It's Time for Funny Fake News
There's so little feelgood news this week. (Unless you count the NCAA bracket thingy, but a foreigner, I had no idea what Holly is on about). Which is why I'm turning to funny fake news this afternoon. I've just revisited The Onion's First 100 days blog, which gives a day-by-day recap of a fictitious event at the White House. Nearly all of them make me giggle, but some of my recent favorites include:
DAY 51: Reaching a milestone common for new presidents, Obama spends the afternoon seeing who is the most important person he can get on the phone in under five minutes.
DAY 44: For the third time this week, press secretary Robert Gibbs peeks his head through the Oval Office door to let President Obama know that he's going on a Baskin-Robbins run.
DAY 40: President Obama forwards the link to the new Star Trek movie trailer to the entire staff. Again.
DAY 39: The Obamas sit silently around their Camp David dining table because Malia forgot to pack Scattergories.
DAY 34: During a difficult moment of a televised address, President Obama debuts the evil-looking sock puppet that will speak on all unpopular matters from now on.
DAY 38: Uruguayan Ambassador left in blue room all day. (Note: I'm allowed to laugh at this because I am from a small country.)
DAY 30: At 3 a.m., President Obama sends Judd Gregg a group photo of his Cabinet, just so he knows what he's missing.
DAY 29: A nervous Canada accidentally offers to be annexed during Obama's first foreign visit. (Note: Am also allowed to laugh at this one because I am from a Commonwealth nation.)
DAY 18: In one of many historic firsts, Barack Obama becomes the first black president to TiVo MythBusters.
I could go on, but then there would be so few left for you to discover.
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Katie Connolly joined NEWSWEEK in June 2007, working for NEWSWEEK's international editions. In September 2007, she was assigned to cover Republican presidential candidates for Newsweek's special election issue and book. For this project, Katie was detached from the weekly magazine and her reporting was embargoed until after election day. As a result, she gained exclusive, behind-the-scenes access to the McCain campaign.
Now based in DC, Katie was named Political Correspondent in November 2008 and covers the White House and Capitol Hill.
Katie received her Master of Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where she was the 2005 Menzies Scholar. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Queensland and completed her honors thesis on media representations of the East Timor conflict at the University of Melbourne. She was born and raised in Brisbane, Australia.
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