What they wanted was "military aid".

Sure. In fairness, maybe they weren't insane. But they were quite clearly trying to incite a war. With a country that, I must repeat, never attacked us.

I do. But "Now, I would assume you all have a pretty good reason for not making even a token effort to intervene and put a stop to this senseless bloodshed." and "Because I’m able to continue doing this, I can only conclude that killing nearly 100,000 people must be an acceptable thing. After all, no one in the…

I'm not a nice person, and I do resort to ad hominem attacks when someone says things so unbelievably stupid as to suggest that I believed that The Onion was a real newspaper. Why shouldn't I?

Umm. No. I do not think that they report actual, not-made-up news. If that was what you got from what I wrote, you are an idiot.

I am, in fact, ascribing a sincere political position to The Onion. They obviously have one. As the article above points out, everyone writing in the media has an opinion. They should just be honest about it. And I am far from the first to notice their rabid support of attacking Syria. (This, for example, is not…

"In comparing the media’s scrutiny on Brian Williams to the lack of scrutiny that same media had for the Iraq War, it’s clear there’s a big problem, a problem of a media that’s all mouth and no tooth."

Then fine. I don't care. Just have the balls to stand behind it, and don't pretend that you didn't really mean what you obviously meant.

"Birth of a Nation was pro-KKK, but it is generally recognized as an important step in movie-making."

"He was saying it felt like propaganda."

Ah. Of course.

Actually, if you're running a business that relies on bringing customers into your restaurant, gaining publicity doesn't demonstrate either a lack of intelligence or self-awareness. It's actually a pretty clever thing to do, isn't it?

You're totally right. I compare things I like to Nazi propaganda films all the time.

Thank God for courageous satirists like The Onion, who are willing to stand up for enormously wealthy celebrities against the small, regional restaurant chains which oppress them.