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Fox News - with it's foot in it's mouth - again
Sheriff Roland:
Since this program aired last week (March 17), all this kerfufel has happened as a result of a revolted Canadian posting the segment on youtube over the weekend.
The subsequent outrage is what got these pinheads to apologize. At least they appear to be truer than those offered by the chimp shooting cartoon non-apologies from a coupl'a weeks ago. AND on-air, as the offense had been perpetrated.
Sheriff Roland:
--- Quote from: HerrKaiser on March 25, 2009, 10:36:06 am ---Gutfeld is a comic/commentator who is hysterically funny in his sarcasm and jibes that pervade the left comedy scene day in day out.
Funny how "offended" the left can get, even when the horrible, senseless military is the butt of some good jokes. Hence, it really looks like the foot in the mouth are the ones who seem so outraged. ;)
--- End quote ---
This is a response from a nation - not from 'the left'. Your comment is completely political and will be removed!
edit: changed my mind: I will however add how some folks show their total ignorance by defending an invalid cause. There's no defence possible for his type of humour. As Rick Mercer said (as posted in an earlier post):
“If you're going to do satire, three of the most important rules are you have to tell the truth, you can't be a bully and don't be an asshole. ... Being a bully is not satire.”
Clyde-B:
Playground bullies often think what they do is funny, that doesn't make it humor.
Good satire amuses both the audience and the target.
Insults by themselves do not qualify as either satire or humor.
Marge_Innavera:
--- Quote ---"I'm sorry that I upset people, I'm a comedian, I want to make people laugh."
--- End quote ---
This is so typical of a faux apology - he isn't sorry for what he said; just regrets the fact that he got a reaction he didn't want.
That stopped just short of saying that Canadians "don't understand my humor." In those cases, about 90 percent of the time people didn't misunderstand; they just didn't think the joke was funny.
Sheriff Roland:
--- Quote from: HerrKaiser on March 25, 2009, 03:37:51 pm ---No such insults were occuring.
--- End quote ---
I beg to differ.
Not only did thousand of (mostly) Canadians comment on the youtube posted segment, but family members of dead Canadian soldiers have chimed in. It made headline here in both google (print) news and radio news (I don't listen to T.V. news) for 3 days.
The Canadian (conservative) government ministers demanded apologies as well. You obviously haven't read any of the links that I offered as sources - or for that matter the youtube comments by the people. I guess everybody else is a lefty in your small world.
No. This was definitively intended as a series of insults. And unfortunately for them, they were heard. Doug Benson's sure sorry; he's not likely to work again in Canada for some time to come.
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