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HaemishM
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Reply #105 on: January 25, 2010, 01:01:36 PM

What... the... fuck?

Having now read the whole thing, the writer is supposedly a satirist. Only he's a really, really bad one.
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Reply #106 on: January 25, 2010, 01:07:34 PM

Wow, yeah that's really, really bad satire. He's obviously trying to lampoon the way people are talking about this but satire really does need some level of subtlety. It works being this overblown and over the top if the actual discourse surrounding the event is almost this overblown but nothing I've read so far suggests anything like this. Toned down a factor of 10 it could have worked as decent satire but it's the equivalent of trying to send up Woody Allen films by doing an impression of him in Schindler's List.

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Reply #107 on: January 25, 2010, 07:37:28 PM

You can't expect the WSJ to do decent satire, as they are owned by the people who make a parody of themselves every day and don't seem to realize it.

'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
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