{"id":175580,"date":"2021-01-16T21:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-17T02:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/01\/16\/when-a-prank-goes-awry\/"},"modified":"2021-01-16T21:11:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T02:11:00","slug":"when-a-prank-goes-awry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/01\/16\/when-a-prank-goes-awry\/","title":{"rendered":"When a Prank Goes Awry"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div style=\"border-color: black; border-image: none; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v6uCSMnHO7w\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>Trippy<\/i><\/div>\n<p>A coupole of podcasters decided that it would be fun to put an OAN tags on their microphones, and do interviews of people who they would later mock.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they <a href=\"https:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2021\/01\/watch-two-vloggers-went-undercover\">found themselves in the middle of a violent lynch mob<\/a>:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">Vloggers Walter Masterson and J.P. Scattini went undercover at the  StopTheSteal rally to make what they thought was a comedy video, but it  soon turned far darker and scarier in real time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #2b00fe;\">They put an OAN marker on their microphone, donned a Trump flag,  Trump hats and flag masks, and started interviewing people. It didn&#8217;t  take them long to realize they were on the edge of an angry, misinformed  mob. By the time that mob had broken into the Capitol, they realized  this was no ordinary rally, there wasn&#8217;t anything funny about it, and  they needed to get the hell out of there. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>They started off doing Borat, and they finished up doing Marie Catherine Colvin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trippy A coupole of podcasters decided that it would be fun to put an OAN tags on their microphones, and do interviews of people who they would later mock. Instead, they found themselves in the middle of a violent lynch mob:&nbsp; Vloggers Walter Masterson and J.P. Scattini went undercover at the StopTheSteal rally to make &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[439,586,523,374,373,401],"class_list":["post-175580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-government","tag-insurrection","tag-journalism","tag-politics","tag-terrorism","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175580"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}