Sarcasm, Just one more service I offer.

Nicely done vid. Perhaps you’ll think twice before giving the wolves around here more to howl at. I suppose if I weren’t still honeymooning (23 years) my reaction would have been more like theirs, but I did enjoy a knowing chuckle.

What is up with that? I mean, Dick Cheney? Rummy? Charles Krauthammer?!

Even the young guys … Rich Lowry? Man, we gotta get some men…

I’m feeling disenfranchised….where do I post my grievance?

…take matters into your own hands.

*Sigh* Same old Saturday night…;-)

Texan on November 5, 2006 at 12:10 AM

Speak for yourself.

AllahPundit, could you please make a special thread just for Christoph and fogw and anyone else who cares to scrutinize every little scintilla of minutia from their posts so ones like these don’t get highjacked into a “Free Speech” free-for-all?

Pretty please?

‘Cause we honestly have heard it time and again, and it usually degenerates quickly into an exchange of hurt feelings and insults and if we all want that, I can let my kids log on and we’ll really have a donnybrook.

Otherwise, I thought the parody ad was quite clever.

Texan on November 5, 2006 at 6:27 PM

There already is a dork thread.. it’s the weekly Battlestar one! ZING! Dorks.

We’ll never be losers with women like you.

Pretty please?

‘Cause we honestly have heard it time and again, and it usually degenerates quickly into an exchange of hurt feelings and insults and if we all want that, I can let my kids log on and we’ll really have a donnybrook.

Otherwise, I thought the parody ad was quite clever.

At first I decided I would rather not watch the video.

I just did. It’s more horrific than I imagined.

My sincerest apologies to all, to AP, to MM and Mr. Gregory.

I crossed the line, and for that I am sorry.

“I am certain if AP posted my comments there would be some who were truly offended by it (like my wife) and others who would say, hey that’s pretty funny, I get the sarcasm.”

The problem, fogw, is the first half of it: people like your own wife who are offended. And this is on the topic of cutting journalists’ heads off, for goodness sakes, whey they are at risk of that every day.

We chastized John Kerry for criticizing American soldiers’ intelligence, perhaps inadvertently. Yet this, dare I say it, sounds worse. Not because Gregory is better than the soldiers (he isn’t), but there is huge white space between “dumb” and “severed head”.

And you have not watched the video — from beginning to end with speakers on — so you have not taken the step to viscerally understand why what your wife finds offensive is inappropriate. Sadly, AP probably has seen such a video and this colors his tolerance of your sarcasm. I would never have watched the video I linked to either if I hadn’t wanted to grasp the dispute you had with him.

It changed my views pretty fast.

You’re making AP’s point with your defense. If your wife went, “Gasp, etc.” and was all offended and you acknowledge the topic of your tongue-in-cheek comment was beheading a journalist then… well… dude… you have no point.

“I am a compassionate human being. One with a wicked sense of humor, that’s all. And no, I am not in favor of beheading anyone.”

Your wife is right and so is AP. Choose a new topic for a joke.

[Christoph out...]

I wrote two brief sentences. Reading the second put’s the first in a liitle more context. All of the comments AP has made concerning my post deal only with what I said in the first sentence regarding Gregory.

I am certain if AP posted my comments there would be some who were truly offended by it (like my wife) and others who would say, hey that’s pretty funny, I get the sarcasm. People who have seen me post here know I often comment with tongue-in-cheek.

I while back when a thread on Ted Kennedy was running on the site (and everyone was letting him have it) I said the following:

“Of All the Kennedy’s, why is this one still above ground.”

Now, was there any outrage? Was that censored? No. Does anyone believe for a minute that I wanted someone to go out and capture Ted, shoot Ted, bury him in the ground – dead or alive. Of course not. Everyone got the joke. The joke was, why were we stuck with this nut, yet JFK and RFK were tragically killed in their prime.

The same logic could be applied to what I said about Gregory, if everyone saw what I said – and based their opinion upon both sentences, not just the first.

It was a tongue-in-cheek comment. You’ll never see it, so you’ll never know. I just wish AP would stop making it sound a lot worse than it was.

I am a compassionate human being. One with a wicked sense of humor, that’s all. And no, I am not in favor of beheading anyone.

I somewhat tongue-in-cheek (but without anyone even mentioning that I should be banished) criticized Michelle

You might rethink the number of posts per topic, this is beginning to look like a chatroom.