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Fake Obama Texting Scheme Run By Cabal Of Deceptive Fourth Grade Computer Nerds

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

We’ve been getting a bunch of referrals to this Fake Texting Scandal post from the other day, randomly, and the absolute best mention is this Associated Content column by a gal named Carol Bengle Gilbert. It is called “Obama Text Message Fakes: Prank Reminiscent of 4th Grade.” Let’s look a little closer at Gilbert’s column, especially the parts in which she insults her young child and confesses to getting “angry at Word,” as in the basic computer program. MORE »


EXCLUSIVE: BARACK OBAMA PICKS WALTER MONDALE FOR VEEP

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Wonkette’s associate editor — me! — has received his text message from Barack Obama before anyone else and can exclusively report that Minnesota’s Walter Mondale, who may or may not be alive, will become America’s second black vice president. WHERE IZ MY REPORTIN ACCOLADES BABY? Wait… Walter Mondale? Oh. Oh fuck you, Layne.


Straight Talk Express Will Vote For Obama, Too

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

A boil on the assPoor Straight Talk Express, it sure had an awful go of things yesterday. At some point, either before or after it crushed an elderly black handicapped war veteran hero’s minivan, some rascally kids put an Obama bumper sticker on it. Check out the first comment on this website, too: “We were planning on doing that in my home town in iowa with a Ron Paul sticker, but decided against it as we figured it would upset people rather than make them laugh.” Huh? [Political Irony]


Was Flaming Bag Of Poo Responsible For Burning Of Texas Governor’s Mansion?

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

This is not good for Democracy.This weekend, two very exciting things happened in Austin, Texas. Pinko communist Democrats held their state convention, and the governor’s mansion burned into a tragic, crispy crust. Could the two events be related? Let’s examine the “evidence” behind one possible explanation for the calamity: a drunken visiting Democrat left a burning bag of human feces on the (Republican) governor’s doorstep, never guessing the historic building was one vast, uninhabited fire hazard in search of a flame. MORE »


Paultards Enraged At Fake City

Monday, February 18th, 2008

This is the city they were so mad aboutRon Paul’s most fervent supporters were outraged to learn that “Watson University” had rescinded an invitation for the Libertarian congressman to speak there. One commenter on The City Desk declared angrily that “Ron Paul can teach your entire student body more in 1 hour than they learn in 4 years of study.” But the biggest problem with this educational institution isn’t their brazen dis of America’s greatest patriot. It’s that it doesn’t exist. MORE »


White House Staffers Celebrate Rove Departure by Fucking Up His Jaguar

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

We will find the people that did this and bring them to justice - Wonkette
When Karl Rove left his car in the White house parking lot while he went to Texas with the president, some “pranksters” covered it in Saran wrap, stuffed eagles, and an “I Love Barack Obama” bumper sticker. Rove will be getting back to DC tonight, at which point the Secret Service will be dispatched to track down and lock up these jokers.

Pranksters Wrap Rove’s Car [AP via Yahoo]


Musgrave Constituent, Against All Odds, Makes Member of Congress Seem Reasonable, Mature in Comparison

Friday, June 9th, 2006

Representative Marilyn Musgrave, seen here in a photo from Wonkette’s extensive “funny picture” database. (AFP) MORE »


C’mon, Matt, Get With the Program

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

Here is a screen cap from the Drudge Report: MORE »