Some People Don’t Understand That The Onion Is Parody
The blog Literally Unbelievable catalogs examples of people on Facebook who apparently think The Onion is a real news source.
Some examples:
And….
Much, much more at the link.
The blog Literally Unbelievable catalogs examples of people on Facebook who apparently think The Onion is a real news source.
Some examples:
And….
Much, much more at the link.
There was an anti-abortion activist who thought that an Onion op-ed about abortion was real and had a predictable freakout.
The Iowa Republican once quoted a web site called the Black and Scarlet in an anti-gay attack article without realizing it is a parody of the Scarlet and Black news site ran by the Grinnell College in Grinnell Iowa. The college run’s both sites. The hilarious part of it is that the abbreviation for the Black and Scarlet, which is prominently posted on their site is…
B & S. http://www.thebands.biz/
Scarlet and Black http://www.thesandb.com/
One of the classic examples is the reaction to the Onion piece “Harry Potter Sparks Rise in Satanism Among Children.”
http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/potter.asp
Here is what I was talking about.
http://theiowarepublican.com/home/2010/11/29/the-des-moines-register-%E2%80%93-a-bunch-of-idiots/
Hilarious.
There are times one feels the need to go sit in the corner and quietly weep for democracy.
As my 14-year-old daughter would say, *tear*
.Cry me a river, I am dry.
“Democracy is the pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance” — H.L. Mencken
Mencken also said thar the common man was an inferior, that societies produce a handful of supermen who deserve to rule over all others. His diary revealed his belief in the innate superiority of whites over blacks, the greatness of the german state and his general dislike of jews.
He was also a fan of child murderer groupie Ayn Rand. We won’t be taking him seriously any time soon.
And we wonder why most Americans took years to gain the understanding that the supposed mainstream press is left-leaning?
Eric,
Not everything, my partisan friend, needs to be linked to politics.