What, isn't this how *news is always reported?

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I usually like The Onion but this shit really isn't funny. It's in pretty bad taste to mock the suffering and death of anyone, even fake people. The events depicted echo a much more troubling reality, and while the parody may be mainly on the style of journalism I still find it really bad form. And then to imply that either Barack or McCain condone and are vying for the vote of this new mass murderer is pretty morose. This piece sounds as if it would've been written by a disgruntled high school freshman. As it all comes down to personal taste I'll simply no-vote, but come on, they can do a lot better than that.

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I usually like The Onion but this shit really isn't funny. It's in pretty bad taste to mock the suffering and death of anyone, even fake people. The events depicted echo a much more troubling reality, and while the parody may be mainly on the style of journalism I still find it really bad form. And then to imply that either Barack or McCain condone and are vying for the vote of this new mass murderer is pretty morose. This piece sounds as if it would've been written by a disgruntled high school freshman. As it all comes down to personal taste I'll simply no-vote, but come on, they can do a lot better than that.


I disagree almost entirely, I think that this was a brilliant piece of comedy, not laugh out loud funny, but blacker than the heart of darkness, and really hit home the effects that power and the lust for it has on people.

Additionally, I don't think this is mocking the death and suffering of anyone, the reason why it delves so deep into the human suffering pot, is not to mock those that suffer, but to mock those that are so desperate for power, who are willing to manipulate any tragedy however grave, and those who publicise such ideas, who usually have there fingers in the same pot as the fore mentioned group.

This is certainly a change of pace from the onion, not to a "lets make jokes about the suffering of others", but more to a "Lets take a step back, and examine the world, realise how insane some of it has become"

Bingo to what Kerotan said. This is a brilliant piece of dark satire. This really points out the 'blinkers on' way in which both those running for office and the media look at the world during election time.

EVERYTHING seems to be tinted by how it'll affect the election, everything. So, this isn't actually THAT much of a stretch from reality.

And that's what scary.

This makes you think, doesn't necessarily make you laugh out loud, but makes you somewhat laugh at the ridiculousness of the current world.

*nsfw for the hilarious text crawl gag about the congressional bill

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Oh, and yes, *parody.

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