Tag Archives: the onion

"…the spokesdrone proved effective at neutralizing reporter's questions about 85 percent of the time…"

Fantastic.

“The spokesdrone will field questions deemed too dangerous for a human press secretary, whose career could be irreparably damaged by answering them.”


Pentagon’s Unmanned Spokesdrone Completes First Press Conference Mission

I love the schematics, but my favorite line may be, “It’s also capable of serving jail time.”

liberal outrage fatigue

The Onion hits it out of the park today:

WASHINGTON, DC According to a study released Monday by the Hammond Political Research Group, many of the nation’s liberals are suffering from a vastly diminished sense of outrage.

“With so many right-wing shams to choose from, it’s simply too daunting for the average, left-leaning citizen to maintain a sense of anger,” said Rachel Neas, the study’s director. “By our estimation, roughly 70 percent of liberals are experiencing some degree of lethargy resulting from a glut of civil-liberties abuses, education funding cuts, and exorbitant military expenditures.”

San Francisco’s Arthur Flauman is one liberal who has chosen to take a hiatus from his seething rage over Bush Administration policies.

[read the rest – it’s very funny]

It would probably be even funnier if it wasn’t so close to the truth…