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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJournalism's greatest retraction--Ever
"As part of a reality-based community, it is important that we get our facts right when reporting on important political developments. The Onion AV Club, the more serious side of the well-known satire site, knows this quite well, and wants to be sure that they openly admit it when they make an error."
Yesterday, we reported that a passel of grotesque Dickensian caricatures gathered in the House of Representatives to vote, by a margin of 217-213, to let poor people die and to punish women for the blasphemy of having a vagina, effectively putting some 24 million Americans at the perpetual risk of poverty should they fall victim to accident or debilitating diseasea monstrous display of selfishness that, by their own admission, many of them performed solely out of adherence to partisan dogma and unabashed spite, and a ghoulish, symbolic bloodletting ritual that they then commemorated by drinking Bud Light. However, we have now learned that they did not, in fact, drink Bud Light.
We hereby offer this retraction.
We hereby offer this retraction.
"It gets better from there. Read the whole thing. Its truly a work of art."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/5/5/1659526/-World-s-Greatest-Retraction-Ever
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Journalism's greatest retraction--Ever (Original Post)
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BSdetect
(8,999 posts)1. I compel you to read this.
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)2. It needs to be read in full, doesn't it?
It's really quite fun!
malaise
(269,328 posts)3. That's brilliant
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KT2000
(20,605 posts)4. Excellent!
work of ar tin indeed -
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)5. Most excellent!
I bet they drank something, though.
stage left
(2,967 posts)7. K&R
Beautiful writing and right on the mark.
ornotna
(10,810 posts)8. Here is a direct link to the AV Club story
Xipe Totec
(43,892 posts)9. Epic. nt
democrank
(11,115 posts)10. BAM!
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)11. K&R&Bookmarked! nt
BigOleDummy
(2,272 posts)12. Was freaking...
.... great!
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)13. "No, I meant a Blood Light!"
blue neen
(12,335 posts)14. Absolutely superb.
Spot on!
Lucky Luciano
(11,267 posts)15. Marking for later. nt
Fritz Walter
(4,292 posts)16. Or, as Monty Python put it some 40+ years ago...
JudyM
(29,294 posts)17. Feeling this one. Clearly no concern about the real social problems they are there to address.
Can just barely laugh even though it's ludicrous.
northoftheborder
(7,575 posts)18. Bah-da-Boom!
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)19. LOL! Good, good. nt
niyad
(113,963 posts)20. a true thing of beauty
Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)21. Brilliant!
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