The Onion to Take over InfoWars
nytimes.com98 points by lxm 2 days ago
98 points by lxm 2 days ago
Discussion (627 points, 2 days ago, 320 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837611
Turning into an odd form of a take over. Basically renting it for 3 months to let Tim Heidecker do a few shows??
I hope Dan and Jordan can get the desk like they've always wanted.
I'm concerned they won't know what to do without Alex. Already going back over shows from 2006...
Editorialized title. It has a plan to take over that will need approval. Lots of non-paywalled coverage that would be better links, eg:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/20/the-onion-al...
See previous discussion linked in sibling as well.
A million dollars a year for... what? A gag that fans of infowars won't watch, and there aren't enough anti-fans to appreciate? It feels personal at this point.
Tim heidecker summarised their thinking wonderfully.
"I just thought it would be just a beautiful joke if we could take this pretty toxic, negative, destructive force of Infowars and rebrand it as this beautiful place for our creativity”.
Not to mention Alex Jones is still up and running elsewhere spreading his nonsense and hawking his merch. So it's a cute gag, I guess, and gets the Sandy Hook families some money, but doesn't really change the status quo.
> It feels personal at this point.
It is openly and proudly personal. It is also political, also openly.