‘The Onion’ Posts Controversial Image of Plane Flying Into Building

CHICAGO (AP) — The satirical newspaper The Onion is attracting some public ire for an image that shows an airliner about to crash into Chicago’s Willis Tower, the tallest building in the country.

The Onion Posts Controversial Image of Plane Hitting Chicagos Willis Tower

The image, in a video on The Onion’s website showcasing its stories, shows an airplane emblazoned with the company name Sears flying toward the iconic black skyscraper, which for decades was named Sears Tower and headquarters to the retail chain. A narrator intones, “Sears extremists fly a plane into Willis Tower.”

The image generated more than 3,200 responses on The Onion’s Facebook page by Friday evening, many denouncing the use of an image reminiscent of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City.

In response to questions about the criticism and using such an image, The Onion marketing director Grant Jones stuck with the newspaper’s tone. He wrote in an email that, “9-11 must never be the fodder for jokes. Perhaps you didn’t see the news that humor died after 9-11.”

Jones called the blurb “a very important story,” then added: “We’re surprised other major news sources are not giving it the coverage it deserves.”

People in New York weren’t taking the image as lightly.

“That’s not funny,” said Christina Lopez, 36, who was living on New York’s Long Island on Sept. 11, 2001. She said she can’t foresee a time when such a gag would be appropriate, adding: “It’s not OK. Ever.”

Bill Hylen, a Philadelphian who was visiting lower Manhattan on Friday, also didn’t find the image amusing. The 45-year-old said there may be a time when a lighthearted allusion to 9/11 won’t hit such a nerve in the nation, but “it’s not coming up any time soon.”

It isn’t the first time The Onion has generated angst with its satire.

Last September, Washington Capitol Police released a statement refuting tweets and an article claiming members of Congress had taken a group of school children hostage. It included a doctored picture of Republican House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner holding a gun to a child’s head.

The story came a day after the FBI arrested a man accused of planning to bomb the Pentagon and the Capitol with explosive-filled model airplanes.

The Chicago-based publication was founded in 1988 by two students in Madison from the University of Wisconsin. Starting as a local college newspaper, it became a national comedy institution and went online in 1996, and has since developed a television news parody. The publication is distributed weekly in cities, but it has also embraced Twitter and on has an app for the iPad and other tablets.

The Onion’s editorial staff has been based in New York City with other offices in Madison, Wis., but is relocating to Chicago.

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  • leonardo44
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 3:36pm

    The Onion is a pathetic waste of time. They try so hard to be edgey and funny but they are neither.
    Hopefully this disturbing image that the Onion is so defiantly standing by, will send a landslide of negative feedback right back at them. No one with any sensitivity would post that picture, you just feel it in your gut, it’s not funny, it’s disturbing and painful and makes me really angry.
    The Onion s#cks.

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    • grudgywoof
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 6:53am

      I used to like national lampoon when I was a kid but this just sucks. Who wrote this crap? I bet he lives in his mothers basement.

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  • Aceofshades
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:04pm

    It is not way too soon, It has been almost 12 years. It is distasteful, but not too soon. If things like this aren’t done then people will forget and it will happen all over again, and we will be back in this same conversation of “too soon”. It is satire, and a joke; A horribly not funny joke. Just be glad that something like this still causes outrage, When it doesn’t, that is when it becomes an issue

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    • midwesthippie
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 1:29pm

      …it’s about as funny as joking about the vietnam war photo of the little girl running from US nepalm attacks with her skin on fire…

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  • Individualism
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:41am

    its not controversial, the controversial thing is the goverment crime against the people in the event because they were the accessory before the fact. Onion is better than Faux News and the other tv news outlets, cause its somewhat more real and a bit of humor why not, although its still a mess.

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:49am

      Someone explain the collapse of building 7. That’s the outrage.

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    • DisasterFamilyDotCom
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:58am

      Yeah and what about that faked moon landing too!

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:13pm

      No, evidence was brought back from the moon. No plane hit WTC 7 and it was shielded by another building. It collapsed completely in its own footprint at nearly free-fall speed. How?

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    • riseandshine
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 1:27pm

      @The Jerk…..The towers were very obvious also….know what I mean?

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 1:38pm

      The_Jerk
      Yes & you are so much more knowledgeable about structural science than the engineers that Popular mechanics got together to look over the evidence.

      http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/news/debunking-911-myths-world-trade-center

      http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military/news/1227842

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    • riseandshine
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 2:17pm

      Here is just one of many publications that shred Benjamin Chertoff’s (Michael Chertoff’s cousin) Popular Mechanics piece.
      Debunking 9/11 Debunking: http://www.amazon.com/Debunking-11-Mechanics-Defenders-Conspiracy/dp/156656686X

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 2:17pm

      Walkabout ;

      “NIST researchers now support the working hypothesis that WTC 7 was far more compromised by falling debris than the FEMA report indicated. “The most important thing we found was that there was, in fact, physical damage to the south face of building 7,”

      If the south face was ‘scooped out,’ why did it not fall to the south? How did it collapse in the center, then fall into its footprint? Remember, there were numerous reports about the validity of the Gulf of Tonkin incident, all of which were really little more than lies. Be skeptical, they’ve been caught in lies in WWI, WWII, Vietnam and Iraq.

      “NIST investigators believe a combination of intense fire and severe structural damage contributed to the collapse, though assigning the exact proportion requires more research. But NIST’s analysis suggests the fall of WTC 7 was an example of “progressive collapse,” a process in which the failure of parts of a structure ultimately creates strains that cause the entire building to come down.”

      If this were really true the building would have come down randomly, at differing centers of failure. It did not. You’re being mislead.

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    • riseandshine
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 3:41pm

      There is an incredible amount of evidence to support the FACT that 9/11 was a false flag / inside job, without even getting into the obvious controlled demolition of both towers and building 7. I’m not going to debate and argue with anyone…people will just have to study for themselves( while we still can).

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    • kevinj319
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 4:30pm

      No. There is no evidence that 911 was an inside job. Zero. You are living in a fantasy world. If you want to live there, fine. Quit trying to drag the rest of us there you.

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    • riseandshine
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 4:39pm

      You’re right Kevin…silly me.

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    • tzion
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 9:43pm

      Have any of you crazies bothered to even study the architecture of building 7 in your “research”? Building 7 was designed to have a wide open area for a lobby that was 3 stories high. As a result, there were only THREE major support structures holding up the upper floors. The damage to the building could have easily destroyed one at which point the failure of even one of the remaining supports would have lead to the immediate and near simultaneous collapse of the entire building. All this false flag BS is just that. Between our embassies being bombed and the attack on the Cole we had more than enough reason to go after Al Qaeda as it was. Add in the fact that Bin Laden practically bragged about it..

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    • grayling646
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:08pm

      @ rise and shine:

      Read the Popular Mechanics report on 9/11. They brought together the foremost experts in the world to study the various conspiracy theories and totally debunked every one with real evidence. The problem with you conspiracy theorists is that you aren’t at all interested in the truth. Any lie will do when you’re making a point.

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    • riseandshine
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:12pm

      @Tzion…….I see.

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    • riseandshine
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:15pm

      @Grayling……totally debunked….lol

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    • Locutus
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 11:24am

      I see that the Zeitgeist crowd is out in full force today… Shouldn’t you guys be out rounding up Christians for the ovens?

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    • jonnydoe
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 11:55am

      I’d encourage the naysayers to take an hour and watch the Sibel Edmonds film “Kill the Messenger”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BUG1Y9fOOs&feature=related

      It’s not conspiracy theory. Truth really is stranger than fiction.

      http://www.boilingfrogspost.com

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    • Kneale
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 2:23pm

      Yea, how about the Obama grades at HARVARD. And speaking of myths how about the job fare at Chick-fil-a Sunday. Onion…oh, never mind.

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    • E.Z. Las Vegas
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 4:36am

      So, we are to believe….

      That GEORGE W BUSH was the mastermind of one of the most intricate and sophisticated conspiracies in the history of the planet….

      Then, we are to believe that the UNITED STATES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, or it’s subcontractors, FLAWLESSLY executed said conspiracy, under a rediculously tight timetable…

      Then, we are to believe that not one single soul, overcome by guilt, or pride, or stupidity, has spilled his or her guts and revealed details of their role in the deaths of 3300 innocent people, from many different nations in the WORLD TRADE CENTER.

      AND, we are to assume that it was a pretext for a war in Iraq, which NO ONE i know of thinks was fought properly.

      AND that members of the Democrat party and the press, with the ability to destroy the Republican Party once and for all simply by exposing this crime, failed to even attempt to do so.

      AND finally, that having been called out by you and your fellow 9-11 truthers, they have not yet arranged a luxury vacation for you at a labor camp, or an.unpleasant field hockey accident.

      Possible? Maybe. But if it went down that way, then we stand no chance whatsoever of defending ourselves, or even of surviving. We are at their mercy. Not even Ron Paul can do anything about it.

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    • riseandshine
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 7:38am

      @E.Z…..I’ve never heard of anyone that thought George Bush was mastermind. Flawless?….far from it, and if you study it for yourself you’ll know what I mean. Speaking out?…far fewer participants than you might realize and there has been many suspicious deaths over the years. Iraq not fought properly?…by design. Democrats and Press exposing truth?…to begin with, they would lose their jobs. Why aren’t “truthers” taken out?….there are many millions of “truthers” worldwide and growing rapidly. Yes we’re in big trouble…all out tyranny is very close. And your right…Ron Paul wouldn’t save us…he would just give us a chance, and just maybe…doubtful but maybe…with the Lord’s help…we might extend this Republic’s life a few more years. You seem like a good person, E.Z….I hope to talk to you again.

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    • riseandshine
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 1:30pm

      E.Z…….I might add…about Democrats….Bill Clinton played a vital part in the 9/11 scheme…no doubt about it. 9/11 was many years in the making.

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  • BIgWheeler
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 9:24am

    Waaaa! Waaaa! You all sound like liberals. It was a joke. If you’re offended, don’t visit The Onion website.

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    • All Pro
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 9:38am

      A joke?
      You think the mas murder of 3000 people is funny?

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    • gosutag
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:28am

      @ALL PRO:

      It wasn‘t funny to me because the joke wasn’t well played out, but it can be funny for one simple reason: IT DIDN’T ACTUALLY HAPPEN. Now, go about your day crying for why that birdy is dead on the side of your local street.

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    • DisasterFamilyDotCom
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:59am

      Liberals offending Liberals is the hidden joke in all this

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  • Disavowed 1
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:15am

    Dear Rogue Federal Gubbment,

    Please stop flying Commercial airplanes into buildings.

    Thank you.
    Concerned Americans.

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  • All Pro
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 7:36am

    For any of us that were there that morning, for any of us that went into those buildings and tried to help people get out, for any of us that lost friends and neighbors, for any of us that had to stand by helplessly and watch people jump to their death, for any of us that had to explain to children that mommy or daddy weren’t coming home,
    THAT ISN’T FUNNY!

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    • qpwillie
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:45am

      @All Pro
      I wasn’t there but no, there’s nothing funny about it!!!!

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 9:42am

      I agree with both of you. In another hundred years maybe, but certainly not in our lifetime. When I was a kid, I couldn‘t figure out why my parents didn’t think Hogan’s Heroes was funny. I get it now. Way too soon.

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    • football lady
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 9:57am

      If that was suppose to be funny, The Onion has a sick sense of humor. It was NOT funny.

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    • SovereignSoul
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:21pm

      Hogan‘s Heroes wasn’t funny.
      Temporal perspective is irrelevant in this case.

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    • jaimmster
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 4:12pm

      I am sick of people spouting conspiracy theories about this, I was down there and f’ing building 7 did not blow itself up. It is scientifically proven to have collapsed as a result of fuel and other debris from the WTC towers 1 and 2. I wish some of these conspiracy douches would have seen some one jump to their deaths on that day and then maybe they would stfu, but thats only wishful thinking. Let them sit in their mom’s basement and dream things up-that’s all they have.

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  • Mr.Fitnah
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 7:14am

    Its the Onion Best news site on earth .

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  • shogun459
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 6:54am

    The Onion, the more layers you take off,
    The more ‘progressive’ they get.

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  • blackfeather
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 6:47am

    …this is the “onion”…a satirical thing at best…..in bad taste yes…but it will remind people to *never forget* about 911. Keep your eyes on the muslim brotherhood.

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    • ashestoashes
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 9:26am

      Yes..especially when you knownthat the Muslim Brotherhood was created by our “government.” Never forget the TARP bailouts that went to Sharia Compliant Banks..meaning that they fund organizations funding terrorism..and that our “government” issued visas to said terrorists and trained them on a naval base in Florida..
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28tE0fKpISM
      Short History of the Central Banks
      .http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJy4gSG8Q3w

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    • football lady
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:00am

      I don’t think anyone needs a reminder. It was llife changing for families of 3000 victims and for this country.

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    • tzion
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 9:49pm

      @Ashes
      Do you EVER cite anything that ISN’T youtube. Seriously dude, if I believed everything on youtube was true I’d have to believe that a conspiracy existed that included every major and minor news outlet, the government, air traffic controllers, airline companies, and everyday citizens, all encompassing hundreds of people all together, and that this conspiracy somehow was able to destroy all its evidence and not one member of it has ever leaked a word. The government couldn’t even hide watergate.

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  • OneTermPresident
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 3:42am

    based in New York City with other offices in Madison, Wis., but is relocating to Chicago…. WELL THAT SOLVES IT… THEY’RE NUTS, What business with a clue relocates to one of the HIGHEST tax states in the nation?

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  • Wool-Free Vision
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 2:29am

    I believe the real issue here is that humor is subjective. The average Onion reader would not be offended by this joke, but the average Blaze reader would be. So, knowing this, don’t you think that it is more offensive that The Blaze chooses to offend its own readers by posting this image here?

    Furthermore, the butt of this joke is the extremists, not the victims. It’s not the World Trade Center, it’s the Sears Tower… or Willis Tower.

    My point is that if you are offended by this image, shouldn‘t you be at least as angry at The Blaze’s decision to post it here as you are at The Onion for posting it on their site, where you never would have had to look at it? You should be moreso, in my opinion. The Onion’s brand of satire has been irreverent for 24 years, and they make no bones about it. They do it for laughs. What is The Blaze’s excuse?

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    • Wool-Free Vision
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 2:37am

      I would also like to add, with glee, that nothing strikes at the heart of Jihad more effectively than humor. Please share some. Humor, that is; not Jihad.

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    • BAHhoooppla
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 3:11am

      Very well said.

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    • kegbuna
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 5:22am

      Wow I really like some of the people on this site.

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    • Logistician
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 6:59am

      I tend to agree.

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    • Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 9:11am

      Very nicely said. Thank you.

      At some point it is history. How many of us here laugh at the French military. I know I do. We mock them because…well…they suck. For example, Dien Bien Phu. It’s sort of a poster child for how sucky the French are. Truth is, there are thousands of French families that wouldn’t find that funny either.

      Humor is a way of moving past things at some point. I thin that being able to do bits like that probably shows that we have healed as a nation and we can move on. Do you really want to live the rest of your days mourning that day? I don’t.

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    • Orion the truth hunter
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 6:30pm

      regarding “I would also like to add, with glee, that nothing strikes at the heart of Jihad more effectively than humor”, you might want to ask the family of the “leading” Somali comic Abdi Jeylani Malaq Marshale if they agree. In case you missed it, he was shot in the head and shoulders in Mogadishu after joking about a Jihad group. Yes, they killed him over humor.
      As far as I know, British Corporal Craig Harrison strikes at the heart (and perhaps the head) of Jihad the MOST effectively (2 killed and 1 wounded at 8210 feet), but I will take him or any of his fellow brothers instead of a joke any day. What part of they want to kill, convert or enslave you do you not understand? Yes, humor is subject, but as Marshale found out, a bullet in the brain isn’t.

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    • Orion the truth hunter
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 6:51pm

      slight correction, 2 killed and then hit the machine gun to disable it (not the machine gunner)

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    • Wool-Free Vision
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:08pm

      My last reply still hasn’t posted… Did it get censored??? I will try again if it doesn’t show up before this one.

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    • Wool-Free Vision
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:29pm

      Trying a third time…

      Orion, it sounds like you’re suggesting that we should all refrain from laughing at lunatics out of respect for said lunacy. By that logic, American citizens should have cowered in fear of Hitler during WWII, instead of making fun of him on the homefront.

      I agree that a bullet to the brain is the best medicine for Jihadists. That is why we have sent our best and bravest abroad to hunt them down and kill them. I am CERTAINLY all for that. But the rest of us here on the homefront should not resign ourselves to granting those lunatics ONE IOTA of respect. They don’t deserve it, and they will NEVER get it from me, even if they threaten to put a bullet in my brain. Why do you wish to appease evil murderers? Fear of death? That is giving the murderers exactly what they want!

      FDR was wrong about a lot of things, but he was DEAD-ON when he said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

      They are called “terrorists” for a reason. Their tools are IED’s, car-bombs, and sniper rifles; but make no mistake, their WEAPON is FEAR. I deny them the use of that weapon in MY homefront, and I wish all Americans would do the same. I will laugh in their faces with my dying breath, if it comes to that.

      In all of recorded history, the life:death ratio remains 1:1. Even my Savior, Jesus Christ, acknowledged that debt and paid it. We all owe a death, so why fear it? I only hope when my time comes, it comes as swiftly as a bullet to the brain.

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    • Orion the truth hunter
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 8:44pm

      I think we are mostly on the same page. When you see a rabid dog, you shoot it

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    • ManThong
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 11:49pm

      1) I like some of the Onion’s stuff, but this airplane thing is not in good taste.

      2) @Roth.. The noble French will be leading the charge. taking aim and blasting through the EU’s debt crisis.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4-9E7TM-0k&feature=player_embedded

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  • JJBlazeReader
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 2:08am

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    For anyone who was there and watched people jump out 110 story building and then see the buildings collapse (or even watched on TV) this is not funny. These people are callous; we went to war over this.

    Only a few years ago a low flying Air Force One photo op in 2009 caused a panic in New York City. People were streaming out of buildings when they saw the plane flying low.

    Not funny, actually cold hearted and despicable.
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    • dissentnow
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 7:40am

      “we went to war over this”

      If we really went to war over 9/11, we would have directed our aggression, money, and blood towards Saudi Arabia instead of Iraq. 9/11 was used to further an interventionist foreign policy in an attempt to spread democracy in the middle east in order to stabilize the region. It failed.
      5,000 dead US soldiers; I find that to be far more offensive than “The Onion”.

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    • JJBlazeReader
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 7:11pm

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      @dissent now
      The attempt at democratizing Islamic nations was based on a belief that democracies (in general) do not go to war with each other. The problem is that Islam and democracy are not compatible. It was an attempt worth making to moderate Islam.

      Invading Saudi Arabia would not have solved the problem we have with Al Qaeda or the renewal of an aggressive Islam against the West.

      Islam considers the West Dar al Harb.

      I cannot think of a peaceful solution to the problem between aggressive Islam and the West. We are either going to surrender or go to war to stop them. I would rather go to war over there than here.
      This problem will not just fade away as time goes by. There have been ebbs and flows in the war between Islam and the West over the past 1400 years. What we have been experiencing is the latest round in this clash between civilizations.

      Perhaps if you were in one of the World Trade Center buildings on 9/11 and saw the carnage, the dead etc. you would feel differently about a “joke” of a plane crashing into a skyscraper. May you never have such an experience.

      Si vis pacem, para bellum.

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    • Orion the truth hunter
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 7:13pm

      Yes, I always wondered who took a joy ride and then they covered it up as a photo-op.

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    • dissentnow
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 9:49pm

      “It was an attempt worth making to moderate Islam”

      Perhaps if you were one of the 5,000 dead US soldiers you would think otherwise.
      If, by your own admission, Islam is not compatable with democracy, how was the attempt “worth making?”
      And for the record, Saudi Arabia had a much bigger connection to the 9/11 attacks than Iraq had. So, by your logic that we went to war because of the 9/11 attacks, wouldn’t it make sense to attack the people who actually attacked us in the first place?
      The truth is that the build up, the hype, the propaganda, the lies, and the eventual war in Iraq was nothing more than an experimental foreign policy plan to stablilize the middle east and our troops were pawns in that experiment. And the useful idiots at home cheered it on.
      So, yes, that offends me far more than the onion does.

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    • JJBlazeReader
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 10:52pm

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      You can criticize all you want. Tell us what is your solution.

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    • dissentnow
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 6:27am

      My plan:
      For starters, stop our bi-polar foreign policy of interventionism and entangling alliances.
      Stop pushing for free and fair elections in the middle east.
      Ask congress for a letter of marque and reprisal against al-Qaeda and then start killing them quickly and violently.
      End the wars and bring our troops home.
      Defend OUR borders.
      Stop relying on foreign oil and start drilling our own. Drill baby drill.

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    • JJBlazeReader
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 1:50pm

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      Just as I thought fantasy land.

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    • dissentnow
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 2:59pm

      You asked me what i would do? That is what i would do.

      What would YOU do?

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    • JJBlazeReader
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 4:34pm

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      You didn’t read my posts did you. I haven no solution to a 1400 year old problem. The problem will not go away because you wish it away or do not deal with the problem. This is a clash of civilizations, there is no simplistic solution.

      All that can be said right now is that you stay engaged and deal with it on a case by case basis unless you want to surrender or go to total war.

      That is what was done in defeating communism, containment and stay engaged. We did not surrender and we avoided nuclear war.

      Withdrawing from the world opens the door to more trouble than if you stay engaged. This was one of the lessons learned from WWII.

      Last comment to you, I am disgusted that you think this is funny. I am damn proud of the 5,000 men and women who died defending this nation. They died ensuring that such a tragedy will not occur on American soil again. To this day, thank God, their efforts have been successful. I will pass your sense of humor on to the survivors and the family members of those who died on 9/11. I am sure everyone will be rolling on the floor laughing.

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    • dissentnow
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 5:14pm

      #1) I NEVER said anything about withdrawing from the world. Don’t put words in my mouth. Non-interventionism is NOT isolationism.
      #2) Withdrawing from the world had NOTHING to do with WWII. Interventionism directly lead to the conditions that gave rise to Hitler. You should study Wilson and learn exactly why he wanted the treaty of Versailles. The treaty of Versailles lead to the chain of events that gave us WWII.
      #3) How do we pay for all of these wars? Print more money? Borrow more from China? If you haven’t noticed, we’re broke.
      #4) If you love war so much, go enlist and fight it yourself.
      #5) i NEVER said that i thought that the “joke” was funny. I said that i thought that using troops as pawns in a foreign policy experiment was more offensive than the onion and i still stand by that thought. Again, don’t put words in my mouth.
      #6) Take your “disgust” and go elsewhere.

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    • JJBlazeReader
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 6:59pm

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      1.Same as isolationism. Disengaging causes more problems.

      2.You really need to know history. Read about U.S. isolationism prior WWII. There was a huge anti-war and isolationist and non-interventionist movement in the U.S. You are showing total ignorance here. Have you never heard of the Neutrality Acts in the 1930’s? It only encouraged evil.

      3.Then surrender. I will eat dirt before I surrender.

      4.Don’t’ love war, yes I have, also was there for 1st and 2nd WTC attacks.

      5.They are not pawns. You are thinking weird.

      6.No, I will continue to express my disgust with thinking such as yours.

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    • JJBlazeReader
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 11:20pm

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      Glad to see other news organizations are reporting that the majority of people are outraged with Onion over this,

      “The image, reminiscent of the planes hitting the World Trade Center on 9/11, has drawn more than 4,000 comments on Facebook–many of them critical.

      “This was done in very, very poor taste and should be taken down,” Cher Monroe wrote on The Onion’s Facebook wall. “It will take many years to heal from 9/11 and this is not one of the ways that healing will happen. And for those who say it’s time to forget and just get over it tell that to the families who lost loved ones that day, I dare you.”

      “This would have been funny if 9/11 never happened,” Douglas Groetzinger wrote. “But there will never be a day where it’s funny to laugh at the deaths of 3,000 people.”

      http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/onion-sears-plane-willis-tower-facebook-chicago-165320530.html

      ..

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    • dissentnow
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 6:02am

      1) Non-interventionism is NOT disengagement. Disengagement suggests a total withdrawal from the world stage. Non-interventionism means not getting involved in the tangling alliances that keep us in a state of perpetual conflict. Our current foreign policy is the problem; not non-interventionism. We support, arm, fund, and radicalize militant islamic rebels who, as history has shown us, will eventually attack us and/or our foreign interests at a great expense to the American people in blood and money.

      2) Are you suggesting that Woodrow Wilson and the progressives prior to WWII were isolationists? The neutrality acts had NOTHING to do with the rise of Hitler and Euro-facism.

      3) Surrender? I asked you about paying for all of these wars that you support. You didn’t answer my question, which is rather convenient. Again, should we print more money or just borrow it from China?

      4) Please enlist…….pretty please!

      5) What else do you call people that are being sent off to war, not to defend our freemdoms but, rather, to further a foreign policy experiment? Also, add to the fact that they have rules of engagement that make it almost impossible to win. Medals for restraint in a time of war? Tell me again that they aren’t pawns…..

      6. Thinking like mine? You mean that ending the wars, bringing our troops home, defending our borders, and drilling our own oil disgusts you?

      You still haven’t shown me where i said that i thought that the joke was “funny”

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    • JJBlazeReader
      Posted on August 6, 2012 at 12:04pm

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      There is no basis for discussion with those who are willingly ignorant. You really need to learn history between WWI and WWII. You are presenting the same arguments which history has discredited.

      Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
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    • dissentnow
      Posted on August 7, 2012 at 6:14am

      “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it”

      Kind of like the foreign policy that you support; a foreign policy of arming, funding and supporting militant Islamic rebels. How has that worked out for us in the past?
      Also, you never answered my question about how we are going to pay for all of these wars that you support? Printing or borrowing?

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  • hawkeyez
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 2:05am

    Identify Democrats in your neighborhood.
    This is a great app for criminals and people who in general do not like Communist
    Democrats and want to do **** to them. Democrats tend to be gay and unarmed so this is a great tool.Supplied to you by Obama. Thanks Obama
    :-)

    http://www.propublica.org/article/is-your-neighbor-a-democrat-obama-has-an-app-f
    or-that

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    • kegbuna
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 5:25am

      You must be joking. What a wonderful conservative and Christian you must be.

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  • scout n ambush
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 1:49am

    I guess my sense of humor is broken have to see the dr about that when i get my obamacae .The blaze might want to check on a story from tennesse rep kelly keisling warns of fake oassanation plot to stop2012 elections visiontoamerica.com this might be bs but worth looking into and i dont find this funny as much as i hate the policy of this regime.

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  • RockerRepublican
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 1:34am

    Where are all the Pearl Harbor jokes? the Hiroshima jokes? or even the Katrina jokes? There aren’t any. Know why? It’s not funny.

    Case closed.

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  • capitalismrocks
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 1:04am

    The Onion is a communist wanna-be humor rag.

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:56am

    Sears Tower will always be Sears Tower. we built it as Sears Tower and it will always be Sears Tower. these morons coming along buying something and renaming it are IGNORANT.

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    • chips1
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 6:16am

      Sort of like the Jack Murphy Stadium? I agree!!!

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  • shustring
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:51am

    what part of this is supposed to be funny ??
    This is not humorous at all and is in completely poor taste.
    Frankly, I am offended by it !!!

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  • JUSTANOTHEROPINION
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:45am

    Stupid runs rampid. Always has and always will. Instead of giving these types of things publicity with stories about it (which is why this crap is done) we should just ignore it. You don’t sensationalize stupidity, it just encorages it.

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  • grayling646
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:39am

    Humor in poor taste isn’t humor. I doubt if any of you supporting this would feel the same way if your spouse, child, parent had died in those attacks. This is very disrespectful to the families of the victims. I guess The Onion doesn’t concern themselves with such matters.

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  • On_The_Spot
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:28am

    The worst part of it, the new World Headquarters for United Airlines, since their merger with Continetnal Airlines, is the Willis Tower. United lost two aircraft along with crew and passengers on that fateful day in 2001, and I doubt they would take it as a laughing matter.

    The photoshop is in poor taste, and I’ll leave it at that.

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  • Apple Bite
    Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:03am

    Libs only remember they’re American when Sept. 11 comes along…

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:50pm

    It’s satire. Come on, the Onion is funny stuff.

    I remember a headline they had “The Pope says, Screw the Meek” when asked, the pope replied, They have had 2000 years to inherit the earth, now it’s every man for himself.

    Are we really getting mad at FAKE news?

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    • Wool-Free Vision
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:11am

      I could not agree more, Mr. Tanagra. Though this image is in poor taste, add the accompanying headline and I laughed out loud in real life. I have laughed at The Onion for many, many years. Poor taste is what they do best.

      My all-time favorite Onion blurb was arguably just as tasteless as this one: It featured that moving photo of the Chinese student stopping a column of ChiComm tanks in Tiannenmen Square in the 80′s, accompanied by the words “Stirring Symbol Of Human Spirit Difficult To Clean Out Of Tank Treads Page 6A.”

      I’m sorry to those who are offended, but darn, that’s funny! And so is “Sears Extremists” flying a plane into the Willis Tower.

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    • Apple Bite
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:14am

      Apparently…

      My favorite was the one with God’s daughter and twin sister of Jesus, Tammi of Nazareth…only a gay man and women with a serious complex would find fault with it.

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    • docgreen
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 12:57am

      How about we put every onions employee picture up, with muslims slicing their real heads off and blood spurting all over! Singing allah ackbar! Let me ask you this Bozo, lets see your onion’s, Joke and make smart a_s comments about muhammad make sure you tell them its satire to! But the onion would rather make comments about the pope, 9/11, Christians and the only jokes I don’t see are about muslims! Whats wrong Pr_cks are you afraid? I guess so; make some stance, let see if you have balls enough to do it! No, your F-ING Cowards, and thats why you don’t do it! So lets see the Satire of muhammad; Come on! You spineless boneless Pr_cks! You make fun “satire” of Sears and 9/11, but you don’t have the Balls to make fun of muhammad! Isn’t it funny you make money off of Christians, the Pope and Catholics, but yet the real Boogyman is islam and you cant make fun of them because you’ll P_ss your pants because your afraid! Brave Men and Women climbed those towers, and you can bet all those climbing the stairs that day Looked Death Face ON! And you P_ss your self because your too afraid the muslims will come after you! Your NO different than the Bully in School, or the Heathens that killed and brought down those planes!.. People can laugh at your satire all they want, but I know what you really are! Your the ones that would P_ss yourself, if you really face True Death! Spineless, Gutless, and Worthless, and yet your proud? You need four tours Afghanistan by yourself!

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    • Wool-Free Vision
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 1:19am

      So… I‘m guessing you guys don’t care much for Mel Brooks movies either, huh?

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    • HappyStretchedThin
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 1:19am

      @Darmok,
      I grant wide latitude to comics in general. It’s good for us to be able to laugh at ourselves, and not take our critics so seriously.
      And at the same time reserve the right to call offensive what is offensive, and what is in poor taste in poor taste. This was a classless “joke” and I think the Onion should be ashamed of itself.
      @Doc,
      Ummm. You DO know that this is NOT the Onion’s site, right? Chill out bro, we need all the help we can get this election, and I don’t want you blowing a gasket before November…;-)

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    • kegbuna
      Posted on August 4, 2012 at 5:48am

      http://www.theonion.com/articles/saudi-journalist-arrested-for-tweeting-to-muhammad,27373/ – Making fun of Muhammed Joke

      http://www.theonion.com/articles/satire-mag-burned-for-muhammad-cartoon,26557/ – Another, the comment on the left is hilarious.

      Going to conclude with this one – http://www.theonion.com/articles/there-was-definitely-a-point-during-that-stoning-w,18165/

      What’s really funny is how people on the blaze here, a conservative site (self reliance and all that) are so apt to claim to be victims. There’s always some assault on Christianity, white males, and what not going on, yet if one were to actually step back and look. They wouldn’t find anything. I guess if there‘s no persecution then there’s nothing to complain about, which is no fun.

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    • docgreen
      Posted on August 5, 2012 at 1:49am

      @kegbuna
      Well, I have yet to see in any of the stories the Onion making jokes about islam and mahammad. SO whats your point? The 3rd story was not joking or making fun of mahammad, so whats the point? The oniion ran three stories? Not one mad jokes or laughed, not even a cartoon with him wearing a bomb. Yet you seem to believe that it makes up for the senseless humor portrayed by the onion? So lets see the onion make fun of mahammad like I said! No, they won’t because their spineless! Yet at the same time they make fun of 9/11 victims? Maybe it wasn’t meant that way, but use your F-ing Brains and think about how much that day effected everyone of US, except the onion staff! So instead they wait a few years and then decide they should use this? If you ask me I say, we take those people “onion” put them in a building to be demolished by explosives, and then let them feel what it felt like to die! Oh and I forgot, make sure the flames and jet fuel made it hot enough for the! Then lets see how their families would react to jokes and cartoons about planes flying into buildings!
      @happystretchedthing, maybe instead you should say something to all the other people out there that watched their family members die that day! Chill out; I‘ll chill out when I’m dead and buried! Until then maybe you should practice what you say! I’m po, becuase fools like you let people get by with this! Treat people the way you want to be treated! So, Write jokes about mahammad! LETsSE

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  • Calm Voice of Reason
    Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:45pm

    This is what the Onion does. That’s why they call it “The Onion”. Duh.

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  • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
    Posted on August 3, 2012 at 11:42pm

    IMO, doen’t even rate a story on this site. Just ignore punks with no classy sense of humor. The only purpose of this is raise the ire of those closer to the 911 incident.

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