daily-Currant)?highlight=Krugman (http://thepoliticalforums.com/threads/11483-Krugman-Declares-Personal-Bankruptcy-(The-Daily-Currant)?highlight=Krugman)

[Cigar]

The original thread.... looks like everyone got punked to me....

(Kat, does lol mean you were the only one that got it?)

http://thepoliticalforums.com/threads/11483-Krugman-Declares-Personal-Bankruptcy-(The-Daily-Currant)?highlight=Krugman (http://thepoliticalforums.com/threads/11483-Krugman-Declares-Personal-Bankruptcy-(The-Daily-Currant)?highlight=Krugman)


I just like laughing at their denials ... it's Hilarius

[Peter1469]

It was clearly satire.