A few weeks ago I made my first visit to SideBerns, where I was talking politics with a University of Tampa professor. The topic turned to immigration and about how Rush Limbaugh had recently made derogatory statements about Latinos on his syndicated radio show.
The UT professor then asked me if I had heard that Limbaugh had been kicked out of a Mexican restaurant in South Florida? I had not, and immediately went to my smartphone to look it up. An embarrassing story like that would no doubt be all over the Internet, right?
I was able to find the story, but quickly deduced it was false. How did I know? It came from the Daily Currant.
Though "Daily Currant" sounds like the conservative website run by Tucker Carlson (that would be The Daily Caller), it's actually a satirical news site (think The Onion but with more believable headlines) that clearly states its intentions in its About section:
This article appears in Feb 14-20, 2013.