LA Times plagiarizes for April fools?

[Arthwys]

Looks like they stole Onions story from over a month ago.
 
 http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/04/onion.html
 
 http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Onion_News_Diebold_already_rigged_election_0227.html

[Venerable Bede]

is there a more worthless major city newspaper than the l.a. times?  other than having joel stein as a columnist, there is little that redeems it.

[Brian_Wallace]

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
  is there a more worthless major city newspaper than the l.a. times?  other than having joel stein as a columnist, there is little that redeems it.

You ENJOY the writing of JOEL STEIN!!??!  Are you serious?  He's the absolute WORST.  So whiny and snarky.  He's a bad writer.  He's naive.  He's arrogant.  He's even worse than Chuck Klosterman.  
 
 I mean, look up douchebag in the dictionary and there's this picture:
 
   <img src="http://www.gawker.com/assets/resources/2007/11/joelstein.jpg" alt=" - " />
 
 He's like the Jimmy Fallon of "young, hip" writers.  So whiny...so, so whiny.  
 
 Brian
 
 P.S.  Wait a minute.  Is this an April Fool's joke?  I get it.  Nobody can write the words "other than having joel stein as a columnist, there is little that redeems it" and be serious.  Good one.

[Frank Gallagher]

Originally posted by Brian Wallace:
   

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
  .

You ENJOY the writing of JOEL STEIN!!??!  Are you serious?  He's the absolute WORST.  So whiny and snarky.  He's a bad writer.  He's naive.  He's arrogant.  He's even worse than Chuck Klosterman.  
 
  [/b]

That's it...Brian Wallace is Joel Stein!!!
 
 
 Mystery solved! Do I get a prize?

[Venerable Bede]

huzzah!  i can now scratch "being the subject of a brian walalce rant" off my bucket list. . .thank you for making me feel extra special by using caps.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by Arthwys:
  Looks like they stole Onions story from over a month ago.

I'm not sure it's stolen.  The URL is actually titled Onion.htm so I'm guessing it was used with permission of some sort.

[azaghal1981]

I like Chuck Klosterman.