Now, now. America's tinfoil hatters can't be expected to check whether or not "The Onion" is a real news source. If they either came out of their bunkers or went on to the NORMAL (government controlled) internet, they might get brainwashed by subliminal messages like the rest of us sheeple.
For "our tax dollars at work." I'd like to believe that some of these are Onion employees but, well... there's a reason that the Poe's law page has a link to the Onion at the bottom of it.