Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft pulls post after falling for high school satire about birth certific

Hoft Can't Recognize Satire -- Even When It's Staring Him In The Face
May 13, 2011 1:05 am ET by Mike Burns

Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft has further cemented his hold on the title of "Dumbest Man on the Internet." As Fire Dog Lake's TBogg reported, Hoft fell for a bogus story about a San Diego high school, which rescinded its commencement invitation to President Obama because students apparently discovered that his long-form birth certificate is a fake.

As TBogg reported, the article Hoft posted to his blog tonight came from a story in the San Diego Reader's satire section, appropriately called: "SD on the QT: Almost Factual News."

As a contributor to the site points out, the column's title, "... on the QT," "announces itself in a loud stage whisper, the only way satire should ever indicate itself -- indirectly, in keeping with its production of figurative language and frequently, absurd analogy, as the aforementioned objects of fun should realize." But even if these subtleties of satire are way over Hoft's head, he probably should have realized that something wasn't right when the post adjacent to the birth certificate story involved a red and white "Shamu" eating bin Laden to the tune of "America, Heck Yeah!"

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201105130001

That's what makes them easy marks.

And when they find out they've fallen for something like this they always say the same thing - "well, we know he really would do/say that if he could". Buncha clowns.