Yahoo News

"*You want to actually skip the news story itself. Don't- don't bother reading it- and go right to the comment section.*"
―Erik
Yahoo News is the ninth lesson of Internet Comment Etiquette. This lesson was accompanied by The Daily Dot. It was released on August 23, 2012.

## Summary

Erik starts by explaining that he may be selling his camera, and many other things, as part of his divorce as mentioned in the previous lesson.

To begin the lesson, Erik picks three articles at random from Yahoo News. He demonstrates the "Notepad" method in which he types a rant about Obama in Notepad and then pastes it into the article's comments without actually reading the article. For something more difficult, Erik suggests actually reading a portion of the article. He reads about a wildfire in California, but he turns it into a rant about illegal immigrants. Then he realizes that someone else had already posted the same comment that he had just written.

Finally, Erik finds an article that's actually about Obama, so he writes another rant about Obama.

## Comments

*Hey obama why don't you fly one of your drones into my whore wife's birth canal. I'm gonna start calling the liberal biased media "libia" because it sounds like labia and i hate women. Maybe if obama took some economics classes he wouldn't be sending us back to the stone age with his backwards policies. Just because the guy's got a huge dick doesn't mean i'm okay with him fucking me every day of my life. Good thing my body won't let me get pregnant from the type of legit rape that i'm receiving from this democratic occupation of the white house, can't wait for romney to pick up the pieces of this shattered country and move us forward into an age of love and acceptance. romney 2012 god bless you all unless you're mexican.*
- Erik

*California manipulates the illegal alien invaders started mass fires to get MORE MONEY from the rest of the nation to prop up it's failed socialist empire.
The problem is NOT the fire it's the illegal alien invaders and California't totally corrupt political overlords.
NO MORE MONEY for CA no matter what "emergency" they contrive. Make the socialists pay for the illegal alien invaders THEMSELVES!**oh fuck how did someone else already write this. this is embarrassing. hey man we should hang out sometime, did your wife take everything from you too leaving you a shattered mess full of stupid ideas? because that's what hapened to me, which lead up to that fucking retarded comment coming out of my keyboard that is identical to your. anyway go fuck yourself and the government controls our weather lol.*
- Erik, with some already posted by Truth

*One time i ate an entire fucking piece of shit that came out of a dog. That's still not as bad as i feel about obama ripping apart my civil liberties. I will eat every piece of shit on this planet until mitt romney is president, and i will love it. I am a shit eating machine and i love to eat shit, because i'm a fucking asshole who believes k-mart and republicans are the only things worth believing in. My children are fucking morons and i taught them the bible so now they're basically fucked for life. Hopefully on of their children becomes a star quarterback some day so he'll get out of this small town and make something of himself. Otherwise he's doomed to the coal mine where he'll probably die of black lung, or n-word lung as we call it because we've decided to stay racist long after it's become socially unacceptable to mainstream media, aka the liberal slant-eyes who slant the news with their slanty little slant eyes. Anyway i'm just ehre on yahoo news because i'm too old to sleep like a normal human being and i don't have the ability to realize that i sound like a complete psychopath when i leave comments like this on a fucking news story. Because people who read the news really need to see what is on the mind of some old bored piece of shit who still tries to speak e-mails into his computer. Anyway fuck me right? Haha i miss being young and understanding what's happening in the world. Anyway fuck all you commies and suck my useless old dong you jews.**sincerely,
your grandpa*
- Erik

## Context

1. ↑ Libya is also the name of a country. Obama had recently engaged the United States in military conflict in Libya.
2. ↑ Republican Congressman Todd Akin had generated controversy by saying that women's bodies do not let them get pregnant when they are victims of "legitimate rape," implying that women who get pregnant from rape secretly wanted to be raped.
3. ↑ Mitt Romney was running for president against Obama when this video was made. Romney' party, the Republican Party, is known for a hardline immigration policy that affects Mexico in particular.

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