“Congress shall now approve contents of Bill XYZ, the entire contents, including the title of the Bill, are classified. All those in favor of passing this bill…”
If you don’t know what is on the Bill, why would you ignorantly vote for it?
Read the categories that this was posted under as well as noticing the network logo in the lower right. A short search reveals that Pennsylvania’s 12th District is Democratic and the representative there is John Murtha.
It is sort of frightening that this is probably not so far from what really goes on with “homeland security” (and other defense) bills in Congress!
I admit it: by the middle of viewing the video it dawned on me it was a satyre.
But you begin to wonder: how many bills are voted without the members of Congress fully knowing what the bill is all about because of ‘classified’ content.
At about the 1 minute mark I didn’t know whether to laugh or what. Then I noticed the fake “onion-span” logo, and looked up the guy’s name.
On some lists, people are still refusing to believe that it’s not real.
To me, the Onion is the standard-bearer continuing the tradition of the early National Lampoon magazine. Satire makes fun of something while pointing out a problem. Paul Krassner did this with his Realist publication too.
Another master of social satire was Jean Shepherd, who is one of my radio heroes.
Apr 17 2009 
April 17th, 2009 at 9:03 am
How can a member of Congress cast a vote on [CLASSIFIED] without knowing what the f*$ck [CLASSIFIED] even means??
The best part is when he says “Jesus!”
April 17th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
What a bunch of idiots! He might of well said,
“Congress shall now approve contents of Bill XYZ, the entire contents, including the title of the Bill, are classified. All those in favor of passing this bill…”
If you don’t know what is on the Bill, why would you ignorantly vote for it?
April 17th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Read the categories that this was posted under as well as noticing the network logo in the lower right. A short search reveals that Pennsylvania’s 12th District is Democratic and the representative there is John Murtha.
It is sort of frightening that this is probably not so far from what really goes on with “homeland security” (and other defense) bills in Congress!
April 17th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
Definitely one of the better things The Onion has done. Sad thing is it’s not far from the truth.
April 18th, 2009 at 1:48 am
I admit it: by the middle of viewing the video it dawned on me it was a satyre.
But you begin to wonder: how many bills are voted without the members of Congress fully knowing what the bill is all about because of ‘classified’ content.
April 18th, 2009 at 2:45 am
RPJ,
At about the 1 minute mark I didn’t know whether to laugh or what. Then I noticed the fake “onion-span” logo, and looked up the guy’s name.
On some lists, people are still refusing to believe that it’s not real.
To me, the Onion is the standard-bearer continuing the tradition of the early National Lampoon magazine. Satire makes fun of something while pointing out a problem. Paul Krassner did this with his Realist publication too.
Another master of social satire was Jean Shepherd, who is one of my radio heroes.
April 18th, 2009 at 8:12 am
I didn’t notice the Onion until I read the comments. I thought it was real until that point.