Satirical News Site Suckers Hudson State Rep.

Most people seem to get that posts by news satire site, The Onion, are meant to be laughable, and certainly not reliable. But one such satirical site, The Daily Currant, recently caught a Hudson lawmaker off guard, a gaffe which is garnering some guffaws from fellow State Reps.

Miscellany Blue, a left-leaning NH political blog site, reports on how a Hudson lawmaker took seriously some "news" posted on The Daily Currant about a rise in bestiality linked to same-sex marriage.

It began as an email thread shared among New Hampshire House members in which Republicans warned of Democrats’ plans for a “100 percent gun ban," a discussion which Rep. Jan Schmidt, D-Nashua, called “silly." 

“Nobody but nobody is even imagining a ban on guns," Schmidt wrote. “Talking about it makes you all look rather foolish."

That's when Rep. Jordan Ulery, R-Hudson, added to the thread, according to the blog site:

"And when we were discussing same-sex marriage people said talking about multiple partners, animal interactions made those who define marriage as a relationship between man and woman as silly and foolish... Today, however, in several states multiple partners and even bestiality have been proposed or floated as extensions."

Ulery then added several links to the email, including an article on The Daily Currant titled, "Bestiality Surges Hours After New Zealand Legalizes Gay Marriage" and from Smash Mouth Politics,  "Vermont Legislature considering a bill that would legalize beastiality, polygamy etc.”

Ulery was soon corrected by some of his House colleagues, but not before the exchange was shared locally by Miscellany Blue, and nationally, via HuffPo Politics.

A Nashua Telegraph story posted July 31 has Ulery saying he was "just kidding" and knew he was sharing satire.