evidence: Greg Abbott mocked after falling for hoax story about Garth Brooks being booed off stage [...] Texas governor Greg Abbott is facing ridicule after he fell for a fake story on a satirical website that claimed country music star Garth Brooks had been booed off a stage for refusing to ban Bud Light. [...] "Everything on this website is fiction," the site explains. The purported author of the story, headlined Garth Brooks Booed Off Stage at 123rd Annual Texas Country Jamboree, was listed as "patriot" Flagg Eagleton.