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“It was satire” – a Boston man’s controversial comments about a marijuana dispensary.
As if there was any doubt that contemporary politicians have no sense of humor even if they are inadvertent fonts of guffaws as well as provide more than ample grist for Saturday Night Live, this story proves it.
A retired venture capitalist made abundantly clear the kind of undesirables he did not want out and about in his swanky Back Bay neighborhood in what will likely go down as one of the most spectacularly as well as preposterously offensive speeches in the history of City Hall.
Veterans marching on Saint Patrick’s Day!
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Considering what longtime Boston City Councillor Dapper O’Neal and Whacko Hurley said over the years in and around Boston’s City Hall, this retired individual’s recent comments were clearly out there as well as well past Uranus on the satire meets snark meets performance art scale – and yet no who heard him live while he presented it realized it.
“The point that I was trying to make is a marijuana dispensary will bring in the people who really need this, people who are sick, people who have cancer, and this is the only choice for them.”
President Alex Baldwin
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“If you listen to what I said it was so over the top that I think it’s the only way (my comments, ed.) could have been construed.”
Even so, Boston public officials, the dispensary’s legal counsel as well as all manner of media and social media talking heads went into full Twitter twit storm mode comparable to your pick of White House rants of the day.
Needless to say, instead the joke was on all of these sanctimonious and worse twits.
This must-watch let-them-ear-cake outrage is NOT a plant. It’s, to quote coverage, “Oliver Curme, a retired venture capitalist…who opposed the proposed dispensary because of the icky people he said would patronize it” https://t.co/Y6ZzYJ7byN
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) November 15, 2017
Read Full Story: ‘It Was Satire’: Boston Man Speaks on Controversial Comments
C’mon, let’s call it was it is–sarcasm. Understanding sarcasm requires a solid level of comprehension and a good sense of humor. When using sarcasm, you need to make sure your audience understands it and you need to know how to deliver.
This guy failed at both. All this guy did was go before a public hearing and tried out sarcasm for the first time. Wrong guy and wrong audience.
Everyone, including Keith Olberman is running around like a bunch of ninnies over a pompous elitist. You’d think Olberman would be better at recognizing one.