Kevin Brown brought this to my attention: The Onion article from the date of Bush’s first inauguration that is, in retrospect, so dead on that it’s frightening.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28784
PAD
Kevin Brown brought this to my attention: The Onion article from the date of Bush’s first inauguration that is, in retrospect, so dead on that it’s frightening.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28784
PAD
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Ðámņ. I’d forgotten all about that one. It’s in one of their book collections. Funny stuff, but more than a little scary. I think that’s why I like the Onion so much. The go so far out there insofar as the level of ridiculousness that you know it could never happen and *poof* then stuff happens that almost makes their writings look like an after the fact spoof of an event.
It wouldn’t be the first time someone claimed to be living in the Onion. That’s how crazy fûçkëd up our world is.
Ðámņ President Clinton and that peace and prosperity bûllšhìŧ of his. 🙂
At least some of the comments seem like things Republicans would actually say, like:
“John Ashcroft will be invaluable in healing the terrible wedge President Clinton drove between church and state.”
Ðámņ President Clinton and that peace and prosperity bûllšhìŧ of his. 🙂
At least some of the comments seem like things Republicans would actually say, like:
“John Ashcroft will be invaluable in healing the terrible wedge President Clinton drove between church and state.”
I couldn’t find it on Youtube, but there was a really funny and prophetic bit on SNL soon after he was installed in 2000 (That’s right, he did not win the election) with Will Ferrill as Bush wondering how he could have screwed up so badly so quickly.
Well, maybe it’s not funny now.
I couldn’t find it on Youtube, but there was a really funny and prophetic bit on SNL soon after he was installed in 2000 (That’s right, he did not win the election) with Will Ferrill as Bush wondering how he could have screwed up so badly so quickly.
Well, maybe it’s not funny now.
You’re very welcome, PAD!
You’re very welcome, PAD!
Somebody did a reprint of the article with links to all the parts where it came true.
http://www.godlessgeeks.com/BushNightmare.htm
Somebody did a reprint of the article with links to all the parts where it came true.
http://www.godlessgeeks.com/BushNightmare.htm
You wanna talk about eerily prophetic, I was absolutely shocked when I went back and watched this clip a few months ago…
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=111816&title=2000-election-coverage
Here’s another clip from the Daily Show that made me scream at my monitor when I saw it again a few weeks ago. Mainly because it aired a few months before Sept 11th.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=106218&title=I-on-News—First-Family-Privacy
The part that makes me scream is about a minute in. Jon Stewart knew who the man was, even though our President didn’t.
Here’s another clip from the Daily Show that made me scream at my monitor when I saw it again a few weeks ago. Mainly because it aired a few months before Sept 11th.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=106218&title=I-on-News—First-Family-Privacy
The part that makes me scream is about a minute in. Jon Stewart knew who the man was, even though our President didn’t.
Only a 250% increase in military spending? Is that all?
Only a 250% increase in military spending? Is that all?
That’s the problem with irony… it can bite you in the ášš.
Too bad there isn’t an electronic market for this sort of thing … I could have made some nice coin on this!
That’s the problem with irony… it can bite you in the ášš.
Too bad there isn’t an electronic market for this sort of thing … I could have made some nice coin on this!
I thought the Onion was supposed to be satirical, not precognitive…
I’ve often cited this Onion article as eerily prescient. I hope the expected Obama inauguration article (“Our Continuing Dream of Conflict and Profligacy is at an End”) is just as accurate.
I’ve often cited this Onion article as eerily prescient. I hope the expected Obama inauguration article (“Our Continuing Dream of Conflict and Profligacy is at an End”) is just as accurate.