I Feel Better, Now
I've been quietly stewing over my compassionate-gone-wrong missive to Jeff Goldstein the other day, when I caught up with Sadly, No's character assassination of aforementioned blogger. The sheer volume of quoted bile was overwhelming, and this is only Part 1. And I apologized to this wretch? It's the gesture that counts, I tell myself. It's not like I ever read Jeff's blog.
Today, I happen across perhaps the best example of the value of Grain-Of-Salt thinking regarding bloggers. After all, anyone can blog these days ( I'm living proof.) Here's a heartfelt anti-abortion posting. I'm dumbfounded (pun intended) that this guy is serious. Read the comments, they're great! It must suck to be him right now…
UPDATE:
The Instigator
The Response
July 12th, 2006 at 10:42 am
The anti-abortionist’s rebuttals in the later entries do make a point. He may have been ignorant at first, but the Onion article was trying to make a point about abortion that he disagreed with, whether the narrating character in the article was real or not, the author of the article was obviously trying to inform the audience about certain views he/she does have, cloaked in a satirical story.
It is funny to think that the anti-abortionist took that article at face value, but with the amount of buffoonery on both sides of the fence I’m not too surprised that he did that. There are pro-choicers out there that feel similarly. It’s sad, but true.
July 14th, 2006 at 7:42 pm
True. He’s pointing out that people don’t agree with him. He’s perhaps just learning that parody, particularly the political variety, is a tool to “hammer the point home” through exageration and hyperbole. That’s the primary function. If it also happens to be funny - that’s what makes it art.