As Michael van Poppel, the founder of Breaking News Online (now owned by MSNBC) quipped on Twitter, “The current MSNBC frontpage could have been straight from The Onion:”
Or could it? As funny as the Onion can be, Muggeridge’s Law posits that no satirist can improve upon real life for its pure absurdity, and the Middle East sets the bar for absurdity very high indeed.
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Oh, and speaking of the Onion, if the right man comes along, they’re hiring:
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