AlterNet: Funniest Thing Published by a News Magazine in the History of News Magazines

[marmar]

Funniest Thing Published by a News Magazine in the History of News Magazines

Posted by Joshua Holland, AlterNet at 4:45 PM on July 29, 2009.

Swallow your milk!



Holy Christ, this is a Newsweek "web exclusive" ...

Stand In
Why Obama should make George W. Bush his Mideast envoy.

By Gregory Levey


On Sunday, George Mitchell, President Obama's Middle East envoy, arrived in Israel to confer with its leaders. Also visiting this week are Defense Secretary Robert Gates, national-security adviser James Jones, and Gulf States envoy Dennis Ross. It's a full-court press on the Israelis, and the American wish list is long. They want Israel to stop expanding settlements; to stop building Jewish neighborhoods in East Jerusalem; and for hawks in the government to chill out while the U.S. is negotiating with Iran. And yet, odds are, they'll come back to Washington empty-handed, for reasons having to do as much with atmospherics as policy: Team Obama just doesn't have Israel's full trust.

But there is someone who does—someone who could use a job, someone who argued straightforwardly for a Palestinian state, and yet someone who has the implicit admiration and regard of Israel. President Obama needs a new envoy to the region who can get results—and George W. Bush is his man.

Words fail me.




http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/141655/funniest_thing_published_by_a_news_magazine_in_the_history_of_news_magazines/

[baldguy]

1. Next up: Jason Voorhees for Health & Human Services.

[marmar]

2. LOL.....

:P

kill kill kill....die die die

[Laelth]

3. Saw that. Knew it had to come from the Onion.

Newsweek has reached a new journalistic low.

:dem:

-Laelth

[KamaAina]

4. Knowing Bush**,

he'd end up bringing peace to the Midwest instead. :dunce:

[marmar]

5. LOL......

Ya know, I never cared too much for our neighbors to the south in Ohio......

[National Steel 27]

6. How does one even respond to this?

Absolutely jaw-dropping.

[IDemo]

7. Chimpy has already agreed to become Caribou Barbie's speech writer

Isn't that obvious by now? :)

[tanyev]

8. It would really interfere with his hectic brush-clearing schedule.