One of the more annoying trends in our national discourse occurs whenever someone has said something offensive, and his/her defenders inevitably defend the comment as being a joke, as if jokes cannot be offensive, and claim that any critics should just get a sense of humor.
An even more disturbing example of this framing can be [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Rush Limbaugh'
Oh, a Joke. I Get Jokes.
March 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · AR, Law and Justice
Tags: Don Imus·jokes·KTLA·Rush Limbaugh·scooping
Poor Jonah
July 15th, 2009 · No Comments · AR, Politics, Supreme Court
I feel sorry for Jonah Goldberg, a man caught between two worlds. He wants desperately to be accepted as an intellectual by smart, serious people, yet he also wants to get rich selling books to very stupid people. So he ends up doing things like writing a book where he calls liberals Nazis [...]
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