When Reality Can No Longer be Parodied
When the reality of the trainwreck that is our rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth Republican party becomes too much to bear, the parodists become the newswriters.
Take a minute and watch this ad for Mississippi tourism (which might as well apply to any of the old CSA):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqASSN5S2CI
OK, that is obviously a parody. Well, OK, that is obviously produced by Funny or Die, who do parody for a living. Most of the time. I always thought parody had to introduce elements of unreality to qualify as such; I challenge you to find me the unreal elements of the video above.
And now, what are we to make of this page from the Boston Globe?
![Screenshot from 2016-04-10 08:50:36](https://kahomono.com/media/posts/512/Screenshot-from-2016-04-10-085036-300x266.png)
That's dated 52 weeks hence, so it's obviously not real, not in the most trivial sense. But the Globe is not in the parody biz, last time I checked. Since the recording and retelling of reality is not making any headway against the mental cancer taking over almost half this country, I suppose someone thought, heck, why not try something else?