...about this article. The email quoted the Obama bit, and my friend believed it to be true (she was actually rather excited about the whole thing since she supports Hillary and can't stand Obama). I have to admit that I didn't realize the article was a joke until I read the reader comments. There's dry humor, but perhaps the humor in the article was just a bit too dry?

Er, wasn't the part about Marjane Satrapi actually having lips and eyelids a bit of a tip-off?

I'm sorry, but I'm completely gobsmacked there are so many gulls reading Slate. PT Barnum is proven right again, to the embarrassment of us all. I wish I could remember who said it, but there's a famous quote about how Americans don't "get" sarcasm, and these comments are proving it true.

Oh, we GET sarcasm, my dear. We get it.

@gadgetgirl02

Is this really what you classify as 'comedy' or 'sarcasm?' I would really rather refer to it as 'garbage.'

If you consider me "gullible," then so be it. Other intelligent readers like myself were frustrated and fooled when they read it and, in my opinion, rightfully so.

If Slate is trying to trick its own readers and give themselves a laugh while doing it, then this article is a resounding success. As a satirical or comedic piece, it fails miserably.

Why didn't the piece work as humor or satire for you? Let me guess -- because you were fooled by it.

And if satire fools a lot of fools, so much the better.

Another poster in this thread told how he/she received an excited e-mail from a duped Hilary supporter (whoops, I'm being redundant here). It does speak volumes on the credulity of much of the teeming masses, particularly kool-aid chugging Clinton drones.

This sort of thing happens every time Slate pulls a little satire shtick: the ass-hats come out in droves, either protesting such underhanded, irresponsible rhetoric or earnestly questioning its veracity. It would be funny if not for the fact that a lot of these people vote.

I hope those that were taken in this time and resentful there of, will take it as an object lesson in improving their reading comprehension and sense of humor.