Unfunny ‘Satire’: WashPost Imagines Dystopia If Roe Overturned

Kristine Marsh
December 2nd, 2021 11:24 AM

The Washington Post’s “humor” columnist Alexandra Petri published an opinion piece yesterday that was supposedly satire, but it wasn’t the slightest bit funny or clever. Because of state laws challenging Roe, she imagined America was now a dystopian state where women were treated as little more than men’s property. How original!

 

WashPost Tries to Use Satire to Make Readers Hate Mitch (They Failed)

Curtis Houck
April 9th, 2020 12:59 AM

Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri has frequently used humor in her items (usually placed in Saturday’s print edition), so it was no surprise when her latest item tried to concoct a post-apocalyptic view of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) as a fanatic, heartless, ruthless scourge still confirming federal court judges despite the fact that “a great serpent swallowed the…

 

WashPost Mocks Miscarriage and Abortion: ‘Mandate Funerals’ for Sperm

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Alexa Moutevelis
December 6th, 2019 8:49 AM
Into a discussion about the treatment of the bodies of aborted and miscarried babies, the Washington Post brought an obnoxiously flippant parody piece purporting to support funerals for sperm. In other words, presenting us with an apple and saying, "This is a banana."
 

WashPost 'Humorist' Tries to Decide If Caveman Conservatives Belong in

Tim Graham
July 20th, 2014 8:21 PM
Liberal Washington Post humorist Alexandra Petri did one of those modernist superiority dances on Saturday’s op-ed page. She started from the news that the Pew Research Center found we’re now choosing to live near people who share our beliefs, “enclaves of shared ideology.” So when time travel comes online, conservatives will surely take the hint and move severely back into the B.C. time frame…
 

'Everyone Panic!' WashPost Humorist Mocks 'Ice Melt of Doom' Forecast

Tim Graham
May 25th, 2014 2:22 PM
Don’t look now, but Washington Post humorist Alexandra Petri used her Saturday column to mock climate-change gloom and doom. It was titled “Antarctica's ice melt of doom: A primer.” After describing the latest NASA report on the “unstoppable” ice melt in Antarctica, she even threw in creatures from H.P. Lovecraft horror stories in her Q&A satire:
 

Bizarro World: Wash Post Mocks Politico's Fawning Interview With Bob W

Scott Whitlock
February 28th, 2013 4:37 PM
The implied threat from the White House to Bob Woodward has thrown the liberal media for a loop. On Wednesday night, Politico published a fawning interview with Woodward. Writers Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei gushed over the "calm, instantly recognizable voice" of the journalist. On Wednesday, the Washington Post, which Woodward famously works for, mocked the Politico piece as nothing different…
 

WaPo Writers, Mostly Libs, in Lockstop With Romney's 'Command' of GOP

Tom Blumer
October 13th, 2011 1:33 PM
Early this morning, I noted how two AP writers seemed to be hoping that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney will be the Republican Party's presidential nominee, in the process ignoring inconvenient facts like his failure to get over 25% in any poll covered at Real Clear Politics since mid-July while failing to even mention Herman Cain's name until the report's eleventh paragraph (a…
 

WaPo Humorist: Don't Blame Christina Aguilera, It's Francis Scott Key

Ken Shepherd
February 8th, 2011 5:45 PM
In her aptly-titled ComPost blog yesterday, Washington Post humorist Alexandra Petri defended pop star Christina Aguilera's botched rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner before Super Bowl XLV. "She didn't botch the national anthem. Francis Scott Key did," Petri explained, griping that: