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Fake Faces Of Coal

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:

    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:

    ClipArt for Coal!

  3. jr says:

    Second gilded age fun for the whole family

  4. Indeed says:

    From America’s Finest News Source

    “Powerful Coal Lobby Adds Coal to Food Pyramid”

  5. Rheinhard says:

    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:

    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:

    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:

    Rheinhard’s makin’ a funny.

  9. Sean D. Martin says:

    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:

    Duros: Rheinhard’s makin’ a funny.

    My bad, then. I thought he was serious.

    VERY good impression of a wingnut. Had me fooled.

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