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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFox: Obama Seeks Advice on Establishing Monarchy
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)President Barack Obama spent several hours on Monday in a closed-door Oval Office meeting seeking advice on how to establish a monarchy, Fox News reports.
According to Fox, the President peppered his Oval Office guest with detailed questions about the mechanics of setting up a monarchy and was curious about the perks and powers that go along with it.
Obamas guest advised him that establishing a monarchy would probably require rewriting or even replacing the Constitution, an option that Obama reportedly said would be difficult, but doable.
Introducing a note of caution, the guest urged the President to alter the Constitution so that it vested the monarch with genuine power, adding, You dont want to wind up being a figurehead who just goes around visiting foreign dignitaries and so forth.
According to the Fox report, the President came away intrigued by the meeting and said he would explore the idea further next week when Congress is on vacation.
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/fox-obama-seeks-advice-establishing-monarchy
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Fox: Obama Seeks Advice on Establishing Monarchy (Original Post)
Playinghardball
Dec 2014
OP
Andy Borowitz is a well-known satirist whose columns run in the New Yorker and elsewhere
pinboy3niner
Dec 2014
#6
samsingh
(17,595 posts)1. those morons are so clever. fox' hatred and racism is on display
and of course fox viewers are even worse.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)2. This is satire. nt
samsingh
(17,595 posts)7. i keep falling for that
or is it that fox reality is satire
tularetom
(23,664 posts)3. You know it's a satire site, right?
Your post isn't wrong, but this is just a put on.
samsingh
(17,595 posts)8. i fell for it
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,674 posts)12. This is satire, but Fox viewers probably would believe it.
obnoxiousdrunk
(2,910 posts)4. Is it the Onion ?
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)6. Andy Borowitz is a well-known satirist whose columns run in the New Yorker and elsewhere
Recursion
(56,582 posts)11. Nearly. It's Borowitz
Call it the Onion for Capitol Hill wonks.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)9. Yikes. Male pattern baldness strikes the royals (nt)
LeftInTX
(25,258 posts)10. That's the first thing I noticed!
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)13. The strange part is when DUers see stories like this, it's like reading "Going to be cold tonight"
We're so used to Fixed News lying that it's the standard of our reality.
Sick..Sick..Sick..