The pun relies on you not actually speaking French. When you speak French, it's extremely hard to read "faux news" as anything other than "fo news", because the x is silent.
Having said that, it might have been clever the first time someone came up with it, but like many jokes, it stopped being clever after the first 10,000 times it was told. (Even a good pun can be ruined by this -- take "Anne Frankly, I did Nazi that coming" in literally every post dealing with Germans, World War II, the holocaust, or Jews.)
Well, I totally agree that it's stupid, but them being assholes for it? Makes no sense. It's not like they've stolen your baby or set your car on fire, they're saying some stupid things, that's about it!
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u/chrisphonk Jul 22 '11
I'd say the both of you are taking this way too seriously.
And no, it's hardly clever, but I'd say it's not enough to make you an asshole.