Uh oh. What did that “shameful and irresponsible extremist” Ann Romney do to get author Anne Rice all worked up?<\/p>\n
The Free Wood Post “reports<\/a>” that Mrs. Romney told a group called “Moms for Mitt”:<\/p>\n Why should women be paid equal to men? Men have been in the working world a lot longer and deserve to be paid at a higher rate. Heck, I’m a working mom and I’m not paid a dime. I depend on my husband to provide for me and my family, as should most women… and if a woman does work, she should be happy just to be out there in the working world and quit complaining that she’s not making as much as her male counterparts. I mean really, all this wanting to be equal nonsense is going to be detrimental to the future of women everywhere.<\/p>\n Evidently, satire is hard. And so is reading the Free Wood Post’s disclaimer<\/a>:<\/p>\n All news articles contained within FreeWoodPost.com are fiction, and presumably fake news.<\/p>\n A few of Rice’s followers alerted her that a site with the tag line “News that’s almost reliable” and categories like “sorta true” and “almost news” might not be reporting the actual news.<\/p>\n\n\n @AnneRiceAuthor<\/a> how's about you research things before posting for the blind followers? http:\/\/t.co\/vkE7YT7l<\/a><\/p>\n — Michael Voit (@Docvoit) August 23, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n @AnneRiceAuthor<\/a> I think this was debunked.<\/p>\n — Jill (@Blackbird374) August 23, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n @AnneRiceAuthor<\/a> it's a satire Anne. I thought it was real too. lol<\/p>\n — Becky Donnelly (@beckyjo413) August 23, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n Rice owned up to falling for the hit-you-over-the-head-obvious satire, but stopped short of admitting to a “shameful and irresponsible” tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n Sorry about that last post, guys. I did not know the free wood post website was satirical. I got caught there.<\/p>\n — Anne Rice (@AnneRiceAuthor) August 23, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n Bless her heart. Should we let her know that “gullible” isn’t in the dictionary?<\/p> Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/08\/24\/oops-anne-rice-uses-fake-ann-romney-quote-to-blast-gop-for-irresponsible-extremism\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/AnneRiceAuthor\/status\/238670240098156544 Uh oh. What did that “shameful and irresponsible extremist” Ann Romney do to get author Anne Rice all worked up? The Free Wood Post “reports” that Mrs. Romney told a group called “Moms for Mitt”: Why should women be paid equal to men? Men have been in the working world a lot longer and deserve … Continue reading Anne Rice falls for satire, blasts Ann Romney for ‘irresponsible extremism’<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/14342535619103-anne-rice.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}