John Fleming, GOP Congressman, Falls For Onion Joke

John Fleming, Republican Congressman, Falls For Onion Planned Parenthood Joke

We can't make this stuff up.

John Fleming, a GOP congressman from Louisiana, fell for a months-old joke on Monday when he cited an article from The Onion as a real news source.

Fleming shared a link on Facebook to an article from the satirical newspaper headlined "Planned Parenthood Opens $8 Billion Abortionplex."

"More on Planned Parenthood, abortion by the wholesale," he wrote.

The GOP congressman isn't the first to fall victim to an Onion joke. When the abortion piece was first published last year, hordes of angry Facebook users took the article at face value. Fleming has since removed the post from his Facebook page, but the Daily What posted a screenshot, courtesy of Literally Unbelievable.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/0 ... f=politics

God, they are SO dumb... rofllol

Like when Biden is imitating an Indian accent? One is a stupid mistake, the other is hurtful, insensitive and stupid for a politician to do in these enlightened times.

DEFLECTORS ON MAXIMUM!

You keep using your cliches. The Onion has fooled Dems too.

And you keep doing everything except addressing the original post...and the predictable, "they did it too" responses get tiresome.

And yes, that seems to be what 99% of posts are here nowadays..."Your guys did __________"...."Oh, yeah, well your guys did it like when ___________"

I love playing the game, don't you?