27 Replies to “Mischief Is Important”

      1. Fake news about fake news. That is very clever. I think the first clue was the biline “Fake Need Wasn’t Is This Time”. Anyt parody that mocks CNN, CBC and other self important MSM, is fine by me. Brilliant.

        1. Paul, I agree. Satire only works if it is guerrilla, anti-establishment satire. We need more of this.

      2. Yes, it wasn’t until after the 20 second mark that I realized it was a fake inside a fake. Very loud laughter, my son came over to check out the joke (and got a titter out of it).

        1. I thought it was a fake only when the whole thing was over and I started to read the comments.

  1. Well, Fake Tapper did fall for the “ Comey says it’s ‘possible’ Trump was with ‘prostitutes peeing on each other’ in Moscow in 2013 “, so I’m going to rank this as a “mostly true” story until I see evidence refuting this story.

  2. a strange moment at 0.14 where I found myself nodding in agreement with him while referring to the goats exploding as “while humorous”

    Perhaps the Israelis could do an encore?

  3. I LIKE the artificially inseminated Jake Tapper … telling us the TRUTHiness about Inseminated goats. That’s the AI he was speaking about, yes?

  4. “Not funny!!! You’re joking”. (Fawlty Towers: Fawlty to the Germans).

    Which is perhaps what you’ll be muttering when I say: think a little deeper. While it’s clear that he could not have said this, it is deeply concerning that, except for the actual words fake-uttered, this is DEADLY serious.

    We are entering a TRUST-FREE world.

    1. Didn’t the movie line go something like “when your eyes are opened to the true nature of the Matrix you’ll never trust what you see again”?

      We’ve been in there for over 50 years (regarding the reliability of what is reported and how). That many more are now seeing the lies and falsehoods for what they are means that those who cannot process to understand “I know a lot about that, what they’re saying isn’t correct, I shouldn’t trust this person” will be left confused.

  5. I never imagined that the day would come when a guy could walk into a bar and say, “I’m with Mossad, and I blow goats!”, and expect to pick up chicks.

  6. If Walt Whiteman (?) had actually wanted to draw attention to the fakeness of the news, he would have used camels instead of goats.

    Apparently there’s an old folktale, maybe buried as a footnote in one of the more obscure hadithun, according to which Mahound surprised Abu Bakr in a threesome between a goat and a camel, with Abu Bakr playing Hezbollah to the goat and the camel playing Hezbollah to Abu Bakr.

    Obviously Abu Bakr didn’t want anyone to know, and told Mahound in a pleading voice, and Mahound simply smiled and said “Aisha!”

  7. With thanks to Thought Criminal for reminding us of Jake Tapper pushing the fake news of the Trump pee tape: it would really serve him right if he had to spend the rest of the campaign running around telling everyone the goat tape was a deepfake, it might neutralisé him ….

    All the fake news groupie collective should be subjected to that sort of “mischief”; imagine, e.g., Rosemary Barton (or any Grauniad “woman” of either sex, e.g., “Raabi’” Reich, or Biden groupie Andrew Cohen) having to run around dealing with similar deepfakes …

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