{"id":87969,"date":"2016-02-17T18:58:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T02:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=87969"},"modified":"2016-02-17T18:59:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T02:59:28","slug":"the-onion-loses-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=87969","title":{"rendered":"The Onion Loses Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/isteve\/haim-saban-getting-his-moneys-worth-out-of-owning-the-onion\/\">Comments to Steve Sailer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>* Ever since the Onion apologized 3 years ago, for saying that Quvenzhane Wallis was \u201ckind of a c*nt\u201d, they\u2019ve been going downhill in terms of being politically correct.<\/p>\n<p>With the exception of a few articles mocking political correctness on college campuses, there\u2019s very little that\u2019s even amusing coming out of them now, since anything they write about politics, gender, sexuality, or any kind of minority POV always takes the SJW viewpoint for granted. And, let\u2019s face it, nothing but jokes about entitled Republicans gets old very soon.<\/p>\n<p>The Onion is sort of the parody version of the parody version of the SJW mindset, that is, The Atlantic. It\u2019s very hard to tell them apart.<\/p>\n<p>In fairness, I should say, that following the Onion since its inception (it functioned sort of like Mad magazine or National Lampoon for my kids) the humor was hit and miss and always tended to take a funny premise and run it into the ground.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m tuning out the Onion, if they ever publish an article critical of Hilary Clinton and\/or Israel, let me know. I\u2019m guessing \u2026.. not.<\/p>\n<p>* Has she thought about releasing a sex tape? Presumably with Huma. That might get the youth interested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments to Steve Sailer: * Ever since the Onion apologized 3 years ago, for saying that Quvenzhane Wallis was \u201ckind of a c*nt\u201d, they\u2019ve been going downhill in terms of being politically correct. With the exception of a few articles &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=87969\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29695],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87969"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87972,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87969\/revisions\/87972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}