Post: #1

Well, it looks like America's Finest News Source is officially dead. The owners of Univision purchased a stake in the business, and it's already changing to a propaganda machine for one of their beloved candidates:

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/hillary...mediately/

https://theintercept.com/2016/01/26/ha-h...the-onion/

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2...-seriously

I guess it wouldn't last forever. I'm sad to see The Onion die. It's been one of the funniest sites on the Net for 20 years.

Post: #2

There's no longer a need for it anyway- We see stories daily of real events involving SJW's, feminists, the perpetually offended, migrants in Europe, etc etc that are just as incredible as anything the Onion writes.

Truth is officially stranger than fiction now.

Post: #3

/thread-49822...pid1090788

Post: #4

I saw the story mentioned a couple days ago:



Immediately seemed like something was way off from their usual political satire, like it was actually a blatant advertisement. Makes perfect sense now, unfortunately.

Post: #5

I think I called this. Hillary and her team would silence any critical media. Even satires, especially satire, as they poke fun at the obvious and make you process it at face value. The article calling Hillary "a with who could not burn" is poking fun but hamering in the obvious. MSM media never gets like that.

Post: #6

I blame the previous owner who sold his life's work to rats.

Post: #7

Here's a hilarious article that many men on this board can appreciate:

http://www.theonion.com/article/girlfrie...inter-1507

Post: #8

(02-19-2016 02:27 AM)Soma Wrote:  Immediately seemed like something was way off from their usual political satire, like it was actually a blatant advertisement. Makes perfect sense now, unfortunately.

Have you watched the recent season of South Park? Now FAKE NEWS has turned into advertising. You can't make this shit up (unless of course you're the Onion).

Post: #9

Damn. The Borg Collective eventually consumes all.

Post: #10

(02-19-2016 02:54 AM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:  I blame the previous owner who sold his life's work to rats.

Sad to see that the Zweibel's finally sold out


Tis a sad day for publishing indeed.

Post: #11

Honestly I've felt the Onion was dead for about ten years now. It was only really funny in the early days, after that it was just the same joke told over and over again in a million ways.

Post: #12

Another example of how to change the culture.....buy media outlets. Politics is downstream of culture.

Post: #13

The elites know how to demoralize the working man! He fights for his measly raise in pay while they squander millions, billions, in inane bullshit to prove a point. The last laugh will be how many hundreds of millions were spent propping up Hillary and she still lost the race.
Liberals worship their cause. It is their god.

Post: #14

Gotta love the article about Trump immediately beneath the Hillary piece; nothing but an insulting cheap shot, claiming that Trump threw up because of his fear of public speaking. No satire (despite Trump being easily satirizable, regardless of how much I like him) - just snarky insults.

I guess they know their audience.

Post: #15

"52 Year Old Man Lives as a 6 Year Old Girl"

How can you write satire when the real headlines are more ridiculous than anything you could make up?

The Onion has been obsolete for a while now.

Post: #16

(02-19-2016 04:34 PM)Aurini Wrote:  No satire (despite Trump being easily satirizable, regardless of how much I like him) - just snarky insults.

One of their last good Trump pieces was the one about his visit to Iowa:

The Onion Wrote:Trump Tells Iowa Dairy Farmers He Has Cows 500 Times Bigger Than Theirs

Appearing at a campaign event in the early primary state, real estate mogul and presidential candidate Donald Trump told an assembled group of dairy farmers Monday that his cows were 500 times bigger than theirs. “Your cows are small and scrawny, and you should be embarrassed to milk them,” said Trump, adding that each of his cows was the size of “at least” a dozen Cadillacs and had “udders that’ll make your head spin.”

“No one raises dairy cows as gigantic or successful as I do; everyone knows that. My cattle are winners, and you people would be lucky to have them graze here.”

Chatting with patrons at a diner later in the day, Trump reportedly said the apple pie was a disgrace and that his pies were a mile wide, with a perfect crust that made all the losers jealous.

http://www.theonion.com/article/trump-te...-tim-50792

I was cackling madly again while merely writing this post

Post: #17

Adios, El Cebolla.

I lived in Madison, Wisconsin when The Onion was first in print, and it's hard to see it go like this.

Post: #18

- Here's a piece this readership may appreciate

Housewife Charged In Sex-For-Security Scam

AKRON, OH—Area resident Helen Crandall, 44, was arrested by Akron police Sunday, charged with conducting an elaborate "sex for security" scam in which she allegedly defrauded husband Russell Crandall out of nearly $230,000 in cash, food, clothing and housing over the past 19 years using periodic offers of sexual intercourse.

A 1993 photo of alleged "sex for security" scam artist Helen Crandall. Police suspect the groceries she is holding were paid for by her victim, husband David Crandall:



"It's the biggest scam of its kind I've ever seen," Akron police chief Thomas Agee said. "We're talking coats, dishwashers, jewelry, sewing machines, bathroom cleansers—you name it."

According to Agee, undercover agents spotted Crandall's husband handing her $50 in cash at approximately 4 p.m., just 30 minutes after the two had sex. Crandall then drove off in her car, returning home two hours later with five bags of groceries.

"That's when we made the arrest," Agee said. "After tracking her for years, we finally had proof that she was buying all those goods with dirty money."

During the arrest, Akron police officials entered the Crandall household and seized more than 150 items Mrs. Crandall had received from her husband over the last 19 years, including a four-speed adjustable food processor, 12 pairs of earrings, a matching sofa and loveseat, a box of two-ply kitchen garbage bags, and a portable radio.

In exchange for these items, Agee said, Crandall's husband received sex an estimated 950 times—most frequently in the master bedroom, but also in the downstairs den three times, and once on the floor of the sewing room.

In addition to physical evidence, Akron police have collected considerable eyewitness testimony. More than 250 Akron residents have come forward to report seeing Helen and Russell Crandall together, and several said they witnessed Mr. Crandall flagrantly purchasing items for his wife.

"Sure, they'd come in here," said Ray Greene of Greene's House and Home. "I think the last time they got one of those box fans with the three settings."

Perhaps the most damaging testimony has come from Mr. Crandall himself, who on Tuesday told police that while the couple was dating in 1977, Mrs. Crandall—then known as Helen Steuben—demanded that he buy her a ring worth over $1,000 before he could have sex with her. The first sexual liaison took place some six months later at Bob's Honeymooner Hotel during an all-expenses-paid trip to Niagara Falls.

It was also in 1977, Mr. Crandall said, that his wife quit her job at Shippee Shoes in downtown Akron.

"Clearly," Summit County prosecutor Andrew Dravecky said, "after quitting her job, the accused began receiving money under the table from some other source: How else could she have afforded to not work? It's now pretty apparent that at that point she began supporting herself by providing a certain service to Mr. Crandall."

Crandall's mother, Bernice Steuben, a resident of the Valley View Senior Home in Yuma, AZ, is being sought for questioning in connection to the case: Police suspect that Steuben may have introduced her daughter to the sex-for-security scam after having used it herself from 1932 to 1971.

But for all the evidence collected against Crandall, Dravecky said the case will likely be difficult to prosecute. "Helen was very careful to cover her tracks," he said. "She even got her husband to put her name on the bank accounts and credit cards."

The Crandall case is not an isolated incident, said criminologist John Ohlmeyer, who said there are "literally millions" of such cases across the U.S. each year that never come to court.

"This kind of thing isn't as uncommon as we'd all like to think," Ohlmeyer said. "A woman finds herself in a situation where she isn't employable. Or maybe she has interests like child-rearing, cooking and home-maintenance that keep her from getting a job. So what does she do? She cooks up a scheme to entrap a man using her body as the bait. It's frightening, but it happens every day in this country."

- Bonus vids:

Post: #19

If you had existing doubts about establishment actively controlling and shaping just about every facet of the media then this is just additional proof of what goes on behind the scenes.

These big establishment figures will go to extraordinary lengths to shape culture the way they see fit and to push in their agendas..for "your own good" of course.

Onion is just a satire site but even then it didn't escape their attention.

Post: #20

While it's sad to see the onion go to pot, at least we can console ourselves with the fact that these transparent sorts of corporate-style subversion never actually have any effect.

It's the equivalent of Hillary putting on a baggy t-shirt and a backwards baseball cap and walking up to a group of blacks and saying, "Hey 'yo', what is up my n-words? I just want to rap with you dogs! Say, you know what's even more fly on the down-low than reefers? Participating in a liberal democracy! Why don't we come back to my hizzy and read some pamphlets, now that I've proven myself to be an authentic member of your subculture."

Post: #21

Isn't every institution taken over by the left unless it's outright conservative and fighting the ideology. I'm not surprised, cracked was the same. Satirical websites are very prone to be taken over by the left, maybe because the left know how powerful humour can be to undermine their ideology.

Post: #22

(02-19-2016 04:34 PM)Aurini Wrote:  Gotta love the article about Trump immediately beneath the Hillary piece; nothing but an insulting cheap shot, claiming that Trump threw up because of his fear of public speaking. No satire (despite Trump being easily satirizable, regardless of how much I like him) - just snarky insults.

I guess they know their audience.

Their political satire was always Left Snarky, so I don't miss them. Though I do remember one satirical piece on Apple that was really good: "Apple Debuts MacBook That Has A Giant Clickwheel For a Keyboard".

The only satire of the left that I've found is Gavin McInnes' "brother" Miles McInnes. Nails it! Wish more people would do satire of the left or SJWs.. it would be very easy.