Another reliable fake-news tonic for the real news during 2009 has been, of course, The Onion. In my opinion, The Onion’s video segments are a bit of a hit-or-miss proposition, but one subset of them cracks me up pretty consistently: “In The Know,” which sends up the kind of four or five-way pundit scrum the cable news outlets so adore.
A fine example is number five on my top ten videos of 2009, “In The Know: Giant Money Hole,” which festoons the economic bailout in absurdity.
For a moment there I began to think it was running on too long, but then my giggles returned. It’s a fine line, but there’s a second layer of comedy when you keep over-extending a metaphor just to see how many versions you can think of.
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