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December 8, 2005

A Hearty Congratulations To The Australian!

Props must go to the News Ltd paper for reporting as fact a joke made on the brilliant defamer.com regarding Mel Gibson’s new movie about the Holocaust.

Imagine our surprise when the Hard, Cutting blog pointed out that a just-insane-enough-to-be-true joke we wrote about Mel Gibson’s instantly controversial Holocaust project (and we self-quote: “While the baldfaced grab for controversy might seem utterly crass to us, ABC was powerless against the visionary Gibson’s breathtaking pitch for the miniseries’ climactic scene, a Braveheart-style battle with thousands of Jewish and Nazi combatants rushing at each other across an open field.”) suddenly became, well, just insane enough to be reported as fact (and verbatim, no less) in a story by the Rupert Murdoch-owned The Australian.

Just superb.

Let’s leave the last word to defamer.com who finish their rather chuffed post with the following…

In the interest of international cooperation, we invite The Australian’s tireless reporters to scan the rest of our site for story ideas, and look forward to tomorrow’s hysteria-inducing headline about Angelina Jolie’s nefarious plan to invade the capital of Cambodia with an army of deadly, mohawked orphans.