Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Bitter Humor

PJ Media's Tattler reports newly elected prime minister of Crimea Sergey Aksyonov, an ethnic Russian, Tweeted a picture of President Obama photoshopped in to the uniform of a Lt. Colonel in the FSB (successor to the KGB) with the ironic jest “I wonder, after the successful campaign of handing over the Crimea, will Barack be promoted to a colonel?

The article's author, Oleg Atbashian, explains that this is but another in a series of Russian jokes at Obama's expense, including a fake dossier page showing him as a KGB lieutenant named Boris Huseinovich Obamov, a native of Uzbekistan, working undercover as president in the United States, with the code name The White One.

Don't you wish we could joke that Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is a CIA plant? Unfortunately, it's not believable enough to be funny.