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Liberal In Texas

(16,272 posts)
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 09:27 AM Dec 2025

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This message was self-deleted by its author (Original Post) Liberal In Texas Dec 2025 OP
Perfect and brutal malaise Dec 2025 #1
Ha! Mike Nelson Dec 2025 #2
Cher--I got you, babe! Timeflyer Dec 2025 #3
LOL BOOM! FalloutShelter Dec 2025 #4
1+ Norrrm Dec 2025 #5
This is actually fake. cab67 Dec 2025 #6
Awww, nuts. Liberal In Texas Dec 2025 #10
Are you sure it wasn't Bob Dylan? WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2025 #7
"Hosts a podcast with fewer weekly listeners than my cat's Twitter account" - hard to beat that! TheRickles Dec 2025 #8
Completely fake, sorry EarlG Dec 2025 #9
Guess I'll go ahead and delete it. Liberal In Texas Dec 2025 #11

malaise

(296,124 posts)
1. Perfect and brutal
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 09:30 AM
Dec 2025

Get thee to the greatest page RFN

More Christmas cheer 🎄🎄 .

Mike Nelson

(10,943 posts)
2. Ha!
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 09:37 AM
Dec 2025

... don't mess with Cher!

Timeflyer

(3,757 posts)
3. Cher--I got you, babe!
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 09:42 AM
Dec 2025

FalloutShelter

(14,466 posts)
4. LOL BOOM!
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 09:48 AM
Dec 2025

Go Cher!

Norrrm

(5,061 posts)
5. 1+
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 09:50 AM
Dec 2025

cab67

(3,759 posts)
6. This is actually fake.
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 09:52 AM
Dec 2025

Liberal In Texas

(16,272 posts)
10. Awww, nuts.
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 10:10 AM
Dec 2025

You just can't everything you read on social media anymore!
It's funny even knowing it's just a made-up meme.

WhiskeyGrinder

(26,958 posts)
7. Are you sure it wasn't Bob Dylan?
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 09:53 AM
Dec 2025
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1179642113598591

Or Patti LaBelle? https://www.facebook.com/100093110930017/posts/sit-down-baby-girl-patti-labelle-suddenly-calls-karoline-leavitt-a-privilege-pup/666751549771870/

Or Rory McIlroy? https://www.facebook.com/61571577174576/posts/sit-down-baby-girl-privilege-puppet-hes-just-a-golfer-rory-mcilroy-silences-crit/122150470028719239/

Or any of a dozen other celebrities? https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/fact-check-cher-did-not-055832259.html

Did Cher tell Karoline Leavitt to "sit down, baby girl" after reading out her bio on MSNBC? No, that's not true: The viral story about the singer reacting to a supposed rant from Leavitt about "out-of-touch celebrities who think they can lecture America" originated on a network of websites and Facebook pages run from Vietnam. It contained verifiably false details. Dozens of versions of the story with other celebrities reading the bio also appeared online, including Barbra Streisand, Joan Baez, Ted Cruz and many others.

(snip)

The Facebook page "Venus of Sound" which was used to promote the story had a page transparency tab (archived here) indicating it was run by several people in Vietnam, among others.

The Vietnam connection is significant, since fact-checkers, including Lead Stories, have identified a major source of AI-generated false stories coming from a single operation based in that Southeast Asian country. We have published at least 70 fact-check articles in 2025 focused on this content.

TheRickles

(3,386 posts)
8. "Hosts a podcast with fewer weekly listeners than my cat's Twitter account" - hard to beat that!
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 09:54 AM
Dec 2025

EarlG

(23,633 posts)
9. Completely fake, sorry
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 10:07 AM
Dec 2025

See link above. “The viral story about the singer reacting to a supposed rant from Leavitt about ‘out-of-touch celebrities who think they can lecture America’ originated on a network of websites and Facebook pages run from Vietnam.”

My suggestion would be to self-delete.

Liberal In Texas

(16,272 posts)
11. Guess I'll go ahead and delete it.
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 10:11 AM
Dec 2025

One of those things too good to be true. LOL

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