Irony Watch
We have Human Rights Watch. Why not Irony Watch?
U.S. President Barack Obama issued an executive order on Monday declaring Venezuela a national security threat…
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“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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I didn’t know Karl Rove was back in the WH!
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Oh man, that’s almost perfect. You couldn’t write a joke that good if someone was roasting him on SNL.
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Yeah Roquentin, Turd Blossom’s aroma lingers like, um, ‘sulphur”; politics by personality disorder.
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The only problem with an irony watch for statements by US officials is that it would be a 24/7 kind of job.
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Adding to the ironic richness is that the WH spokesperson’s name is ‘Earnest’.