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Journalism's greatest retraction--Ever
"As part of a reality-based community, it is important that we get our facts right when reporting on important political developments. The Onion AV Club, the more serious side of the well-known satire site, knows this quite well, and wants to be sure that they openly admit it when they make an error."
Yesterday, we reported that a passel of grotesque Dickensian caricatures gathered in the House of Representatives to vote, by a margin of 217-213, to let poor people die and to punish women for the blasphemy of having a vagina, effectively putting some 24 million Americans at the perpetual risk of poverty should they fall victim to accident or debilitating disease—a monstrous display of selfishness that, by their own admission, many of them performed solely out of adherence to partisan dogma and unabashed spite, and a ghoulish, symbolic bloodletting ritual that they then commemorated by drinking Bud Light. However, we have now learned that they did not, in fact, drink Bud Light.
We hereby offer this retraction.
We hereby offer this retraction.
"It gets better from there. Read the whole thing. It’s truly a work of art."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/5/5/1659526/-World-s-Greatest-Retraction-Ever
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work of ar tin indeed - 
I bet they drank something, though. 
Spot on!
