Posted on 09/13/2019 1:24:58 AM PDT by Norski
NEW YORK, NY—In honor of the anniversary of Chairman Mao Zedong's death, The New York Times unfurled a giant, 50-foot-wide banner honoring the "brave revolutionary" outside its New York offices Monday.
After public outcry, they admitted this might have been "slightly inappropriate."
"While we stand by our decision to honor one of history's great men, we admit the banner lacked important historical context," said one Times editor. "While his ideas were morally right, they factually killed a bunch of people, and that's not something we wanted to promote. Unless you're killing yourself to combat climate change."
Paper executives considered adding some historical context to the banner, like writing "Morally right but factually a mass murderer" to the bottom but eventually decided to just take it down so as not to obscure the facts above and beyond the paper's usual fact obscuring threshold.
The banner has been replaced with a large mural of Joseph Stalin.
Ah...
I fell for it until I noticed the source.
The thread is based on Babylon Bee, a satire site.
And here the Onion went out of business because lunacy was so widespread, no one could tell the differnce any more. Babylon Bee has picked up where they left off and is doing a great job! They secret is that they don’t mind if people can’t tell if it’s a real story or not — their sarcasm doesn’t have to be obvious.
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