Yahoo shared the latest unfunny “Borowitz Report” from The New Yorker magazine by “Fresh Prince of Bel Air” creator Andy Borowitz. The headline was “Fox: Obama Seeks Advice On Establishing Monarchy” over a picture of the president meeting with Prince William.
Get it? Fox News is crazy and thinks the president wants to go around Congress and make all the laws unilaterally. Wait, where’s the funny part? It began:
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—President Barack Obama spent several hours on Monday in a closed-door Oval Office meeting seeking advice on how to establish a monarchy, Fox News reports.
According to Fox, the President peppered his Oval Office guest with detailed questions about the mechanics of setting up a monarchy and was curious about the perks and powers that go along with it.
Obama’s guest advised him that establishing a monarchy would probably require rewriting or even replacing the Constitution, an option that Obama reportedly said would be “difficult, but doable.”
It's possible that some people don't get this as humor. This came a few days after Borowitz the Democratic donor wrote another fake-news piece titled “Republicans Question Obama’s Motives for Fixing Economy.”
“When there have been so many months of job growth, it does make you wonder what he’s up to,” said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). “You add in the rising stock market and falling gas prices, and the whole thing doesn’t pass the smell test.”
Appearing on Fox News, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell accused the President of “cynically fixing the economy to distract the American people.”
Borowitz, who for a long time was a Newsweek contributor, is so incredibly lame that even Salon.com tagged him as unfunny, creating embarrassing "dad humor for self-satisfied liberals." Borowitz's liberal hackdom is obvious from his Twitter page, which begins with a "pinned" tweet from 2012:
Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I wish mental health care were as easy to get as, say, a gun.
— Andy Borowitz (@BorowitzReport) December 14, 2012
I worry that the US embracing soccer will lead to other things Europe does, like recognizing climate change and offering maternity leave.
— Andy Borowitz (@BorowitzReport) June 28, 2014
Earlier: In 2012, Borowitz wrote that Rick Santorum was a “terrorist” and a “mental patient” and wrote the fake headline "In Possible Gaffe, Romney Says Poor People ‘Taste Like Chicken’."
In 2008, Borowitz complained about me to National Review when I mentioned he donated thousands to Barack Obama's campaign.
[Hat tip: Peter W.]
