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Biden Questions GOP’s Concern for Disabled
Semi-News, AZConservative ^ | 14 Sep 2008 | John Semmens

Posted on 09/18/2008 10:05:34 AM PDT by John Semmens

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To: John Semmens
That one is going to leave a mark...That is better the the drivel the MSM is trying to pass off as legitimate reporting.


41 posted on 09/18/2008 4:07:53 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
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To: John Semmens
I’m getting conflicting advice on the satire tag idea.

I vote for not tagging. I like seeing people get all fired up. Then I REALLY like to see what they say once they figure out that they've been "got".

42 posted on 09/18/2008 5:27:49 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (What do Barack Obama and a bowl of chili have in common?)
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To: John Semmens

You could post this article on Daily Kos & fit right in...
Drop the satire tag. It’s more fun figuring things out.


43 posted on 09/18/2008 5:29:20 PM PDT by melt (Someday, they'll wish their Jihad... Jihadn't.)
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To: John Semmens

Keep the title without the satire tag. However, when posting, put the word SATIRE in this section of your post. That way...you’ve posted it with the article, and the title keeps the interest of the reader.


44 posted on 09/18/2008 7:39:46 PM PDT by writer33 (Rush Limbaugh Is "The Passion" of Conservatism)
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To: John Semmens

Ouch. Good one.


45 posted on 09/18/2008 7:41:24 PM PDT by writer33 (Rush Limbaugh Is "The Passion" of Conservatism)
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To: Owl_Eagle

But that would ruin the fun!


46 posted on 09/19/2008 5:06:41 AM PDT by WayneS (Vote Obama bin Biden 2008 - "Because the world doesn't suck enough yet".)
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To: John Semmens

Please don’t change a thing about the way you make your posts.

And please don’t listen to ANYONE who says you should be “ashamed” of yourself, or that you make FreeRepublic look “shabby”.

Good satire offends two basic groups:

1) The intended target.
2) Those humorless individuals who have been taken in by it and who will say “I know good satire but this is just OFFENSIVE”.

Keep up the good work.


47 posted on 09/19/2008 5:12:09 AM PDT by WayneS (Vote Obama bin Biden 2008 - "Because the world doesn't suck enough yet".)
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To: John Semmens

Well done John. ;-)


48 posted on 09/19/2008 3:24:27 PM PDT by #1CTYankee (That's right, I have no proof. So what of it??)
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To: tioga; John Semmens
And the resulting threads are a riot. I vote leave off the tags.

As do I!

I saw no /sarc tag on "A Modest Proposal" from the greatest satirist since the start of our Modern Era.

That the remaining hundred thousand may, at a year old, be offered in the sale to the persons of quality and fortune through the kingdom; always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump and fat for a good table. A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter.

Keep up the great work! [I think you're John-to-John channeling here]

49 posted on 09/19/2008 4:22:46 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: John Semmens

I’ll respond after I have calmed down on this whole issue.

You know where I stand, John.


50 posted on 09/19/2008 5:11:43 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Fight Crime. Shoot Back.)
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To: John Semmens
Pseudo satire would be more relevant actually.
51 posted on 09/20/2008 7:14:19 AM PDT by #1CTYankee (That's right, I have no proof. So what of it??)
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To: John Semmens

Like Swift’s making the treatment of the Irish boil down by logical extension to the use of their infants as a ready food source, you have made the logical extension of Biden’s true quotes as you have cited.

The purpose of Satire is to produce outrage and then have that outrage turn upon the circumstance that fosters the ability of the satire to be effective.

You are reaping the negatives from your own ability, like Swift. In general, we don’t like being confronted with vile truth without sugar coating. It is painful.

The circumstance of this particurality is not one you invented but is already daily discussed by the left. If you had picked a target not in the news, that would be you being cruel rather than the leftists.


52 posted on 09/24/2008 8:41:34 AM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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