The Onion’s big scoop
Barack Obama Names Alan Moore Official White House Biographer
“As evidenced by his epic run on Swamp Thing #21–64, Moore’s deft hand with both sociopolitical commentary and metaphysical violence makes him an ideal choice to chronicle my time in office,”
11/4/09 at 2:54 pm
The way you know it’s a fake story is that they say he’s looking at DC/Vertigo to publish it.
11/4/09 at 3:09 pm
It is actually my firm and absolute belief that all White biographers should be foreign born citizens. It’s called checks and balances people.
11/4/09 at 3:29 pm
Also, it’s the biographer, not the subject of the biography, who shops the book. Were this the real deal, it would go to auction, with many publishing houses bidding.
Of course, given that that the current president is a published author, it’s more likely that Obama would write the book himself, just like almost every other president of the past forty years.
That’s not to say that someone could write a detailed biography of the Obama administration, or even publish a periodical comic book which slowly covers everything in real time.
11/4/09 at 3:31 pm
Nice story but either it’s complete rubbish or Obama has no idea who Moore is and what his political beliefs are. Would make a great read though. Grumpy, white, British Anarchist bio’s America’s great black hope.
11/4/09 at 3:38 pm
So, from a couple of the above comments I take it there are still people who don’t know what The Onion is.
11/4/09 at 3:41 pm
Guys, are you really debating whether something in the *Onion* isn’t real?
Seriously?
11/4/09 at 3:47 pm
I found this earlier Obama/comics thing on The Onion a lot funnier, actually:
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/obama_disappointed_cabinet_failed
11/4/09 at 4:20 pm
Comedy beyond reason!
11/4/09 at 5:23 pm
It must be true— didn’t Rush Limbaugh break this news from Matt Drudge? Thought I read it on breibart….
11/4/09 at 5:26 pm
Of course this isn’t true. Look at all the inconsistencies!
Now this… this is true:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39294
11/4/09 at 5:50 pm
I wish it were true- if only for the hallucinatory tuber sex.
11/4/09 at 9:43 pm
“all White biographers should be foreign born citizens”
Ehhh???
11/4/09 at 10:09 pm
@Bill (2nd post) — Who are you calling people, Bub?
11/4/09 at 11:50 pm
And Alan Moore started writing Swampy with issue #20, not #21 (I demand that The Onion research team get pretend fired!).
11/9/09 at 12:28 am
The problem is that a couple of years down the line Moore would insist on having his name removed from it