Sure. It’s called exaggeration for effect; being facetious.
The point is that people like high-alert alarmism. It gets clicks and drives traffic and generates a lot of comments, partially from people saying “HEY THAT’S NOT TRUE!” BB isn’t a news source and it isn’t the AP; it’s a blog that can say anything it wants, and like other places reporting the horrorshow in Washington (like HuffPo) it tends to exaggerate and shock and say things in broad bold strokes.
I don’t get my news from BoingBoing any more than I get my news from a tabloid reporting about Bat Boy, but it often alerts me to go elsewhere to get the actual information about a breaking story.
