Sunday, November 7, 2010

Homework #3 (MP2)

Obama: Health Care Plan Would Give Seniors Right To Choose How They Are Killed

http://www.theonion.com/articles/obama-health-care-plan-would-give-seniors-right-to,2822/

This article is political satire because, well the title says it all. This article talks about how Obama really did say this, but he meant it as if you grandmother wanted to die in the privacy of her own home rather than in the middle of a soccer field. Regardless of what the point he was trying to make was, Onion news is still making a joke about it.
"The president said he sympathized with and related to the fears of older Americans, adding that if a politician told him he could only be killed by being forcibly removed from his home and shot in the street like a dog, but left out the fact that he could also be put down by painless lethal injection, he would be scared, too." This is cracking on how the president "sympathized" with being scared to die horribly. I cant really explain how this is satire because its so unbelievably obvious.
They continue to say how Obama's bill lets senior choose between 600 executions and how he just really wants to kill us. The plan is obviously for something more serious and Onion news is just making a satire out of it because they think its not right and stupid. i happen to find this article hilarious though. hope you enjoy it.