Greg Abbott duped by fake news story mocking Garth Brooks

Texas Governor Greg Abbott was mocked on social media just after he responded to a satirical article about nation music legend Garth Brooks getting booed off the stage in the course of a effectiveness in the state.

On Sunday afternoon, the governor tweeted “Great task Texas” with the hyperlink to the post, which claimed that “patriots” had booed Brooks through his overall performance at the 123rd annual Texas County Jamboree in Hambriston. However, the story was absolutely created up and the metropolis of Hambriston doesn’t even exist in Texas. Even though Abbott swiftly deleted the submit, which was shared on his own Twitter account with a lot more than a million followers, Newsweek captured a screenshot just before it was taken off.

Brooks just lately came below hearth from suitable-wing critics over his refusal to ban Bud Light from his new bar in Nashville, Tennessee, amid mounting phone calls to boycott the beer manufacturer. Bud Mild initially faced backlash in April about the firm’s partnership with transgender influencer and activist Dylan Mulvaney. Above the earlier couple of months, the outcry more than Bud Light’s association with Mulvaney has sparked scrutiny of an escalating number of corporations more than their LGBTQ+ advertising and marketing campaigns.

Newsweek reached out through e-mail to Abbott’s representatives for comment.

Brooks enraged conservatives before this month when he explained to Billboard that he will not discriminate and “welcomes all” to his bar, Close friends in Lower Areas Bar & Honky Tonk. He explained he will provide “every single brand name of beer” and that his bar encourages “really like and kindness although taking part in the finest audio in the world.”

The phony short article, by parody information web-site Dunning-Kruger-Situations, shared by Abbott on Sunday accuses Brooks of loving liberals and “enjoying for the other aspect.”

Dunning-Kruger-Periods states on its website that all its information is “parody, satire, and tomfoolery.”

“Anything on this web site is fiction,” the publication states right on its website. “It is not a lie, and it is not pretend news for the reason that it is not true. If you imagine that it is true, you ought to have your head examined.”

Inspite of this warning, the web-site has fooled social media buyers into sharing and replying to the bogus tales as if they were being credible, factual news articles or blog posts.

Abbott isn’t the only outstanding figure to be duped by the satirical web-site. Recently, a publish falsely boasting that investors had pulled out of Brooks’ new bar went viral on Twitter, with singer John Wealthy becoming one particular of various men and women who were being assailed on Twitter for responding to the parody news.

In the now-deleted Twitter post, the Texas governor captioned the tweet, in aspect, with the popular GOP refrain: “Go woke. Go broke.”

Even with the tweet remaining removed swiftly, Twitter customers managed to snag screenshots and mocked the governor online for not noticing particular vital details of the phony piece.

“@GregAbbott_TX just accidentally posted a satire short article because he would like to loathe on queer Texans and Garth Brooks so negative,” Texas state Consultant Greg Casar, a Democrat, tweeted. “The Texas Region Jamboree doesn’t exist. Hambriston, Texas is not real. And the Governor is not healthy to tweet, much fewer govern. Satisfied pride!”

Christopher S. Brown, a retired Tv community producer, taunted Abbott by responding to his tweet, creating that there are “lots of actual troubles” the governor really should emphasis on.

“To be clear — this failed to take place. It truly is a ‘satire’ internet site. Texas is burning, there are plenty of real challenges to fear about without the need of receiving spun up more than a lie. But @garthbrooks proceeds to be awesome,” Brown tweeted.

Journalist Christopher Hooks referred to as out Abbott over evidently not noticing the phony story’s author, “Flagg Eagleton – Patriot.”

“Greg Abbott posts a bogus item from the ‘Dunning Kruger Times’ penned by ‘Flagg Eagleton – Patriot,'” he tweeted.