His Satanic Majesty's Request

Barack Obama, on the right. For perhaps the first and only time in his life.

As the London Daily Mail quips, “Why does the devil in ‘The Bible’ look exactly like President Obama?”

Nice bit of stunt casting by Mark Burnett for his top rated The Bible mini-series, finding an actor (Mohamen Mehdi Ouazanni) and making him up to resemble, as Ace writes, Obama “After 15 More Years of Smoking.”

But considering that Saul Alinsky dedicated Rules for Radicals to Ol’ Scratch, and Rev. Wright infamously shouted, “God Damn America — that’s in the Bible!”, I’m not sure what the issue is here, particularly since Obama’s clearly a pretty agnostic guy himself. (He clings to his guns; religion? Eh.)

Not to mention a lifetime of having seen first Richard Nixon, then Gerald Ford, then Ronald Reagan, then father and son Bush and their associates demonized by Hollywood. Or as John Nolte of Big Hollywood asks, “How does it feel, lefties?”