re: #499 ShanghaiEd

jimmyk, you and others here are positing a false dichotomy, I do believe, and also have not read our detailed discussion. Please see my posts #421 and #430 for why I don’t buy your paragraph above. I look forward to your response.

Fair enough. I wasn’t referring to the more reasoned objections to her form of satire, but to people using words like “psychosis” and “playing the mean-spirited, slack-jawed bigot” and comparing her to Pat Buchanan. And Charles referred to the “satire” claim as a “rhetorical dodge.” I disagree. It is satire, and clever satire at that, but perhaps a bit too clever in that it’s primary effect seems to be to make people squirm.