Is There Nothing It Can't Do?

Shot:

BREAKING: #ISIS causes #globalwarming…. Obama launches full-scale attack.

— Roger Simon (@rogerlsimon) August 23, 2014

Chaser:

Democrats: Climate Change Is as Frightening as ISIS http://t.co/XgSKkLfHrX via @nationaljournal

— Charles Sykes (@SykesCharlie) August 29, 2014

As Britain’s Malcolm Muggeridge noted a half century ago, there’s no way for any satirist to compete with real life — and real leftists — for pure absurdity.

(Of course, the moral equivalence that compares global terror with global warming is nothing new for the far left. Freud called it displacement — as did columnist Julia Gorin, when she noted the connection in 2006 in the Christian Science Monitor.)