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To: John Semmens

Are you sure this is satire?


6 posted on 11/13/2015 8:37:59 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TBP; dayglored

I commented to John Semmons a few months ago about my understanding of what satire is and is not, but he would not hear of it. I am glad to see others are seeing my point. Just restating or elaborating the news in a way that follows it to an unsurprising, logical end does not seem all that satirical to me. ....Not saying I could do better, John is an excellent wordsmith..... I meant it as constructive criticism, but he only answered by saying his post were clearly marked as “satire” as if the label was the most important feature of the literature.

Trying to satirize the left these days may be an impossible task. Satire needs an element of outrageousness (and humor) and the way things are going these days it is hard to keep up with the left. What is silly and an outrage today, is fully adopted leftist doctrine by tommorrow morning. John Semmens’ writing may just be a victim of how fast the progressives are descending into madness so that no matter how creative the writing is, it comes across as totally believable and therefore belongs more in the hoax or even the fan fiction genre than satire.


8 posted on 11/13/2015 9:17:37 PM PST by BRK
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