Last week, we told you how a bunch of people — including media know-it-alls — fell for an obvious “Fire and Fury” parody about Donald Trump being mesmerized by a fake “Gorilla Channel.”
As it turned out, the whole thing wound up being a very useful illustration of the state of our media. Iowahawk summed it up perfectly:
The amazing thing about the Gorilla Channel story is that the gorilla turned out to be Trump and the stupid gorilla-obsessed Trump turned out to be the media
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) January 5, 2018
Dude.
Whoa.
— Joe Schmoe (@lurker1781) January 6, 2018
Brilliant.
— TrulyBlessed (@MarkJHattemer) January 5, 2018
— Heebie-Jeebie Giver (@CovingtonQ) January 6, 2018
— poke-ocalypse (@toxicoptimism) January 5, 2018
That is a deep truth.
— SILAWZ (@stucknLAwzmbies) January 5, 2018
Wow, wish I thought of that!
— ❌Dee F (@DeeF07059278) January 6, 2018
That’s why he’s the master.
Ohhhhhh pic.twitter.com/NfLyG3SnBC
— Angela Thompson (@moonchook70) January 6, 2018
— JohnGalt??????? (@wmahoney5) January 5, 2018
https://twitter.com/klondikeblame/status/949865036368891905
That’s Iowahawk.