As a long-time occasional reader of the satirical newspaper The Onion, I couldn't help but notice a leftward drift to its humor. Now I see why:
Lots of people on the right think that the liberal group MoveOn.org is a joke. Well, now they’ll have a bit more ammo in their argument.
The powerful liberal activist group has wooed Peter Koechley away from the satirical newspaper The Onion, where he was managing editor.
In an e-mail blast that went out on Thursday, Koechley refers to “MoveOn, where I now work.”
The missive directs recipients to VotePoke.com, a new MoveOn project that allows users to check their voter registration status and encourage their friends to register.
An Onion spokesman confirmed that Koechley departed in the fall; his name no longer appears on The Onion’s masthead. MoveOn did not provide us a comment by press time.
2004 flashback: Onion expresses little interest in making fun of John Kerry.
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so..
January 11, 2008 - 10:48 ET by pwozfake news leaves for bull news.... hmmmm
Credit where credit is due
January 11, 2008 - 10:51 ET by RiharI think you're giving too much credit to MoveOn by calling it bullNEWS. It's barely opinion, pablum more like.
When a liberal speaks, the truth is busy elsewhere.
I would be interesting to
January 11, 2008 - 11:23 ET by Roger the ShrubberI would be interesting to see if the political tilt at The Onion changes. This is interesting news, indeed!
Where did Hater's extremely-relevent post disappear to?
It vanished right about
January 11, 2008 - 12:35 ET by Hero SquadIt vanished right about the time I was adding something to it. It's too bad, because I wrote quite the witty retort. And as Leon knows, conservatives like myself are always quite funny.
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"There are no stupid questions. Only stupid people who ask questions." - Chris Berman
Herbert Kornfeld must be
January 11, 2008 - 11:23 ET by Hero SquadHerbert Kornfeld must be spinning in his grave.
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"There are no stupid questions. Only stupid people who ask questions." - Chris Berman
the jokes write themselves
January 11, 2008 - 11:48 ET by bulbasaurThe jokes just write themselves, don't they?
From fiction to bad fiction, from funny parody to unfunny parody.
how could you tell the difference?
January 11, 2008 - 13:42 ET by wizardjrI get confused when reading something from MoveOn.org as it has always been difficult to tell that I haven't hit the link to The Onion. Now it will be guaranteed to be all the same.
Ah.. So that's why they
January 11, 2008 - 14:05 ET by Jack BauerAh.. So that's why they changed their name to MoveOnion.org
As if they weren't enough of a joke already.
Koechley was probably the genius who came up with the stunning wordplay of Petraeus/Betray Us!