I was reading The Onion the other day, when I saw somehing that cought my eye. That something was a tiny box on page that said Black Presidents History Month. Natrually it talked about president Obama. It started by talking about true statments abou Obama, and then it had four not so true facts.
- In 1969, fellow second-grader Leon Hoyt became the first person to make fun of Barack Obama's name, referring to him as "Buttock" Obama for the entire school year.
-In High School, Obama had a special spot for making out that had the most breathtaking view of a voter-registration drive.
-Barack Obama is an admitted smoker who once set a world record by jamming 162 cigarettes into his mouth
-In addition to his many other firsts, at a preinaugural concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in January 2009 he became the first black man ever to watch Garth Brooks perform.
OK, The main thing I notced from that box of information was the line "In addition to his many firsts." Because the Onion people used that line it made me come to the conclusetion that they were poking fun at the Myth of firsts. I found it interesting that a paper use to make fun of current events, has picked up on the American myth of firsts, something that we have anylised countless times in class. With the state news papers are in I would say The Onions news is more relialble and fair then any other news station around.
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