Comedy and Reality

This is funny, but as the article is clearly contrived to be so, I'm not sure why the Times is printing it:

It seems the president, who thought he was simply fending off pressure to
dismiss Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld — "I'm the decider, and I decide what's best," he said, adding that he had no intention of letting Mr. Rumsfeld go — has unwittingly added to the lexicon of marital relations.
Anita Willoughby and Jeffrey Naiditch were just polishing off their papaya mousse cake at a dinner party in Lower Manhattan last Sunday night when Mr. Naiditch decided it was time to go home. His wife was not quite ready to leave.
"He said, 'I am the decider, I get to say,' " Ms.
Willoughby said. The small group dissolved into laughter, and a bit of nervous chatter.

Is this evidence that the New York Times has been influenced by the Onion? Has Bush been influenced by jokes about him to such an extent that he now purposely creates new material? Will Bush's incompetence finally prove that we don't want a president who is a regular guy with good advisers? Will the new Tony Snow show be a comedy? How pomo is America?

We are the reporter. You are the decider.