Fox "News" publishes Onion article as a real article

[TroutBum]

LogGrad98 drinks pee.

 

[One Brow]

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.

In that case, well done!

 

[UB]

Speaking of which,

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[moevillini]

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

This is the image shown on the link:

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.

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 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

 

[TroutBum]

Speaking of which,

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Needs more cleavage.

 

[moevillini]

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

 

[LogGrad98]

It's against the law to talk about that law...fyi.

 

[Deleted member 365]

Meh.

And this is surprising?

 

[Deleted member 365]

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.



My bad.

Owned.