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Saturday, November 27, 2010

Idiots.
Posted by Jill | 7:48 AM
Would someone please tell the holiday weekend crew over at Fox Nation that The Onion is SATIRICAL?
Most people recognize The Onion as the Peabody Award-winning satire machine that it is. Some people, however, don’t. Which is why we get a story like this every few months. Of course, it’s sometimes easy to mistake an Onion article for the real thing since the writers make sure to skew as close to their targets as possible. It also doesn’t hurt when real news outlets reprint the satirists’ work and decide not to let their readers know it’s a joke, as Fox Nation did today.

Yes, the Fox Nation editors were apparently so enamored with an Onion piece from today entitled “Frustrated Obama Sends Nation Rambling 75,000-Word E-Mail” that they reposted the first two paragraphs in their culture section with nary a sign as to its fictional nature. The only clue that this wasn’t real (besides a quick peek at your inbox to confirm that Barack Obama hasn’t been emailing you) was a link at the bottom instructing readers to go to TheOnion.com for the real story. This tiny link was, unfortunately, not enough for the vast majority of FN readers.


The same way that Rush Limbaugh has to paint the Pilgrims as Randian capitalists -- nothing....NOTHING...is beyond the ability of the right to turn everything into an ideology-driven screed.

It looks like the "article" has been taken down, but there's still this:
Poor Bill Yosses. He's the White House pastry chef. He makes desserts for a living. He works for Barack and Michelle Obama. They talk about healthy eating. All the time. Sounds like a recipe for disaster, right?

Not at all. Yosses' creations -- especially his pies -- have won over even the Obamas. The president calls him "The Crustmaster."


Yes, Barack Obama does have a pastry chef. And a regular chef. And a staff full of people who clean and organize his household. He flies around on a private plane. He doesn't do his own yard work, either. It's because he's the fucking PRESIDENT, morons. And even George W. Bush, hero of said morons, had the very same things.

Sorry, but people who watch Fox, who read Fox's web site, who have anything to do with Fox, are idiots. Period.

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Anonymous Warren said...
I think these morons 'know' he's the president, but what still really galls them, deep in the dark recesses of their primitive minds, is that he's the 'black' president...
11/27/10, 10:02 AM  
Blogger Pangolin said...
..... And because he's a black president very basic operations of the White House and the presidency that escaped notice under the Bush administration are suddenly deemed outrageous luxuries.

The Teabaggers were shocked to discover in February 2009 that the U.S. government ran deficits, collected taxes, there were two wars on and that the president flew around in a private plane.

Reality has always been a challenge for conservatives.
11/27/10, 10:01 PM  
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