Winner.
MSNBC Anchor Resigns; Admits to Spreading “Lies on Behalf of Obama”
The article appeared on the National Report website. National Report is an Onion wannabe. Readers who don't know it's a satire site want to believe the MSNBC anchor actually said this:
“I have spent my entire professional career working toward a position based on false pretenses. I have worked hard to obtain a position with a major news network and expected to be reporting on serious issues. Instead, I am handed Pro-Obama scripts and asked to be a mouthpiece for the administration.”Except she didn't say that. Readers believed that she did, even after National Report added a few lines at the bottom of the article that should tip off any reader that it isn't a real story. Didn't work. Commenters still believe that it's true, even after even after other commenters try to point out that it never happened, that the story is false.
Well done, National Report. Article here.
