Now THIS is satire:

[trof]

The New Yorker cover?
Not so much.

An Oasis In An Information Wasteland
The Real and True Abridged History of the World
July 20th, 2008

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light: and there was light.”
- Genesis, 1:1-1:3

Under the Microscope
by Glynn Wilson

In the beginning there was no such place called Alabama. It didn’t come along until much later.

After a time it was populated with the poor people of Appalachia, however, along with some rich carpet baggers from up North, but the light didn’t quite reach all the way down South to shine on the good people who sprang from the dust of the Earth there.

So eventually God got around to creating newspapers to give them some light, but that light sometimes hurt their heads when they tried to read it.

Then God created talk radio and Rush Limbaugh was born. And Rush Limbaugh declared that newspapers were “liberal,” which became a bad word like “Communist” or “New Yorker” or “intellectual.”

Afraid that radio or TV might finally put newspapers out of business, God created Si Newhouse to give the people of Alabama a “conservative” press that would reinforce their racist, homophobic stereotypes about the world, just like radio.

The rest of the story...
http://blog.locustfork.net/

[jobycom]

1. That's not satire Just an attack on southerners. What else is new?

[trof]

2. It's written by a southerner in Alabama.

I can't understand how you see it as an attack on southerners.
It is satire about Alabama newspapers, rw talk, etc.
jeez

[jobycom]

3. So it's flattering to southerners, you're saying?

Then it is clever satire indeed. Here I thought it was just a lame attack on people in Alabama, calling them illiterate and stupid and stuff. But like the New Yorker, it must actually be an attack on people who perceive people from Alabama that way.

I got the New Yorker, but I must admit that one zoomed right over my head.