Kurt Russell Stated George Clooney 'Hasn't Labored In Years' As a result of 'He By no means Shuts Up'?

On June 17, 2024, the Fb page America’s Final Line of Protection (ALLOD) posted a quote meme claiming actor Kurt Russell mentioned fellow actor George Clooney “hasn’t labored in years” as a result of “he is boastful, immodest, and he by no means shuts up.” 

The publish’s caption learn: “He isn’t even an actor anymore. He is only a political prop.” A number of social media customers thought the publish was sharing actual information, whereas others noticed the declare as pretend. One consumer commented beneath the publish, “Misplaced all my respect for Clooney.” 

(Fb consumer America’s Final Line of Protection)

Nevertheless, this merchandise about Russell and Clooney was not a factual recounting of real-life occasions. There was no proof of Russell saying the alleged issues about Clooney, and the whole story was a fabrication.

The introduction for the ALLOD Fb web page states: “The flagship of the ALLOD community of trollery. Nothing on this web page is actual.” The web page has a “Satire/Parody” label.

Additionally, the Fb web page hyperlinks to The Dunning-Kruger Times, which describes itself as “a subsidiary of the ‘America’s Final Line of Protection’ community of parody, satire, and tomfoolery, or as Snopes referred to as it earlier than they misplaced their warfare on satire: Junk Information.”

That web site’s “About Us” part states:

Every thing on this web site is fiction. It’s not a lie and it isn’t pretend information as a result of it isn’t actual. In case you consider that it’s actual, it is best to have your head examined. Any similarities between this web site’s pure fantasy and precise folks, locations, and occasions are purely coincidental and all photos ought to be thought-about altered and satirical.

This rumor about Russell and Clooney was not the primary time we have debunked claims stemming from the Fb web page — together with a similar satirical story about Russell supposedly saying that working with Robert De Niro was “the worst six weeks of his life.”

For background, right here is why we generally write about satire/humor.

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