The stench

[jclalor 12]

It looks like the honeymoon is over.



http://www.theweek.co.uk/us/us-election-2012/49235/has-paul-ryan-been-calling-mitt-romney-stench

[Lefty 0]

Hah! Always beware of a headline phrased as a question--the article usually won't give you the answer. But, I guess it's not the nature of the evidence but the seriousness of the charges that counts these days. Derp.

Provoking a reaction isn't the same thing as saying something meaningful.
-Calvin

[Channman 2]

As Ben Smith of Buzzfeed, a former Politico blogger, tweeted: "So uh a lot of people seem not to have picked up that @politicoroger's column was satire." Put more succinctly by conservative blogger JammieWearingFool: "Satire should actually be funny."

Or, at least it should be pretty obvious. There is no underestimating the literal-mindedness of the American reader: Years ago when I worked at the Times we published a satirical op-ed column by Steve Martin riffing on the idea that a NASA Mars probe had discovered millions of kittens on the Red Planet. Shortly thereafter, a subscriber sent a terse letter to the editor asking us to "inform your science correspondent" that the lack of oxygen on Mars made kitten infestation highly unlikely.

Naturally, no writer wants to put a blinking sign indicating "This Is a Joke" above his or her parody piece. But editors should realize that if there is even a chance that such a sign is necessary, it's probably best to spike the whole idea. Otherwise, you might end up fooling a lot of people, maybe even a Nobel Prize winner.


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-26/politico-s-paul-ryan-satire-the-joke-s-on-them.html

[Shotgun 1]

And the answer to the question:

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(Author’s note: Jonathan Swift did not really want Irish people to sell their children for food in 1791; George Orwell did not really want the clocks to strike thirteen in 1984; Paul Ryan, I am sure, calls Mitt Romney something more dignified than “Stench” and Microsoft did not invent PowerPoint as a means to euthanize cattle. At least I am pretty sure Microsoft didn’t.)

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81618.html

[rushmc 23]

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It looks like the honeymoon is over.



http://www.theweek.co.uk/us/us-election-2012/49235/has-paul-ryan-been-calling-mitt-romney-stench

oppps

Hook, line and sinker

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[airdvr 210]

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It looks like the honeymoon is over.



http://www.theweek.co.uk/us/us-election-2012/49235/has-paul-ryan-been-calling-mitt-romney-stench

You're going to need to cut the barb off that hook before you pull it out.

Please don't dent the planet.

Destinations by Roxanne

[ianmdrennan 2]

Speaking of comedy, and Mitt - here's the Daily Show....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/26/jon-stewart-romney-getting-dumber-video_n_1915728.html?utm_hp_ref=comedy

Performance Designs Factory Team

[kallend 2,146]

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Speaking of comedy, and Mitt - here's the Daily Show....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/26/jon-stewart-romney-getting-dumber-video_n_1915728.html?utm_hp_ref=comedy

Romney is his own worst enemy.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.