[I]t provides pitch-perfect military parody online, such as this piece about Syria hosting Iraq War reenactors (bylined by “G-Had”) or this one about a Google Street View Prius getting blown up in Kandahar. The Duffel Blog, as dutiful readers know, is America’s oldest online source for fake military news, founded in 1797 in a moment of farsightedness. It often gives more real talk than most legit journalistic institutions, but there is no way you can confuse it with the real news.
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Military Satire Is in the 'Bag'
Didn't know there was a military parody version of The Onion, called The Duffel Bag. It can be so right that it even fooled Mitch McConnell. Oh, wait, that's not much. Spencer Ackerman:
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment