# 'Fake news' writer found dead in Phoenix **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 27, 2017, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-news-writer-found-dead-in-phoenix/797452 "2017-09-27T18:29:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2017, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-news-writer-found-dead-in-phoenix/797452/1 "2017-09-27T18:29:35Z")
[Famous fake news writer who ‘got Trump elected’ is found dead in his bed from ‘accidental overdose’](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4923740/Famous-fake-news-writer-dead-Phoenix.html) > [@](#): > > Paul Horner, 38, died in Phoenix on September 18, Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Mark Casey says… > > County spokesman Fields Moseley says the cause and manner of Horner’s death aren’t yet determined. But Casey suggested that there was ‘evidence at the scene suggested this could be an accidental overdose’. There were no signs of foul play… > > A key purveyor of fake news, Paul Horner, told the Washington Post in November that he believes the false stories that he planted and which went viral on Facebook contributed mightily to Trump’s shock victory. Yeah, ‘found dead’. :dubious: Obviously fake news! He faked his own death! Or maybe he’s really dead. It will soon come out that he was killed by $hillary in revenge for his getting Loser Donnie elected. And also that Loser Donnie had him killed because he’d outlived his usefulness. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2017, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-news-writer-found-dead-in-phoenix/797452/2 "2017-09-27T19:01:22Z")
Clearly it was Russia, of course. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2017, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-news-writer-found-dead-in-phoenix/797452/3 "2017-09-27T19:13:04Z")
I was going to blame the Clintons. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2017, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-news-writer-found-dead-in-phoenix/797452/4 "2017-09-27T19:14:56Z")
Ads I see on my phone are constantly assuring me that all of the various Fox News personalities have also been found dead. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2017, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-news-writer-found-dead-in-phoenix/797452/5 "2017-09-27T20:10:05Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Ads I see on my phone are constantly assuring me that all of the various Fox News personalities have also been found dead. Russia, Clinton, or the CIA for disloyalty to the President? ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2017, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-news-writer-found-dead-in-phoenix/797452/6 "2017-09-27T20:37:41Z")
Just more fake news. He’s not dead. Trump’s not even president. This is a Matrix type world where our perception is controlled by the media. Have you ever seen Donald Trump in person? How do you know there is even such a person? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2017, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-news-writer-found-dead-in-phoenix/797452/7 "2017-09-27T21:26:37Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Have you ever seen Donald Trump in person? How do you know there is even such a person? I seen him on the Tee Vee! ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2017, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-news-writer-found-dead-in-phoenix/797452/8 "2017-09-27T21:53:21Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > I seen him on the Tee Vee! His point, exactly! (err, I think) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2017, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-news-writer-found-dead-in-phoenix/797452/9 "2017-09-27T22:02:18Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > His point, exactly! > > (err, I think) Well, there you go. If it’s on the tee vee and the intertubes, it’s gotta be true! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-news-writer-found-dead-in-phoenix/797452/10 "2017-09-28T00:29:41Z")
You guys believe there’s actually a place called Phoenix? Wake up, people, if it was a real city it wouldn’t be named after a fictional animal. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2017, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-news-writer-found-dead-in-phoenix/797452/11 "2017-09-28T03:04:21Z")
This could be the break the Clinton campaign’s been waiting for! ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2017, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-news-writer-found-dead-in-phoenix/797452/12 "2017-09-28T03:06:47Z")
Maybe O.J. got out a little early. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2017, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-news-writer-found-dead-in-phoenix/797452/13 "2017-09-28T18:45:29Z")
If Horner really did kill himself unassisted, you have to question whether it was inadvertent or on purpose. And if on purpose, was he atoning for getting Trump elected, or for the failure Trump has been so far by the lights of the nutbags like Horner? IOW, did Horner think of himself as too successful or not successful enough? Either way, good riddance to another piece of deeply UnAmerican trash ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-news-writer-found-dead-in-phoenix/797452/14 "2017-09-29T08:08:40Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > You guys believe there’s actually a place called Phoenix? Wake up, people, if it was a real city it wouldn’t be named after a fictional animal. [There really was a real live animal called Phoenix!](https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-dolphin-divide/201106/tale-two-dolphins) > [@](#): > > When two dolphins, Phoenix and Akeakamai, swam into a training pool at the University of Hawaii’s Kewalo Marine Laboratory and were denied fish for performing the “tricks” that usually earned them rewards, they couldn’t imagine what had gone wrong. > > Unbeknownst to Phoenix and Akeakamai, their human coaches had decided to only provide fish snacks for behaviors they had not previously seen from the dolphins, or for behaviors that were offered in some novel way. They were asking the dolphins to be creative. ([Real live pic of Phoenix and Akeakamai](http://doggie.freeshell.org/pictures/dolphin.jpg), circa 1982. Yes, I was there for three years.) ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-news-writer-found-dead-in-phoenix/797452/15 "2017-09-29T12:22:12Z")
The police were quick to suggest “accidental overdose”, but what they haven’t released to the media is the glaring inconsistent fact that _he was left handed_. Explain _that_! ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-news-writer-found-dead-in-phoenix/797452/16 "2017-09-29T12:30:01Z")
Obviously he was killed by Ted Cruz’s father. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-news-writer-found-dead-in-phoenix/797452/17 "2017-09-29T13:04:50Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > Obviously he was killed by Ted Cruz’s father. Is the elder Cruz left handed? ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-news-writer-found-dead-in-phoenix/797452/18 "2017-09-29T13:30:37Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Is the elder Cruz left handed? Ambidextrous! And a ginger, to boot. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2017, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fake-news-writer-found-dead-in-phoenix/797452/19 "2017-09-29T13:42:10Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Ambidextrous! And a ginger, to boot. There you have it! Time to break out the torches and pitchforks.