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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Onion Has Obtained Exclusive Information From Jaime Phillips About Roy Moore
Satire....
These are the facts, provided directly to us by Ms. Phillips in a series of on-the-record interviews conducted over the past 24 hours:
1) That in 1992, while spending a summer in Alabama, a teenage Ms. Phillips began a secret relationship with a then-55-year-old Roy Moore.
2) That, during this relationship, Roy Moore repeatedly had sexual intercourse with her, leading to a pregnancy.
3) That, at Mr. Moores instruction, Ms. Philips underwent a secretive abortion.
To our editorial boards knowledge, no other news source has been entrusted with this incredible story. Indeed, in her first phone call to us, Ms. Philips repeatedly insisted that The Onion was her first and only choice to bring forth such allegations. Why did she entrust Americas Finest News Source with these groundbreaking details? Perhaps she knew other newspapers would be intimidated into cowardly silence by the far-reaching fallout from these revelations. Perhaps she was simply conscious of our lengthy history of award-winning and earth-shattering reportage, and she knew no other publication would do.
Whatever the reason, the evidence corroborating her story is insurmountable.
Unquestionably, this dramatic account required fact-checking of the caliber only The Onion can provide, and while several small inconsistencies emergednotably, the employer that Ms. Phillips provided us, NFM Lending, had no knowledge of her existence and denied she ever held a position therethe common-sense explanation from Ms. Phillips that she worked remotely and that we had called the wrong branch quickly put to bed any doubt that would prevent her accounts publication. Similarly, despite timely considerations such as the coming December election in which Mr. Moore will serve as the GOP candidate and the coming Pulitzer Prize nominations for which this story may be eligible, readers can dispel any notion that this journalistic enterprise was rushed to publication. Simply put, The Onion is willing to stake its nearly 252-year history of sterling, unbiased reportage upon the verity of these claims.
1) That in 1992, while spending a summer in Alabama, a teenage Ms. Phillips began a secret relationship with a then-55-year-old Roy Moore.
2) That, during this relationship, Roy Moore repeatedly had sexual intercourse with her, leading to a pregnancy.
3) That, at Mr. Moores instruction, Ms. Philips underwent a secretive abortion.
To our editorial boards knowledge, no other news source has been entrusted with this incredible story. Indeed, in her first phone call to us, Ms. Philips repeatedly insisted that The Onion was her first and only choice to bring forth such allegations. Why did she entrust Americas Finest News Source with these groundbreaking details? Perhaps she knew other newspapers would be intimidated into cowardly silence by the far-reaching fallout from these revelations. Perhaps she was simply conscious of our lengthy history of award-winning and earth-shattering reportage, and she knew no other publication would do.
Whatever the reason, the evidence corroborating her story is insurmountable.
Unquestionably, this dramatic account required fact-checking of the caliber only The Onion can provide, and while several small inconsistencies emergednotably, the employer that Ms. Phillips provided us, NFM Lending, had no knowledge of her existence and denied she ever held a position therethe common-sense explanation from Ms. Phillips that she worked remotely and that we had called the wrong branch quickly put to bed any doubt that would prevent her accounts publication. Similarly, despite timely considerations such as the coming December election in which Mr. Moore will serve as the GOP candidate and the coming Pulitzer Prize nominations for which this story may be eligible, readers can dispel any notion that this journalistic enterprise was rushed to publication. Simply put, The Onion is willing to stake its nearly 252-year history of sterling, unbiased reportage upon the verity of these claims.
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The Onion Has Obtained Exclusive Information From Jaime Phillips About Roy Moore (Original Post)
ehrnst
Nov 2017
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Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)1. Oh nevermind
oberliner
(58,724 posts)3. This is a spoof of the attempted "sting" against the Washington Post
Not the best work The Onion has done, but I get what they are going for.
Loki Liesmith
(4,602 posts)4. Yeah I figured it out
ret5hd
(20,491 posts)2. Glad to see Moore has you on his side.