I don't get why the title is completely untrue. It's the completely un-funny clips like this that made me stop paying attention to the Onion. They've had a few good ones lately, but maybe that was just a fluke.

>> ^MaxWilder:
I don't get why the title is completely untrue. It's the completely un-funny clips like this that made me stop paying attention to the Onion. They've had a few good ones lately, but maybe that was just a fluke.


The title is an extension of the satire already in the video. This is exactly what the Bush administration does at their press conferences - they take the most negative things possible and spin them to the point where they are either ignoring the problem or not addressing the magnitude of the situation. The media (represented by The Onion) latches onto that and misinterprets the "spin doctors", using the headline to proclaim that the previously negative thing has suddenly become a "positive" issue, despite it being nothing of the sort.

It's subtle, but it's there...

I think the word you're looking for is "magnitude." Magnanimty refers to the virtue of a great mind and heart.

Ugh, brain fart. Right you are. Fixed.

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