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The Onion remains America’s Finest News Source

· Humour

Some headlines just speak for themselves. (Via Andrew Sullivan)

August 3rd, 2006 |

9 comments to The Onion remains America’s Finest News Source

  • Winzeler
    August 3, 2006 at 3:19 am

    Is this a joke?

  • Scott Wickstein
    August 3, 2006 at 3:22 am

    Yes, it’s a joke. Hence the ‘Humour’ category.

  • Alan K. Henderson
    August 3, 2006 at 5:11 am

    The other day a talk radio caller said that Bush should emulate that hero to the radical left Fidel Castro – by passing his office to his brother Jeb.

  • chuck
    August 3, 2006 at 5:26 am

    I suppose you have to belong to the illuminati to get the joke. Sullivan, of course, has the unique vision of a man stuck in his own navel.

  • Scott Wickstein
    August 3, 2006 at 8:24 am

    From the Samizdata ‘mission statement’:

    “The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property. Amongst our many crimes is a sense of humour and the intermittent use of British spelling.”

  • Johnathan Pearce
    August 3, 2006 at 8:35 am

    Scott, I suspect some genuine Bushies cannot believe that a libertarian blog – like this one – actually dares to take the piss out of Dubya. Well, as Scott said, take a look at the message on the right of the blog, folks. It does not say this is a Republican blog.

    I can see why some folk have become fed up with Andrew Sullivan, though. In the days immediately after 9/11, Sully was quite happy to brand leftwing opponents of the Iraqi invasion as a potential “5th column”. He has, to be fair, since retracted that, but Sullivan is a bit of a shoot-from-the-hip commentator. He also has a habit of assuming that because other bloggers like Glenn Reynolds do not spend all their bandwidth cursing Bush they are therefore, somehow, guilty of supporting him regardless. Sullivan has become a bit of a bully.

  • Laughing Cavalier
    August 3, 2006 at 8:53 am

    If you replace ‘President Bush’ with ‘Prime Minister Blair’ the article remains coherent and, given the original intention of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill, more accurate.

  • Dale Amon
    August 3, 2006 at 12:19 pm

    Real life does mimic the Onion at times… this sounds quite like what Hero Of The Revolution Abraham Lincoln did from 1861 onwards. So there is a very long Republican tradition here.

  • chuck
    August 3, 2006 at 5:47 pm

    Sullivan has become a bit of a bully.

    Bit of a bore would be more accurate.

    …this sounds quite like what Hero Of The Revolution Abraham Lincoln did from 1861 onwards.

    On that scale I would rate the presidents so:

    1) Lincoln
    2) Roosevelt
    3) Wilson
    4) Johnson
    5) Nixon
    6) Kennedy

    Johnson and Kennedy were more undercover than the higher ranked presidents.

    Real life does mimic the Onion at times

    Humor has its age groups.

    gradeschool/highschool: Mad Magazine and Cracked.

    college: The Onion

    young adult: the old National Lampoon

    grownups: ScrappleFace? PJ O’Rourke?

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