You Can't Make This Stuff Up
The Onion’s sharp satire makes me really happy - but occasionally they are scooped by reality, and that makes me really sad.
Their headline/article: Obama’s Declaration of Swine Flu Emergency Prompts Pro-Swine-Flu Republican Response made me laugh, until I remembered that this joke has already essentially come true.
Glenn Beck declared that he wouldn’t be getting the H1N1 vaccine and neither should anyone else, claiming (with no factual basis): ”People just feel in their gut, ‘I don’t trust these people any more…’ They think our government could be so incompetent that they don’t have any clue as to what they are doing.” So he’s choosing to nurture distrust of the Obama administration even when it means potentially endangering his viewers’ lives.
Hilarious! Print it!
1 month ago