[Phantom Lord]

Caving so quick?

[mountaineer]

Are you volunteering to pay the damages if the Onion sues?

[MineralMan]

"Caving so quick?"

Well, unlike news sources, the Onion is fiction, satirical at that. I suspect that Jim has no choice in this matter, for the sake of FR.

Frankly, I won't miss Onion postings. Too many folks have taken them seriously in the past, causing confusion in those threads.

No problem, Jim!

[KC Burke]

Caving so quick?

If there is anything that Jim show's respect for outside politics, it is the hard work of another webmaster. If you recall, even after the hard words and link removal by Matt D, Jim got hot when some guys raided his site and got a story early.

I don't mind posting an excert and a link. The whole copy posting necessary in the Whitewater era was really a factor of the stories disappearing or being revised by higher editors in the left leaning journalism clique, thereby shielding Clinton. The fair use issue is only mandatory when the copy vanishes due to media hegomony.

[BreitbartSentMe]

Yea, I think MineralMan is right, the Fair Use clause that allows us to use news stories here would not apply to the Onion, because all their 'news' items are pure fiction or satire (That's not to say that what's posted in the LA Times isn't also pure fiction, most of the time, or any of Hitlery's books also)

[Old Professer]

One must always step deftly behind the King's carriage.

[Cyber Ninja]

So there are no more postings from the Onion.
On the net they’re a bit of a bunion.
Jim’s prudence is praised.
And my finger is raised.
This is no great loss, IMO.