The Washington Post, self styled defender of democracy, has cited a satirical fake news website as fact. The Free Beacon reports:
The Washington Post took four hours to correct a story that referred to a fake op-ed on the satirical site Clickhole as genuine.
The Post article follows the true story of British protesters campaigning to make the Green Day song “American Idiot” the number one single in the U.K.
But it claimed that “despite the song’s ubiquity, Armstrong waited 13 years to reveal – in an article he wrote for Clickhole.com – that the ‘American Idiot’ was President George W. Bush.” The reference to what Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong supposedly said about “American Idiot” was in fact a reference to a satirical op-ed attributed to the musician.
The article further quoted from the satirical Clickhole piece: “‘The main reason we made George W. Bush the ‘American Idiot’ is because he started a war,’ Armstrong wrote.”
Yet another reason why the mainstream media is facing a credibility issue.
Please CANCEL this report. I do not wish to receive it.
This is meant as a criticism of The Washington Post? That it took four hours to correct something of minor importance that managed to accidentally get published? This is the best you can do? I don’t know if the mainstream media is lacking credibility, but The Washington Post is one of the most referenced and credible news outlets in the country and seems to meet with your disapproval because you disagree with it. Naughty, naughty.
well, billie joe armstrong, that ”idiot” as you call him, fought back against the ones who really started the war. too bad you were too d-mn brain dead to know that! 9/11 was an attack on us morons! if it weren’t for men like george w bush and our military, you would be speaking german!! i despise ingrates like you.
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Thank you Brenda from Texas! We agree completely! When Trump said he wanted to clean out the swamp, we agreed. But little did we know that it isn’t a swamp in DC, IT’S A DAM SEWER!! If we don’t get the Justice Department cleaned up, the rule of law won’t matter a damn bit. We are also tired of judges who legislate from the bench. We make laws that need to be followed in the courts. If we don’t follow the laws of this country, WE AREN’T A COUNTRY ANYMORE!! And if you want to talk about border security, if we don’t have a secure border, we aren’t safe anymore!!
Amen!
Well said, and those other European countries also would probably be speaking German and now they seem to have forgotten that WWII was being won hand over hand by the Nazis & Japan prior to the USA being in the war.
@ stephanie wilson::// I don’t know what you really think, but the ugly truth is that 9/11 was set up and carried out by the, GW Bush, Dick Cheney, Condolessa Rice, Rumsfeld cartel and many others!! And they seemed to have gotten away with it!! Since there’s no ‘Statutes of limitations’ on murder, you can still take all these people and execute them!! The hijacked planes were a big sick joke and told only to shift the blame on Muslims with boxcutters!!! These ‘terrorists’ that supposedly died, magically turned up alive days later, and not one of them had any ability to be able to fly Cessnas much less Passenger Jets!! The American public was fooled by a brainwashing scam that was the worst in history!! You better get educated to the real facts, but I know you won’t, that’s because humans can’t believe they were ‘hoodwinked’ and fell for it at this magnitude!!! GW Bush and all who were involved in murdering thousands of American citizens and millions of far eastern people are the monsters that belong on the same shelves as Papa Bush, The Clintons, Obama, Soros, etc! And they all need to be executed, NOW!!!
William, does your psychiatrist read what you write? Did they release you? Call your mother.
you’re the one that needs the psychiatrist but it is really to late for people like you so save your money and just cut your own throat and make the world a better place
You must get your info from the fake news mongers….all the people including the terrorists were killed on those aircraft on 9/11. Any news to the contrary is fake. You need to check your Facts before spouting off.
Bring all of our military people home and let the rest of the world kill each other.
God Bless our veterans past and present!!
you got that right
And put the military in the southern border.
Europe has become a total clickhole.
Europe needs American troops to help prevent Russian expansion. We do not need Europe. Our nation’s interests are no longer in Europe as it was post World War II.
If European countries cannot pay what they agreed and signed to pay, President Trump should announce with great fanfare the draw down of U.S. troops and possible closing of some U.S. bases in Germany, etc. That would be a huge wake up call to the comatose European socialist leaders.
If not only for the loss of the great amount of money our military spends in Germany (and the rest of the world also) that helps the German economy.
The truth does not sell newspapers and the Washington post desperately needs to sell papers! Can’t wait for them to fold like the rest of the trash out there!
CNN = Certainly Not News
IMHO, the media are the ONLY reason one Barack Hussein Obama was even elected. They lied, covered, shielded and withheld everything about that mans past and political ideology that would have ruined him in the eyes of most Americans. Had this nation been informed of the real truth? They betrayed America! Period….
I agree…
Shows you cannot trust the Washington Post any longer
I wouldn’t trust the post to use for azz wipe.
Abrasive no matter what you do with it.
The “post” has become really good at the phony stories. I’d like to see congress pass a bill that prevents the media, all of them, from posting stories that they don’t authenticate. Further I think this posting from “unnamed sources” should be stopped. Anyone can make up a lie without an identity and get away with it today. Calling these people media is a joke. They have become nothing more than rumor mongers based upon their political preferences.
CNN = Clueless Network News!!!!!!!!!!!! Communist Network News. AKA: Fake News!!!!!!! MSM = Fake News!!!!! And lemon aids and Maher the queen of the Show are the useful idiot poster girls!
I’ve always called CNN Clinton News Netwrk !
I’ve always called CNN Clinton News Netwrk !
I CNN the Crescent Nazi Network..
i always called cnn the commie news network. hahaha
The “Media”-Just can’t tell the “TRUTH”-Anymore.I miss the Days-Where Reporters-Really Checked-Out their Stories-BEFORE-They Printed Them-It wasn’t about WHO-Could print the First Story-The Fastest.Now all we get is a Bunch of “Lies”-And all this “Bias”—-Use to Tell it like it Really was-Didn’t inject-Their Views-Like they Do now-OnEverything.!!!!!
They all now follow Adolf’s motto:
“The Bigger the lie, the more the people will believe it”
Such a once great county. Completely ruined by political correctness.
Be on the alert. PC is on the way to America courtesy of the new Socialist Democratic Party ruined by political correctness.
Yes, remember we saved them more than once during both WWI and WWII.
If it were not for us they would be speaking German now.
This is the Thanks we get. Pretty soon they will be calling on us again to help them
out so they will not have to speak Arabic. They are just waiting until they have a few more to come in so the invasion will be a victory for them. Then we will be called in again to save them.
BBS
History repeats itself.
the mainstream media has no credibility issues with me because they have no credibility to begin with. Therefore there’s no credibility issue.
I will take an American Idiot over an EU idiot any day. And the Brits, well they couldn’t even spell idiot without the AMERICAN language! Saved your butts too didn’t we. Bush started a war? You guys weren’t much help without even knives to fight with.
Who cares what the Brits think!
We don’t need Europe. The “H” with them. The muslim loving Brits can have their London mayor too.