The Onion hits home
Posted By Teresa Gubbins in Square Pegs on March 27, 2007
Maybe you've heard the news that satirical newspaper The Onion launched a video Web site today that will parody cable news networks like CNN.
For one of its first reports, it chose a hot-button issue that's near and dear to our hearts: illegal immigration. This hilarious report examines the "human costs" suffered by a "former VP of Lucent Technologies" based in Dallas.
Mike Orren, says:
Here's the actual video, which reminded me how much I like The Daily Show:
<embed flashvars="file=http://www.theonion.com/content/xml/59953/video&autostart=false&image=http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/Immigration.jpg&bufferlength=3&embedded=true&title=Immigration%3A%20The%20Human%20Cost" height="320" src="http://www.theonion.com/content/themes/common/assets/videoplayer/flvplayer.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" wmode="transparent">
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Teresa Gubbins, says:
looky, here's the ad posted on craigslist seeking someone to shoot the exterior for this video: <a href="http://dallas.craigslist.org/cwg/281706747.html">ad</a>
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Jim Carson, says:
>This controversial issue is often reported with facts and information that are very difficult to relate to. --Brandon Armstrong, Onion News Network
>There's so much information [on this controversial issue], there's no way to convey it to the people. -- Former Keller Councilman, just before voting to NOT put the controversial issue to a public vote
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kirk, says:
Jim, that's brilliant!
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