"I'm glad we're now all agreed that Gabriel Gifford exaggerated her wound"

[Still a Democrat]

Comments on Washington Monthly forum -

"I'm glad we're now all agreed that Gabriel Gifford exaggerated her wound. Maybe now that the charade is over you liberals can spare a little care for Sarah Palin, who reports that she has been besieged with death threats from the "compassionate" left. I share Glenn Beck's concern that a crazed vegan is going to come after her."


"Kind of makes you think liberals' heads are too hard to really penetrate, doesn't it?

I told you three days ago that she'd be fine and to drop the drama. God forbid you people listen to an actual medical professional."


http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2011_01/027530.php

[villager]

1. Next, you're going to tell me that isn't sarcasm or satire

n/t

[nemo137]

2. That's gotta be a Poe.

I mean, it was a good Poe, until they got to "crazed vegan." But that can't be serious.

...right?

[Blue-Jay]

3. My thoughts exactly.

That one got a few bites.

[hlthe2b]

8. what is a poe? From context I assume you mean a poseur?

[Blue-Jay]

9. Look up "Poe's Law".

[Xipe Totec]

19. Paper Lilies - What Have I Done?

On the difficulty of doing sarcasm that everybody gets...

Even people who defend sarcasm sometimes don't get sarcasm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXLRJ1XhewA

[Violet_Crumble]

18. Poe's law...

It means that without something like a winky face or a sarcasm emoticon to indicate that it's parody of an extreme view, that it becomes indistiguishable from the extreme view that it's a parody of. I had/have a parody site of those irksome and weird anti-choice religious folk, and even though at the time I thought it was obvious I was taking the piss, I got lots of comments in the guestbook from people who thought I was for real...

[hlthe2b]

21. Thanks all. I know the concept, but not the term...

But it sounds like it should receive at least one of these. ;)

[Motown_Johnny]

4. has she even spoken? Much less commented on her wound?

All the information I have seen is coming from her doctors, God forbid you people listen to an actual medical professional who is treating her.

[Violet_Crumble]

14. The guy who posted that was being sarcastic...

Here's what he said when someone questioned his medical experience...

'I was a respected surgeon before you punks were even a glint in the mailman's eye. Unfortunately my hand isn't as steady as it used to be but that has nothing to do with the drinking that leads to my late night ruminations on this blog.'

He's hilarious! I wish he posted here...

[Initech]

5. Man these motherfuckers have some balls.

[Hello_Kitty]

6. Clearly sarcasm. eom

[Xipe Totec]

17. Apparently not clear to all...

:rofl:

[May Hamm]

22. *shrug* Wasn't clear sarcasm to me.

Sounds exactly like most of the other junk that spews from the mouths of the right.

[Xipe Totec]

23. Hence Poe's Law nt

[Hello_Kitty]

24. Yeah but there's always that one little detail that reveals a Poe.

In this case it was "crazed vegan".

[May Hamm]

25. I suppose, but...

It's extremely tedious to parse a radical, rightwing rant word by phrase looking for flaws. I don't even know all the revealing details to look for.

[Hello_Kitty]

26. Just picture Stephen Colbert saying it.

:)

[pa28]

29. About half of the people out there are deaf to sarcasm.

One of the lessons I've learned from DU.

:shrug:

[derby378]

7. The compassion and sympathy literally oozes from that blogger's pores

Tell you what. If I ever get shot in the head by a 9mm pistol and insist on walking down the hospital corridors three days later with only a Bubba Stik to support me, then I might have leeway to make comments like those from the schmoe discussed in the OP. Until then, however, I think people like him should kindly STFU.

[jillan]

10. The scariest part of that comment is that she says she is a medical professional.

What if she really is? Omg - keep her away from people in medical need, please!

[valerief]

11. This proves the need for universal health care, especially mental health care. nt

[Still a Democrat]

13. lol

n/t

[Jackpine Radical]

12. I've got this image of the crazed vegan

terrorizing Sarah with a spud peeler in one hand and a sharpened carrot in the other.

[Odin2005]

15. Fuck them, fuck those evil SOBs. They have no empathy, no compassion.

They are monsters.

[Cerridwen]

16. How the hell can they portray liberals as "limp wristed", "fa**ot"

weak-kneed, milquetoast, gun-phobic, stoned-to-'slackerhood', cowards for decades, DECADES, and then come out and say they're "afraid" one of us will attack?

How does that happen?

It's rhetorical. No need to answer.

[spanone]

20. these kind of fucking statements make me ashamed to be a human being

these people are some kind of sub creatures

makes this pacifist want to beat the shit out of someone

[Arkana]

27. Worthless wastes of oxygen.

And I could care less about what Sarah Palin is whining about now. Liberals are smart enough to know not to shoot people we disagree with.

[Gman]

28. Wonderful. Just what we need. A teabagger that thinks he's a brain surgeon

and they don't even like science.

[niyad]

30. as I have noted before, it is really scary when a group is so far off the rails that it is hard to

tell sarcasm from their more insane rantings.