Our Endorsements: The UK Throws Political Stones Across the Pond

The No Pressure To Be Funny podcast manages to be just that.

* The 2012 election in movie context.

* Once China owns TMZ, their crack reporting may go downhill.

* Wonkette puts the squeeze on Rep. John Fleming's racial profiling problem.

* "An Open Letter to the Job Market" that, oddly, doesn't begin with "WTF?!"

* Rally Downtown helps small businesses in Lower Manhattan that were affected by Hurricane Sandy, 12/7-8!

* Not surprisingly, there's a lot of politics on this list of 2012 things we should forget.

Tags: China, Daily Links, Hurricane Sandy, John Fleming, New York City, Unemployment, United Kingdom

The Onion Thanks Rep. John Fleming for His Patronage

Rep. John Fleming (R-Louisiana) — who is smart enough to make incredibly personal decisions about your body, but is not quite sharp enough to pick out absurdist social satire — pretty much won the Internet today…

In a Facebook status on Friday, Fleming alerted his followers to The Onion's May 18, 2011 article, "Planned Parenthood Opens $8 Billion Abortionplex" and wrote "More on Planned Parenthood, abortion by the wholesale." Fleming’s spokesman Doug Sachtleben confirmed to Politico the post has since been removed from the congressman's Facebook page and said the office had no further comment.

The blog Literally Unbelievable — which posts Facebook statuses from users who think Onion articles are real — picked up Fleming's status before the congressman removed it from the social networking site. Four users liked the post and eight left comments, with one person writing, "The Onion is satire. How exactly did you get elected?"

Our sincerest congratulations to him. He'll be going home with continued derision from The Onion's editorial staff…

The Onion's editor, Joe Randazzo, said the publication is proud to count Fleming as a reader. "We're delighted to hear that Rep. Fleming is a regular reader of America's Finest News Source and doesn't bother himself with The New York Times, Washington Post, the mediums of television and radio, or any other lesser journalism outlets," he said in a statement.

All this open-faced mockery may seem kind of mean-spirited, but don't worry. Fleming's brain is not equipped to process things like irony and sarcasm, so I can assure you that he thinks it's all sincere.

"Wow! I'm finally making a name for myself out there!" — John Fleming (probably)

He's having the time of his life.