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The Onion is a routinely funny, usually quick-witted satirical newspaper, but needless to say it did not go over well last night when they called the 9-year-old Oscar-nominee Quvenzhane Wallis the c-word. Someone manning The Onion's Twitter feed sent this tweet out around midnight last night (8:42 PST):

As Buzzfeed's Kate Arthur notes, the tweet stayed up for about an hour, and then was deleted without an explanation after a severe backlash. Michelle Malkin's Twitchy ran with the outrage with this headline:

...And this tweet:

Disgusted readers unfollow The Onion after vile tweet sliming 9-year-old actress bit.ly/W5StRF — TwitchyTeam (@TwitchyTeam) February 25, 2013

This was one of the times where Malkin and Keith Olbermann, saw eye to eye (we're crossing our fingers and hope that the world does not end tomorrow):

Half-heard story of @theonion tweet; assumed I heard wrong. No; they DID wrong. Retract, apologize, dismiss buzzfeed.com/kateaurthur/th… — Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) February 25, 2013

And voicing the opinion of a faceless Internet horde, USA Today's Maria Puente explains: "The Onion is notorious for its cutting satire, but it's usually at least a little funny. But, as a zillion tweets kept repeating, this remark wasn't funny."