Musing : Confusing : Deluding

A Senior Fellow at the Institute of Nonexistence:

It was among the juicier post-election recriminations: Fox News Channel quoted an unnamed McCain campaign figure as saying that Sarah Palin did not know that Africa was a continent.

Who would say such a thing? On Monday the answer popped up on a blog and popped out of the mouth of David Shuster, an MSNBC anchor. “Turns out it was Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain policy adviser, who has come forward today to identify himself as the source of the leaks,” Mr. Shuster said.

Trouble is, Martin Eisenstadt doesn’t exist. His blog does, but it’s a put-on. The think tank where he is a senior fellow — the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy — is just a Web site. The TV clips of him on YouTube are fakes.

That must’ve been a lot of fun to pull off, but the fact that they got away with it to such a large extent is a little frightening. Which news do we believe is true, and which do we believe is a hoax yet to be revealed?

A poster in Appel Commons. I put my vote under Putin. He’s (supposedly) no longer on the Russian throne, a situation I doubt he likes, so he’ll probably manage to get elected here one way or another.

(via macuyiko)

(And Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton.)

(indirectly via macuyiko.)

(From I Can’t Draw Feet, via macuyiko)