The White House to the Onion- "Stop using Presidential Seal"

[FVZA_Colonel]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/26/odd.onion.reut/index.html

White House to Onion: Stop using seal
Symbol 'being used inappropriately,' says spokesman

Wednesday, October 26, 2005; Posted: 9:04 a.m. EDT (13:04 GMT)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The White House is not amused by The Onion, a newspaper that often spoofs the Bush administration, and has asked it to stop using the presidential seal on its Web site.

The seal was still on the Web site www.theonion.com on Tuesday at the spot where President George W. Bush's weekly radio address is parodied.

With headlines like "Bush To Appoint Someone To Be In Charge Of Country" and "Bush Subconsciously Sizes Up Spain For Invasion," The Onion is popular with readers looking for a little laughter with their politics.

White House spokesman Trent Duffy said people who work in the executive mansion do have a sense of humor, but not when it comes to breaking regulations.

[TheMightyFavog]

1. And the Farkers are having fun with it....

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1730495

[LiberalEsto]

2. American People to Bushco: Stop Using Presidential Seal

Can't use that seal unless they won the elections fair and square. Which they did not.

[swimboy]

3. Onion to White House: Stop using the White House.

:evilgrin:

[Peachhead22]

10. Or 'stop using irony'

...even though it's unintentional.

[rkc3]

4. Waaaah! Hey WH, when you restore honor and dignity, I'm sure

The Onion will drop their use of the seal. Until then, shut the fuck up.

[Horse with no Name]

5. Well some idiot in Crawford uses it at his ranch

oh...wait...

[jeff30997]

6. Crybabies!

:cry:

[Kurovski]

14. Whiners. Whine, whine, whiiiiine. It's the only thing they do well.

The Onion should now make the seal twice as big on their site. Three times!

The Whine House can't do squat about it. Oh, but WHINE about it, THAT they can do.

[Flirtus]

7. the onion site is overloaded now,

but thank heavens for farkers!

[miss_kitty]

8. All the shit that's fucked up in the country and the world

and they focus on this. Nice to know they got priorties.

Fuck off WH assholes.

[marylanddem]

9. That seal belongs to the United States of America - not *

How dare they? This is unbefuckinglievable

[terrya]

11. It doesn't belong to the Bush White House.

Since when do they have the Presidential Seal copyrighted?

And the Onion is hardly the only entity who does this. "SNL" uses the Presidential Seal in ITS parodies of Bush.

This is grade-A horseshit.

[TahitiNut]

12. Let's think about how the Bushtards use the Presidential Seal ....

On the Chimperor's faux cowboy boots ... for the edification of manure?
On souvenir pens handed out to cronies and contributors who pay $$$.
On Junior's belt buckles.
On Junior's baseball caps.
On Junior's jackets.
On every plate, cup, saucer, and piece of silverware used for meals in the WHite House.
On flag cases made for commercial profit by Spartacraft
On 3'x5' flags made for commercial profit and sold by PoliticalGifts.com for $30


... and on more things made for sale or souvenir than I can count.

[slampoet]

13. If the White House wants the Onion to stop using the presidential seal

....maybe the White House should make that seal mean something besides "FOR SALE"

[Loonman]

15. Willikers, they must be LEFTISTS!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1509702/posts

[IChing]

16. some samples of the seal