The best ever.

"We ran that by our editors as a test and they told to stop fucking around."

Great rant.

it's become difficult at times to distinguish between an Onion story and a real news article.

And it seemed perfectly plausible to me.

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I said that "the campaign" we've been watching has been comical enough!


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than mitt romney's campaign.

Good Luck to Will Ferrell. lol

Th Onion didn't see this coming with the Harry Potter deal?

Poe's Law:

I gave up on trying to out satirize the conservatives a long time ago. I can't tell you how hard Bachmann made me cry when I realized nothing I could say would be enough of an exaggeration to keep up with her real life bat shit craziness. I remember hearing about her husband and I thought well that is original, but then I saw video of the dude he is how to put this delicately, ok I can't anyone who hasn't seen video of this guy all I can say is YouTube Marcus Bachmann. The human mind just isn't capable of coming up with the real life outrageous stuff the GOP does. Like Allen West saying he found commies under his bed. I mean these people are seriously wackadoodle.

Mittless Rmoney as asked Colonel Batshit to lead his racial realations reachout for His & Lyin's campaign.

It's true...saw it on MSNBC.

By enlisting a known madman, Romney casts doubt on his OWN sanity.
And mittens once again proves he lacks the judgement to be president

Who exactly is West going to reach out to?

It would take a huge amount of not looking to not see that. That he runs a place to help gays not be gays is high irony. It's like a real life version of "But I'm a Cheerleader" (a hilarious movie about a ranch that tries to change gays).

said he couldn't match the stuff that was going on in society. And that was before. Bush, Palin, McTurtle, Bachman, Jim Baker, Vetter and so forth.

IIRC, that made Lehrer hang it up. The satire, that is - he still kept teaching math, though.

Bush's speech upon assuming the presidency, with him promising our long national nightmare of peace & prosperity finally being over, and how he promised to get into at least one war and to run up the national debt.

This one is great, too.

The Republicans have raised the bar to such a level there's just no point in satire anymore.

The Onion has been incredible lately. Almost not even satire. Walking a delicate line between satire and plain bitterness. I love it.

Those bastards...they should be ashamed.

Giving the phrase back to the future new meaning.

CAPITAL LETTERS!

MAKE IT VIRAL!!

Truly bizarre.

blundering Romney campaign the polls are close. Something's rotten in Denmark.

How telling (even if it isn't real) that you can't make up outlandish things that the GOP is doing in real life.

I really, really miss Ambrose Bierce.
A party such as our current Republican needs his refined literary axe and his level of cynicism to bring it to its knees. He would be having a wonderful time right now!

Mr. Bierce? Are you out there somewhere? Please come back from your vacation.

I've been thinking the same thing for a long time...the level of irony the GOP/rethug/RW/teanutbag has foisted upon the world is so outside of comprehension that the word "irony" doesn't begin to describe it. I believe a new word needs to be invented to get the full true essence of the level of over-the-top craziness.

It is indeed all mind blowing.

He said many years ago that the news was so bizarre that you couldn't satirize it. And he probably said that in the 1960s.

Yes, I know how seriously that dates me, but I still think he had Carson beat in any way anyone can think of.

(and yes, I supported Adlai Stevenson, too

Sometimes I think that the RapeubliCONs want to lose.

DUer TeamPooka and I were just talking about that, yesterday!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021286678

I had no idea what the "Honey Boo Boo" story was, and now that I do, I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

What an embarrassment! Nothing like splashing it all over TV, 'eh?

Okay, maybe it's a little-bit funny

has a posting appeared and we all look at it and say the same thing 'Is that from The Onion?'

This campaign will not be ruled by fact checkers - come on...

sites as being too real to really be funny.

Only people unaware complicit in their own willful ignorance and demise,
if it were not so tragic we would all be laughing.

That alone should get out the youth vote. I do not think I could have made it through college without The Onion to put things into perspective.

Every time Romney gets up there and twists in the wind trying to avoid being taken for who he is, he puts a satirist out of work.

Every time Ryan reveals his sports prowess and gargantuan intellect, Jon Lovitz cries.

Someone has to stop this.

Thanks for the thread, FourScore.