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September 09, 2004

Truth Through Parody

I've been an avid reader of The Onion for years since I have a fondness for good parody. That also explains my love of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (click that for one of their best episodes ever).

Sadly, in this era of George W. Bush, media parodies are often the most honest and accurate commentaries out there. Anybody who watches The Daily Show will know what I'm talking about.

So, on that note, I'd like to pass along a link that is making the rounds in the blogsphere of late. The Onion, the gold standard in print journalism parodies, had an article in 2001 called "Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare of Peace and Prosperity is Finally Over'". I know I was in a pretty foul mood during that time of Florida election debacles and GWB's inauguration, so I clearly remember appreciating the dark humor as they predicted the coming years under W.

Never would I have dreamed that somebody could annotate that humorous article nearly four years later and suck much of the parody right out of it without changing a single word. Who is laughing now?

Check it out (Warning: it might be slow... many, many hits):

http://chak.org/pages/onion/bush_nightmare.html

Posted by amahler at September 9, 2004 03:40 PM

Comments

This week's Onion is hilarious, too, I particularly like the article where they talk about Republicans hurting themselves in rush to bash Kerry. The best part is when they quote a paramedic who said that he hadn't seen so many right wing injuries since the late '90's when people were hurt jumping on and off the Gingrich bandwagon!

Posted by: Kat at September 10, 2004 10:12 AM