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To: zencycler

If this is satire you should have said so in the title.


5 posted on 09/19/2012 6:21:06 PM PDT by GOP_Party_Animal
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To: GOP_Party_Animal
Two lines below headline, under dateline, it says Semi-News, Semi-Satire.

Sorry, thought that was enough
6 posted on 09/19/2012 6:29:44 PM PDT by zencycler
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To: GOP_Party_Animal

I also thought the author name (Thomas P. Ping) might be a clue. Seems like we got a lot of those Toms peeping around these days.


7 posted on 09/19/2012 6:31:22 PM PDT by zencycler
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To: GOP_Party_Animal

Telling someone off the bat “this is satire:” kind of defeats one of the main points of satire though. The intended targets of the satire need to be caught off guard, with their ingrained, opinionated defenses lowered, so that they can be shocked into a new point of view.


9 posted on 09/19/2012 6:46:40 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: GOP_Party_Animal
If this is satire you should have said so in the title.

If you had been following events of the last few days, you would have caught the satire right off the bat.

I think it was a well writen piece that makes the point.

13 posted on 09/19/2012 7:01:04 PM PDT by Ditto (Nov 2, 2010 -- Partial cleaning accomplished. More trash to remove in 2012)
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