IDIOTS: Washington Post Cites Satirical Website As FACT When It Claims ‘American Idiot’ Is About George W. Bush

The Washington Post is being heavily mocked for a blunderous error on Tuesday, when it cited the humor website Clickhole as a source for the claim that the Green Day song “American Idiot” was written about President George W. Bush.

The Post cited the satirical article saying lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong had once declared that the hit song was about Bush. “The main reason we made Bush the ‘American Idiot’ is because he started the war,” Armstrong said (in the fake Clickhole article).