# Sometimes The Onion just nails it **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 14, 2009, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582 "2009-11-14T20:04:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582/1 "2009-11-14T20:04:07Z")
And [this](http://www.theonion.com/content/news/area_man_passionate_defender_of) might be the best example so far. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582/2 "2009-11-14T20:14:58Z")
Beee-ootiful! I love it, thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582/3 "2009-11-14T20:37:53Z")
Bang on, though I wasn’t aware the U.S. had a “charter”. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582/4 "2009-11-14T20:54:44Z")
I’d tell you which line is the funniest, but I’d probably get in trouble around these parts. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582/5 "2009-11-14T21:11:11Z")
I want to find whoever wrote that and hug them. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582/6 "2009-11-14T21:19:36Z")
If I tried to show that to anybody in Tennessee, I’d be torn to pieces. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582/7 "2009-11-14T21:53:56Z")
This guy is what’s known as a “fucked constructionist.” ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582/8 "2009-11-14T22:01:39Z")
The Onion used to be funny. Now it’s too busy trying to make political points and ape Jon Stewart. They have gone downhill big-time. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582/9 "2009-11-14T22:05:00Z")
No, that was funny. And you know why it’s funny? It’s funny 'cause it’s true! ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582/10 "2009-11-14T22:08:05Z")
Eh, I’ll side with **Argent Towers** and others, this was OK, but I’ve seen a lot better from the Onion. This article in particular seems to point out far too many times how the subject’s views differ from reality, probably would have been better if the article was written without a mention of reality at all. But then Poe’s Law gets involved (like the Onion story which wrote, without a hint of sarcasm, of gays “filling their conversion quota” or of kids “turning to withcraft” based on Harry Potter.) ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582/11 "2009-11-14T22:18:04Z")
This is the most amusing part: > [@](#): > > “Dad’s great, but listening to all that talk radio has put some weird ideas into his head,” said daughter Samantha, a freshman at Reed College in Portland, OR. “He believes the Constitution allows the government to torture people and ban gay marriage, yet he doesn’t even know that it guarantees universal health care.” ---
**Author:** ![Estilicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Estilicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Estilicon)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582/12 "2009-11-14T22:24:21Z")
Not funny. They explain the joke and that is never good. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582/13 "2009-11-14T22:56:43Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > This is the most amusing part: That quote is a good example of how the Onion laughs at idiocy wherever they see it, right-wing or left-wing. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582/14 "2009-11-14T23:09:03Z")
> [@Estilicon](#): > > Not funny. They explain the joke and that is never good. That’s what the Onion does. The joke is the headline and the actual story beats you over the head with it. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582/15 "2009-11-14T23:13:17Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > That’s what the Onion does. The joke is the headline and the actual story beats you over the head with it. See also: National Lampoon, Annals of Improbable Research, [Cracked.com](http://Cracked.com), _satire_, and for the generously impaired, _humor_. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582/16 "2009-11-14T23:22:09Z")
Mildly amusing. Actually, as right-wing Constitutionalists go, the fictional character profiled is pretty mild (albeit ignorant). In real life, just a little digging on the net will reveal the people who are the constitutional law equivalent of creationists (i.e., those who deny the legitimacy of every amendment starting with the 16th) and flat earthers (i.e., those who deny the legitimacy of every amendment passed after the Civil War). If he’d been one of those, the article would’ve been a lot funnier. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582/17 "2009-11-14T23:23:15Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > If I tried to show that to anybody in Tennessee, I’d be torn to pieces. Not if it was Middle Tennessee 😉 ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582/18 "2009-11-14T23:24:27Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > This is the most amusing part: Yeah, I particularly like how it shows that the cluelessness was passed on from generation to generation even though the partisanship was not. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582/19 "2009-11-14T23:27:12Z")
> [@Kyla](#): > > This is the most amusing part: Okay, so maybe I was wrong. That was the part that actually made me laugh, as it was actually unexpected. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2009, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582/20 "2009-11-14T23:40:20Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Not if it was Middle Tennessee 😉 I live in Middle Tennessee.:smack: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sometimes-the-onion-just-nails-it/517582.md?page=2)