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Fox "News" publishes Onion article as a real article

I would have loved to read the comments on that one.
 
Guess who's going to defend Fox News? Sirkickyass.

Shocking I'm sure.

I'm not certain the assertion that they didn't credit the onion is true.

This is the image shown on the link:

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This is the Google Cache page: https://webcache.googleusercontent....obama-sends-nation-rambling-75000-word-e-mail

The Google Cache page includes a link to "read the full story at theonion.com." That portion of the image is not displayed in the original link.

However, the comments displayed indicate that the readers of the page had no idea.
 
Marcus said:
Um, Fox was retarded for not doing their homework first in verifying the story. Not sure what else you were expecting? :confused:
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Ya, I don't know what I was thinking. Your nose isn't caked with dried up **** from having it crammed up the Right's butt hole or anything -- I must have just imagined your blind loyalty and faith.

Marcus said:
Do you feel normal and accepted now?
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My bad.
 
One Brow said:
Is there any indication the person who posted the story knew it was satirical? I didn't see any.
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Personally I take "read the full story at theonion.com" as evidence that the person knew. I mean, come on, it's the onion. Then again, it's obvious the implications of that notice escaped many readers.

In any event, I'm merely defending Fox News from the claim that they didn't bother to credit the onion with the story, because we have evidence that they did in the form of the cache.
 
I can't tell if whoever posted it knew it was a joke or not. It's under the "culture" section, which IMO tends to mean not super serious but legitimate stories. Now, if it were under a section called "humor" or whatever then it would be obvious. If it was under a section called "news" then it would be obvious the other way.

I will say I'm a bit surprised that any news outlet would publish an onion story and not clearly identify (say like putting it under a humor section) that it was not a real story. Although since it's Fox News, I guess I'm not that shocked.
 
The reason the left and the right can't come together is they have their collective noses shoved up their collective leaders' butts. It is obviously hard to see, let alone think for that matter, when you are so far consumed by blind loyalty that you cannot discuss issues, rather "sides". No one side has all the answers and no one side has all the evil/good. Until the "Left" and "Right" admit this and get past their incessant moronic demagoguery there will be no true progress in american politics or public policy.
/soapbox

That said, loved theonion article. Poignant, cutting, and thematically dead-on accurate as usual.
 
Sirkickyass said:
...I'm not certain the assertion that they didn't credit the onion is true.

This is the image shown on the link:

MpdnW.png


This is the Google Cache page: https://webcache.googleusercontent....obama-sends-nation-rambling-75000-word-e-mail

The Google Cache page includes a link to "read the full story at theonion.com." That portion of the image is not displayed in the original link.

However, the comments displayed indicate that the readers of the page had no idea.
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Sirkickyass said:
Personally I take "read the full story at theonion.com" as evidence that the person knew. I mean, come on, it's the onion. Then again, it's obvious the implications of that notice escaped many readers.

In any event, I'm merely defending Fox News from the claim that they didn't bother to credit the onion with the story, because we have evidence that they did in the form of the cache.
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I clicked the LINK that kicky provided and the page that came up was slightly different than the image shown in kicky's post, it clearly states:
November 26, 2010
The Onion: Frustrated Obama Sends Nation Rambling 75,000-Word E-Mail

I'll try to do a screen grab and upload it.


Read more: https://nation.foxnews.com/barack-o...tion-rambling-75000-word-e-mail#ixzz16u4IeU4o
the onion fox news.jpg
 
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oh well, I tried. at any rate, the link shows something different than what kicky posted

- a friend who's pretty ultra right-wing forwarded an e-mail to me during the primaries in 2008 that she'd received of some sort of scathing "news" article that had been forwarded by a half-dozen people, each of whom added their own comments. I'd already seen the same thing - I don't recall if it was from Colbert or the Onion or what, but it made clear that what all these nutjobs were responding to so seriously was originally a satricial statement that had nothing to do with any of the actual candidates.

it sort of reminded me of that "law" that often gets mentioned that no matter how ridiculous something is, you'll always find somebody who believes it
 
It's against the law to talk about that law...fyi.
 
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