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Comedian Fake Live Tweets Obama Dinner at Clooney’s House, Fools Web

President Obama held a record-setting, star-studded fundraising dinner at actor and humanitarian George Clooney’s house Thursday evening. Los Angeles-based comedian Ben Hoffman was there, live-tweeting away — or so he wanted the world to think. Hoffman was actually nowhere near the dinner that netted the Obama campaign a cool $15 million, but some of his followers bought in to his hilarious satire. “I was just sitting at home, bored, and wanted to see if I could trick any morons into thinking I was actually at the Obama/Clooney dinner,” Hoffman...

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Published By: Mashable - Friday, 11 May, 2012

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