The Gospel of Scooter: political satire at its best

The Nation has a wonderful piece of political satire. I laughed all the way through reading it.The sad thing about it is is how close it cuts to the bone in recent Amercian politics. The explanation of the author, Richard Lingeman, as to where the idea for the piece came is included just prior to the full Gospel of Scooter. The explanation on it's own is quite amusing and also worth reading. And I've always loved satire, especially political satire.P

The Gospel of Scooter

May 2, 2006
The Nation

Here are the true revelations about Lewis Called Scooter, whom Pontius Patrick has charged with betraying the secret name of the Plame Woman, causing shame and obloquy to be heaped on the head of Lewis Called Scooter, a good and faithful servant of Our Lord George and Vice Lord Dick.

Now, the Plame Woman had sent her husband, Joseph, to the Land of Niger in search of the Secret of the Yellow Cake. When Joseph returned, he told the Plame Woman he had learned that Our Lord was a liar and she said to him: "Joseph, you have done well. Now go forth and broadcast these lies the world." And Joseph did this in an op-ed for the Jerusalem End Times, where he charged that the Mesopotamian Saddamites had not sought the Yellow Cake as Our Lord had alleged.

Now, when this was learned by Our Lord George, he was sorely distressed. For had he not proclaimed in the run-up to the great Mesopotamian War the True Gospel of Nucular Weapons? Had he not prophesied that great blackness and flames would appear in the sky and mass destruction descend on the land unless American Legionnaires conquered Mesopotamia and the Saddamites?.....