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The Onion Can’t Bear to Mock The One
Big Hollywood ^ | February 22, 2009 | Christian Toto

Posted on 02/22/2009 9:33:54 AM PST by EveningStar

America’s Finest News Source has some explaining to do.

The Onion , the usually biting comic weekly, just can’t bring itself to mock President Barack Obama. The One has been in office for more than a month now, and the last four Onion issues have tip-toed around anything remotely tough on the Commander-in-Chief. It’s hardly a shock, since most comics in toto seem to have a hands off approach to the new president. But The Onion?

(Excerpt) Read more at bighollywood.breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; bighollywood; first100days; humorlessdems; obama; obamamessiah; theonion
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To: EveningStar

A day after the election they mocked him as a Nigerian Scammer who made off with $85 million in campaign funds.


21 posted on 02/22/2009 9:57:26 AM PST by Boiling Pots (The Gov't trying to fix the economy is like the Three Stooges trying to fix your plumbing)
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To: ChiMark

Ditto


22 posted on 02/22/2009 9:58:03 AM PST by Enterprise (A Representative Republic - gone now. Foolish people.)
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To: Lancey Howard

That’s a good start!


23 posted on 02/22/2009 10:00:55 AM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Crawdad

I guess you’re right, most jokes aren’t funny.


24 posted on 02/22/2009 10:01:28 AM PST by gusopol3
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To: Lancey Howard

25 posted on 02/22/2009 10:08:32 AM PST by GOPmember
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To: EveningStar
I'd forgotten The Onion even existed.

I get most of my satire from ThePeoplesCube.com and Scrappleface.com anyway.

http://www.thepeoplescube.com

http://www.scrappleface.com

26 posted on 02/22/2009 10:08:56 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Lancey Howard

27 posted on 02/22/2009 10:10:39 AM PST by GOPmember
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To: EveningStar

The Onion is obviously not as fearless or credible as they would like people to believe. The 0bama administration is the very definition of a target rich parody gold mine. The Onion stinks.


28 posted on 02/22/2009 10:14:12 AM PST by Post Toasties (Conservatives allow the guilty to be executed but Lefties insist that the innocent be executed.)
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To: Lancey Howard

How is this in any way derogatory? It’s sympathetic. Mad isn’t mad at Obama.


29 posted on 02/22/2009 10:14:23 AM PST by Misterioso (Obama was elected not in spite of his color but because of it.)
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To: Texas Eagle

I like both of those sites. :)


30 posted on 02/22/2009 10:14:26 AM PST by EveningStar
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To: Misterioso

If you read the Mad issue, I think you’ll find that you’re wrong. The article “The First Hundred Minutes” is very funny and very disparaging of Hussein.


31 posted on 02/22/2009 10:16:35 AM PST by EggsAckley
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To: Lancey Howard
Wow, no punches pulled here


32 posted on 02/22/2009 10:17:03 AM PST by GOPmember
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To: Jeff Chandler

“Hundredth Monkey Effect”

Racist!!!


33 posted on 02/22/2009 10:17:05 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Misterioso

OOOps! I didn’t see the other covers. Good on MAD.


34 posted on 02/22/2009 10:18:50 AM PST by Misterioso (Obama was elected not in spite of his color but because of it.)
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To: livius
I think you’ve summed it up. They’re scared.

It's an interesting question.

Does the Onion (and for that matter all entertainment and "news" media) want to criticize Marxist Obama, and are they simply too cowardly and terrorized?

Or could be they fellow travelers who want to see uber change from our free and open government and to separate us from our traditions and American culture?

Or both?

I hold out hope that some from among the media will recognize Obama's falsehoods, shortcomings, and abuses, then realize that they miss that First Amendment thingie, and break ranks.

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35 posted on 02/22/2009 10:21:11 AM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: Cyman
"Like all white MSM, hell most white people, the suggestion of being called a racist is sufficient to put the kabosh on any criticism eg recent dead monkey cartoon

Holder was right. We are a nation of cowards. And the biggest cowards work on the broadcast network talk shows - leno, letterman, kimmel et. al.

36 posted on 02/22/2009 10:23:00 AM PST by Big_Monkey
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To: Seaplaner
I hold out hope that some from among the media will recognize Obama's falsehoods, shortcomings, and abuses, then realize that they miss that First Amendment thingie, and break ranks.

I have a feeling that unless they do this right away, very soon they won't even have a chance to do it.

37 posted on 02/22/2009 10:29:15 AM PST by livius
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To: EveningStar

You can link. No one can prevent linking. Period.


38 posted on 02/22/2009 10:35:28 AM PST by Crazieman (Feb 7, 2008 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1966675/posts?page=28#28)
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To: EveningStar
The One has been in office for more than a month now, and the last four Onion issues have tip-toed around anything remotely tough on the Commander-in-Chief.

I don't know about the Onion's coverage of the president (haven't been paying attention). But right after the election, the Onion News Network did a nice mock of his supporters, discussed here.

39 posted on 02/22/2009 10:36:50 AM PST by cynwoody
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To: Lancey Howard

Not only is the cover a keeper, but I think I’ll buy it at my local Barnes & Noble...the reaction of the liberal checkout clerks will be added fun!


40 posted on 02/22/2009 10:44:26 AM PST by LostInBayport (When more than 98% of the Republicans on Capitol Hill vote against a bill, it is not bipartisan.)
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