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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
tommy Eternal Order Devil's Island 16544 Posts |
If there is a single truth about Magic, it is that nothing on earth so efficiently evades it.
Tommy |
mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts |
That's pretty funny. The irony, though, is that it appears on the Fox site, given that Fox has cited the Onion itself in the past , unaware of the parody. (Many others have mistaken their articles as real also.)
http://www.businessinsider.com/apparentl......-2010-11 Quote:
Count Fox News’s opinion website, Fox Nation, and its readers among those not familiar with the Peabody Award-winning spoof journalism being done by The Onion. In 2010, Fox Nation excerpted several paragraphs from The Onion’s satirical piece, “Frustrated Obama Sends Nation Rambling 75,000-Word Email,” eliciting a flurry of flabbergasted and derisive comments from the site’s readers. Perhaps shamed by the ensuing reports mocking Fox Nation for taking The Onion’s piece post seriously, the site quickly took the article and its comment thread down. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/20......ils.html |
Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21219 Posts |
I prefer the made up news to the real thing.
I readily admit it is tough to tell the difference at times LOL! News has become what people "want" to believe any more.
Danny Doyle
<BR>Semper Occultus <BR>In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act....George Orwell |
LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
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On Jun 1, 2015, mastermindreader wrote: Shows what a lousy mentalist I am...I thought Balducci would be first to jump on that one. I almost pasted the link to the NYT article on it instead, but I wanted to see how the thread played out
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts |
I believe I noted that other news outlets have also mistaken Onion articles for the real thing. ( The second link I posted also refers to the NYT article.
The irony here is simply that Fox is now mocking someone else for making the same mistake they did. (Without mentioning their own, of course.) |
LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
Well, they ran an A.P. story that numerous other news outlets ran, if that constitutes mocking him.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts |
The irony remains.
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LobowolfXXX Inner circle La Famiglia 1196 Posts |
Well, I suppose if the choice is between ignoring an A.P. Story that other major media outlets are running or creating a sense of irony in some people, you've got to go with the irony. Especially since many of those other outlets have been fooled by The Onion, too.
"Torture doesn't work" lol
Guess they forgot to tell Bill Buckley. "...as we reason and love, we are able to hope. And hope enables us to resist those things that would enslave us." |
Intrepid Inner circle Silver Spring, MD 1179 Posts |
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On Jun 1, 2015, Dannydoyle wrote: Well you sure don't sell newspapers by telling people what they don't want to hear.
Bob
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rockwall Special user 762 Posts |
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On Jun 3, 2015, LobowolfXXX wrote: LOL. I know there's some irony that someone's probably missing here. |
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