Jon the Geek
Thinker
- Joined
- Aug 27, 2005
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I think I disagree with just about everyone:
* Fox did nothing wrong in their editing of the clip. They left the essence of the bit while taking out the parts that didn't add anything.
* Fox, like the rest of you who are saying it makes Wexler look dumb, are making yourselves look dumb. The point was that people would take this as being bad, because it could be taken out of context, then they'll all show the whole thing in context and still say it's bad because of the possibility of the lack of context. Dumb, dumb, dumb. It's just a funny bit, and anyone who sees this as Wexler doing anything at all dumb really needs to quit over-analyzing. Oh, except he could have come up with something more creative, like "I enjoy cocaine because it's the only way Americans can support South and Central American revolutionaries since the whole Iran-Contra thing" or something more controversial than "it's fun."
Yeesh.
* Fox did nothing wrong in their editing of the clip. They left the essence of the bit while taking out the parts that didn't add anything.
* Fox, like the rest of you who are saying it makes Wexler look dumb, are making yourselves look dumb. The point was that people would take this as being bad, because it could be taken out of context, then they'll all show the whole thing in context and still say it's bad because of the possibility of the lack of context. Dumb, dumb, dumb. It's just a funny bit, and anyone who sees this as Wexler doing anything at all dumb really needs to quit over-analyzing. Oh, except he could have come up with something more creative, like "I enjoy cocaine because it's the only way Americans can support South and Central American revolutionaries since the whole Iran-Contra thing" or something more controversial than "it's fun."
Yeesh.