Satire ping!
Satire ping!
Satire ping!
It’s funny because sometimes you wish it was true.
ping
I’m gonna make a sign....Say Merry Christmas....or everything goes back!!
a visit to target.com reveals a Christmas-friendly home page AND a Christmas specific tab.
Our local Target is covered up in “Christmas”.
Why all the ‘hate’ for Target?
Jack Cass was a dead giveaway!
I believed it...
I must be dumb as a stump.
A bit too much with the violence, where less is sometimes more.
Thanks for the FUN this morning.
I especially liked Mr. Jack Cass!
Man, if only I could be a fly on the wall to see such an event.
I actually go out of my way to say Merry Christmas to everyone during the holidays. I ignore the JackCasses ;-)
I fell for it too....just about ready to send to family/friends and read replies and discovered I’d been had. ;o) Good thing I checked it out a bit further...would hate to bury Target when they didn’t deserve it....
Too funny!! And I like the religious message that wishing Merry Christmas should not be actionable. BTW, here in South Carolina many checkout clerks say, “Have a blessed day!”
Does Jack Cass have a cousin named Al Kahalic?
;^)
I appreciate the effort, but overall didn’t care for it. Until I read further in the comments, I was under the impression that Target was a problem store with regards to Christmas. You might have done better to come up with some clever box store generic name. Or maybe used one like Best Buy, where they recently wished a Happy Eid Al Adha in their Thanksgiving flier.
However, the biggest problem I have is that of the actions taken by your Christian character. Those actions seem pretty out of character for a Christian.
So in the end, to me anyway, it felt more like a hit piece on Christians than it did on the commercialization of Christmas.
On Monday, December 7, 2009, Target, known for its contentious policies towards Christians and Christmas in general, released a statement concerning the matter: “Although what Mr. Jack Cass did was wrong, Target discourages the act of hiring Christians, largely because of their religiously fanatical beliefs. Ms. Gospel is a great example of just that. Christmas is widely known as a pagan holiday, and Mr. Cass was simply trying to adhere to those policies we have instituted so as not to offend anyone. Ms. Gospel will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”
If Target said that, there would be the biggest class-action lawsuit in history.
It gets tiresome clicking on what appear to be news stories to find more attempts at satire, some that land and most that don’t. Believe me, I have NO problem with seeking humor in world events, but “humor” or “satire” in brackets in the headline would be helpful. Based on the excerpt, you’ve basically slandered Target.
It is so hard to tell satire from truth these days. :)