In Rome, it was the Senate that conferred divinity upon the Emperor; for modern America, it seems to be news magazine editors. In an exchange between Chris Matthews of MSNBC (a cable news channel, at least in theory) and Editor-at-Large Evan Thomas of Newsweek (which used to be a news magazine)... Well, read it for yourself, and watch a clip if you can't believe what you're reading. Let's ignore, for now, the claim that the U.S. crossed over to the Dark Side at some point after 1984.
EVAN THOMAS: Well, we were the good guys in 1984, it felt that way. It hasn't felt that way in recent years. So Obama’s had, really, a different task. We're seen too often as the bad guys. And he – he has a very different job from – Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is ‘we are above that now.’ We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something – I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God. He’s-
MATTHEWS: Yeah.
THOMAS: He's going to bring all different sides together. It's a very different-
Transcript from Kyle Drennan of Newsbusters
I'm not sure if Rev. Wright ever found time to mention Acts Chapter 12 in any of his sermons, but Caesar Obama might want to repudiate these comments rather quickly. It wouldn't do to have the Dear Leader succumb to the fate of Herod Agrippa, after all... I mean, how would that look when it came time to write the Res Gestae Divi Obamae? (Or would "Magni Obamae" be safer?)
And please, no bad jokes from the peanut gallery using out-of-context quotations from Shakespeare about worms turning and from the Declaration of Independence about "eat[ing] out their substance." That would be inappropriate, so don't do it. Besides, I've already tried to tie those together myself, and I don't think it can be done with any sort of a funny result.
