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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?

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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; bighollywood; first100days; humorlessdems; obama; obamamessiah; theonion
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To: EveningStar
The Onion forbids Free Republic from using their material in any way!

Do they have the same policy with DUmbo, Huff'n'puff or the Daily Kooks?

41 posted on 02/22/2009 10:54:26 AM PST by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: EveningStar
That thing about Conan really worries me. It's bad enough that he grew up in a third-world country and came of age as a cog in the Chicago political machine... but his hero is Conan the Cimmerian?
We are well and truly fu
42 posted on 02/22/2009 10:58:25 AM PST by ClaudiusI
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To: EveningStar

Good advice; if you want to know why just go there and watch the most current video — exit FR first.


43 posted on 02/22/2009 11:01:20 AM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: Crazieman

Yeah. But you can’t post the link here.


44 posted on 02/22/2009 11:06:46 AM PST by EveningStar
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To: Big_Monkey

I don’t think Holder’s assertion that America’s a nation of racial cowards was a dressing-down; I think, coming from the current AG, it was a warning, meant to remind us of who is now in charge.


45 posted on 02/22/2009 11:07:46 AM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: EveningStar; Lancey Howard; autumnraine
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46 posted on 02/22/2009 11:14:53 AM PST by bigheadfred (Negromancer !!! RUN for your lives !!!)
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To: EveningStar

EVERY news story about Obama already sounds like it's from The Onion.

"President Obama pushed through legislation today allocating 30 million dollars for a salt marsh harvest mouse resort."

"Obama appoints pornography advocate to top Justice Department position."

Whether they are protecting mice, sleaze, or the latest appointee who doesn't pay his taxes, it reads like its own satire.

47 posted on 02/22/2009 11:25:56 AM PST by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: Big_Monkey; Cyman
I had this valentine post of Michelle pulled by the mods, and others complained by freepmail it simulated something similar to the monkey cartoon. It is intended as a joke only.

Michelle

48 posted on 02/22/2009 11:26:34 AM PST by bigheadfred (Negromancer !!! RUN for your lives !!!)
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To: EveningStar
Bill Griffith is one liberal who apparently has not drunk the kool-aid:

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49 posted on 02/22/2009 11:29:29 AM PST by Notary Sojac
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To: Crazieman

Forbidding linking is the equivalent of the kids in the back seat yelling

“Dad! He’s looking at me!”

But, then again leftists are perpetually in an INFANTILE mindset.


50 posted on 02/22/2009 11:29:37 AM PST by MrB (The 0bamanation: Marxism, Infanticide, Appeasement, Depression, Thuggery, and Censorship)
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To: Notary Sojac

What. The hell. Was that?


51 posted on 02/22/2009 11:31:33 AM PST by Future Snake Eater ("Get out of the boat and walk on the water with us!”--Sen. Joe Biden)
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To: Texas Eagle
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

I hope you don't mind if I link these?

http://www.thepeoplescube.com

http://www.scrappleface.com

52 posted on 02/22/2009 11:38:49 AM PST by bigheadfred (Negromancer !!! RUN for your lives !!!)
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To: Future Snake Eater

Zippy Livni the pinhead?


53 posted on 02/22/2009 11:39:10 AM PST by ari-freedom (Hail to the Dork!)
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To: EveningStar

Hmm but HotAir can link them and quote them.


54 posted on 02/22/2009 11:40:11 AM PST by Sir Gawain (With Obama's "tax cut" I can afford a torch and a pitchfork in just TWO WEEKS!)
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To: EveningStar
We wouldn't want to disturb The Onion's writers while they're dallying over yet another personal ice cream tub of ObamasAss!TM flavor, would we?

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm - good!

55 posted on 02/22/2009 11:43:42 AM PST by an amused spectator (Obama: Beware of geeks bearing grifts)
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To: FrdmLvr
I’ve noticed the same thing with Doonsbury, which I never read, but have made a point of scanning on a near-daily basis to catch the subject matter. Nothing. Nada - and in this gaffe-rich environment that is The Obama Regime. Unbelievable.

As I've posted before - all you need to do is picture these hate-filled klowns like Garry Trudeau and the writers at The Onion huddled over their personal tub of ObamasAss!TM ice cream, licking their Messiah-excrement-encrusted spoons with relish, and you'll know all you need to know.

I thought it was bad with Clinton, but this is throwing-up-stomach-lining-chunks bad. And they don't even see it.

56 posted on 02/22/2009 11:50:37 AM PST by an amused spectator (Obama: Beware of geeks bearing grifts)
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To: EveningStar
Can I use a headline to link to The Onion on my site?

The Onion does not support the use of its headlines without the express written consent of the publisher. You can put a link to The Onion on your site but may not use the headlines or content.

This is on their site. Where does it say that I can't link to FR?

57 posted on 02/22/2009 11:50:52 AM PST by bigheadfred (Negromancer !!! RUN for your lives !!!)
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To: bigheadfred
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58 posted on 02/22/2009 11:55:24 AM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

I guess I should print that list and keep it handy. Thanks.


59 posted on 02/22/2009 12:02:07 PM PST by bigheadfred (Negromancer !!! RUN for your lives !!!)
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To: Future Snake Eater
FSE, you are obviously not having fun yet.

www.zippythepinhead.com

60 posted on 02/22/2009 12:34:44 PM PST by Notary Sojac
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