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A Coda To The NPR Punkage

by David Kurtz
03.08.11 | 10:50 am

As part of the prank James O’Keefe et al. pulled on NPR, they set up a website for their phony group that, well, apparently fooled some of the most virulent of our homegrown Islamophobes. Or as Justin Elliott puts it: “A fake website about Muslims created by right-wing bloggers confirmed everything right-wing bloggers believe about Muslims.”

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