is this satire?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVKlFT58Zwc&feature=related
(sorry the video app isn't working, i'll have it uploaded on here asap... even though i'm sure most of you have seen it by now!)

First of all, I think we all know that what's said at 2am on Fox's Red Eye show doesn't really matter-- even though esteemed past panelists on the show include Joe Francis, the founder of Girls Gone Wild-- but nonetheless, the outcry over this little piece is crazy and I believe it deserves a post.

Were these guys just being funny? Let's think about it. They claim their show is satire. Merriam-Webster's defines satire as "trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly"
Does making fun of Lieutenant General Andrew Leslie's last name ("an unusual name for a man") count as "trenchant wit"? And how about the awkward comments about Mexico and the word 'siesta'? Kind of uncomfortable, but funny... I don't know.
Now, I definitely believe that maybe we should all should lighten up a little bit-- take some comfort in the fact that the jokes on this show were pretty tired (making fun of mounties, really?). But let's ask ourselves why this made us so angry--- is it because making fun of the military during wartime should be off limits? Or does it have more to do with the pent up frustration with the US over the war in Afghanistan? Maybe these jocks at Fox news are just easy targets for our growing rage at our place in a war we no longer desire to be a part of... Or maybe we're upset because they call us out on our dependence on the US (something we like to fiercely deny, even though it's kind of true).
These guys might be the definition of "douchebag" but at least they've given us something to talk about.

Side note, you know what IS funny-- the Globe and Mail ran a little bio of the show's host, Greg Gutfeld, today and they listed his past jobs (Editor at Maxim, Stuff --how typical, right) while noting that he was basically fired from all of them. Zing.