The Atlantic Publishe a Viral "Report" Account of a Boy Dying of Measles Because His Parents Didn't Vaccinate Him.<br>One Small Problem: The "Report" Is Actually Fiction, a "Hypothetical" Morality Play But That Atlantic Presented It As Actual Truth.

The Atlantic Publishe a Viral "Report" Account of a Boy Dying of Measles Because His Parents Didn't Vaccinate Him.
One Small Problem: The "Report" Is Actually Fiction, a "Hypothetical" Morality Play But That Atlantic Presented It As Actual Truth.

The Washington Post
@washingtonpost
Elizabeth Bruenig's account of a mother's experience learning her child will die of measles has remained one of the Atlantic's most read stories since it was published.
But some say the story felt misleading once they learned it was reported fiction.

That's the Washington Post soft-peddling what woke Fake Christian arch-lefty Elizabeth Bruenig did, and what the absurd AWFUL vanity vengeance project The Atlantic did.

They felt the story was misleading?

IT WAS, FACTUALLY, MISLEADING. It was presented as "reportage" when it was purely an exercise in creative writing.

Yes, it's based on the reality of how measles can be deadly -- but Star Trek isn't Real Journalism just because it's based, at some distance, on some actual science. It's a dramatization.

And that's what this is -- at best, it's a dramatization of what could happen if measles is left untreated in a child.

But it was presented as what really happened to two real children really exposed to measels.

Elizabeth Bruenig wrote a completely fictitious story about a boy dying of measles. Because, presumably, his MAGA/MAHA parents didn't vaccinate him. Once again, there is no mention of the 15 million completely unvaccinated illegal aliens flooding this country. And they're much more likely to actually be carriers of measels, because they come from places with low vaccination rates that do not have the "herd immunity" needed to put a disease into extinction.

But ignoring that -- this story was a work of fiction. But The Atlantic really wanted to put those MAGA/MAHA vaccine skeptics on blast, and really give its AWFUL readership something to be outraged about, something to feel superior about, so the printed this literal fiction as a real, true piece of factual journalism.

I repeat: It is fiction. I don't mean it's biased, I mean the Fake Christian lefty just made the story up -- based on real reports and real science, she says -- to serve as a harrowing morality play about vaccine hesitancy.

But her condition does not improve over the next couple of days. Her cough wracks her whole body, rounding her delicate bird shoulders. She does not sleep well. And as you lift up her pajama top to check her rash one morning, you see that her breathing is labored, shadows pooling between her ribs when she sucks in air. You suffer an icy moment of realization: This is a medical crisis. What you will learn later is that the tiny air sacs inside her lungs have become breeding grounds for the virus, and the inflammation generated by her immune response is inhibiting oxygen from reaching her bloodstream. You don't want to worry your daughter, so you try to sound calm when you call the pediatrician and describe her symptoms at a rapid clip. The receptionist responds gently, types swiftly, and then pauses. Are your children vaccinated? she asks. Her tone is flat and inscrutable, but you detect an undercurrent of judgment. You wince and tell her the truth. No, you say, no vaccines. She puts you on hold. While you wait, you take your son out of his high chair and wipe his runny nose with his bib.

This is what The Atlantic claims was a valid disclaimer alerting you to the fact that everything you just read was made-up -- based on medical reports about untreated measles, yes, but an entirely fictitious story about children who do not exist:

This story is based on extensive reporting and interviews with physicians, including those who have cared directly for patients with measles.

Does that alert you to the fact that this is a work of fiction? Far from it -- it insists this is real reportage.

And The Atlantic, looking to get some viral advertising, presented it as fact until other reporters started asking about it.

The story -- the fiction -- was originally published as a 100% true factual "journalistic" account, with no warning or disclaimer to alert readers to the contrary.

At least, not until The Atlantic's foray into Imaginary Journalism began provoking a reaction from journalists who like to pretend they don't do this same thing every single day.

When I initially read Bruenig's story, I was stunned: An Atlantic staff writer's unvaccinated child had died of measles in the 2020s, and now she was writing about it? At the end of Bruenig's piece, though, there's an editor's note: "This story is based on extensive reporting and interviews with physicians, including those who have cared directly for patients with measles." That was the point when I sent a gift link to my mom group: "as far as I can tell this piece is fiction. What do we think about this choice? I am very conflicted!!!" My conflict stemmed from my concern that, though the piece was heavily researched, it was not a true story. I wondered if the key people whose minds might be changed by it -- people who don't vaccinate their kids -- would brush it off as fiction, or fake.

And that's this journalist's only concern -- not that falsehood is being presented as fact, but just that this story, once revealed to be fiction, would fail to serve its purpose as pro-vaccine propaganda.

Update 2/19/2026: After this piece was published, I heard from two different people who received The Atlantic's original press push email for the piece around 4:30 PM on Thursday afternoon. At that time, when they clicked through, there was not an editor's note/disclaimer on the piece at all. Both of those readers, who are professional journalists, responded to the press email with confusion and asked if the story was real. An Atlantic spokesperson emailed one of these readers back and said, "This is based on a mother's real account. Thanks for checking." Sometime after that, the disclaimer was added and it was there when I read the story around 7 PM on Thursday night. An Atlantic spokesperson told me yesterday, "The note was added almost immediately after publication." [Emphasis added.] This information is significant to me because it suggests that within The Atlantic there was confusion about whether the piece was fictional.
Some Atlantic readers seem to share my sense of conflict -- or missed the editor's note and thought it was true. "Thank you to this mom for the incredible generosity of sharing this story -- nothing could be more tragic. I'm so sorry," one commenter wrote.
Another reader commented: "Beautiful, powerful writing! This is not the reporter's personal story, correct? Is it one family's true story or a composite based on her reporting? I find it very compelling and potentially persuasive to families who question vaccines. I would love to know more about how the piece came together."

This particular shill is defending the deceit as, get this, "creative nonfiction."

Bullshit, says Rachel Beddard.

Rachael Bedard
@RBMD1982
First, as @Megankstack and @laurahazardowen and others have noted, this piece wasn't "reported", it was researched; and it isn't creative non-fiction, it is just fiction. It is not based on a real family's story. It is entirely invented. Per Bruenig's interview w Laura, she never actually spoke to a family where the children had measles and suffered complications; she simply interviewed doctors who had experience with measles patients or knew about the virus's potential harms. This isn't any different than the kind of research lots of novel writers engage in as they write their fiction. It does not constitute the fact gathering that amounts to a true story.

I blame The Atlantic for this. They probably commissioned the "creative nonfiction." They weren't deceived about this being a made-up dramatization.

The Atlantic chose to sell this to readers as real, because they really wanted that propaganda impact.

The piece was advertised to other journalists as a real, genuine story. You know, as actually true:

You thought your unvaccinated daughter had a cold. It could be a week before she's diagnosed with measles. By then, the virus “has multiplied and descended upon her lungs, kidneys, tonsils, and spleen, down to the marrow of her bones.” Elizabeth Bruenig writes about how a child… pic.twitter.com/fTZMHGLbUq
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) February 13, 2026

To +1 @laurahazardowen

I've also seen PDF of Atlantic piece on measles as first posted.

a/ Originally it had no editor's note

b/ PR rep initially told reporter (in note I've seen) "this is based on a mother's real account."

If Atlantic was confused, why wouldn't readers be? https://t.co/oWFlaktBWe
— David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) February 19, 2026

First, as @Megankstack and @laurahazardowen and others have noted, this piece wasn’t “reported”, it was researched; and it isn’t creative non-fiction, it is just fiction. It is not based on a real family’s story. It is entirely invented. Per Bruenig’s interview w Laura, she never…
— Rachael Bedard (@RBMD1982) February 14, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:39 PM

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1 yay

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 19, 2026 04:39 PM (CWTWj)

2 1st

Posted by: GF at February 19, 2026 04:40 PM (mFN/k)

3 i noodled

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 19, 2026 04:40 PM (CWTWj)

4 >>>reported fiction

aka Modern Journalism.

Posted by: No Name Today at February 19, 2026 04:41 PM (8mulE)

5 Hey if they can't find a story they will make one up.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 19, 2026 04:41 PM (0N4FZ)

6 And they're much more likely to actually be carriers of vaccine

Umm....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 19, 2026 04:42 PM (mluK8)

7 i noodled
Posted by: gnats local 678

Rah, Man.

Posted by: Bulg at February 19, 2026 04:42 PM (77rzZ)

8 Tell a lie big enough and often enough, and it becomes true.

-- Josef Stalin, or someone like that

Posted by: zombie at February 19, 2026 04:42 PM (se8lQ)

9 Willowed:

Team USA just got their gold medals in women's hockey.

Every one of them were singing their asses off, most of them with tears in their eyes.

As it should be.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at February 19, 2026 04:42 PM (oSeBJ)

10 >>>And they're much more likely to actually be carriers of vaccine,

I think you mean carriers of disease

Posted by: No Name Today at February 19, 2026 04:43 PM (8mulE)

11 Andrew Sullivan? You gonna say sorry?

Posted by: Stephen Glass at February 19, 2026 04:43 PM (gKWVE)

12 BS even if it was true.... It wouldn't matter if one wasn't vaccinated if Biden hadn't filled the Country with third World disease spreaders.. Also.. measles rarely kills you...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 19, 2026 04:43 PM (pVNyz)

13 Fake and gay.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at February 19, 2026 04:43 PM (z5QST)

14 The Atlantic Publishe a Viral "Report" Account of a Boy Dying of Measles Because His Parents Didn't Vaccinate Him.
One Small Problem: The "Report" Is Actually Fiction, a "Hypothetical" Morality Play But That Atlantic Presented It As Actual Truth.

I...don't see the problem here. Sure, some details are off, but the truthiness of the underlying story is accurate.

Posted by: Dan Rather at February 19, 2026 04:43 PM (JCZqz)

15 of all the things that didn't happen, this didn't happen the longest.

Posted by: Kindltot - Paranoia is just pattern recogintion at February 19, 2026 04:44 PM (rbvCR)

16 Just more Rube-ola.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 19, 2026 04:44 PM (DsA2n)

17 I suppose every story that makes MAGA look bad should be considered a hoax until proven otherwise.

Yes, we have some fools in the fold, but for the most part, MAGA are honest and straightforward. That's why they are MAGA folks.

It's rather like all the black hate hoaxes, or the homosexual hate hoaxes. There just aren't enough racists or bigots for leftists to hate, so they make them up.

This is no different. Kids don't die from measles anymore.

Posted by: tcn in AK at February 19, 2026 04:44 PM (I40wl)

18 >>> The Atlantic Publishe a Viral "Report" Account of a Boy Dying of Measles Because His Parents Didn't Vaccinate Him...

Assume it is true - He got measles from an illegal alien.
Could call it biological warfare.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2026 04:44 PM (/lPRQ)

19 Did she not fake go to see the fake doctor?

Posted by: nckate at February 19, 2026 04:44 PM (uQzkA)

20 tell a lie often enough and you could be a democrat

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 19, 2026 04:44 PM (CWTWj)

21 I'm a little confused: Don't the death-worshipping woke cult-member crazed commie mob that constitutes The Atlantic's readership WANT all the MAGA kids to die? Letting them die of measles saves them the effort of head-kicking the kids to death later.

Posted by: zombie at February 19, 2026 04:45 PM (se8lQ)

22 >>>Elizabeth Bruenig wrote a completely fictitious story about a boy dying of measles.

I'm not seeing the issue.

Posted by: Stephen Glass at February 19, 2026 04:45 PM (8mulE)

23 And that's this journalist's only concern -- not that falsehood is being presented as fact, but just that this story, once revealed to be fiction, would fail to serve its purpose as pro-vaccine propaganda.

"Come back to me", 20 year old Sophie Marceau pleaded. "I can't live without your Paolo-esque manhood." "No", I replied, "no harbor is my home". "At least you're an honest man", she sobbed.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 19, 2026 04:45 PM (Riz8t)

24 Willowed:4
The Nazis deliberately tried to erase Jews and other ethnic groups. The Japanese were murderous and evil, too (and worse in many ways), but when the metric was "who was more genocidal", I don't know if the Japanese were actually trying to ERADICATE a specific group of people like the Nazis did. They enslaved and abused and murdered, sure, but tried to systematically eradicate?
Posted by: Military Moron

The Japs were not really on board with the Shoah. They didn't hate Jews any more than they hated other Westerners. I get the impression that they were rather perplexed by Nazi Jew-hatred.
Posted by: Bulg

Posted by: Bulg at February 19, 2026 04:46 PM (77rzZ)

25 I had measles as a child.

I didn't die. In fact, I don't think there was ever any worry that I would do anything except recover.

Posted by: Emmie -- be strong and courageous! at February 19, 2026 04:46 PM (FMtrg)

26 Their entire worldview is a cult of fantasy, no surprise most of their journalism is, too.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 19, 2026 04:46 PM (6ydKt)

27 12 BS even if it was true.... It wouldn't matter if one wasn't vaccinated if Biden hadn't filled the Country with third World disease spreaders.. Also.. measles rarely kills you...
Posted by: It's me donna

Ix-nay on the acts-fay.

Posted by: zombie at February 19, 2026 04:46 PM (se8lQ)

28 these women are all nutjobs

Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 19, 2026 04:46 PM (j+aD2)

29 "It's rather like all the black hate hoaxes, or the homosexual hate hoaxes. There just aren't enough racists or bigots for leftists to hate, so they make them up."

Yep. This is the MO of leftists. Oh, you aren't my enemy?, so I'll make you my enemy.

Posted by: Bad Andrew at February 19, 2026 04:47 PM (DgMqy)

30 I would add that leftists are so filled with bigotry and racism and hate and condescension they can't believe that MAGA folks aren't. It's their only world view.

Posted by: tcn in AK at February 19, 2026 04:47 PM (I40wl)

31 >>>And they're much more likely to actually be carriers of vaccine,

I think you mean carriers of disease
Posted by: No Name Today

An honest mistake, these last five or six years.

Posted by: mikeski at February 19, 2026 04:47 PM (VHUov)

32 To make the story plausible they would have to use an illegal alien family. That is where the measles outbreaks are coming from but you aren't allowed to say that in good company

Posted by: Ripley at February 19, 2026 04:47 PM (GUOwU)

33 Who was the NYT or WaPo journalist who wrote the totally fake story about the kid who was a drug addict?

Posted by: Bulg at February 19, 2026 04:47 PM (77rzZ)

34 NBC and their Estes rocket motors was not supposed to be a how-to.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 04:48 PM (J0Fdh)

35 BS even if it was true.... It wouldn't matter if one wasn't vaccinated if Biden hadn't filled the Country with third World disease spreaders.. Also.. measles rarely kills you...
Posted by: It's me donna

Ironically, the only thing that makes the story plausable is flooding the country with diseased masses.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2026 04:48 PM (/lPRQ)

36 Shameless people are really good a shamming others. Must be a journalist.

Posted by: pudinhead at February 19, 2026 04:49 PM (pZ64F)

37 The media as a whole need to contract Ebola.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 04:49 PM (J0Fdh)

38 Fake but like accuratish. Right?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 19, 2026 04:49 PM (Kc+Vz)

39 Takes a pretty sick mind to go through all the motions to put that sort of shit on paper, to be read by others.

It's like a manifesto. Sorta'

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 19, 2026 04:50 PM (jtM2q)

40 What ol WTS said about reporters 165 years ago is just as cromulent today.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 19, 2026 04:50 PM (lUh0I)

41 Now, about the resurgence of TB...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2026 04:50 PM (/lPRQ)

42 25 I had measles as a child.

I didn't die. In fact, I don't think there was ever any worry that I would do anything except recover.
Posted by: Emmie

Friend of mine had measles too. Yawn. Out of school for a week, back like nothing happened.

Measles was more dangerous in the 1200-1900 era.. But like all diseases, it evolved over the years to be more contagious but less serious. Gone are the days that measles was a death sentence -- just syphilis, Covid, etc. etc. -- all ameliorated over time.

Posted by: zombie at February 19, 2026 04:50 PM (se8lQ)

43 It's called unrestricted warfare. The more of you we can maim and kill with vaccines justifies our methods.

Posted by: The Atlantic at February 19, 2026 04:51 PM (2gvXb)

44 Did the CDC and LA ever get that typhoid ground zero that surrounded an LAPD precinct cured?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 04:51 PM (J0Fdh)

45 I'm hoping on his deathbed the small child cried and asked "Mom, why did you listen to Trump and not get me vaccinated?"

Posted by: Ripley at February 19, 2026 04:51 PM (GUOwU)

46 People actually read The Atlantic? Huh.

Measles vaccine goes back to the early 70s. AFAIK, never much controversy about it, dunno if any suspected downsides. Then again, in the context of a "healthcare" saturated modern society, measles is generally a nothingburger (OTOH first thing you do with refugee populations is give them a measles shot, among others, depending location/conditions).

Thought the issue (mostly) with vaccine "resistance" is a common sense rebellion at *dozens* of "vaccinations" beginning, FFS, with *infants*.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 19, 2026 04:51 PM (U/Byj)

47 We're also not supposed to notice that measles is far worse in Canada. Can't blame it on MAGA if you mention that.

Can't hate 'em enough.

Posted by: spongeworthy at February 19, 2026 04:51 PM (sLLbN)

48 Who was the NYT or WaPo journalist who wrote the totally fake story about the kid who was a drug addict?
Posted by: Bulg

Answered my own question: Jayson Blair, NYT.

Posted by: Bulg at February 19, 2026 04:51 PM (77rzZ)

49 I actually thought this was non-fiction I was reading it. I just kept saying Oh my god, Oh my god at every juncture where the mother did not take her child's illness seriously.

There’s a footnote this was written after talking with doctors who deal with measles cases, so the way I understood it was this is based on a composite of true stories.

People were complaining about this article being fictional, but personally I enjoy bruenigs prose

They’ll call it fiction since they’ve never seen it. But sadly, because of how things are now, they’re already denying things they have seen with their own eyes. We are entering a dark age.

Get your kids vaccinated for this, for their sake and for other kids. I was vaccinated and still got it, because someone else didn't get the vaccine.

'it hits you, this is not the flu. this is not chicken pox. this is something serious.' le ugh. i hate that cavalier attitude, when both of those can also have life long serious consequences🙄 (rare- like measles but still noteworthy)

You forget the kicker, where you tell yourself measles isn't so bad, it only killed one of your kids. And it was God's will

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 19, 2026 04:52 PM (JCZqz)

50 @33 Bulg, Janet Cooke at the WAPO published a story about an 8 yr old drug addict. It was during the time that every other month a fake story was coming out

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 19, 2026 04:52 PM (Kc+Vz)

51 Notice they didn't find an actual, recent case of measles because invariably it would have involved an alien or someone related to an alien. nOoo, can't have that, gotta make it much more dramatic something we all can related to ...

An Atlantic staffer's kid. So relatable.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 19, 2026 04:52 PM (diia5)

52 Say.....is the point that this isn't true? Im so confused. I thought I got that the first 20 or so times it was stated but now Im not so sure.

Posted by: SS at February 19, 2026 04:52 PM (e8Nbd)

53 I see nothing wrong with this story.

Posted by: Dan Rather at February 19, 2026 04:52 PM (G0vdT)

54 sock off

Posted by: WisRich at February 19, 2026 04:53 PM (G0vdT)

55 The comments to the Atlantic's X post are wild. An interesting experiment would be to add the comment "why don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?" and see what happens.

Posted by: Oglebay at February 19, 2026 04:53 PM (2ap+5)

56 Has Janet Cooke commented?

I think you'd be better off using O'Brian's Mauritius Command or Nordoff and Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty as factual. (The former is actually quite close.)

Posted by: Eeyore at February 19, 2026 04:53 PM (AlhUl)

57 Not the first foray into fiction by The Atlantic.

Remember that fake memoir from Iraq?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 04:53 PM (J0Fdh)

58 The debased losers that read the Atlantic will believe anything? I think it's time to put together a good con to run on them.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 19, 2026 04:54 PM (abIsI)

59 Did I say 8 year old boy? I meant 23 year old "performance artist." And did I say measles? I meant AIDS. Other than that, totally true.

Posted by: Atlantic Editor at February 19, 2026 04:54 PM (0e5Te)

60 The comments to the Atlantic's X post are wild. An interesting experiment would be to add the comment "why don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?" and see what happens.

--

They don't appear to even know this is a made-up story. One guy tweets, "This superb article deserves a Pulitzer, for real."

Lord have mercy.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 19, 2026 04:54 PM (qBdHI)

61 Another lie by the left. Another cup of water for the ocean.
But this lie, this one right here… this will be the one to wake people up.
At last.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 19, 2026 04:54 PM (jbnUc)

62 Bulg, Janet Cooke at the WAPO published a story about an 8 yr old drug addict. It was during the time that every other month a fake story was coming out
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Thanks. I had her confused with the Jayson Blair story I mentioned above. Both fabulists, and fairly close together in time, IIRC.

Posted by: Bulg at February 19, 2026 04:55 PM (77rzZ)

63 But this is done in service of hiding the truth:

There are real people dying of measles right now in the world.

They are just ... the wrong skin color and don't live in the United States.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 19, 2026 04:55 PM (HXT0k)

64 Speaking of performance artists the Left loved.

What happened to Ron Reagan Je?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 19, 2026 04:55 PM (J0Fdh)

65 "Come back to me", 20 year old Sophie Marceau pleaded. "I can't live without your Paolo-esque manhood." "No", I replied, "no harbor is my home". "At least you're an honest man", she sobbed.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 19, 2026 04:45 PM

Sophie, you're a fine girl.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 19, 2026 04:55 PM (jc0TO)

66 Chat GPT tells me a child who receives the US vaccine schedule takes in 4 mg of Aluminum, which has the added benefit of making their insides completely corrosion-resistant.

Posted by: TITP at February 19, 2026 04:55 PM (r3hkP)

67 Did she not fake go to see the fake doctor?

Posted by: nckate at February 19, 2026 04:44 PM (uQzkA)

I was fake wondering this myself. If my fake child had a fake cough for more than a few fake days I'd call the fake doctor for sure.

Posted by: DangerGirl at February 19, 2026 04:56 PM (iA2Bg)

68 The Atlantic owned by Loureen Jobs bff of Ghislaine Maxwell. That Atlantic, surprise, surprise, surprise

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 19, 2026 04:56 PM (Kc+Vz)

69 What happened to Ron Reagan Jr.?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Dancing for Pete Buttigieg?

Posted by: Bulg at February 19, 2026 04:56 PM (77rzZ)

70 I've never had the measles. If I contract the disease will my balls fall off?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 19, 2026 04:57 PM (abIsI)

71 Willowed because I insist on myself.
262 261
‘ And according to Bill O'Reilly's book did some pretty sick sexual stuff too.’

You mean the Japs did, not Bill, right?
Posted by: Dr. Claw

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 19, 2026 04:58 PM (jbnUc)

72 Didn't all the Brady kids come home from school, one by one, one day having been sent home with the measles? They all just spent a few days in bed with TV trays full of perfectly balanced lunches and good, fresh milk being run up and down the stairs by Mike, Carol and Alice.

Posted by: Lady in Black at February 19, 2026 04:58 PM (qBdHI)

73 Bulg, Janet Cooke at the WAPO published a story about an 8 yr old drug addict. It was during the time that every other month a fake story was coming out
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Similar to that time every month where she takes lots of pain killers, eats lots of ice cream, and is extra irritable at work.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 19, 2026 04:58 PM (Xjl//)

74 I was vaccinated and still got it, because someone else didn't get the vaccine.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at February 19, 2026 04:52 PM

That's not how this works..

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 19, 2026 04:58 PM (jc0TO)

75
Damn reality refuses to conform to My Truth.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 19, 2026 04:58 PM (aM1Wh)

76 Measles was more dangerous in the 1200-1900 era.. But like all diseases, it evolved over the years to be more contagious but less serious. Gone are the days that measles was a death sentence -- just syphilis, Covid, etc. etc. -- all ameliorated over time.
Posted by: zombie at February 19, 2026 04:50 PM (se8lQ)

Better diet, more sun, less pollution, better quarters, less lead, more vitamin A, aspirin . . . All of these things make the body better prepared.

The nortwest indians were destroyed by measles, but they had marginal nutrition in the winter, no understanding of how it spread, no genetic background with the disease, and worst of all they would treat it with poultices, steam baths followed by cold plunges, and the epidemic destroyed the community links that would have been possible to help nurse each other through the disease outbreak.
Parents would abandon children, neighbors would abandon each other, and leave the sick to starve or not out of fear of infection. This is what happened during the black plagues in Europe as well.

I think it was a measles outbreak that led to the Whitman massacre, too. Lots of panic and searches for scapegoats

Posted by: Kindltot - Paranoia is just pattern recogintion at February 19, 2026 04:59 PM (rbvCR)

77 Sounds like their fictional COVID "vaccine denier" death stories.

Posted by: steevy at February 19, 2026 04:59 PM (YwEeS)

78 They felt the story was misleading

See Also: “Potentially” or “Perceived”.

One facet of modern writing, everyone is loathe to make declarative statements of facts. Lots of “can” or “may” when there is no question or debate on the matter.

This “rule” however is rejected when actual opinion, libel or slander is used against say, Trump.
Never any “alleged” or other reasonable qualifiers.

Juvenile editorials presented as straight news.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 19, 2026 04:59 PM (pPsbV)

79 Reminds me of a WSJ front page story at least 10 years ago. A nurse from TN (I think) volunteered every year for some medical mission to African countries. So that year she came back with some disease - pertussis? can't recall - that had been virtually eliminated in the US since the 50s, but was making a come-back.

(OK, class, who can guess how this come-back occurred?)

Far far down the article, well into the jump section on another page ..... drum roll .... was the half-assed admission that the resurgence of said disease in the US was centered in ...... second drum roll .... border states!!! Surprise!

Posted by: rhomboid at February 19, 2026 04:59 PM (U/Byj)

80 Ron Jr. vanished in the mid 90s.
Haven’t seen much of his sister, either.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 19, 2026 05:00 PM (6ydKt)

81 Didn't all the Brady kids come home from school, one by one, one day having been sent home with the measles? They all just spent a few days in bed with TV trays full of perfectly balanced lunches and good, fresh milk being run up and down the stairs by Mike, Carol and Alice.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 19, 2026 04:58 PM (qBdHI)

Sure, Jan.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 19, 2026 05:00 PM (MGB5H)

82 I had the German measles as a child. I think that is considered to be a more serious illness.

Posted by: toby928(c) at February 19, 2026 05:00 PM (jc0TO)

83 PSA
Re: Absent Friend - Jim Sunk New Dawn 2025
Kim DuToit still has one long gun of Jim's to liquidate for the estate. See linky in my nicky.
In part -

Parker-Hale M48 Mauser (.308 Win)

So here’s the deal.

I’m raffling this lovely rifle off to you, O my Readers. $10 per ticket, no limit on the number of tickets per person, and I’m keeping the raffle open until I get the amount collected up to where I won’t be embarrassed to pass it on to the Widow Irish. (Reminder: I do not benefit financially from any of this. All the money less the shipping cost goes straight to her.)

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 19, 2026 05:00 PM (/lPRQ)

84 If you were vaccinated and still got it, it wasn't a vaccine. And why would it matter if others are unvaccinated? You just stated you got it anyway.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 19, 2026 05:00 PM (+mUZM)

85 Daily reminder that however much you hate the media/press, you don't hate them enough.

Imagine this desiccated old crone sitting around flicking her bean over writing a fictitious story about a child dying of a communicable disease.

Vile shit.

Posted by: ballistic at February 19, 2026 05:00 PM (5aZAZ)

86 Horde mind.
At least Steve Glass is now living his best life out on the west coast not writing "journalism". I guess he saved his soul.

Posted by: gKWVE at February 19, 2026 05:01 PM (gKWVE)

87 I was vaccinated and still got it, because someone else didn't get the vaccine.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

That's not how this works..
Posted by: toby928(c)

Honestly not sure if that was a genuine idiot, or one of Our People in a sheep costume.

Posted by: mikeski at February 19, 2026 05:01 PM (VHUov)

88 Measles is terrible ... I died from measles three times in just the last ten years.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 19, 2026 05:01 PM (vbXSk)

89 My theory is that leftism is a variant of sadism:

They enjoy controlling people and telling them what to do, and demand submission and compliance.

Doesn't matter what the to[pic is or the purported reason for it: Like all sadists, the goal is merely to assert total dominance over others. Often the sadist will conccoct random pointless task and demands, jus to see the other person submit.

Wit sadists, the pleasure is sexual. With leftist, it could be sexual as well, but more often sublmated into a grotesque twisted mental triumph.

Posted by: zombie at February 19, 2026 05:02 PM (se8lQ)

90 At least it's "The Atlantic." Hardly anyone reads it.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 19, 2026 05:02 PM (qFwJc)

91 willowed
263 A Muslim man wearing a *kalawa on his wrist, a *tilak on his forehead, and *Rudraksha beads around his neck was befriending Hindu girls in Indore.

*Hindu ritual ornaments

Bajrang Dal (Hindu vigilantes) caught him, beat him, and paraded him to the police station.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 05:03 PM (1whRW)

92 was vaccinated and still got it, because someone else didn't get the vaccine.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions

That's not how this works..
Posted by: toby928(c)

Due to the covid "vaccine" these people actually believe that vaccines don't stop you from getting the disease.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 19, 2026 05:03 PM (MGB5H)

93 88 Measles is terrible ... I died from measles three times in just the last ten years.
Posted by: illiniwek

That's awful! That's why I wear a mask, even when alone in my car or at home. I don't want to risk re-infecting myself!

Posted by: Branch Covidian at February 19, 2026 05:03 PM (JCZqz)

94
US gets Gold in women's whatever it is. Free skate? Short program? I don't know what it's called.

Japs were Silver and Bronze.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 19, 2026 05:03 PM (aM1Wh)

95 In addition, teenage boys and men are very susceptible to a condition, called orchitis, which causes pain and swelling in the testicles and scrotum, and in rare cases, explosion.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 19, 2026 05:04 PM (abIsI)

96 80 Ron Jr. vanished in the mid 90s.
Haven’t seen much of his sister, either.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at February 19, 2026 05:00 PM (6ydKt)

He shows up every 4 yrs to shit on the GOP and tell people to vote Democrat. I was shocked to see he is married to a Woman and has kids.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at February 19, 2026 05:04 PM (FCrpy)

97 74 I was vaccinated and still got it, because someone else didn't get the vaccine.
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Good thing it wasn't Bill Gates vaccine or you would be dead.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 05:04 PM (1whRW)

98 12 BS even if it was true.... It wouldn't matter if one wasn't vaccinated if Biden hadn't filled the Country with third World disease spreaders.. Also.. measles rarely kills you...
Posted by: It's me donna at February 19, 2026 04:43 PM (pVNyz)

Same with TB. Something we almost never saw in the US anymore until...

Posted by: Thanks Biden at February 19, 2026 05:05 PM (TbWk/)

99 Particularly vile and offensive was the assertion that because one might have valid reservations about an experimental emergency vaccine - and that it is in fact illegal to coerce or require anyone to participate outside the DOD - they labeled normal intelligent reasonable decent people as “anti-vaxx” and “science deniers” and censored actual epidemiologists and scientists with decades in the field.

The people who had such a hard on for that vaxx gave me pause. I contracted it in February of 2020 and recovered. Long before any vaccine was a gleam in Fauci’s eye.

There was no way I was going to take it for that reason. “Oh, that’s Double Plus Good!!”

Sure, Jan

Posted by: Common Tater at February 19, 2026 05:05 PM (pPsbV)

100 Banana Dream’s account of being a sexual Tyrannosaurus with a giant harem of buxom movie starlets is an absolutely cracking tale.

But some say the story felt misleading once they learned it was idiotic contrived bullshit.

Posted by: banana Dream - 1001 nights at February 19, 2026 05:06 PM (qLtZW)

101 It would really help when they publish their bullshit to start the stories with: "It was a dark and stormy night."

Posted by: Diogenes at February 19, 2026 05:06 PM (2WIwB)

102 Measles--you mean the contagious disease that nearly every kid got back in the early '60s? (Google says over 90% of all children got measles by age 15 back in the early '60s. Yet we survived, somehow...)

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 19, 2026 05:06 PM (XMwZJ)

103 It will become true if right wingers keep avoiding vaccines out of superstition. Boo science gonna get ya!

Posted by: Sid at February 19, 2026 05:06 PM (qdmJK)

104 88 Measles is terrible ... I died from measles three times in just the last ten years.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 19, 2026 05:01 PM (vbXSk)

My son Beau died of measles while fighting Nazis in Kabul

Posted by: Joe My Word as a Biden at February 19, 2026 05:07 PM (TbWk/)

105 Sid, you ignorant slut.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 19, 2026 05:07 PM (2UnvF)

106 "Is it one family's true story or a composite based on her reporting?"

Didn't Barry Obama claim his fictional biography presented a "composite" girlfriend? Or was that some other fraud?

Posted by: illiniwek at February 19, 2026 05:07 PM (vbXSk)

107 Maybe TB cases will decrease as deporting increases. Maybe we'll get a chart with cool colors and arrows.

Posted by: nckate at February 19, 2026 05:07 PM (uQzkA)

108 No sid, the rhythm is gonna get you.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 19, 2026 05:07 PM (MGB5H)

109 Sid sounds vaccinated.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 19, 2026 05:08 PM (FCYiI)

110 There's a story Mark Twain wrote about how when he was a boy in Hannibal he tried to sneak in and sleep with a friend who had the measles so he would get them.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at February 19, 2026 05:08 PM (eStot)

111 I would have died from measles but I had already been killed by Net Neutrality a few years back.

Posted by: ballistic at February 19, 2026 05:08 PM (5aZAZ)

112 The Japanese are the Jews of Asia. They have their own word for Goyim too.

Thanks to all who explained this term a couple of posts ago.

Posted by: Field Marshal Bricktop at February 19, 2026 05:08 PM (wBaIH)

113 I salute the "crunchy moms" and others of MAHA. You can tell they've made it, since they're getting the MAGA "hate crime hoax" treatment. Cheers!

Posted by: SciVo at February 19, 2026 05:09 PM (Sy6m/)

114 The U.S. women's Olympic hockey team just defeated Canada 2-1 in overtime to win the gold medal.

By the ancient laws of combat, Alberta is now rightfully ours

Posted by: Kindltot - Paranoia is just pattern recogintion at February 19, 2026 05:09 PM (rbvCR)

115 Sid sounds ~~vaccinated~~ retarded.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 19, 2026 05:08 PM (FCYiI)

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Suggested edit.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 19, 2026 05:09 PM (2UnvF)

116 Not surprising. They do not want to report the facts, but change the world.

AI is going to make this worse. They just got caught here.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 19, 2026 05:10 PM (zZu0s)

117 Get your kids vaccinated for this, for their sake and for other kids. I was vaccinated and still got it, because someone else didn't get the vaccine.
____

Hah, a MAHA might have snuck through Reddit Moderator defenses.

Of course this fake article (farticle?) might backfire on Atlantic's lefty readers. They might be more inclined to load their one child they had at 42 with all the vaccines as soon and as close together as possible. Which might not be a good strategy.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 19, 2026 05:10 PM (Dv3i1)

118 The [put any Asian race here] are the Jews of Asia. They have their own word for Goyim too.

Posted by: Kindltot - Paranoia is just pattern recogintion at February 19, 2026 05:11 PM (rbvCR)

119 Suggested edit.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 19, 2026 05:09 PM (2UnvF)
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Embrace the power of "and."

Posted by: ballistic at February 19, 2026 05:11 PM (5aZAZ)

120 > based on real reports and real science, she says

Ace, I think you mean,"based on real reports and real science, she CLAIMS WITHOUT EVIDENCE"

Posted by: RandomDave at February 19, 2026 05:11 PM (aJQbY)

121 It's not important whether it's true. What's important is the TRUTH that this fascist administration is anti-science. Pointing out that the child doesn't exist is a distraction.

Posted by: Karen in HR at February 19, 2026 05:11 PM (wGerL)

122 Wait, the Media lies about things? No way!

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 19, 2026 05:11 PM (CHHv1)

123 71 Willowed because I insist on myself.
262 261
‘ And according to Bill O'Reilly's book did some pretty sick sexual stuff too.’

You mean the Japs did, not Bill, right?
Posted by: Dr. Claw
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 19, 2026 04:58 PM (jbnUc)

Yes...the Japanese - not good old Bill....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at February 19, 2026 05:12 PM (QGaXH)

124 It's not important whether it's true. What's important is the TRUTH that this fascist administration is anti-science. Pointing out that the child doesn't exist is a distraction.
Posted by: Karen in HR

We don't believe in facts, we believe in truth.
-president shitpants

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 19, 2026 05:12 PM (MGB5H)

125 US gets Gold in women's whatever it is. Free skate? Short program? I don't know what it's called.

Japs were Silver and Bronze.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

US beat Canada to get the gold I women's hockey too. Yea!

Posted by: Tuna at February 19, 2026 05:12 PM (lJ0H4)

126 "But some say the story felt misleading once they learned it was reported fiction."

The nerve of those people.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at February 19, 2026 05:12 PM (vFG9F)

127 >>@KanekoaTheGreat
·
2h
>>🚨BREAKING: An explosive deposition clip just surfaced of Les Wexner revealing that Jeffrey Epstein claimed he was the financial adviser to Élie de Rothschild and the Rothschild family in France.

>>Wexner says he personally verified it:

Posted by: JackStraw at February 19, 2026 05:12 PM (viF8m)

128 So far I have not seen/heard:

* a single "human interest" story
* a single political statement/gesture of any kind
* a single commercial of any kind

All while watching hours and hours of cross-country, biathlon, speed skating, and (a bit) of men's hockey and luge. All this took was $11 for one month of Peacock (which will be cancelled), and minimal tactical agility with browsers, mute, etc.

I am not a TV producer type, so not sure exactly what's going on. But at least in the nordic skiing coverage, the on-air team will cut to their third wheel (I think for stupid human interest s**t). In the replays (almost all I watch), there is simple dead air, while the cameras continue to cover the race. Then back to the main guys. So even *that* small annoyance is absent.

Just FYI. Carry on.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 19, 2026 05:13 PM (U/Byj)

129 Banana Dream’s account of being a sexual Tyrannosaurus with a giant harem of buxom movie starlets is an absolutely cracking tale.

But some say the story felt misleading once they learned it was idiotic contrived bullshit.
Posted by: banana Dream - 1001 nights at February 19, 2026 05:06 PM (qLtZW)

***

How odd!!! I've had a dream very much like that. And I owned a liquor store and a private jet.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 19, 2026 05:13 PM (2WIwB)

130 Can we just get back to Guthrie! Guthrie! Guthrie!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, still mystified by who, exactly, Guthrie is at February 19, 2026 05:13 PM (XeU6L)

131
I had measles when I was a kid. There was no measles vaccine back then. And not so many wetbacks.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 19, 2026 05:13 PM (azNOR)

132 He shows up every 4 yrs to shit on the GOP and tell people to vote Democrat. I was shocked to see he is married to a Woman and has kids.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio
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Got to keep the trustfund intact.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 05:13 PM (1whRW)

133 Does anyone have a link to the SLS wet dress rehearsal that is going on right now?

It should be fueled by now.

Posted by: pawn at February 19, 2026 05:14 PM (+rKuc)

134 When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 19, 2026 05:15 PM (Cqx++)

135 Wait, are they saying Nancy Guthrie died of measles?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 19, 2026 05:15 PM (2UnvF)

136 had the German measles as a child.

Yknow who else was German?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 19, 2026 05:16 PM (Kt19C)

137 I am waiting for the Urban biathalon: bike riding and getting off periodically to scream at cars

Posted by: Kindltot - Paranoia is just pattern recogintion at February 19, 2026 05:16 PM (rbvCR)

138 Yknow who else was German?
___

Katerina Witt

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 19, 2026 05:16 PM (Dv3i1)

139 He shows up every 4 yrs to shit on the GOP and tell people to vote Democrat. I was shocked to see he is married to a Woman and has kids.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio

Beards.

Posted by: And not the facial hair kind at February 19, 2026 05:16 PM (TbWk/)

140 Yknow who else was German?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at February 19, 2026 05:16 PM (Kt19C)

That bitch, Stephi Graf

Posted by: Monica Seles at February 19, 2026 05:18 PM (8mulE)

141 131
I had measles when I was a kid. There was no measles vaccine back then. And not so many wetbacks.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
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Measles, both kind, mumps. Ever body did.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 05:18 PM (1whRW)

142 Yknow who else was German?
___

Katerina Witt
Posted by: Chuck Marte
=====

Claudia Schiffer

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 19, 2026 05:19 PM (MGB5H)

143 People actually read The Atlantic? Huh.
......

My brother sends me links.
Sometimes I wonder if he really is my sister.

Posted by: wth at February 19, 2026 05:20 PM (UjdFS)

144 Measles, both kind, mumps. Ever body did.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

Mumps. I remember it well. Very painful. I had it on both sides of my mouth.

Posted by: Tuna at February 19, 2026 05:21 PM (lJ0H4)

145
I had measles when I was a kid. There was no measles vaccine back then. And not so many wetbacks.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug
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Measles, both kind, mumps. Ever body did.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others

And chicken pox.
But not monkey pox.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 19, 2026 05:21 PM (Cqx++)

146 I took a course in graduate school on how to teach writing of creative nonfiction.

The first thing we had to know was that it should be based on things that actually happened.

You can give the events a creative spin through the use of figurative language, but the story should reflect real events.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 19, 2026 05:22 PM (ESVrU)

147 Ya know who else was German?

Lily Von Shtupp

Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2026 05:22 PM (+nEug)

148 The adult tetanus booster has brought the "P" back. Used to be DT (diphtheria/tetanus) for adults, DPT (diphtheria/pertussis/tetanus) for kids. You'll never guess why/how pertussis re-entered the picture. Had a bad sliver removed by a nurse at one a 'them minute clinic thinggies 10 years go.

In the conversation the nurse asked about my tetanus booster situation (I recently had one), then we talked about the "P" coming back. She was great. Furiously fuming over the lack of a border.

Posted by: rhomboid at February 19, 2026 05:22 PM (U/Byj)

149 Let's not talk about the documented quarantines that occurred within illegal immigrant holding facilities in Texas this past year due to measles. That's just coincidence.

Some unvaccinated Right Wing zealot who stopped by to yell racial slurs through the barbed wire must have transmitted it to them.

Posted by: Orson at February 19, 2026 05:23 PM (dIske)

150 "created non-fiction"? The science is "settled"...

Posted by: pahound at February 19, 2026 05:23 PM (z7yPV)

151 Rick Perry says his PAC will spend "whatever we need" to support John Cornyn in the senate primary.

Glad I was never a Perry ass sniffer.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 19, 2026 05:24 PM (abIsI)

152 "But some say the story felt misleading once they learned it was reported fiction."
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"A lie told often enough becomes the truth." -- Lenin

I mention again:

"We choose truth over facts" -Biden

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 19, 2026 05:24 PM (XeU6L)

153 banana Dream is a scientific fact. Tyrannosaurus are a scientific fact. banana Dream's account is based on reality

Posted by: banana Dream - TRUTHY! at February 19, 2026 05:25 PM (3uBP9)

154 Save your money, Rick. Cornyn is toast.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2026 05:26 PM (+nEug)

155
[ .] [. ]

Posted by: Rick Perry at February 19, 2026 05:26 PM (UjdFS)

156 135 Wait, are they saying Nancy Guthrie died of measles?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 19, 2026 05:15 PM (2UnvF)

And Nancy's daughter tried to have her vaccinated, but RFK Jr. stood in her way, waving his hands in her face and yelling, "Pubugubuh! Bupugubh!" And now she's dead.

Posted by: SciVo at February 19, 2026 05:27 PM (Sy6m/)

157 I am waiting for the Urban biathalon: bike riding and getting off periodically to scream at cars
Posted by: Kindltot - Paranoia is just pattern recogintion at February 19, 2026 05:16 PM (rbvCR)

No, the Urban Biathlon is committing a drive-by shooting while pedaling a bicycle. Back in my street cop days, we arrested a misunderstood minority yoot that did that.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at February 19, 2026 05:27 PM (pJWtt)

158 God I would love to be in Texas right now, just to feel like a part of Cornyn losing. Never voted for him once in the 13 years I lived in Texas. Good to see a bunch of others finally waking up.

Posted by: DangerGirl at February 19, 2026 05:27 PM (yjPLJ)

159 [ .] [. ]
Posted by: Rick Perry at February 19, 2026 05:26 PM (UjdFS)

Remember, ace said those were the sexiest glasses he'd ever seen on a man.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 19, 2026 05:28 PM (zZu0s)

160 >>> Rick Perry says his PAC will spend "whatever we need" to support John Cornyn in the senate primary.

Glad I was never a Perry ass sniffer.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 19, 2026 05:24 PM (abIsI)

Three places Perry can f-off to:

Posted by: banana Dream at February 19, 2026 05:29 PM (3uBP9)

161 Smallpox. Everyone got it.

Posted by: Chief Lizzy Warren at February 19, 2026 05:29 PM (wGerL)

162 STOP EVERYTHING and kneel.

Glenn Beck says the GOD has spoken to him, like most famous world leaders, he was told by GOD that he's here to continue his podcast show and expose the evil truths.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 19, 2026 05:29 PM (abIsI)

163 ‘ Star Trek isn't Real Journalism just because it's based, at some distance, on some actual science’

‘Fuck you!’

— Scotty

Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 19, 2026 05:30 PM (Pjo0m)

164 Wait, are they saying Nancy Guthrie died of measles?
Posted by: Duke Lowell
......

She caught it from the illegal alien who abducted her.
Now all the vultures south of Nogales have it.

Posted by: wth at February 19, 2026 05:30 PM (UjdFS)

165 Three places Perry can f-off to:

Posted by: banana Dream at February 19, 2026 05:29 PM (3uBP9)

The ranch with the racist rock

His HPV mandate idea bucket

Uh. Ummmmm... Errrrrrr....

Posted by: DangerGirl at February 19, 2026 05:31 PM (yjPLJ)

166
IT WAS, FACTUALLY, MISLEADING.

Shorter Ewok: It was a fucking lie.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 19, 2026 05:31 PM (kTyBw)

167 Glen Beck and Tucker Carlson should share an insane asylum room.

Be great TV.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 19, 2026 05:31 PM (jtM2q)

168 Chicken pox got you a week out of school, kindergarten I think, with minimal discomfort. Kids today are missing out.

Posted by: Ripley at February 19, 2026 05:32 PM (GUOwU)

169 he was told by GOD that he's here to continue his podcast show and expose the evil truths.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 19, 2026 05:29 PM (abIsI)

Huh. Remember Beck on headline news?

Hell, remember headline news?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 19, 2026 05:32 PM (zZu0s)

170 this just in: Hershey (and "Reeses'") is slop.
tinyurl.com/2hunp464

Posted by: gKWVE at February 19, 2026 05:32 PM (gKWVE)

171 The Winter Olympics is deficient because of one thing.

No ice fencing.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 19, 2026 05:32 PM (diia5)

172 Rick Perry should stick to shooting coyotes.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2026 05:32 PM (+nEug)

173 Glenn Beck says the GOD has spoken to him, like most famous world leaders, he was told by GOD that he's here to continue his podcast show and expose the evil truths.

Oh thank goodness, what would we do without another grifting podcaster.

Posted by: DangerGirl at February 19, 2026 05:32 PM (yjPLJ)

174 Did G-d tell Beck to sell fake "gold" products to agitated seniors?
Reckon this might be the same angel that revealed the Koran to Muhammad.

Posted by: gKWVE at February 19, 2026 05:33 PM (gKWVE)

175
Save your money, Rick. Cornyn is toast.
Posted by: Ben Had

Hi Ben Had!

I'm okay with Rick Perry pissing away his own money on lost causes and shameless whores.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at February 19, 2026 05:33 PM (QVmho)

176 Rick Perry should stick to shooting coyotes.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2026 05:32 PM (+nEug)

Ben! How are you my dear?

Posted by: DangerGirl at February 19, 2026 05:34 PM (yjPLJ)

177 Oh thank goodness, what would we do without another grifting podcaster.
Posted by: DangerGirl at February 19, 2026 05:32 PM (yjPLJ)

To be fair, this one does not rant about the jews or Erika kirks underwear.

Sidebar: does he(beck?)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 19, 2026 05:35 PM (zZu0s)

178 165 Three places Perry can f-off to:

Posted by: banana Dream at February 19, 2026 05:29 PM (3uBP9)
___________________________

Ever see the wheelchair scene in the movie "Manhunter?"

Posted by: Orson at February 19, 2026 05:35 PM (dIske)

179
Hell, remember headline news?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 19, 2026 05:32 PM (zZu0s)

I remember Andrea Thompson's boobs, before and after her Headline News stint.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 19, 2026 05:35 PM (kTyBw)

180 This is also stupid because nobody is saying the measles vaccine shouldn’t be given to kids. Well, I’m sure some hardcore anti-vaxers are, but the vaccine fight isn’t over proven vaccines for dangerous diseases like measles. It’s over the 500 new bullshit vaccines that do nothing but make Big Drug rich.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 19, 2026 05:35 PM (Pjo0m)

181 >>> this just in: Hershey (and "Reeses'") is slop.
tinyurl.com/2hunp464
Posted by: gKWVE at February 19, 2026 05:32 PM (gKWVE)

There was a recent news about one of the expensive truffle brands. They are doing the same thing. If they don't people will probably buy the slop from someone else instead. Candy is not really in my universe anymore so I guess I don't care.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 19, 2026 05:36 PM (3uBP9)

182 "The first thing we had to know was that it should be based on things that actually happened.

You can give the events a creative spin through the use of figurative language, but the story should reflect real events.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel"

OK. So the kid didn't die, just had a bad fever. And it was a cold, not the measles. Close enough to say based on a true story.

Posted by: Ripley at February 19, 2026 05:36 PM (GUOwU)

183 Bif, hi , hon. Hope you and yours are well.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2026 05:36 PM (+nEug)

184 >shameless whores
Are there bashful whores? Or do you have to go to an island for those

Posted by: Bill, uh, Smith, not from Redmond at February 19, 2026 05:36 PM (gKWVE)

185 Posted by: rhomboid at February 19, 2026 05:13 PM (U/Byj)
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But if you cancel how will you keep up with the Real Housewives of New Jersey??

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 19, 2026 05:37 PM (RIvkX)

186 STOP EVERYTHING and kneel.

Glenn Beck says the GOD has spoken to him, like most famous world leaders, he was told by GOD that he's here to continue his podcast show and expose the evil truths.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 19, 2026 05:29 PM (abIsI)

God, being ... um ... God, CAN communicate with us. Whether Glenn Beck has been touched by the Holy Spirit, I have no idea.

But to say it couldn't have possibly happened is incorrect. 2000 years of experiences by Christian mystics say otherwise.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at February 19, 2026 05:37 PM (pJWtt)

187 To be fair, this one does not rant about the jews or Erika kirks underwear.

Sidebar: does he(beck?)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 19, 2026 05:35 PM (zZu0s)

Fair question. I just remember him crying all the time.

Posted by: DangerGirl at February 19, 2026 05:37 PM (yjPLJ)

188 It’s over the 500 new bullshit vaccines that do nothing but make Big Drug rich.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 19, 2026 05:35 PM (Pjo0m)

There was a push (not sure how big, really) back on vaccines before covid. Hell, a long time before. Wasn't it Jenny McCarthy who was one of the OG antivax peeps?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at February 19, 2026 05:38 PM (zZu0s)

189 Rick Perry should burn in hell for sanctioning islamic schools in Texas.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2026 05:38 PM (+nEug)

190 Lying liars lie. This is not news.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 19, 2026 05:38 PM (YPldV)

191 Headline News boobs you have to mention Lynne Russell.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at February 19, 2026 05:39 PM (wGerL)

192 I have a hard time believing God would prefer to speak to people who dunk their heads in Cheetos in acts of mental derangement rather than say, more level headed people who pray a lot

But what do I know I’m just a non church going heathen

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at February 19, 2026 05:39 PM (REq0p)

193 If we can't find a real person to proclaim, "I told you so, you retrograde knuckle-dragger! well by golly, we'll just invent a person.

Because you are all retrograde knuckle draggers.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at February 19, 2026 05:40 PM (8AONa)

194 DangerGirl, hi sweetheart

Posted by: Ben Had at February 19, 2026 05:40 PM (+nEug)

195 151 Rick Perry says his PAC will spend "whatever we need" to support John Cornyn in the senate primary.

Glad I was never a Perry ass sniffer.
Posted by: Maj. Healey
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Bust my chops. Trump never complained about the job he did. I smell Bush money.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 05:40 PM (1whRW)

196 >>> I remember Andrea Thompson's boobs, before and after her Headline News stint.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 19, 2026 05:35 PM (kTyBw)

Her CNN spots on the inner workings of the government's Psi Corps program were very informative. Great reporting and boobs.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 19, 2026 05:41 PM (3uBP9)

197 Nood - Tucker Carlson lied about being detained and roughed up in Israel. *gasp*.

I mean I'm shocked...well, not *that* shocked.

Posted by: Thrawn at February 19, 2026 05:41 PM (9Ovst)

198 Probably going back to Handmaid tale against western religion

Posted by: Skip at February 19, 2026 05:41 PM (Ia/+0)

199 ‘ this just in: Hershey (and "Reeses'") is slop.
tinyurl.com/2hunp464
Posted by: gKWVE at February 19, 2026 05:32 PM (gKWVE)

There was a recent news about one of the expensive truffle brands. They are doing the same thing. If they don't people will probably buy the slop from someone else instead. Candy is not really in my universe anymore so I guess I don't care.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 19, 2026 05:36 PM (3uBP9)
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This is easy to do because almost nobody knows what true expensive truffles tastes like, and it’s pretty easy to fake it with other mushrooms. Plus, true truffles are an acquired taste. Very musky and pungent; almost tastes like it went bad.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 19, 2026 05:41 PM (Pjo0m)

200
I remember Andrea Thompson's boobs, before and after her Headline News stint.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

She could read your mind.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 19, 2026 05:41 PM (Cqx++)

201 I never voted for Perry. I voted for Kinky Friedman.

Posted by: gKWVE at February 19, 2026 05:42 PM (gKWVE)

202 Her CNN spots on the inner workings of the government's Psi Corps program were very informative. Great reporting and boobs.
Posted by: banana Dream at February 19, 2026 05:41 PM (3uBP9)

The words of Hatemonger come to mind... "Boobies...are evil! We mustn't look at boobies!".

Posted by: Thrawn at February 19, 2026 05:42 PM (9Ovst)

203 Nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at February 19, 2026 05:42 PM (LdBR/)

204 Ahhh, some more of that vaunted American Journalistic Integrity. Right up there with REMEMBER THE MAINE! Journalism has never been so yellow.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at February 19, 2026 05:43 PM (4b7CV)

205 >>> This is easy to do because almost nobody knows what true expensive truffles tastes like, and it’s pretty easy to fake it with other mushrooms. Plus, true truffles are an acquired taste. Very musky and pungent; almost tastes like it went bad.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at February 19, 2026 05:41 PM (Pjo0m)

Chocolate truffles.

Posted by: banana Dream at February 19, 2026 05:43 PM (3uBP9)

206 They don't appear to even know this is a made-up story. One guy tweets, "This superb article deserves a Pulitzer, for real."

Lord have mercy.
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 19, 2026 04:54 PM (qBdHI)
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Stephen Glass at the New Republic is another example of exemplary fictional prose presented as truth.

Posted by: mrp at February 19, 2026 05:44 PM (rj6Yv)

207 Beck's presumption that his announcement will take one bit of my suspicion of him away is incorrect.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 05:45 PM (1whRW)

208 Uh. Ummmmm... Errrrrrr....
Posted by: DangerGirl at February 19, 2026 05:31 PM (yjPLJ)

Maybe one of those government agencies he swore to eliminate and then forgot which ones exactly they were,

Posted by: No Name Today at February 19, 2026 05:46 PM (8mulE)

209 but the vaccine fight isn’t over proven vaccines for dangerous diseases like measles. It’s over the 500 new bullshit vaccines that do nothing but make Big Drug rich.
Posted by: Elric the Blade
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Right, however, Big Pharma is funding the idea of all or nothing in order to keep the door open for their push.
Big Pharma needs an honor code and they should stick to it or get stuck.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2026 05:49 PM (1whRW)

210 Do they realize this type of BS doesn't help them one tiny bit?

Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 19, 2026 05:56 PM (vOtXJ)

211 imagine the Atlantic does a "Story" on Muhammad

Now imagine the Atlantic building on fire

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at February 19, 2026 06:18 PM (XLfSN)

212 210 Do they realize this type of BS doesn't help them one tiny bit?
Posted by: The Whine Guy at February 19, 2026 05:56 PM (vOtXJ)

They can't help it. Heads full of snakes.

Posted by: SciVo at February 19, 2026 06:20 PM (Sy6m/)

213 God, being ... um ... God, CAN communicate with us. Whether Glenn Beck has been touched by the Holy Spirit, I have no idea.

But to say it couldn't have possibly happened is incorrect. 2000 years of experiences by Christian mystics say otherwise.
Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at February 19, 2026 05:37 PM (pJWtt)

If God told him to run his podcast, God can also tell me he wants me to watch it.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 19, 2026 06:36 PM (8avO+)

214 Nood - Tucker Carlson lied about being detained and roughed up in Israel. *gasp*.

I mean I'm shocked...well, not *that* shocked.
Posted by: Thrawn at February 19, 2026 05:41 PM (9Ovst)

Why exactly is 'jews are the debbil' Carlson doing flying into Israel in the first place?

Posted by: Oldcat at February 19, 2026 06:38 PM (8avO+)

215 I will jump into the vaccine thread here.

I am anti mRNA vaccines vs going full blown antivaccine of everything.

I get the point of the author lying for her cause, unethical for politics.

My brother & I had what they called "red measles" vs rubella. I was 8yrs & he was 6yrs. I don't remember the high fevers but the rash. We were kept in bed and not able to read or watch tv for days, maybe a week (I don't remember, but this is not fiction). As measles, along with other problems, can impact your eyes and my parents knew this.

Two years later we both needed glasses for nearsightedness. Neither of my parents needed glasses as kids, nor did my baby brother who had the vaccine.

Our sons had the vaccine (MMR) and seem to be normal adult men (well, one was a PITA in college, but not from this vaccine).

I know a grown woman in her 50's who was born deaf...realized by her parents at 18mo when not talking much. Her mother had rubella in the first trimester of that pregnancy.

My natural immunity to rubella wore off in my 2nd pregnancy (titers showed this). I was horrified due to my friend's sister's deafness, by then I was 5mo. Son was fine. I had the MMR the day after he was born.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 19, 2026 07:04 PM (WONhk)

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The Atlantic Publishe a Viral "Report" Account of a Boy Dying of Measles Because His Parents Didn't Vaccinate Him.
One Small Problem: The "Report" Is Actually Fiction, a "Hypothetical" Morality Play But That Atlantic Presented It As Actual Truth.