Bush front group smears Humor Gazette

The Humor Gazette, preparing its blockbuster coverage of
the Republican National Convention, has already run into a
little trouble.

A group calling itself Lying
Sacks of Elephant Dung for Bush has apparently launched
a smear campaign against the Gazette, claiming the publication
did not deserve its three Purple Funnybone awards for wartime
satire.

The Bush attack dogs, a drooling pack of failed Republican
comics, even called into question a prestigious Bronze
Groucho awarded to Gazette editor John Breneman by
the New England Press Association in 2001.

Sen. Bob Dole called the Gazette’s humor "superficial"
and suggested it be banned from covering the Republican Convention
unless it signed a loyalty oath to President Bush.

Gazette publisher Arturo DiMaunchie responded quickly, calling
President Bush "a major league jackass" and "perhaps
the slimiest president of all-time," while pledging that
the paper’s "fair and balanced" convention coverage
would not be affected by the president’s "moral
cowardice" nor his lame, possibly illegal, attempt
to claim
credit for the Iraqi soccer team’s Olympic glory.

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