Heather Mallick, an opinion columnist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Web site, is known for her use of humorous exaggeration.
The book's strength comes from its use of comic exaggeration to skewer current politics, grafting a story too wild to believe onto events we know to be true.
Murdoch refused to criticise Michel, but said he may have used "a bit of exaggeration" to tell his son James about his alleged closeness to the culture secretary.
They discussed the often-overlooked humor in some passages of the Bible, including Jesus' use of irony and exaggeration, and the ribaldry in the Book of Esther.
"Gay Power, Gay Politics", Alfred said, relied on "a systematic use of hearsay, oversights, exaggerations, distortions, inflammatory buzzwords, leading questions, and misleading and deceitful editing" that had as its result "patterned distortion".
The writer calls the New Money "metamoney," and claims that it disturbs us because it uses the traditional satiric devices of exaggeration, displacement, and oversimplification, and therefore seems to be mocking the Old Money.
It is also clear that Dr Kelly chose to brief three BBC journalists - and presumably others - to the effect that the 45-minute warning of the possible use of WMD was an exaggeration.
Satire is a difficult genre to neatly define, but if we call it the use of humor, irony and exaggeration to expose the stupidity of certain parts of contemporary culture, then "Inappropriation," Lexi Freiman's debut, is certainly a satirical novel.
As Leigh herself said of MGM, with perhaps a modicum of exaggeration: "They used to keep about 150 people under contract, and if they got one or two out of the 150 that would be great, because they were only paying them $50 a week".
