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One of its intrepid reporters sandbags Bono with an ambush interview, questioning him about taxes and such...
Mattera: By dodging taxes on royalties are you raiding the poverty programs you purport to champion?
Bono: No.
Mattera: No? Don't you want governments to be generous with other people's money and not yours?
Bono: I don't have control over that...
Mattera: How do you not have control over that? It's your company. Are you not in charge of your own company?
Bono: It's not my company.
Mattera: You have no say in what U2 does?
Bono: Not particularly.
Mattera: You don't? You don't have a say in what U2 does?
Bono: No.
The "reporter". Jason Mattera, was instantly booked onto Sean Hannity's radio program, where "Hannity and Mattera touted "bad boy reporter" Mattera's impressive ambush interview skills. Asked by Hannity how he managed to get an interview with "Bono," Mattera replied that it was "basic shoeleather journalism.""
The problem? it wasn't Bono. It was a Bono impersonator who doesn't even look like much like Bono. Here's a link to the video...
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/82396216/
<edited for a few grammatical errors>
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No matter how stupid I think "conservatives" are, they constantly prove me wrong and show they are even more stupid than I thought. 
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I didn't read the last line. You'd think I would learn!
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Next they will be linking to Onion articles about how bad Obama is.
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Gotta say, the impersonator was a first class troll.
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It would be pretty funny if Bono just picked some random guy out of a crowd and was like "you! go talk to that idiot and pretend to be me and say some ridiculous crap!"
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Tych2 posted:
Bono has no control in what U2 does? Why do I find that hard to believe. Whose company is it?
lol
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You're a little slow
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Bono's kinda scummy but that is
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Doesn't his "charity" only give out like 1 percent or something?
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It's awesome the impersonator is laughing is ass off!
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The real problem is that two weeks from now 25%+ of republicans will believe Bono made those statements, even if every time they show the video they make it a point to point out it is fake.
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ineenia posted:
The real problem is that two weeks from now 25%+ of republicans will believe Bono made those statements, even if every time they show the video they make it a point to point out it is fake.
Aim higher.
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Voodoo-Dahl posted:
ineenia posted:
The real problem is that two weeks from now 25%+ of republicans will believe Bono made those statements, even if every time they show the video they make it a point to point out it is fake.
Aim higher.
QFT
and at video.
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No matter how many times Hannity and Breitbart self pwn they just forge ahead and (stunningly) still manage to keep their audience. It's incredible.
I don't suppose either of them issued a retraction or apology...
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Their audience doesn't care, because they are sure about the hypocrisy. To them this play was no different than reality. They aren't looking for objective sources of information, they are looking for confirmation of what they already know.
It's not just conservatives either. look at the way Ptilk reacted to the story about the retraction in this american life for their apple story. People who believe things are true don't really care if the confirmation is true or not, and they will be quick to label any information counter to their beliefs as unimportant or inaccurate.
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GrilledCheez posted:
It's not just conservatives either. look at the way Ptilk reacted to the story about the retraction in this american life for their apple story. People who believe things are true don't really care if the confirmation is true or not, and they will be quick to label any information counter to their beliefs as unimportant or inaccurate.
That's a stupid conclusion. This American Life is a credible news source that made an error. Breitbart is a propaganda/smear outfit.
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GrilledCheez posted:
It's not just conservatives either. look at the way Ptilk reacted to the story about the retraction in this american life for their apple story. People who believe things are true don't really care if the confirmation is true or not, and they will be quick to label any information counter to their beliefs as unimportant or inaccurate.
Please correct me if I am wrong (I haven't followed the apple/America Life story that much). But wasn't the issue about the reporter making it personal, not so much the correctness of the content?
Meaning the reporter lied about physically meeting xyz person and stuff like that. But the actual conditions and such were still true or basically true?
Anyone have a quick summary link for that whole fiasco?
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