# "Twelve Children Held Hostage by Armed Congressmen"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twelve-children-held-hostage-by-armed-congressmen/598051>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 29, 2011, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twelve-children-held-hostage-by-armed-congressmen/598051 "2011-09-29T19:02:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twelve-children-held-hostage-by-armed-congressmen/598051/21 "2011-10-01T22:24:43Z")

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> [@Justin\_Bailey](#):
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> Agreed. There’s no joke in the first tweet at all and seemed designed solely to upset people. Poor form. But the rest of them are brilliant.

It’s the **ONION**. Has the Onion ever published a true story? No. And no reason to think that they suddenly started doing so.

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**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/twelve-children-held-hostage-by-armed-congressmen/598051/22 "2011-10-01T22:37:20Z")

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> [@Joey\_P](#):
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> Where is the joke when you have a direct line to 3.1 million people and you say  
> “BREAKING: Witnesses reporting screams and gunfire heard inside Capitol building.”  
> followed by  
> "Congress Takes Group Of Schoolchildren Hostage " with no explanation at all.

Do you actually need an explanation in order to see the satire in this?

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