Yahoo News: Fascists and gay marriage? Heil yes

Pub date October 28, 2008
WriterMarke B.
SectionPolitics Blog

Oh, these automated media times — faster, news cycle, kill kill! Here’s another fun distraction: In a gaffe that slightly recalls Yahoo’s infamous Katrina photo captioning brew-ha-ha of 2005 (where black people were labelled as “looters” while white people were “finders”), that great news aggregator of the digital Alps pricelessly pulled up this pic of recently semi-outed — and recently very-dead — hard right Austrian fuckwad Joerg Haider and his simpering spokesperson/buttboy Stefan Petzner to illustrate a story on Prop 8, plus bonus slideshow. Oops.

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Hey, though — doesn’t the number 88 mean something in skinhead culture? Fascists — always only going halfway.

The bf and I were horrified when we Web-stumbled upon this Sunday night. Moral: Yahoo, it haz confuzed. Even bigger moral: The gays can be anything! We. Are. Everywhere.

Gayz: were in yr fascism, marrying yr mormonz.

UPDATE: Oh lord, it’s still up there. Editors …