IRONY ALERT

A news piece from over the weekend appears under the following headline:

Bush Wants Newcomers to Learn English

White House Minister of Propaganda, Tony Snow, told reporters, "What the president has said all along is that he wants to make sure that people who become American citizens have a command of the English language. It's as simple as that."

And, showing that they're following Administration directives by mastering colloquial uses of the notoriously difficult language, America's immigrants responded collectively: "Back at Ya!"