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The Onion accidentally breaks a real story
#21978923 - 07/22/15 04:31 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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This just goes to show the state of utter nonsense that is US politics .
Quote:
Source: The Independent
A satirical website has accidentally broken a real news story – by revealing that America offered Israel “a nice, big shipment” of weapons to try and salve its anger of the Iran nuclear deal.
A spoof news story on The Onion, headlined “US Soothes Upset Netanyahu With Shipment Of Ballistic Missiles”, appeared 24 hours before reports emerged that this had actually happened in real life.
Israeli newspaper Haaretz noted the similarity to its own story, published the following day, which carried the headline, “After Iran deal, Obama offers military upgrade to help Israel swallow bitter Iranian deal”.
Barack Obama had offered Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu “immediate talks to upgrade the Israel Defense Forces’ offensive and defensive capabilities”, the paper reported last week.
Later, Haaretz graciously admitted in a blog post that: “There’s no other way around it: the fake newspaper broke the story.”
The only difference between spoof and reality was that Mr Netanyahu (in reality) initially didn’t respond to the offer and later rejected it. – the second time he had turned down such a proposal – “believing that any kind of reciprocal deal would be construed as Israel having come to terms with the Iran nuclear deal”.
By contrast The Onion quoted a fake State Department spokesman, who said: “Bibi always gets a little cranky when he sees us talking to Iran, but a few dozen short-range surface-to-surface missiles usually cheer him right up.
“Of course, we try not to spoil him by giving him a whole new tactical ballistics delivery system every single time he throws a fit, but our guy’s pretty good at getting his way. At least we’ll have a couple months of peace and quiet around here.”
Officials at the Pentagon briefed the media over the weekend that, in fact, Israel would not be offered any weapons to make up for the Iran deal.
Whatever the truth of the matter, Haaretz, the paper of Israeli doves and liberals, reckons that when life apparently imitates satire so faithfully, it's generally not a good sign.
On Monday the UN Security Council unanimously voted in favour of the Iran nuclear deal, which has done the already strained Obama-Netanyahu relationship under yet more pressure.
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Re: The Onion accidentally breaks a real story [Re: Cepheus]
#21978984 - 07/22/15 05:10 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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so im confused, did they break the story or not, because at the end it says the pentagon denies it, not that we are supposed to believe them or anything
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Re: The Onion accidentally breaks a real story [Re: makaveli8x8]
#21979159 - 07/22/15 06:50 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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The onion announced the story as satire, 24 hours before mainstream "reputable" news sources announced the story, seriously (not aware that the onion had done a satire piece on the situation).
As in, the situation is so fucked up, a satire news organisation actually got the news right when they were just trying to be funny.
As soon as the news went public in mainstream media (not because of the onion) the US government immediately started to backtrack.
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Re: The Onion accidentally breaks a real story [Re: Cepheus]
#21979435 - 07/22/15 08:41 AM (8 years, 6 months ago) |
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Isn't it kind of strange how none of this appears in US news outlets?
The guardian and The Independent are both liberal news outlets in the UK. The guardian was one of the key players in the Julian Assange and Wikileaks saga.
The Guardian
The title of the original Onion article is "Netanyahu cheered up by US missile offer", however, it doesn't exist any more .
Thank god for the internet and peoples ability to screenshot .
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