i stumbled upon this article having heard nothing of the joke or even knowing who any of the players are but it really tickled me in a metaphoric kind of way – in a nutshell, i seems like a comedian tweeted an apology for a twitter comment that never existed and then thousands of people got on the bandwagon, lots being sarcastic fans who picked it up and ran with it as if it was real and then along the way a bunch of people who were either applauding him or totally pissed off with him despite never having seen/heard the joke (which was made up and never happened) – the last statement of the article sums it up – be careful about commenting on stuff you know nothing about, but i think the kind of power this episode shows is hilarious slash scary…

check it out here

reminds me of Wag the Dog – classic movie where they invent a whole war (productionwise in the media) to cover up the president’s scandal…