Shrill Paranoia: These people are powder kegs grasping at lit matches

[TalkingDog]

http://www.urlesque.com/2010/07/21/obama-martial-law-onion/

Back in 1938, in the panic stricken run-up to World War II, somewhere between a couple hundred thousand and 1.2 million alien fearing Americans became genuinely freaked out when they mistook a radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds for a real life news broadcast.

Yesterday, the same thing happened again only instead of a 40 minute commercial free, faux-newscast with hardly any allusions to the fictional nature of the broadcast, it happened with a three-year-old Onion video that warns of impending martial law and zombie attacks. Way to go people. Way to go.


and the Reddit commentary mocking the initial FaceBook fracas that started the whole thing.

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/crsrz/facebook_is_going_crazy_about_a_classified_video/

and some screen shots of the Morans in action



Yes, it's internet Chinese whispers, but it only takes one well-armed idiot with an itchy finger to tips this from farce to tragedy.

[aquart]

1. The Onion?

[TalkingDog]

4. Ummm...what's the question?

Are you expressing surprise that they would mistake a report from The Onion for a real report?

Or are you unaware that it is a satire news paper/radio/web concern.....

http://www.theonion.com/ "America's Finest News Source"

[TalkingDog]

5. delete/dupe

WHY IS MY COMPUTER DOUBLE POSTING EVERY TIME NOW? AAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!

[JuniperLea]

2. This is what Fucks Gnus has done to the brains of the average person...

When The Onion is mistaken for reality, we know without question that the Idiocracy has taken over.

We're so screwn.

[uppityperson]

3. youtube video here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXfXuk6aWJc
Looking at some of those fb people's pages, omg, the conspiracy theorists are conspiring!