Besides having the funniest website tagline on the internet, CRACKED.com is one of my daily visits for that “just-barely-safe-for-work” humor. The language gets a little strong, which generally isn’t my cup of tea, but the content is even stronger on most days. It’s a great place to grab a few laughs. Let’s start off your workweek with 7 Clearly Fake News Stories That Fooled Mainstream Media. My favorite? The “study” that found George W. Bush had the lowest I.Q. among Presidents of the last 50 years. Don’t get me wrong, I was completely annoyed with articles like that, but CRACKED shows another reason why I love them by stating that, yes, there are plenty of pictures on the internet of ol’ Bush looking retarded, the media jumped on it just because they loved making him look bad (they call it the “Beat Up Bush” bandwagon – so true).
Proving that The Guardian newspaper and Doonesbury cartoonist, Gary Trudeau treat email forwards with the same level of skepticism as your mom, both picked up the story and ran with it. Had they bothered to check the source of the email, they would have traced it back to the reputable news source linkydinky.com, and the original press release, which claimed that Dr. Lovenstein "lives in a mobile home in Scranton, Pennsylvania running an Internet business called www.collegedegreesforsale.com.
The list is basic proof as to why I’ve learned to really not pay attention to the mainstream media anymore. They’re all idiots. Get your news from FARK.com or something.