“The Chicken Crossed the Road”: by all your favorite (and least favorite) news outlets

Elise Hansen
2 min readApr 6, 2018

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“Deep in Trump country, the chicken crossed the road.” — The New York Times

“The wind rustled the chicken’s feathers. It moved across the road, knowing full well that many of its comrades were treated as no more than dinner meat to be plucked and roasted for consumption.” — -The Atlantic

The Chicken Crossed the Road. What happened next will blow your mind. — HuffPo

“The chicken crossed the road. That is its own fault! I will not see my tax dollars go to some hysterical fad of chickens wanting to cross roads.” — Fox & Friends

“The chicken crossed the road.” Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the chicken crossed the street. It was in fact a road. The Post regrets the error. — The Washington Post

“The chicken crossed the road.” True! The chicken did indeed cross the road.

Politifact

“The chicken that crossed the road will be speaking with us in just a few minutes about how it lost faith in the Trump administration and all the latest updates in the Russia investigation.” — CNN

“It is an alien — an ALIEN! Giant claws, powerful wings, eyes filled with MURDER for the American people and all that we stand for!” — Alex Jones, InfoWars

“[click click…scratch...beep beep!] The chicken crossed the road [rumble].” — NPR

“Hope it gets run over.” — Breitbart

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Elise Hansen
Elise Hansen

Written by Elise Hansen

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