Bwahahaha! This is too rich! My main page is one of those aggregator sites, where you can add feeds from various sources to see a variety of content that appeals to you on one page. Well, sometimes someone out there is just so ridiculous, unhinged, or just plain crazy that even the MSM can’t resist skewering them with the type of satire that regularly appears in headlines here. When this happens, I sometimes forget which pane I am reading and think I am seeing a headline generated from this site.
Case in point: a CNN story with a headline reading, “Spicer: Trump didn't mean wiretapping when he tweeted about wiretapping.” Zing! Doesn’t that just scream, “kossian satire”? Oh, and it doesn’t end there. The meat of the story written by Jeremy Diamond first refers to the wiretapping claim as “Donald Trump's unsubstantiated allegation” and goes on to include such gems as:
Spicer also said that Trump was referring to the Obama administration broadly -- and not accusing Obama of personal involvement -- when he tweeted that "Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower" and accused Obama of being a "bad" or "sick guy."
The author goes on to mock the idea of “wiretapping” referring to just some sort of general surveillance and also include three quoted tweets that show what can only be considered by any reasonable interpretation to be a reference directly to Obama himself, including:
Is it legal for a sitting President to be "wire tapping" a race for president prior to an election? Turned down by court earlier. A NEW LOW!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 4, 2017
Yeah, “sitting President” refers directly to the guy himself, not some weaselly interpretation of his “administration.” Besides, we know that the tweet means to imply that Obama is the source of the order, not that he was personally crawling around running wires, so yeah, the fact that others would have necessarily been involved in carrying out the wiretap doesn’t let Trump off the hook here.
The entire article systematically rips apart Spicer’s whole basis for his comment, and does so with just the right context and commentary to maximize how foolish he looks in making it. It even ends with a dig at Conway’s "microwaves that turn into cameras" comment just to provide the cherry on top of exposing the nonsense coming from pretty much anyone speaking for Trump.
It’s almost enough to make me wonder if one of the fine writers here doesn’t have a job moonlighting writing headlines for CNN. Anyone here happen to go by the pen name “Jeremy Diamond”?