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Zydeco
02-25-2008, 07:25 PM
And make no mistake, every word is 100% true.

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/diebold_accidentally_leaks?utm_source=embedded_vid %20%20eo

yongrel
02-25-2008, 07:26 PM
damn straight

theantirobot
02-25-2008, 07:43 PM
It's sad. The daily show and Colbert report have more substantive programming then any of the major news networks.

1836
02-25-2008, 07:48 PM
Hah!

I love the Onion.

This is my all-time favorite Onion story. (http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33930)

heartless
02-25-2008, 07:52 PM
Awesome bump!

Zydeco
02-25-2008, 07:54 PM
The parallels between the corrupt Soviet regime in the late 1980s and our current one are striking. In the moribund USSR, only the parodists could speak the truth.

Same as here!

humanic
02-25-2008, 08:05 PM
Isn't it scary that the idea of people on the news telling the truth is so far-fetched that it has become a joke?

phoenixzorn
02-25-2008, 08:23 PM
And make no mistake, every word is 100% true.

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/diebold_accidentally_leaks?utm_source=embedded_vid %20%20eo

The Onion is not MSM, it is a Grassroots Funded college paper started by students at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee... and I'm damn proud of it. =) It is the best source for REAL news in this country.

Brilliant video by the way.

Energy
02-25-2008, 08:27 PM
Isn't it scary that the idea of people on the news telling the truth is so far-fetched that it has become a joke?

Reminds me of that scene in V for Vendetta when people started to flippantly dismiss the news they're seeing on TV. Oh how I dream of such mass awakening.

And what's with the focus on the soap opera and tabloid tension between Obama and Clinton these days?

thechitowncubs
02-25-2008, 08:35 PM
LOL

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/diebold_accidentally_leaks

kigol
02-25-2008, 08:45 PM
damn straight

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SL89
02-25-2008, 08:46 PM
HaHa! Bullsh*%. Nation Enquirer of Net TV! Move this worthless Thread somewhere else! Moderators maybe we need a humor sub-forum!

phoenixzorn
02-25-2008, 08:53 PM
HaHa! Bullsh*%. Nation Enquirer of Net TV!

Hey Troll... you don't get it do you... By making a joke out of the news, the Onion IS the only massive media outlet that is telling the truth, even through blatantly obvious lies...

It is supposed to be outlandish and funny, that lets you know it's fake, yet it's still credible because the information they are presenting might as well be true, as corrupt as all these companies, groups, and candidates are...

seapilot
02-25-2008, 09:02 PM
Started reading the ONion back in the 90s on the web. Friend of mine got an Onion Classics book from the 90s. Was flipping through it and a parody was a FAT kid Suiing Fast Food for eating too much. It was funny then but its all truth now.

WE NOW LIVE IN A BIZARRO WORLD. Fiat is money, Gold is not. Parody is real and Real news is really the joke. Please feel free to add other bizarro examples.

SL89
02-25-2008, 09:09 PM
To quote you "might be true". I know that Humor is a good way to get the truth out.
My problem is that a lot of their stories have proven to be utterly false. And I don't think speculative reporting belongs here! We don't have time to decipher wish-wash, true as it "may" be. I still think it should be posted elsewhere! Sorry, No Troll here.

Agora
02-25-2008, 09:11 PM
I expect to see the on the front page of WP. ASAP.

amy31416
02-25-2008, 09:49 PM
My favorite Onion article of all times: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29620

berrybunches
02-25-2008, 09:59 PM
They hit the most important issues head on in this video too!

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/poll_bullshit_is_most_important

purplechoe
02-25-2008, 11:29 PM
It's funny because it's true. This is reminding me of TV shows in Poland during the 80's under communism. You only heard resemblence of truth on the comedy shows. There's this one from 1983 "Alternatywy 4" which basically spells it out for you what it's like living under total central government planning. Lets just say that the whole idea of central planning is a very sick parody as far as I'm concerned.

BTW, Poland was the first country besides the US, to have a constitution based on the US one. A few years later Poland ceased to exist as a country for over 100 years. Anti-liberty forces are very strong in this world.

nodope0695
02-25-2008, 11:52 PM
BIG LOLZ!!! For statire, there is more truth in that video than most would admit to.

josephadel_3
02-26-2008, 12:40 AM
Who knows, maybe we really DO have a say. Bullets and angry masses speak louder than war propagating, lying, disgraceful, aristocrats.

rmholla
02-26-2008, 02:06 AM
hmmm, anyone wonder about his "assassination" comment at the end? With the Vantage Point movie just being released and Jericho back on TV it kinda makes one wonder if certain scenarios aren't being kicked around.

I'm not a conspiracy theory person but so many movies do have themes that eventually come true.... I'll be paying special attention to the VP choices. LOL

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