View Full Version : Fox News Trashes Pres ... based on Onion Joke
boutons_deux
11-26-2010, 06:58 PM
Not that Fox Repug Propaganda network and its sheeple followers have any link to reality, any respect for journalism or the truth, but this is pretty cool:
Fox Nation readers confuse Onion article with real news
Fox News' opinion website Fox Nation and their readers don't seem to know satire when they see it.
The Fox News sister site re-posted a joke from the satirical website The Onion Friday about President Barack Obama sending a 75,000-word e-mail to the the entire nation. At no point does Fox Nation note that the story is a satire.
The Onion story joked that Obama had "reached the end of [his] rope" and sent out the "rambling" stream of consciousness e-mail that addressed everything from the war in Afghanistan to his live-in mother-in-law.
The story goes on to say that the fake Obama e-mail was 27 megabytes and 127 printed pages.
If Fox Nation knows the story is a joke, they aren't letting on, and many of the comments on the post treat the story as if it were actual news.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/fox-nation-readers-confuse-onion-article-real-news/
the article has several apparently serious comments as if the Onion joke were the "truth".
Actually, Fox Repug Propaganda network making up "news" and shit is different from the Onion making up jokes in the Fox ain't funny. And the Onion is a lot more creative than predictable Fox crap.
Wild Cobra
11-26-2010, 09:36 PM
Looks like Fox, being criticized for being different than the others, decided to use some of the same practices.
They're just trying to be like the others. You should give them kuddos for that.
ChumpDumper
11-26-2010, 09:37 PM
Who else passes off Onion stories as real?
Onion stories often confuse those who already know/have read their stuff before, tbh
MaNuMaNiAc
11-26-2010, 10:27 PM
Onion stories often confuse those who already know/have read their stuff before, tbh
Onion stories are purposely outrageous in order to prevent confusion. In most cases, once you finish reading an Onion article, you better be pretty certain it isn't real, otherwise you're pretty fucking stupid
Gutter92
11-26-2010, 10:31 PM
Onion stories are purposely outrageous in order to prevent confusion. In most cases, once you finish reading an Onion article, you better be pretty certain it isn't real, otherwise you're pretty fucking stupid
Pretty much lol
koriwhat
11-26-2010, 10:55 PM
i thought fox news was the onion? hmm...
boutons_deux
11-26-2010, 11:39 PM
Looks like Fox, being criticized for being different than the others
WC defending Fox Repug Propaganda network.
Fox isn't criticized and trashed for being "different, but for being hate media, bullying, opinionated assholes, extremely slanted to the right and the Repugs, even employing 4 or 5 Repug presidential hopefuls.
ChuckD
11-26-2010, 11:43 PM
Onion stories are purposely outrageous in order to prevent confusion. In most cases, once you finish reading an Onion article, you better be pretty certain it isn't real, otherwise you're pretty fucking stupid
Well, it was z0sa you were quoting. Consider the source before wasting keystrokes.
Well, it was z0sa you were quoting.
Who knows what "ChuckD" (lol) is butthurt about. BTW, Onion articles confuse people all the time, it's part of what makes them so funny - the amount of people who bite. Did I mention their intelligence levels? No.
ChuckD.. lol. I hope that's not your real name.
I'm pretty sure ChuckD is one of the douches who trashes d228 for posting articles and links. And he's around 50 years old, IIRC. What a lame life this dude must have.
Jacob1983
11-27-2010, 01:40 AM
The thread title is misleading. FOX News Channel did not report the Onion article as fact. Readers on an opinion based website were the ones that were confused. FOX News Channel has a lot of dumbasses and douchebags but they're not that stupid. Megyn Kelly is hot too. And so is that woman that is married to the boss of the NFL.
greyforest
11-27-2010, 03:02 AM
http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/434/foxnews152b.jpg
ElNono
11-27-2010, 04:02 AM
greyforest with the goods. :lmao
There's easily half of those that would make good Onion stories.
Wild Cobra
11-27-2010, 04:30 PM
WC defending Fox Repug Propaganda network.
Fox isn't criticized and trashed for being "different, but for being hate media, bullying, opinionated assholes, extremely slanted to the right and the Repugs, even employing 4 or 5 Repug presidential hopefuls.
I see that was over your head.
baseline bum
11-27-2010, 07:22 PM
:rollin @ greyforest's post. I don't know how anyone can watch that garbage network unless it's for laughs.
Gutter92
11-27-2010, 08:42 PM
What channel can I find Fox News on? I keep comedy central on in the background hoping it shows up...
byrontx
11-27-2010, 08:58 PM
That is beautiful, Greyforest. A big fuck you to anyone that tries to claim Faux News is a real news org.
Greyforest just did enough PWNAGE to last a lifetime.
Well done, sir. Well done.
Jacob1983
11-27-2010, 10:34 PM
What about MSNBC's lovefest for Obama?
Bartleby
11-27-2010, 10:42 PM
What about MSNBC's lovefest for Obama?
What about it?
Drachen
11-27-2010, 11:11 PM
I will say this, there was a pretty stupid girl in a class that I had during my undergrad. It was a humanities class about mythology. We had to give a short (5 min) presentation in which we chose a mythological character and compared them to someone currently in the public eye. This girl chose Loki and compared him to Kim Jong Il. Halfway through her presentation I almost fell out of my seat because one of her sources was a news story about him wanting to bring the moon to N. Korea and how he was building a machine to do this. Its an onion article. She used it as a source. In college. sad
Gutter92
11-28-2010, 12:46 AM
I will say this, there was a pretty stupid girl in a class that I had during my undergrad. It was a humanities class about mythology. We had to give a short (5 min) presentation in which we chose a mythological character and compared them to someone currently in the public eye. This girl chose Loki and compared him to Kim Jong Il. Halfway through her presentation I almost fell out of my seat because one of her sources was a news story about him wanting to bring the moon to N. Korea and how he was building a machine to do this. Its an onion article. She used it as a source. In college. sad
:lmao
Dear god tell me you have this on tape :lmao:lmao
Drachen
11-28-2010, 01:40 AM
That would have been classic. And yes, yes I did call her out.
Gutter92
11-28-2010, 04:15 AM
That would have been classic. And yes, yes I did call her out.
Haha what did she say? That's funny as hell :rollin
ChumpDumper
11-28-2010, 04:54 AM
Do you go to UTSA?
Winehole23
11-28-2010, 05:14 AM
I'm pretty sure this isn't the first time this has happened.
Yonivore
11-28-2010, 11:06 AM
At no point does Fox Nation note that the story is a satire.
They did it in the first two words of the title
The Onion: Frustrated Obama Sends Nation Rambling 75,000-Word E-Mail (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=cache:http://nation.foxnews.com/barack-obama/2010/11/26/frustrated-obama-sends-nation-rambling-75000-word-e-mail)
Maybe Fox Nation doesn't take their readers for a bunch of retards that have never heard of The Onion.
The even link to The Onion story at the bottom of the article...
Drachen
11-28-2010, 12:53 PM
Do you go to UTSA?
For my masters? Yes.
Bartleby
11-28-2010, 01:30 PM
They did it in the first two words of the title
The Onion: Frustrated Obama Sends Nation Rambling 75,000-Word E-Mail (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=cache:http://nation.foxnews.com/barack-obama/2010/11/26/frustrated-obama-sends-nation-rambling-75000-word-e-mail)
Maybe Fox Nation doesn't take their readers for a bunch of retards that have never heard of The Onion.
The even link to The Onion story at the bottom of the article...
From the link provided by the OP:
The page was preserved through Google Cache, but the comment thread, which showed dozens of loyal Fox readers reacting to a joke story from The Onion as if it were real, is gone.
Some of the comments were preserved by Raw Story in the story below.
lol retarded Fox readers
ChumpDumper
11-28-2010, 01:37 PM
They did it in the first two words of the title
The Onion: Frustrated Obama Sends Nation Rambling 75,000-Word E-Mail (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=cache:http://nation.foxnews.com/barack-obama/2010/11/26/frustrated-obama-sends-nation-rambling-75000-word-e-mail)
Maybe Fox Nation doesn't take their readers for a bunch of retards that have never heard of The Onion.
The even link to The Onion story at the bottom of the article...
The page was preserved through Google Cache, but the comment thread, which showed dozens of loyal Fox readers reacting to a joke story from The Onion as if it were real, is gone.
Some of the comments were preserved by Raw Story in the story below.
http://www.gifbin.com/bin/1238409288_adam-slapped.gif
fraga
11-28-2010, 02:35 PM
Silly Tea Party Foxpublicans...
Spurminator
11-28-2010, 07:30 PM
Maybe Fox Nation doesn't take their readers for a bunch of retards
That would be a first for Fox. Are they expanding beyond their core demo?
For my masters? Yes.
Where did you go for your undergrad then? Now I'm curious.
RandomGuy
11-29-2010, 08:55 AM
Looks like Fox, being criticized for being different than the others, decided to use some of the same practices.
They're just trying to be like the others. You should give them kuddos for that.
Seriously? That's what you are going with?
Name one other satirical article from Fox News Opinion pages.
Just one.
If you can't, then quit pissing on my shoes and telling me its raining.
You damn well know they leaped on the chance to make political hay from something that got forwarded to them as "fact" and the low standards of journalism practiced at Fox let it through what should be a fact-checking filtering process.
You know it, and I know it. Whether you, or any other Fox "news" supporter/listener will admit to those low standards is another thing.
(snorts)
RandomGuy
11-29-2010, 10:03 AM
They did it in the first two words of the title
The Onion: Frustrated Obama Sends Nation Rambling 75,000-Word E-Mail (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=cache:http://nation.foxnews.com/barack-obama/2010/11/26/frustrated-obama-sends-nation-rambling-75000-word-e-mail)
Maybe Fox Nation doesn't take their readers for a bunch of retards that have never heard of The Onion.
The even link to The Onion story at the bottom of the article...
http://rawreplaymedia.com/media/2010/1009/foxnation_obama_email_pt1_101126b.jpg
They altered the headline after it got reported in elsewhere that they got suckered.
Sorry bizzarro_butons, you fail.
Again.
(edit)
The story has been completely pulled by now.
Too bad for Yoni the screen cap proof of the low journalistic standards of his favorite news source lives on.
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