I read The Onion daily, and it truly is America’s Finest News Source. It always has the best news stories, and is always unique. The fact that the stories are completely made up and satirical is beside the point. They are entertaining and usually expose an obvious yet profound truth about… something.
Their videos are usually spot-on. They are usually done in one of two ways — a hyper-exaggerated version of a cable news channel like CNN or Fox News. The other is a PBS-style roundtable discussion as if done in a bizarro universe. In the latest edition of “In The Know with Clifford Baines,” four panelists discuss whether the government should “stop dumping money into a giant hole.”
So where’s the New Mexico connection? The fictional money hole is located in New Mexico.
David Barrodale (or the man playing Barrodale) of the Onion News Network says, “Driving truckloads of money out into the New Mexico desert and dumping it into a massive pit is one of America’s greatest traditions.”
Leslie Hillerman, a faux Wall Street Journal columnist, argues people should be allowed to destroy money on their own terms. “The American people earned that money, they have the right to decide how it should be destroyed,” she says, parodying extreme libertarianism just as others on the panel are caricatures of other types of political pundits.
The video is below, but be warned, there is some graphic language.



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