Senate Minority Leader Fooled by Report in Military Version of The Onion

[Calamari]

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013...l-duffel-blog/

Meet The Duffel Blog, if you haven’t already. A must-read for national-security nerds — and anyone who enjoys humor, really — it provides pitch-perfect military parody online, such as this piece about Syria hosting Iraq War reenactors (bylined by “G-Had”) or this one about a Google Street View Prius getting blown up in Kandahar. The Duffel Blog, as dutiful readers know, is America’s oldest online source for fake military news, founded in 1797 in a moment of farsightedness. It often gives more real talk than most legit journalistic institutions, but there is no way you can confuse it with the real news.

Unless you are a senior member of the United States Senate.

On November 14, 2012, Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) wrote to Elizabeth King, the Pentagon’s congressional liaison, with a an unusually credulous query. “I am writing on behalf of a constituent who has contacted me regarding Guantanamo Bay prisoners receiving Post 9/11 GI Bill benefits,” McConnell wrote in a letter acquired by Danger Room. “I would appreciate your review and response to my constituent’s concerns.”

[ms maggie]

No doubt a low level staff member. Funny.

[Brohan]

What a fool! The first thing Obama did when he became President was close Guantanamo Bay! How could anyone fall for that?

[TheResearcher]

No big whoop. Look at all the brilliant Democrats who were fooled by Dubya's claim of WMD in Iraq. Right?

[Cameron]

Poor guy.

Is he still afraid to leave the country?

[banner1124]

No big whoop. Look at all the brilliant Democrats who were fooled by Dubya's claim of WMD in Iraq. Right?

yup... ha ha ha ha ha... whoooo weeeee... W hoodwinked us into a war of choice where 4000 of our best died and you suckers fell for it... yuck yuck yuck... a real knee slapper huh?

[ms maggie]

No big whoop. Look at all the brilliant Democrats who were fooled by Dubya's claim of WMD in Iraq. Right?

Well you don't except the President to lie to you to give him an excuse ti invade another country. Ya kinda expect a parody to be uh, a parody!

[ODENTON]

Conspiracy driven and paranoid constituent’s fooled, easy to see..........a supposed Senate minority leader fooled?............no wonder they're falling apart.

[queenie]

I saw this......LMAO...as if these politicians could get any dumber.....oh wait....never mind!!