McConnell Can’t Tell Parody from Reality

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Open Thread: McConnell Can’t Tell Parody from Reality
By Anne Laurie February 22nd, 2013

… Possibly because the entire Republican party has become a parody. From Spencer Ackerman at Wired:

Meet The Duffel Blog, if you haven’t already. A must-read for national-security nerds — and anyone who enjoys humor, really — it provides pitch-perfect military parody online, such as this piece about Syria hosting Iraq War reenactors (bylined by “G-Had”) or this one about a Google Street View Prius getting blown up in Kandahar. The Duffel Blog, as dutiful readers know, is America’s oldest online source for fake military news, founded in 1797 in a moment of farsightedness. It often gives more real talk than most legit journalistic institutions, but there is no way you can confuse it with the real news.

Unless you are a senior member of the United States Senate.

On November 14, 2012, Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) wrote to Elizabeth King, the Pentagon’s congressional liaison, with a an unusually credulous query. “I am writing on behalf of a constituent who has contacted me regarding Guantanamo Bay prisoners receiving Post 9/11 GI Bill benefits,” McConnell wrote in a letter acquired by Danger Room. “I would appreciate your review and response to my constituent’s concerns.”…

MORE:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/02/mcconnell-duffel-blog/?cid=co5923824

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2013/02/22/open-thread-mcconnell-cant-tell-parody-from-reality/

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1. When you live on Planet Bozone

you have no concept of reality.

[CatWoman]

2. Lawrence O'Donnell ripped McConnell to shreds last night

about this.