Alexandra Petri
Unfunny ‘Satire’: WashPost Imagines Dystopia If Roe Overturned
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)
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…