Satire Is Impossible

Paul Kiel highlights this exchange at yesterday's gaggle:

Q Does the President ever get tired of having to express his full confidence in the people around him these days?
MS. PERINO: When you're President of the United States and you have this many folks that you are employing, it's a pretty small number that he's had to express full confidence in. All of us who serve at the pleasure of the President, if the moment he doesn't have full confidence in you, you no longer work for him. And we all take that very seriously.

And yes, it really happened...but I had to click all the way through to the whitehouse.gov site before I could be sure this wasn't a very clever parody.

(Hat tip: Tim F at Balloon Juice.)