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AP or ONION!

Don’t forget, today’s winner advances to the yearly Tournament of Champions.

Here we go, AP or Onion:

HORMEL FIGHTS TO DEFEND SPAM NAME

Today’s Observation From Left Field

I really miss Del’s Lemonade. I just found out you can now order the dry mix direct from Del’s and make your own at home. I’m going to try it, but I’m not sure it will be the same.

Nobody writes a better scathing film review than Roger Ebert. As proof I submit his thoughts on The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

If you want to read the greatest movie review ever written, click on the “search” link of the Ebert site and find his review of the movie “North“

It’s time once again for America’s answer to “Banzai”:

AP or Onion?

We’re ready for today’s headline, and remember, today’s winner advances to our bonus round, where prizes are doubled:

Israelis, Palestinians Agree To Share Headline

Is it AP . . . or Onion?

AP or Onion: Episode II

OK, it’s time for another round of “AP or Onion?”, america’s fasting growing quiz sensation.

Ready? Hands on buzzers then, here we go:

Palestinians Outlaw Violent Groups

This is a tough one, I know.

It’s time for a new feature here on DaveTown:

AP or Onion?

Here’s how we play: I give you the headline, you decide if it’s the venerable American newsgathering organization Associated Press or internet news-parody pioneer The Onion

OK, ready to play?

CBS Plans Beverly Hillbillies Reality Show

Is it AP . . . or Onion?

Libertarians for Life

Libertarians are a minority in this country. Pro-Life Libertarians are a reeeealy small minority of libertarians. My contrarian instincts make me suspect that this in itself supports their arguments. Look here for a healthy dose of good sense and truth. Thanks to Fr. Tucker for the link.

Happy Independence Day, everyone.

So their is no liberal bias in the American press. Anyone who says their is such a thing is clearly deluded, right? Take comfort, in that this lack of liberal bias extends to religious stories as well. I was reading about the appointment of the Franciscan Fr. Sean O’Malley to be the new Archbishop of Boston.

Here, the Associated Press shows it’s neutrality by implying that a Catholic Archbishop who is loyal to the teachings of the Catholic Church is suspect as a “conservative” and therefore uncommited to healing the damage done by the sex scandals in the Boston Archdiocese:

The Rev. Richard McBrien, a liberal theologian at the University of Notre Dame, said despite all the kudos O’Malley has won for his response to sex abuse, he is still a conservative priest who would be “uncritically loyal to the Holy See and would not veer one millimeter from its policies and teachings on anything.”

The quotation may be true to the context of Fr. McBrien’s remarks, or it may not. It could very well be that Fr. McBrien was “Dowdified”. Either way the implication is outrageous.