For some conservatives, these aren't joking matters

[BridgeTheGap]

A reader wants to know why I didn't mention what David Letterman said.

John, from Monroe, Wash., wrote in response to a recent column on the shooting at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. I argued that high-profile media figures are filling the Zeitgeist with comments hateful of and demeaning to such marginalized minorities as Jews, blacks, Muslims and gays and that this validates people like accused shooter James von Brunn. I quoted a few examples.

John's response: "Why no mention of David Letterman in the name of and license of comedy defaming Sarah Palin's ... daughter with a bad joke about being 'knocked up' by Alex Rodriguez...?"

In other words, John feels a column on racial and cultural hatred is incomplete because it fails to mention the "hatred" Letterman showed conservatives when he made his controversial joke about Sarah Palin's daughter. I wish John was alone, but the column produced a number of responses like his. And the blogosphere is vibrating with the same argument: Letterman's joke represents bigotry against an oppressed minority: i.e., conservatives.

Here, I suppose I'm obligated to render a verdict on the joke, so let me just say: I'm a fan of Letterman's caustic humor and I believe the rules are different for comedians, that funny covers a multitude of sins, that a good comic can get away with saying things you and I could not.

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090619/OPINION04/906190317/1054/OPINION/For+some+conservatives++these+aren+t+joking+matters

[Warpy]

1. It's a tempest in a teapot

meant to distract right wingers from the fact that their philosophy is bankrupt and has driven the economy right down the pan. Keeping them in high dudgeon over absolutely nothing is the main aim of the far right, men who are trying to preserve as much of their ill gotten gains as they can while they plan to flee.

Right wingers are easily distracted fools, so their job is easy.

[BOSSHOG]

2. John from Monroe has a good point and

its such a shame that the "poor, oppressed, down-trodden, victimized, tortured, starving conservative minority" in America does not have one voice to defend them throughout the entire public airwaves in the land of the free.

Furthermore, if conservatives weren't so damned hateful (on purpose) they might not be made the butt of spot on jokes.

[old mark]

3. They should consider themselves fortunate

they are not all in prison.


mark

[baldguy]

4. Nothing is a joking matter for conservatives because they have no sense of humor

unless it involves harm to the people they hate