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Big Question (Answered): “Did the Onion Step Over the Line Today with the #CongressHostage Tweets”

The outrage over The Onion‘s Orson Wells-like faux terrorism tweets today has touched off a firestorm. Is The Onion shining a needed light on our reactionary culture? Should comedians be allowed to do whatever they deem satirical? Even we could not agree, as you can see in the comments within our post on The Onion’s #CongressHostage tweets.

We asked you what you thought about the story and you answered and then we culled your responses from Twitter and Google Plus and we used Storify to present it all back to you. If you have additional responses, please leave them in the comments.

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