After seeing all the crazy Republican theatrics this week, I decided to write an article for my blog, The Bolingbrook Babbler. Basically The Babbler is a fictional tabloid, along the lines of The Weekly World News. After writing the article, I thought you guys might like to check it out. I normally don't do this, but I hope Kos doesn't mind.
In the face of falling ad revenue and declining subscribers, the Republican Party secretly met with Chicago area publishers to pitch a bailout plan.
The plan would provide billions in grants to newspapers. As explained by Donald Plimsoul, a representative for Newt Gingrich, the Republican Party just wants to help defend an American Institution.
"Newspapers have long been a part of our American tradition." He said. "We cannot have the government this country deserves without newspapers."
Plimsoul noted that the "Democrat Party" opposes the Free Restored Engaged and Energized Press Act, or FREEP Act for short.
Here is the rest of the article.