Like this post, Turley now says he was using humor to make a point.The House Oversight Committee will conduct a deposition with Joe Biden’s great-great grandfather via seance in the O’Neil House Office Building this week, per a source https://t.co/AZHRTNR59i
— Arthur Delaney 🇺🇸 (@ArthurDelaneyHP) February 25, 2024
Here, let me make that easier to read:The rake i stepped on was biased https://t.co/ZCiG5WIX7w
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) February 25, 2024
What upsets him seems to be the Twitter Community Note. Did he not notice the universal opprobrium?The usual suspects are gathering around a
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) February 25, 2024
"readers added context" that suggests that I was arguing in today's column that the Bidens are genetically prone to crime in discussing Biden's great-great-grandfather's conviction for attempted murder. It takes an utter lack of sense of…
And the first rule of humor is: when the joke fails, don’t blame the audience. Or the rake you stepped on. And what the hell does this mean?
The column was obviously drawing ironic, not genetic, comparisons to the current allegations.Hell, man, if you’re going to make your argument in writing, LEARN HOW TO WRITE! ✍️
I'm very familiar with the tactic of "I was just joking." It's pathetic enough among blog trolls, in what passes for an expert in the law it's whatever several steps past pathetic are. Yet such is what our free press regularly consults.
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