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The Onion caused quite a stir when they called 9-year-old Quvenzhane Wallis a little c*nt on Twitter last night. But, the deplorable comment wasn’t their first time going a bit too far. 

While the Onion is known as a fake news organization, it doesn’t take away from them saying and doing some pretty messed up things. We could be here all day if we decided to post all of the crazy and outlandish things they’ve published, but we just picked out 5 things that people believed, got angry over, or was just plain sick!

Check them out below. 

 

They don’t care who they offend, and it’s all about the joke. The Onion reported that Trayvon Martin was just “a crummy day” in the life of a neighborhood watchman to George Zimmerman. Out of jail after posting a $1 million bond, George Zimmerman told reporters Monday he remained firmly committed to community safety and had no intention of letting a single unpleasant episode prevent him from fulfilling his regular neighborhood watch duties.

“Just because I had one little setback doesn’t mean I’m suddenly going to forget my pledge to keep the Retreat at Twin Lakes safe and crime-free,” said Zimmerman, adding that his arrest on charges of murdering 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was just a “single crummy day.”

 

To poke fun at Muslims going to war for images of their God Allah, the Onion posted this image. Nothing else needs to be said, but they wrote:

“The image of the Hebrew prophet Moses high-fiving Jesus Christ as both are having their erect penises vigorously masturbated by Ganesha, all while the Hindu deity anally penetrates Buddha with his fist, reportedly went online at 6:45 p.m. EDT, after which not a single bomb threat was made against the organization responsible, nor did the person who created the cartoon go home fearing for his life in any way.”

Yes, they went there.

 

They took a shot at Barack Obama, saying that rural whites actually perfer Iran’s president to their own commander in chief.

They write, “rural white Americans said they would rather vote for Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad than U.S. president Barack Obama. “I like him better,” said West Virginia resident Dale Swiderski, who, along with 77 percent of rural Caucasian voters, confirmed he would much rather go to a baseball game or have a beer with Ahmadinejad, a man who has repeatedly denied the Holocaust and has had numerous political prisoners executed, than spend time with Obama.”

77 percent, though? To make matters worse, news organizations in Iran actually believed the Onion.

 

Our man Stephen A. Smith ain’t one to play with. The Onion wrote that the sportscaster was ready to have a sex debate with his 9-year-old son. They joked that Stephan said, “It’s a big milestone in every father-son relationship to sit your child down and dispute his pathetic ideas about the birds and bees.” Stephen went HAM on them via Twitter.

 

Even the kids of Newtown were not out of bounds for the Onion. They posted a story of a gun crazed Americans who said:

“Sure, it’s sad that a few kids died, but it’s far better than the tyranny that would result if the government came and took away all our [mechanical contraptions that make a lot of little pointy chunks of metal go through the air fast]. Can you even imagine what kind of horrible world that would be?”

Clearly, nothing is out of bounds for them.