The Onion Can't Bear to Mock The One

America’s Finest News Source has some explaining to do.

The Onion , the usually biting comic weekly, just can’t bring itself to mock President Barack Obama. The One has been in office for more than a month now, and the last four Onion issues have tip-toed around anything remotely tough on the Commander-in-Chief. It’s hardly a shock, since most comics in toto seem to have a hands off approach to the new president. But The Onion?

The latest edition offers up a lame Whitman’s Sampler of Obama related gags. Its Barack Obama Black History Month graphic trots out four lame jokes, each worse than the next. And none carry any political weight.

Here’s an example: In 1969, fellow second grader Leon Hoyt became the first person to make fun of Barack Obama’s name, referring to him as “Buttock” Obama for the entire school year.

Oooooh, that’s gotta sting.

Check out this above the fold gag story – “Obama disappointed Cabinet failed to understand his reference to ‘Savage Sword of Conan’ #24.”

Here’s another zinger -“Liberals horrified by lack of inexperience among Obama appointees.”

Boy, take it easy on Obama, will ya?

The paper did find time to swipe at former Vice President Dick Cheney (“Cheney dunk tank raises $800 for nation”).

To be fair, it’s not as if Obama appointed several cabinet member candidates who flamed out in spectacular fashion … or had Iran’s president mock him over his weak foreign policy posturing … or forced a vote on a massive stimulus bill and then took a long weekend vacation … or broke campaign promises at record speed in his first weeks in office.

Obama simply hasn’t given The Onion much to work with, has he?