ScrappleFace: News Fairly Unbalanced. We Report You Decipher
ScrappleFace.com was first created in July 2002 by former journalist Scott Ott.
That’s right…he’s the same Scott Ott, you know as a dynamic public speaker available through Premiere Speakers Bureau, who’s also an accomplished voiceover artist, and a published author.
The daily conservative news satire site burst into public prominence in January 2003 thanks to a story in which then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld repeatedly apologized for referring to France and Germany as an ‘Axis of Weasels‘. The story spawned a some-selling book of the same name, as well as the dubious distinction of earning one of two ScrappleFace entries at the myth-busting site Snopes.com.
In its first five years, ScrappleFace entertained and informed nearly 11 million visitors, and became marginally-famous thanks to laudatory attention from…
Rush Limbaugh
- Audio Rave 10-23-06
- 9-25-2007 Audio (related to this story)
- 10-12-2007 Audio & Transcript (related to this story)
- 8-6-2008 Audio & Rush References ScrappleFace and The Onion
- 11-10-2008
- 6-10-2009
Glenn Beck [07-13-2005 Audio Rave]
Mark Levin [11-30-2006 Audio Rave]
Hugh Hewitt
Glenn Reynolds at InstaPundit.com
James Taranto at OpinionJournal.com
William Kristol, Richard Starr and Philip Chalk at The Weekly Standard
Michelle Malkin
Powerlineblog
Ed Morrissey at Captain’s Quarters Blog
[..and literally thousands of blogs and websites around the globe]
Not to mention…
Sports Illustrated
The Philadelphia Inquirer
The BBC
The Sydney Morning Herald
Mike Gallagher
Jim Wood
Bobby Gunther Walsh
Mike Koolidge
Michael Medved
Kevin Nelson
World Magazine
[...ok, enough already!]
Well, perhaps a bit more. Here are some gracious words from magnanimous folks who read ScrappleFace.
“ScrappleFace.com is one of the best parody sites. In fact, it’s created in my own image. This is EIB quality stuff. Scott Ott is hilarious. It’s the kind of stuff that didn’t even exist 15 years ago. But there is a problem with it, at least for me. I want to steal the stuff I see there. But I don’t. I just laugh myself silly.â€
–Rush Limbaugh, EIB Network
“ScrappleFace.com is one of the funniest news sites on the Web and a frequent source of inspiration for my Best of the Web Today column.”
–James Taranto, editor, OpinionJournal.com
“Scott Ott rocks!”
– Glenn Reynolds, InstaPundit.com
“ScrappleFace’s greatest hits collection is a must-have. Axis of Weasels provides page after page of on-target humor for the post-Sept. 11 age. Bring. It. On.”
– Michelle Malkin, syndicated columnist/author
“Scrappleface is smart, quick, engaged relief for both the intense and casual news watcher. SF appreciates many of the ironies and subtleties of our 24/7 too-much-information existence–thankfully!”
–Kathryn Jean Lopez, editor, National Review Online
“Scrappleface is the funniest news satire site ever. It brings far more tears to my eyes than any Onion.”
–Richard Starr, managing editor, The Weekly Standard
“‘Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.’ That was Lord Byron, almost two centuries ago. But it could be Scott Ott, aka ScrappleFace, today. Our age provides a multitude of fools, and, as you will see in this book, Scott Ott sings most merrily away.”
– William Kristol, Editor, The Weekly Standard
Technical Details: ScrappleFace.com runs on WordPress 2.5, and is hosted by Dayton Creative.
Legal: All content of this site is property of Scott Ott. Each story is copyright © Scott Ott in the year it was written. All rights reserved. To request permission to use ScrappleFace stories in print or broadcast media, write Scott Ott. When posting excerpts of ScrappleFace material to your website, blog, forum or other internet medium, please use only a brief excerpt and link to the original ScrappleFace story. Please do not excerpt the entire story.
This site, its logo, banner, slogan and all other creative matter belongs to Scott Ott.
6 responses so far ↓
1 Hawkeye // Sep 27, 2007 at 7:59 am
Scott,
In my opinion, ScrappleFace is without a doubt THE BEST satire site on the web… and you’re up against some pretty stiff competition. I’m honored to have met you Face2Face.
2 Pros and Cons » A “crumbling coalition” “withers! // Oct 10, 2007 at 1:56 pm
[...] in the world (despitesea-changes in attitudes in France and Germany, two of the leading members of The Axis of Weasels, as well as in Canada and other nations more numerous than prominent chicken of honor, Spain). I [...]
3 mig // Nov 30, 2007 at 12:36 pm
This site is a life-preserver in a political climate that insists you drown yourself.
4 onlineanalyst // Aug 7, 2008 at 7:11 pm
It was a link from “Best of the Web” that led me to Scrappleface. This experience occurred well before the 2004 election.
My introduction to Scott Ott’s blog led me to becoming the political junkie that I am today. It also comforted me to know that there are other conservatives (with great senses of humor) out there across our country. The liberal media can make a thinking person feel quite alone.
Such fun! Such sanity in an absurd world!
Scrappleface introduced me to a terrific community of cyber-friends, all thinkers and all witty in uniqe ways.
One of my happier memories is having Maestro Ott (and his lovely family) join a number of us commenters last year in the Scrappleface Face2Face Rally.
Keep that Scrappleface Express fired up, Scott. With you and Rush Limbaugh, we conservatives have a fighting chance to correct the aberrations of the Left… and laugh as we watch their flimsy house of cards tumble into a dust heap.
5 Global Dashboard » North America South Asia » Classy // Feb 3, 2009 at 12:04 pm
[...] people reported dead in Pakistan and Scrappleface – the right-wing answer to the Onion – sees an opportunity to use its wit to settle some political scores. Nice. As the [...]
6 derwoollet // Aug 26, 2009 at 11:40 pm
Have you considered the administration's Medical Cap and Trade bill yet?
At the beginning of each year, the Health Czar will personally sign and issue a certain number of wholly negotiable Certificates of Merit for specific surgical procedures. For instance, 1 million stents or 500,000 radical prostatectomies. They shall be valid for the year of issue only. In order to receive medical care during that year, a prospective patient will be required to purchase on the free market a Certificate of Merit for the appropriate procedure which is presented to the emergency room notary for cancellation. No tickee, no laundly. Upon presentation of a duly notarized Certificate, the surgeon will be paid at the rate for the procedure established by the medical procedures department of the National Labor Relations Board, provided only that the surgeon and his staff have established membership in the SEIU.
In an emergency, citizens will be able to apply for special certificates through the Post Office from the Passport Office, but each such certificate will result in a deduction from the following year's quota, and requires the (legible) signature of a Board Certified surgeon, anaesthesiologist, two nurses and a member of the public, who may be a patient, but may not be a member of the applicant's immediate family.
As part of the Surgeon General's task to ensure a healthy population, the number of certificates each year will be reduced through the intervention of his office to 90% of the expected number of operations as certified to Congress on or before the close of the previous year in writing by the Office of the Census. As a control on exuberance, no year may exceed the total of any prior year as for any specific procedure or as to all procedure altogether. In order to limit unnecessary expenditure, the Office of Management and Budget will have authority to cancel unused Certificates of Merit during the year when it finds they are being used at an unnecessary rate, or are too expensive, or generate an unnecessary and burdensome quantity of medical waste to the depletion of existing landfills, upon certification of same to Congress. Any person holding a cancelled certificate may offset the cost of same against taxes for the following year up to no more than 3% of adjusted gross income. The overall program will be administered by staff seconded from the Cars for Clunkers program, and all claims must be submitted through their website.
As with all significant public programs, present and past Members of Congress and their immediate family will be exempt.
In a little understood amendment, Republican senators have made provision for Guantanamo to be operated as a full-time residential psychiatric program for citizens and non-citizens alike under the direct supervision of the Administrator of the Transportation SturmAbteilung.
SB 69(2009)
There is a trial balloon being floated that, since North Korea is so good at forging $100 bills, the production of these valuable Certificates of Merit be outsourced to Pyongyang as part of our rapprochement there.
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