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Title: Fox Nation Reports Onion Article About Obama Email As True
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Examiner
URL Source: http://www.examiner.com/political-b ... icle-about-obama-email-as-true
Published: Nov 29, 2010
Author: Glenn Wright
Post Date: 2010-11-29 14:51:51 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 4304
Comments: 6
Firstly, The Onion does not report the news. It publishes fake news stories, on purpose, for entertainment.
One of the hallmarks of satire, the brand of humor The Onion practices, is that the satire has to be so absurd as to be obviously an exaggeration. The problem is that at a venue such as FoxNews or Fox Nation, its forum, satire is lost on its readers, because they are ready and willing to believe just about anything, no matter how ludicrous, just so long as it feeds into their conservative mob mentality.
On Friday, after The Onion published this story about how Obama was so depressed that he sent out a massively long email (150 pages!) to "the entire nation" (i.e., every American citizen with an email address), explaining once again all his positions on all the issues in great detail, Fox Nation ran the story without initially mentioning that the source was The Onion, publishers of fake news.
Fox Nation readers believed the story, and began writing comments, bemoaning the state of the nation, being run by such an obviously unfit person, proof being that Obama would send out such a ridiculously long email to all Americans. Only a few readers grasped that they were being duped by Fox Nation.
As the story got out, and other media outlets began to expose the truth about Fox Nation's embarrassing mistake (or effort to mislead), the site finally changed the headline of the story to reflect the source as being The Onion. Shortly after this however, Fox Nation pulled the story, and all comments, from its website.
Some of the comments, as well as an early Google cache showing the original headline (without any mention of The Onion), can be accessed here.
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conservative mob mentality
As opposed to liberal pussy mentality?
#2. To: Brian S (#0)
One of the hallmarks of satire, the brand of humor The Onion practices, is that the satire has to be so absurd as to be obviously an exaggeration. The problem is that at a venue such as FoxNews or Fox Nation, its forum, satire is lost on its readers, because they are ready and willing to believe just about anything, no matter how ludicrous, just so long as it feeds into their conservative mob mentality.
Did they just describe Free Republic?
On January 3, 2011 the GOP assumes responsibility for deficit spending.
#3. To: go65 (#2)
"Did they just describe Free Republic"?
Same thing crossed my mind...lol
"I really wanna care. I wanna feel somethin'. Let me dig a little deeper:. No, My give-a-damn's busted"~ Messina Jo Dee
#4. To: go65 (#2)
Did they just describe Free Republic?
Sounds more like Liberty Post to me.
#5. To: Brian S (#0)
Back in the early 90s, there was an article floating around about how Senator Leahy was sponsoring a bill to prohibit people from drinking while on the "information super highway".
There were a whole bunch of really smart technical people who believed this.
They believed it because of the low regard they had for Leahy and the rest of the dimwits who run the government. They honest thought that the politicians were that stupid.
Quite frankly, the Obama administration's record and rhetoric makes it extremely difficult to distinguish between absurdity and reality.
"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical." -- Thomas Jefferson
#6. To: Brian S (#0)
Fox Nation readers believed the story, and began writing comments, bemoaning the state of the nation, being run by such an obviously unfit person, proof being that Obama would send out such a ridiculously long email to all Americans.
It looks like The Simpsons has nailed it again.
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