Satire, or not satire? Who the hell can tell anymore?

I don't know if it's me, or if it's really becoming harder and harder to figure out what is actually a right-wing rant and what's satire. Case in point: an anti-Steven-Colbert rant written by someone who bills himself as, "an Investigative Journalist, Motivational Children's Party Entertainer and Antique Soda Bottle Collector all in one special, blessed package!" The rant appears over at Christwire.org, and is well worth the read.

And it is satire.

I'm pretty sure, anyway.

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you should be ashamed. thats a wonderful and imporant article and i now hate colbet for all the right reasons because of it.