America's morbidly obese boy-sweetheart, Perez Hilton, has some sort of popular blog or whatever. It is filled with snotty celebrity gossip and sometimes even BREAKING NEWS, notably the groundbreaking "Castro Is Dead" story of August '07, which may even still come true someday and win this ding dong a Pulitzer.
This week Perez announced to the world the tragic news that adorable 80s-pixie (and Goonie-4-Evah!) Cyndi Lauper had canceled the Venezuela leg of her world tour. Actually, what he said was that Chavez himself had personally canceled the show because he disagreed "with Lauper's position on Prez-elect Barack Obama and gay rights." Chavez is a gay bashing McCain man, see?
Sure it all sounded super fishy, but that didn't stop mainstream gay publications like The Advocate, Boy Culture, and, naturally, the Miami Herald's Gay South Florida blog from using Perez as the source for their own coverage, even long after the original stupid fan blog that he based it on had taken the story down, on account of it being not true. So anyway this new media thing is really working out great!
Hat Tip: Democratic Underground
