Cindy Hyde-Smith Says She Never Lost Faith in Mississippi’s Racists
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI (The Borowitz Report)—Celebrating her election victory on Tuesday night, U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith said that, despite predictions that her state was ready to turn the page on its shameful past, “I never lost faith in Mississippi’s racists.”
“For weeks, we’ve been hearing national pundits say that Mississippi was ready to enter the twenty-first century,” Hyde-Smith told a crowd of supporters at her victory rally. “Tonight, with your help, we proved them wrong.”
Hyde-Smith said that, despite the media’s unearthing of a cavalcade of embarrassing comments and actions from her past, “I never doubted that, at the end of the day, the people of Mississippi would listen to the racist voices in their heads.”
It was an awful temptation to add some graphic material to her picture, but I didn't.
Andy Borowitz is the New York Times best-selling author of “The 50 Funniest American Writers,” and a comedian who has written for The New Yorker since 1998. He writes the Borowitz Report, a satirical column on the news, for newyorker.com.Read more »
possible tags for the article, satire , comedy, political humor , etc,etc, otherwise its a misrepresentation of real news. even IF it is an OP/ED
(SARC)
least I tagged my post correctly.
LMAO!
So very funny. And in some ways. all too true.
Well, oKKKay...
Borowitz is a classic.
Disclaimer....I know a few people from Mississippi that do not fit this description, but I also know some that surely do.
The headline and the words attributed to her are all flat out lies in “quote marks”. She never said what was attributed to her. Lying about what people said and putting other words in their mouths than what they actually said is not satire.