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Texas governor embarrassingly fooled by fake article attacking Garth Brooks
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) appears to have been fooled by a parody article that said country singer Garth Brooks was “booed off stage” for defending LGBTQ+ people. The fake article didn’t even refer to a real city in Texas.
“Garth Brooks Booed Off Stage at 123rd Annual Texas Country Jamboree,” Abbott wrote, sharing the headline of an article in the Dunning-Kruger Times, a parody website. The website is named for the Dunning-Kruger effect, “whereby people with low ability, expertise, or experience regarding a type of task or area of knowledge tend to overestimate their ability or knowledge,” according to Wikipedia.
“Go woke. Go broke,” Abbott continued. “Garth called his conservative fans. ‘as**oles’ Good job Texas.”
...Brooks did not call conservatives “as**oles.” What Abbott is referring to is comments made by the country music star earlier this month in which he said that he would serve Bud Light at his new bar in Nashville, Tennessee. Anti-LGBTQ+ activists have attacked that brand of beer for months because of a 50-second Instagram video made by trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney where she showed off a custom beer can.
“I want [my bar] to be a place you feel safe in. I want it to be a place where you feel like there are manners and people like one another,” Brooks said in a panel discussion at Billboard Country Live. “And yes, we’re going to serve every brand of beer. We just are. It’s not our decision to make. Our thing is this: If you [are let] into this house, love one another. If you’re an as**ole, there are plenty of other places on lower Broadway.”
“Garth Brooks Booed Off Stage at 123rd Annual Texas Country Jamboree,” Abbott wrote, sharing the headline of an article in the Dunning-Kruger Times, a parody website. The website is named for the Dunning-Kruger effect, “whereby people with low ability, expertise, or experience regarding a type of task or area of knowledge tend to overestimate their ability or knowledge,” according to Wikipedia.
“Go woke. Go broke,” Abbott continued. “Garth called his conservative fans. ‘as**oles’ Good job Texas.”
...Brooks did not call conservatives “as**oles.” What Abbott is referring to is comments made by the country music star earlier this month in which he said that he would serve Bud Light at his new bar in Nashville, Tennessee. Anti-LGBTQ+ activists have attacked that brand of beer for months because of a 50-second Instagram video made by trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney where she showed off a custom beer can.
“I want [my bar] to be a place you feel safe in. I want it to be a place where you feel like there are manners and people like one another,” Brooks said in a panel discussion at Billboard Country Live. “And yes, we’re going to serve every brand of beer. We just are. It’s not our decision to make. Our thing is this: If you [are let] into this house, love one another. If you’re an as**ole, there are plenty of other places on lower Broadway.”
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/06/texas-governor-embarrassingly-fooled-by-fake-article-attacking-garth-brooks/
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