nostalgebraist:

The newspaper:

“Mélenchon, a far-left candidate,”

Wait But Why post “explaining” the same news story:

“Okay, so.  To understand this, we’re going to have to zoom way out first.

The first thing you need to know is that politics is kind of like a line.  We could call it the Politics Noodle.  People like to yell at each other because they’re standing on different parts of the noodle.

[6-panel cartoon of stick figures standing on a piece of spaghetti and exchanging quirky insults]

Weird, huh?

Now, imagine that Hillary Clinton wakes up one morning, and finds herself standing in her usual place on the Politics Noodle.

[cartoon of stick figure Hillary saying something Hillary-ish]

She looks to her left and sees Bernie Sanders,”