I don't often read Slate, but sometimes a link from another site takes me there. In this case, it was Hot Air.The title of the Slate story: Is Michael Steele Barack Obama's Evil Twin?
Michael Steele is the new chairman of the Republican National Committee. Here's some choice bits from the article:
Evil twin, nemesis, archenemy—whatever the term, every great protagonist has one. Superman had Bizarro, his alternate-universe self. Spock from Star Trek had the shady, goateed "mirror" Spock. Super Mario has the cackling Wario....
And as the term would suggest, evil twins look similar but usually have distinctive physical differences—an eye patch, say, or a scar. Michael Steele, like Barack Obama, is African-American. But unlike Obama, he is bald and sports a mustache—a classic nemesis signifier, although a goatee would be ideal....
None of this, of course, is to say that Michael Steele is evil. In fact, "evil" twins sometimes turn out to be good. Or the "evil" one and the "good" one team up. Or we simply learn that the world is complicated and tolerates many reasonable, if clashing, perspectives.
The creepy thing about this article from a "political reporter" is that it's not satire and he isn't kidding.
Political reporting is getting weirder every minute.
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