Signs things are getting better in the US
Senator Mitch McConnel, GOP-Kentucky, has taken up the defense of tasty food by quoting America’s Finest News Source. Seems that in a prescient move (WSJ.com’s Best of the Web Today calls this ‘Life imitates “The Onion”’), The Onion ran an article spoofing the then suprising tobacco settlements, and pending suits against gun manufacturers by running a ficticious story about a jury verdict finding that “(Hersheys’) knowingly and willfully marketing rich, fatty candy bars containing chocolate and other ingredients of negligible nutritional value.”
While I’m glad to see that our elected representatives are using reputable sources, not like that dubious British Government, it’s kind of sad that what passed as satire three short years ago is now actual news.
One last thing – I’ve been dying to find a replacement for www.satirewire.com. Any suggestions?
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Comment from etrigan
Time July 23, 2003 at 10:09 pm
That is awesome! Another point gained by the GOP for me. (Only 1 gazillion to go! — jk )