IMAO makes another urban legend … and this time gets credit for it
Frank Tweedled about it earlier today. So all you Twiddlers know already. But IMAO made the Urban Legend list. Again.
The other day, Harvey wrote up the fakey newsy piece about Obama apologizing for the Declaration of Independence.
Harvey writes good stuff. But you knew that.
This one got passed around, which happens with lots of his fakey newsy stuff. But this one really took off. So much so that people asked the Mikkelsons, the couple that run Snopes.com, about it.
Heh. That’s funny. Because it says just how close to real Harvey’s story is. It shows that it’s not beyond the realm of possibility — in many people’s minds — that Barack Obama would actually do such a thing. He’s proven himself to the the Apologizer-in-Chief, so, why not?
Anyway, Harvey done good.
And what makes it really special is, it’s the first time that IMAO got credit for an Urban Legend.
Back in March, 2008, there was a post Frank wrote that included a doctored photo (or was it doctored?) of Obama holding a phone upside down. The photo got passed around so much that it garnered an entry on Snopes.
Only, Snopes never credited IMAO for that. In the earlier Snopes entry, they used the full photo that included the “imao.us” stamp in the lower left. Even then, they never would credit IMAO for the image, even after they were notified of the source, with documentation. They ended up cropping the image, removing the watermark. Well, most of it, anyway. If you look careful, you’ll see the dot of the “i” is still in the cropped image on Snopes.
This time, though, they are properly crediting IMAO for the post.
So, Harvey, way to go!
[UPDATE 7-8-09: upon request, Snopes has now updated the Obama phone page to credit IMAO]
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July 8th, 2009 at 12:25 am
Good comedy always has a slab of truth,
pounded with a satirical mallet,
rolled in the cracker crumbs of mirth,
and fried in the hot oil of trendiness.
And now served with the gravy of
congratulations via Snopes.com.
Way to go.
July 8th, 2009 at 12:34 am
Basil - thanks
Everyone else - I dropped another note to Snopes requesting (politely) to give IMAO credit for the Obama phone pic. Feel free to pile on (politely) if you’re so inclined:
http://www.snopes.com/cgi-bin/comments/webmail.asp
Snopes generally does good work and they just did IMAO a kindness, so please be nice.
July 8th, 2009 at 1:00 am
I posted the link to my facebook page, and managed to fool one of my friends. I enjoyed his confusion for about a minute, then burst his bubble.
July 8th, 2009 at 1:04 am
Harvey you’re my hero. Way to go.
July 8th, 2009 at 7:52 am
It is an urban legend only because nobody can prove it as of now. Just wait for the video tape to come out.
July 8th, 2009 at 8:44 am
Nice job, Harver? Will you soon be revealing to us that all this news we keep reading about the election of Obama and the destruction of the economy by Obama was all Newsish Fakery, and that Obama is a mere urban legend?
July 8th, 2009 at 8:47 am
July 8th, 2009 at 9:13 am
So, Harvey wrote a fake news piece that seemed real and got people wondering about the fake information being correct? How is this different than today’s journalistic standards, exactly? Good job, Harvey, by the way.
July 8th, 2009 at 9:14 am
The Snopes entry for the photo has been updated; it now attributes the photo to the IMAO web site.
July 8th, 2009 at 9:45 am
I wish Obama was only an urban legend.
July 8th, 2009 at 10:34 am
Too bad Snopes doesn’t debunk all the Sarah Palin bunk/junk the way they debunk O-bah-muhh newsish fakery.
July 8th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Yes, but if he bashes and apologizes for the Constitution over dinner with his man-wife each night, doesn’t that count.
Incidentally, if you reference the photo on Drudge today or most of the other recent photos, the one who calls himself “Michelle” seems to keep growing larger and larger.
July 8th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Did you mean the picture where she looks a good 5 inches taller than Barack (theoretically she’s 5′11 to his 6′2″), or are you talking about her blubbery little beer gut that swooning liberals have been calling a “baby bump” since January?
July 8th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
To all the swooning liberal’s that’s not a “baby bump” it’s all that special $100 an oz. steak that Michelle has been chowing down on since Obama took office.
July 9th, 2009 at 6:33 am
Michelle is a woman? That has to be an urban legend. That could not have been born female.
July 9th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
I think Michelle might be related to BigFoot
July 9th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Have you ever seen Michelle Obama and Aunt Esther in the same room together?
http://barack-sucks.org/images/aunt_esther_obama.jpg