Thread: PETA Messes with the Wrong Crowd - Don't Mess w/ Bikers

Did any of you guys read Glenn's and others' posts that this was a satire? (To be honest, I would probably disagree with Glenn on most political issues, but he does his homework!). Does that even matter anymore in the 24/7 media outrage machine?

No matter how many times I gently refer her to snopes and ask her to check these things, my own mother sends me crap like this all the time: somebody peed on a flag, desecrated an apple pie, wore the wrong lapel pin (or, yikes, none at all!), whatever, you've all seen 'em, and they're almost all made-up crap. I will refrain from sharing what I think about the underlying sociology behind most of them because it would probably offend a great many of you, and this post already sounds condescending enough.

But it just seems that a LOT of people on both sides of the political spectrum nowadays are just out shopping for something to be offended by, and I'd like to think we on SRP are bigger than that. No offense to your OP, Phrank. This is more a swipe at a general trend in society than it is at you personally. We've all fallen for sketchy internet stories at times, myself included.

Funny, we did a staff development this week on evaluating websites, and these sites were used as examples:

Save The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

Dog Island Free Forever

Y'all have fun. It's just the internet.