![]() ![]() Sit your child down, and gently explain to him or her that the destruction of the Twin Towers was part of a Holy War, or jihad, against the U.S. The United States is preparing to strike, directly and decisively, against you, whoever you are, just as soon as we have a rough idea of your identity and a reasonably decent estimate as to where your base is located.Īn infographic geared towards parents gave fake directions on how to speak to your children about 9/11: Vows to Defeat Whoever it is We're at War With finds then-President Bush giving a confused address from the Oval Office:Īmerica's enemy, be it Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, the Taliban, a multinational coalition of terrorist organizations, any of a rogue's gallery of violent Islamic fringe groups, or an entirely different, non-Islamic aggressor we've never even heard of. Mixing the cake and placing it in the oven shortly after 3 p.m., Pearson sat at the kitchen table and stared at the oven door until the timer rang 50 minutes later.Ī mock speech excerpted in U.S. Having already donated blood, mailed a check to the Red Cross, and sent a letter of thanks to the New York Fire Department, Pearson was aimlessly wandering from room to room in her apartment when the idea of creating the confectionery stars and stripes came to her. Pearson, who had never before expressed feelings of patriotism in cake form, attributed the baking project to a loss of direction. ![]() Headlines like Hijackers Surprised to Find Themselves in Hell and God Angrily Clarifies 'Don't Kill' Rule gave readers a dose of comic relief without downplaying the seriousness of the attacks, or the sense of fear and panic Americans were still feeling.Īn article titled Not Knowing What Else to Do, Woman Bakes American Flag Cake, perfectly captured the helplessness felt by so many who simply did not know how life could go an as normal: 26, 2001.īut somehow, the mock newspaper managed to cover 9/11 in a way that was responsible, sensitive, and - almost miraculously - hilarious. Less than two weeks after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the satirical newspaper The Onion took a big risk by publishing a special issue lampooning the catastrophic events.īy any stretch, Americans should not have been ready for a humorous take on the devastating tragedy when the Onion published the special issue - Holy F#king Sh#t: Attack on America - on Sept. The under-construction One World Trade Center stands over the National September 11th Memorial and Museum in New York's Lower Manhattan on August 24, 2011. ![]()
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