Is There A Word For It When People Try Too Hard To Be Offended?
Read the following exchange, between John Ashcroft and Jon Stewart:
Stewart: Let's make a bet. If the Cardinals win tonight, I'll give you a TDS tee-shirt. If the Met's win, I go to heaven.
Ashcroft: Well, my father was a preacher and he used to say he was in sales, not management... I'll tell you what. If the Mets win, you can move to St. Louis and you'll think you've gone to heaven.
Stewart jokes about how Ashcroft is a fundamentalist Christian who thinks that Stewart is going to hell for being Jewish and Ashcroft plays along and brags about how sweet St. Louis is. Straight-forward. Now is this (a) funny, (b) not funny or (c) comparable to the Nazi-like 1555 Papal ghettoization of Jews? Perhaps - and we're just spitballing here, but perhaps - liberal moral-outrage exhibitionist DovBear is reading a little more into the exchange than a more reasonable person would think is there. Perhaps.
And certainly, no matter what you say about the clip, it's still funnier than DovBear spelling Ashcroft "Asscroft". Memo to liberals: outside of the small circle of people you think are insightful and sophisticated (read: DKos comments section) you actually have to be witty to get people to laugh at your jokes. Just using school-yard taunts to make fun of the right people isn't enough.
Stewart: Let's make a bet. If the Cardinals win tonight, I'll give you a TDS tee-shirt. If the Met's win, I go to heaven.
Ashcroft: Well, my father was a preacher and he used to say he was in sales, not management... I'll tell you what. If the Mets win, you can move to St. Louis and you'll think you've gone to heaven.
Stewart jokes about how Ashcroft is a fundamentalist Christian who thinks that Stewart is going to hell for being Jewish and Ashcroft plays along and brags about how sweet St. Louis is. Straight-forward. Now is this (a) funny, (b) not funny or (c) comparable to the Nazi-like 1555 Papal ghettoization of Jews? Perhaps - and we're just spitballing here, but perhaps - liberal moral-outrage exhibitionist DovBear is reading a little more into the exchange than a more reasonable person would think is there. Perhaps.
And certainly, no matter what you say about the clip, it's still funnier than DovBear spelling Ashcroft "Asscroft". Memo to liberals: outside of the small circle of people you think are insightful and sophisticated (read: DKos comments section) you actually have to be witty to get people to laugh at your jokes. Just using school-yard taunts to make fun of the right people isn't enough.
