On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 10:25 PM, jet wrote:
Try searching Google for likely combinations of words. This worked for me:At 9:01 -0800 2002/11/20, Eric Cordian wrote:Cable News is reporting that the Onion, America's Finest News Source, hasYou got any pointers to that?
pulled from its Web site an article on the recent siege at the Moscow
theatre by Chechen rebels.
I'm not seeing any mention of this story searching www.cnn.com, news.google.com or news.yahoo.com.
"michael bay chechen"
That The Onion (www.theonion.com) no longer has the article which Google and other sites linked to is precisely the point of the story.
Again, the Google-cached article from 13 November is at:
http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cache:aTDv7HqpUIsJ:www.theonion.com/ onion3842/ those_chechen_rebels.html+michael+bay+pearl+harbor+chechen&hl=en&ie=UTF- 8
Whether the article and its removal were all part of the satire or political commentary is unknown to me, but the fact is that a bunch of Web crawlers ("observers," in quantum mechanics lingo) saw the article and indexed it is enough for me to beleve it was there, at least temporarily.
But as the DAs and judges in the fascist television program "Law and Order" like to point out every week, "things are different now."
--Tim May
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." -- Nietzsche
