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Saturday, July 15, 2006 Hard to Know Where to Start Dept.Salon has a good piece on Pete, the Virginia anti-abortion blogger who mistook an old Onion piece for real opinion and went to town on "Caroline Weber" for being "totally psyched" about her upcoming abortion. This was all over the web last week, and the wonderful thing about Pete's website -- before he took down all the comments -- was that even after he had been ridiculed from around the globe for not understanding The Onion, he still acted as if "Caroline Weber" was a real person, rather than a longtime figment of his imagination.The punchline? He's German. "I come from Germany -- a German economy, a German culture, German friends. And Germans have no humor." When he first came to the States, he said, he worked at Wells Fargo, where he befriended "a bunch of good old boys" who used to prank him. "They'd tease me to the point where I'd say, 'Really?' and they'd say, 'No, you idiot! When are you going to get it?' So I've been struggling with this kind of thing for a long time."posted by Michael Scott Moore | 1:00 PM
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A jolly old tale if ever there was one. I visited his site. He claims he has turned the satire right back round on the 'intellectual left' and that he knew it was a gag-piece all along. I'm guessing he's not a Berliner.
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