Bush Offers Taxpayers Another $300 If We Go To War

[Larissa]

Bush Offers Taxpayers Another $300 If We Go To War

Please, check this article:

http://www.theonion.com/onion3908/bush_off..._taxpayers.html (http://www.theonion.com/onion3908/bush_offers_taxpayers.html)

[Non-Sectarian Bastard!]

Thats sick, that's really sick..

[Blibblob]

AHHH!!!!!

ALLAH, SAVE US FROM THE EVIL GOD!!!


God must be up there in heaven, sitting on a golden throne, in a Hawain shirt.

[ReduntilDead]

Good news guys, The Onion is a fake news paper, treat it as humor and praise to (enter god here) that it isn't real.

[canikickit]

You actually took that seriously?


"Things have been pretty tight lately, so this sure would come in handy," said Ray Kilty, 48, an Akron, OH, screen-door-factory worker. "I don't know much about what's going on with Iraq, but I do know what's going on with my truck. The brakes are set to go any day now."



:biggrin:

[Exploited Class]

One of China's news sources thought that The Onion was a real new source and quoted from it and everything. Then after finding out, they retracted the story.

And you have to admit, The Onion writers do a really good job of copying the look and style of newspapers. I can easily see somebody not from the US not knowing it was satire if they didn't click on the other links.

(Edited by exploitedclass at 2:49 am on Mar. 8, 2003)

[canikickit]

"Which reminds me, have you seen these new iPods?" added Bush, pulling an Apple-brand MP3 player from his pocket and holding it up to the crowd. "It costs $299 for one of these little buggers, but it holds a thousand songs. They're amazing."

http://graphics.theonion.com/pics_3908/bush_offers_taxpayers.jpg

Come off it.

[Exploited Class]

Come off what? I am not on anything but love and happy butterflies from a Disney film. I am high on life CIKI, Mr. Cynical Grumpy. Turn that frown upside down.

Check out that photoshop you just posted. Do you know how hard it would be to do the "War Pays" like that in the background and not make it look fake? The check is done very, very well too.

Sure the iPod thing should tell you that it is fake, it is the dead ringer of that article. If you just skimmed through it, english was a second language, you already disliked Bush and are very susceptable to believing anything negative about him then I could see that how this could seem somewhat true.

Its about making and reinforcing the excuses for others.

[Exploited Class]

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,53048,00.html

http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress...ion/3429896.htm (http://www.twincities.com/mld/pioneerpress/news/nation/3429896.htm)

BEIJING — It was a great story: U.S. Congress wants new building, threatens to leave Washington.

So one of Beijing's biggest tabloids published as news the fictional account from the Web site of the American satire newspaper The Onion — and got an embarrassing lesson in journalism.

The June 3 report by the Beijing Evening News quoted House Speaker Dennis Hastert calling the domed, 209-year-old U.S. Capitol "inappropriate for a world-class legislature." Others said Congress might move to Tennessee or North Carolina if it didn't get a new building.

Anyway it has happened to other people and news organizations. Whatever the reasons.

[canikickit]

aww, gimme a hug.

I wasn't accusing anyone of being stupid or gullible. I thought it was funny that people took it seriously. It is funny.

Of course the Onion is done well, I quite like the Onion.

One shouldn't skim through things, though.

[Larissa]

Quote: from ReduntilDead on 9:34 pm on Mar. 7, 2003
Good news guys, The Onion is a fake news paper, treat it as humor and praise to (enter god here) that it isn't real.
:biggrin: It's not real, don't worry, but it resembles reality to a certain extent.