La Reyna mentioned this yesterday. It seems that the talk of the entertainment industry is a parody website having the nerve to label a young actress a dirty word. Of course the conservative media is upset that the First Lady of The United States was invited to present the nominees at the Academy Awards.
The Onion didn't think a simple tweet on Twitter would result in a major controversy.
Quvenzhané Wallis is a 9-year old actress. She made history as one of the youngest actresses to ever be nominated for an Academy Award. Wallis starred in the drama Beasts of the Southern Wild.
The award went to Jennifer Lawrence, a 22-year old actress who was featured in Silver Lining Playbook.
The young actress is gearing up for a role in the remake of hit musical Annie. She will play the star role.
Will Smith, his wife Jada Pickett-Smith and Jay-Z will be directing and producing the movie.
The Onion is an American news satire organization. It is an entertainment newspaper and a website featuring satirical articles reporting on international, national, and local news, in addition to a non-satirical entertainment section known as The A.V. Club. It claims a national print circulation of 200,000 and says 90 percent of its web site readers are between 18 and 44 years old.
Since 2007, the organization publishes satirical news audio and video online, as the "Onion News Network". Web traffic on theonion.com amounts to average of 7.5 million unique visitors per month.
Now The Onion has a social networking website through Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.
Twitter is growing and so is the idiocy online.
One of the posters for the Twitter feed had the nerve to call Quvenzhané Wallis.....a cunt.
A nine year old girl, who is African American a cunt.
Wonderful, how many other actresses were The Onion calling a cunt on Twitter?
None. Just Quvenzhané Wallis.
It lit up the internet and had people demand that The Onion made a public apology to the actress.
After three days, it came and it wasn't that cordial. The New York Times gets the transcript of a Facebook posting by The Onion's CEO Steve Hannah.
“On behalf of The Onion, I offer my personal apology to Quvenzhané Wallis and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the tweet that was circulated last night during the Oscars.
“It was crude and offensive [and] not to mention inconsistent with The Onion’s commitment to parody and satire, however biting.”
“No person should be subjected to such a senseless, humorless comment masquerading as satire. The tweet was taken down within an hour of publication. We have instituted new and tighter Twitter procedures to ensure that this kind of mistake does not occur again. In addition, we are taking immediate steps to discipline those individuals responsible. Miss Wallis, you are young and talented and deserve better. All of us at The Onion are deeply sorry.”
Conservatives and white supremacists were upset over Jamie Foxx and Samuel L. Jackson's movie Django Unchained. They could stomach a Black bounty hunter killing his slave master.
Conservatives and white supremacists were upset over Monique winning an Oscar for her role in Precious.
Conservatives and white supremacists couldn't stand First Lady Michelle Obama making an appearance at the Oscars.
Now a parody website makes an offensive tweet to an African American child. It was favored by hundreds of followers and supporters of this type of nonsense.
It's funny that these entertainers and the First Lady of The United States are treated with such disdain, whereas those who aren't Black are given proper respect.
In the age of Barack Obama, racism is rising!
The conservatives are more than just extreme. They're batshit crazy!
To The Onion, anyone who post online: Let this be a lesson to those who post offensive things online!
This will always come back to haunt you!
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