Brooks: Just Babbling?

UPDATE:  Ben Smith of Buzzfeed just tweeted:  "David Brooks says he found the reaction to his column today, which was intended as parody of media, 'regrettable but predictable'."

Earlier: A new column by David "Mel" Brooks, mocking Mitt Romney's life story,  has been drawing a wildly diverse response on Twitter and the web since it was posted last night.  Some didn't get that it was tongue-in-cheek.  Others got it and declared it amazingly funny (for Brooks): "Brooks outdoes Borowitz and the Onion."  Or just plain stupid. Some declared that he was throwing Romney under the bus--GOPers will be outraged--even if he was just joking. Or that it was a successful takedown of his fellow pundits (of the left-leaning variety).  Or merely that he'd gotten drunk or high before penning the column--and should do so more often.

I tweeted that much of this analysis was overblown--I'm sure he still supports Romney (and loves Ryan) and was just having some "fun."  Perhaps it reveals that all of his fan-boy columns about Springsteen are also purely satiric.   Maybe a way to mock Chris Christie?  Also:  Proof that with today's GOP truth is still funnier than fiction.  Did hear the one about women being able to turn on internal sperm bombs?