# The Onion triumphs again - Arnold election special **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 22, 2003, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-triumphs-again-arnold-election-special/208869 "2003-10-22T09:26:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-triumphs-again-arnold-election-special/208869/1 "2003-10-22T09:26:28Z")
The Onion’s [top story](http://www.theonion.com/3941/top_story.html) this morning is a classic - completly understated and yet cutting in its exposure of the core issues… We are indeed “not worthy” 😃 Grim ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-triumphs-again-arnold-election-special/208869/2 "2003-10-22T09:58:00Z")
Funny stuff, though I think the Daily Show’s work was funnier. Was it Rob Corddry who was talking about why it’s a good idea? “Let’s say you have a leak under your sink. You need new pipes. Now, who put those pipes in in the first place? _A plumber_. What you want is someone with _no_ plumbing experience whatsoever. Or better yet, say you need open-heart surgery-” ---
**Author:** ![Martiju](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@Martiju](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martiju)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-triumphs-again-arnold-election-special/208869/3 "2003-10-22T11:57:22Z")
And the best thing about this one is there is no need to even make the article satirical… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-triumphs-again-arnold-election-special/208869/4 "2003-10-22T15:03:20Z")
I really loved the last sentence of the article. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-triumphs-again-arnold-election-special/208869/5 "2003-10-22T16:42:01Z")
I don’t know…it kind of read more as a serious editorial than a satire. It didn’t feel Onion-like at all, to me. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-triumphs-again-arnold-election-special/208869/6 "2003-10-22T20:25:43Z")
I think the main joke was that in all the press articles, everyone was constantly referring to him as an Actor, but only touched upon his weightlifiting career. In this one, it’s all about him the Weightlifter, with only casual references to his movie career. ---
**Author:** ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-triumphs-again-arnold-election-special/208869/7 "2003-10-22T21:14:45Z")
[After 3 minutes] “Hey, wait a minute - this article is serious!” I had to double check that the it was The Onion and not some news site. Very classy though. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-triumphs-again-arnold-election-special/208869/8 "2003-10-22T22:15:04Z")
What satire? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-triumphs-again-arnold-election-special/208869/9 "2003-10-22T22:46:07Z")
Considering that the body-builder’s “platform,” (such as it was,) was in part based on empty promises of benefits to the entertainment industry, which should have served to demonstrate his lack of fitness for office by betraying not only a total ignorance of the subtleties of trade agreements such as NAFTA or GATT, but also an astonishing _naïveté_ with regard to elementary economics, I find it ironic that his election has apparently had the effect of making political satirists redundant in California. How long before they’re all on the dole? ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-triumphs-again-arnold-election-special/208869/10 "2003-10-22T22:55:55Z")
Great article, classic Onion. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2003, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-onion-triumphs-again-arnold-election-special/208869/11 "2003-10-23T01:53:49Z")
Personally I preferred last week’s mini headline/photo: Schwarzeneggar Elected First Horseman of the Apocalypse