Oh. My. $DEITY.
I’ve been using the Internet now for nigh on 12 years (so I’m still a newbie in the Grand Scheme Of Things) but this has got to be one of the most unintentionally funny things I’ve seen online, ever.
On the right is Pete, who is rather zealous in his anti-abortion beliefs, and runs a weblog espousing said beliefs.
On the left is The Onion a long running satirical news website. Almost everyone who’s browsed the web has heard of it and the “dead tree” version can be found in the humour section of most good bookstores.
One day, the two meet. Pete, obviously a bit wanting in the research skills department, finds a 7 year old article that mentions his pet subject
Unfortunately he seems to have swapped his sense of humour and ability to detect irony and satire for one of those Jesus-fish bumper stickers and an old copy of the KJV, so he takes it seriously.
So seriously he writes up a fire and brimstone criticism of the nonexistent, completely made up woman quoted in the Onion article.
Cue the hundred or so comment-makers (on both sides of the abortion fence) who, quite rightly, ridicule Pete for his complete lack of clue and basic comprehension skills. When almost two hundred people point out the obvious and call you - quite correctly - a moron for missing it, you’d think a moment of clarity and a rethink regarding his initial reading would follow.
Ah, but Pete has God on his side (or so he thinks, being a good Christian Soldier) so he must be Right, and follows up with this gem, an attempted backpedal that, to most sentient beings, fails miserably - not even the attempted non sequitur could convince a thinking person that Pete isn’t a one-eyed fanatic utterly unfamiliar with the concept of critical thought or logical deduction.
Comments: Lather, rinse, repeat along the lines of poor dullard Pete just not getting it and reinforcing the stereotype of the anti-abortion protester as a mindless born-again sheep who isn’t really interested in the health and welfare aspect of abortion so much as the behavioural control of the women involved. Good jorb, Petey, you’ve set your cause back a good half century.
Either Pete is the most stupid conservative fundamentalist ever to read past Genesis (or have the Cliff’s Notes read to him) or he’s a genius for getting bulk traffic and trackbacks (from at least Metafilter and Digg as well as my humble self) to his site - if only he’d remembered to add some to his Blogger template 
*chuckle*
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