Governor Abbott shared the post about a fake festival in a fake Texas city from a satire website. 'Go woke. Go broke,' the governor said.
shared and quickly deleted a fake news article about country singer Garth Brooks over the weekend while trying to make a point about what he considers "woke" politics from the musician.
Abbott retweeted the story which said Brooks was booed off the stage at the 123rd Texas Country Jamboree in the city of Hambriston. Both the festival and city are fake. "Go Woke. Go Broke" said the governor in the post from his personal Twitter account. "Garth called his conservative fans 'a**holes.' Good job Texas'.The article was posted on the parody site the Dunning Kruger Times and was written by someone with the penname ‘Flagg Eagleton.
The About Us page of the Dunning Kruger Times reads, "Dunning-Kruger-Times.com is a subsidiary of the "America’s Last Line of Defense" network of parody, satire, and tomfoolery, or as Snopes called it before they lost their war on satire: Junk News." "Everything on this website is fiction. It is not a lie and it is not fake news because it is not real. If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined. Any similarities between this site’s pure fantasy and actual people, places, and events are purely coincidental and all images should be considered altered and satirical.
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