The Onion's website yesterday had an audio parody that purported to feature White House press secretary Tony Snow "evading questions" about his own mental health. The bit, called "Tony Snow Deftly Sidesteps Question of Own Sanity," was a mock press conference in which Snow sidesteps questions from reporters, only instead of about Bush, they're about him.
You'd think it sort of odd that they'd go with this sort of item, only a couple of days after Snow announced that his cancer had returned. But even odder, is that while this sort of thing- left-leaning humor web site mocks Republican with cancer!- seems tailor-made for the Fox News/blog Outrage Machine, but I haven't even seen it mentioned by anyone. Maybe conservatives don't read The Onion, but the paper has gotten lots of attention the last few days, what with its launch of a new 24-hour news project.
Although the Onion is a shell of its formerly hilarious self, many republicans do still enough it. In fact, conservative James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, and Best of the Web column, has a running column called "Life imitates the Onion."
Posted by: J. Lichty at April 5, 2007 04:53 PM