Fox Nation Editors scrub Fox Onion article and comments, pretend nothing happened

[JBeukema]

Fox News' opinion website Fox Nation and their readers don't seem to know satire when they see it.
The Fox News sister site re-posted a joke from the satirical website The Onion Friday about President Barack Obama sending a 75,000-word e-mail to the the entire nation. At no point does Fox Nation note that the story is a satire.
The Onion story joked that Obama had "reached the end of [his] rope" and sent out the "rambling" stream of consciousness e-mail that addressed everything from the war in Afghanistan to his live-in mother-in-law.
The story goes on to say that the fake Obama e-mail was 27 megabytes and 127 printed pages.
If Fox Nation knows the story is a joke, they aren't letting on, and many of the comments on the post treat the story as if it were actual news.

Fox Nation readers confuse Onion article with real news | Raw Story

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[Mad Scientist]

Democrats elected a joke thinking it was serious.

 

[rdean]

Both Fox and the Onion are satire.

Republicans simply don't understand satire.

They still believe that Obama took a trip that cost 200 million dollars a day.

 

[Oddball]

Fox Nation readers confuse Onion article with real news

Well, anyone can be fooled.

After all, millions of people confuse ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, AP, Reuters, NY Times and numerous other "mainstream" outlets with real news every day.

 

[Mad Scientist]

Both Fox and the Onion are satire.

Republicans simply don't understand satire.

They still believe that Obama took a trip that cost 200 million dollars a day.

Who gets their News from Jon Stewart? Oh yeah, you do. Democrats simply don't understand satire and comedy.

Except when they elected Obama that is. Who is now less popular than Bush.

 

[JBeukema]

Fox Nation readers confuse Onion article with real news

Well, anyone can be fooled.

After all, millions of people confuse ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, AP, Reuters, NY Times and numerous other "mainstream" outlets with real news every day.

 

[JBeukema]

Fox:
-Went to court to fight for the right to lie
-Photoshops pictures of people they don't like
-Uses footage unrelated to lie about turnout to Palin events

 

[Toro]

Fox News' opinion website Fox Nation and their readers don't seem to know satire when they see it.
The Fox News sister site re-posted a joke from the satirical website The Onion Friday about President Barack Obama sending a 75,000-word e-mail to the the entire nation. At no point does Fox Nation note that the story is a satire.
The Onion story joked that Obama had "reached the end of [his] rope" and sent out the "rambling" stream of consciousness e-mail that addressed everything from the war in Afghanistan to his live-in mother-in-law.
The story goes on to say that the fake Obama e-mail was 27 megabytes and 127 printed pages.
If Fox Nation knows the story is a joke, they aren't letting on, and many of the comments on the post treat the story as if it were actual news.

Fox Nation readers confuse Onion article with real news | Raw Story

It has a certain truthiness to it. It just feels right.

 

[California Girl]

Both Fox and the Onion are satire.

Republicans simply don't understand satire.

They still believe that Obama took a trip that cost 200 million dollars a day.

How much does AF1 cost per hour?

 

[NYcarbineer]

Fox Nation readers confuse Onion article with real news

Well, anyone can be fooled.

After all, millions of people confuse ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, AP, Reuters, NY Times and numerous other "mainstream" outlets with real news every day.

Kind of like how people confuse the Libertarians with a real political party?

 

[uscitizen]

Both Fox and the Onion are satire.

Republicans simply don't understand satire.

They still believe that Obama took a trip that cost 200 million dollars a day.

How much does AF1 cost per hour?

LMAO.

I hope that was satire CG.

 

[rdean]

Fox Nation readers confuse Onion article with real news

Well, anyone can be fooled.

After all, millions of people confuse ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, AP, Reuters, NY Times and numerous other "mainstream" outlets with real news every day.

I love that picture. It's not the only time Fox has done that to people they don't like:

Especially the yellow teeth. Nice "touch".

 

[rdean]

Both Fox and the Onion are satire.

Republicans simply don't understand satire.

They still believe that Obama took a trip that cost 200 million dollars a day.

Who gets their News from Jon Stewart? Oh yeah, you do. Democrats simply don't understand satire and comedy.

Except when they elected Obama that is. Who is now less popular than Bush.

Apparently, we were the ONLY ones that thought anyone believing a 200 million dollar a day trip was a fool.

 

[Modbert]

Fox Nation readers confuse Onion article with real news | Raw Story

It was George Orwell, who first coined the term "memory hole," in his classic novel 1984. For Winston, the book's main character, his full-time job with the Ministry of Truth is to rewrite history, spiriting away the inconvenient details.

Someone like Winston appears to be hard at work behind the scenes at Fox Nation.

This morning, an article and comment thread related to a piece of satire the site and its readers took seriously, went missing.

The page was preserved through Google Cache, but the comment thread, which showed dozens of loyal Fox readers reacting to a joke story from The Onion as if it were real, is gone

For those who missed out, here are some of the comments:

http://i.imgur.com/f3fcT.png

We've always been at war with Eastasia

 

[midcan5]

Good catch. Fox faux news is hard to watch unless you are part of their choir.

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[Truthmatters]

What do you expect from a corporation who sued for the right to lie to their viewers

 

[Trajan]

yea, looks like they vaporized it. This really is nothing new, fox is far from the only org. that has disappeared ignorant or embarrassing information.....

 

[bodecea]

Fox Nation readers confuse Onion article with real news | Raw Story

It was George Orwell, who first coined the term "memory hole," in his classic novel 1984. For Winston, the book's main character, his full-time job with the Ministry of Truth is to rewrite history, spiriting away the inconvenient details.

Someone like Winston appears to be hard at work behind the scenes at Fox Nation.

This morning, an article and comment thread related to a piece of satire the site and its readers took seriously, went missing.

The page was preserved through Google Cache, but the comment thread, which showed dozens of loyal Fox readers reacting to a joke story from The Onion as if it were real, is gone

For those who missed out, here are some of the comments:

http://i.imgur.com/f3fcT.png

We've always been at war with Eastasia

Wait for RetiredSarg to pick this up and start a thread on it.

 

[Truthmatters]

How I wish there was some law that required news to report facts and not propaganda.

Fox made sure there wasnt.

 

[xotoxi]

Fox Nation readers confuse Onion article with real news | Raw Story

It was George Orwell, who first coined the term "memory hole," in his classic novel 1984. For Winston, the book's main character, his full-time job with the Ministry of Truth is to rewrite history, spiriting away the inconvenient details.

Someone like Winston appears to be hard at work behind the scenes at Fox Nation.

This morning, an article and comment thread related to a piece of satire the site and its readers took seriously, went missing.

The page was preserved through Google Cache, but the comment thread, which showed dozens of loyal Fox readers reacting to a joke story from The Onion as if it were real, is gone

For those who missed out, here are some of the comments:

http://i.imgur.com/f3fcT.png

We've always been at war with Eastasia