Turley’s Turkey 🦃

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

Like this post, Turley now says he was using humor to make a point.

The rake i stepped on was biased https://t.co/ZCiG5WIX7w

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) February 25, 2024

Here, let me make that easier to read:

The usual suspects are gathering around a
"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…

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) February 25, 2024

What upsets him seems to be the Twitter Community Note. Did he not notice the universal opprobrium?

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! ✍️