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Chris Hedges falls for fake Ted Cruz quote

PostPosted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 2:50 pm
by Wombaticus Rex
News "Satire" is interesting to me. I don't read much of it -- never found anyone with the writing skills to match The Onion and even The Onion is only good on occasion -- but as it becomes more ubiquitous, it is having a fascinating effect on the news ecosystem. The most recent notable effect is Chris Hedges building an entire sermon...or uh, essay, rather...around a wholly fiction quote from Ted Cruz.

What is notable here, to me, is that the quote is so obviously fake and yet Hedges wanted to believe...

Via: http://truth-out.org/news/item/19264-th ... government

“What we have here is our core values as Americans and Christians slipping away into this facade where we should take care of our poor, sick, and disabled,” Ted Cruz said in the Senate last month during a 21-hour speech that he gave in an attempt to block the funding of Obamacare. “It is disheartening to know that the nation our forefathers built is no longer of importance to our president and his Democratic counterparts. Not only that, we are falling away from core Christian values. I don’t know about you, but I believe in the Jesus who died to save himself, not enable lazy followers to be dependent on him. He didn’t walk around all willy-nilly just passing out free health care to those who were sick, or food to those who were hungry, or clothes to those in need. No, he said get up, brush yourself off, go into town and get a job, and as he hung on the cross he said, ‘I died so that I may live in eternity with my Father. If you want to join us you can die for yourself and your own sins. What do I look like, your savior or something?’ That’s the Jesus I want to see brought back into our core values as a nation. That’s why we need to repeal Obamacare.”


Hedges ups the ante by remarking:

I spent two years inside the Christian right in writing my book “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America.” I attended services at megachurches across the country, went to numerous lectures and talks, sat in on creationist seminars, attended classes on religious proselytizing and conversion, spent weekends at “right-to-life” retreats and interviewed dozens of followers and leaders of the movement.


And yet despite all that, Hedges seriously accepted the notion that Ted Cruz said "I don’t know about you, but I believe in the Jesus who died to save himself." Dark times.

Re: Chris Hedges falls for fake Ted Cruz quote

PostPosted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 3:05 pm
by Elihu
who?

Re: Chris Hedges falls for fake Ted Cruz quote

PostPosted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 3:43 pm
by Wombaticus Rex


Am I spelling someones name wrong?

Re: Chris Hedges falls for fake Ted Cruz quote

PostPosted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 3:54 pm
by Elihu
i was being facetious as in chris who? i appreciate your comments re leakage of onion news over into the realm of real fake news.

Re: Chris Hedges falls for fake Ted Cruz quote

PostPosted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 9:29 pm
by The Consul
And Truthout did not fact check. Very sloppy. Reminds me of when they got played on the whole Karl Rove indictment. They have not learned anything.