Opinion: Dastardly Obama brings back standard English

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Who said satire would take a holiday with President Bush’s departure?

Well, someone. But there’s plenty of evidence to the contrary.

Take Andy Borowitz. The humorist, blogger and movie producer has a go at Barack Obama’s stubborn insistence on completing what he starts.

BorowitzReport.com delves into the president-elect’s ‘unorthodox verbal tic’ of completing his sentences. He deems the habit a ‘stunning break with the last eight years.’

The onetime Harvard Lampoon president and creator of ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ (which helped launch actor Will Smith to stardom) posts his material at his own site and at the Huffington Post. Borowitz has also contributed to the L.A. Times’ op-ed pages.

His tart take on politics shows no sign of abating. One recent ‘news’ item revealed the Obama campaign’s decision to devote a 30-minute infomercial to ‘a new breakthrough in excercise technology that will guarantee all Americans ‘sexy rock-hard abs.’ ‘

Earlier, Borowitz, 50, broke another blockbuster: ‘Cindy McCain Robot Gets New Head.’

Borowitz said that . . .

... he has never agreed with the assessment that Bush’s exit would rob satirists of material.

‘I thought the ‘Bush-is-an-idiot’ joke had already gotten old and hacky,’ Borowitz wrote in an e-mail. ‘Generally speaking, bad times in the world mean good times for satire -- and we are defintely in the middle of some bad times (as you’ve probably noticed).’

--Jim Rainey