April 25, 2020

"The Onion was NEVER fake news. It's just news written by a time traveler with a horrible sense of humor."

Someone tweets, looking at this Onion headline from March 25th:

44 comments:

stevew said...

First off, LaBlaq is not MY favorite ComicBookBabe. But I agree the Onion is not Fake News!!, in fact it's not news at all. As for the humor of it, that's subjective. This particular one is amusing to me.

Clicked through to that tweet and see that Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton both replied to it, with thinly veiled Trump criticism. LOL. Those two old fools are the ones without a sense of humor.

tim maguire said...

That is funny, but the wow factor is undermined by the fact that disinfectant-gate is just another media hoax, and media hoaxes are pretty predictable.

stevew said...

Check me on that, Biden and Clinton didn't reply to that tweet, they just tweeted separately on the same topic and she listed them. My bad.

rhhardin said...

It's written by a guy who's amused by women.

Darrell said...

Fuck you, Comrade. Hillary thought rags solved everything with a little wiping.

gilbar said...

do you want to listen to some hilarious satiric fake news?
There's this radio network, called "NPR" y'all should give it a listen
it's like that Titania McGrath gag on twitter.

Seriously! give it a listen, it's Pretty Funny!

Temujin said...

Meh.

Mark said...

Conservatives have no sense of humor, not sure why you posted.

The conspiracy/antiNPR/etc comments are a clear reminder of the humorless Trumpkins who cannot laugh at their leader, ever.

Hopefully today they aren't total assholes to your son.

hombre said...

The “inject yourself” BS belongs in the Onion, not in the news. Satire guys understand the distinction between possible inferences and reasonable inferences. It’s what makes them funny. The leftmedia does not. It’s what makes them immoral.

AllenS said...

Mark said...
Conservatives have no sense of humor, not sure why you posted.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

iowan2 said...

Conservatives have no sense of humor, not sure why you posted.

The conspiracy/antiNPR/etc comments are a clear reminder of the humorless Trumpkins who cannot laugh at their leader, ever.

Hopefully today they aren't total assholes to your son.


Good for you. You got your virtue signaling out of the way before 8am

Rob said...

Trump knew that only someone who’s feeble minded and suffering from dementia would be spurred to ingest bleach. The conclusion is inescapable: Trump was trying to kill Joe Biden.

Howard said...

The only thing missing is the laugh track

https://babylonbee.com/news/president-to-dispense-medical-advice-on-dr-trump-show

Darrell said...

Trump knew that only someone who’s feeble minded and suffering from dementia would be spurred to ingest bleach. The conclusion is inescapable: Trump was trying to kill the entire Democratic Party and its lapdog media.

rcocean said...

The Press and Liberal/leftists are so full of hate and so unconcerned about the virus killing people they focus on these stupid "How can we make Trump look bad?" stories. I've gone from being disgusted by it, to just being bored. Anyone expecting the MSM and the Liberals to EVER accept that Trump is POTUS and treat the office with the respect it deserves will be disappointed.

They seem to consider Tump and his supporters the enemy, not the DV virus. I'm now returning the favor.

rcocean said...

Notice the onion has a fat white guy on the story. 'cause we can't make fun of women or minorities. Every doofus has to be a white guy.

Leland said...

I agree with Tim. It's funny and would be hilarious if the whole disinfectant-gate story was real rather than a hoax. Just like the fish tank cleaner hoax, which now looks to be a Democrat fundraiser that killed her husband, and of course, that's the hoax that prompted the Onion piece.

rcocean said...

Lie about Trump being stupid
Make fun of your falsely created stupid Trump.
Rinse and Repeat.

Been going on since August 2015. BORING.

narciso said...

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/04/the-week-in-pictures-same-damn-thing-edition-2.php

Lurker21 said...

Seems mild as anti-Trump humor goes. It almost could even have been posted on the Babylon Bee and read with the understanding that it was as much about the media (or the gullibility of some people - maybe of all people, only about different things) as about Trump.

Ditto on the NPR comment. Everybody knows NPR has a bias. Apparently, it's something that people have been able to live with (and joke about) for years. Like the president - whoever is president - the media are legitimate objects for satire and ribbing. As with all politicians, so with all the media: there's usually something true and something untrue in the jokes.

We ought to be able to condemn the really unfunny and untrue and cruel stuff and tolerate the rest. I don't want to get the BJP after me, but people really do have to lighten up about their sacred cows.

buwaya said...

Its all fun and games until someone murders her husband?

I am still committed to the UV solution.
Stick the population out in the warm sun (as close to naked as possible, regardless of aesthetics) and this business will go away in a week.

Wishing for sunshine ASAP. But no, it will be raining all week.

Wince said...

Turns out, it's more a mockery of Cuomo's wife, isn't it?

Because neither she nor this guy waited for Trump to saying anything.

Bruce Hayden said...

The Onion does appear to be trying to make a comeback, but I suspect that it will be an uphill fight against the Babylon Bee, which I consider more consistently funny.

William said...

Trump let his enthusiasm for UV light get the better of him and used an inaccurate term for speculating on how to apply the findings. He further complicated the situation by saying that his enthusiasm was sarcasm directed at the media. Then he didn't take questions at yesterday's presser. The entire incident makes him look clumsy and defensive....I'm still voting for Trump. I just hope he doesn't drive off a bridge and leave some girl to drown. That would probably change my mind about voting for him.

Sebastian said...

Next, the Onion will report that a political family that is investment partners with a Chinese bank accuses Trump of not being tough enough on China.

Bilwick said...

I look upon Trump as, for the time being, a useful ally, in the sense of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend"--the enemy in this case being the Worst and Stupidest People on Earth: i.e, the "liberal" Hive. (And by "liberal" I mean of course "tax-happy, coercion-addicted, power-tripping State fellators.") But even if Trump were John Galt, I wouldn't ingest something because the president--any president, even Galt (whose background was in engineering and not chemistry or biomedical science--suggested I do. That would be as stupid as people who ingest's the Hive's toxic snake oil.

BUMBLE BEE said...

If you don't think he was jammin on the Tide Pod Riff with the injection lines, maybe he's that MUCH sharper than you.

Michael K said...

Wishing for sunshine ASAP. But no, it will be raining all week.

96 in Tucson today. Whooopeee.

The Onion was funny until it was bought by some Hillary donor who then converted it to Hillary humor.

Hillary's well known sense of humor took over. Epstein was a big fan.

Bruce Hayden said...

Blogger Mark said...
“Conservatives have no sense of humor, not sure why you posted.”

Current Babylon Bee headlines

Pope Says Priests Should Deny Communion To People Who Drive SUVs

President To Dispense Medical Advice On New 'Dr. Trump Show'

Trump Says To Drink Lots Of Water, Media Reports He Told Everyone To Drown Themselves

Coronavirus Overtakes Ninjas As Top Invisible Enemy

Majority Of Americans Would Rather Risk COVID Death Than Endure Any More Skype Lectures From Celebrities

CNN Moves Headquarters Underground After Trump Says The Sun Is Good

Gang Of Masked Bandits Steals Another $500 Billion From Your Grandchildren
[showing a picture of a masked Pelosi with her gavel, etc, conducting House business]

'I'm Proud To Select Hillary Clinton As My Running Mate,' Says Joe Biden While Covered In Laser Dots

'I Assure You, Joe's In Perfect Health,' Says Spokesperson As Biden Slowly Rides Up Stair Lift

Study Finds Chick-Fil-A Sauce Kills 100% Of Germs

Nation Totally In Favor Of Ocasio-Cortez Permanently Boycotting Her Job

April Officially Named 'Bring Your Children To Work Month'

Trump Threatens More Plagues Unless State Governors Let His People Go

Mark said...

Trump Says To Drink Lots Of Water, Media Reports He Told Everyone To Drown Themselves

CNN Moves Headquarters Underground After Trump Says The Sun Is Good


That's got nothing to do with conservatives having humor. These are funny because they are true.

fleg9bo said...

Wishing for sunshine ASAP. But no, it will be raining all week.

Raining a bunch here in Portland, too. Right about now I wouldn't mind hanging out, for variety's sake, on the top floor of one of those stately apartment buildings overlooking the river up past the Guggenheim. El paĂ­s vasco is one of my favorite parts of Spain.

n.n said...

HCQ+AZ available with prescription. Perhaps other chemical agents that disinfect the virus that causes Covid-19.

Yancey Ward said...

I most likely wasn't the first person to write the meme that The Onion isn't satire but, instead, just a newspaper beamed back to us from the future, but I made this statement about 7-8 years ago and had never seen it before. I have since repeated it about 4-5 times a year, and basically everytime I repsond to an Onion story (and now Babylon Bee, too). So maybe I created this meme. Let history not forget me!

Birkel said...

But the Babylon Bee is not funny?
I think I see why.

narciso said...

it's a strange strange world

narciso said...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFioUBgefAY

Birkel said...

Who = The Onion
Whom = The Babylon Bee

Do I have that right?

Drago said...

Althouse son: Protesters are murderers.

Althouse conservatives: Althouse's son is wrong

Lefty Mark (the one Ken B calls "the good Mark"): Hopefully today they aren't total assholes to your son.

Discuss.

Drago said...

Babylon Bee: "North Korea Reports Kim Jong Un Is 'Most Alive Person In Universe'"

According to Lefty Mark and Althouse, that's not funny.

Ken B said...

Drago
I guess you are on the ‘yes’ side of the question, should people be total assholes to Althouse’s offspring.

mccullough said...

How does The Onion know that person is a man?

Only self-identification determines one’s gender.

I’m from the future.

Birkel said...

Why does a person's parent(s) determine that they are above reasoned criticism?

Fuck fascists like Ken B.

narciso said...

the kim dynast is certainly pining for the fjords,

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