Handy Aandy (Borowitz) is always good for a laugh. The entire premise of the team of writers for the 2018 SOTU (State of the Union) Address will be the trio of Faux News personalities from "Fox & Friends" is surreal. Yet, there is a grain of reality behind it all with the disclosure that "Fox & Friends" is the favorite TV show watched by the current occupant of the Oval Office. If that truly Fake-News program constitutes the chief source of information for the Moron-in-Chief, we are in deep doo-doo (without a paddle). What we have is a Matryoshkawith three versions of reality nested together. Instead of "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma," we have Oval Office Reality wrapped in Faux News Reality that dwarf The Truth. If this is a (fair & balanced) explanation of the current state of the news media, so be it.
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“Fox & Friends” Putting Finishing Touches On Trump’s SOTU Address
By Handy Andy (Borowitz)
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With just one day until Donald J. Trump’s first State of the Union address, the cast of “Fox and Friends” is working furiously on the final draft of the speech, members confirmed today.
“We’ve really been burning the midnight oil,” Steve Doocy, the host of the Fox program, said. “We have so much to say tomorrow night, and we want to get it all in there.”
Doocy said that when he read the first draft of the State of the Union address last week, he “kind of flipped out” when he realized that there was “absolutely no mention of Hillary Clinton’s Hydra-like tentacles controlling the Deep State.”
“The State of the Union address is the President’s chance to tell the American people where the country is and where it’s going,” Doocy said. “You can’t do that without talking about how Crooked Hillary is funnelling her Russian-uranium riches directly into Bob Mueller’s bank account in the Seychelles.”
While Trump reportedly has had input from other sources, including the Fox News anchor Sean Hannity, the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and several neo-Nazi Twitter accounts, Doocy said that the cast of “Fox & Friends” has final approval of the version that Trump will read Tuesday night.
“Someone has to have the last word,” Doocy said. “There are a lot of voices in President Trump’s head, and that’s not including the actual voices that are always in his head.” # # #
[Andy Borowitz is the creator the Borowitz Report, a Web site that is a lot funnier than the stuff posted by Matt Drudge and his ilk. Borowitz is a comedian and writer whose work appears regularly in The New Yorker. He is the first winner of the National Press Club's humor award and has won seven Dot-Comedy Awards for his web site. His most recent book (and Amazon's Best Kindle Single of the Year) is An Unexpected Twist (2012). Borowitz received a BA, magna cum laude (English) from Harvard University.]
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