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3.23.2006

Fans Outraged by Onion Sports Article's Clerical Error

In the most recent edition of The Onion, a satirical news site, its sports section featured an "infographic"--Great African American Moments in Nascar History. Racing fans across the country have already began registering their outrage to the website for the glaring use of fraudulent numerical identification.
"The article clearly lists Tony Stewart in the #29 Chevy Monte Carlo, when anybody should know that Tony drives the #20 Chevy Monte Carlo", explained reader Jimmy Barnhardt. "What kind of world do we live in where satirical sites can just make stuff up? Where's the accountability?"
Within hours of its posting, emails began pouring in to The Onion's headquarters in New York. Fans on various message boards smiliarly posted their disgust with the article's patent ignorance of the facts. On a Nascar Racing Sim board, the following message was posted by EdwardzPhan99:
"I know Kahne_Gurl and DodgeDude239 are going to say this, so I'll stop them--YES, Tony Stewart drove the #29 in the Busch Series, but NEVER in a race with Jimmie Johnson. I know--I checked Jayski this afternoon to make sure."
It remains unknown what ramifications The Onion may face if a retraction is not issued, but some fans are swearing themselves off the site forever.
"I'm sick and tired of these comedy people thinking they know Nascar", said "former reader" Wilson Scott. "I'm going to find the Nascar comedy that really makes me laugh--jokes about Kenny Wallace's laugh and Michael Waltrip's hair. Git-r-done!"

1 Comments:

At 6:15 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

And I thought that this whole article was about Todd Bodine!!

Silly me... Who could think to write THAT much about him.

 

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