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  • 2016-07-15 (xsd:date)
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  • Furious Christie Refuses to Pick up Trump’s Dry Cleaning? (en)
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  • On 15 July 2016, after Donald Trump announced Indiana governor Mike Pence as his choice of running mate in the upcoming presidential election, the New Yorker published an piece suggesting that incensed New Jersey governor Chris Christie had expressed his anger at being passed over for the VP slot by refusing to retrieve Trump's dry cleaning: The piece played on media perceptions that Christie was a likely pick for Trump's vice-presidential spot (as well as rampant speculation that Christie had essentially campaigned for the spot via his subservience to a former GOP rival) and painted Christie as a figure reduced to objecting through engaging in passive-aggressive refusal of assistant-level tasks. But the article was a piece of humorous fiction written by New Yorker satirist Andy Borowitz, not one of the outlet's straightforward news pieces. Material from the humorists's well-known Borowitz Report is rarely mistaken for real news on social media, although some previous instances in which that happened involved claims George W. Bush cited John Denver as a role model, and Fox News said they would shut down for routine maintenance on 21 January 2013 (the date President Barack Obama was inaugurated for his second term). While most satirical outlets aim to dupe social media users into sharing fake and often offensive stories, Borowitz is one of the few genuine satirists regularly making light of current events. His New Yorker bio reads: (en)
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