I sometimes kid the Onion for taking a lame approach to political satire — for trying to sink battleships with a BB gun. However, its social satire is often right on the money. More here.
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Onion’s Obama b-day joke, with an edge
The Onion’s Obama birthday joke was satire, I guess, in the lamest sense of the word. Here’s how it would read if the Onion writer had acknowledged what happened this week in D.C.