2023-06-27 00:40:00
Step.- Texas Governor Greg Abbott has been ridiculed online following sharing a fake article regarding country singer Garth Brooks being booed offstage in an alleged show of patriotism.
On Sunday, the Republican politician responded to an article regarding how Brooks was kicked offstage by booing “patriots” who condemned his earlier messages of tolerance and inclusion at the 123rd Annual Texas Country Jamboree held in the city of Hambriston.
But Hambriston is not a real city. The jamboree is also not a real event. In fact, the entire article was false, written by the satirical website Dunning-Kruger Times.
However, Abbott responded to the article seriously from his personal Twitter account.
“Get aware. Go broke,” Abbott wrote regarding the false story.
“Garth called his conservative fans assholes. Good job, Texas,” Abbott added, referring to the booing.
Abbott deleted the tweet shortly following posting it. But several Twitter users took screenshots of Abbott’s comments, mocking him.
“The mentioned event and town don’t even exist! Does he even know his own state? wrote a Twitter user.
Another user encouraged Abbott to hold a rally in Hambriston “if you can find it on a map.”
An Abbott representative was not immediately available for comment.
Conservatives raged at Brooks following he announced his Nashville bar would serve Bud Light beer and for encouraging patrons to show tolerance.
Far-right and anti-trans figures have criticized the beer brand for partnering with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney for a promotion aimed at the annual March Madness national college basketball tournament.
“We are going to serve all brands of beer. Are. We just are. It’s not our decision to make it,” Brooks said during a question-and-answer session with Billboard Country Live.
“Ours is this: if you come to this house, love one another. If you’re an asshole, there are plenty of other places … to go,” Brooks said.
Christopher Blair, whose America’s Last Line of Defense network operates the Dunning-Kruger Times, told The Guardian that the purpose of the network “has been to expose the credulity of right-wing extremists since 2016,” which was the year Donald Trump Trump won the presidency.
“To see one of the most powerful men in his party not just fall in love with a headline, but one with a fictitious festival in his own state, was nothing short of glorious,” Blair said in an email to The Guardian.
Blair added that the network’s popularity on Twitter would not be possible without new rules implemented following Elon Musk’s purchase of the platform last year.
“I used to have almost no traffic from Twitter. Now I have the [comentarista político derechista] Larry Elder and the [psicólogo conservador] Jordan Peterson tweeting stories regarding Budweiser being disinvited to Oktoberfest, like a Bavarian was going to drink that slop, and now a sitting US governor punishing a country star for not hating gays. people,” Blair told The Guardian.
‘A Liberal Troll’s Dream’
The Dunning-Kruger Times site openly advertises itself as satirical.
“Dunning-Kruger-Times.com is a subsidiary of the slapstick, satire and parody network ‘America’s Last Line of Defense,’ or as Snopes called it before they lost their war on satire: Junk News,” Dunning-Kruger It reads on the Times website.
“Everything on this website is fiction. It is not a lie and it is not fake news because it is not real. If you think it’s real, you should have your head examined.”
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