In the wake of Monday’s controversy over The New Yorker cover — an unforgettable case of satire gone wrong that Obama’s people called “tasteless and offensive” for depicting him as an Islamic militant in the Oval Office — you gotta ask yourself: what if the Democratic candidate for president wrote jokes about himself? Bankrolled lampooner and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air creator Andy Borowitz is one step ahead of you, reporting on a list of side-splitters pre-approved by Barack’s campaign. They include the following gem.

A Christian, a Jew and Barack Obama are in a rowboat in the middle of the ocean. Barack Obama says, “This joke isn’t going to work because there’s no Muslim in this boat.”

Ah, meta-humor. So rich. If only fake news were as real as it is funny.

(via Huffington Post)

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