Big Sky Cairn

The best satire has an element of truth in it.  Which is why this piece about Obama’s excellent, amazing, incredible world tour is so freaking funny.  He ventured forth to bring light to the world.

And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness.

The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow.

There’s much, much more, and reading the entire thing ought to be mandatory.  What makes this satire so effective is that if you toned it down just a little you could actually have a passable mainstream media fluff-piece on The Great Obama.

It’s no surprise then to learn that when media people donate money to political campaigns they give to Democrats more than Republicans.  What is surprising though is how lopsided that disparity is: 100 to 1 in dollars given.  That’s huge.

I guess no one should be surprised by bias in local media coverage either.