2. Colbert's comedy starts in one medium (TV) but flap sparked when it was moved to another medium (Twitter).
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3. On TV, Colbert has greater control over context in which jokes appear. Transferred to Twitter by network, jokes in freefloating context
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4. Twitter isn't so much context of no context as realm where any statement can be recontextualized (by being retweeted).
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5. In the form of Twitter we've created a medium of communication that is utterly hostile to irony & deaf to tonal inflection.
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Jeet Heer Retweeted Michelle Malkin
6. Michelle Malkin, defender of Japanese American internment, joined campaign against Colbert's alleged racism:https://twitter.com/michellemalkin/status/449361450696327170 …
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7. On twitter, Malkin's long history of race-baiting somehow disappears. She's a hashtag ally of leftwing critics of Colbert.
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8. Jonathan Swift, thank God, didn't have to deal with twitter.
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9. Swift claims to be doing "satire" but I find the idea of eating Irish babies disturbing
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10. At the least, "Modest Proposal" should come with a trigger warning.
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11. If you ally yourself with Michelle Malkin, I'm not going to take you seriously as an anti-racist activist. #sorrynotsorry
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