Irony Watch

We have Human Rights Watch. Why not Irony Watch?

To wit:

U.S. President Barack Obama issued an executive order on Monday declaring Venezuela a national security threat…
…
“We’ve seen many times that the Venezuelan government tries to distract from its own actions by blaming the United States or other members of the international community for events inside Venezuela,” [White House spokesman Josh] Earnest said in the statement.”

 


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5 Comments

  1. jonnybutter | #

    I didn’t know Karl Rove was back in the WH!

  2. Roquentin | #

    Oh man, that’s almost perfect. You couldn’t write a joke that good if someone was roasting him on SNL.

  3. jonnybutter | #

    Yeah Roquentin, Turd Blossom’s aroma lingers like, um, ‘sulphur”; politics by personality disorder.

  4. Bill Michtom | #

    The only problem with an irony watch for statements by US officials is that it would be a 24/7 kind of job.

  5. nercules | #

    Adding to the ironic richness is that the WH spokesperson’s name is ‘Earnest’.

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