What are you? Everything?

I'm sorry, but this just seems weird to me.

Newsweek was readying a story about the Google-China row when the earthquake hit. Editor Jon Meacham scrapped his plans and hit the phones in search of the highest authority he could find to weigh in, according to a person familiar with the matter. He reached David Axelrod, senior adviser to Obama, who asked his boss if he was game.

Getting Obama to write an essay about the Haiti tragedy is a coup for the struggling magazine and aligns squarely with its new strategy. Newsweek lost $25 million in the first half of 2009, and the Post Co. last year reinvented the magazine, cutting its staff and shifting its focus from news reporting to commentary.

What is it that Tevye says in Fiddler on the Roof, when Motel the Tailor suggests that he wants to marry Tevye's daughter Tzeitel,

"What are you? Everything? The bridegroom, matchmaker, and guests in one? I suppose you'll perform the ceremony, too?"