I forgot to tell you that on Saturday my friends and I were at a restaurant a few tables away from a couple who thought that The Onion was a real paper, and consequently, that this actually occurred. It was simultaneously funny and depressing.
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‘Obama makes a slight gaffe when, instead of saying “Hello, Tallahassee,” he says “John McCain is clearly the better candidate.”‘
There is no one doing better widely distributed satire out there today than the Onion. Watching the “Onion News Network” leaves my jaw on the floor at the utter genius of it all. Some of it is painful, missing the mark by a long shot, but when they get it right, it’s more than comedy, more than satire.