Matt Yglesias

17 Responses to “The Minotaur Debate”

1. onceler Says:
   August 28th, 2009 at 4:16 pm

   yeah, watched this earlier on Balloon Juice, but gonna have to watch it again now. this vid kills me…

2. Costello Says:
   August 28th, 2009 at 4:17 pm

   Excellent. The Onion is always good but this is easily one of their best. Very, very sharp.

3. Bob Oso Says:
   August 28th, 2009 at 4:18 pm

   “But we don’t use Griffins. That separates us from them.”

4. Rob Mac Says:
   August 28th, 2009 at 4:21 pm

   Also perfect is how there are three pro-Minotaur voices and only one anti-Minotaur.

5. Ryan Says:
   August 28th, 2009 at 4:31 pm

   Didn’t Jack Bauer use a Minotaur once in season three? Obviously this shows Americans are OK with it.

6. bdbd Says:
   August 28th, 2009 at 4:39 pm

   The anti-using Minotaur talking head is from Politico.com? Is that part of the joke?

7. fnook Says:
   August 28th, 2009 at 4:39 pm

   Didn’t Jack Bauer use a Minotaur once in season three? Obviously this shows Americans are OK with it.

   Indeed. The detainees we subjected to the Minotaur were the same people that provided us with valuable information. Thus subjecting them to the Minotaur was obviously worth it. Plus, my lawyer told me several weeks later that it’s all good.

8. daveNYC Says:
   August 28th, 2009 at 5:13 pm

   Complain all you want about the minotaur, but you have to admit that building an infinite labyrinth with reshaping pathways would have been one heck of a boost to the economy.

9. bdbd Says:
   August 28th, 2009 at 5:15 pm

   The minotaur was Tony Almeida

10. Ryan Says:
    August 28th, 2009 at 5:34 pm

    This is, ahem, bullshit. John McCain was gored by a minotaur in Vietnam, and everyone agrees *that* was torture.

    You just know what’s going to happen. The Obama administration will investigate, some lowly minotaur-wranglers will get punished, while those who gave the goring orders get off scot free.

11. Opie Curious Says:
    August 28th, 2009 at 6:00 pm

    Also perfect is how there are three pro-Minotaur voices and only one anti-Minotaur.

    Even more perfect, check out where the panelists come from:
    Bush press secretary
    Host of his own talk show
    National Review Online
    Politico

    The full range of opinions, from right to center-right. Awesome.

12. Richard Steven Hack Says:
    August 28th, 2009 at 6:49 pm

    Is having Summer Glau beat the crap out of you torture? Rachel Maddow investigates.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwVqW6J4FRc

13. DTM Says:
    August 28th, 2009 at 8:53 pm

    I used to hate Onion videos because I was always trying to read the ticker at the same time as watching the main story.

    No ticker this time, so A+.

14. wiley Says:
    August 28th, 2009 at 9:59 pm

    I thoroughly enjoy the Onion videos, but wish they still had text stories. The Onion was a great tool for teaching ESL, especially because it had high quality editing. No typos. No grammatical errors, and the wonderful command of the language that high comedy requires. The Onion newspaper had better editing than the serious newspapers.

15. tomemos Says:
    August 28th, 2009 at 10:51 pm

    “I thoroughly enjoy the Onion videos, but wish they still had text stories.”

    They do. They even still have a dead-tree newspaper, or did last time I checked. I think it’s just that no one sends them around anymore; people focus on the videos.

    http://www.theonion.com

16. wiley Says:
    August 28th, 2009 at 11:17 pm

    Oh, thanks. I must have gotten stuck on a page. I’m so busy on my job lately (I work at home) that I’ve been very slap-dash and sloppy on the internet. I know that many of my posts attest to that lately, so need to chime in in agreement.

17. Don’t Fear The Minotaur « Around The Sphere Says:
    August 30th, 2009 at 3:34 pm

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