Fake Faces Of Coal

4:48 am EST August 28th, 2009 | Uncategorized | 11 Comments

Well, this is unusually incompetent astroturf from big business. A site supposedly about the “Faces” of people supporting the coal industry is composed entirely of stock photos. Not a single one is a true “face” of coal.

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11 Responses to “Fake Faces Of Coal”

  1. Carlos says:
    August 28, 2009 at 4:55 am

    I saw this on Rachel Maddow last night…fucking stunning. Gotta love big business, and the politicians who are their whores.

  2. Jesse Ewiak says:
    August 28, 2009 at 5:07 am

    ClipArt for Coal!

  3. jr says:
    August 28, 2009 at 6:17 am

    Second gilded age fun for the whole family

  4. Indeed says:
    August 28, 2009 at 8:59 am

    From America’s Finest News Source

    “Powerful Coal Lobby Adds Coal to Food Pyramid”

  5. Rheinhard says:
    August 28, 2009 at 10:31 am

    Hey, you liberals make whole propaganda-spreading comic strips out of stock clip art! This is just the same thing! But I guess IOKIYAL…

  6. Indeed says:
    August 28, 2009 at 10:35 am

    Hey, you liberals make whole propaganda-spreading comic strips out of stock clip art!

    Where’s the propaganda at? All I can see at that link is a whole bunch o’ funny.

  7. Wilbur says:
    August 28, 2009 at 11:22 am

    Comparing obvious clip art graphics in a freaking comic strip to photos of real people who, we’re supposed to believe, just love them some black lung and greenhouse gas?

    Particularly boneheaded false equivalence there, Rheinhard.

  8. Duros62 says:
    August 28, 2009 at 12:13 pm

    Rheinhard’s makin’ a funny.

  9. Sean D. Martin says:
    August 29, 2009 at 2:53 pm

    Rheinhard: Hey, you liberals make whole propaganda-spreading comic strips out of stock clip art! This is just the same thing!

    You’re a moron. Nobody is claiming the clip art in the strips is anything other than clip art.

  10. Sean D. Martin says:
    August 29, 2009 at 2:54 pm

    Duros: Rheinhard’s makin’ a funny.

    My bad, then. I thought he was serious.

    VERY good impression of a wingnut. Had me fooled.

  11. Your links for the past week or so… at 10,000 Monkeys and a Camera says:
    September 4, 2009 at 10:52 pm

    [...] the fakery. The faces of coal are fake. The anti-marriage Mainers are fake. Which all very sad and pathetic. But this fake Ronald McDonald [...]