The Onion closing down.

[Sallow]

Going to miss them.

For nearly 25 years, The Onion has been satirizing American politics and society with unparalleled brilliance. However, the fake news publication – or "America's Finest News Source" – has sadly and stunningly announced that it will cease operations in 2014.
Daily Kos: The Onion Calls it Quits

Dayum..

 

[idb]

Going to miss them.

For nearly 25 years, The Onion has been satirizing American politics and society with unparalleled brilliance. However, the fake news publication – or "America's Finest News Source" – has sadly and stunningly announced that it will cease operations in 2014.
Daily Kos: The Onion Calls it Quits

Dayum..

Oh no!
They've provided some great moments of misguided outrage on this very forum!

 

[Sallow]

Going to miss them.

For nearly 25 years, The Onion has been satirizing American politics and society with unparalleled brilliance. However, the fake news publication – or "America's Finest News Source" – has sadly and stunningly announced that it will cease operations in 2014.
Daily Kos: The Onion Calls it Quits

Dayum..

Oh no!
They've provided some great moments of misguided outrage on this very forum!

I posted a good many of their stories..EXPLAINING that it was the onion and STILL there were people that were fooled.

 

[candycorn]

Sad to hear that:

This was one of the classic Onion/USMB moments:
http://www.usmessageboard.com/consp...uction-complete-on-9-11-truther-memorial.html

 

[Papageorgio]

I remember their headline right after 9/11, it was "HOLY FUCKING SHIT!"

I think it summed up most American's thoughts on the matter. Many timeless and classic stories came out of their.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Pretty sure the Left got pwned and punked again

 

[idb]

Pretty sure the Left got pwned and punked again

You...you mean it isn't true????
Please say it isn't true!!!!

 

[midcan5]

Could it just be another satirical post? With the likes of Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Paul Ryan, and Louie Gohmert et al who needs the Onion for humor, these guys are a daily joke.

"It used to be that political satire was easy. All one had to do was find the absurd buried beneath the surface of a given story and employ satire to highlight that absurdity. To shine a light on it.

Now? Now you have headlines showing up in mainstream publications like "Kansas Republican Actually Opposes the Poor Buying More Food" and "Conservatives Less Likely to Buy Energy Efficient Bulbs if Labeled as Environmentally Friendly."

The absurdity of conservatives in this country has completely destroyed our business. Republicans have ruined us. Period.

New readers to The Onion can't tell anymore that we are a satirical publication. And established readers have been leaving our pages, finding greater absurdity at places like CNN and USA Today." form link

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxFLyk6QMUg]Swan calls GOP - crazies - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Zoom-boing]

You've been had.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Pretty sure the Left got pwned and punked again

You...you mean it isn't true????
Please say it isn't true!!!!

Read the Article and see for yourself

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[Sallow]

Pretty sure the Left got pwned and punked again

Hope you are right.

 

[Sallow]

You've been had.

I sure hope so.

I love that paper.

 

[jon_berzerk]

Pretty sure the Left got pwned and punked again

quite clearly you are correct

 

[Freewill]

Just curious, did the Dailykos blame the shutdown on the Sequester, the Republican lead Congress, The Tea Party, or the tried and old faithful George W. Bush? Too funny if they pulled one over on the Dailykos. But then again that ain't exactly hard to do.

 

[jon_berzerk]

Just curious, did the Dailykos blame the shutdown on the Sequester, the Republican lead Congress, The Tea Party, or the tried and old faithful George W. Bush? Too funny if they pulled one over on the Dailykos. But then again that ain't exactly hard to do.

they blamed the republicans

because one could not tell the difference anymore

between their headlines and that of main stream media

--LOL

 

[Redfish]

Onion and MSNBC-----------------twins in bullshit. The same stories, one puts them out as humor the other as real news.

 

[nitroz]

Can faux news call it quits, too?

 

[Sallow]

Onion and MSNBC-----------------twins in bullshit. The same stories, one puts them out as humor the other as real news.

Well no.

You'd be sorta right if you'd posted FOX and the Onion.

FOX makes up shit to further the PNAC and the Saudi agenda.

The Onion makes up shit to foil the right wing nonsense.

 

[Immanuel]

You've been had.

To quote Sallow: "Dayum"



Immie

 

[Redfish]

Onion and MSNBC-----------------twins in bullshit. The same stories, one puts them out as humor the other as real news.

Well no.

You'd be sorta right if you'd posted FOX and the Onion.

FOX makes up shit to further the PNAC and the Saudi agenda.

The Onion makes up shit to foil the right wing nonsense.

come on, we both know that all media outlets today have a political agenda. Its wrong, because journalism should exist to put out the truth, not to act as a propaganda arm of any ideology.

Fox NEWS (not Fox commentary) does a better job of giving time to both sides than MSNBC or the big 3.

You can compare Hannity with Matthews if you want because they are both partisan bullshitters. But the so-called news programs on Fox are less biased than the other so-called news programs.

If possible, try to act like an adult on this topic.