Satire fail

An article in the NY Post starts "The Occupy Wall Street crowd has correctly identified two distinct groups in this country: the wealthiest 1 percent and the other 99 percent, who suffer from the 1 percent’s vast wealth: The wealthiest 1 percent not only have more money than us, they have much, much more money. That’s just wrong."

80% of Freepers think this guy is really a liberal.

autumnraine misses the point:

A) That entire article (including the poor writing skills) looks like it was written by a third grader.

B) Idiot author of this piece is also the author of an upcoming book “Obama: The Greatest President in the History of Everything”

Nuff said.

Le Chien Rouge manages to out-dumb the strawman.

If we woke up tomorrow morning, all wealth was wiped out, and EVERYONE started from zero, within a year NEARLY all(except for Paris Hilton and the Kennedy’s) the same rich folks would probably be wealthy again while the same people complaining about wealth fairness would be STILL complaining.

Yes, because Richness is an inherent merit! Don't hate them, they're born that way!
livius also spends his time hating on an obvious strawman:

When I see all these privileged little twits waving their I-Phones around complaining because they're not as rich as Steve Jobs, I want to smack them upside the head.

magslinger responds by serenading the plutocrats with...folk songs.

Where have all the rich folk?
Long time passing
Where have all the rich folk?
Long time ago
Where have all the rich folk?
Gone to Galt’s Gulch every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

So much irony...!

Scotswife recognizes it's satire, but still totally true:

with the best satire - it’s hard to tell.

Some of my lib friends could have written that column with a straight face and not have a clue why people might laugh.

dan on the right, even alerted that this is satire, comes to the wrong conclusion:

I read this today and wasn't sure if it was real or satire. Re-reading it, I think the guy is serious. He is coming out with a book entitled “Obama, the Greatest President in the History of Everything”. Must be satire, right?
What happens when you outlaw the top 1% as he suggests? Why, the next top 1% (previously the 99% group), becomes the top 1%. Let's outlaw the too. And so on...

What nonsense. How does the Post print this Socialist dribble. We are the land of opportunity. The rich employ the rest. Get over it. Don't take the job and hang out in parks all winter.

If anything, get those that get rich off the government and us taxpayers off the dole. Oh, and outlaw unions while you're at it. At least the fat cats that run the unions - they are easily part of that 1% this guy hates.

GeronL doesn't care it's satire, cause the liberals he imagines totally agree with it!

The OWSers will not think this is satire, they will think this columnist is on their side.

Reeses is just excited that conservative satire exists.

He's mocking the left which is extremely effective. Satan and associates cannot withstand mockery. Their pumped up vanity makes them so thin skinned they pop. There is no more effective tactic. The reason leftists try to mock conservatives so much, to our puzzlement, is because they are showing us what they themselves fear the most. They try to mock the right at every opportunity because they find it so devastating personally. Nothing is worse to a leftist than having their vanity belittled in public.

Yes, I agree! Though Conservatives may have to brush up on humor, lest they spend their ammo on an army of strawmen they mistake for the Muslim-Nazi-Commies in their head.