It's a sad day when satire becomes reality.

about something that was forwarded to her by a right-wing facebooker - an article saying that a Muslim craft shop in Michigan was using the Hobby Lobby thing to force all of their female employees to wear hijabs, even if not Muslim. It was from the Daily Current, and if the article was read in its entirety, she would have seen the store owner also intended to cut off the hands of any thieving employees.

Right-wingers tend to take satire to heart, probably because they do not really understand the concept. Like thinking Steven Colbert is One of Them.

I can barely count the number of times I or someone else posted a comment to the effect of: "It's SATIRE!" after an OP, in a state of high dudgeon, posted something from the Onion or one of the lesser satire sites assuming it to be true. There's this thing called confirmation bias - because of it, people tend to assume something outrageous and awful about someone they don't like must be true. Confirmation bias can bite anybody in the butt, not just right-wingers.

that we are now living in the real world Idiocracy. Where we were once great nation represented by world class statesmen who did not suffer fools gladly:

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time." - Abraham Lincoln

'Fool me once, shame on ... shame on you. Fool me... You can't get fooled again!" George W. Bush