Your Friday Quiz

As a teacher, I always liked giving tests and quizzes on Fridays - it seemed such an appropriate way to wrap up the week!  So here's your quiz for this week.  It's easy - just figure out which of the following "news" stories is fake:

• A bronze bust of Rush Limbaugh is to be enshrined in the Missouri State House, along with one of Dred Scott.
• "Joe the Plumber" is a legitimate Republican candidate for Congress.
• Representative Scott Brown of Massachusetts is criticizing his Democratic challenger for being heavily funded by Hollywood stars.
• The NAACP is actively fighting state election laws that have disenfranchised an estimated five million minority voters this year.
• The number one viral video on YouTube is a documentary about a Ugandan child-killer.
• On the campaign trail, Mitt Romney raved about his breakfast of biscuits and grits.
• A Florida woman ran herself over with her Oldsmobile Toronado.

So which is the fake story?  Don't go on to the next paragraph until you've got your answer...

Do you have your answer yet?  No, the answer is not in this paragraph - I was just testing you to see if you can follow directions.  Don't go on until you have your answer!

Surprise - they're all true stories!  To me, this is especially disturbing, because every one of these seven news stories has some aspect that is disturbing to me.  So here's the real quiz:  Can you truthfully say that there is any story there that doesn't disturb you at least a little?

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