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To: laotzu

Now I know how Jonathan Swift felt when his satirical proposal that the Irish should eat their own children was accepted as a realistic suggestion to ease hunger. It is increasingly difficult to distinguish satire from faithful reporting.


12 posted on 06/04/2014 8:08:32 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fiction)
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To: muir_redwoods
Now I know how Jonathan Swift felt when his satirical proposal that the Irish should eat their own children was accepted as a realistic suggestion to ease hunger. It is increasingly difficult to distinguish satire from faithful reporting.

For a while my tagline was " I am so immune to satire that I ate three Irish children after reading Swift's A Modest Proposal".

27 posted on 06/04/2014 8:35:36 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Republican amnesty supporters don't care whether their own homes are called mansions or haciendas.)
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