Un-freakin-believable.

If I were coming up with a recipe for despotism, isn’t one of the first things on the dto-do list claiming some mantle of divinity. And then control the press. Hey, we’ve got a two-in-one deal here.

HT Newsbusters

Update 1:41 p.m: National Review has a funny take on this with a parody cover of Newsweek.