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Wednesday July 26, 2006
Nerdissimus Ken Jennings is trying too hard to be cool by biting the hand that fed his ungrateful butt $2.5 million. What a jerk....
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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He was joking.
http://ken-jennings.com/blog/?p=83
I ve loved Jeopardy! since I was a kid, as anyone who talks to me for about five minutes knows. Making goofy jokes about TV shows isn t bashing. I believe it s the whole reason Al Gore invented the Internet.>
Wow, that's actually a very entertaining blog. This really is a non-story. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if it's a manufactured controversy to promote his book which is being released in September.>
Lighten up, it was a joke, and a pretty funny one too.>
If Mormons can have a sense of humor, why not Crunchy Cons?>
As I said elsewhere, AP knows about humor like Fidel Castro knows about the market economy.>
Jeez Rod - lighten up, you humorless curmudgeon.>
It's called "satire". ">http://ken-jennings.com/blog/?p=70>
I think you were a little quick on the trigger on this.>
This should be satire, but it's unfortunately real Invincible Republican Thought in action:
">http://youtube.com/watch?v=HgEzfDDyBHM>
Usually the best way to react to unfunny attempts at humor is to ignore them. I've certainly dropped a few stink bombs in my life when I thought I was trying to be funny.>
The piece isn't that funny, but it is clearly meant as a joke. Unfortunately the AP was too dumb to notice the more obviously satirical parts, such as Jennings's assertion that there should be more categories about "Reality TV" and "Skanks Who Get Naked in Men's Magazines.">
I'm surprised Rod hasn't issued a correction yet.>
You have to remember this guy is a software engineer, not a stand up comic.
The only people worse than software engineers in the comedy department are accountants and tax preparers (trust me on this one, OK?? :-))>
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