Whose views do you think they’re ridiculing? Think of that clip from the point of view of an Onion writer: you’re aiming for the sweet spot where a reasonable person will see through it immediately but the brainworm-infested won’t. They’d rather believe that them dumb college educated librulls would really do something like this sincerely.

Seems too stupid to get picked up by a major network but it’s not without precedent. They’ve earned their share of embarrassed retractions from media outlets who went to print (or broadcast, posted articles online, etc.) with Onion as their key ingredient. Videos like this might just be there to probe the boundaries of what they’ll fall for.