Bush
whacked in HumorFeed contest
By
Geraldo Rivera
More bad news for President Bush today as 4 out of 10 fake
news organizations selected as semifinalists in the first-ever
HumorFeed
satire contest lambasted George W. as dumb, dumber,
ruthless and insensitive.
"President
Bush Sells Louisiana Back to the French," reported
BSNews, noting that Bush got $25 million for this "fixer
upper," double what the U.S. paid back in 1803. Bush
said he would have done more to rescue poor people from hurricane-ravaged
New Orleans, if he knew that poor people existed, according
to Opinions You Should Have ("Existence
of Poor People A Surprise, Says Bush").
The
president is exposed as the head of violent Christian extremist
organization in an exclusive report from Brainsnap titled
"Christian
Fundamentalists Suspected of Terrorist Bombings." And
he is portrayed as a bumbling moron devoid of common sense
in the Avant News scoop "President
Bush Paints Self Into Corner." Asked if he had
learned anything from his experience, Bush said nope.
Other semifinalists deal with technology (a Microsoft
anti-spyware parody from BBspot), science ("Scientists
Discover Most Boring Substance Ever" by John
Fanzine) and English royalty (Prince
Charles and Camilla wedding red tape from the Department
of Social Scrutiny).
In "Terri
Schiavo Dies; Congress Orders Feeding Tube Reinserted,"
Confusion Road reported that Vice President Dick Cheney, who
has been clinically dead several times in the past four years
and, according to some, may still be so, said, "If someone
tried to remove my feeding tube, I’d be furious."
The death of the pontiff set off a chain reaction of pandemonium
and destruction in the Studio 8 Entertainment report "Popeless
World Plunges Into Chaos." And finally, sex sells
tsunamis in The Fake News exclusive "One
Hot White Chick Injured in Tsunami Disasters,"
which points out that the tragedy also claimed the lives of
some 200,000 non-supermodels.
The
10 semifinalists were chosen by a vote of member sites, who
each submitted their best story of the year. Click
here to see all the entries.
The
top 10 will now be reviewed by a panel of judges from
the increasingly converging worlds of journalism and humor.
The top three winners will be announced on February 1. For
more information contact E.F. Watley, editor@watleyreview.com