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The Onion's latest bit of satire inspires this 'chop....

thanks, Dan, for the help.

'Time' Publishes Definitive Obama Puff Piece

"No news publication has dared to barely scratch the surface like this before," columnist and campaign reporter Michael King wrote in The Washington Post Tuesday. "This profile sets a benchmark for mindless filler by which all other features about Sen. Obama will now be judged. Just impressive puff-journalism all around."

If you didn't check the URL, you would think this isn't a spoof at all, given Barack's light, fluffy, puffy treatment by the MSM.

Don't you just love it when supposedly trained reporters throw off real journalism to feed a politician's hype machine? If it weren't for a few bloggers, Barack wouldn't have anything but smooth sailing to the presidency.

And we'd have Jeremiah Wright in a cabinet-level posting--probably as Oligarch of the newly-formed Black Liberation Ministry.

I don't know which is puffier...the coverage Barack Obama gets from our his subservient, quiescent, fawning media, or the content of his amorphous ever-changey platform positionings.

Barack Obama's platform? Now there's an Escher print waiting for change...

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