Bud Light and boos: Texas governor shares fake article about Garth Brooks
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott shared a fake article about country musician Garth Brooks being booed off stage on Sunday, according to multiple news reports.
Brooks recently said his new bar in Nashville would serve Bud Light. The Anheuser-Busch beer has faced boycotts for partnering with Dylan Mulvaney, a transgender comic and actress who is well known on TikTok.
Abbott reportedly shared an article by The Dunning-Kruger Times, a self-described “subsidiary of the ‘America’s Last Line of Defense’ network of parody, satire, and tomfoolery, or as Snopes called it before they lost their war on satire: Junk News.”
“Garth Brooks Booed of Stage at 123rd Annual Texas County Jamboree,” Abbott tweeted, according to a screenshot of the post shared by U.S. Rep. Greg Casar, a Austin Democrat, and the Austin American-Statesman. “Go Woke. Go Broke.”
The satire article says Brooks was booed from the stage at the “123rd Annual Texas Country Jamboree in Hambriston.” There is no Hambriston, Texas and the festival isn’t real.
The tweet appears to have since been deleted from Abbott’s personal Twitter feed. His office did not immediately return a request for comment, including clarification on whether Abbott wrote the tweet or if it was a member of his staff.
“@GregAbbott_TX just accidentally posted a satire article because he wants to hate on queer Texans and Garth Brooks so bad,” Casar tweeted on Sunday. “The Texas Country Jamboree doesn’t exist. Hambriston, Texas is not real. And the Governor is not fit to tweet, much less govern. Happy pride!”
