An Apology from Prince Charles we would not know about without Andy Borowitz

[Mira]

LONDON (The Borowitz Report) – In response to the international uproar created when he reportedly compared Russian President Vladimir Putin to Hitler, His Royal Highness Prince Charles today issued the following letter of apology to the Russian people.

My dear Russians,

Yesterday, it was reported that I compared your President Putin to Hitler. If by making this comment I have in some way offended you, I am deeply sorry. Adolf Hitler was one of the horrible villains in world history, and comparing President Putin to him was uncalled for.

What I should have said, and what I say to you now, is that this Putin chap can be a bit Hitlery at times.

Let’s take, for example, his penchant for taking territory that doesn’t belong to him and then adding it to his country and so forth. Would you call that behavior Hitlery or not Hitlery? From where I sit, it’s more like something Hitler would do than something he wouldn’t do, and so the verdict must be, yes, the chap is being rather Hitlery when he does that.

And, while we’re on the subject, what about Putin’s use of tanks? Also very Hitlery. Again, let me be clear: I am not calling him Hitler—but if you think you can use tanks and not come off a tad bit Hitlery, you’re not right in the head.

Since I made my remarks, some British politicians have suggested that I abdicate my position as Prince of Wales and heir to the British throne. In other words, they believe that I do not have the right to free speech. If memory serves, back in the nineteen-thirties another chap went around trying to punish people for speaking their minds. I’m not going to name names, but if the shoe fits…

Yours truly,

H.R.H. Prince Charles

www.borowitzreport.com

[msanthrope]

1. Best Brit apology, ever:

[awoke_in_2003]

14. I will have to view that when I get home...

Oh, and fuck Putin.

[joeybee12]

2. Hitlery...a great new term...knr

[Kber]

3. Link?

Not because I doubt you, but because I want to share!

[Mira]

5. a link for you

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/05/an-apology-from-prince-charles.html?utm_source=tny&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=borowitz&mbid=nl_Borowitz%20%2875%29

[iandhr]

4. ha ha ha.

[JoeyT]

6. Well that's just chock full of delicious irony.

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Britain objects to taking territory that doesn't belong to you and adding it to your own? When did that happen? Because for most of the last oh...thousand years or so they were one of the chief champions of doing just that.

Not so much "Hitlery" as "Behaving just like we've always done while having the gall to not be us.".

Edited to add: And that's what I get for not clicking through to the link. I totally fell for satire.

[AtheistCrusader]

9. In fairness, they have spent the last 60 years giving most of it back.

Not all, but most.

[840high]

13. Glad u caught the irony.

[Shrike47]

15. Borowitz's satire is so often lovely.

[AtheistCrusader]

7. And, was the crown a bit hitler-y sending tanks into Iraq?

I know Bush was. Wonder how he feels about that?


Edit: Aaaaaaw shit. Borowitz. Nicely played.

[zeemike]

8. The good old non apology apology.

If I have offended you...what I meant to say was Hitlery...
We see it all the times in our politicians too Chucky...

[Cha]

10. "A bit Hitlery".. that goes along with what Prince Charles said in the beginning..

that Putin was almost the same as Hitler.

Thanks Mira~

[William769]

11. I just found a reason to like him a little bit more.

[valerief]

12. Hitlery, Putinny, Bushy. The list is endless. I love Borowitz.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

16. He's just digging a deeper hole for himself.

Everyone knows the appropriate term to use would've been ''Hitler-ish''........