FARK.com: (7008739) Brietbart forced to take down their "gotcha" interview of Bono confessing to tax evasion when they realize the person they have on tape is in fact a professional Bono impersonator

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		Brietbart forced to take down their "gotcha" interview of Bono confessing to tax evasion when they realize the person they have on tape is in fact a professional Bono impersonator (washingtonpost.com)		20
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mrshowrules		2012-03-22 12:46:43 PM

5 votes:

List of People Conspiring Against the GOP, and therefore, America
(LOPCATGOPATA for short):
Liberals
Democrats
Socialists
Community Organizers
Geologists
Biologists
Meteorologists
Climatologists
Atheists
Muslims
Jews
Satan
ABC
NBC
CNN
CBS
PBS
All of cable news except FNC
The New York Times
The LA Times
The Washington Post
The Associated Press
Reuters
BBC
The Guardian
Black People
Mexicans
Human Rights Activists
SCOTUS
Europe
Movie Industry
Television Industry
Environmentalists
ACLU
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Labor Unions
Colleges
Teachers
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ACORN
National Endowment for the Arts
Gays
Judges
NPR
Paleontologists
Astrophysicists
Museums (*except Creationism Museum)
WHO
WTO
Inflated tires
The Honolulu Advertiser
The Star Bulletin
Teletubbies
Sponge Bob and Patrick
Nobel Prize Committee
US Census Bureau
NOAA
Sesame Street
Comic Books
Little Green Footballs
Video Games
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Comedy Central
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Iowa Republicans
Low-Flow Toilets
Breast Cancer Screenings
Chrysler
Clint Eastwood
Robert Deniro
Tom Hanks
Glenn Frey
Bono
Bono Impersonators

Eddie Adams from Torrance		2012-03-22 10:29:15 AM

5 votes:

I'm glad to see that the death of Andrew Brietbart hasn't impacted their journalistic integrity and vigorous research standards.

CPennypacker		2012-03-22 02:50:07 PM

3 votes:

I've watched a few Mattera shorts. They consist of him asking for a picture with a public figure, then using it as an excuse to blindside them with a loaded question that is usually 100% lie. When the public figure balks, as one would be expected to do when they are asked about something they never said or did (and indeed, have no idea anyone thinks they said or did) he tries to make it look like they are fumbling for words and presses the question. Somehow this is construed as a victory.

vpb		2012-03-22 01:00:24 PM

2 votes:

So why did they take it down? It sound up to their usual standards of journalistic excellence.

sigdiamond2000		2012-03-22 10:34:55 AM

2 votes:

I love this line at the end of Breitbart/Blaze story on this:

Mattera has been referred to as "DC's Bad Boy Reporter," and criticized in some quarters for his tactics. However, few have disputed his ability to get embarrassing excerpts out of those he interviews. This series of videos certainly does nothing to dispel that perception.

Yeah, except for the fact that, you know, he got duped and it's not Bono.

But God that celebrity impersonator must be so embarrassed!

Score another victory for the Citizen-Journalist-Blogger-Patriots of The New Media™!

Fart_Machine		2012-03-22 08:45:13 PM

1 votes:

Can't wait for his hard-hitting interview with Obama.

i.telegraph.co.uk

RY28		2012-03-22 08:05:49 PM

1 votes:

Still don't know what a breitbart is .

Already Disturbed		2012-03-22 04:54:57 PM

1 votes:

even better than the real thing
/where the trolls have no shame

nickelni		2012-03-22 04:50:36 PM

1 votes:

This guy was not "had", duped, trolled. That would indicate that someone went out of their way to trick him.

No, the guy made a mistake. If he must insist he was duped, then the person that duped him was himself.

For someone else to have duped him, they would have had to set it up for him to interview Bonodouble. But, nope. "Journalist" saw who he thought was Bono, and approached him on his own (Bono, Bonodouble, DeathtoAmericaLiberals, etc. did not contact him to get him to interview Bono).

He WAS NOT DUPED. He made an idiotic mistake. Take personal responsibility and own up to it.

rickythepenguin		2012-03-22 03:32:03 PM

1 votes:

also:

"you come out of these godamned high-tempo numbers, man, i tell ya....How many times do I gotta keep telling you guys when you give me these, these godamned death dedications, don't put 'em behind these GOD DAMNED UP-TEMPO NUMBERS! I got a god-damed damn dedication about, uh, uh, a godamned DOG DYING, and you give me a farkin' up-tempo number! It's just.....ponderous. Ponderous. Let's start over. And fark these guys! These guys are British and who gives a fark!

/obscure?

Splinshints		2012-03-22 03:29:54 PM

1 votes:

Idiots. The lot of them and everyone who reads the site. Idiots.

rickythepenguin		2012-03-22 03:26:42 PM

1 votes:

I like Jay Mohr's Bono impersonation....saw Jay recently in Phoenix....he has a bit he's done before about how much money their last tour grossed. frankly teh bit isn't very funny but whatever. I guess because he was in phoenix, he wanted to do it. he's like, "so, U2's last tour, they grossed $800 MILLION dollars! can you believe that?"

and then he goes, "by applause, how many of you saw the show at Sun Devil Stadium?"

Myself and one other person clapped. Roomful of like, 700 people, and two people clapped. Completely killed the bit. Not our fault. He asked the wrong question. He goes, after an incredulous pause, "wow.....Thanks a lot, Phoenix, U2 sells out stadiums with 80,000 people, and yet only two of you are gonna get this bit." he then detoured into an abbreviatied "bono makes a ton of money" bit.

well, what Jay didn't realize is that the U2360 tour -- the one he meant -- played UofP stadium (where the caridnals play). But he didn't say that. When he said "Sun Devil Stadium", to us, he meant the December 1987 shows. i was there, as was someone else. Now, had he asked about the Cardinals STatdium shows, I bet damn near 80% of the room would have applauded. anyways.

He was kinda pricky that night...he cracked several jokes that fell flat. at one point, not pissed but disappointed, he goes, "wow.....I am shocked more people didn't laugh at that. *sigh* Folks, we're in this together, i am the ocean, you are the boats, so when the tide rolls in, we all need to rise together, ok?"

I later noticed the moment he went over 60 minutes he ended the show. i mean, boom, 60 minutes, "well thanks, good night, see ya!" ehh. what are you gonna do.

/today's lesson on comedy nerd is brought to you by the letter "U" and the number "2"

Zerochance		2012-03-22 03:26:23 PM

1 votes:

FTFA, Mattera said:

""After scores of interviews with big-time politicians and celebrities, I finally got had. It was bound to happen sooner or later."

NO IT WASN'T YOU STUPID fark!!! This kind of shiat should never, ever, EVER happen to any journalist unless they're functionally farking retarded. If you're one of those self-righteous, self-appointed, accountability-seeking "journalists" this shiat should never, ever, ever happen to you. It's like someone going to the doctor because they have the flu, and the doctor misdiagnoses the patient and orders open-hear surgery, and then kills the patient after spilling his Wendy's Chili all over the guy's guts. That kind of incompetence should never, ever take place.

Zoophagous		2012-03-22 03:22:29 PM

1 votes:

Am I the only one who thinks this guy doesn't really look like Bono?

pwhp_67		2012-03-22 03:09:55 PM

1 votes:

Urbn: I loved in the video how the impersonator is smirking at the dumbass, like he just knows this is going to end up being funny as hell when the smarmy 'interviewer' discovers the error of his ways too late

It wouldn't surprise me if the interviewer knew that was an impersonator but figured his readers wouldn't notice...

timujin		2012-03-22 02:29:23 PM

1 votes:

I didn't see the original, but I followed the link in TFA back to it. That's awesome, the dude never says he's Bono, and answers everything truthfully. "Did you move your money?" "I had nothing to do with that." ... "You have no control over U2?" "Nope."

/dude would only pass a cursory look, too, he doesn't look that much like Bono

SurfaceTension		2012-03-22 02:24:22 PM

1 votes:

mrshowrules: List of ~~People~~ Liberals Conspiring Against the GOP, and therefore, America
(LOLCATGOPATA for short):

/damn LOLCATs showing up everywhere these days

Diogenes		2012-03-22 01:49:11 PM

1 votes:

vpb: So why did they take it down? It sound up to their usual standards of journalistic excellence.

I see I'm not needed here.

gilgigamesh		2012-03-22 11:19:02 AM

1 votes:

Some Elvis impersonator should offer this guy an exclusive on how he has been hiding out for the past 35 years washing dishes in a truck stop in Tulsa; see if they take that bait too.

/Thanguvrymuch