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scarletwoman

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14. They're shutting down due to the leek investigations.

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Tue May 28, 2013, 07:54 PM

May 2013

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"Rest in peace, The Onion. You will be missed." [View all] babylonsister May 2013 OP

Meta-satire. Brickbat May 2013 #1

Excellent writing! ctsnowman May 2013 #42

Is the Onion really going? sakabatou May 2013 #2

No. The DailyKos piece is SATIRE :) Tx4obama May 2013 #3

OMG, I found that at the end of the piece. I had a sad for a moment. Praise The Root. freshwest May 2013 #35

No one really knows. babylonsister May 2013 #5

No it's not! tblue May 2013 #33

... upcoming presidential election, with its last issue set to be published on November 6, 2014 Tx4obama May 2013 #4

We should tell them Obama's running for a third term and the GOP refuses to field a candidate. Gidney N Cloyd May 2013 #9

If only The Onion itself wrote this! BadgerKid May 2013 #6

Could Not Always Tell the Difference erpowers May 2013 #7

I agree... adieu May 2013 #16

me too! bluemarkers May 2013 #22

& me 3! nt hopemountain May 2013 #27

Make it 4 NT ctsnowman May 2013 #40

Love it babylonsister~ sheshe2 May 2013 #8

I stopped visiting the Onion when I started crying instead of laughing... uriel1972 May 2013 #10

Don't know if I'm crying because of this piece or because I peeled an onion. n/t Cleita May 2013 #11

" ... finding greater absurdity at places like CNN and USA Today." lpbk2713 May 2013 #12

There 's a presidential election in 2014? nolabear May 2013 #13

That was the clue for those with eagle eyes. tblue May 2013 #34

They're shutting down due to the leek investigations. scarletwoman May 2013 #14

DUzy! Enrique May 2013 #15

That is excellent. BlueStreak May 2013 #20

Excellent! ctsnowman May 2013 #41

Good one! maddiemom May 2013 #49

To the greatest page with this........quickly!!!! LongTomH May 2013 #17

OMG! I was just talking about this over the weekend (without reading this article) StevieM May 2013 #18

The Onion will be missed. xoom May 2013 #19

The text in the DailyKos article up in the OP is not real - it is SATIRE. Tx4obama May 2013 #24

All is not lost. They could use all that production capability to cover real news. BlueStreak May 2013 #21

I give up! Blue State Bandit May 2013 #23

It's Satire Squared! savalez May 2013 #25

+100 Liberal_in_LA May 2013 #26

perhaps they'll just rename themselves hopemountain May 2013 #28

So it's just Satire from KOS site. But, I doubt that "Onion" or Cartoons will survive KoKo May 2013 #29

Is your post satire? I can't tell. FSogol May 2013 #45

So glad it is satire and not true. uppityperson May 2013 #30

Can we keep the Onion going? Rosa Luxemburg May 2013 #31

The Onion just made every DU Meta post look massively insignificant. Ikonoklast May 2013 #32

I will have nothing to read for next year's presidential election now. n/t cynatnite May 2013 #36

Good riddance. rhett o rick May 2013 #37

Oh NO! Where will we get the TRUTH from? Demeter May 2013 #38

WHEELS WITHIN WHEELS AtheistCrusader May 2013 #39

Holy shit. I nearly jumped out the window. Kurovski May 2013 #43

Yes you do, sweetness! babylonsister May 2013 #51

Irony is truly dead n/t felix_numinous May 2013 #44

I never really was a fan of political satire, Jamaal510 May 2013 #46

Yep, the Presidential race in 2014... mrdmk May 2013 #47

I am old enough to remember when..... AnneD May 2013 #48

The Onion--a victim of Poe's Law Jackpine Radical May 2013 #50