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9/24/2012

The Onion: Media Having Trouble Finding Right Angle on Obama’s Double Homicide

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 6:55 pm



It’s a puzzler:

More than a week after President Barack Obama’s cold-blooded killing of a local couple, members of the American news media admitted Tuesday that they were still trying to find the best angle for covering the gruesome crime.

“I know there’s a story in there somewhere,” said Newsweek editor Jon Meacham, referring to Obama’s home invasion and execution-style slaying of Jeff and Sue Finowicz on Apr. 8. “Right now though, it’s probably best to just sit back and wait for more information to come in. After all, the only thing we know for sure is that our president senselessly murdered two unsuspecting Americans without emotion or hesitation.”

Added Meacham, “It’s not so cut and dried.”

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While Obama has expressed no remorse for the grisly murders—point-blank shootings with an unregistered .38-caliber revolver—many journalists said it would be irresponsible for the press to sensationalize the story.

“There’s been some debate around the office about whether we should report on this at all,” Washington Post senior reporter Bill Tracy said while on assignment at a local dog show. “It’s enough of a tragedy without the press jumping in and pointing fingers or, worse, exploiting the violence. Plus, we need to be sensitive to the victims’ families at this time. Their loved ones were brutally, brutally murdered, after all.”

The editors of the L.A. Times finally decided on a story criticizing Mitt Romney for rushing to judgment on Obama’s guilt based on nothing but a videotaped confession, DNA and ballistics evidence, and the testimony of 49 eyewitnesses.

13 Responses to “The Onion: Media Having Trouble Finding Right Angle on Obama’s Double Homicide”

  1. Greetings:

    I heard that President Obama was just standing on the corner, sharpening his knife when the couple ran up and jumped on it 27 times. So, there’s that.

    11B40 (a0fd53)

  2. Racists

    JD (89e14d)

  3. You can’t parody this campaign, its so ridiculous.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  4. It was an unregestired .38, 11B40. What hind(sic) of .38 who knows.

    Dang good view of the Obamabutt loving media.

    nk (875f57)

  5. I have often noted that real life might put The Onion out of business.

    JD (89e14d)

  6. The Onion article is from April 2009.

    aunursa (7014a8)

  7. Shameless! Absolutely shameless how Romney politicized this unfortunate tragedy.

    munchnstuf (7836cb)

  8. I don’t believe the President did it. He does not have the two other things. (You need three things to kill somebody — a gun and b….)

    nk (875f57)

  9. It sounds like the police acted stupidly. Or whatever.

    Elephant Stone (65d289)

  10. Maybe Barack watched a trailer for a forthcoming movie, and it upset him. I’ve heard watching movie trailers causes people to commit crimes. Murder, even.

    Besides, “2016” is almost like a biography of him. Or something.

    Elephant Stone (65d289)

  11. Just a bump in the road. Noise. Voters don’t need distractions like this taking their focus away from reelecting Obama, so the media should just downplay it as usual and attack Romney.

    daleyrocks (bf33e9)

  12. Who you gonna’ believe, me or your lying eyes?-
    B.Obama

    AD-Restore the Republic/Obama Sucks! (b8ab92)

  13. Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?

    Paul (910b74)


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