It wasn’t satire as much as a warning.
Also a spotlight on just how impotent and incompetent the current occupier of the White House is.
Just for a moment imagine that the embassy really is taken over. What would Obama do? Feel free to speculate, but remember that Carter gave us the Ayatollahs and ultimately an atomic Iran.
A few of the hostages say that Ahmadinejad was one of the hostage takers. What gift that keeps on giving could Obama give us?
Televised speech from the White House: "The United States would see a takeover of our embassy as an act of war. We've been there before and we will handle the situation differently this time. If our diplomats are taken hostage, we will start the clock. If their freedom is not restored within 24 hours, we will destroy Cairo with a large nuclear weapon, killing our diplomats, as well as a million Muslims. What we are saying is that the Egyptian governmet's HIGHEST priority is the safety of our diplomats. Goodnight.