For those that didn’t get the joke
A previous column by Casey Jones of the Salt Lake Tribune missed the mark with some of the paper’s audience. Jones decided to offer a clarification and a few tongue in cheek apologies:
Last week I wrote a column — “Utah: Love it or leave it” — in a mock conservative voice. It was satire, a literary device in which sarcasm, irony and/or caustic wit are used to expose stupidity. However, being dumb as a rock myself, I neglected to label it as such.
In my defense, I thought the content was so ridiculously abrasive that my intent would be obvious. If you put Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter and Chris Buttars in a room, they couldn’t come up with such intolerant tripe. But apparently, judging from the e-mails, phone calls and letters I received, I was too subtle.
Right-wingers who didn’t get it, and the lefties who did get it, loved the piece. But the conservatives who got it, and the liberals who didn’t, were not amused. (What’s a “pox,” anyway? Can you get “anal warts” from someone wishing them upon you, or do you have to touch a toad? And what does “GFY” stand for?)
A couple of his apologies:
No, I don’t think that seeing a liquor bottle will turn my daughter into an alcoholic. Drinking from a liquor bottle might, but not looking at one. I apologize for my error.
Also, I do not believe, nor have I ever believed, nor will I ever believe, that a woman’s ovaries “belong to all of us.” I sincerely regret the misunderstanding. Please, ladies, enjoy your ovaries without interference from me.
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