Julianna Mckannis: I'm Julianna McKannis, filling in for Clifford Banes.

Joe Randazzo: The Onion is America's finest news source, and has branches in, print the web, radio, video, and what we say is the final word on whatever the subject may be.

Julianna Mckannis: With all economic factors indicating the US is heading for a prolonged recession, some experts are suggesting that the government should stop dumping all of our money into an enormous hole? Is it time to close the national money hole.

David Barrodale: That kind of talk is alarmist and irresponsible.

Nancy Fichandler: America needs the money hole.

David Barrodale: Driving truckloads of money out into the New Mexico desert and dumping it to a massive pit is one of America's greatest tradition.

Joe Randazzo: We have partnerships with new sources like The Washington Post, CNN, Slate. We recently launched in 2007 Onion News Network. And it's just doing extraordinarily well. It's reached audiences that the newspaper and the online newspaper has never been able to reach through this whole viral thing.

Andrea Bennett: And in Orange County this week, California residents are once again participating in the annual tradition of being shocked as wildfires burn their mansions to the ground. Every year, the ritual takes place here in the dry brush lands of Orange County, where strong Santa Anna winds and warm weather combine to make a perfect place for wealthy residents like Hector and Marcia Gladwell to build and rebuild their homes.

Hector Gladwell: Ours went up quicker than anyone else's in the neighborhood. It was the best burning we've had in what? 2006?

Marsha Gladwell: Oh my god. Probably. Yeah.

Joe Randazzo: We're at an interesting point in what we do, because we satirize the news. We satirize corporate news. Corporate news these days is just so hyper over the top that it's almost difficult to satirize. Like you watch Fox News with all of the flashing graphics and everything moving in and out and women who are more made up than Tammy Faye baker or somebody that you might see at like a beauty pageant in the south, trying to tell you the news with graphics and music and soaring this and that. It's hard to top. It's hard to satirize. It's comical as it is already.

I think it's based on this idea that Americans are unintelligent. Americans do not want to be given facts or data. They want infotainment. They want Nuggets that they can easily digest. They want flashy colors that move in and out. They want beautiful women. And they want short little snippets. And they want stories about puppies. And that's all that the American people want.

I think that this is the idea that people who are running these corporate media outlets believe that they are putting out a product. And that they're putting out an entertainment product. And that the American people don't have the intelligence or attention span to watch anything more thoughtful or deliberate.

Man: About closing holes. What about the soldier hole? How about the energy hole? I can't believe that closing the money hole is even on the table .

Woman: Why are you pushing this pro-hole agenda? Is the money hole lobby paying you?

Man: I resent that accusation. I do not take money from special interest. And if I did, I would throw it right in the hole, because I am a patriot.

Nancy Fichandler: If you love America, you throw money in its hole.

Joe Randazzo: So it's really refreshing I think for people to watch something like the Daily Show or read something like the onion that doesn't take itself so seriously and cuts to the quick. Doesn't mess around with making everything sound all nice and official and gets right to what the issue really is. Even if it's done in a joking manner, it's often more truthful than what you're going to be able to read on the news itself.