[Travis McGee]

Is this semi-satire, semi-news?

[Rusty0604]

Hard to tell these days, but no it’s not.

[HollyB]

afraid not...

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/08/white-house-picks-panel-to-review-nsa-programs/

[ogen hal]

These degenerates must really be diseased. They hate themselves so completely...and project it outward as they attempt to destroy our society. nobama (and his psyohopathic self-loathing minions) will go down in history as the universes biggest losers. They are disgusting subhuman slime.

[null and void]

Is this semi-satire, semi-news?

Let's play "Spot the Cognitive Infiltrator"

All you have to do is watch the replies on this thread.

[Jane Long]

Not satire, unfortunately. The comments at the link are telling. Everyone's tired of this, er, transparency.

[goodnesswins]

I wonder the same thing? Satire???

[dayglored]

> Is this semi-satire, semi-news?

Oh Lord, I wish it were. But as John Semmens knows, some days the news is damn near indistinguishable from satire.

As Tom Lehrer said, "Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize."

The actions of the Obama administration are taking the "obsolete" body of political satire, running it through a meat grinder, drying it to a crisp in the arid desert sun, and then scattering it to the four winds.

Which makes John's work that much more difficult.

But no, alas, this piece is not satire, nor "semi-satire, semi-news". It's just the sad, sad, truth.

[B4Ranch]

Don’t you recognize your own storyline? This is what you forecast would happen.