The Onion shockingly drops a C-bomb on 9-year-old Oscar nominee

The Onion is renowned for crossing lines of good taste, but has the satirical newspaper finally gone too far? During the Oscars ceremony, the brains behind The Onion's Twitter account posted this joke about 9-year-old Best Actress nominee Quvenzhané Wallis: "Everyone else seems afraid to say it, but that Quvenzhané Wallis is kind of a c**t, right?" On the one hand, it's a joke on playing on how utterly sweet, adorable and not-at-all C-word-like Wallis was at the Oscars. On the other hand, she's 9, and words don't come any worse than that one. Someone at The Onion clearly saw sense and deleted the tweet, but not before sparking fury on Twitter.

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